Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Earth Satellites . ... According to Velikovsky, about 4000 years ago a giant volcano on Jupiter erupted and spewed a vast glob of debris into space, leaving the Great Red Spot behind as a permanent scar. The red hot lump ejected from Jupiter (referred to as a comet by Velikovsky) wandered into the inner Solar System, repeatedly crossing the Earth?s orbit and in fact often passing close to our helpless planet in the following millennia. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... Observing . ... Why Join? ... Jupiter joins Venus in the early evening . ... That more brilliant one is Venus, and it s currently having its best showing for northern observers of 2015 as it shines brightest and appears highest in the evening sky. ... Only the Full Moon itself climbing higher in the southeastern sky this evening appears brighter. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...

... 15.02.2013 . ... Credit Copyright: Damian Peach Explanation: Two dark shadows loom across the banded and mottled cloud tops of Jupiter in this sharp telescopic view. ... With the two moon shadows still in transit, Jupiter's rapid rotation has almost carried its famous Great Red Spot (GRS) around the planet's limb from the right. ... Publications with keywords: Ganymede - Io - transit - shadow . Publications with words: Ganymede - Io - transit - shadow . ... Venus Transits the Midnight Sun . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2013 February 15 . Shadows Across Jupiter . ... Explanation: Two dark shadows loom across the banded and mottled cloud tops of Jupiter in this sharp telescopic view. ... With the two moon shadows still in transit, Jupiter's rapid rotation has almost carried its famous Great Red Spot (GRS) around the planet's limb from the right. ... About APOD | ...

Browse the articles below for new ideas for your classroom. Mercury September/October 2005: Astronomy Education and Public Outreach: Steps and Missteps Toward an Emerging Profession (pdf) . Focus on Education articles as they appeared in Mercury: . ... March/April 2000: . ... Education Newswire articles as they appeared in Mercury, by issue. ... January/February 2000 . November/December 1999 . ... March/April 1999 . ... November/December 1998 . ... November/December 1997 . ...

Astronomy Discussion Forums . ... Atm ћ Astrophotography ћ Blackholes ћ Blackholes2 ћ CCD ћ Celestron ћ Domes ћ Education . ... New Model: How Do The Sun And Moon Appear To Move Across The Sky . ... Post Message | ... focused on the Sun and the Moon as they appear from the given location of the Earth surface: . ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... Published by the Bureau of Astronomical Communications . ... TITLE OF THE ARTICLE IN RUSSIAN . ... This text contains Instructions for our Authors; at the same time, it shows the general layout of a contribution to the Astronomicheskii Tsirkulyar as it will appear published in the electronic form or printed on paper. ... The text of your article starts here. We accept articles in all branches of astronomy. ... 1543-1548, Information for Authors), text taped and figures drawn on paper. ...

... Gallery . ... AAA Fall Astronomy Class: Astronomy Basics тАУ October-November 2015 . ... Clear Sky Chart . ... This MonthтАЩs Sky тАУ April 2015 . This MonthтАЩs Sky тАУ May 2015 . This MonthтАЩs Sky тАУ June 2015 . ... Beyond New York City . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

On-line Journal This page is the home of our on-line directory of publications. Included below is an index of all papers published in the Irish Astronomical Journal from 1950 to 1994 inclusive. We also have an index of papers which have appeared since 1994. Here you will also find the contents of the current, previous and all past issues of the Irish Astronomical Journal since 1995. ... Index - An index of papers from 1950-1994 . ... Current - Contents and examples from the current issue . ...

... Call for Papers . ... Кому: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. This email address is being protected from spambots. ... Томашик Василь Миколайович" , "kalugina n a" , "Кочелаб ?вген?я Володимир?вна" , This email address is being protected from spambots. ... The interested contributors are highly encouraged to submit their manuscripts/papers to the executive editor via e-mail at This email address is being protected from spambots. ...

... As a NASA spaceship begins a 9-year, 3.5 billion-mile voyage to the outermost planet, new worlds are being discovered. ... Last January, using one of the biggest telescopes at Palomar Observatory in California and a sophisticated computer program designed to pick up very slow-moving (and faraway) objects, the astronomers found a world in orbit some 10 billion miles from the Sun (the Earth is a mere 93 million miles), three times farther than Pluto. ... Moon(s): At least one, about 155 miles across. ...

Hubble Observations Shed New Light on Jupiter Collision . Was it a comet or an asteroid? ... Their initial findings, combined with results from other space-borne and ground-based telescopes, shed new light on Jupiter's atmospheric winds, its immense magnetic field, the mysterious dark debris from the impacts, and the composition of the doomed comet itself. ... Hubble's ultraviolet observations show the motion of very fine impact debris particles now suspended high in Jupiter's atmosphere. ...

... INTERCOSMOS 19 . ... Included in this list are only the papers published in editions that seem easily accessible for users outside Russia. ... In PDF format . ... A.T. Karpachev, G.F. Deminova and S.A. Pulinets. ... A.T. Karpachev. ... Geomagnetism and Aeronomy, English Translation, Vol.35, No.6, June 1996, pp.790-795. ... Geomagnetism and Aeronomy, English Translation, Vol.35, No.6, June 1996, pp.787-789. ... Geomagnetism and Aeronomy, English Translation, Vol.35, No.1, August, 1995, pp.54-59. ...

... Laboratory for Spectroscopy of Molecular Structures . ... News . ... A new article entitled Description of optical properties of cholesteric photonic liquid crystals based on Maxwell equations and Kramers-Kronig relations has appeared in Physical Review E. Congratulations to Grigoriy Ksyonz on his first publication! . 25 th February 2013 . ... 22 nd November 2012 . ... 22 nd February 2012 . 4 th Workshop on Liquid Crystals for Photonics 2012 will take place in Hong Kong December 9-11, 2012. ...

... Yu.A.Shokin Accurate positions of variable stars in the western part of the Large Magellanic Cloud bar (published in IBVS (No.5047, 14 March 2001) and SAI Proceedings) . B.S. Vozdvizhenskij The list of 2821 Venus positions (VINITI depository Oct 08 2007, N 956 B2007) . B.S. Vozdvizhenskij, E.N. Fedosseev The experience in processing long series of photographic observations of planetary positions (VINITI depository Apr 01 2008, N 274 B2007) . ...

... We publish 16 Doppler imaging temperature maps for the years 1994-2002 of the active RS CVn star II Peg. ... Through Doppler imaging we want to study the spot evolution of the star and in particular compare this with previous results showing a cyclic spot behaviour and persistent active longitudes. ... The derived temperature maps are quite similar to the ones obtained earlier with a different methods, the main differences occurring in the spot latitudes and relative strength of the spot structures....

... Article text . ... Article should be formatted according to the present rules, using the styles containing in the attached file example.doc . ... For example, article name should be typed in string Here Is the Paper Title , using style "title paper", etc. ... Title part of article Paper Title (style Title Paper . ... It is necessary to use style text paper for the body of article. ... In the text of article there should be links to every Figure and Table: Fig. 1 and Tab. 1 accordingly. ...

... 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. ...

... Many scientific institutions maintain bibliographies of articles published by their scientists and monitor references made to these publications; these figures are often used to evaluate the effectiveness of the institution. ... a) Identification of papers that are based, at least partly, on new data Publications based on observations can be subdivided into two groups: those presenting new, previously unreported data, and those that make use of already published data. ... Published by . ...