... Jupiters Rings Revealed . 6.01.2008 . ... Recorded from that high and dry locale, the spectacular fish-eye image features the myriad stars and sprawling dust clouds of our Milky Way Galaxy. Geminids in 2007 . ... APOD: 2008 January 2- A Galaxy is not a Comet . ... APOD: 2008 January 1- Rays from an Unexpected Aurora . ... Early in 2007, Comet McNaught grew brighter than any comet in 40 years, displaying a beautiful dust tail that flowed across the sky. ... December 2008 . ... 2007 2008 . ...

... 2016 January 6 . Comets and Bright Star . ... Recorded as the year began from Tenerife, Canary Islands, near the top of the frame are the faint coma and tail of Comet Borrelly (P/19). ... Buffeted by winds and storms from the Sun, the comet's complex ion tail sweeps up and toward the right, across most of the field of view. Remarkably, one of the composition's 30 second exposure subframes also caught the trail of a bright meteor, slashing toward the left between comets and bright star. ...

... Armagh Planetarium . ... Universe . ... Posted on December 16, 2013 | ... Continue Reading.. ... If the count was to include all Earth satellites including broken parts and discarded pieces, [ ] . ... Posted on November 29, 2013 | ... 1 Comment November 9 is Carl Sagan Day when enthusiasts of astronomy and science remember and celebrate the life and works of Carl Sagan. ... Newer Entries . Hello, IтАЩm Colin, welcoming you to Astronotes, the PlanetariumтАЩs official blog. ...

Hubble Observations Shed New Light on Jupiter Collision . Was it a comet or an asteroid? ... Their initial findings, combined with results from other space-borne and ground-based telescopes, shed new light on Jupiter's atmospheric winds, its immense magnetic field, the mysterious dark debris from the impacts, and the composition of the doomed comet itself. ... Hubble's ultraviolet observations show the motion of very fine impact debris particles now suspended high in Jupiter's atmosphere. ...

Whoever looked up at the sky at dusk on Monday, 1st December was fortunate enough to see one of the most beautiful night-sky views of the year тАУ a massing of planetary bodies in the south-west. The gas giant planet, Jupiter, was nearly in conjunction with bright, тАШevening starтАЩ, Venus, and the Moon. ... The images show, respectively, the telescope and Venus emerging from behind the Moon, after the end of the occultation, while Jupiter is above and to the right. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Star Atlas . ... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... The planet has extreme temperature swings and perhaps active lava flows. ... A digital supplement to Astronomy magazine. ... Join TravelQuest International with Astronomy and Discover magazines on one of three great tour options surrounding this celestial spectacle . ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

... Its perihelion would occur on April 1, 1997, at which point the comet would be only 0.92 astronomical units from the Sun, just within the orbit of Earth. ... Taken in April 1993, the photo showed the comet over 13 astronomical units from the Sun, well beyond the orbit of Saturn. ... Hale, as in Comet Hale-Bopp, has written a book, Everybody's Comet (available through the ASP Catalog) and coordinated an Internet project, "Hale-Bopp: Live in the American Classroom." ... Anatomy of a comet. ...

... Bringing news from across the Universe to children all around the world . ... It contains billions of awesome objects including planets, dust clouds, galaxies and star clusters like the one in this photograph. ... Charles Messier s life dream was to become famous. To do this, he needed to discover a comet. ... So he decided to save himself some time and each time he found an object that didn t move across the sky (as comets do), he noted it down. ...

NASA's Galileo spacecraft radioed confirmation late this week that it has entered Jupiter's environment, crossing over the boundary from interplanetary space into the giant magnetic cocoon around Jupiter called the magnetosphere. ... On Thursday, December 7, Galileo's previously deployed atmospheric probe will plunge into Jupiter's cloud tops at 5:56 p.m. EST and descend into the giant planet on a parachute. ... Jupiter's magnetosphere is like a giant bubble around the planet. ...

... In typical nightly use, the wide field and planetary telescope and cameras record images of favorably placed objects in the sky, including constellations, bright variable stars, nebulae through narrow-band filters, comets, the Moon, and planets. ... Shared Skies telescopes are available for use by students at the University of Louisville and the University of Southern Queensland, and by teachers and students in middle and high schools mentored by faculty at the universities. ...

MAIN PAGE . ... Nova Cygni August 1975! ... 1975/76: Comet West! ... Dr. Richard West (4th from left) & AAL members visiting SES Betzdorf on occasion of our club's 25th anniversary - October 1996 . Comet West Information . ... It was the brightest comet visible from Earth since Comet West in 1976. ... 1997: Comet Hale-Bopp! ... Thus Comet Hale-Bopp never got closer to Earth than Earth gets to the Sun. ... Comet Hale-Bopp JPL Page . ... 1999: Total solar eclipse over Luxembourg! ...

True Color Image Gallery: Galactic SNR | Magellanic Cloud SNR . ...