Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 31.01.1996 . ... Credit: E. Williams, G. Marcy, and L.-A. McConnaughey, ( UC Berkeley ), ( SFSU ) Explanation: Do many Sun -like stars have planets? ... The above plot summarizes the four known cases of normal stars having planets. ... The later two cases were discovered by astronomers led by Geoff Marcy and Paul Butler as part of a greater project inspecting 120 stars for orbiting planets. ... January 1996 . ... 1995 1996 . ... Publications with keywords: planets . ...

... January 31, 1996 . Planets Around Sun-Like Stars . ... The above plot summarizes the four known cases of normal stars having planets. ... The later two cases were discovered by astronomers led by Geoff Marcy and Paul Butler as part of a greater project inspecting 120 stars for orbiting planets. Interestingly enough, the planets around the later two stars have temperatures in the right range to allow liquid water - and hence may have conditions ripe for the development of life . ...

... Satellites of the planets are assigned a provisional designation (indicating year of discovery) by the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams ( CBAT ) upon satisfactory demonstration of the existence of a new object. ... In the past, Comets were first given a provisional designation, consisting of the year and a lowercase letter indicating the order of discovery in the year (e.g., 1994a was the first comet discovered or recovered in 1994, 1994b the second, etc.) ... Names .. ...

... An artist's concept of a terrestrial planet orbiting the star Alpha Centauri B. Image courtesy of Mark Fisher . Does Alpha Centauri Have Planets? ... UCSC graduate student Javiera Guedes used computer simulations of planet formation to show that terrestrial planets are likely to have formed around the star Alpha Centauri B and to be orbiting in the ?habitable zone? where liquid water can exist on the planet?s surface. The researchers then showed that such planets could be observed. ...

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 . ...

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... Solar System . ... Planets . ... Batygin and Brown suggest the planetтАЩs existence through mathematical modelling and simulations with detailed analyses of other distant objects and their strange orbital features. ... This is not necessarily a new theory as for many years it was thought that a fifth gas planet could have been ejected from the early Solar System, 4. 5 billion years ago due to a gravitational encounter with Jupiter and Saturn, for example during the period described by the Nice Model...

... 8, ``Celestial Mechanics'', 2002 Regularity and chaos for planetary orbits in binaries D. Benest Observatoire de Nice, Nice, France 1. ... Previous papers showed that stable planetary orbits, around either the lightest or the heaviest component of several nearby binary systems, exist up to distances from their primary of the order of more than half the binary's periastron sep­ aration. ... Chaos: bounded or sticky? It is now well­known that planetary dynamics may include some proportion of chaos. ...

... Like the night sky on the Earth, the martian sky hosts a plethora of astronomical phenomena occurring around the clock in a neverending space opera played out for the benefit of robotic and future human observers alike. ... Moons . Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos . ... Under the same conditions, Deimos would be as bright as -5, somewhat brighter than the planet Venus appears in Earth's sky. ... The moons are also eclipsed by Mars itself (a situation analogous to lunar eclipses at the Earth). ...

... Planets may, in principle, exist around any type of star, but some stars are better than others as places to look just because they are amenable to our techniques. ... Our curiosity is naturally drawn to the solar-type stars (G dwarfs, roughly) since we live around one ourselves, and they are also - perhaps not coincidentally - a preferred sample when looking for planets beyond the solar system. ... A preliminary estimate of which stars these are has been made, based on existing information. ...

... Up: Future Instruments and Telescopes, Tools . ... New Generation Astronomical Telescopes (NGAT), a class of telescopes designed to be operated remotely and robotically, require efficient methods for communicating images over heterogeneous and low-bandwidth data networks such as the Internet. ... Methods researched thus far involve the classification of astronomical images based on object parameterisation, progressive image transmission, and evaluation of existing image compression schemes. ...

... Goldilocks and the Three Bears' is the tale of a picky little girl. ... She likes things in the middle, like mummy bear: just right . For this reason, we call the area around a star where the temperature is just right for water to exist, the Goldilocks Zone . ... These are just the right conditions for life to exist, too! ... If we can find this many Goldilocks planets around every star, then the number of possibly life-bearing planets in our galaxy is much larger than we thought. ...

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... With enough velocity, a spacecraft can break loose from the Earth's gravity and enter an orbit around the Sun, like that of a planet. If it then orbits the Sun with the same period as the Earth--one year--it may keep a fixed position relative to Earth. ... If the distance is just right--about 4 times the distance to the Moon or 1/100 the distance to the Sun--the spacecraft, too, will need just one year to go around the Sun, and will keep its position between the Sun and the Earth. ...

... About ATNF overview . ... CSIRO ATNF Data Archives . ... Next: Obtaining Your Final Files Up: Correlating your Data Previous: Correlating your Data б  Contents . Put in next set of tapes. Edit your schedule file on elleba and comment out the newtapes and file close commands that have just been executed and uncomment the next set of file close and newtapes commands. We now restart the correlator on the next set of data, which for example starts at 16:00:00 on all tape sets; . ...

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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...

... Billions of rocky planets exist in the habitable zones around red dwarfs . ... Astronomers have estimated that there are tens of billions of such rocky worlds orbiting faint red dwarf stars in the Milky Way alone. ... A new result from the European Southern Observatoryт??s (ESO) HARPS planet finder shows that rocky planets not much bigger than Earth are common in the habitable zones around faint red stars. ... One of the planets discovered in the HARPS survey of red dwarfs is Gliese 667 Cc. ...

... SATELLITE: An object that revolves around a planet. ... SIDEREAL DAY: The length of a planet's rotation period relative to the stars. SOLAR SYSTEM: The sun and all the objects that are held in its gravitational field and move around it. ... SUPERIOR CONJUNCTION: The position of a planet when it is on the opposite side of the Sun from Earth (thus making in invisible). ... TRANSIT: The movement of an object between the Earth and the Sun and showing on the surface of the sun as a black dot. ...

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