... SMIS : Space Monitoring Information Support laboratory . Russia's Weather : State Meteorological Center Weather Forecast . Space Weather service : ACE real time solar wind data and simple geomagnetic activity forecast. ... World Fire Web : Space Research Institute (IKI) node . Sputnik : Joint project of SRC Planeta, Rosgidromet and Space Research Institute (IKI) . ... Today's Space Weather : Presented by the Space Environment Center . ... Back to the Space Research Institute Home Page ...

... Астронет | ... Gliese 876 System Includes Large Terrestrial Planet . ... In continuing efforts to answer this question, astronomers have now discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a distant normal star. Previously over 150 gas-giant planets like Jupiter had been so discovered. ... The planet's small mass indicates that it is likely terrestrial in nature, similar in composition to the inner planets of our Solar System . ... The newly discovered terrestrial-like planet is depicted in the insert. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Solar System . ... Planets . ... This bizarrely shrunken planetary system was found by NASAтАЩs Kepler mission, hence the parent star has been named Kepler-11. ... Planetary scientist and Kepler science team member Jack Lissauer said ?These six planets are mixtures of rock and gases, possibly including water.тАЭ €аNone of these strange new worlds are likely to be home to any form of life; their surface conditions are simply too extreme. ...

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. ...

... 2008 November 17 . HR 8799: Discovery of a Multi-planet Star System . ... 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 exist, systems that could conceivable contain an Earth-like planet . ... About APOD | ...

... Below is a near-final schedule for the meeting "Planets Beyond the Solar System and the Next Generation of Space Missions," to be held at STScI in Baltimore on October 16, 17, and 18, 1996. ... New programs for the detection and study of planets (interferometry, photometry, microlensing) . ... Spinoffs and benefits of planet detection programs and contributions of these programs to understanding planet formation and evolution (astrophysics using small-field interferometry, NGST) . ... K. Noll, STScI...

. Mars has become the center of intense interest since the Martian Meteorite results were announced. Currently there is a lively debate whether or not primitive life formed there or not.

. Dedicated to 40th anniversary of the . first artificial Earth satellite launch . Russian (Win) .

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 . ...

... In the last few decades, the planets and moons in the solar system have been revealed as wonderfully individual worlds that we are beginning to explore in detail. ... Dickinson, Terence Other Worlds: A Beginner?s Guide to the Planets and Moons . ... http://www.nineplanets.org . ... For more readings and web sites (including the best resources on individual planets and moons), see our Solar System Resource Guide on the web at: http://www.astrosociety.org/education/resources/solarsys.html back ...

The Equatorial Inertial (GEI) coordinate system: . The X GEI axis is directed to the point of the spring equinox, . The Z GEI axis is coincide with the Earth's rotation axis, . The Y GEI supplements the right three. The Geographic (GEO) coordinate system: . ... The Solar Magnetic (SM) coordinate system: . ... About space physics coordinate transformation see Russel [1971] and Hapgood [1992] . ... M.A. Hapgood , Space physics coordinate transformations: A user guide // Planet Space Sci. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Last week, our tour outwards made a stop at our own home planet. Permit me to hold our tour a bit longer, to linger and gaze upon the Moon. ... Complex molecules floated in the water, but the concentration of these compounds wasn't high enough for them to get any further along than making amino acids and the like. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ... Subscribe to the Bad Astronomy Newsletter! ...

The stability of planetary systems after stellar mass loss : Prospects for White Dwarf planets and pollution Alexander James Mustill1*, Dimitri Veras2, Eva Villaver3, Amy Bonsor4, Boris GДnsicke2, Mark Wyatt 1 2 5 Lund Observatory ... 1TL, United Kingdom 5 Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, CB3 9ET, UK *alex@astro.lu.se Stars lose mass as they evolve to become white dwarfs ( WDs ), and this mass loss can induce ...

... Staff . ... Dr. Taylor joined the Arecibo staff as a Postdoctoral Associate in 2009 and has been a staff scientist since 2012. His current research interests include radar and thermal-infrared observations, shape reconstruction, and dynamics of small Solar System bodies, especially the formation and evolution of multiple-component (binary and triple) systems. ... Sean Marshall , Cornell University, Advisor: Don Campbell . ... Michael Nolan, Director of Solar System Studies . ...

The FITS "World Coordinate System" (WCS) standard defines keywords and usage that provide for the description of astronomical coordinate systems in a FITS image header. ... I: "Representations of world coordinates in FITS" , Greisen, E.W. & Calabretta, M.R. (2002), Astronomy & Astrophysics , 395 , 1061-1075. ... This diagram illustrating Bonne's projection with conformal latitude +35 was produced by WCSLIB , a C implementation of the coordinate transformations defined in the FITS WCS papers. ...

The XPA messaging system provides seamless communication between many kinds of Unix programs, including X programs and Tcl/Tk programs. It also provides an easy way for users to communicate with these XPA-enabled programs by executing XPA client commands in the shell or by utilizing such commands in scripts. ... A program becomes an XPA-enabled server by defining named points of public access through which data and commands can be exchanged with other client programs (and users). ...

The AstroGuide . ... AstroGuide | ... Other Sites . ... AstroGuide Listing . ... See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . ... Views of the Solar System serves as an educational tour of the solar system. It contains images and information about the Sun, planets, moons, asteroids, comets and meteoroids found within the solar system. ... Web Site . ... Additional Information . ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . ...

... The Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems (ADASS) conference is held each year at a different hosting astronomical institution. The conference provides a forum for scientists and programmers concerned with algorithms, software and software systems employed in the acquisition, reduction, analysis, and dissemination of astronomical data. ... The 26th annual ADASS conference will be held from October 16th to 20th, 2016 at the Stazione Marittima Conference Centre , Trieste, Italy. ...

Views of the Solar System . ... V iews of the Solar System presents a vivid multimedia adventure unfolding the splendor of the Sun, planets, moons, comets, asteroids, and more. ... Views of the Solar System offers enhanced exploration and educational enjoyment of the solar system and beyond. ... Sun . ... Asteroids . Comets . ... History . ... Satellite Data . ... Browser . ... Credits . ... Solar System Introduction . ... Sun, Planet & Satellite Data | Planetary Data Browser | ...

The basic problems of the Laboratory are connected with researches of dynamics of minor planets and comets. ... THE ORBIT IMPROVEMENT of minor planets from optical and radar observations, . the utilization of minor planet observations for THE DETERMINATION OF ORIENTATION OF STAR CATALOGUES and DETERMINATION OF MASSES OF MINOR PLANETS BY DYNAMICAL METHOD, . THE ESTIMATION OF COLLISION PROBABILITY of minor planets with other bodies and with each other, . ...