... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... It's semi-common knowledge that stars twinkle and planets don't. By semi-common, I mean that a lot of folks know that, but I also mean it isn't strictly true. Stars twinkle because we see them from the bottom of a sea of air. ... These small bundles of air act like little lenses, bending light as it passes through them. ... What we see is the light from the star flickering. ...

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• Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions: Planet X
• Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy: Review: Red Planet
• Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions: Planet X and Nancy Lieder

... 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...

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• Planetary Radar: Arecibo Radar Images of Planets

... Planet Finder Options I: Linear Nulling Arrays for Studying Earth-Like Planets . ... Missions . ... Future Missions and . ... Missions Office . ... This paper shows options for configuring a symmetric linear nulling array as a Planet Finder. Of special interest are linked in-line pairs of identical sub-arrays with a quarter wave phase shift between them and staggered by half an element spacing. ...

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• Planets Beyond the Solar System
• Institute for Planets and Life
• Planets and Infrared Excesses: Preliminary Results from a Spitzer MIPS Survey

... Indeed, one alteration of orbits can be the outright ejection of a planet. When several big planets are orbiting a star under each other's influence, the system is inherently unstable. ... We know of no good reason why the smallest objects with fusion should have the same mass as the smallest objects that can form by themselves. ... 6) Mission Definition . ... I don't think this mission is impossible, and will suggest a definition in a future article in Mercury. ... Good luck! . ...

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• ASP: Family ASTRO: Race to the Planets
• ASP: How Do Planets Form?
• ASP: The topsy-turveying of planets, stars, and lava lamps

Astronomy Discussion Forums . Forums: . Atm · Astrophotography · Blackholes · Blackholes2 · CCD · Celestron · Domes · Education . ... Discussion Forums . ... Re:Stars And Planets In Greece (?) Forum List | ... Post Message | ... Posted by Rick on May 21, 2004 02:50:10 UTC . ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

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• Moon, Planets And Aurora, Oh My! - an Astronomy Net Article
• Nine Planets, The, AstroGuide Listing
• Pluto Is Not A Planet, But A Moon Of Neptune. - an Astronomy Net God Science

... CONTACT . ... Planned space experiments promise a considerable increase in the detections and statistical knowledge arising especially from transit and astrometric measurements over the years 2005ґ15, with some hundreds of terrestrial-type planets expected from transit measurements, and many thousands of Jupiter-mass planets expected from astrometric measurements. ... To request a printed copy, please contact Britt Sjoeberg (bsjoeber@eso.org) . ...

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• ESLAB 2007

... A rogue planet has been spotted wandering alone through space with no parent star in sight! ... It's even harder when the object is very dark and floating through space. ... These are star-like objects that are much bigger than planets up to about 80 times bigger than Jupiter but too small to be stars. ... Cool Fact: Some astronomers say there are about twice as many rogue planets as there are stars in our galaxy; other think there are up to 100,000 times more! ...

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• The little planet of ALMA | ESO
• The little planet of the ESO Headquarters | ESO
• Exoplanet Caught on the Move | ESO

... A rough estimation is that in the United States there is one planetarium per 100,000 population, ranging in size from the Hayden Planetarium's 20-meter dome seating 430 people, to three-meter inflatable portable domes where children sit on the floor. ... Together dblo associates make a huge impact in the architecture, interior design and development arena in London. ... With the holidays around the corner what better way to spoil your family than with your very own private home cinema. ...

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Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... Planet::SharedPlanetGraphics Struct Reference . ... More... #include < Planet.hpp > . ... Lazily initialize the data, using given renderer to create textures/shader. ... Shader used to draw the planet (with lighting), if lighting is used and GLSL is supported. ... Shader used to draw the planet (with lighting and shadowing). ... Lazily initialize the data, using given renderer to create textures/shader. bool Planet::SharedPlanetGraphics::loadPlanetShaders . ...

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• Stellarium: Planet::Vertex2D Struct Reference
• .astro | planets, or aliens worlds
• .astro | stereo-surface of planet

... User Guide ] Task: planets Purpose: Print ephemerides of planets and the Sun. Categories: utility PLANETS is a MIRIAD task to report some parameters on solar system objects. ... Key: source This can be "sun" or the name of a major planet (excluding the Earth). ... No default. Key: epoch The time (UTC) for which information is required, in standard Miriad time format (yymmmdd.ddd or yymmmdd:hh:mm:ss.s). ... Key: telescop The name of an observatory used in computing rise and set times. ...

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• Information on planets
• Galaxy Lunch - Dave Lommen speaking on "Probing the first steps of planet
• Flux density bootstrapping

... Go directly to the moons of: . Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto . Go directly to the surface features of Earth's Moon and Mars . Planet & Moons . Pronunciation . ... Mercury . ... Mars: . 2 moons . ... Jupiter: . ... Neptune: . ... 1 moon . ...

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• Astronomical Glossary - S - Z
• Astronomical Glossary - J thru M