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 . ...

My research efforts have focused on three areas which are: . More than 200 extrasolar planets have been discovered around relatively nearby stars, primarily through the Doppler line shifts owing to the reflex motions of their host stars, and more recently through transits of some planets across the face of the host stars. ... Gravitational microlensing provides a novel technique to look for planets around lens stars, and this is the only technique currently capable of detecting Earth-mass planets. ...

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 . ...

... Credit Copyright: Greg Bacon ( STScI ), NASA Explanation: The last decade saw the profound discovery of many worlds beyond our solar system, but none analogs of our home planet Earth . Exploiting precise observational techniques, astronomers inferred the presence of well over two dozen extrasolar planets , most nearly as massive as gas giant Jupiter or more, in close orbits around sun-like stars. ... Publications with keywords: extrasolar planet - planet - Saturn - planetary system . ...

Several tiny moons have been discovered recently, most from ground based imagery! With these discoveries, Uranus joins the jovian planets in having a number of small moons in irregular orbits. ... Two new moons of Uranus , provisionally known as Uranus XVI (S/1997 U 1) and Uranus XVII (S/1997 U 2), have been discovered. ... Caliban was discovered by Brett Gladman , Phil Nicholson, Joseph Burns, and JJ Kavelaars using the 200 inch Hale telescope ; the first images were taken 1997 Sept 6 and 7. ...

During routine astrometry with the 1.0-m to improve the orbit of the Apollo asteroid 2004 CB, the 'asteroid' was found on March 30 to have a short tail! ... it was renamed periodic comet P/2004 CB (LINEAR). ... Back to Previous News . Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ... Follow-up Astrometry with the 1.0-m at SSO . Previous News Items . Anglo-Australian Near Earth Asteroid Survey 1990-96 . ...

... Master . ... About Space Monitoring Laboratory, scientific directions, instruments, contacts . ... 20.06.2012 . ... 27 Apr 2012: GRB 120427A: MASTER follow up observations GCN13274 . ... 29 Mar 2012: MASTER OT 123412-632503 detection during Swift trigger 518853 ATel4007 . 26 Mar 2012: GRB 120323A: MASTER follow up observations GCN13116 . ... 29 Jan 2012: GRB 120129A: MASTER optical observations GCN12907 . 06 Jan 2012: GRB 120106A: MASTER Early OT marginally detection GCN12818, GCN12811 . ...

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. ...

Detected Supernovae . The search have produced till now the detections of 4 SNe. ... This result highlights the power of infrared monitoring in detecting Obscured SNe and indicates that optical surveys are probably missing a significant fraction of SNe, especially in obscured systems such as starburst galaxies. ... In Fig. we show the archival SOFI image of NGC3256 (left) and the first image obtained in 2001 (right) where SN2001db has been detected. ...

... Over the past decade and a half, astronomers have used both ground-based and space-based telescopes to discover more than 400 "extrasolar" planets. The Kepler space-based mission uses a technique called transit photometry to search for these planets. In January 2010 the Kepler mission team announced the discovery of five new planets. ... The ultimate goal of the Kepler mission is to search out the existence of Earth-like planets. ... A Collection of Resources to Get Behind the Headlines . ...

... I have been involved into the La Sagra asteroids team since the beginning of the La Sagra Observatory (OLS) in Andalusia, Spain in 2006. ... In the following years I contributed to the continuous improvements of the search methods and data reduction pipelines. ... There I got introduced to a study to examine the effect of host galaxy dust extinction on the observed properties of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). ... GRBs host galaxies photometry . ... Copyright 2012 Aleksandar Cikota. ...

... 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 . ...