... 2008 November 28 . Probably a Planet for Beta Pic . ... Now, infrared observations from European Southern Observatory telescopes incorporated in this composite offer a detection of a source in the clear zone that is most likely a giant planet orbiting Beta Pic . ... Confirmation that the new source is a planet will come if future observations can demonstrate that the source moves in an orbit around the star. ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply . ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . Probably a Planet for Beta Pic . ... 28.11.2008 . ... Explanation: A mere 50 light-years away, young star Beta Pictoris became one of the most important stars in the sky in the early 1980s. Satellite and ground-based telescopic observations revealed the presence of a surrounding outer, dusty, debris disk and an inner clear zone about the size of our solar system -- strong evidence for the formation of planets . ... November 2008 . ... 2007 2008 . ...

Databases (NSDC) of the Natural Planetary Satellites. ... NSDC: Database of astrometric observations of Natural Planetary Satellites . ... They are thoroughly looking for observations in different sources, creating their owndatabases which are then mostly inaccessible to other researchers. ... In the file "content" with explications, the reference is given to the data source as well as the bibliographic reference. ... Data sources. ... Why a specific bibliographic database for Natural satellites? ...

New Moons of Uranus . Brent Gladman's Home Page . ... The discovery of two probable distant satellites of Uranus was reported by B. Gladman, P. Nicholson, J. Burns and J. Kavelaars. ... This discovery was reported in the IAU Circular 6764 . ... Discovery image of S/1997 U 2 . This shows the discovery image of brighter of the two new moons of Uranus. ... This shows the discovery image of faint new moons of Uranus. ... This shows another discovery image of faint new moons of Uranus. ... Uranus . ...

... About ATNF overview . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Online Resources . ... Australia Telescope 20GHz Survey . ... We present the first results from a study of the radio continuum properties of galaxies in the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey, based on thirty 2dF fields covering a total area of about 100deg 2 . ... mag. are detected as radio continuum sources in the NRAO VLA Sky Survey (NVSS). ... radio continuum: galaxies, galaxies: distances and redshifts, galaxies: active, galaxies: starburst . ...

The Astronomy Net . Articles | ... Forums . ... Planets | ... The list below is a live snapshot of where the planets and moon are located right now. ... The links in the left hand column take you to a mirror of the excellent NinePlanets web site where you can read about each planet and much much more. The latest news includes the fact that Pluto is no longer classified as a planet. ... Pluto is now classified as a 'dwarf planet' which includes Ceres and soon to be many others. ... 100 . ...

home education > family astro . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Family ASTRO Resource Guides . ... In the last few decades, the planets and moons in the solar system have been revealed as wonderfully individual worlds that we are beginning to explore in detail. ... For more readings and web sites (including the best resources on individual planets and moons), see our Solar System Resource Guide on the web at: http://www.astrosociety.org/education/resources/solarsys.html . ...

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... LABORATORY OF RADIO ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS . Radio sources identification is one of the most important tasks of the current radio astrophysics. ... Optical idetification. ... Optical identifications of subsample of steep spectra radio sources from RC catalog using 6m SAO telescope of SAO RAS: optical observations. ... Astronomy Reports. ... Identification of radio sources with data of various radio catalogs allows one to construct continual spectrum of the object and its radio structure. ...

... The stars examined here were primarily culled from two lists of X--ray sources in Orion. ... The second region is two degrees in extent east--west and ten degrees north--south with Orionis being near the northern edge. ... In the end, two main regions were chosen for monitoring: stars near Orionis and stars northwest of the belt of Orion. ... The PSPC identified 22 sources within 15 of Orionis in addition to the sources listed in Table 1 , giving a total of 85 X--ray sources in the Orionis region. ...

... a) As source material for the high-school or college curriculum, especially in physics. astronomy and their history. (b) As a source of supplemental projects by high school students or by undergraduates. (c) As material for independent studies, In particular by motivated students who seek to know more about space . ... Those wishing to look up specific topics are advised to use the index file, accessible from the end of any "Exploration" file. ... files not listed and at other resource material. ...

... 88, Jan. 1983, p. 1-15. l. A survey of extragalactic radio sources made using driven declination scans is reported covering an area of about 0.07 sr to a limiting flux density of 35 mJy. The fast-scan survey was carried out at a galactic latitude greater than 17 deg with the NRAO 91-m telescope operating at 4.755 GHz, and the 480 sources detected were reobserved at 1.4 GHz with the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center 305-m telescope at Arecibo. ...

... Science User Portal . ... For the first time, astronomers have been able to directly follow the motion of an exoplanet as it moves from one side of its host star to the other. ... Only 12 million years old, or less than three-thousandths of the age of the Sun, Beta Pictoris is 75% more massive than our parent star. ... This research was presented in a paper to appear this week in Science Express (тАЬA Giant Planet Imaged in the disk of the Young Star Beta Pictoris,тАЭ by A.-M. Lagrange et al.) ...

... 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. ...

... A Snapshot Survey of The Most Massive Clusters of Galaxies . Abstract . ... Binaries in the Kuiper Belt: Probes of Solar System Formation and Evolution . ... SL2S: The Strong Lensing Legacy Survey . ... Increasing the Accuracy of HST Astrometry with FGS1r . ... GO 11113: Binaries in the Kuiper Belt: Probes of Solar System Formation and Evolution . A composite of HST images of the Kuiper Belt binary, WW31 . ... GO 11289: SL2S - The Strong Lensing Legacy Survey . ... Past weeks: . ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Sky Charts . ... UK astronomy . ... History of Astronomy . ... Astrophysics in Cyberspace . ... The Sky Tonight from the Schools Observatory . The Sky over Armagh . ... Royal Astronomical Society . ... Cork Astronomy Club . ... Links to more Journals . ... Astronomy Now . ... History of Armagh Observatory . ... Society for the History of Astronomy (UK) . American Astronomical Society - Historical Astronomy Division . ...

... Galaxy Evolution home . ... The origin and evolution of radio sources . Radio sources and their environments . ... We are investigating how this interaction effects galaxy evolution in general as well as the feedback effect of the radio source on its host galaxy and AGN. ... One direct observational manifestation of this interaction is the existence of extended regions of emission-line gas which show a clear spatial relationship to the radio source itself. ...

... Proposing for VLBI Time at Arecibo . ... Documentation (Field System, VLBA4 terminal, Mark 5 system) . ... In 2001, the Arecibo Observatory received its hybrid VLBA-MARK IV (VLBA4) data acquisition system, and currently NAIC commits Arecibo to support VLBI observing up to a maximum of 4% of the 305-m's observing time. ... Tracking Time (h:mm) . ... The inclusion of the 305-m Arecibo radio telescope can dramatically boost the sensitivity of VLBI observations, even with its limited source tracking...

... satvelsrc computes as a function of time the component of the spacecraft velocity vector in the direction of given celestial source. ... SAS_ODF . or named via the generic command line parameters -o or -odfdir (see taskmain for details). ... The source coordinates obtained from the ODF can be overridden with the command line paramters withsrccoord=yes srcra=<ra> srcdec=<dec> and withorthosrc=yes defines a fictitious source in the direction perpendicular to the orbital plane. ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... FileљStructure . ... core . modules . Orbit.hpp . ... 8 љ // modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License . ... 27 љ Orbit ( const Orbit &); . 28 љ const Orbit &operator=( const Orbit &); . ... 35 љ EllipticalOrbit ( double pericenterDistance, . ... 52 љ // parentRotObliquity and parentRotAscendingnode must be supplied. 53 љ void positionAtTimevInVSOP87Coordinates( double JD, double * v) const ; . ... 62 љ double eccentricAnomaly( double ) const ; . ...