... December Sunrise, Cape Sounion . ... The Sun is a moving target. ... Star Cluster R136 Bursts Out . ... If you went outside at exactly the same time every day and took a picture that included the Sun, how would the Sun appear to move? ... Aurora Shimmer, Meteor Flash . ... Dust particles strung out along the orbit of extinct comet Phaethon vaporize when they plow through planet Earth's atmosphere causing the impressive display. ... In 1996, an unexpectedly bright comet passed by planet Earth. ...

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... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2011 December 1 . Young Moon Meets Evening Star . ... Explanation: Now appearing as planet Earth's evening star, brilliant Venus shines in western skies at twilight. ... Not visible in the frame, fleeting planet Mercury has fallen from evening skies , sinking deeper into the sunset glow below the young crescent Moon. ... About APOD | ...

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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Moon . Planets . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... February . ... The ringed planet will be quite bright, but unlike Jupiter it will not be the brightest point of light in the sky, this accolade will return to Sirius which is the brightest star in our night sky in the constellation of Canis Major. ... Seven days later on February 18, the Moon will be in its full Moon phase. ... Tweets that mention Wonders of the February Night Sky | ... Astronotes . ...

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NOVAC Newsletter - Reflections On 1982 . Articles | ... Richard Lawson . ... Attending this observation was Nils Thomas, John Huggins, Richard Lawson, Bob Koberg and his kids, David Edwards and Bryan Bloomer. ... Nils, John, Richard and A.J. Piccillo met for the July lunar eclipse. ... Twelve days later Nils, John, Richard, and Ian Babcock attended a scheduled NOVAC observation. ... Attending were Nils, John, A.J., Richard and Blaine Korcel. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ...

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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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... December 8, 1996 . Degas Ray Crater on Mercury . ... Explanation : Like the Earth's Moon, Mercury is scarred with craters, testifying to an intense bombardment during the early history of the Solar System. ... In the above mosaic the bright rays emanating from the 27 mile wide Degas crater almost appear to be painted on . The rays consist of light colored material blasted out during the crater's formation. Numerous smaller, younger craters are seen superposed on the Degas crater itself. ...

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... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... The Nine Planets . ... Nancy Lieder has lied about me to try to make me look bad . ... She claims to be channeling aliens, called "Zetans" (short for Zeta Reticulans, aliens from the star Zeta Reticuli). ... So, Ms. Lieder claimed that (the to her nonexistent) Hale-Bopp was a distraction, a part of a disinformation campaign by Those In Charge so that the teeming masses wouldn't worry about Planet X. Guess what: she was wrong! ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

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... In the following examples I will use pulsar 1842-04 to which I have added a model planet in order to illustrate what the data tells us. ... Alpha high is for the white noise power law and alpha low is for the red noise power law. ns is effectively the bin size. ... In the graphs on figure 2 the outer lines are the model, so you can see where and when the data fits the model and when it doesn't. A peak in the data corresponds to a peak in the top graph of figure 3, i.e. a planet. ...

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NASA's Galileo spacecraft, now in orbit around the planet Jupiter, this morning began the first scheduled return of data from its companion atmospheric probe that parachuted into the jovian atmosphere last Thursday. ... Forty minutes of data collected by the probe stored in the orbiter's onboard computer memory will be radioed to Earth over the next four days and presented to Galileo scientists for analysis. ... Space History Galileo . ...

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Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... Planet::SharedPlanetGraphics Struct Reference . ... More... #include < Planet.hpp > . ... Lazily initialize the data, using given renderer to create textures/shader. ... Shader used to draw the planet (with lighting), if lighting is used and GLSL is supported. ... Shader used to draw the planet (with lighting and shadowing). ... Lazily initialize the data, using given renderer to create textures/shader. bool Planet::SharedPlanetGraphics::loadPlanetShaders . ...

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home events . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Public Lectures . ... Special Events . Kepler Mission Planet Discoveries . NASA Ames Research Center . ... Scientists involved with the search for planets around other stars are gathering at NASA Ames Dec. 5 - 9 for a technical conference devoted to the Kepler spacecraft discoveries. Tuesday evening, Dec. 6th, there will be a public event from 7 to 10 pm at the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View. ... events | ...

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... In most situations, light helps us to see. But when it comes to looking at the night sky, light actually blocks our vision. ... You should be able to see around 2,500 stars with your naked eyes, but if you live in a big city or town, you probably see less than 10 stars on a normal night! This amazing space picture shows the shining star clusters and swirls of colourful gases of the Carina Nebula: an enormous expanse of gas, dust and stars lying deep in the heart of the Milky Way. ...

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... Tonight's Sky . ... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... 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 . ... A trio of evening planets . ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ... Astronomy Magazine...

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... 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...

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Top] [Prev] [Next] . ... The recent indirect discovery of extra-solar planets around solar-type nearby stars has been considered as the answer to a long standing conjecture, even if the physical nature of these planets was completely unexpected. Indeed several space missions have been proposed during the recent years with a possible impact on the topic of exo-planets: this includes searches by photometric transit (STARS, COROT), by astrometry (GAIA) and by direct imaging in the infrared (DARWIN). ...

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... System concept SKA1: AA-low . ... Coffee . ... AA Pathfinders: guiding SKA design . AA Science driven technical requirements . ... Science . ... Calibration and imaging . ... SKA1 Science Requirements . ... Discussion . ... Calibration and imaging requirements . ... Redundancy calibration method in phased arrays . ... System concept SKA 1 : AA-low . ... SKA1 AA-low system design considerations . ... Dense Aperture Array Antenna Design for SKA . ... Array antenna designs for the SKA-AA-low . ...

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My research interests are focussed on the theory and modelling of accretion processes as well as star and planet formation mechanisms. I am particularly interested in the stability properties of accretion discs, the generation of MHD turbulence and associated angular momentum transport, disk - planet interactions and the origin and characteristics of jets and winds from accreting systems . ... These results have been published in Salmeron & Wardle, 2005, M.N.R.A.S., 361: 45-69. ...

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. 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.

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... It was designed to observe the solar wind approaching Earth, from a position near the Lagrangian point L1, and it is part of the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) Initiative . ... The original plan called for "Wind" to approach its final station over two years, undergoing two close encounters with the Moon to boost its speed. ... If however the object is moving , the encounter is not symmetric, and in the end the spacecraft may have gained or lost speed, depending on its trajectory. ...

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The IV Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad (November 16-23, 2008) : . ... Only students did not participated at the IAO-2008 may participate in the APAO-2008 (that is a student may participate in the XIII IAO or in the IV APAO but not in both of these Olympiads). For the IV APAO the (age) group of participants to be analogous to IAO groups, rules 4.5.2-4. to be used (alpha group - "juniors" and beta group - "seniors"), i.e.: . ... The official APAO e-mail is a p a o [a] l i s t . ...

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