Jupiter is the largest of the nine planets, more than 10 times the diameter of Earth and more than 300 times its mass. ... The mean density of Earth is 5.245 times that of water. The pull of gravity on Jupiter at the top of the clouds at the equator is 2.4 times as great as gravity's pull at the surface of Earth at the equator. ... It is tipped about 11њ to Jupiter's axis of rotation, similar to Earth's, but it is also offset from the center of Jupiter by about 10,000 kilometers (6,200 miles). ...

Giant Jupiter. Jupiter . ... Jupiter has no solid surface that is why speaking about its dimensious point the radius of the upper border line of the clouds, where the presseru is about 10 KPa; radius of Jupiter on the equator is 71400 km. ... The Jupiter satellites. ... Nowadays 16 satellites of the Jupiter are known: Adrastea, Mitis, Amaltea , Phina,then 4 Galilei satellites: Io , Europe , Hanimed , Callisto , Leda, Aimalia, Zicitea, Elara, Ananke, Carme, Pasipe and Sinope. ... Jupiter's ring. ...

... Sunspots and Solar Active Regions . ... Together the sunspots span a region about thirty times the diameter of planet Earth. ... Stars that create elegant planetary nebulas like Henize 3-401, pictured above, are not unusual, causing speculation that, one day, our own Sun may look like this. A Star Cluster in Motion . ... NGC 1569: Heavy Elements from a Small Galaxy . ... Still, heavy elements can profoundly influence galaxy and star formation ... not to mention the formation of planets and people. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Solar System . ... Planets . ... This bizarrely shrunken planetary system was found by NASAтАЩs Kepler mission, hence the parent star has been named Kepler-11. ... Planetary scientist and Kepler science team member Jack Lissauer said ?These six planets are mixtures of rock and gases, possibly including water.тАЭ €аNone of these strange new worlds are likely to be home to any form of life; their surface conditions are simply too extreme. ...

... Space Res., 12, 265, 1992 planetary magnetic dipole: Mizutani, H., et al., ... Astrobiology, 7, 167, 2007 CME induced H+ ion pick-up loss at 0.05 AU for ` Hot Jupiters ' HD209458 b Mass loss ~1011 g/s even for weak CMEs Mmax strong magn. protection in reality Exoplanet magnetospheres - importance of magnetodisk Relatively large amount of observed Hot Jupiters (27%): survival of close-in giants indicates their efficient protection against of extreme plasma and radiation conditions ...

Ganymede is the largest moon in our solar system, larger even than the planets Pluto and Mercury. ... Ganymede's surface consists of two main types of terrain: old, dark polygonal units, and young, bright valleys and ridges (see figure 11 ). ... In a similar way, hitting a large block of ice with a hammer makes white marks. ... Ganymede as seen by Voyager 2. ... Because Voyager couldn't spot any large impact craters, scientists have concluded that the moon's surface is young. ... Moon . ... Europa . ...

The Earth's magnetosphere global structure is conditioned by the interaction of the Solar wind and Earth's magnetic field. ... Many various magnetospheric models are available in the NSSDC . ... Fairfield D. H., Average and unusual location of the Earth's magnetopause and bow shock, J. Geophys. ... Stasiewicz K., Polar Cusp Topology and Position as a Function of Interplanetary Magnetic Field and Magnetic Activity: Comparison of a Model with Viking and other Observations, J. Geophys. ...

... 2 Columns At the present time, the REGION table is de ned for a two-dimensional space. ... ROTANG (rotation angle): for rotated elements; like X and Y, this column needs to contain vectors of suфcient length. ... Table 1: REGION Table SHAPEs SHAPE X Y R ROTANG Point X Y Circle Xcen Ycen R Ellipse Xcen Ycen Rmaj ; Rmin Angle Annulus Xcen Ycen Rin ; Rout Elliptannulus Xcen Ycen Rinmaj ; Rinmin ; Angin ; Routmaj ; Routmin Angout Box Xcen Ycen Xsize ; Ysize Rotbox Xcen ...

T he Sun is an ordinary G2 star, one of more than 100 billion stars in our galaxy. diameter : 1,390,000 km . mass : 1.989e30 kg temperature : 5800 K (surface) 15,600,000 K (core) T he Sun is by far the largest object in the solar system. ... C onditions at the Sun's core are extreme. ... I n addition to heat and light, the Sun also emits a low density stream of charged particles (mostly electrons and protons) known as the solar wind which propagates throughout the solar system at about 450 km/sec. ...

... Abstract . ... Quasars at Redshift z=6 and Early Star Formation History . ... The Red Sequence at 1.3 . ... Coronagraphic Polarimetry of HST-Resolved Debris Disks . ... Exploring the Scaling Laws of Star Formation . ... ACS imaging of the "Little Red Spot" from April, 2006 . ... Using the High Resolution Camera (HRC) on ACS, HST obtained a series of images of the `Little Red Spot' in early 2006. ... Observations of the A0 star, HD 32297, and the G3 dwarf, HD 61005, are scheduled in the coming week. ...

The following images of the icy surface of Ganymede, the Solar System's largest moon, were made by the Galileo spacecraft during its ongoing mission to explore Jupiter and the Jovian system. ... This image was taken when Galileo was 7,448 kilometers (4,628 miles) away from Ganymede; north is to the top of the picture, and sunlight illuminates the surface from the lower left nearly overhead (77 degrees above the horizon). ... The image was taken June 27 at a range of 7,448 kilometers (4,628 miles). ...

The elements of the numbered minor planets are given with respect to the ecliptic and equinox J2000.0. ... In the Table these values are given to 0.01. ... A dash indicates that there is no opposition in 2015. 1 a.u., 1.017 a.u. 1 a.u., q <= 1.017 a.u.), At stands for Aten type ( a . ... It should be noted that all objects included into the Tables of NEAs, Centaurs and transneptunian objects, and some unusual planets can be also found in the Table of elements and opposition dates of all minor planets. ...