Discover the cosmos! ... 2009 November 18 . Water Discovered in Moon Shadow . Credit: LCROSS , NASA . Explanation: Why is there water on the Moon? ... A plume of dust rose that was visible to the satellite , although hard to discern from Earth. The plume is shown above in visible light. Last week, the results of a preliminary chemical analysis gave a clear indication that the dust plume contained water . ... The source of the lunar water is now a topic of debate. ... About APOD | ...

... Credit Copyright: David A. Aguilar ( CfA ) Explanation: Even though Kepler-78b is only slightly larger than the Earth, it should not exist. ... Illustrated above in comparison with the Earth, Kepler-78b was discovered by eclipse with the Earth-orbiting Kepler spacecraft and further monitored for subtle wobbles by the HARPS - North , a spectrograph attached to the 3.6-meter Telescopio Nazionale Galileo in the Canary Islands . ... Publications with keywords: extrasolar planet . ...

... November 9, 1999 . Spiral Galaxies in Collision . ... the Hubble Heritage Team ( AURA / STScI / NASA ) . ... Until then, spiral galaxies NGC 2207 and IC 2163 will slowly pull each other apart, creating tides of matter, sheets of shocked gas , lanes of dark dust , bursts of star formation , and streams of cast-away stars . Astronomers predict that NGC 2207, the larger galaxy on the left, will eventually incorporate IC 2163, the smaller galaxy on the right. ... About APOD > . ...

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 . ...

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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Comets and Asteroids . ... Space Flight . ... November . ... By admin September 26, 2012 Posted in: Comets and Asteroids . Comet ISON is revealed.( ... Comet ISON.'s orbit and position on 25 September 2012.( ... The comet€а will reach its closest point to the Sun, perihelion in late November 2013.Then it is expected to whizz around the Sun a mere 1.1 million km above its surface making Comet ISON one of that class of comets called€а Sungrazers. ...

... Observing . ... Solar Observing . ... April 3 (SUN) - Solar Observing, Central Park , Manhattan . ... APRIL'S SKY . ... Lecture Series at the American Museum of Natural History The Amateur Astronomers Association is proud to present an astronomy lecture series from October through May each year for our members and the .. ... The€аAmateur Astronomers Association of New York€аwas organized in 1927 to promote the study of Astronomy, emphasizing its cultural and inspirational value. ...

... Subject: Lecture, ISS б  + Space Shuttle . ... IAA PUBLIC LECTURE: . ... Dave will include an account of how he made his discovery in the lecture. б б  Admission is free, and all are welcome, including light refreshments. б  . ... International Space Station + STS 126, Endeavour. The ISS, with the Space Shuttle Endeavour currently docked with it, is making a series of evening passes over Ireland. ... Since the Shuttle is attached to the ISS, it may appear even brighter than usual. ...

... Comet Lovejoy over the Parkes Dish . ... This beautiful picture of Comet Lovejoy was taken by CSIRO's Parkes staff member John Sarkissian when it was visible above the illuminated 64-m Parkes Telescope on the 28th of December 2011. The comet, official known as C/2011 W3 (Lovejoy) was discovered on the 27th of November 2011 by Australian amateur astronomer Terry Lovejoy . His new find, C/2014 Q2 , discovered on the 17th of August 2014, is currently visible in the sky . ... today * ATNF | ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Site Info . ... Public Talks . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Who is this guy who calls himself "The Bad Astronomer?" ... First, yes, I am a real live astronomer (when people ask me what astronomers do, I tell them "They astronom !" ... These are emitted by powerful objects like black holes, exploding stars, and super-dense neutrons stars. ... Finally, am I really a bad astronomer? ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Astronomers recently discovered that Scholz's star passed close to the Sun 70,000 years ago. Wouldn't its gravity have sent Oort Cloud comets raining into the inner planets? ... COMETS | OORT CLOUD . Based on the number of long-period comets that enter the inner solar system, astronomers estimate there are probably trillions of them in the Oort Cloud. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Discover | ...

... Bringing news from across the Universe to children all around the world . ... Astronomers have captured this amazing new space photograph showing the birth of a Solar System! Earth and the other seven planets of our Solar System are not alone in the Universe. Over 1800 planets have been discovered around distant stars so far, and this number is rising! Stars and planets form when a giant cloud of cosmic dust in space collapses in on itself. ...

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Image credit: Michael Nolan, Arecibo Observatory. These radar images of near-Earth asteroid 2001 SN263 were obtained on 2008 Feb 12 and 13. ... Image from Feb 12 . ... First near-Earth triple asteroid discovered by Arecibo Observatory . ... was discovered this week by astronomers at the sensitive radar telescope at Cornell University?s Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. ... For example, Arecibo has discovered more than half of the near-Earth binary asteroid systems discovered since 1999. ...

The Search for Planets Around Other Stars As we live out our lives securely attached to the Earth, breathing its air, and using its water, it becomes all too easy to take planets for granted. ... Yet the surprising fact is, we do not know for certain whether there are planets around other stars. ... A few years ago there was a flurry of excitement as some astronomers found wobbles in the motions of several nearby stars, suggesting the presence of planets. ... a stillborn star, if you will ? ...

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 . ...

Some Recent RR Lyra Measurements Taken From MRO . This RR Lyrae star (302129) was discovered by Scott Anderson and Armin Rest using imaging data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The attached plot is a folded light curve of data taken by Brandon Lawton and Bridget Kaeding this summer (2000) with MRO (the open squares). ... Because both observatories caught this star on the rising branch, we can get the period quite accurately. ...

... It was done. ... Agenda of the RadioAstron teleconference August 25, 2010 Corrections to the Agenda 1 2 3 N. Kardashev N. Kardashev N. Babakin Project status Present status of tests of science payload in LA Brief review of Pushchino TS verifications with Venus Express: current status and outlook Current status and activities related to TS in South Africa and in New Zealand Action items L.Gurvits S.Likhachev S.Gulyaev M.Popov 4 5 Chairman: N.Kardashev List of ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... Flights Chronology . ... ISS Russian Segment . ... Missions Archive . ... News . ... Operations for the prelaunch processing of the Soyuz ТМА-20 manned vehicle continue in assembly testing facilities of spacecraft (ATF SC), branch office of S.P. Korolev RSC Energia. ... News archive . Contribution of RSC Energia to the Russian Rocket-Space Technology . ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

... Posts tagged ?Ptolemy? ... Hyunsook once lamented that astronomers seem to be rather trigger happy with correlations and regressions, and everyone knows they don?t constitute proof of anything, so why do they do it? ... Tags: astrostatistics , curve fitting , Earth , ellipses , epicycles , Galileo , history , inference , iTunesU , Kepler , Mars , Owen Gingerich , planetary motion , Ptolemy , Quotes . ... Recipe [ 1 ] is no more suitable as a statistical bible than Ptolemy is for astronomy. ...