Astronomy Picture of the Day . Probably a Planet for Beta Pic . ... 28.11.2008 . ... Explanation: A mere 50 light-years away, young star Beta Pictoris became one of the most important stars in the sky in the early 1980s. Satellite and ground-based telescopic observations revealed the presence of a surrounding outer, dusty, debris disk and an inner clear zone about the size of our solar system -- strong evidence for the formation of planets . ... November 2008 . ... 2007 2008 . ...

Hubble Finds Oxygen Atmosphere On Jupiter's Moon Europa . Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) have identified the presence of an extremely tenuous atmosphere of molecular oxygen around Jupiter's second moon, Europa . ... Europa's oxygen atmosphere is so tenuous that its surface pressure is barely one hundred billionth that of the Earth," said Principal Investigator Doyle Hall, of Johns Hopkins. ... The oxygen gas slowly leaks into space and must be replenished continuously. ...

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... 2008 November 28 . Probably a Planet for Beta Pic . ... Now, infrared observations from European Southern Observatory telescopes incorporated in this composite offer a detection of a source in the clear zone that is most likely a giant planet orbiting Beta Pic . ... Confirmation that the new source is a planet will come if future observations can demonstrate that the source moves in an orbit around the star. ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply . ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... The stars of the middle main sequence have relatively quiescent outer layers, and unusual chemical abundance patterns may develop in their atmospheres. ... At present, little is known about the time evolution of these anomalous abundances, nor about the role that diffusion may play in maintaining them, during the main sequence lifetime of such a star. ...

Why do people want to explore Mars? At the present time Mars topography is known sufficiently well to make a Martian map; we cannot distinguish yet the settlements of the inhabitants of this planet, but sooner or later we probably will be able to achieve this as well.. ... US spacecraft "Mariner-4" performed the first successful flyby and transmitted to the Earth twenty one photos of Mars' surface. ... It is supposed that large subsurface ice reservoirs or liquid water exist on Mars. ...

velocity measured in meters per second . ... High speed propeller (vertical) = 42% Clearly, wind power is a highly variable source and hence energy storage is crucial. ... Electricity generated is then .25 KWH per sq. meter . If wind blows 24 hours per day then annual electricity generated would be about 2200 KWH per sq. meter . ... To Generate 10,000 KWH annual then from a 20 mph wind that blows 10% of the time . windmill area = 10,000 KWH/220 KHW per sq. meter = 45 sq meters . ...

... By studying the photospheric abundances of 4 RV Tauri stars in the LMC, we test whether the depletion pattern of refractory elements, seen in similar Galactic sources, is also common for extragalactic sources. Since this depletion process probably only occurs through interaction with a stable disc, we investigate the circumstellar environment of these sources. ... One source shows a very small infrared excess, atypical for a disc source, but still has evidence for depletion. ...

... As a result of BTA observations of 23 chemically peculiar stars with strong magnetic fields, it was found that in 22 of them the longitudinal magnetic field, measured from the hydrogen line cores are considerably lower (by about 1/3) than the value measured from metal lines in the same spectra. ... New approaches need to be developed in order to interpret the data. ... The Zeeman spectrum of a star with a strong magnetic field, 53 Cam. ...

... WORKSHOP "STELLAR ATMOSPHERES" . THE CHEMICAL AND DYNAMIC EVOLUTION OF STARS AND GALAXIES" . ... Chernomorka , Odessa , Ukraine . ... Modeling and interpretation of the stellar spectra of the usual and peculiar stars. Elemental abundances in the stars of different types and populations of the Galaxy. Chemical evolution of the stars and galaxies. ... Andrievsky S.M. (OAO ONU, Odessa, Ukraine) . ... CHEMICAL and DYNAMIC EVOLUTION STARS and GALAXIES" . ... Odessa mailto:astro@paco.odessa.ua . ...

... We cannot use for this purpose equivalent widths and profiles of HI lines (well known criteria of atmospheric conditions for normal supergiants), since these lines are strongly distorted in the spectrum of IRAS04296 as seen in Fig. ... Figure: Upper: iron abundance FeI (circles) and FeII (crosses) calculated for IRAS04296+3429 with model parameters , and using lines with different excitation potentials EP of a low level; bottom: the same as a function of the equivalent width W . ...