Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Planets . ... Our Galaxy . ... Weird and Fun . ... It came from another galaxy: This artistтАЩs impression shows HIP 13044 b, an exoplanet orbiting a star that entered our galaxy from beyond. ... HIP 13044 is one of tens of millions of stars in the тАЬHelmi streamтАЭ, stars that belonged to a dwarf galaxy consumed by our own Milky Way galaxy, some six to nine billion years ago. ... Tweets that mention ESO finds weird doomed planet from another galaxy | ...

Discover the cosmos! ... 2002 June 14 . 55 Cancri: Familiar Planet Discovered . ... The discovery of a Jupiter -like planet in a Jupiter-like orbit around nearby Sun -like star 55 Cancri , announced yesterday, gives a new indication that planetary systems similar to our Solar System likely exist elsewhere. The planet, discovered by G. Marcy ( UC Berkeley ) and collaborators, is one of two new planets found around 55 Cancri -- in 1997 a Jupiter-massed planet was found orbiting very close in. ...

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... Credit: Greg Bacon ( STScI ), NASA Explanation: The last decade saw the profound discovery of many worlds beyond our solar system, but none analogs of our home planet Earth . Exploiting precise observational techniques, astronomers inferred the presence of well over two dozen extrasolar planets , most nearly as massive as gas giant Jupiter or more, in close orbits around sun-like stars. ... Publications with keywords: extrasolar planet - planet - Saturn - planetary system . ... Crescent Saturn . ...

... 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 .. ...

... Another piece of asteroid discovery news, from Terry Moseley: "Dave Grennan from Dublin has just discovered a Main Belt asteroid from his observatory in Raheny. ... Dave's discovery comes just after Dave McDonald's find of 2008 TM9 a few weeks ago. ... This is only the third asteroid ever discovered in Ireland. ... This has been an amazing year for astronomy in Ireland, and is a superb lead-in to IYA 2009!" ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... Donate to Support Science Literacy . ... 2016 Annual Awards . The ASP is accepting nominations for the organizationтАЩs national annual awards which recognize special achievements in astronomy research, technology, education, and public outreach. ... Shop the AstroShop . ... The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) is accepting nominations for the organizationтАЩs national annual awards which recognize special achievements in astronomy research, technology, education, and public outreach.. ...

... 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. ...

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. ...

... Science User Portal . ... ESO . ... TRAnsiting Planets and PlanetesImals Small Telescope . ... An exoplanet orbiting a star that entered our Milky Way from another galaxy has been detected by a European team of astronomers using the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESOтАЩs La Silla Observatory in Chile. ... Now, however, a planet with a minimum mass 1.25 times that of Jupiter [2] has been discovered orbiting a star of extragalactic origin, even though the star now finds itself within our own galaxy. ...

... 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...

... 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. ...

Geotimes -- November 2005 -- Two more moons for "planet" Pluto http://www.geotimes.org/nov05/WebExtra110305.html Web Extra Thursday, November 3, 2005 Two more moons for Pluto When the New Horizons spacecraft finally reaches Pluto in July 2015, researchers will have more objects to study than previously thought. In addition to Pluto's confirmed moon Charon, astronomers have detected two more orbiting celestial bodies, which could help reveal how the planet and moon system formed. ...

... Club By-laws . ... Other Club Activities . ... Public Nights . ... Dr. James Green, NASA, Director Planetary Science will be our esteemed speaker on Tuesday, April 12, 2016 at 7:30 PM in Peyton Hall on the Princeton University campus. ... Our astronomers setup telescopes for public use at Communiversity in Princeton, Super Science Saturday at the NJ State Museum in Trenton and at various public events around Mercer County. ... Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton, Inc., ...

New Satellites of Saturn . On July 26, 1995, Amanda Bosh of Lowell Observatory announced the discovery of at least two and perhaps four new satellites of Saturn . The discovery was based upon images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope on May 22, 1995, when Saturn's rings were tilted edge-on to the Earth . ... The two satellites S/1995 S1 and S2 lie inside Saturn's thin, eccentric "F" ring . ... The fourth satellite S/1995 S4 is 6,000 kilometers (3,700 miles) beyond the F ring. ... S/1995 S 3 . ...

Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the updates and links web pages. Discovered independently by Lick Observatory Supernova Search (USA) and Koichi Itagaki (Japan). ... 2009/10/11.44 . 17.2 . ... Joseph Brimacombe . ...

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... Star Atlas . ... stars . ... Kepler astronomers discover ancient star with five Earth-sized planets . ... Kepler-444 is a recently discovered star with at least five Earth-sized planets. ... Astronomers poring over four years of data from NASA s Kepler spacecraft have discovered a star that s 11.2 billion years old and has at least five Earth-sized planets. ... The star s five known planets have sizes that fall between Mercury and Venus. ... Kepler-444 came from the first generation of stars. ...

... This talk will present discoveries of new transiting planets and low mass stars, and the characterisation of their fundamental properties: mass, radius, temperature, and composition. ... The planets discovered by HATSouth orbit a diverse range of host stars, and the candidates identified have a wide range of orbital periods. ... These observations represent some of the highest precision near-infrared time-series photometry performed from the ground, and probe a diverse range of planet atmospheres. ...

... GALAXY: A galaxy is made up of billions or trillions of stars bound together by their own gravity. ... HELIUM (He): The second element in the periodic table, has 2 protons, 2 neutrons, and is a noble gas. ... Helium melts at -272.2 degrees Celsius, and boils at -268.934 degrees Celsius. ... HYDROGEN (H): The first element on the periodic table, is a gas, and has an atomic mass of 1.00794 amu. ... Hydrogen melts at -259.34 degrees Celsius, and freezes at -252.87 degrees Celsius. ...