Educator's Guide to Kitchen Comets . ... When a comet nucleus is gravitationally drawn into the inner solar system it begins to heat up. ... You can make an accurate model of a comet nucleus easily and inexpensively. ... Dry Ice (5 lbs) available from ice companies or ice cream parlors; CAUTION: Dry ice is -79 degrees C (-110 degrees F). ... Water, ammonia, organic (carbon based) molecules, and silicates are all present on comet nuclei. ... Observe the behavior of your miniature comet nucleus. ...

... A Roll Cloud Over Uruguay . ... Measuring slightly over one tenth of a millimeter, the ball moves toward a smooth plate in response to energy fluctuations in the vacuum of empty space. ... The International Year of Astronomy 2009 ended with a Blue Moon and a partial lunar eclipse, as the second Full Moon of December grazed the Earth's shadow on December 31st. ... Big, beautiful spiral galaxy M101 is one of the last entries in Charles Messier's famous catalog, but definitely not one of the least. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Comets and Asteroids . ... Image credit:ESO/J.Emerson/VISTA. ... However others are less pessimistic and it has even been claimed that the mysterious ?Wow! signal? received in 1977 originated from the direction M55.б  Sadly, this still unexplained pulse of radio energy originated from a location rather to the northwest of M55 so I doubt if the source was this cluster (if indeed the signal was genuinely of extraterrestrial origin). ... Mysterious Wow! ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center . ... William A. Anders (Major General, USAF Reserve, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (former) . ... EDUCATION: Received a bachelor of science degree from the United States Naval Academy in 1955 and a master of science degree in Nuclear Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, in 1962. ...

The solar system probably formed about 4.5 billion years ago from a giant disk of gas, dust and ice in space. ... All forms of life on Earth require liquid water to survive, so the presence of liquid water is a good criterion for deciding whether other planets in the universe could be habitable. Earth is the only habitable planet in the solar system. Venus, closer to the Sun, is too hot to have liquid water. Planets and moons in the outer solar system are too cold for liquid water. ...

... 2010 January 4 . Comet Halley's Nucleus: An Orbiting Iceberg . Credit Copyright: Halley Multicolor Camera Team , Giotto Project , ESA . Explanation: What does a comet nucleus look like? ... In 1986, however, the European spacecraft Giotto became one of the first group of spacecraft ever to encounter and photograph the nucleus of a comet, passing and imaging Halley's nucleus as it approached the sun. ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply . ...

... Its perihelion would occur on April 1, 1997, at which point the comet would be only 0.92 astronomical units from the Sun, just within the orbit of Earth. ... Taken in April 1993, the photo showed the comet over 13 astronomical units from the Sun, well beyond the orbit of Saturn. ... Hale, as in Comet Hale-Bopp, has written a book, Everybody's Comet (available through the ASP Catalog) and coordinated an Internet project, "Hale-Bopp: Live in the American Classroom." ... Anatomy of a comet. ...

... Registration form . ... Institute of Applied Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences invites you to participate in the all-Russian scientific conference "Asteroid-Comet Hazard-2005" which will be held 3-7 October 2005 in St. Petersburg. ... Batrakov Yu.V. Institute of Applied Astronomy of RAS, St.Petersburg . ... Institute of Applied Astronomy of RAS . ... Finkelstein A.M. Institute of Applied Astronomy of RAS, St.Petersburg . ... Institute of Applied Astronomy of RAS, St.Petersburg . ...

The Astronomical Society of Australia has been asked by STANDARDS AUSTRALIA to compile a list of "designated" optical observatories that are valuable resources for (i) research, (ii) education and (iii) community use. The ASA is the final arbiter of whether any particular observatory is so designated. ... Upon receipt of your application form, your observatory will be entered on a list of "Pending Designated Observatories" on the ASA Home Page. ... It will be emailed for you. ... Email . ...

... HST . ... Data . ... HST Overview . Overview . ... Retrieving HST Data . ... This FORM is a quick tool for flux conversion between diverse unit systems. ... INPUT FLUX or MAGNITUDE UNITS CLEAR Jy W/m2/Hz W/m2/um W/cm2/um erg/cm2/s/Hz erg/cm2/s/A photons/m2/w/um photons/cm2/s/A AB magnitude magnitude V magnitude U magnitude B magnitude R magnitude I magnitude J magnitude H magnitude K magnitude L magnitude L1 magnitude M magnitude N magnitude Q . ... Enter the Input Flux or Magnitude Value : . ...