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... HI gas in the Magellanic Clouds, . ... The Australian Academy of Science are supporting the 'Elizabeth and Frederick White conference on the Magellanic System'. ... The Magellanic Clouds as a template for the study of stellar populations and galaxy interaction . Download: pdf . ... Dating Young Stellar Objects in the Magellanic Clouds . ... The Extended population of the Large Magellanic Cloud . ... Spectral Diagnostics of newly Discovered Planetary Nebulae in the Large Magellanic Cloud . ...

... Voyager Spacecraft Introduction (This Page) . ... The twin Voyager spacecraft, over the course of a dozen years, drew back the curtain on nearly half of the solar system . From launch in 1977 through the spectacular parting shots in 1989 of Neptune at the outer reaches of the solar system, this pair of gangly, instrument-laden spacecraft explored four planets -- Jupiter , Saturn , Uranus and Neptune -- as well as tens of moons, and the rings and magnetic environments of those planetary systems. ...

Today's APOD | ... APOD: 2004 May 16 - Venus: Earth's Cloudy Twin . Explanation: This picture by the Galileo spacecraft shows just how cloudy Venus is. ... Venus ' thick clouds and closeness to the Sun (only Mercury is closer) make it the hottest planet - much hotter than the Earth . ... More than 20 spacecraft have visited Venus including Venera 9 , which landed on the surface, and Magellan , which used radar to peer through the clouds and make a map of the surface . ... Index | ... About APOD | ...

3) Planets and Brown Dwarfs . ... By its nature, this method is most sensitive to massive planets orbiting close to their stars. ... That means that some of the more massive extrasolar planets could actually be brown dwarfs (although the statistics of the finds suggest that most of them are not). ... Another possible difference between brown dwarfs and massive planets is how they are born. ... They would base the fundamental definition on the mode of formation: a planet is built from planetesimals. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Moon . Planets . ... Space Flight . ... A gorgeous image of the real ?Lord of the Rings? ... Saturn is a big planet, about nine times as wide as the Earth, so the rings are huge. Let me put them into scale, if Saturn and the rings were moved so that one edge of the rings touched the Earth, then the distance across the rings to the opposite edge would extend more than halfway to the Moon. ... Saturn has a lot of moons. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... Credit: Top - A. Simon, R. Beebe ( NMSU ), STScI ; Bottom - Galileo Project , JPL ; NASA Explanation: Sometime in February , two of three long-lived Jovian storm systems known as "white ovals" apparently collided and merged -- forming what is now likely the second largest storm in the Solar System, after the famous Great Red Spot . ... Publications with keywords: Jupiter - storm - oval clouds . Publications with words: Jupiter - storm - oval clouds . ...

... Next: An IRAF-Independent Interface Up: Software Systems Previous: A New PROS . ... We present a high-level representation of the packages and tasks within IRAF/PROS. ... We have produced a high-level overview of PROS. ... The incremental stages were the short-term goals: a project overview diagram (i.e., an organizational diagram of software modules); high-level diagram (i.e., a bubble diagram of each module in the system); and unifying element tables (i.e., tables of task vs. software attributes)....

... Hubble Legacy 5apr02 jen 4 Desire for larger telescopes · History shows largest telescope diameter doubles every 31 years ­ 2.5m ­ 5m ­ 10m 1917 1948 1993 ... Other groups in the US and in Europe are thinking and talking about giant telescopes (up to 100- m) on the ground · Advances in adaptive optics makes this particularly exciting Hubble Legacy 5apr02 jen 5 California Extremely Large Telescope · ... When was the Hubble sequence in place? ...

The solar system probably formed about 4.5 billion years ago from a giant disk of gas, dust and ice in space. ... All forms of life on Earth require liquid water to survive, so the presence of liquid water is a good criterion for deciding whether other planets in the universe could be habitable. Earth is the only habitable planet in the solar system. Venus, closer to the Sun, is too hot to have liquid water. Planets and moons in the outer solar system are too cold for liquid water. ...

... The remote planet Pluto and its moon Charon orbit the Sun at a mean distance of almost 6,000 million kilometres, or nearly fourty times farther out than the Earth. During a recent investigation by an international group of astronomers [1], the best picture ever of Pluto and Charon [2] was secured with the European Space Agency's Faint Object Camera at the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). ... The new HST image was taken when Charon was near its maximum elongation from Pluto (0.9 arcseconds). ...

Subject of Astronomy. ... Celestial Sphere. ... Spherical Frames of Reference: Horisontal and Equatorial Coordinates, Ecliptical System. ... Transformation of Celestial Coordinates. ... Change of Object Coordinates as a Result of Diurnal Rotation of Celestial Sphere. Phenomenons, Which Lead to Celestial Coordinates Change. ... Motion of Equator, Ecliptic, and Their Poles. ... Diurnal Solar Motion on Different Latitudes. ... Time Equation. ... Apparent Motions and Configuration of Planets. ...

In ancient times the solar system was thought to be the whole Universe, so the study of planetary motions was cosmology. ... The planets other than the Moon and Sun generally move West to East through the stars, but occasionally stop and move in the opposite direction ( retrograde motion). In order to explain the retrograde motion of the planets, the geocentric model of the Solar System shown above puts the planets on small circles called epicycles . ...

... Spectrometer board from the first (test) run . Spectrometer board from the second (production) run; assembled with cPCI mounting hardware and FPGA heatsink . ... Quadrature downconverter board . ... Full GALFA system test (simulating 2 beams input) . A full 7-spectrometer test . Top of multi-beam receiver at Arecibo feeding GALFA spectrometer . ... Spectrometer boards in cPCI rack installed and operational at Arecibo . Full GALFA system installed and operational at Arecibo . ...

Atmospheric influence on the different radio-engineering system functioning . ESTIMATION OF ATMOSPHERIC OPTICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND REMOTELY SANSED IMAGE CORRECTION . ... Direct transmittance estimation results for 12 channels of the spectrometer CHRIS. ... We have managed to develop a direct method of estimating the discrete Normalized Atmospheric Point Spread Function (NAPSF) from available images alone, not using any external sources of information about the atmosphere. ... IRE RAS 1996-20 11 ...

... Many massive planets contrary to Jupiter have large eccentricities of orbits. ... Another problem is to study the conditions and boundaries of stable, regular motions of small mass planet in systems having `Jupiter' with large orbital eccentricity as well as properties of regular, stable, and irregular, chaotic motions. ... The regular eccentricity evolution described above demonstrates that stable quasi--circular orbits of small planet are unusual. ...

... A discussion of retrograde motion of planets helps the students understand the logic underlying the ideas of both Ptolemy and Copernicus. ... This lesson plan supplements: "The Discovery of the Solar System," section #9c: on disk Ssolsys.htm , on the web . ... Learn about the system proposed by Copernicus, and the way it explained retrograde motion: all planets moved in circles around the Sun, but the ones closer to the Sun always moved faster. ... Did this predict correct planetary motions? ...

... Search . ... Astrophysics Group . Research . ... Research and Instrumentation . ... While this seems an extraordinary endeavour, in light of what we have learnt about Solar System planets, only a handful of key ingredients are required to start characterising an exoplanet. ... The NGTS project is a partnership between the University of Cambridge, Queen?s University Belfast, University of Warwick, University of Leicester, Observatoire de Geneve, DLR (Berlin) and Universidad Catolica de Chile. ...