... Planets . ... Earth Satellites . ... The newly discovered ?mega-Earth? ... Its sibling, the lava world Kepler-10b, is in the background (the two planets? proximity is grossly exaggerated) .€а Kepler-10c has a diameter of about 29 000 km, 2.3 times as large as Earth, and weighs 17 times as much. ... The first mega-earth to be discovered is Kepler-10c which orbits a star lying about 560 light years from the Sun in the constellation Draco. ... Astronomers Find a New Type of Planet: The ?Mega-Earth? ...

... Science . ... PPTA timeline . Internal . ... Data release 2 discussion . Editing this wiki . ... Prep . Hobbs et al. (submitted), "TEMPO2 III" . Journal: MNRAS . Co-authors: Jenet, Lee, Verbiest, Yardley, Manchester, Lommen, Coles, Edwards & Shettigara . Science content: summary of simulating GW signals in tempo2 . ... Science content: Summary of the PULSE@Parkes project including description that some observations will be useful for the PPTA. ... Data content: PPTA datasets . ...

... Over the first 4 years, its X-ray telescopes eROSITA and ART-XC will survey the whole sky with a record sensitivity in the 0.5-10 keV energy band. ... The goal of the second international Spectrum-RG conference is to discuss the different scientific topics addressed by the mission, synergies with surveys at other wavelengths, and requirements to follow-up observations.Contributed talks and poster presentations are invited on the topics related to the SRG science goals. ... Active galactic nuclei . ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . Unexpected Impact on Jupiter . ... 8.09.2009 . ... First discovered by an amateur astronomer Anthony Wesley on 2009 July 19, the impact was quickly confirmed and even imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope the very next day. ... It is now thought that a small comet -- perhaps less than one kilometer across -- impacted Jupiter on or before 2009 July 19. ... July . ... Publications with keywords: Jupiter - impact . Publications with words: Jupiter - impact . ...

Estimating the NEO Population and Impact Risk: Past, Present and Future . ... The detailed analyses of the 2003 NASA SDT report estimated a "persons affected" rate of ~182 per year associated with impact tsunami. ... Here we re-evaluate the impact hazard, using our new population and completion estimates, and revised "kill curves" including the airburst damage down to smaller size and lower tsunami fatality rate. ...

... December 30, 1998 . Supernova 1994D and the Unexpected Universe . Credit: High-Z Supernova Search Team , HST , NASA . Explanation: Far away, long ago, a star exploded. ... Supernova 1994D was not of interest for how different it was, but rather for how similar it was to other supernovae . ... The large number and great distances to supernovae measured in 1998 have been interpreted as indicating that we live in a previously unexpected universe . ... About APOD > . ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

... Professor Mark Bailey completed work with the former PDRA Vacheslav Emel'yanenko on the capture of Halley-type comets from the long-period cometary flux. He also completed a paper with Ph.D. student Scott Manley on collision probabilities between small solar system bodies, and together with PDRA David Asher and visiting research fellow Vacheslav Emel'yanenko provided the explanation for the unexpected outburst of Leonid fireballs on the morning of 1998 November 17. ...

... ESO . ... Galaxies . ... Now, however, Dante Minniti and Albert Zijlstra [1] , working at the ESO 3.5-metre New Technology Telescope (NTT), have found a large halo of old and metal-poor stars around one of the dwarf galaxies in the Local Group. ... This does not necessarily imply that all dwarf galaxies must likewise lack halos: it is also possible that the halos of the Magellanic Clouds were stripped away when they came too close to the Milky Way sometime in the past. ... A Dwarf Galaxy With A Halo...

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