This page provides background material and audiovisual materials to accompany the press release "Comet Collision 'Armageddon' Unlikely". ... The signals from these molecules can be converted into sound waves by modern telescopes, giving us the chance to listen to the song of a comet. Audio Track: Song of a comet (mp3, 664kb) . Web page describing the conversion to sound in more detail, and sounds of other astronomical objects. Many many beautiful pictures of comets are available on-line. ...

... Comet-like Clouds in the Cartwheel Galaxy . ... The aptly named Cartwheel Galaxy is actually about 500 million light years distant, its suggestive shape created by a head-on collision with a smaller galaxy . ... The fast moving dense gas clouds appear as blue comet-like shapes, mostly along the upper edge of the nucleus, in this false color close-up of the Cartwheel's central region. ... Publications with keywords: clouds - Cartwheel galaxy . Publications with words: clouds - Cartwheel galaxy . ...

... November 28, 1996 . Comet-like Clouds in the Cartwheel Galaxy . ... The aptly named Cartwheel Galaxy is actually about 500 million light years distant, its suggestive shape created by a head-on collision with a smaller galaxy . ... The fast moving dense gas clouds appear as blue comet-like shapes, mostly along the upper edge of the nucleus, in this false color close-up of the Cartwheel's central region. ... About APOD . ... NASA Technical Rep.: ... A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Star Atlas . ... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... The planet has extreme temperature swings and perhaps active lava flows. ... A digital supplement to Astronomy magazine. ... Join TravelQuest International with Astronomy and Discover magazines on one of three great tour options surrounding this celestial spectacle . ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

... These Frontier Fields will combine the power of HST with the natural gravitational telescopes of high-magnification clusters of galaxies. ... We are soliciting gravitational lensing maps for the last four Hubble Frontier Fields clusters (MACSJ0717.5+3745, MACSJ1149.5+2223, AbellS1063, and Abell 370) based upon the exceptionally deep HST FF imaging and other new ancillary data. ... For the full set of proposal instructions and requirements, see the FY16 Frontier Fields Lensing Map Call for Proposals....

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... This has been designed for 8-12 year olds, however the challenge is for anyone and everyone who is curious about space exploration and what it takes to be an astronaut. How can I take part? ... All you need to do is complete a partnership agreement available here or alternatively contact Martina Redpath €а (email Martina(at)armaghplanet.com ) for more information and a guide to the activities. ... Take part in Mission X 2014 | ...

... Some photos from my back garden (Dr Apostolos Christou, Armagh Observatory): . I would like to share with you some pictures of comet Lulin I captured from my back garden on 3 March 2009. ... A Java applet showing the motion of the comet in its orbit can be found here , while a plot of the comet's brightness over time can be found at the bottom of this page ." Monday, 16 March 2009 02:04 . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... The Sun . Does anyone know how many stars are there in the solar system? Come take a look at the Sun. See that? ... Did you know all the stars you see when you look up are inside our galaxy! ... Did you know that our Sun and solar system were born in a cloud of gas and dust like this. ... We're looking at a place where stars are being born. ... Sharing the Universe is based upon work supported by the Informal Education Division of the National Science Foundation under Grant no DRL-0638873. ...

U nlike the other small bodies in the solar system, comets have been known since antiquity. There are Chinese records of Comet Halley going back to at least 240 BC. ... W hen they are near the Sun and active, comets have several distinct parts: . ... A comet whose orbit takes it near the Sun is also likely to either impact one of the planets or the Sun or to be ejected out of the solar system by a close encounter (esp. with Jupiter). ... more comet images . ... Comet Hale-Bopp (C/1995 O1) . ...

... To save time, I will only provide ephemerides in 2000 coordinates. ... Note: most the orbital elements used to create these ephemerides were obtained from the International Astronomical Union Circulars (IAUCs), Minor Planet Circulars (MPCs) or the ICQ Comet Handbook. ... The following 1-day ephemeris (March 1, 1997 - October 1, 1997) is from Donald Yeomans of JPL and is based on Reference Orbit #55 (March 4, 1997). 2000 coordinates (March - September, 1997) [3/4/97] . ... Epoch: 1997 Feb. 1.0 . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... I couldn't find a satisfying answer to my question in your archives, what I mainly want to know is: If our solar system was in the cluster of stars at the center of our galaxy, would there be permanent daylight? ... What would life be like near a galactic center? ... Near the center of the Galaxy stars might be less than one light year apart on average. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

Dust around Herbig Ae/Be Stars: Porous, Cometary-like Grains? ... This brings up the question, which we try to answer here, of how the grain porosity affects the observational manifestations of the dust shells of HAeBe stars: the excess infrared emission, anomalous extinction in the ultraviolet, and the peculiar behaviour of colour indices and linear polarization during deep brightness minima observed for about 25% of HAeBe stars (UX Ori, WW Vul, etc). ...

... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... ESO's Governing Bodies . ... Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Visits to ESO Sites . ... Architecture at ESO . ... ESO . ... Solar System . Star Clusters . ... Stars@ESO . ... This animation shows an artistтАЩs impression of the remarkable planetary system around the Sun-like star HD 10180. ... Here we initially see the HD 10180 planetary system in its entirety with the planets labelled. ... Milky Way : Star : Circumstellar Material : Planetary System . ...

... Archives . ... Jun 13th, 2007| 08:41 am | ... I don?t know why astro-ph thought this article on the statistics of football dynamics (Mendes, Malacarne, Anteneodo 2007; physics/0706.1758 ) was relevant to me and emailed the abstract, but I?m glad they did, because they deal with a question I have wrestled with for a long time: how to figure out the underlying distribution that controls a stochastic process. ... Comment ( RSS ) | ... Chandra Blog . ... Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS) . ...

... Pre-university education . ... Samara region . ... Weather . ... Samara State Aerospace University Students life What's the Weather Like? Average wintertime temperature is -15 degrees Centigrade. ... On the coldest days, the temperature can drop to as low as -30 - -35 degrees. There s lots of snow in February. ... The snow usually melts by early May, and the first summer days arrive in the second half of May. ... On the hottest summer days, the temperature can rise to as high as +30 degrees. ...

... STScI-PRC96-13a HUBBLE CAPTURES COLLISION OF GASES NEAR DYING STAR This colorful image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the collision of two gases near a dying star. Astronomers have dubbed the tadpole-like objects in the upper right-hand corner "cometary knots" because their glowing heads and gossamer tails resemble comets. Although astronomers have seen gaseous knots through ground-based telescopes, they have never seen so many in a single nebula. ...

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