Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Solar System . ... Posted on March 28, 2014 | No Comments Asteroids, chunks of rock and metal orbiting the Sun, were once considered ?vermin of the skies? by astronomers. ... Continue Reading.. ... Posted on February 27, 2014 | ... Posted on January 21, 2014 | ... Posted on December 17, 2013 | ... 3 Comments With only two planets in our solar system without moons (Mercury and Venus) our curiosity is a little spoilt for choice. ...

... The closer galaxy's gravity will act like a huge lens , pulling images of the background galaxy around both sides. ... The distorted galaxy is said to appear as an Einstein ring , named after Albert Einstein who accurately predicted many attributes of the gravitational lens effect -- although he also guessed that such an effect was unlikely to be seen in practice. ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ... Abell 2218: A Galaxy Cluster Lens . Dark Matter Ring Modeled around Galaxy Cluster CL0024 17 . ...

... Things that I can't see, I'll touch and I'll feel then I'll kiss. Then I saw you standing there With a smile I couldn't share, Just looking around ev'rywhere. ... Just reach out and catch and hold on, Leaving trails of dust and lust, Never even ly'ng or try'ng, keep on moving, never dying. ... Smiles that I don't see, I'll make them up as I go on. ... I'll ask her for some time to go and look around; She puts the sweetness in with a sound. ... Going home, He fought for two years, never fell. ...

NASA's Galileo spacecraft radioed confirmation late this week that it has entered Jupiter's environment, crossing over the boundary from interplanetary space into the giant magnetic cocoon around Jupiter called the magnetosphere. ... On Thursday, December 7, Galileo's previously deployed atmospheric probe will plunge into Jupiter's cloud tops at 5:56 p.m. EST and descend into the giant planet on a parachute. ... Jupiter's magnetosphere is like a giant bubble around the planet. ...

Galileo Crosses Boundary Into Jupiter's Environment . NASA's Galileo spacecraft radioed confirmation late this week that it has entered Jupiter's environment, crossing over the boundary from interplanetary space into the giant magnetic cocoon around Jupiter called the magnetosphere. ... On Thursday, December 7, Galileo's previously deployed atmospheric probe will plunge into Jupiter's cloud tops at 5:56 p.m. EST and descend into the giant planet on a parachute. ... Space History Galileo . ...

... Please find below the final programme of the workshop. Each regular talk will be 20 minutes long plus another 10 minutes for questions and discussion at the end. On Friday there will be a pizza lunch combined with an informal discussion session kindly facilitated by John Dickey and Felix J. Lockman. ... Coffee . ... Magnetic Fields in the Thick Disk of the Milky Way . ... Highly Ionized Plasma in High-Velocity Clouds . ... Limits on the Hot Diffuse Galactic Halo . ... John Dickey . ...

... December 23, 1998 . Ring Around the Galaxy . ... Explanation: It is difficult to hide one galaxy far behind another. The closer galaxy's gravity will act like a huge lens , pulling images of the background galaxy around both sides. This is just the case observed in the above recently released image from the VLT : the red galaxy in the middle is in the foreground, lensing the image of the background green galaxy into surrounding contorted arcs . ... About APOD > . ...

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... It was shown in the early 1980's that spectral lines formed around 1-2.5 x 10 5 K were enhanced in radiance by factors up to 15-25 over the normal quiet Sun. From the dynamical viewpoint, this would suggest a pressure imbalance between the sunspot and the surrounding region. ... Here, the electron density was evaluated over a bright sunspot plume region using lines within the O V 760? multiplet. ... The derived densities in all four regions are indicated. ...

... The Cross-Quarter Days thus mark the middle of each season under our current system, or seasonal boundaries under the alternative system. ... Beltane / Bealtaine - Celtic bonfire festival May 4-7 2nd Cross-Quarter Day May 5 - Cinco de Mayo (Mexico) May 2nd Sunday - Mother's Day May last Monday - Memorial Day ( Decoration Day , officially May 30) June 14 - Flag Day June 3rd Sunday - Father's Day June 20-22 2nd Quarter Day - Summer Solstice June 21 - Litha (Norse/Anglo-Saxon for ...

... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... ESO's Governing Bodies . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Galaxies . ... Star Clusters . ... Stars@ESO . ... ESO 3.6-metre telescope . ... MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope . ... ESO 1-metre Schmidt telescope . ... On the right, an artist's impression is provided of the thick, massive torus of matter surrounding the star as inferred from observations made with ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer. ...

The First Law (1): Energy is Conserved in a closed system: . ... We usually consider work and heat flow as the two kinds of energy . The Second Law (2): The Law of Entropy: . ... The amount of disorder increases . ... You can not go from a disordered system to an ordered system without inputting more energy (this is the most important attribute of the second law) . ... In no way can we recover work of that this disordered system without putting energy into the system. ... More on Thermodynamics . ...

Participants about project . ... makes the world a welcoming place. ... we see it shared by those who love it. ... us more aware of our own community when we shared it . with the schools around the world. ... pleased my students chose to share the feelings of . ... Our town cannot grow much as it is like an island with . other communities growning around it. ... diverse, with many Mexican people recently adding to . ... Our town is old and the new City Building looked a bit . ... city. ...

... A steel needle stroked with such a "lodestone" became "magnetic" as well, and around 1000 the Chinese found that such a needle, when freely suspended, pointed north-south. ... On Earth one needs a sensitive needle to detect magnetic forces, and out in space they are usually much, much weaker. ... More about magnetism . ... We can trace in space (in our imagination, at least!) the lines one obtains when one "follows the direction of the compass needle." ... Compass needles outlining field lines . ...

The Mars Flag has a different design on the reverse side. obverse side of flag . ... The orbit lines on the obverse cross the Sun on the lower half of the flag and appear to go behind the Sun on the upper half of the flag. The reverse side has the orbits lines continuing around the Sun on the upper half of the flag. ... The Mars Flag reverse side is a continuation of the obverse side and not just a different design on the back and not a mirror image of the obverse. Main Flag Background Color . ...

... The school and the conference will be held at the Poncelet Laboratory for all days except from December 7 . ... The nearest metro station is СМОЛЕНСКАЯ (Smolenskaya), line 3 , 5 minutes by walk. ... How to reach Poncelet Laboratory from these metro stations. ... It is located within 15 minutes by feet from АКАДЕМИЧЕСКАЯ (Akademicheskaya) metro station, line 6 . ... There are a lot of exchange offices where you can exchange euro or US dollars to rubles. ...

... For the past years I have been working on the problem of synthesis of light curves of close binary systems, consisting of a normal star and a compact object (point object with fixed X-ray luminosity). ... Possible existence of a bright spot on the disk's lateral surface is taken into account. ... The last of then will be published in Gordon and Breach Publishers ( Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ... Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ...

... HUBBLE UNCOVERS DUST DISK AROUND A MASSIVE BLACK HOLE . Resembling a gigantic hubcap in space, a 3,700 light-year-diameter dust disk encircles a 300 million solar-mass black hole in the center of the elliptical galaxy NGC 7052. ... Because the jets in NGC 7052 are not perpendicular to the disk, it may indicate that the black hole and the dust disk in NGC 7052 do not have a common origin. ... NGC 7052 is located in the constellation of Vulpecula, 191 million light-years from Earth. ...

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