... 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). ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2006 September 16 . Discovery Orbiter Anaglyph . Credit: ISS Expedition 13 Crew, NASA - Stereo Anaglyph: Patrick Vantuyne . Explanation: Approaching the International Space Station on STS-121 in July , the Shuttle Orbiter Discovery posed for a series of photographs. ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...

... HR 8799: Discovery of a Multi planet Star System . ... NRC Canada Explanation: How common are planetary systems like our own Solar System? In the twelve years previous to 2008, over 300 candidate planetary systems have been found orbiting nearby stars. ... Although the HR 8799 planetary system has significant differences with our Solar System, it is a clear demonstration that complex planetary systems exists, systems that could conceivable contain an Earth-like planet . ... Planets Ahoy . ...

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. ...

... Science User Portal . ... For the first time, astronomers have been able to directly follow the motion of an exoplanet as it moves from one side of its host star to the other. ... Only 12 million years old, or less than three-thousandths of the age of the Sun, Beta Pictoris is 75% more massive than our parent star. ... This research was presented in a paper to appear this week in Science Express (тАЬA Giant Planet Imaged in the disk of the Young Star Beta Pictoris,тАЭ by A.-M. Lagrange et al.) ...

New Moons of Uranus . Brent Gladman's Home Page . ... The discovery of two probable distant satellites of Uranus was reported by B. Gladman, P. Nicholson, J. Burns and J. Kavelaars. ... This discovery was reported in the IAU Circular 6764 . ... Discovery image of S/1997 U 2 . This shows the discovery image of brighter of the two new moons of Uranus. ... This shows the discovery image of faint new moons of Uranus. ... This shows another discovery image of faint new moons of Uranus. ... Uranus . ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . Armagh Observatory, 11th August 2015: Astronomers at the 29th International Astronomical Union General Assembly in Honolulu, Hawaii, have announced the discovery of the tenth transiting тАЬcircumbinaryтАЭ planet, a result that brings the number of such known planets into double digits. A circumbinary planet orbits two stars, and like the fictional planet тАЬTatooineтАЭ from Star Wars, the planet has two suns in its sky. ...

... Archive for September 2009 . ... Posted by hlee . ... Category: Algorithms , arXiv , Cross-Cultural , Data Processing , Imaging , Jargon | ... A number of practical Bayesian data analysis books are available these days. ... Algorithms arXiv Astro Bad AstroStat Bayesian CHASC Cross-Cultural Data Processing Fitting Frequentist Galaxies gamma-ray High-Energy Imaging Jargon Job Languages MC MCMC Meta Methods Misc News Nuggets Objects Optical Physics Quotes Spectral Stars Stat Timing Uncertainty X-ray . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... Sky this Month . ... Star Atlas . ... exoplanets . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Fluffy" exoplanet raises questions . Astronomers ponder how a newly discovered low-density super-giant planet formed. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

... 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...

... More on 51 Peg: . The discovery of a Jupiter--mass planet in orbit around the solar--type star 51Peg has been reported by Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz (Geneva Observatory) on October 6th at the 9th Cambridge workshop on "cool stars, stellar systems, and the sun" held at Florence (Italy). ... Recall that the measurements of radial velocity only yield v sin i which in turn gives us M sin i. For most values of i, sin i will be greater than 0.5 and this gives a mass estimate of 0.5 Jupiter masses. ...

The small solids. Asteroids or the small planetes . ... The comets. ... Ceneca the Young.Procuring about the nature.63 y. The comet is a celestial body of a great size, but a rare one... transparent. Sometimes there seen a core and the medium forms a kind of a tail, beard or dishevelled looks. ... The core is an ice body - conglomeration of frosted gas and dust. ... The comet state is variable: ones have the con tails, others the dust tails, and the third have both. ... Meteors and meteorites. ...

... PUBLIC LECTURE - APRIL 12, 2016 . New Discoveries in the Outer Solar System: Ceres, Pluto and Planet X . ... Dr. Green will talk about "New Discoveries in the Outer Solar System: Ceres, Pluto, and Planet X". ... Beginning in 1992 planetary astronomers began to find Pluto like objects beyond the orbit of Neptune showing us that Pluto was a member of an entirely new family of objects we now call the Kuiper Belt. ... Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton, Inc., ...

Characterizing Extrasolar Planets ...using the James Webb Space Telescope Drake Deming Department of Astronomy University of Maryland at College Park AIAA, September 28, 2011 extrasolar planet ( exoplanet ) = planet orbiting a star other than the Sun This talk: background on exoplanets spaceborne characterization ...... some history future: a nearby, habitable super-Earth ...... characterized using JWST This talk: Super-Earth = rocky or icy ...

... Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun , and the second largest in the solar system . Saturn's most distinctive feature is its ring system . ... Saturn has an internal magnetic field with a dipole aligned with the rotation axis (Ness et al., ... The solar wind and Saturn's rings and satellites supply the particles that are trapped in the radiation belts. ... Between the inner and outer satellites orbits Titan, Saturn's largest moon (larger than the planet Mercury ). ... Res., ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Site Info . ... Public Talks . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Who is this guy who calls himself "The Bad Astronomer?" ... First, yes, I am a real live astronomer (when people ask me what astronomers do, I tell them "They astronom !" ... These are emitted by powerful objects like black holes, exploding stars, and super-dense neutrons stars. ... Finally, am I really a bad astronomer? ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

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Orange Pulsar Meeting . ... All talks were scheduled for 15 minutes, followed by 5 minutes discussion time . ... Discovering Radio Pulsars in Fermi Gamma-ray Sources . ... Discussion . ... Detecting the Gravitational Wave Background with Pulsar Timing . ... Gravitational wave science with pulsar timing . ... Observation of radio loud pulsars with the Fermi-LAT telescope . ... Linear acceleration emission in radio pulsars . ... Timing solutions for 177 Parkes pulsars . ... The ANDS-ATNF Data Archive . ...

Astronomy Articles . Articles | ... Moon | ... Astronomy Binoculars - The Skies The Limit - by Scott Gray, September 2006 . ... Astronomy Terms - To Help You Study The Universe - by Scott Gray, October 2006 . ... Himalia is the only moon other than Europa, Ganymeade, Callisto and IO visible with small telescopes. ... The Harvest Moon refers to the Full Moon that comes closest to the autumnal equinox, or the first day of autumn. ... Think the study of stars is best left to professional astronomers? ...

... The main topics of the Conference were: 1. ... Asteroid-comet hazard (origin and dynamic evolution of objects approaching the Earth, observations, physical properties, cataloguing, data bases, estimation of collision probability with the Earth and other bodies). ... 5) In this connection the problem of concluding the international political agreement within the frames of UN about common active counteractions to the bodies on the orbits leading to collisions with the Earth is urgent. ...