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In 2002, after intense reviews, the
Beijing Planetarium contracted Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) to build a digital
planetarium solution that would represent a paradigm shift in how planetariums
can become destination spots to educate and entertain visitors .
The observations also revealed the orbital period (2.219 days) and the
distance from the parent star.

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Located behind the old planetarium, the brand-new dazzling glass building
is 30 meters high, occupying 20 thousand square meters, and has three theaters
and two observatories .
Other contributing partners for SGI were Leonard Wickberg III, Hubble
Space Telescope Science Institute, NASA; Brent Tully, University of Hawaii;
University of Queensland; David Malin and the American Museum of Natural
History-New York provided the "Search for Life" show. First, they used Spitzer to collect the total infrared light from
both the star and its planet. Under optimal circumstances this same method can be used to
make a crude temperature map of the planet itself. Science
operations are conducted at the Spitzer Science Center at Caltech.

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SGI also provided 580GB of SGI(R) InfiniteStorage
TP9100 and TP900 systems, enough to run two playback and two real-time shows., and can be found on the Web
at http://www.
The planet "HD 189733b" orbits a star that is a near cosmic neighbor to
our sun, at a distance of 63 light years in the direction of the Dumbbell
Nebula. To distinguish
the planet's glow from its hot parent star, the astronomers used an elegant
method.Y.

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Such close proximity keeps
the planet roasting at about 844 Celsius (about 1,551 Fahrenheit), according
to the team's measurement.
Last year, Deming's team and another group based at the Harvard-
Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics used Spitzer to make the first direct
detection of light from alien worlds , by observing the warm infrared glows of
two other previously detected "Hot Jupiter" planets, designated HD 209458b and
TrES-1.

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The world's
first digital all-dome laser-projected real-time planetarium is powered by a
Zeiss All Dome Laser Image Projection system driven by SGI(R) Onyx(R)
visualization computers.
To enhance the entertainment and educational value even further, the
planetarium has been equipped with a special interactive digital audience
voting system built into the armrest of each of the 200 seats. This unique
installation is now linked to the immense resources of the Virtual Science
Network, a group of scientists and researchers, all of whom are SGI customers
that exchange and contribute an amazing variety of visualization content
developed on the SGI platform to museums, science centers and educational
outreach institutions., manages the Spitzer
Space Telescope mission for the agency's Science Mission Directorate.

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Indiana University, Dr. This will be the first time that visitors will be able to
see visualization of the heliosphere. Whether it's sharing images to aid in brain surgery, finding oil
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"Our direct measurement confirms this estimate ," said Deming.

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Since its founding in 1957, the Beijing Planetarium has played a national
role in Chinese astronomical education resulting in many textbooks,
audiovisual aids and scientific works. Priscilla Frisch of the Department of Astronomy
and Astrophysics, University of Chicago and SGI produced the "Solar Journey"
show, a NASA-funded production that was specially created for the Beijing
Planetarium Dome.
The interactivity of the SGI Digital Space Theatre means visitors can have
an entirely unique experience. The latest
innovations in automotive and aerospace design, surgical procedures, modeling
of biological molecules or virtual reconstructions of heritage sites can all
be brought into the dome.26 times
Jupiter's diameter), mass (1.
Infrared light is invisible to the human eye, but detectable by special
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an experience that's truly out of this world, visitors to the 2008 Summer
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temperature is too high for liquid water to exist on the planet or any moons
it might have. Since known forms of life require liquid water, it is unlikely
to have emerged there.
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percent of the distance between Earth and the sun.

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For science accuracy and expertise , SGI collaborated with
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The SGI architecture allows the entire dome
display to be controlled from a wireless PDA so that even a child can visit
constellations or tour the galaxies with the press of a button.

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The findings allowed
the team to "take the temperature" of the planet. Then, when the planet dipped behind the star as
part of its regular orbit, the astronomers measured the infrared light coming
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application that can be used to run real-time shows and also create new shows. "The current
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The dome is powered by a 24 -processor SGI Onyx visualization system with
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dedicated texture memory.
"The new Beijing Planetarium also includes the Beijing Ancient Observatory
which has eight astronomical instruments from the Qing Dynasty and is located
near the Jian Guo Gate. This new world-class planetarium preserves our past
while providing a window to the future," said a Beijing Planetarium
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This real-time database of our known Universe will keep growing as we make
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"This is the closest extrasolar planet to Earth that has ever been
detected directly, and it presents the strongest heat emission ever seen from
an exoplanet ," said Drake Deming of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center,
Greenbelt, Md. The low density indicates the planet is a gas giant
like Jupiter.

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Hot Jupiter planets
are alien gas giants that zip closely around their parent stars, like HD
189733b.
"The heat signal from this planet is so strong that Spitzer was able to
resolve its disk, in the sense that our team could tell we were seeing a round
object in the data, not a mere point of light," said Deming.

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sgi.com.15 times Jupiter), and density (about 0.; Sara Seager, Carnegie Institution of Washington; and Jeremy Richardson,
NASA Postdoctoral Fellow at Goddard , in the Exoplanets and Stellar
Astrophysics Laboratory.

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Presenters are
able to move seamlessly between real-time and playback mode, simulating events
such as eclipses and the passage of comets to create new shows to immerse,
entertain, and educate audiences. Through the Virtual Science Network , Beijing
Planetarium audiences will be connected to endless worlds of discovery., A NASA-led team of astronomers
have used NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope to detect a strong flow of heat
radiation from a toasty planet orbiting a nearby star.
The planet was discovered last year by Francois Bouchy of the Marseille
Astrophysics Laboratory, France, and his team.

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Deming's team includes Joseph Harrington, Cornell University, Ithaca,
N.

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The heliosphere, roughly twice the size
of the orbit of Pluto, is shown in the dome powering its way smoothly through
interstellar medium and sheltering the solar system from much of its dust and
gases. "SGI Reality Center environments have been
deployed all around the world in a vast variety of areas. An advance copy of the
paper will be posted on the astro-ph website on Feb. Some infrared light is perceived as heat.

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Arriving on the second floor by escalator, visitors can
see the 200-seat SGI Digital Space Theatre with its 18-meter dome, tilted 15
degrees.75 grams
per cubic centimeter).
Deming's team used the same method to observe HD 189733b.