Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the updates and links web pages. Discovered independently by Lick Observatory Supernova Search (USA) and Koichi Itagaki (Japan). ... 2009/10/11.44 . 17.2 . ... Joseph Brimacombe . ...

... This is a partial list of the Extragalactic Novae discovered in 2002. Current Novae can be found on the main page . Nova NGC 2403 2002 , ATEL 1638 , discovered 2002/12/30.124 by K. Hornoch . Found in NGC 2403 at R.A. = 07h37m38s.36, Decl. ... Nova M31 2002 6 , IAUC 7970 discovered 2002/08/04.13 by K. Hornoch . ... Nova M31 2002 5 , IAUC 7937 discovered 2002/07/22.5 by LOTOSS . ... Nova M31 2002 4 , IAUC 7937 discovered 2002/07/20.5 by LOTOSS ; Observatory G. Colombo . ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . Discovery Image: Comet SOHO (1998 J1) . ... Credit: SOHO - LASCO Consortium , ESA , NASA Explanation: Staring at the Sun from a vantage point in space ( Kids , don't try this at home!), the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory ( SOHO ) has enabled the discovery of much about our closest star. ... While not competing with Hale-Bopp , one of SOHO's recently discovered comets has proved to be bright enough to see with the unaided eye. ... May 1998 . ... Bright Comet SOHO ...

... Planets . ... Earth Satellites . ... Looking in the direction of the constellation Cygnus the Swan and launched by NASA in 2009 is the Kepler Space Observatory.Many previous missions searching for exoplanets mainly detected large giant planets, like large hot Jupiters (it is easier to detect larger planets).However KeplerтАЩs main objective is to search for much smaller planets located in a habitable zone which is not too close nor too far from their star; planets which may be just like our Earth. ...

... There is also an edge-on view of the asteroid belt here . This video was created by Scott Manley. ... View of the solar system showing the locations of all the asteroids starting in 1980. ... Notice how the pattern of discovery follows the Earth around its orbit. ... At the beginning of 2010 a new discovery pattern becomes evident, with discovery zones in a line perpendicular to the Sun-Earth vector. ... An edge-on view of the asteroids . ... Other asteroid and comet animations by Scott Manley . ...

T he Siding Spring Survey (SSS) is a Near-Earth Object search program that utilises the 0.5-m Uppsala Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, N.S.W., Australia. ... The mission of the Siding Spring Survey is to contribute to the inventory of near-earth objects (NEOs), or more specifically, the potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) and comets (PHOs) that may pose a threat of impact and thus harm to civilization. ... Based on the CSS Mission page . ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

New Satellites of Saturn . On July 26, 1995, Amanda Bosh of Lowell Observatory announced the discovery of at least two and perhaps four new satellites of Saturn . The discovery was based upon images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope on May 22, 1995, when Saturn's rings were tilted edge-on to the Earth . ... The two satellites S/1995 S1 and S2 lie inside Saturn's thin, eccentric "F" ring . ... The fourth satellite S/1995 S4 is 6,000 kilometers (3,700 miles) beyond the F ring. ... S/1995 S 3 . ...

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... Tonight's Sky . ... News . ... Sky this Month . ... Star Atlas . ... Supernova showered Earth with radioactive debris . ... galaxies . stars . ... Bright new supernova blows up in the Cigar Galaxy (M82) . ... Before and after photos of the galaxy M82 showing the appearance of a brand new 11.7 magnitude supernova. ... The new supernova lies in M82, a starburst galaxy located within the constellation Ursa Major. ... M82 is a bright, striking edge-on spiral galaxy bright enough to see in binoculars. ...

... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... ESO Acronyms . ... Survey Telescopes . ... ESO Supernova . ... Star Clusters . ... Stars@ESO . ... This video sequence shows the rapid brightening and slower fading of a supernova explosion in the galaxy NGC 1365. The supernova, which has been named SN 2012fr, was discovered by French astronomer Alain Klotz on 27 October 2012. The images compiled to create this sequence were captured by the TAROT telescope at ESOтАЩs La Silla Observatory in Chile. ...

... They cover a period of 4 days in which the Supernova continues to rise in brightness (what astronomers call magntiude). ... First Image Taken on March 11 at 8:22 UT. Second Image Taken on March 12 at 8:52 UT. ... The supernova is the same brightness as in the previous image taken 2 hours ago . ... This image, taken 24 hours after the previous image, shows the supernova to be another 0.21mag (or about 25%) brighter. ... Hopefully the images do show that the brightness of the Supernova is changing. ...

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... This supernova was discovered on April 6, 1998 on spectra obtained with 6m telescope of Special Astrophysical Observatory RAS (Kniazev et al. ... BVRI and H images were taken with the 1.52m EOCA telescope at Calar Alto on April 24, 1998. ... The available spectra for the SN, from April 6 and 19 taken with the 6m SAO Russian telescope and from May 26 with the NOT are shown in Figure 2. ... The spectra are typical of a type II supernova. ...

. Pulkovo Observatory of Russian Academy of Sciences is situated . near Saint-Petersburg. It was founded in 1839. 196140, Saint-Petersburg, Pulkovskoye chaussee 65/1 . English version . Russian version . This page has been accessed times since May 1, 1999.

A team of U.S. and German astrophysicists have made the first ever detection of X-rays coming from a comet. ... Following the initial detection, the team reported repeated X-ray emissions from the comet over the next 24 hours. ... One preliminary theory is that X-ray emission from the Sun was absorbed by a cloud of gaseous water molecules surrounding the nucleus of the comet, and then were re-emitted by the molecules in a process physicists call "fluorescence." ... Comets . ...

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