Astronomy Picture of the Day . A Close Encounter Of The Stellar Kind . ... Explanation: The unassuming star centered in this sky view will one day be our next door stellar neighbor. ... Known in catalogs of nearby stars as Gliese (Gl) 710 it is predicted to come within nearly 1 light-year of the Sun ... about 1.5 million years from now. ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ... Publications with keywords: Gliese 710 - nearby - star . Publications with words: Gliese 710 - nearby - star . ...

... June 26, 1997 . A Close Encounter of the Stellar Kind . Credit: Digitized Sky Survey , SkyView . Explanation: The unassuming star centered in this sky view will one day be our next door stellar neighbor . ... This future stellar encounter was discovered by researchers Joan Garcia-Sanchez and Robert Preston ( JPL ), and collaborators while studying stars in the solar neighborhood using data from the Hipparcos Astrometry Satellite . ... About APOD > . ...

... Home . OOF . ALMA . ... Interacting galaxies . ... OOF Index . ... Low redshift close pairs . This pages illustrates some of the galaxies with close pairs which we identified in our study of star formation in interacting galaxies selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (Nikolic et al 2004, see the publication list ). ... The pixel scale in approximately 0.4 arcseconds and colour is approximately true-colour. Images and data courtesy of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey . ...

The Database of Close Binary Systems . ... Team . ... This web-based interactive database is being developed and maintained by a team at the Sternberg Astronomical Institute of the Moscow State University . The project is an on-line extension of our catalogue on "Highly Evolved Close Binary Stars" (volumes I, II) published by Gordon and Breach in 1996. As of November 2009, the database (both the software and the content) is in its development/testing phase. Sternberg Astronomical Institute ...

... 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. ...