... We can help students grasp the significance of Hubble's extremely keen eye, and learn a bit about angles and math in the process, with the following in-class activity. ... Looking through binoculars or telescopes allows us to magnify a small section of the sky. To measure sizes or distances in that small section, astronomers divide a degree into 60 smaller pieces called arcminutes, and further subdivide minutes into 60 smaller sections called arcseconds. ... 30 feet = . ... 36 seconds . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Bright planets meet at dusk . ... Astronomy magazine subscribers can read the full article for free. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter....

... Shiny NGC 253 is one of the brightest spiral galaxies visible, and also one of the dustiest. ... Cosmic Crab Nebula . ... The Crab Pulsar, a city-sized, magnetized neutron star spinning 30 times a second, lies at the center of this tantalizing wide-field image of the Crab Nebula. A spectacular picture of one of our Milky Way's supernova remnants, it combines optical survey data with X-ray data from the orbiting Chandra Observatory. ... Cave with Aurora Skylight . ... A Solar Filament Erupts . ...

... Armagh Observatory received many telephone and internet reports from members of the public regarding sightings of a bright meteor or fireball which crossed over Northern Ireland in the early morning of Sunday, 10th October. ... Account: I was driving on the main Armagh/Portadown Road travelling towards Richhill when the sky in front of me was lit up by a couple of very bright flashes of light which were followed by a trail of white light. ... The trail faded over approximately 20 seconds. ...

... On some space shuttle missions, there are opportunities for observers in the continental United States and Hawaii to see the orbiter fly overhead. ... The second item is a Space Shuttle Mission Chart, which is a Mercator projection map of the world with the orbiter's orbits superimposed on Earth's surface. ... Shuttles are launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, which is at a latitude of 28.5њ north. ... NASA Johnson Space Center . ... You will see that Shuttle orbits just graze the globe...

... The theater "U Nikitskikh Vorot" is located at the Nikitskiye Vorota (Nikita Gate) Square, at the intersection of the Nikitskiy (formerly Suvorovckiy) Boulevard and the Bolshaya Nikitskaya (formerly Gerzen) Street. ... 1) From "Arbatskaya" metro station (any of the two). ... Then walk for 5-6 minutes on the right side of the Nikitskiy Boulevard in the direction of the Pushkinskaya Square until you see the theater's front porch. ... BACK to "U Nikitskikh Vorot" theatre page . ...

STScI . ... What is STScI . ... Visitors . ... Parking . ... Visitors to STScI may park at the San Martin Center Garage, located approximately 1/8 mile south of the Space Telescope Science Institute. ... This ticket should be used at the entrance gates to the garage; on entry through the first gate visitors should turn left and proceed to the second gate. ... Visitors should obtain a ticket at the garage entrance gate and use any available visitor space located to the right of the entrance. ...

... Impact craters and associated concentric rings are about the only features to be found on Callisto. ... It has a bright central region that is 600 kilometers in diameter, and its rings extend to 3000 kilometers in diameter. ... This image shows the heavily cratered surface of Callisto. ... Also visible is a fresh, sharp-rimmed crater some 90 km (56 miles) across named Igaluk (center left third of picture), and a bright zone in the south polar area (bottom of image) which could be an impact scar. ...

Having studied the solar corona and its radio emissions sunspot cycles ago, I was keen to verify its existence optically during the total solar eclipse of Wednesday, 4 December 2002, the first on Australian soil since 1976. The moon's shadow was to travel from the south-Atlantic west of The Congo, across southern Africa, the Indian Ocean and into the Great Australian Bight, finally making Australian landfall at Ceduna, South Australia (SA). ... The favoured site to observe the eclipse was Ceduna. ...

... Milky Way . ... Map of the Milky Way (based on data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope) showing its two major stellar arms and central bar. ... ТљIn written science fiction, one often encounters another navigational convention, where towards the Galactic Centre is described as т??Corewardт??, away from the Centre towards the rim of the Milky Way is т??Rimwardт??, objects in the direction of the Galaxyт??s rotation are т??Spinwardт??, while objects in the opposite direction are т??antispinwardт?? ...

... 2001 September 11 . Spiral Galaxy NGC 3310 Across the Visible . ... Explanation: The party is still going on in spiral galaxy NGC 3310. Roughly 100 million years ago, NGC 3310 likely collided with a smaller galaxy causing the large spiral galaxy to light up with a tremendous burst of star formation . ... NGC 3310 spans about 50,000 light years , lies about 50 million light years away, and is visible with a small telescope towards the constellation of Ursa Major . ... About APOD | ...

... click image to view discuss) . ... This is a quick shot of the near-Earth asteroid 2005 YU55 using four consecutive exposures from the Harvard MicroObservatory robotic telescope in Amado, Arizona, on the night of Nov. ... 10, 2015 . This is Comet Lovejoy C/2014 Q2 as it appeared at about 10:30 pm Saturday, Jan. 10, 2015, from my back yard in Belmont, MA, about 5 miles west of downtown Boston. ... Main image: 0.6 second exposure. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

Note: Since this page is updated every hour or so remember to hit your reload button on your browser. If you have cached this page, then the browser will display that page instead of the most current one. This image is sensitive to cloud temperature and therefore delineates the coldest highest clouds. ... The first image is the latest GOES Infrared View of the Pacific + West Coast. The second images is the GOES Infrared View of the Eastern US. ... These images may not always be current. ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... On Thursday, February 15th 2001 (and replayed on March 19), the Fox TV network aired a program called ``Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?'', hosted by X-Files actor Mitch Pileggi. ... Dust around the lander . ... However, it appeals to our common sense: when the sky is black here on Earth, we see stars. ... Bad: The program claims that when the top half of the lander took off from the Moon to bring the astronauts back into orbit, there was no flame from the rocket. ...

I was wondering what conditions should be met to have the "darkest" sky .. ... Upon the above publication of the Southern Galactic hemisphere, TunГ Tezel started seeking opportunities to create the Northern counterpart image. ... So, the initial quest of having the darkest possible sky have delivered us these two all-sky images of the two galactic hemispheres as seen from Planet Earth. Zoomable and 'full-screenable' fisheye view of the "darkest sky" Southern Galactic Hemisphere image. ...

... June 16, 2009 - TESIS has recorded new sizeable mass ejections from the Sun's atmosphere . One of this year's largest mass ejections from the Sun's atmosphere was recorded last Sunday by TESIS telescopes aboard the CORONAS-PHOTON satellite (video - wmv 4.3 MB). ... June 6, 2009 - This year's largest group of sunspots passes across the solar disk . ... June 2, 2009 - A malfunction in one of the TESIS telescopes has been fixed . ... A malfunction in one of the TESIS telescopes has been fixed . ...

... The Figure shows the parallactic angle in relation to the source position at (RA,DEC), the zenith of the telescope at (LST,AoLatitude), the hour Angle HA, and the azimuth direction AZ (in the picture the source has already transitted). ... Now suppose that a second feed was placed 1 beam width away from the central horn parallel to the azimuth arm. ... Figure 1. shows the parallactic angle rate versus azimuth angle for declinations 8 through 28 (spaced 1 degree steps from Arecibo's latitude). ...

... 9a. Earth orbits Sun? . ... 10a. Scale of Solar Sys. ... If the mean distance of Earth from the Sun is 1 AU ("Astronomical Unit"), then that of Venus is 0.723 AU, of Mercury 0.387 AU and that of Mars is 1.524 AU. ... By noting (1) where on the Sun's disk is the crossing seen, (2) timing its duration at two far-apart points on Earth, and (3) comparing the times, one can calculate the distance to Venus and from it the scale of the solar system. ... One occurred in 1639--too early. ...

... We would like to make a second announcement of the workshop on simulations for ALMA, which will run from lunchtime on Monday 8th September to lunchtime on Wednesday 10th September. ... We have also prepared a page with a list of participants at the workshop and with the abstracts of confirmed presentations: . ... In order to allow us to efficiently do this, we would like to ask that participants that wish to give a presentation at the conference send us a title and an abstract by 25th June . ...