Astronomy Picture of the Day . X ray Transit of Mercury . ... 6.11.1999 . ... Credit Copyright: ISAS , Yohkoh Project Explanation: This sequence of false color X-ray images captures a rare event - the passage or transit of planet Mercury in front of the Sun. Mercury's small disk is silhouetted against the bright background of X-rays from the hot Solar Corona . ... November 1999 . ... Publications with keywords: Sun - Mercury - transit . Publications with words: Sun - Mercury - transit . ...

... November 6, 1999 . X-ray Transit of Mercury . ... Explanation: This sequence of false color X-ray images captures a rare event - the passage or transit of planet Mercury in front of the Sun. Mercury's small disk is silhouetted against the bright background of X-rays from the hot Solar Corona . ... The dark notch is a coronal hole near the Solar South Pole , while a flaring coronal bright point can be seen to the left of the notch in the top frames. ... About APOD > . ...

... Armagh Planetarium . ... Our Galaxy . ... Universe . ... For those of you that are still bearing the psychological scars from PlutoтАЩs demotion from planet to dwarf planet a decade ago, here is news that may add salt to [ ] . ... In 2015 Armagh PlanetariumтАЩs website (including Astronotes) received well over 2.6 million page views (and over 75 million web hits*) from all over the world. ... Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration....

My research efforts have focused on three areas which are: . More than 200 extrasolar planets have been discovered around relatively nearby stars, primarily through the Doppler line shifts owing to the reflex motions of their host stars, and more recently through transits of some planets across the face of the host stars. ... Gravitational microlensing provides a novel technique to look for planets around lens stars, and this is the only technique currently capable of detecting Earth-mass planets. ...

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ARCSAT ID NUMBER: AS03 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Search for Short-Period Planets Orbiting Bright White Dwarfs PI: Brett Morris (UW) OBSERVER(S): Brett Morris (UW) UNCERTIFIED/UNTRAINED OBSERVERS: Two students from the University of Washington's Pre-MAP (Doug Branton + One unknown student) COLLABORATORS: Doug Branton (UW/Pre-MAP) CONTACT INFORMATION: bmmorris@uw.edu, 631-860-5116 TIME REQUESTED: Weeks ...

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Parkes | ... The last transit of Mercury visible from Australia until 2032 will happen on the morning of Thursday 9 November 2006. ... Staff of the CSIRO Australia Telescope Compact Array at Narrabri will set up a specially equipped telescope so that locals will be able to safely view the transit. ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2000 November 8 . October Skylights . ... Explanation: With brilliant Venus above the western horizon at sunset and Jupiter and Saturn high in the east by early evening, November's night sky is filled with bright planets. October's sky featured bright planets as well and, triggered by the active Sun, some lovely auroral displays . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Bright planets meet at dusk . ... Astronomy magazine subscribers can read the full article for free. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter....

... For a long time we've known that planets form and live around stars. ... When a star is born, any leftover gas and dust forms a disc around it, similar to Saturn's rings. Within this disc, small dust grains made of rock sometimes form. ... Now, for the first time ever astronomers have spotted solid grains in the gassy disc around a 'brown dwarf' an object that is neither a planet nor a star. ... Astronomers didn't expect to find these solid grains around brown dwarfs for a number of reasons. ...

... 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. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... The Nine Planets . ... That means that for a short time you can actually see the tiny planet in silhouette against the disk of the Sun. ... As little as ten years ago, we didn't know if there were any planets orbiting other stars or not. ... They have been detected by their gravitational tugging of their star; as they orbit, the star moves in a little circle as the planet makes a bigger one. ... And it comes the same week we see one of our own planets pass in front of our own...

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... An Automated Search for Extrasolar Planet Transits M. G. Hidas, J. K. Webb, M. C. B. Ashley, C. H. Lineweaver University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052 NSW, Australia J. Anderson University of California, Berkeley, USA arXiv:astro-ph/0209388 v1 19 Sep 2002 M. Irwin Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK Abstract. We are setting up a new search for transiting extra-solar planets using the 0.5m Automated Patrol Telescop e at Siding Spring Observatory, Australia. ... 2002; Mayor et al. 2002). ...

... 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) ...

ECLIPSES, TRANSITS OF MERCURY AND VENUS . Year 1999 . Year 2000 . Year 2001 . Year 2002 . Year 2003 . Year 2004 . Year 2005 . ... Total solar eclipse . ... Transit of Mercury across the solar disk . ... Total lunar eclipse . ... Partial solar eclipse . ... Partial lunar eclipse . ... Annular solar eclipse . ... Penumbral lunar eclipse . ... big map . ... Transit of Venus across the solar disk . ... Annular-total solar eclipse . ... Non-central annular solar eclipse . ...

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... Dept. for Astrometry & Space Geodynamics . ... Dept. for Physics of Stars&Galaxies . ... Dept. for Physics of Planetary Systems . ... Science . ... All Pages . ... Research of the stars with planets which pass apparent star disk (transiting exoplanets). The transit method based on a detection star brightness decrease during a passing of planet in front of its disk. Observed brightness system decries when planet pass star disk and its volume depend of the relative sizes star and planet. ...

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