... Galileo Probe . The Galileo spacecraft was designed to study Jupiter's atmosphere, satellites, and surrounding magnetosphere for two years. ... From there, Galileo will spend more than five years traveling to Jupiter, where it will become the first spacecraft to make direct measurements from an instrumented probe within Jupiter's atmosphere. ... This image, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the predicted site at which the Galileo Probe will enter Jupiter's atmosphere on December 7, 1995. ...

... 2000 December 19 . A Close-Up of Aurora on Jupiter . ... Explanation: Jupiter has aurorae . ... Electric force attracts these electrons back. ... Unlike Earth's aurorae , Jupiter's aurorae include several bright streaks and dots . These marks are caused by magnetic flux tubes connecting Jupiter to its largest moons . Specifically, Io caused the bright streak on the far left, Ganymede caused the bright dot below center, and Europa caused the dot to its right. ... About APOD | ...

... Moonset, Planet Earth . ... During the Astro-1 astronomy mission of December, 1990, Space Shuttle astronauts photographed this stunning view of the full moon rising above the Earth's limb. ... Close To Eros . ... This long mosaic was constructed of images returned yesterday by the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft as it orbited to within 6.4 kilometers of a spot in the southern hemisphere of the rotating asteroid's surface. ... The Nebula And The Neutron Star . ... Wild Duck Open Cluster M11 . ... December ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. December 17, 1996 . Mariner's Mercury . ... Explanation: Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, remains the most mysterious of the Solar System's inner planets. ... The only spacecraft to explore Mercury close-up was Mariner 10 which executed 3 flybys of Mercury in 1974 and 1975, surveying approximately 45 percent of its surface. ...

... IAA New Year Party: Saturday 3 January 2009 . ... It's life Jim, but not as we know it - Tuesday 2 December 2008 . Astronomy Ireland's Christmas lecture this year, 'Living in the Sun's Atmosphere' will be given on Monday 8 December by Dr. Lucie Green of Mullard Space Science Laboratory. ... Wednesday, 3 December 2008 21:47 . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... I fixed the bugs that caused the map_point changes to fail tests. Then I removed the no longer needed dimensional variables from the p structure and got those changes to pass all the tests. ... I put the code under subversion control in a new branch called refactor. ... The code change which processes each drizzle kernel over an entire image rather than a line at a time now passes the unit tests and was checked in. ... I got the keywords argument changes done and got the tests to pass. ...

... ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Governance overview . Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Our people overview . ... Publications overview . ... Careers overview . ... ATNF facilities . ... MRO Support Facility . Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . Mopra radio telescope . ... Current telescope status . ... Scientific support of facilities . ... ATNF Operations Overview . ... Meetings . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . Human Exploration . ... December . ... Posted on December 3, 2015 | No Comments WhatтАЩs that we hear? ... Continue Reading.. Posted on December 5, 2014 | 4 Comments The December skies mark my favourite time of the year for stargazing. ... Posted on December 6, 2013 | ... Posted on December 14, 2010 | ... Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

... The European HST Archive has been moved to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre ( ESAC ), Spain, where most of ESA's Space Science Archives are located and operated from. ... The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), jointly operated by ESA and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) was, until the end of 2010, the European HST science facility, supporting the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...