Cosmic distance ladder

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691Parsec / Cosmic distance ladder / Light-year / Pulsar / Astronomy / Space / Parallax

The Hand of Chandra! A small, dense object only twelve miles in diameter is responsible for this beautiful X-ray nebula that spans 150 light years and resembles a

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Source URL: spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov

Language: English - Date: 2009-07-20 16:07:48
692Electromagnetic radiation / Comet / Cosmic distance ladder / Apparent magnitude / Magnitude / 103P/Hartley / Aperture / Observational astronomy / Physics / Astronomy

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Source URL: webdelprofesor.ula.ve

Language: English - Date: 2005-12-16 15:26:08
693Astrometry / Space telescopes / Exoplanetology / Star types / European Space Agency / Binary star / Cosmic distance ladder / Star / Hipparcos / Spacecraft / Astronomy / Spaceflight

THE MASS AND RADIUS OF THE UNSEEN M-DWARF COMPANION IN THE SINGLE-LINED ECLIPSING BINARY HAT-TR[removed] ´ ´ M. Ferna ´ ndez2,3 , David W. Latham2 , Ga

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Source URL: www.cfa.harvard.edu

Language: English - Date: 2007-05-01 16:17:20
694Celestial mechanics / Local Group / Spiral galaxies / Astrodynamics / Milky Way / Galaxy / Cosmic distance ladder / Semi-major axis / Star / Physics / Astronomy / Physical cosmology

106 Rotation Velocity of a Galaxy Stars orbit the center of a galaxy with speeds that decrease as their orbital distances increase. A

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Language: English - Date: 2009-12-29 14:05:56
695Exoplanetology / Space telescopes / Extrasolar planets / Transiting extrasolar planets / Hot Jupiters / Hipparcos / HD 209458 b / Kepler / Cosmic distance ladder / Astronomy / Planetary science / Space

A The Astrophysical Journal, 650:1160Y1171, 2006 October 20 # 2006. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. Printed in U.S.A. REFINED PARAMETERS OF THE PLANET ORBITING HD[removed]

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Source URL: www.cfa.harvard.edu

Language: English - Date: 2007-04-30 12:20:37
696Dorado constellation / Edwin Hubble / Lockheed Corporation / Wolf–Rayet star / Nebula / European Southern Observatory / Star formation / Large Magellanic Cloud / Cosmic distance ladder / Astronomy / Space / Hubble Space Telescope

HEIC0210: EMBARGOED UNTIL: 14:00 (CET) 12 September, 2002 Photo release: A rose blooming in space 12-September-2002 Resembling a delicate rose floating in space, the nebula N11A is seen in a new light in a true-colour im

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Source URL: www.spacetelescope.org

Language: English - Date: 2004-04-01 11:50:18
697Planetary systems / Orbit / Binary star / Solar System / Joseph Louis Lagrange / Cosmic distance ladder / Astronomy / Space / Celestial mechanics

The Astrophysical Journal, 706:L41–L45, 2009 November 20  C[removed]doi:[removed]637X[removed]L41

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Source URL: www.astro.ucla.edu

Language: English - Date: 2009-10-29 13:14:44
698Stellar evolution / Cosmic distance ladder / Astrophysics / Integral / Nebula / Ring / Mathematics / Astronomy / Planetary nebula

Modeling a Planetary Nebula Planetary nebula are the outer atmospheres of dying stars ejected into space. Astronomers model these nebulae to learn about the total mass they contain, and the details of how they were eject

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Language: English - Date: 2010-05-05 10:12:54
699Astrophysics / Stellar evolution / Standard candles / Supernova / SN 2011fe / White dwarf / Type Ia supernova / Cosmic distance ladder / Nova / Astronomy / Supernovae / Space

Chandra observatory searches for trigger of nearby supernova

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Source URL: phys.org

Language: English - Date: 2014-12-03 23:20:03
700Exoplanetology / Extrasolar planet / Kepler / HD 209458 b / Cosmic distance ladder / HATNet Project / Limb darkening / Binary star / Astronomical unit / Astronomy / Planetary science / Space

A The Astronomical Journal, 134:1707Y1712, 2007 October # 2007. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. Printed in U.S.A. THE TRANSIT LIGHT CURVE PROJECT. VII. THE NOT-SO-BLOATED EXOPLANET HAT-P-1b

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Source URL: www.cfa.harvard.edu

Language: English - Date: 2008-08-27 17:00:40
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