... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... This shows the Sun, Moon and Earth (not to scale) together with the . ... They have tested the technique on the Earthshine, the light reflected from the Earth by the Moon, and showed that it can reveal the presence of life in our planet. ... This technique uses the fact that the light reflected from the planet is polarised, whereas that emitted by the star is not. ... Polarised light can tell us about the reflecting surface...

Below is the sample image and caption given out at the AAS meeting. ... Dark, sinuous clouds of cold hydrogen gas reveal themselves as shadows against the glow of warmer, brighter clouds in the background. ... This image, made with radio telescopes at the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory near Penticton, British Columbia, was presented to the American Astronomical Society meeting in Austin, TX on January 8, 1999. PHOTO CREDIT: Steven Gibson and Russ Taylor of the University of Calgary. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . News . Observing . ... Magazine . ... Press Room . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Press Releases . ... Astronomy magazine editors are here to help enrich media and blogger coverage of meteor showers, space missions, and night-sky events. ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE . ... the International Space Station . The Russian Soyuz TMA-4 manned transport spacecraft docked to the International Space Station (ISS) Orbital Complex. ... P. Semenov, Technical Director of Russian Manned Space Programs, General Designer of S.P. Korolev RSC Energia, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences), as well as representatives of the Russian enterprises and organizations participating in the implementation of the ISS program. ...

The Small Magellanic Cloud was imaged with Spitzer using the IRAC and MIPS cameras as part of the SAGE-SMC Legacy Program. ... This image and related work (for examples, see paper , paper , and paper ) was the subject of Spitzer Press Release at the 215th AAS meeting . ... The Spitzer Press Release shows off this stunning combined IRAC/MIPS image. The nearest spiral galaxy to our own is M31 and the MIPS observations and resulting paper were featured in a Spitzer Science Center press release . ...

... Tools . ... SoFiA (from Greek ????? = wisdom), the So urce Fi nding A pplication, is a new H i source finding pipeline for finding and parametrising galaxies in three-dimensional H i data cubes. The software is still under development, and the latest version of SoFiA can be obtained from GitHub . ... SoFiA test data set (14.3 MB) . ... While SoFiA comes with its own, built-in user manual available through the graphical user interface, we also generated a printable PDF file for convenience: . ...

Within the Hubble Ultra Deep Field there are approximately 10,000 discrete objects. ... Most of these objects are very small and likely have masses in the range of 10 5 to 10 7 solar masses. Note the mass of the Milky Way galaxy is 10 12 solar masses. ... Finally, for you cosmologists/experts out there this ultra deep field is quite consistent with what was seen in the original Hubble Deep Field 5) don't necessarily have small angular diameters. ...

... AVO First Science Press Release May 28, 2004 . The first major discovery to be made with the Virtual Observatory was announced today to the press. ... ESA's Press Release . ESO's Press Release . ... UVES Investigates the Environment of a Very Remote Galaxy 11 March, 2002 . Observations with ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) have enabled an international group of astronomers to study in unprecedented detail the surroundings of a very remote galaxy, almost 12 billion light-years distant. ...

... Recent Results . ... last 10 years in ADS) . in SAO press releases . ... observations database) . ... Last update: . ... Measurement of the dark halo shape in polar ring galaxies . Determining the mass of supermassive black hole in galaxy Mrk6 nucleus based on spectropolarimetric observations . The dust jets in the nucleus of comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 . ... New Polar Ring Galaxies . Traces of recent interactions in isolated Seyfert galaxies . ...

... 19.03.2001 . ... March 19 2001 09:00 (Moscow time) . In accordance with the de-orbit plan the OC "Mir" is drifting in a waiting mode, its deceleration continues in upper layers of atmosphere. ... Telemetry data and the core block TV displays are used to control MCS, thermal mode, the station pressure integrity. The data received and processed at MCC confirm the complex "Mir" readiness for final stage operations. The next status report will be issued on March 20. ...

OptInt PmWiki . ... PmWiki . ... This page explains how to discourage "link spamming" on your wiki site using PmWiki's urlapprove.php script. ... allowing you to limit the number of unapproved links that may be added to a page. ... The reason for this is that the approve mechanism only approves links on the current page. ... To see what link is to be approved without editing the page a tool tip can be displayed when the cursor hovers over the (approve links) link that displays the URL. e.g. Example . ...

... On 4 April 2005, INTAS, the International Association for the promotion of cooperation with scientists from the New Independent States(NIS) of the former Soviet Union, launched the first stage of its Open Call for Research Projects Proposals 2005-2006. With an indicative budget of ?12 million, the INTAS Open Call 2005-2006 encompasses basic and applied research with no thematic orgeographical restrictions, but excluding market-oriented technology development. ...

... user-defined data file formats . ... better integration with a user's analysis routines To add such functionality to SAOimage, we developed the XPA Messaging System that allows X programs to define points of public access through which data and commands can be exchanged with external programs. ... We have utilized XPA to develop "SAOimage: The Next Generation" (SAOtng), an extensible image display service that can cooperate with other processes and programs. ... SAOtng help pages . ...

home about us > awards . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Awards . 2012 Award Winners . Past Award Recipients . Amateur Award . ... Emmons Award . ... Astronomical Society of the Pacific Names Leo Connolly winner of 2006 Emmons Award for Excellence in College Astronomy Teaching . ... The Emmons Award will be presented to Dr. Connolly at the ASP's 2006 annual meeting and national conference on astronomy education in Baltimore, MD, on September 17. ... education | ...

Local Weather information(Mirror) . ... UofI - The Daily Planet . Real time weather . PLANET EARTH HOME PAGE . Weather Information . ... Current weather maps/movies . Weather movies . ... TIME Daily news . ... International press (Links of the editorial office 'Der Spiegel') . International press (Links of Gerben Vos) . ... White House Press Release . ...

STScI-PRC99-10 . ... Astronomers have used the NASA Hubble Space Telescope to produce an infrared "photo essay" of spiral galaxies. By penetrating the dust clouds swirling around the centers of these galaxies, the telescope’s infrared vision is offering fresh views of star birth. These six images, taken with the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer, showcase different views of spiral galaxies, from a face-on image of an entire galaxy to a close-up of a core. ... Gallery | ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . Jupiter's Auroras . ... 18.10.1996 . ... HST , NASA Explanation: Auroras are especially large on Jupiter. ... Jupiter 's auroras are linked to its volcanic moon Io . ... The resulting auroral displays may be thousands of times brighter than any auroral display on Earth , and involve unusual spots. ... October 1996 . ... 2015 2016 . ... Publications with keywords: Jupiter . Publications with words: Jupiter . ... Jupiter and Venus from Earth . Jupiter in 2015 . ...

... Survey processing . ... ESO - Public Surveys . ... 21/12/2009 Release of Science Verification Data . ... 11/12/2009 Press release about VISTA (Text, Images and Videos) . The ESO press release is at www.eso.org/public/outreach/press-rel/pr-2009/pr-49-09.html . ... 10/12/2009 15:00+ Ownerhsip of VISTA accepted by ESO from STFC (UK Goverenment representative) . ... 15/10/2009 Science Verification period started (see 21/12/9 for release) . ... 17/04/2008 Press releases om M1 from ESO , STFC and QMUL . ...

... WISE is achieving 5sigma point source sensitivities better than 0.08, 0.11, 1, and 6 mJy in unconfused regions on the ecliptic in bands centered at wavelengths of 3.4, 4.6, 12, and 22 mum. ... The WISE All-Sky Release Source Catalog is available in compressed (gzip or bzip2) ascii form. ... Users should be aware that the Catalog table is extremely large. ... For complete documentation of the WISE All-Sky Release Source Catalog and the All-Sky Data Release, please see the Explanatory Supplement . ...

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