The survey of the Orion Nebula revealed 13 free-floating planets and over 100 young brown dwarfs. The discovery was made by Dr. Philip Lucas and Dr. Patrick Roche using a new camera on the UK Infrared Telescope in Hawaii. The Orion Nebula is a region where new stars are forming.
The Stargazing Guide, a collaborative project by the BBC and Open University provides beginners with information and facts on the practice of stargazing.
There's a whole world of incredible wonders above your head, isn't it time you looked up?
The Stargazing Guide, a collaborative project by the BBC and Open University provides beginners with information and facts on the practice of stargazing.
There's a whole world of incredible wonders above your head, isn't it time you looked up?
Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest planet in the Solar System, after Jupiter. Saturn is named after the Roman god Saturn, equated to the Greek Cronus (the Titan father of Zeus), the Babylonian Ninurta and the Hindu Shani.
This is the presentation I gave to my committee following my IRB approval. It is a defense of my study, and was conducted to get my committee's feedback prior to beginning my study.
Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest planet in the Solar System, after Jupiter. Saturn is named after the Roman god Saturn, equated to the Greek Cronus (the Titan father of Zeus), the Babylonian Ninurta and the Hindu Shani.
This is the presentation I gave to my committee following my IRB approval. It is a defense of my study, and was conducted to get my committee's feedback prior to beginning my study.
A short glimpse of geology of the planet Mars. Good for undergraduate and post-graduate students of geology, geography, earth and planetary sciences, astronomy.
The twin Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft are exploring where nothing from Earth has flown before. Continuing on their more-than-40-year journey since their 1977 launches, they each are much farther away from Earth and the sun than Pluto. In August 2012, Voyager 1 made the historic entry into interstellar space, the region between stars, filled with material ejected by the death of nearby stars millions of years ago. Voyager 2 entered interstellar space on November 5, 2018 and scientists hope to learn more about this region. Both spacecraft are still sending scientific information about their surroundings through the Deep Space Network, or DSN.
The primary mission was the exploration of Jupiter and Saturn. After making a string of discoveries there — such as active volcanoes on Jupiter's moon Io and intricacies of Saturn's rings — the mission was extended. Voyager 2 went on to explore Uranus and Neptune, and is still the only spacecraft to have visited those outer planets. The adventurers' current mission, the Voyager Interstellar Mission (VIM), will explore the outermost edge of the Sun's domain. And beyond.
1. Planets & Moon by Stewart Fitzgerald The most sensitive survey ever undertaken of the region in the Orion Nebula where new stars are forming has revealed 13 "free-floating planets" as well as more than one hundred very young brown dwarfs. The discovery was made by Dr Philip Lucas of the University of Hertfordshire and Dr Patrick Roche of the University of Oxford using a new camera on the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) in Hawaii.