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...upon the length of the year, the distance from the Earth to the Sun (an [[astronomical unit]] or AU), and the [[gravitational constant]] (''G''). ...allax|diurnal parallax]] of the [[Sun]] was accurately measured during the transits of Venus in 1761 and 1769, yielding a value of 9″ (compared to the present ...

Kepler-1708b orbits about 1.64&nbsp;[[astronomical units]] from its host star and completes one revolution every {{convert|737 ...exomoon manifesting as faint, secondary transits accompanying the planet's transits.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Scientists think they've found a big, weird moon in ...

...n the [[light curve]]s of the star. Specifically, the dips caused by the [[astronomical transit|transiting]] planet change in depth from transit to transit, and ar ...ON A 22 hr ORBIT | journal=The Astrophysical Journal | publisher=American Astronomical Society | volume=784 | issue=1 | date=2014-03-03 | issn=0004-637X | doi=10. ...

...471 | title = The Eclipsing Precataclysmic Binary RR Caeli | journal = The Astronomical Journal | volume = 116 | issue = 2 | pages = 908–916 | year = 1998 | bibcod ...in 1984. There are very shallow secondary eclipses where the white dwarf transits across the red dwarf.<ref name="Bruch"/> ...

...d Transit Photometric Observations |journal = Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society|volume = |doi = 10.1093/mnras/stac620 |doi-access = free |arxiv = ...nd Optical Nightside Emission from the Exoplanet WASP-33b |journal = [[The Astronomical Journal]] |volume = 160 |issue = 2 |page = 93 |arxiv = 2006.10743 |bibcode ...

...ist's conception of the Kepler-46 system showing the two planets. Planet b transits its star, the same method by which it was detected.<!--include notice http: ...=Shay |last4=Fabrycky |first4=Daniel |journal=Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |volume=505 |issue=1 |pages=1293–1310 |doi-access=free |bibcode=202 ...

...he observer's geographic [[latitude]]. The time when the Sun [[culmination|transits]] the observer's [[meridian (astronomy)|meridian]] depends on the geographi ...ref name="Meeus-transformation">{{cite book |first=Jean |last=Meeus |title=Astronomical Algorithms |publisher=Willmann Bell, Inc. |location=Richmond, VA |date=1991 ...

...[new moon|young crescent moon]] first becomes visible, at evening, after [[Astronomical conjunction|conjunction]] with the Sun one or two days before that evening ...nowrap|29 d 19 h 54 min}}).<ref>{{Cite book |last=Meeus |first=Jean |title=Astronomical Algorithms |publisher=Willmann-Bell |year=1991 |page=324}}</ref> ...

...e connecting the [[apsis|apsides]] (line of apsides) of an [[orbiting body|astronomical body]]'s [[orbit]]. The apsides are the orbital points farthest (apoapsis) ....| journal=Nature| volume=444 Supplement| title=Decoding the ancient Greek astronomical calculator known as the Antikythera Mechanism| bibcode=2006Natur.444..587F| ...

The only known planet [[Astronomical transit|transit]]s the star; this means that the planet's orbit appear to c ...

...round. This shift is the apex angle in an [[isosceles triangle]], with 2 [[astronomical unit|AU]] (the distance between the extreme positions of Earth's orbit arou ...tars in the [[Milky Way]] disk, this corresponds to a mean baseline of 4 [[astronomical unit|AU]] per year, while for halo stars the baseline is 40 AU per year. Af ...

...reported their newly discovered TNO satellites to the [[Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams]], which announced their discovery of Vanth alongside three other ...or the satellite, with the best one to be submitted to the [[International Astronomical Union]] (IAU) on 5 April.<ref name="MBP-Mar09"/> The name [[Vanth]], the wi ...

...ly form of [[Cave painting|cave markings]] and drawings, [[calendar]]s and astronomical symbols. Then books and written records became the main source of informati ===Pythagorean astronomical system=== ...

...TRAPPIST-North in [[Oukaïmeden Observatory]], Morocco, the [[South African Astronomical Observatory]], and the [[Liverpool Telescope]]s and [[William Herschel Tele ...|polarisation]] they induce in its radiation during [[astronomical transit|transits]] of its planets.{{sfn|Miles-Páez|Zapatero Osorio|Pallé|Metchev|2019|p=38}} ...

...ED SOLAR AND PLANETARY QUANTITIES: IAU 2015 RESOLUTION B3 * † |journal=The Astronomical Journal |volume=152 |issue=2 |page=41 |arxiv=1605.09788 |bibcode=2016AJ.... ...9|title=On the Parallax of α Centauri|journal=Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society|volume=4|issue=19 |pages=168–170|doi=10.1093/mnras/4.19.168 |bibcod ...