... 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). ...

... Events . ... Webcasts . ... Presenter: Matt Mountain . Duration: 10 Minutes . Event date: 2007/11/13 . Matt's presentation . Presenter: Steve Kahn . Duration: 25 min . ... Presenter: Richard Ellis . ... Presenter: Jim Crocker, Tim Heckman, Colleen Hartman, Pat Looney . ... Harvey's presentation . ... Presenter: Wes Traub . ... Wes' presentation . ... Presenter: Wes Traub, Harvey Tananbaum, Rachel Somerville, Marc Postman, Mario Livio . Duration: 1 hour 20 min . ...

... Assignments 4, 5 and 6 all involve the imaginary world of Ziggy. ... Each week, you should write a short executive briefing to Captain Howard, explaining to her what you have learned from that week's data. ... A 500 word limit applies to each briefing you submit. You will submit three briefing papers (due dates below): one for each data release. ... First briefing due (Assignment 4). 2nd data set released. ... Second briefing due (Assignment 5). 3rd and final data set released. ...

Next: Release of 1 Aug. Up: Old Releases Previous: Release of 18 Nov. ... Fixed 5 Aug 1997. RCW. ... 5 Aug 1997. ... Because of the digital patch panel at the VLA and the effort by sched to understand which IFs are needed to support the specified phasing modes (VL, VR, and VA), CHNSTA is no longer needed. ... Add barrel=roll_off to the vsop setup files. ... 15Aug1997. ... Protect against requesting VLBI in non-VLBI modes at the VLA. ... Fixed keeping track of use of VLA modes. ...

... SciSim release covered by this note . ... Data-Analysis-with-SAS in a simple and standardised way, and should allow calibration experts to re-assess the reliability of the different elements of XMM-Newton simulations. ... Also, a release of all calibration files to be used in the reduction, through the SAS, of SciSim generated data, is coordinated with this release. ... Furthermore, two SAS tasks (odffix and epicproc) had to be updated to make possible a proper SAS data reduction of simulated data. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 6.01.2014 . ... Credit Copyright: Expedition 38 Crew , NASA Explanation: Cubes are orbiting the Earth. ... Pictured above , three CubeSats were released from the International Space Station (ISS) last November by the arm of the Japan ese Kibo Laboratory module. ... Depending on the exact height of their release, CubeSats will re-enter the Earth's atmosphere on the time scale of months to years. ... Publications with keywords: ISS . Publications with words: ISS . ...

... General information . ... Staff . Research staff . ... Information . ... Historical highlights . Historical research . ... This process is thought to occur in circumstellar disks of gas and dust around young stars on rather short timescales : infrared surveys show that the number of low mass stars with disks drops dramatically for stars older than 10 Myr, suggesting that in order to form large solids before the disk disperses, the growth process has to take place within a few million years. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Solar System . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... By admin January 21, 2011 Posted in: Robot Exploration . A UFO hovers in the Martian sky (Image credit:NASA/JPL) . The car-sized Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity is too heavy to slam into the rocky plains of Mars encased in airbags like its predecessors, so this imaginative and complex system was devised instead. ... Is there a video anywhere on the internet of a test of the ?sky crane? rockets? ...

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE . ... The Primary Expedition 7 crew International Space Station (ISS) - Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko (ISS-7 commander, Soyuz TMA-2 commander), American astronaut Edward Lu (ISS-7 flight engineer, Soyuz TMA-2 flight engineer-1) - and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut, Visiting Expedition 5 (VE-5) flight engineer, Soyuz TMA-2 flight engineer-2 Pedro Duquer of Spain have returned to Earth in the Descent Module (DM) of the Soyuz TMA-2 spacecraft. ...

Intricately structured filaments of gas and dust compose the reflection nebula seen around the Pleiades star cluster. These multiwavelength images were presented to the American Astronomical Society meeting in San Antonio, TX on January 16, 1996. Click here for the press release text . ... The Schmidt data were processed further after this photo release; better versions are now available.] Get image: 512x512 (56k) / 1024x1024 (204k) . Pleiades Far-Infrared Heated Dust Emission . ...

... Stellar Evolution is driven entirely by the never ending battle between Pressure and Gravity . As imbalances are reached, the star is driven to find a new Energy source. ... Pressure and gravitational forces are equal, the star is stable and its core is sufficiently hot to fuse Hydrogen into Helium More about main sequence stars . ... The luminosity generated by the core fusion of Helium into Carbon is far greater than the shell luminosity associated with the fusion of Hydrogen into Helium. ...

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SAOtng 1.9 is a major release in which the original Xt-based XPA 1.0 messaging system has been redesigned and reimplemented. ... Here are a list of changes to xpa that will be of interest to users of SAOtng: . ... If you are running SAOtng on one machine and using xpaset and xpaget on another, please read the XPA documentation on access control in saord/xpa-2.0/doc/acl.html or http://hea-www.harvard.edu/RD/xpa/acl.html. ... xpaset SAOtng fits . ... Review of Changes for Release 1.8 here . ...

Astronomical Society of the Pacific Announces its 2011 Award Recipients in Astronomy Research and Education . The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) today announces the winners of its 2011 awards for excellence in astronomy research and education. ... The Richard H. Emmons Award for excellence in the teaching of college-level introductory astronomy for non-science majors goes to Dr. Douglas Duncan of the University of Colorado and the Fiske Planetarium in Boulder, Colorado. ...

... 2MASS Overview . The 2MASS Sky . Executive Summary of 2MASS Second Incremental Data Products . Point Source Catalog . Extended Source Catalog . ... Distribution Mode for 2MASS Products . Data Release Plan . ... Point Source Catalog (PSC) . Extended Source Catalog (XSC) . ... 2MASS Source Naming Convention . ... General Properties of the Data Release . ... Comparison of Achieved Performance of Second Incremental Release Catalogs with Level 1 Science Specification . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Sky this Month . ... Sky Guide . ... Study sheds light on formation of atmospheres in terrestrial planets . The way carbon moves from within a planet to the surface plays a big role in the evolution of a planetт??s atmosphere. ... A new study of how carbon is trapped and released by iron-rich volcanic magma offers clues about the early atmospheric evolution on Mars and other terrestrial bodies. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...

Galushina T., Bykova L., Letner O., Baturin A. Tomsk State University Russia 1 Investigation Dynamics Asteroid of of 2 Solving problems construction of numerical model of asteroid motion with account chosen perturbed factors; asteroid orbit improvement according to positional observations; construction of initial probabilistic domain by linear and nonlinear methods; study of evolution of initial probabilistic domain; revealing of ...

... This page contains links to delay line Final Design Review documents which have been released by Cavendish Laboratory. ... System Overview . Trolley Mechanical Design Description [to be updated] . ... Trolley Electronics Design Description [updated 2008/01/28] . Limits Design Description [to be updated] . ... Metrology System & VME Hardware Design Description (INT-406-VEN-0113) . ... Printable View of http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/projects/OAS/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/MROIDelayLine/ReleasedFDRDocuments) ...

... 8, ``Celestial Mechanics'', 2002 Dynamic evolution of resonance orbits of exoplanets in system 47 Uma B. R. Mushailov, A. A. Kaloshin Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow, Russia The orbits of the major and minor planets of the Solar system indicate that their dynamic evolution is essentially influenced by the effects of orbital reso­ nance interactions. ... One may expect that the orbital resonances can exist not only in the Solar system, but also in other star systems. ...