... 2008 February 18 . BLG-109: A Distant Version of our own Solar System . ... Perhaps quite common, as the first system of planets like our own Solar System has been discovered using a newly adapted technique that, so far, has probed only six planetary systems . ... Recently a detailed analysis of microlensing system OGLE -2006-BLG-109 has related brightness variations to two planets that are similar to Jupiter and Saturn of our own Solar System. ... About APOD | ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. February 7, 1998 . COBE Hotspots: The Oldest Structures Known . ... After computer processing to remove contributions from nearby objects and the effects of the earth's motion , the map shows temperature variations in the early Universe as red "spots". These spots are the oldest, most distant structures known. ... About APOD > . ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 19.02.1998 . ... Credit: Voyager Project , JPL , NASA Explanation: Miranda is a bizarre world which surely had a tempest uous past. ... Along with the famous "chevron" feature, the bright V-shaped area just above center, this composite of the highest resolution images of Miranda shows wild juxtapositions of ridges and valleys, older cratered and younger smooth surfaces, and shadowy canyons perhaps 12 miles deep. ... Publications with keywords: Uranus - miranda . ...

... 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. ...

... Pluto's orbit is also highly inclined -- tilted 17 degrees to the orbital plane of the other planets. ... Ground-based observations indicate that Pluto's surface is covered with methane ice and that there is a thin atmosphere that might freeze and fall to the surface as the planet moves away from the Sun. ... This is the first image-based surface map of the solar system's most remote planet, Pluto. ... This is the first surface map of Charon, the moon of the solar system's most remote planet, Pluto....

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . Asteroid 2010 SO16 and the Earth follow similar orbits around . the Sun. ... out a horseshoe shape in space, taking 175 years to go from . ... Asteroid 2010 SO16 takes 175 years to make the trip from one end of the horseshoe to the other. ... Currently, three other horseshoe companions of the Earth are known to exist but, unlike 2010 SO16, these linger for a few thousand years at most before moving on to different orbits. ...

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Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the updates and links web pages. Discovered independently by Lick Observatory Supernova Search (USA) and Koichi Itagaki (Japan). ... 2009/10/11.44 . 17.2 . ... Joseph Brimacombe . ...

This section describes the calculation by which Aristarchus used the duration of a total lunar eclipse to deduce the distance of the Moon. ... This lesson plan supplements: "How Distant is the Moon--1", section #8c: on disk Shipprc2.htm , on the web . ... The shadow of the Earth at the Moon's distance is narrower than the Earth, because the Sun is seen not as a point but as a disk 0.5 degrees wide. ... An eclipse of the Moon is the passage of the Moon through the shadow of the Earth. ...

... Observing . ... Home Education Workshops at Adorama Astronomy Workshop: Observing Variable Stars from the City ? February 15, 2015 . ... Beyond New York City . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... Presented by€а Adorama €аFor the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

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... 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. ...

... Kalirai and Harvey Richer of the University of British Columbia led the study, which began as an investigation of a globular star cluster in the Milky Way galaxy known as NGC 6397. ... Within the population of stars and galaxies behind NGC 6397, the Hubble image revealed a large elliptical galaxy that contains several hundred globular clusters. ... In fact, a single giant star in NGC 6397 appears 10 million times brighter than one of the distant globular clusters. ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... FIRST . ... This site is an initiative by MRAO Cambridge to provide improved access for the UK to the images being produced from the FIRST survey. ... Note that a small image returned by this server will have different gridding and orientation from an image of corresponding position and size returned by the FIRST CUTOUT server at the main site. ... This site may evolve to provide more of the facilities available at the FIRST main site in due course. ...

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... Comet Lovejoy over the Parkes Dish . ... This beautiful picture of Comet Lovejoy was taken by CSIRO's Parkes staff member John Sarkissian when it was visible above the illuminated 64-m Parkes Telescope on the 28th of December 2011. The comet, official known as C/2011 W3 (Lovejoy) was discovered on the 27th of November 2011 by Australian amateur astronomer Terry Lovejoy . His new find, C/2014 Q2 , discovered on the 17th of August 2014, is currently visible in the sky . ... today * ATNF | ...

... Globular cluster NGC 2808, elliptical galaxy NGC 2986, and the Sextans Dwarf . ... Astronomers recently discovered brown dwarfs of only a few hundred degrees fahrenheit, which seems about the same temperature as some planets. So what is the difference between a brown dwarf and a planet? ... RELATED TOPICS: BROWN DWARFS . This is an excellent question, and it s one that even astronomers have a hard time agreeing on. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Discover | ...

The small solids. Asteroids or the small planetes . ... The comets. ... Ceneca the Young.Procuring about the nature.63 y. The comet is a celestial body of a great size, but a rare one... transparent. Sometimes there seen a core and the medium forms a kind of a tail, beard or dishevelled looks. ... The core is an ice body - conglomeration of frosted gas and dust. ... The comet state is variable: ones have the con tails, others the dust tails, and the third have both. ... Meteors and meteorites. ...

... About meteorites . ... Meteoritic data . Impact Crater Smerdyachee . ... Based on Smerdyachee's depth, near circularity, and its mounded wall, and analysis by N.A. Fillin of nearby Roshal, Russia, the Estonian scientists Yu.V. Krestlane and K.H. Mella proposed in 1987 that Smerdyachee Lake is a meteorite crater. ... In 2002, the Laboratory of Meteoritics of the Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences explored this mysterious lake. ...

... This project is lead by Dr Brian Schmidt and aims to measure the ultimate fate of the Universe: Will the Universe expand forever, or will gravity eventually halt its expansion, and send it crashing into the "gnaB giB" the "Big Bang" in reverse? ... Measuring distances in the Universe is extremely difficult, but by comparing the relative brightnesses of SN Ia, it is possible to measure a distance to a single object with a precision of about 7%. ... SN 1997ck, the most distant star yet discovered . ...