... NGC 281: Cluster, Clouds, and Globules . ... Mars, the red planet named for the Roman god of war, has two tiny moons, Phobos and Deimos, whose names are derived from the Greek for Fear and Panic. ... At first, the bright stars of the large asterism known as the (northern) Winter Hexagon might be hard to pick out in this gorgeous deep sky mosaic from December 2002. ... If you can find planet Jupiter in tonight's sky, then you can also find M44, popularly known as the Beehive star cluster. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Comets and Asteroids . ... Image credit:ESO/J.Emerson/VISTA. ... However others are less pessimistic and it has even been claimed that the mysterious ?Wow! signal? received in 1977 originated from the direction M55.б  Sadly, this still unexplained pulse of radio energy originated from a location rather to the northwest of M55 so I doubt if the source was this cluster (if indeed the signal was genuinely of extraterrestrial origin). ... Mysterious Wow! ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . Armagh Observatory, 13 October 2015 : Armagh Observatory reports that the next three weeks, from mid-October to the first week of November, will provide an interesting opportunity to observe a "dance" of the brightest planets Venus, Jupiter and Mars in the morning sky towards the East before dawn. ... The attached image shows the view of the morning sky towards the East at 06:00 (BST) on 28th October 2015. ...

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... 2000 May 5 . Planets In The Sun . Credit: SOHO - LASCO Consortium, ESA , NASA . Explanation: Today , all five naked-eye planets (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn) plus the Moon and the Sun will at least approximately line-up. ... It shows three of the planets along with the Sun's location and bright solar wind regions against a background of stars, but Mars and Venus are unfortunately outside LASCO's roughly 15 degree field of view. ... And what about the Moon ? ... About APOD | ...

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... 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. ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science and Technical Meetings > Conferences 2012 > Star and Planet Formation Workshop . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... On 14 May 2012 we held a one-day workshop in the ESO Auditorium with the aim of bringing the star and planet formation community from ESO-MPE-USM together. ... J. Ascenso (ESO) Star formation in giant complexes . ... C. Manara (ESO) The role of accretion in the formation of stars and planets: a VLT/X-Shooter perspective . ...

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... ACS survey observations of eight clusters are scheduled for the coming week, together with follow-up NICMOS observations of a supernova detected in previous ACS images. ... The present HST program will obtain two-colour (F606W, F814W) ACS images of the central regions of 66 of the ~150 Galactic clusters, with the goals of . ... Observations of the clusters Palomar 1, NGC 1261, NGC 6838, NGC 3201, NGC 5904 and NGC 104 (47 Tucanae) are scheduled over the next week. page by Neill Reid, updated 8/3/2006...

... The Pleiades star cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, is a conspicuous object in the night sky with a prominent place in ancient mythology . ... The stars in the Pleiades are thought to have formed together around 100 million years ago, making them 1/50th the age of our sun, and they lie some 130 parsecs (425 light years ) away. ... Data for these stars are listed in a table below. ... Yes . ... WEBDA Pleiades cluster data . ... M45: The Pleiades Star Cluster (2007 November 18) ...

... 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. ...

. Pulkovo Observatory of Russian Academy of Sciences is situated . near Saint-Petersburg. It was founded in 1839. 196140, Saint-Petersburg, Pulkovskoye chaussee 65/1 . English version . Russian version . This page has been accessed times since May 1, 1999.

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