... 2007 February 27 . Atmospheres Detected for Two Extrasolar Planets . ... Explanation: Do extrasolar planets have water? In an attempt to find out, the orbiting Spitzer Space Telescope made detailed observations of the atmospheres of two planets that orbit stars other than our Sun. ... Although no water vapor was detected this time, the techniques of measuring exoplanet atmospheres are quite promising, and the search for distant water and other biomarkers is just beginning. ... About APOD | ...

... Atmospheres Detected on Two Extrasolar Planets . ... Credit Copyright: NASA / JPL-Caltech /T. Pyle ( SSC ) Explanation: Do extrasolar planets have water? In an attempt to find out, the orbiting Spitzer Space Telescope made detailed observations of the atmospheres of two planets that orbit stars other than our Sun. Unfortunately, water vapor was not detected in either exoplanet. ... Publications with keywords: extrasolar planet - water . Publications with words: extrasolar planet - water . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. January 10, 1998 . Disorder in Stephan's Quintet . ... Explanation: What are five closely grouped galaxies doing in this image ? The grouping is commonly known as Stephan's Quintet. ... It is probably a foreground object which happens to lie along the line of sight to the more distant galaxies. ... About APOD > . ...

... Planets . ... Earth Satellites . ... Looking in the direction of the constellation Cygnus the Swan and launched by NASA in 2009 is the Kepler Space Observatory.Many previous missions searching for exoplanets mainly detected large giant planets, like large hot Jupiters (it is easier to detect larger planets).However KeplerтАЩs main objective is to search for much smaller planets located in a habitable zone which is not too close nor too far from their star; planets which may be just like our Earth. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... This shows the Sun, Moon and Earth (not to scale) together with the . ... They have tested the technique on the Earthshine, the light reflected from the Earth by the Moon, and showed that it can reveal the presence of life in our planet. ... This technique uses the fact that the light reflected from the planet is polarised, whereas that emitted by the star is not. ... Polarised light can tell us about the reflecting surface...

... The remote planet Pluto and its moon Charon orbit the Sun at a mean distance of almost 6,000 million kilometres, or nearly fourty times farther out than the Earth. During a recent investigation by an international group of astronomers [1], the best picture ever of Pluto and Charon [2] was secured with the European Space Agency's Faint Object Camera at the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). ... The new HST image was taken when Charon was near its maximum elongation from Pluto (0.9 arcseconds). ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Site Info . ... Public Talks . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Who is this guy who calls himself "The Bad Astronomer?" ... First, yes, I am a real live astronomer (when people ask me what astronomers do, I tell them "They astronom !" ... These are emitted by powerful objects like black holes, exploding stars, and super-dense neutrons stars. ... Finally, am I really a bad astronomer? ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

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... Confirm Dark Galaxy Existence . ... New evidence from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope in the Netherlands has been used to rule out all but one of the ideas put forward to explain the existence of VIRGOHI 21, an intergalactic gas cloud 50 million light-years from the Earth. ... Are there more such dark galaxies out there? ... Credit: R. Minchin / Arecibo Observatory / Cardiff University / Isaac Newton Telescope / Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope . ...

This is the homepage of Andrew Fruchter, an astronomer on the staff of the Space Telescope Science Institute . ... Here you can look at an HST images of the optical counterparts of gamma-ray bursts and their host galaxies. ... Therefore, substantial information on the fine scale structure of objects can be obtained by offsetting the pointing of the telescope between exposures and then combining these "dithered" exposures into a single image. ...

Next: Reducing the observations Up: PEPSYS general photometry Previous: Influencing the plan . ... If the telescope and instrumentation are unfamiliar to you, you may have trouble keeping to the schedule for the first night or two, so try to work with a previous observer on the equipment for a night or two of training before your observing run. If you fall behind, try to keep as many low-altitude observations of extinction stars as you can, and drop some circumzenithal ones if necessary. ...

... Comet Tutorial . ... On July 1, 1993 an image was taken with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) that clearly shows at least 15 individual fragments in one image frame of the train. ... This made an accurate orbit (or orbits) difficult to determine; however, after numerous observations of the comet, astronmers determined that the comet had passed within 96,000 kilometers (60,000 miles) of the center of Jupiter or 25,000 kilometers (16,000 miles) from the cloud tops during the July 8, 1992, approach. ...

... Rationale . ... Optical image of Centaurus A taken with the MPG/ESO 2.2-m telescope. ... Centaurus A (NGC 5128) is a spectacular giant radio galaxy. It is by far the closest galaxy in the Universe with an active, supermassive black hole, and it was the first extragalactic radio source to be identified (by CSIRO radiophysics astronomers Bolton, Stanley and Slee using cliff-top interferometry at Dover Heights ). ... X-ray image of Centaurus A taken with Chandra. ...

Supernova 1987A in LMC . One day in 1987, an astronomer by the name of Ian Shelton was making observations of the Tarantula Nebula in Large Magellanic cloud at Las Campanas Observatory, and he noticed something strange on his image. ... SN 1987A got as bright as 2.7, the only other recent SN even to come close was 1885A in M31 which got up to mag 6. ... Mag 4.5 . ... IAUC 4318 2/25/87 Type II? ... IAUC 7354 2/1/00 New structure in the inner ring . ... IAUC 7360 2/7/00 HST observation of new spot . ...

pn Filter Wheel Closed Data . ... XMM-Newton SOC Home Page Conferences & Meetings . ... Data Analysis SAS News What is SAS? ... The following links contain pages to the merged Filter Wheel Closed event lists corresponding to the different EPIC-pn modes. ... Fast Modes . ... Burst Mode (BU) Below you can find relevant reports and proceedings about EPIC-pn Filter Wheel Closed exposures, such as spatial, temporal, and spectral properties of the internal background. ... EPIC-pn: background calibration . ...

... We have developed an integrated system that performs astronomical observations in Near Infrared bands operating two-dimensional instruments at the Italian National Infrared Facility's ARNICA and LONGSP . ... The user interface is organized as widget-based X11 client. ... 1993; Di Giacomo et al. 1993). ... Moreover, if the interprocess communication interface includes support for networking, the software immediately becomes network distributed software. ... DESQview/X User Guide 1993, Quarterdeck . ...

... The discovery of this radiopulsar is potentially important not only for confirming the theory of evolution of NS, but also for understanding processes occurring in stellar winds   from normal stars. After all, a radiopulsar orbiting in the semi-transparent stellar wind of a normal star is a sort of probe scanning an inhomogeneous plasma by pulsed radiation (Lipunov and Prokhorov, 1984)[ 110 ]. ... 1) absorption of radio waves (light curve); . ... This object is a radiopulsar orbiting a Be-star. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Sky this Month . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... galaxies . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Neighbor galaxies may have brushed closely, astronomers find . ... Recent studies with the National Science Foundation's Green Bank Telescope (GBT) indicate that two of our Milky Way's neighbor galaxies may have had a close encounter billions of years ago. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this...

... He made observations of a supernova (literally: nova= "new star") in 1572 (we now know that a supernova is an exploding star, not a new star). ... Brahe's meticulous observations showed that the supernova did not change positions with respect to the other stars (no parallax). ... This was early evidence against the immutable nature of the heavens, although Brahe did not interpret the absence of parallax for stars correctly, as we discuss below. Brahe made careful observations of a comet in 1577. ...

... In this sound clip, we journey to the violent heart of a galaxy. We start off flying through the outskirts of a galaxy (hissing noise) passing various stars (different loud hisses) before penetrating the vast nebula surrounding the black hole that lurks in the middle. ... Sounds of Nebulae (864kb). ... Planetary Nebulae: Movie and Sounds (1Mb). ... Comet Song (664kb) Listen as a comet approaches the Sun and bursts into song, before fading back into the outer darkness. ...