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... at 3.07 days and uncovered a transit-like signal from five partial events, with a large depth that nevertheless corresponds to a planet-sized object once the colours of the star indicated it was a potential M0 dwarf. The star was catalogued for spectroscopic follow-up on 2011 May 09, and the first r ...
... at 3.07 days and uncovered a transit-like signal from five partial events, with a large depth that nevertheless corresponds to a planet-sized object once the colours of the star indicated it was a potential M0 dwarf. The star was catalogued for spectroscopic follow-up on 2011 May 09, and the first r ...
SWFAS August 16 Newsletter - Southwest Florida Astronomical
... see both Jupiter and Venus on the 27th as they pass within 0.2o of each other. This month offers our last good views of Jupiter for this year. Mars dims this month as it crosses from Libra to Scorpius. On evenings of 23rd and 24th Mars travels between Saturn and Antares. Nice chance for a comparison ...
... see both Jupiter and Venus on the 27th as they pass within 0.2o of each other. This month offers our last good views of Jupiter for this year. Mars dims this month as it crosses from Libra to Scorpius. On evenings of 23rd and 24th Mars travels between Saturn and Antares. Nice chance for a comparison ...
FORMATION AND ORBIT OF HOT JUPITERS 1 Formation and Orbit
... There are two main theories for the creation of Hot Jupiters. The more commonly accepted theory is the Migration Hypothesis. In this hypothesis, when a star still has a solar nebula, Jupiter-sized planets are formed. (Fifty percent of these planets had a companion planet nearby that had the same mas ...
... There are two main theories for the creation of Hot Jupiters. The more commonly accepted theory is the Migration Hypothesis. In this hypothesis, when a star still has a solar nebula, Jupiter-sized planets are formed. (Fifty percent of these planets had a companion planet nearby that had the same mas ...
April 2006 Newsletter PDF - Cowichan Valley Starfinders Society
... Big Bang, a massive star exhausted its fuel, collapsed as a black hole, and exploded as a gamma ray burst. The radiation from this catastrophic event has only now reached Earth, and astronomers are using it to peer back to the earliest moments of the Universe. The burst, named GRB 050904, was observ ...
... Big Bang, a massive star exhausted its fuel, collapsed as a black hole, and exploded as a gamma ray burst. The radiation from this catastrophic event has only now reached Earth, and astronomers are using it to peer back to the earliest moments of the Universe. The burst, named GRB 050904, was observ ...
First Light for May, 2001 - South Bay Astronomical Society
... a lot of faint objects. I started out hunting through all the different globular clusters that swarm around the galactic core like moths around a light. Many were small and faint, but some were small yet very bright. I was way late getting around to M5 which, even though low, was still magnificent. ...
... a lot of faint objects. I started out hunting through all the different globular clusters that swarm around the galactic core like moths around a light. Many were small and faint, but some were small yet very bright. I was way late getting around to M5 which, even though low, was still magnificent. ...
File - Mr. Gray`s Class
... – Sometimes planets appear to begin moving “backward” or eastward across the night sky. This is called Retrograde motion. Please not that if you look these words up, the directions will be backwards because Astronomers pretend like you are living on the planet looking out. For our purposes we defi ...
... – Sometimes planets appear to begin moving “backward” or eastward across the night sky. This is called Retrograde motion. Please not that if you look these words up, the directions will be backwards because Astronomers pretend like you are living on the planet looking out. For our purposes we defi ...
January 2016 - Newbury Astronomical Society
... Giant stars like Rigel and Betelgeuse destroy themselves dramatically in a massive super nova explosion but smaller stars like our Sun reach their end in a much less dramatic way. With less pressure and heat in their core they cannot fuse atoms heavier than Helium to create the heavier elements. The ...
... Giant stars like Rigel and Betelgeuse destroy themselves dramatically in a massive super nova explosion but smaller stars like our Sun reach their end in a much less dramatic way. With less pressure and heat in their core they cannot fuse atoms heavier than Helium to create the heavier elements. The ...
21trans-neptunian2s
... The Known Kuiper Belt There are now hundreds of known Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) ...
... The Known Kuiper Belt There are now hundreds of known Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) ...
intergalactic move
... Galaxies are described based on the way they look. There are three main types of galaxies called ellipticals, spirals, and galaxies that don’t really have a recognisable shape, called irregulars. ...
... Galaxies are described based on the way they look. There are three main types of galaxies called ellipticals, spirals, and galaxies that don’t really have a recognisable shape, called irregulars. ...
Physical Science Laboratory: Skyglobe
... . to be able to identify Polaris, Vega, Sirius, and other prominent stars. . to be able to describe the Sun’s movement across the sky during the equinoxes and solstices. . to identify a few of the major constellations such as Ursa Major, Ursa Minor, Cassiopia, Orion and the Zodiac. . to be able to u ...
... . to be able to identify Polaris, Vega, Sirius, and other prominent stars. . to be able to describe the Sun’s movement across the sky during the equinoxes and solstices. . to identify a few of the major constellations such as Ursa Major, Ursa Minor, Cassiopia, Orion and the Zodiac. . to be able to u ...
The first cool rocky/icy exoplanet
... Telescope at Las Campanas Observatory (Chile), and the MOA (Microlensing Observation in Astrophysics) collaboration, using their 1.8 m telescope at Mt John Observatory (New Zealand), monitor more than 100 million stars daily. Online data analysis allows them to issue public alerts on about 1000 micr ...
... Telescope at Las Campanas Observatory (Chile), and the MOA (Microlensing Observation in Astrophysics) collaboration, using their 1.8 m telescope at Mt John Observatory (New Zealand), monitor more than 100 million stars daily. Online data analysis allows them to issue public alerts on about 1000 micr ...
October - Sonoma County Astronomical Society
... Capodimonte in Naples, Italy. This newly discovered extrasolar planet is more than 3 times as large as Jupiter. It used to orbit its star, called V391 Pegasi, at about the same distance that Earth is from the sun. V391 Pegasi belongs to a rare class of stars, called B-type subdwarfs. It started out ...
... Capodimonte in Naples, Italy. This newly discovered extrasolar planet is more than 3 times as large as Jupiter. It used to orbit its star, called V391 Pegasi, at about the same distance that Earth is from the sun. V391 Pegasi belongs to a rare class of stars, called B-type subdwarfs. It started out ...
ph709-15
... and 1.9 times that of Earth. Theoretical modelling of two of these superEarths, Kepler-62e and Kepler-62f, suggests both could be solid, either rocky or rocky with frozen water. On June 25, 2013 Three “super Earth” planets have been found orbiting a nearby star at a distance where life in theory cou ...
... and 1.9 times that of Earth. Theoretical modelling of two of these superEarths, Kepler-62e and Kepler-62f, suggests both could be solid, either rocky or rocky with frozen water. On June 25, 2013 Three “super Earth” planets have been found orbiting a nearby star at a distance where life in theory cou ...
15_LectureOutline
... Kuiper-belt objects have been detected from Earth recently; a few are as large as, or larger than, Pluto, and their composition appears similar. ...
... Kuiper-belt objects have been detected from Earth recently; a few are as large as, or larger than, Pluto, and their composition appears similar. ...
15.6 Planets Beyond the Solar System
... them of the sort that can now be detected. They are mostly gas giants like Jupiter, but closer to star. Why didn’t our Jupiter migrate? Nearly all of these have been discovered using the radial velocity method. This method (and most other methods) miss planets far from their stars, so can’t tell how ...
... them of the sort that can now be detected. They are mostly gas giants like Jupiter, but closer to star. Why didn’t our Jupiter migrate? Nearly all of these have been discovered using the radial velocity method. This method (and most other methods) miss planets far from their stars, so can’t tell how ...
PLANETS
... The Kepler instrument 0.95-meter diameter telescope. It has a very large field of view for an astronomical telescope —105 square degrees— or about the area of both your hands held at arm's length, in order to observe the necessary large number of stars. It stares at the same star field for the entir ...
... The Kepler instrument 0.95-meter diameter telescope. It has a very large field of view for an astronomical telescope —105 square degrees— or about the area of both your hands held at arm's length, in order to observe the necessary large number of stars. It stares at the same star field for the entir ...
The Planetarium Fleischmann Planetarium
... corner of the universe by NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer. These massive galaxies greatly resemble newborn galaxies that were common in the early universe. The discovery came as a surprise, because astronomers had thought that the universe’s “birth-rate” had declined, and that massive galaxies were ...
... corner of the universe by NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer. These massive galaxies greatly resemble newborn galaxies that were common in the early universe. The discovery came as a surprise, because astronomers had thought that the universe’s “birth-rate” had declined, and that massive galaxies were ...
An Earth-sized Planet in the Habitable Zone of a
... places Kepler-186f in the stellar habitable zone, implying that if Kepler-186f has an Earth-like atmosphere and H2O at its surface, then some of this H2O is likely to be in liquid form. ...
... places Kepler-186f in the stellar habitable zone, implying that if Kepler-186f has an Earth-like atmosphere and H2O at its surface, then some of this H2O is likely to be in liquid form. ...
StarWalkKiDS manual en
... • Solar system bodies (planets, the Sun, the Moon) • Movies about all the planets, most known constellations and satellites • Black hole Cygnus X-1 and movie about it • There are hundreds of objects with voiced facts Star Walk™ Kids has many useful and easy-to-use features: Star Spotter shows the sk ...
... • Solar system bodies (planets, the Sun, the Moon) • Movies about all the planets, most known constellations and satellites • Black hole Cygnus X-1 and movie about it • There are hundreds of objects with voiced facts Star Walk™ Kids has many useful and easy-to-use features: Star Spotter shows the sk ...
Return Visit Optimization for Planet Finding
... The best chance for repeating a detection will come either one or one-half orbital periods after an initial detection. Since the observed illumination of a planet depends on the orientation of the system, there is no guarantee that the contrast between planet and star will be greater or less at any ...
... The best chance for repeating a detection will come either one or one-half orbital periods after an initial detection. Since the observed illumination of a planet depends on the orientation of the system, there is no guarantee that the contrast between planet and star will be greater or less at any ...
ANTARES - National Optical Astronomy Observatory
... the core-collapse of a massive star, is a spectacular event. They are highly energetic and thus bright and visible over cosmological distances. Supernovae help us to understand the end states of stellar evolution (e.g., Langer, 2012), physics in extreme environments (e.g., Sukhbold & Woosley, 2016), ...
... the core-collapse of a massive star, is a spectacular event. They are highly energetic and thus bright and visible over cosmological distances. Supernovae help us to understand the end states of stellar evolution (e.g., Langer, 2012), physics in extreme environments (e.g., Sukhbold & Woosley, 2016), ...
night watch - Warren Astronomical Society
... -2The best method for determining the radius of Pluto, as it is for Neptune, is to observe a stellar occultation. It was predicted that Pluto would pass near a 15th magnitude star in 1965, and so the passage was observed very closely by several observatories to see if the star would be occulted. We ...
... -2The best method for determining the radius of Pluto, as it is for Neptune, is to observe a stellar occultation. It was predicted that Pluto would pass near a 15th magnitude star in 1965, and so the passage was observed very closely by several observatories to see if the star would be occulted. We ...
ASTRONOMY 130
... It is easier to locate a celestial object if some prominent constellation or asterism can be found and used as a reference point. Ursa Major (the Big Dipper) serves as a good reference point for the north circumpolar constellations. Locate the Big Dipper. Begin with the star at the tip of the handle ...
... It is easier to locate a celestial object if some prominent constellation or asterism can be found and used as a reference point. Ursa Major (the Big Dipper) serves as a good reference point for the north circumpolar constellations. Locate the Big Dipper. Begin with the star at the tip of the handle ...
The Planetarium Fleischmann Planetarium
... simulations of the ring’s dynamics to estimate the planet’s mass. Kalas and collaborators James R. Graham of the University of California at Berkeley and Mark Clampin of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, published their findings in the June 23, 2005 issue of the journal Nature. Fomalhaut, a 200- ...
... simulations of the ring’s dynamics to estimate the planet’s mass. Kalas and collaborators James R. Graham of the University of California at Berkeley and Mark Clampin of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, published their findings in the June 23, 2005 issue of the journal Nature. Fomalhaut, a 200- ...
Duncan Wright
... diameter on the sky (see Figure 2). The fibres are reformatted to make a pseudo slit that injects light into UCLES at resolution ~70000. Each of the 12 fibres produces it’s own spectrum that is extracted. To be capable of detecting the <10 m s-1 Doppler amplitudes expected from habitable zone planet ...
... diameter on the sky (see Figure 2). The fibres are reformatted to make a pseudo slit that injects light into UCLES at resolution ~70000. Each of the 12 fibres produces it’s own spectrum that is extracted. To be capable of detecting the <10 m s-1 Doppler amplitudes expected from habitable zone planet ...