Astronomy 111: the Solar system and its origin
University of Rochester, fall semester 2008


(NASA/SSC)


(NASA/SSC)

Animations by Robert Hurt, SSC.

Features of current interest (archive)

Cryo-tectonic activity on Enceladus? (12/22/20008)
Ice ages on Mars? (12/05/2008)
Great CopCam video footage of large fireball meteor in Alberta. (11/25/2008) Meteorites found! (11/29/2008)
UR Prof. Alice Quillen correctly predicted the existence and position of a planet within Fomalhaut's debris disk (10/1/2006)...
...that has now been revealed directly in HST images (11/13/2008), and announced without mention of the prediction. Usually scientists are more careful than this about giving due credit.
Few saw this coming, though: direct image of three giant planets in orbit around the nearby A star HR 8799. (11/13/2008)

Astronomy Picture of the Day:

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