... 70 Virginis b: A New Water Planet? ... Credit: Royal Observatory Edinburgh, Anglo-Australian Observatory, and AURA Explanation: The star 70 Virginis has a planet. This recent discovery is the second known case of a planet orbiting a normal star other than our Sun itself. ... Life on Earth is based on liquid water - could life exist here too? ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ... Публикации с ключевыми словами: extrasolar planet - Планеты у других звезд . ...

... The study of extra solar planets will be one of the most important areas of research in astronomy in this century. ... The first planets outside the solar system were found in 1992 around the millisecond pulsar PSR B1257+12 by Alex Wolszczan at the Arecibo Observatory . ... Three space missions based on this principle (MOST, COROT and Kepler ) have already been launched or approved, and have the last one at least has the potential to find Earth-sized planets. ... SIM ( NASA ) is one of such missions...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Planets . ... Space Flight . ... 6 Comments For those of you that are still bearing the psychological scars from PlutoтАЩs demotion from planet to dwarf planet a decade ago, here is news that may add salt to [ ] . Continue Reading.. ... No Comments New HorizonтАЩs arrival at Pluto this year, after a nine year-long traverse through the Solar System has revealed many new things about this little icy planet. ... Posted on September 12, 2014 | ...

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System of astrometric databases of Pulkovo observatory. 26-inch refractor . Pulkovo system of astrometric databases consists of three databases, which contain results of processing photographic and CCD observations, obtained with the 26-inch refractor and the Normal astrograph of Pulkovo observatory. Pulkovo photographic catalogs: Pul-2, Pul-3 (Pul-3 SE), Pul ERS . Results of photographic and CCD observations of Solar system objects . ... Normal Astrograph ...

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... Contact A Problem of an estimation of accuracy of the asteroid CCD observations . The Minor Planet Center supported by the Interntional Astronomical Union is the main office for keeping observational data of the small Solar System bodies and their investigations. ... At Pulkovo Observatory we are estimating an accuracy of the CCD asteroid observations obtained by amateurs and professional astronomers all over the World using the MPC database. ...

Mercury Spring 2010 Table of Contents . This artist s impression shows the transiting exoplanet Corot-9b. Credit: ESO / L. Cal ada. First Temperate Exoplanet . ... Combining observations from the CoRoT satellite and the ESO HARPS instrument, astronomers have discovered the first . ... Designated Corot-9b, the . ... If you enjoyed this excerpt from a feature article and would like to receive our quarterly Mercury magazine, we invite you to join the ASP and receive 4 issues a year. ...

... Bringing news from across the Universe to children all around the world . ... Thanks to one of their telescopes, we?re finally able to study a planet beyond our Solar System using normal starlight reflected off its surface for the very first time! ... 51 Peg b isn?t a very exciting name, but it?s the name of an exciting planet. ... main-sequence ?) star, like our Sun. ... The ability to collect light from distant worlds is very exciting; it will allow us to work out all sorts of new facts about them...