... A rogue planet has been spotted wandering alone through space with no parent star in sight! ... It's even harder when the object is very dark and floating through space. ... These are star-like objects that are much bigger than planets up to about 80 times bigger than Jupiter but too small to be stars. ... Cool Fact: Some astronomers say there are about twice as many rogue planets as there are stars in our galaxy; other think there are up to 100,000 times more! ...

Next: J.G. Doyle, Research Astronomer Up: Research Previous: C.J. Butler, Research Astronomer Contents . ... Research Highlights . ... John Chambers has refined and expanded an alternative scenario for the formation of the asteroid belt in collaboration with George Wetherill, Carnegie Institution of Washington, USA. Using numerical simulations on computers, they have shown how planets may have formed in the asteroid belt. ...

... Armagh Planetarium . ... Universe . ... October . ... Posted on October 21, 2010 | No Comments Galaxies, distant from us in space and time, have been in the news recently. ... No Comments If you love great articles on space and astronomy you are probably already following the Carnival of Space. ... Hello, IтАЩm Colin, welcoming you to Astronotes, the PlanetariumтАЩs official blog. Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

home publications > mercury . ... Books . ... How Do Planets Form? ... Astronomers are looking for clues from our solar system and others to determine whether planets form easy and fast or hard and slow. by David A. Weintraub, Vanderbilt University . The recent discovery of at least 50 extrasolar giant planets is one of the most profound and exciting events in modern science. ... Being an impatient lot, astronomers don't want to wait for a decade or more until the technology becomes available. ...

... 2000 November 5 . Jupiter Swallows Comet Shoemaker Levy 9 . Credit: H. Hammel ( SSI ), WFPC2 , HST , NASA . Explanation: What happens when a comet encounters a planet? ... A giant planet like Jupiter , however, is mostly gas . When Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 struck Jupiter in 1994, each piece was swallowed into the vast Jovian atmosphere . ... Because Jupiter is much more massive than any comet, the orbit of Jupiter around the Sun did not change noticeably. ... About APOD | ...

... Spiral Eddies On Planet Earth . ... Credit: STS 41G Crew , NASA Explanation: Can you identify this wispy stellar nebula ? How many light-years from Earth did you say? ... Prior to STS 41G these eddies were thought to be rare but are now understood to be a significant dynamic feature of ocean currents. ... Publications with keywords: Earth - ocean - spiral eddy . Publications with words: Earth - ocean - spiral eddy . ... Pangea Ultima: Earth in 250 Million Years . ... Welcome to Planet Earth . ...

... Check here for the latest news related to my research. Paper on the Discovery of ROXS 42Bb, a planetary mass companion 10.01.2013 I am co-author of a new paper accepted to ApJ Letters on the discovery of a co-moving companion to a tight, low mass binary in a star forming region. ... Paper on Fomalhaut Accepted to ApJ Letters 9.03.2013 I am co-author of a new paper submitted to ApJ Letters on re-analyzing deep archival Keck/NIRC2 data for additional companions to Fomalhaut. ...

... DISK т?? ... Star Atlas . ... stars . ... ALMA sheds light on planet-forming gas streams . ... ALMA . ... The international team of astronomers studied the young star HD 142527, more than 450 light-years from Earth, which is surrounded by a disk of gas and cosmic dust т?? the remains of the cloud from which the star formed. ... The team found that the rate at which leftover gas streams onto the inner disk is just right to keep the inner disk replenished and to feed the growing star. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Site Info . ... Public Talks . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Who is this guy who calls himself "The Bad Astronomer?" ... First, yes, I am a real live astronomer (when people ask me what astronomers do, I tell them "They astronom !" ... These are emitted by powerful objects like black holes, exploding stars, and super-dense neutrons stars. ... Finally, am I really a bad astronomer? ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... B ut Europa's surface is not at all like anything in the inner solar system. ... T he images of Europa's surface strongly resemble images of sea ice on Earth. It is possible that beneath Europa's surface ice there is a layer of liquid water , perhaps as much as 50 km deep, kept liquid by tidally generated heat. ... It is most likely generated by sunlight and charged particles hitting Europa's icy surface producing water vapor which is subsequently split into hydrogen and oxygen. ...

... Astronomy Pictures . ... Jupiter . Jupiter from ANU's 24-inch telescope . ... Title: Jupiter from ANU's 24-inch telescope . Description: Several images of Jupiter from ANU's 24-inch telescope, Siding Spring Observatory. Lower half of picture: Close-up of Jupiter and the moon Ganymede, just before Ganymede "transits" (passes across) the face of Jupiter Upper half of picture: The image in the middle of the bottom row shows the shadow of Ganymede on the face of Jupiter about 30 minutes later. ...

The AstroGuide . ... AstroGuide | ... AstroGuide Listing . ... See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . Formed in 1982 as a non-profit educational organization, with aproximately 300 members in 17 countries today, we bring together people interested in all aspects of radio astronomy from: monitoring the Earth's magnetic field, solar flares, Jupiter storms, covering VLF to 12 GHz. Last Update November 11, 2004 . ... Web Site . http://www.qsl.net/SARA/ . ... Web . ...

. Mars has become the center of intense interest since the Martian Meteorite results were announced. Currently there is a lively debate whether or not primitive life formed there or not.

... 8, ``Celestial Mechanics'', 2002 Formation and migration of trans -- Neptunian objects S. I. Ipatov 1;2 1 Institute of Applied Mathematics, Moscow, Russia 2 NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, USA We support the Eneev's idea [1] that the largest (with diameter d?100 km) trans ­ Neptunian objects ( TNOs ) moving now in not very eccentric orbits ... The total amount of water delivered to the Earth during the formation of the giant planets was about the mass of water in the Earth's oceans. ...

Jupiter is the largest of the nine planets, more than 10 times the diameter of Earth and more than 300 times its mass. ... The mean density of Earth is 5.245 times that of water. The pull of gravity on Jupiter at the top of the clouds at the equator is 2.4 times as great as gravity's pull at the surface of Earth at the equator. ... It is tipped about 11њ to Jupiter's axis of rotation, similar to Earth's, but it is also offset from the center of Jupiter by about 10,000 kilometers (6,200 miles). ...

On the inclination of planetary orbits! Caroline Terquem! ... Planets on inclined orbits Higher inclinations for planets around stars with Teff>6250K? Planet formation, Hot Jupiters and misalignments 1. If planets form by the core accretion scenario and migrate in: Hot Jupiters But no eccentricity and no misalignment (if the disc is in the star's equatorial plane) With further planet/planet scattering and/or Kozai cycles: Eccentricity and misalignment But companions required.. ...

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National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... JOHN E. BLAHA (COLONEL, USAF, RET.) NASA ASTRONAUT (FORMER) . ... EDUCATION: Graduated from Granby High School in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1960; received a bachelor of science in engineering science from the United States Air Force Academy in 1965 and a master of science in astronautical engineering from Purdue University in 1966. ... NASA EXPERIENCE: Selected as an astronaut in May 1980, Blaha has logged 161 days in space on 5 space missions. ...

... How How do molecular clouds collapse to form do very young stars evolve? do planets grow in circumstellar disks? ... Real-time protoplanetary/protostellar disk evolution - movies of disks in formation High sensitivity, 2 AU resolution cm-wave observations (100K, 0.2 mas, 8 GHz bandwidth, A/T 10,000) proper motions (Reid ­ Bryden et al 1999) dynamical timescales months-years How do very young stars evolve ? cm-waves probe inner few AU of accretion ...

Johann Kepler - a Legislator of the Sky. The laws of the planets movements put by Johann Kepler destroyed the thousand year old dogmas about the circles and spheres and opened the way to scientific understanding of celestial occurrences. ... The best object for observation was Mars - its orbit unlike the Earth's one has a noticeable eccentricity, the rotation period in comparison with Jupiter and Saturn is not too long and observation conditions are better than for Mercury and Venus. ...