Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Planets . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... October . ... By admin October 8, 2010 Posted in: Monthly Sky Notes . A giant from close up: an image made using data from the Cassini probe which flew past Jupiter in 2000. ... As it is so far from us, it takes JupiterтАЩs light a significant time to reach us тАУso when you see Jupiter tonight you are seeing it as it was 35€а minutes in the past. ... Posted October 12, 2010 at 11:15 PM . ... Astronotes . ...

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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. 2012 March 16 . Bright Planets at McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope . ... Wisconsin-Madison ), Ron Oliversen ( NASA-GSFC ) . Explanation: Bright planets Venus and Jupiter are framed by the National Solar Observatory's McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope in this very astronomical scene. ... About APOD | ... A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC . ...

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... Planets in the West . ... Now shining in the west as bright " stars " in the night sky, are all five planets of the solar system known to ancient astronomers - Mercury, Venus, Mars , Saturn, and Jupiter . Recorded from Holt, Michigan, USA about 40 minutes after sunset on April 14th, this digital image captures three of them, Venus, Mars, and Saturn , along with a young crescent Moon . ... April . ... We . ... Publications with keywords: planets - Venus - Mars - Saturn - Moon - evening sky . ...

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Astronomers are proposing that there are now twelve planets in our solar system. ... In particular, the fact that the object designated 2003 UB313 is larger than Pluto dictates either that there are more than nine planets or that Pluto should not count as a planet at all. ... Soon after, in August that year, images of the new "planet" were obtained with the Faulkes Telescope in Hawaii, controlled remotely from Armagh by Observatory summer student Elizabeth Connolly. ...

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... There has been a heated public discussion in the past few years about whether our ninth planet is really deserving of the name. Since Pluto orbits a star, and is much less luminous, it certainly satisfies the definition we have above. The problem is actually not with Pluto, but with a very large number of other bodies in our Solar System which also satisfy this definition, but which are not called planets. Perhaps the most notable of these is Ceres, the largest asteroid. ... Planet . ...

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