... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Last week, our tour outwards made a stop at our own home planet. Permit me to hold our tour a bit longer, to linger and gaze upon the Moon. ... Complex molecules floated in the water, but the concentration of these compounds wasn't high enough for them to get any further along than making amino acids and the like. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ... Subscribe to the Bad Astronomy Newsletter! ...

Lectures . ... тАЬOther Ways of Looking for Life in the SkyтАЭ ? Freeman J. Dyson . ... Lecture Series 2011-2012 . ... Dr. Freeman J. Dyson, one of the nationтАЩs most renowned physicists, and professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., will open the AAAтАЩs 2011-2012 lecture series Friday, October 21, when he speaks on тАЬOther Ways of Looking for Life in the Sky.тАЭ The free public lecture begins at 6:15 p.m. in the Kaufmann€аTheater of the AMNH. ...

... It s because some sunlight bounced off the Earth and dimly lit the side of the Moon that is facing away from the Sun. ... Recently, astronomers used earthshine to help in the search for aliens. Signs of life can be found in the quantities of particular gases in a planet s atmosphere, such as oxygen, ozone, methane and carbon dioxide. And astronomers can work out what gases are in a planet s atmosphere by studying the light that bounces off them their planetshine . ...

... Siding Spring Observatory by day - Tim WetherтАж . Siding Spring Observatory 2.3 m (looking up aтАж . ... Title: Siding Spring Observatory 2.3 m (looking up at the secondary mirror) . Description: NOTE: All images are copyright and must not be reproduced or mirrored in any form without written permission. ... Siding Spring Observatory 2.3 m (looking up at the secondary mirror) NOTE: All images are copyright and must not be reproduced or mirrored in any form without written permission. ...

... A High School Curriculum in Astrobiology . ... It was the focus of the ASP science symposium this summer; the University of Washington is offering it as a new Ph.D. program, and TERC (Technical Education Research Center) is developing a high school integrated science course based on it. ... Apparently, as soon as Earth was mature enough for life to form here, it did. ... One may be tempted to rule out various places in our Solar System as sites that harbor life because of their extreme conditions. ...

... Last Look at Plutos Charon Side . ... Credit Copyright: NASA , Johns Hopkins Univ./ ... As the robotic New Horizons barrels toward its closest approach to Pluto and its moons tomorrow, images already coming back show Pluto's surface to be curiouser and curiouser. The featured image , taken two days ago, shows the side of Pluto that always faces Pluto's largest moon Charon. ... Publications with keywords: Pluto . Publications with words: Pluto . ... Charon and the Small Moons of Pluto . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2015 July 13 . Last Look at Pluto's Charon Side . ... As the robotic New Horizons barrels toward its closest approach to Pluto and its moons tomorrow, images already coming back show Pluto's surface to be curiouser and curiouser . The featured image , taken two days ago, shows the side of Pluto that always faces Pluto's largest moon Charon . ...

... These other worlds are the moons of our Solar System , of which there are approximately 170 in orbit around our planets.Some of these moons are very interesting, and have diverse and unique features, very different to our barren, heavily cratered Moon .Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system has the most moons of any planet with known 64 moons in orbit.The four ... Ganymede, the largest moon in the Solar System thought to have oceans located underneath its icy surface.( ...

Iggy Pop The Passenger _Lust for Life_ I am a passenger And I ride and I ride I ride through the city's backside I see the stars come out of the sky Yeah, they're bright in a hollow sky You know it looks so good tonight I am a passenger I stay under glass I look through my window so bright I see the stars come out tonight I see the bright and hollow ...

From: TerryMosel@aol.com Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 15:11:47 EST Subject: Occultation Success! Or, 'Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life'! ... There was drifting cloud with spots of rain, but we saw the Moon gradually approaching Jupiter, the full immersion stage (First Contact to Second Contact) the occultation of the three satellites Ganymede, Io and Europa, and most of the emersion of Jupiter (3rd Contact to almost 4th Contact)! ... In between we had a quick look at Saturn. ... Terry . ...

... Children's Wishes I saw a boy walking down . the dark street alone . ... what a child like him could've done. ... What he wishes for his life . ... Is what a boy wishes tonight . ... Cause it's a boy is wish . ... It's a boy is wish . ... What did I do How do I get home? ... Cause I'm all alone . Could you tell me what is home . I wish somebody could explain me that . Could you tell me what is mom . ... And tell me what is life . ... Tell me if home is there under the bridge . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... Observing . ... Cassini looks at the dark side . ... Cassini focused on the dark side. ... It was Cassini, for whom the Cassini-Huygens mission is named, who correctly deduced that one side of Iapetus is dark, while the other is white. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

Barnaby Norris Were Aboriginal Australians he world's first t astronomers? By Ray Norris into the On a warm autumn evening, go and bush where the sky is really dark, Milky admire the awesome band of the Way stretching across the sky from people horizon to horizon. ... That cloud is called the birthplace of new by astronomers, and is the , it's part stars, but to many Aboriginal groups is the of the `Emu in the Sky'. ... So were Aboriginal Australians the world's first astronomers? ...

SETI with SKA1 and SKA 2 Alan Penny1, Heino Falcke2, Mike Garrett 3 1 University of St Andrews and South African Astronomical Observatory PI: LOFAR Early Access Program LEA070 ­ 'A SETI Pilot Program' 2 Raboud University 3 ASTRON and Leiden University AAVP2010 U Cambridge 8-10 December 2010 What a radio SETI search looks for A narrow (perhaps1 Hz wide) spectral line Sections 1. SETI 2. Experience of SETI with LOFAR and WSRT 3. SETI and SKA - needs Sections 1. ...

Программа конференции Сагитовские чтения - 2007. 5 февраля . 10 00 -10 10 А.М. Черепащук (директор ГАИШ, академик РАН). ... Председатель Чуйкова Н.А . ... 10 40 -11 10 Ксанфомалити Л.В. (ИКИ РАН) . ... мех-мат МГУ) . ... 10 20 -10 40 Миронов А.В., Латынина Л.А. (ОИФЗ РАН), В.К. Милюков (ГАИШ МГУ) . ... 10 40 -11 00 Милюков В.К., А.В. Копаев (ГАИШ МГУ), А.В. Лагуткина , А.В. Мясников, . ... 14 20 -14 40 Копаев А.В. , Жаров В.Е., Артемьев Е.А., Зотов Л.В., Милюков В.К. (ГАИШ МГУ) . ...

Life detection on Europa from a lander: metabolic signatures Daniel Prieur UniversitИ de Bretagne Occidentale Brest, France Starting Hypothesis · If Life exists on Europa ­ Living Entities are small-sized and not visible from an Orbiter ­ Living Entities are organized like Cells and have properties similar to living Cells on Earth ­ These Cell-like Entities carry out Carbon Chemistry in liquid Water How to detect microbial This energy is used by cells to build macromolecules and biomass. ...

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... Earth is the tiny spot between Jupiter and the Sun). ... Distance Radius Mass Name Orbits (000 km) (km) (kg) --------- ------- -------- ------- ------- Sun 697000 1.99e30 Jupiter Sun 778000 71492 1.90e27 Saturn Sun 1429000 60268 5.69e26 Uranus Sun 2870990 25559 8.69e25 * Neptune Sun 4504300 24764 1.02e26 * Earth Sun 149600 6378 5.98e24 Venus Sun 108200 6052 4.87e24 Mars Sun 227940 3398 6.42e23 Ganymede Jupiter 1070 2631 1.48e23 + Titan ... Extrema .. ...

... lband wide dewar. isolator. 1200 to 1500 Mhz filter . ALFA if1 module with 1st lo set to 1675. This places 1415 at 260 Mhz. ... The data was then smoothed to 15 useconds. The plot shows the 1415 Mhz band when the san Juan radar was pointed at the observatory (about once every 12 seconds). ... The radar pulses are 2*5usecs long. ... The plot shows the total power in a 5 Mhz band around 1415 Mhz for 3000 seconds . Top: 3000 seconds of data has been smoothed to 1 second resolution. ...

Phases of the Moon Phases of the Moon are not caused by the Earth's shadow. They are due to a change in our viewing perspective as the Moon orbits around us as it is lit by the Sun. ... The Earth spins in the light, so that the entire Earth gets to be lit at some point each day. Even though the Moon is always half-lit like the Earth is, sometimes we on the Earth see only a tiny bit lit, other times completely lit, depending on where the Moon is in its orbit around the Earth. ... Look at Day 7. ...