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... Adrift in the rich star fields of the constellation Cygnus, this lovely, symmetric nebula was only recognized a few years ago and does not yet appear in some astronomical catalogs. ... Super Planet Crash . ... To create up to ten planets, just click anywhere near the central star. ... The Windmill s Moon . ... Reaching its full phase on the night of January 4/5, it was the first Full Moon of the new year and the first to follow December's solstice. ... 100 Million Stars in the Andromeda Galaxy . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Moon . Planets . ... Space Flight . ... Earth Satellites . ... ASTRONAUTS is the game that takes you to the edge of the Solar System. ... Astronauts is the ultimate space game as you race your opponents to explore the planets and moons of our solar system and then return safely back to Earth. ... Contents: 20 planet cards, 9 moon cards, 3 dwarf planet cards, 8 return to earth cards,16 special cards, dice & rules sheet. ...

... 2015 January 12 . Super Planet Crash . ... Super Planet Crash , the featured game, allows you to try. To create up to ten planets, just click anywhere near the central star. Planet types can be selected on the left in order of increasing mass: Earth , Super-Earth , Ice giant , Giant planet , Brown dwarf , or Dwarf star . ... As you might suspect after playing Super Planet Crash a few times, there is reason to believe that our own Solar System has lost planets during its formation. ...

The Race to the Planets Leader Kit is the second release in our series of family events and activities on topics in astronomy for Family ASTRO Event Leaders . It allows you to take your Astronomy Event participants on a hands-on tour of the Solar System. ... Follow one or more of the links below for more information on the "planet tour" you want to take ( note that Frequently Asked Questions about Race to the Planets can also be found by clicking on these links ): . ... Race to the Planets . ...

Research questions include: . The solar system probably formed about 4.5 billion years ago from a giant disk of gas, dust and ice in space. ... All forms of life on Earth require liquid water to survive, so the presence of liquid water is a good criterion for deciding whether other planets in the universe could be habitable. Earth is the only habitable planet in the solar system. ... Planets and moons in the outer solar system are too cold for liquid water. ...

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... Below is a near-final schedule for the meeting "Planets Beyond the Solar System and the Next Generation of Space Missions," to be held at STScI in Baltimore on October 16, 17, and 18, 1996. ... New programs for the detection and study of planets (interferometry, photometry, microlensing) . ... Spinoffs and benefits of planet detection programs and contributions of these programs to understanding planet formation and evolution (astrophysics using small-field interferometry, NGST) . ... K. Noll, STScI...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... If you thought our tour of the solar system ended with Neptune and Pluto, you are setting your sights way too low. The planets of the solar system mark time relatively close to the Sun compared to interstellar space. Pluto orbits the Sun at an average distance 40 times that of the Earth, yet the nearest star (the Alpha Centauri system) to the solar system is a mind-numbing 260,000 times the distance of the Earth to the Sun. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

. Mars has become the center of intense interest since the Martian Meteorite results were announced. Currently there is a lively debate whether or not primitive life formed there or not.

... Previous: Interactive Data Analysis Environments BoF Session . Up: Software Systems . ... The discussion about the future of astronomical data analysis systems is essentially boring, but nevertheless essential. ... The series of yearly discussions about the Future of Astronomical Data analysis Software (FADS) was started in at ADASS V. A significant part of the success of FADS-I was due to a very lively e-mail discussion in the weeks before the conference. ... Figure: The Gaming Table. ...

. Dedicated to 40th anniversary of the . first artificial Earth satellite launch . Russian (Win) .

The stability of planetary systems after stellar mass loss : Prospects for White Dwarf planets and pollution Alexander James Mustill1*, Dimitri Veras2, Eva Villaver3, Amy Bonsor4, Boris GДnsicke2, Mark Wyatt 1 2 5 Lund Observatory ... 1TL, United Kingdom 5 Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, CB3 9ET, UK *alex@astro.lu.se Stars lose mass as they evolve to become white dwarfs ( WDs ), and this mass loss can induce ...

The Equatorial Inertial (GEI) coordinate system: . The X GEI axis is directed to the point of the spring equinox, . The Z GEI axis is coincide with the Earth's rotation axis, . The Y GEI supplements the right three. The Geographic (GEO) coordinate system: . ... The Solar Magnetic (SM) coordinate system: . ... About space physics coordinate transformation see Russel [1971] and Hapgood [1992] . ... M.A. Hapgood , Space physics coordinate transformations: A user guide // Planet Space Sci. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... solar system . ... Observe the Solar System . ... How Many Planets Are in the Solar System? ... In this artwork showing the early solar system, an enormous dust disk stretches around the Sun and serves as a breeding ground for new planets as material clumps together. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

In ancient times the solar system was thought to be the whole Universe, so the study of planetary motions was cosmology. ... The planets other than the Moon and Sun generally move West to East through the stars, but occasionally stop and move in the opposite direction ( retrograde motion). In order to explain the retrograde motion of the planets, the geocentric model of the Solar System shown above puts the planets on small circles called epicycles . ...

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, . ...

The XPA messaging system provides seamless communication between many kinds of Unix programs, including X programs and Tcl/Tk programs. It also provides an easy way for users to communicate with these XPA-enabled programs by executing XPA client commands in the shell or by utilizing such commands in scripts. ... A program becomes an XPA-enabled server by defining named points of public access through which data and commands can be exchanged with other client programs (and users). ...

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The AstroGuide . ... AstroGuide | ... Other Sites . ... AstroGuide Listing . ... See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . ... Views of the Solar System serves as an educational tour of the solar system. It contains images and information about the Sun, planets, moons, asteroids, comets and meteoroids found within the solar system. ... Web Site . ... Additional Information . ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . ...