... 2008 February 18 . BLG-109: A Distant Version of our own Solar System . ... Perhaps quite common, as the first system of planets like our own Solar System has been discovered using a newly adapted technique that, so far, has probed only six planetary systems . ... Recently a detailed analysis of microlensing system OGLE -2006-BLG-109 has related brightness variations to two planets that are similar to Jupiter and Saturn of our own Solar System. ... About APOD | ...

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... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. September 22, 1998 . M61: Virgo Spiral Galaxy . ... Explanation: M61 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the nearby Virgo Cluster of Galaxies . Visible in M61 are a host of features common to spiral galaxies : bright spiral arms , a central bar , dust lanes , and bright knots of stars. ... About APOD > . ...

... The Cross-Quarter Days thus mark the middle of each season under our current system, or seasonal boundaries under the alternative system. ... Beltane / Bealtaine - Celtic bonfire festival May 4-7 2nd Cross-Quarter Day May 5 - Cinco de Mayo (Mexico) May 2nd Sunday - Mother's Day May last Monday - Memorial Day ( Decoration Day , officially May 30) June 14 - Flag Day June 3rd Sunday - Father's Day June 20-22 2nd Quarter Day - Summer Solstice June 21 - Litha (Norse/Anglo-Saxon for ...

... Bacteriophages: The Most Common Life Like Form on Earth . ... Credit Copyright: Wikipedia ; Insert: Mike Jones Explanation: There are more bacteriophages on Earth than any other life-like form. These small viruses are not clearly a form of life , since when not attached to bacteria they are completely dormant. Bacteriophages attack and eat bacteria and have likely been doing so for over 3 billion years ago. ... Publications with keywords: Earth - life . ... Hurricane Paths on Planet Earth . ...

Weaving together Astronomy+Statistics+Computer Science+Engineering+Intrumentation, far beyond the growing borders . ... Archives . ... Fancy statistical methods will not rescue garbage data. ... This seems hardly true unless the astronomer knows the true underlying population distribution from which those realizations (either binned or unbinned) are randomly drawn. ... A common error is to specify a confidence interval in the form (estimate ? ... Category: Bad AstroStat , Cross-Cultural , Quotes | ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Planets . ... Exoplanets . ... Space Flight . ... Science Fiction . ... August . ... By admin August 18, 2011 Posted in: August . Artist's impressions of Kepler and the light curve of transiting planet (Image credit: NASA) . ... In 1995 we knew of only nine planets (including Pluto, how times change), but in that year the first of the extra-solar planets or exoplanets was confirmed. ... Another is one of the most Earth-like worlds yet discovered . ...

... Public . Science . ... Science Users Information Science Software Common Pipeline Library jump to navigation jump to content . Science Users Information . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... Publications with ESO Data . ... Large Programmes . ... Common Pipeline Library . ... The Common Pipeline Library (CPL) comprises a set of ISO-C libraries that provide a comprehensive, efficient and robust software toolkit to develop astronomical data-reduction tasks (known as "recipes"). ...

... Searching for Far Out and Wandering Worlds . ... solar system . ... Observe the Solar System . ... Tune into the Asteroid Day press conference . ... Tour the Solar System . ... т??Trojanт?? asteroids in far reaches of solar system more common than previously thought . ... ASTEROIDS . ... Astronomers considered Trojans presence at Uranus unlikely because they thought the gravitational pull of larger neighboring planets would destabilize and expel any uranian Trojans over the age of the solar system. ...

Next: Feature enhancement: local Up: No Title Previous: Feature enhancement: filtering . ... As a result, a common magnitude scale (contour lines on the maps above, or color scale on Fig.1) will poorly display the short-duration events in a signal. Normalizing each line of the map (fixed duration) so it has unit variance (in effect dividing the energy map by the mean energy spectrum) at each duration restores more details of small-scale activity (Fig. ...

Sloan Digital Sky Survey Telescope Technical Note 19970728 Edward J. Mannery and Walter Siegmund . ... Common corrector mount inspection . ... The corrector nearest the secondary mirror, the common corrector (so named because it is common to both imaging and spectroscopic configuations) is located with respect to the telescope optics support structure by the common corrector mount. ... The fused silica common corrector is 32.5 inches in diameter and is 0.47 inches thick. ...