Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... Credit Copyright: Scott Kelly, Expedition 44 , NASA Explanation: What bizarre alien planet is this ? It's planet Earth of course, seen through the shimmering glow of aurorae from the International Space Station . About 400 kilometers (250 miles) above, the orbiting station is itself within the upper realm of the auroral displays, also watched from the planet's surface on June 23rd. ... June . ... Publications with keywords: aurora - aurora borealis - ISS . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2016 January 15 . Wright Mons in Color . Image Credit: NASA , Johns Hopkins Univ./ ... Explanation: Informally named Wright Mons, a broad mountain about 150 kilometers across and 4 kilometers high with a wide, deep summit depression is featured in this inset image captured during the New Horizons flyby of Pluto in July 2015. ... About APOD | ...

home publications > mercury . ... Books . ... How Do Planets Form? ... Astronomers are looking for clues from our solar system and others to determine whether planets form easy and fast or hard and slow. by David A. Weintraub, Vanderbilt University . The recent discovery of at least 50 extrasolar giant planets is one of the most profound and exciting events in modern science. ... Being an impatient lot, astronomers don't want to wait for a decade or more until the technology becomes available. ...

... Very Long Baseline Interferometry . ... Planets | ... Galaxy Lunch - Dave Lommen speaking on "Probing the first steps of planet formation at long wavelengths" . ... Speaker: Dave Lommen (Leiden Observatory) . Title: Probing the first steps of planet formation at long wavelengths . Abstract: Planets form in dusty disks around young stars. ... We also for the first time found a tentative . correlation with the 10-micron silicate dust feature, which probes the . ... Bring your lunch! ...

... Some important answers can be found in the ExInEd Electronic PictureBook Volcanic Features of Hawaii and Other Worlds. ... The Volcanic Features of Hawaii and Other Worlds Electronic PictureBook is a HyperCardЁ stack designed to run on a color MacintoshЁ computer with at least 2.5 megabytes of available RAM, sufficient hard disk space to contain the Electronic Picturebook, System 7.0, and HyperCard 2.1 or HyperCard Player 2.1. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Star Atlas . ... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... The planet has extreme temperature swings and perhaps active lava flows. ... A digital supplement to Astronomy magazine. ... Join TravelQuest International with Astronomy and Discover magazines on one of three great tour options surrounding this celestial spectacle . ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

... Planets . ... The planets were found using the HARPS instrument on the 3.6m telescope at ESOтАЩs La Silla Observatory. ... A planet in orbit around a star causes the star to regularly move towards and away from observers on Earth. ... One newly discovered planet, HD 85512 b, is best hope found so far for a habitable exoplanet. ... The HARPS team so far have found that about 40% of stars similar to own Sun have at least one planet smaller than Saturn (which is 95 times more massive than Earth). ...

... Диски для шпионских бластеров - это дополнительный набор снарядов для необычного оружия тайного агента. ... Тип: щипцы, . Материал: металл/силикон . ... Цвет: красный . ... Материал верха: натуральная замша . ... Материал подошвы: резина . ... Материал: натуральная замша. ... Уникальная гелевая технология делает цвет ярким, насыщенным и стойким. ... Цвет: черный . ... Цвет:: синий . ... Сковорода "Mayer & Boch" изготовлена из алюминия с высококачественным антипригарным керамическим покрытием. ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... The Nine Planets . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... What Color is Mars? ... Hoagland's Credentials . ... A discussion of Mars colors is ongoing on the Bad Astronomy Bulletin Board . ... Hoagland's loathsome Enterprise Mission website . An interesting web page which purports to show how images on Hoagland's website were manipulated. ... Hoagland's page on the "glass worm" . ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

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... The study of extra solar planets will be one of the most important areas of research in astronomy in this century. ... The first planets outside the solar system were found in 1992 around the millisecond pulsar PSR B1257+12 by Alex Wolszczan at the Arecibo Observatory . ... Three space missions based on this principle (MOST, COROT and Kepler ) have already been launched or approved, and have the last one at least has the potential to find Earth-sized planets. ... SIM ( NASA ) is one of such missions...

... As then we removed from the Earth, we dived into a sky deeper and deeper. ... We saw immense red-hot spheres, liked suns, in illuminator of our spaceship. ... We saw our Earth, Mars, Mercury, and planets-giants, such as Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and other. ... Also we saw a comet. ... The planet Upsilon was on our way. ... If we could speak the language of these two peoples, we could explain them what the war did on our home planet "the Earth", how many people were killed because of war conflicts. ...

... Archive 2003: . From RATAN-600 observations with a matrix radiometer at a wavelength of 1 cm indications have been found of existence of relativistic electrons in the magnetosphere of Jupiter with energy of about 100 MeV, which demands revision of mechanisms of acceleration of cosmic rays of the solar wind with energy of a few MeV. ... Archive . ...

... Aznar Cuadrado, R., Jeffery, C.S. , 2001, ``Physical parameters of sdB stars from spectral energy distributions'', A&A, 368, 994-1005. ... Banerjee, D., O'Shea, E., Doyle, J.G. , Goossens, M., 2001, ``The nature of network oscillations'', A&A, 371, 1137-1149. ... Chambers, J.E. , 2001, ``Comparing planetary accretion in two and three dimensions'', Icarus, 149, 262-276. ... Chambers, J.E. , 2001, ``Making more terrestrial planets'', Icarus, 152, 205-224. ...

Educator's Guide to Impact Craters . ... Just about all craters have deep central depressions, raised rims, and a blanket of ejected material surrounding them. ... Look for classical cratering features: basin, raised rim, ejecta blanket (material excavated from the crater and dumped around it, visible as white flour on the colored powder), and rays (material shot out at high velocity forming lines pointing directly away from the impact site). ... The material lies like a blanket around the crater. ...

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... 13, Moscow 119992, Russian Federation, e-mail: busarev@sai.msu.ru; 2 Research Institute Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, p/o Nauchnyi, Crimea 334413, Ukraine, e-mail: prok@crao.crimea.ua Summary: We propose a combined method of astronomical investigations of small or distant planets incorporating registration of a set of integral spectra of an object and their frequency analysis. ... An application of the method is shown on example of asteroid 21 Lutetia. ... 6] Busarev V. V. (2002), Solar Sys. ...

The Nine Planets is best viewed on-line via a graphical WWW browser which displays the pictures in color and supports hypertext link traversal. ... To view the movies and hear the sounds, you'll need additional helper programs. ... I recommend that you use Netscape as your browser. Netscape can display gif and jpeg images directly without need of any additional helper apps. You do need additional helper apps for movies and sounds, however. ... Yahoo's Helper Applications .. ... Tech Help .. ...

The basic problems of the Laboratory are connected with researches of dynamics of minor planets and comets. ... THE ORBIT IMPROVEMENT of minor planets from optical and radar observations, . the utilization of minor planet observations for THE DETERMINATION OF ORIENTATION OF STAR CATALOGUES and DETERMINATION OF MASSES OF MINOR PLANETS BY DYNAMICAL METHOD, . THE ESTIMATION OF COLLISION PROBABILITY of minor planets with other bodies and with each other, . ...

... малой планете . ... на основании решения от 9 мая 2001 года . Комитета по наименованию малых планет . ... что малая планета, . зарегистрированная в международном каталоге малых планет . под N 11438 и имеющая предварительное обозначение 1973 QR1, . ... ZELDOVICH . ... Якова Борисовича Зельдовича . ... 11438) Zeidovich = 1973 QR1 . ... Малая планета (11438) Zeidovich открыта 29 августа 1973 г. Т.M.Смирновой в Крымской астрофизической обсерватории. ... Циркуляр Малых Планет N 42672, 2001. ...