Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Solar System . ... Moon . ... Comets and Asteroids . ... What changed our view of Chariklo is the discovery of a ring system around it, the first such feature found around a Solar System body smaller than a gas giant planet. ... Almost certainly the rings were born when a collision with a smaller asteroid blasted millions of tonnes of debris off CharikloтАЩs surface. ... A ring system detected around the Centaur (10199) Chariklo (Braga-Rigas et al.) ...

... Credit: C. Barbieri (Univ. of Padua), NASA , ESA Explanation: A dim double star system cataloged as Gliese 623 lies 25 light-years from Earth, in the constellation of Hercules . ... The present estimates of the mass of Gliese 623b are right at this red dwarf/brown dwarf border but future observations should help clarify the nature of one of our Galaxy's small stars. ... Publications with keywords: brown dwarf - nearby stars - binary star . ... Phi Persei: Double Star . ... Mira: The Wonderful Star ....

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. November 15, 1998 . Deimos: A Small Martian Moon . Credit: Viking Project , JPL , NASA . Explanation: Mars has two tiny moons, Phobos and Deimos . Pictured above is Deimos , the smaller moon of Mars . In fact, Deimos is one of the smallest known moons in the Solar System measuring only 9 miles across. ... About APOD > . ...

... Big telescopes are very powerful and zoom in on objects in the Universe that can t be seen using just our eyes or small telescopes. But if astronomers want to photograph large areas of the sky, then they usually use small telescopes instead. Astronomers often talk about the size of the area captured in a space photo by how much room the objects in it take up in the night sky. ... Most big telescopes can only capture an area of the night sky that is much smaller than 1 degree wide. ...

... More on 51 Peg: . The discovery of a Jupiter--mass planet in orbit around the solar--type star 51Peg has been reported by Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz (Geneva Observatory) on October 6th at the 9th Cambridge workshop on "cool stars, stellar systems, and the sun" held at Florence (Italy). ... Recall that the measurements of radial velocity only yield v sin i which in turn gives us M sin i. For most values of i, sin i will be greater than 0.5 and this gives a mass estimate of 0.5 Jupiter masses. ...

... 9a. Earth orbits Sun? . ... 10a. Scale of Solar Sys. ... If the mean distance of Earth from the Sun is 1 AU ("Astronomical Unit"), then that of Venus is 0.723 AU, of Mercury 0.387 AU and that of Mars is 1.524 AU. ... By noting (1) where on the Sun's disk is the crossing seen, (2) timing its duration at two far-apart points on Earth, and (3) comparing the times, one can calculate the distance to Venus and from it the scale of the solar system. ... One occurred in 1639--too early. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... It's semi-common knowledge that stars twinkle and planets don't. By semi-common, I mean that a lot of folks know that, but I also mean it isn't strictly true. Stars twinkle because we see them from the bottom of a sea of air. ... These small bundles of air act like little lenses, bending light as it passes through them. ... What we see is the light from the star flickering. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . An artistтАЩs impression of the binary UZ For and planet . ... A team of astronomers, including Dr Gavin Ramsay of the Armagh Observatory, has found evidence that suggests the existence of an extraordinary planetary system. Two giant planets appear to be revolving at some distance around a compact, interacting stellar binary known as UZ For, which comprises two small stars orbiting very closely one about the other. ...

FGS Instrument Handbook for Cycle 24 . ... Fine Guidance Sensor Instrument Handbook for Cycle 24 > Chapter 4: Observing with the FGS > 4.4 Transfer Mode Overview . ... 4.4.1 The FGS Response to a Binary . ... Figure 4.3 shows the changes in the observed FGS1r interferogram due to binary systems of varied separations and magnitude differences. In Figure 4.3 a we display the interferogram of a wide binary pair with component separations and magnitude differences of (200 mas, 1.0) respectively. ...

... self-absorption - the absorption of light shining on an object by a process similar to that which produced the light originally; if a cloud emits less light than it absorbs from other clouds behind it, this net loss of light, termed self-absorption , causes the foreground cloud to appear darker than the background field (the term is from spectroscopy, where small absorption dips sometimes occur in larger emission lines, making the latter look as if it is absorbing part of itself) . ... HISA Main ...

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... The greater the distance, the smaller the parallax. ... That triangle has the same proportions as the much larger triangle ABC, and therefore, if the distance B'C to the thumb is 10 times the distance A'B' between the eyes, the distance AC to the far landmark is also 10 times the distance AB. ... The most distant objects our eyes can see are the stars, and they are very far indeed: light which moves at 300,000 kilometers (186,000 miles) per second, would take years, often many years, to reach them. ...

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... We can help students grasp the significance of Hubble's extremely keen eye, and learn a bit about angles and math in the process, with the following in-class activity. ... Looking through binoculars or telescopes allows us to magnify a small section of the sky. To measure sizes or distances in that small section, astronomers divide a degree into 60 smaller pieces called arcminutes, and further subdivide minutes into 60 smaller sections called arcseconds. ... 30 feet = . ... 36 seconds . ...

Observational Stellar Astronomy . Articles | ... We are made of star stuff" . ... TEMPERATURE OF A STAR: . ... The temperature of a star can be found out easily by simple observations. ... STAR . ... SPECTRAL CLASS: . All the stars in this universe are divided in to spectral classes based on their spectral lines. ... The spectral class of a star and the temperature of a star are related. So the spectral class can be found for a star since we know its temperature. ... www.astronomy.net . ...

... These two images of the Jovian moon Thebe were taken by Galileo's solid state imaging system in November 1996 and June 1997, respectively. ... Thebe, whose longest dimension is approximately 116 kilometers (72 miles) across, is tidally locked so that the same side of the satellite always points towards Jupiter, similar to how the near side of our own Moon always points toward Earth. ... The image on the right emphasizes the side of Thebe that faces away from Jupiter (the "anti-Jupiter" side). ...

... Visibility of Small Solar-System Bodies . Asteroids) in 2009 : . ... Distance (AU) . ... Jan. 12, 2009 . ... 8.8 m . ... is at opposition on July 4, 2009 . ... Apparent . ... from Sun (AU) . ... is at opposition on September 21, 2009 . ... middle distance between Earth and Sun, equal 149.6 millions km. ... Mean Distance: . ... a configuration of the Sun, Earth and a planet in which the apparent geocentric longitude of the planet differs by 180 from the apparent geocentric longitude of the Sun. ...

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Canberra Times 07/09/2009 Page: 6 Times Region: Canberra Circulation: 34354 Type: Australian Capital City Daily Size: 348.32 sq.cms MTWTFS- Page 1 of 2 back Does the universe contain an infinite number of Kevin Rudds? The year 2009 is the interTo mark the occasion, the Astronomical Society of Australia recruited a small group of media-friendly astronomers to national year of astronomy. distance between the light and its point of origin. ... And besides, how could you possibly test such an idea?" ...

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