... NASA Explanation: In the 1960s spring came to the southern hemisphere of Neptune, the Solar System's outermost gas giant planet. Of course, since Neptune orbits the Sun once every 165 earth-years , it's still springtime for southern Neptune, where each season lasts over four decades. ... Compared to Hubble pictures taken as early as 1996, the 2002 image shows a dramatic increase in reflective white cloud bands in Neptune's southern hemisphere. ... 2001 2002 . ... Southern Neptune . ...

... Research . ... GPI Data Pipeline . ... GPI . ... My research focuses on high contrast imaging of circumstellar material: disks, envelopes, jets, and substellar companions. ... The second, harder challenge is achieving sufficiently high contrast: scattered light from circumstellar dust is faint, usually less than a percent of the total flux, sometimes far less. ... In addition to planet detection, GPI will also feature a polarimetric imaging mode for studies of circumstellar dust disks. ...

I was wondering what conditions should be met to have the "darkest" sky .. ... Upon the above publication of the Southern Galactic hemisphere, TunГ Tezel started seeking opportunities to create the Northern counterpart image. ... So, the initial quest of having the darkest possible sky have delivered us these two all-sky images of the two galactic hemispheres as seen from Planet Earth. Zoomable and 'full-screenable' fisheye view of the "darkest sky" Southern Galactic Hemisphere image. ...

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes | ... Radio Observations of the Hubble Deep Field South - a New Class of Radio-Luminous Galaxies? ... Radio Observations of the Hubble Deep Field South . ... Radio Observations of the Hubble Deep Field South Region I: Survey description and initial results for HDF-S sources . ... Radio Observations of the Hubble Deep Field South Region II: The 1.4 GHz Catalogue and Source Counts...

... 2003 June 13 . Neptune: Still Springtime After All These Years . ... NASA . ... Of course, since Neptune orbits the Sun once every 165 earth-years , it's still springtime for southern Neptune, where each season lasts over four decades. ... Compared to Hubble pictures taken as early as 1996, the 2002 image shows a dramatic increase in reflective white cloud bands in Neptune's southern hemisphere. ... About APOD | ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Saturn as you haven't seen it (Image credit: NASA/ESA) . This false colour image from the Hubble Space Telescope not only shows Saturn in an unfamiliar light, but displays some of the giant planet?s features. ... Viewing Saturn at this time not only allows us to see the famous rings almost edge on but also to observe both polar regions at once. There we see Saturn?s aurorae, analogous to Earth?s Northern lights and Southern Lights. ...

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... Running Rings Around a Planet . ... Saturn's delicate rings have caught human eyes for over three centuries. ... Now we know, thanks to the Voyager space probes, that Saturn's rings consist of thousands of "ringlets," each made of chunks of ice ranging in size from dust to boulders [see "Rally Around the Ring," March/April 1995, p. 10]. ... The appearance of Saturn's rings to us ground-hugging Terrans is changing constantly. ... Saturn's diameter is 120,000 kilometers, so how large are the rings? ...

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... Warped passages: Thursday 16 October 2008 . ... Catch a Falling Star: Thursday 9 October . A stronomy Ireland Colm J. Cannon Memorial lecture: " Searching for Planets Around Other Stars - From Galway " by Gregg Hallinan, at 8 pm, Monday 13 October, in the Physics Building, Trinity College Dublin. ... The techniques used to detect these planets requires the use of very sensitive and expensive equipment. ... Tuesday, 7 October 2008 23:23 . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

Hubble Finds Oxygen Atmosphere On Jupiter's Moon Europa . Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) have identified the presence of an extremely tenuous atmosphere of molecular oxygen around Jupiter's second moon, Europa . ... Europa's oxygen atmosphere is so tenuous that its surface pressure is barely one hundred billionth that of the Earth," said Principal Investigator Doyle Hall, of Johns Hopkins. ... The oxygen gas slowly leaks into space and must be replenished continuously. ...

... The European HST Archive has been moved to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre ( ESAC ), Spain, where most of ESA's Space Science Archives are located and operated from. ... The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), jointly operated by ESA and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) was, until the end of 2010, the European HST science facility, supporting the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

God Science Forum Message . ... God and Science | ... Pluto Is Not A Planet, But A Moon Of Neptune. ... Pluto Is Not a Planet, but a Moon of Neptune . 60 years ago, at 1947, the late Mohammed Ali Hassan Al-Hilly, said in his book: (The Universe and the Quran), that Pluto is not a planet but a moon of Neptune. ... He said: " Astronomers, however, think that Pluto is a planet, but I say it is merely a moon of Neptune, and actually it is not a planet. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ...

T he Siding Spring Survey (SSS) is a Near-Earth Object search program that utilises the 0.5-m Uppsala Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, N.S.W., Australia. ... The mission of the Siding Spring Survey is to contribute to the inventory of near-earth objects (NEOs), or more specifically, the potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) and comets (PHOs) that may pose a threat of impact and thus harm to civilization. ... Based on the CSS Mission page . ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

... 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...

... Star Atlas . ... Hubble will use rare stellar alignment to hunt for planets . ... But astronomers believe they may be able to detect smaller terrestrial planets, if they exist, by looking for microlensing effects during the two rare stellar alignments. ... Cerro Paranal in Chile may be able to make measurements comparable to Hubble s. To identify possible alignment events, Sahu s team searched a catalog of 5,000 stars with a high rate of angular motion across the sky and singled out Proxima Centauri...

... Prof. J. Hough, dean of Physical Sciences Dept. ... Dr. T. Gledhill . ... PDF file ] . Gledhill T.M., Takami M. (2001) Scattered light models of the dust shell around HD 179821. ... Hough J.H., Aitken D.K. (2003) Polarimetry in the infrared: what can be learnd? Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer , v.79-80, p.733-740. ... Lucas P.W. (2003) Computation of light scattering in young stellar objects. ... 2003) Scattering of light from atmospheric ice analogues. ...

... Solar Data: f.e. X-ray . Night Sky Live . ... Heavens-Above: Sky chart, Satellites, Iridiums and astronomical objects For Moscow For SAO Baksan . ... ESO-MIDAS page . ... Tutorials for Astronomy . ... Asteroid and Comet Hazard . ... Observable Comets: This page lists links to orbital elements and ephemerides of (potentially) observable comets. ... Leonid page - a lot of information for years Comets and Meteor Showers . The American Meteor Society . ... North American Meteor Network Home Page . ...

... Peter McCullough . ... Thursday, Apr 8, 2010 at 8:00 PM . NASA/ESA/P. McCullough . ... From telescopes in backyards to ones in space, observations of our "XO Project" and many others around the globe are contributing to this burgeoning field of inquiry (e.g. Garcia-Melendo McCullough (2009) and others' discovery of the transit of the 111-day-period HD 80606b). ... May this presentation inspire you to join us in a future discovery. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

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, . ...