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 : . ...

... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... ESO Acronyms . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Images . ... Star Clusters . ... Usage of ESO Images and Videos . ... Usage of ESO Videos and Images . ... Stars@ESO . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... VST . ... The first released VST image shows the spectacular star-forming region Messier 17, also known as the Omega Nebula or the Swan Nebula, as it has never been seen before. ...

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... no comet has been observed with an orbit that indicates that it came from interstellar space, . ... From this he proposed that comets reside in a vast cloud at the outer reaches of the solar system. ... Unfortunately, since the individual comets are so small and at such large distances, we have no direct evidence about the Oort Cloud. ... T he Kuiper Belt is a disk-shaped region past the orbit of Neptune roughly 30 to 100 AU from the Sun containing many small icy bodies. ... Small Bodies .. ...

Eyepieces Forum Message . Forums: . ... Discussion Forums | ... Post . ... Keep Us Informed . ... Post Message | ... Posted by L Madia on October 17, 2003 16:43:57 UTC . ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | Advertise on Astronomy Net | ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... galaxies . ... The Hubble Space Telescope found a galaxy that was completely formed within 480 million years of the Big Bang. How could gas and dust clouds condense into stars and organize themselves via gravity into an entire galaxy in less time than it takes the Milky Way to make two rotations? ... Galaxies like the Milky Way indeed could not have formed as a unit at such an early era after the Big Bang. ...

... First announcement . Second announcement . ... Astronomy in Ukraine Past, Present, and Future (MAO-2014) . ... The Conference devoted to the 70th anniversary . ... Pre-registration for the conference is terminated. The second announcement will be released on the 1st of March. Those who have filled out the pre-registration form will be asked to continue with the registration. Those who register for the first time, will be offered a full registration form. ...

... Jupiter. ... Determine the rate at which the dark cloud on the surface of Jupiter increased its length after the impact with the comet or asteroid by measuring the length of image fragments on the set of the 3 top images displayed on the right. ... The equatorial diameter of Jupiter is 143842 km. ... Comet. In the middle of July 2014, an automatic interplanetary spacecraft Rosetta of European Space Agency made the discovery that the comet 67P / Churyumov­ Gerasimenko had a bipartite nucleus. ...

... Please send the data required for registration to us by e-mail. ... Please make sure that you have received a confirmation of your registration by e-mail . Otherwise please send us an e-mail containing information indicated in the form. ... The conference budget is very limited, but we hope to provide a partial financial support for younger participants. ... Please notice that, due to the limited seating-capacity of the conference rooms, the number of participants is limited to 100 only. ...

... Archives . ... Going back to vlk?s comment, it is ?statistically probable? (and so natural) to see 1 keV photons in T= 10^7 K Thermal Bremsstrahlung (TB) spectra, actually more often than you might expect. ... Please, meet Ms. electron. ... Here you call it electron?s rest energy. Yeah, as if electrons rest in one place ever.б  Who remembers the electron mass is 9.1e-31 kg? Well, some freaks do.б  But almost all keV junkies know the electron mass is 511 keV. ... Chandra Blog . ...

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