... APOD: 2011 December 7 Kepler 22b: An Almost Earth Orbiting an Almost Sun . ... 7.12.2011 . ... Recently discovered planet Kepler 22b has therefore instantly become the best place to find life outside our Solar System. ... The planet, Kepler 22b , is over twice the radius of the Earth and orbits slightly closer in, but lies in the habitable zone where liquid water could exist on the surface. ... December . December 2011 . ... Kepler 16b: A Planet with Two Suns . ... Kepler s Suns and Planets . ...

... 2011 December 7 . Kepler 22b: An Almost Earth Orbiting an Almost Sun . Illustration Credit: NASA / Ames / JPL-Caltech . ... The planet's host star, Kepler 22 , is actually slightly smaller and cooler than the Sun , and lies 600 light-years from Earth toward the constellation of the Swan ( Cygnus ). The planet, Kepler 22b , is over twice the radius of the Earth and orbits slightly closer in, but lies in the habitable zone where liquid water could exist on the surface. ... About APOD | ...

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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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... Events . ... The orbit of the Moon is too small to be seen on this scale, but the 2008 December 1st alignment was especially interesting because additionally Venus was occulted by the Moon (this occultation was visible from Europe and NW Africa). Some more photos of the 1 December events received from Jonathan Bingham . ... Venus coming out from behind the Moon; photograph by Jonathan Bingham . ISS; photograph by Jonathan Bingham . ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

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... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Planets, orbits, and comets are somewhat round. Is there an underlying mechanism or physical law? ... The force of gravity is also responsible for the elliptical, and occasionally circular, shapes of orbits. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... If you are already registered on Astronomy.com, please log in below. ...

... Galileo Probe . The Galileo spacecraft was designed to study Jupiter's atmosphere, satellites, and surrounding magnetosphere for two years. ... From there, Galileo will spend more than five years traveling to Jupiter, where it will become the first spacecraft to make direct measurements from an instrumented probe within Jupiter's atmosphere. ... This image, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the predicted site at which the Galileo Probe will enter Jupiter's atmosphere on December 7, 1995. ...

... PUBLIC LECTURE - APRIL 12, 2016 . New Discoveries in the Outer Solar System: Ceres, Pluto and Planet X . ... Dr. Green will talk about "New Discoveries in the Outer Solar System: Ceres, Pluto, and Planet X". ... Beginning in 1992 planetary astronomers began to find Pluto like objects beyond the orbit of Neptune showing us that Pluto was a member of an entirely new family of objects we now call the Kuiper Belt. ... Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton, Inc., ...

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... CV & PUBLICATIONS | ... Nicholls, DC, Dopita, MA, Sutherland, RS, Jerjen, H, & Kewley, LJ " Metal-poor Dwarf Galaxies in the SIGRID Galaxy Sample. ... Nicholls DC, Jerjen, H, Dopita MA, & Basurah, H. (2014) " Nebular Metallicities in Two Isolated Local Void Dwarf Galaxies ", Astrophysical Journal 780, 88 * . ... Sweet SM, Drinkwater MJ, Meurer G, Bekki K, Dopita MA, Kilborn V, & Nicholls DC, " CHOIRS H I Galaxy Groups: The Metallicity of Dwarf Galaxies" , (2014) Astrophysical Journal , 782, 35 * . ...

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, . ...

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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. ...

... Dept. for Astrometry & Space Geodynamics . ... Conferences . ... Borysenko S.A. A program to discover comets. ... 6th Open Young Scientists' Conference on Astronomy and Space Physics, April 27-30, 1999, Kyiv Borysenko S.A. First results of dynamical spectroscopy of comet Halley. ... 8th Open Young Scientists Conference on Astronomy and Space Physics, April, 2001, Kyiv Borysenko S.A. Solar activity in November-December 1985 and its effect on the fast variations in the spectral lines of comet Halley ....