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... Robert Hill (Northern Ireland Space Office at Armagh Planetarium) . ... On Wednesday 7 January 2009 the International Year of Astronomy (IYA2009), in which the Armagh Observatory and Armagh Planetarium are playing a major role, was officially opened in Ireland in the presence of the Irish President Mary McAleese and the Northern Ireland Minister for Education, Caitr ona Ruane, in a launch ceremony at the BT Young Scientist Technology Exhibition at the Royal Dublin Society, Dublin. ...

... Stars and Dust Across Corona Australis . ... In fact, the roughly 11-year solar activity cycle is still in a surprisingly deep minimum and the years 2008 and 2009 have had the lowest sunspot counts since the 1950s. VB 10: A Large Planet Orbiting a Small Star . ... Can a planet be as large as the star that it orbits? Recent observations have discovered that nearby Van Biesbroeck's star might have just such a large planet. ... Spirit Encounters Soft Ground on Mars . ... Volcanic Terrain on Mercury . ...

Lunar Libration . Articles | ... Actually, a slight rocking motion, called libration,* makes about 59% of the Moon's surface visible from our planet Earth -- though only 50% at any one time. ... Add to that, the approximate 1.5 degree tilt of the Moon's equator to the ecliptic, and you have the inclination of the Moon's equator to the plane of its orbit around Earth at some 6.5 degrees (5 + 1.5 = 6.5). ... Re-published on Astronomy Net with permission of the author. ... www.astronomy.net . ...

... English (Ireland) . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... This sequence gives a close-up view of a spectacular image of the southern spiral galaxy NGC 300 that was taken was taken using the Wide Field Imager (WFI) at ESOтАЩs La Silla Observatory in Chile. Huge numbers of the galaxyтАЩs component stars are visible across the entire image and much detail can be seen in the red and pink star-forming clouds of dust and gas that mark out the galaxyтАЩs ragged spiral arms. ... NGC 300 . ...

ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Governance overview . Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Our people overview . ... Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Mopra radio telescope . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ... Since then, powerful AGN have been identified across the electromagnetic spectrum and in galaxies from the local Universe up to z~7. ...

home education > resources . ... Education from Mercury . ... Selected Topical Bibliographies . Astronomy Education Bibliography . ... Teaching . ... Lebofsky, N. "A Skunk is in the Sky, or Is It a Plow?" in Science Scope, Mar. 1994, p. 26. ... Levy, D. "Project ARTIST" in Sky Telescope, June 1994, p. 98. ... MacRobert, A. "Astronomy with a $5 Telescope" in Sky Telescope, Apr. 1990, p. 384. ... Reviews the National Science Education Standards and what they say to those who teach astronomy. ...

... The Russian TESIS/ CORONAS-PHOTON Solar Observatory, which has been working in orbit since January 30th, 2009, has photographed one of the most important events in the build up to the upcoming solar cycle - the formation of our star's new southern belt of activity. The first magnetic fields of the new cycle in the southern hemisphere appeared on the Sun's surface on May 23-24th. ... The belt of activity is one of the primary concepts, characterizing the solar cycle. ...

... К вопросу возможной модификации двигателя Шкадова и ее перспективах для решения некоторых задач SETI . ... А.Л.Зайцев . ... КОНЕЦ СОЦИУМА И ПРОБЛЕМА SETI . Л.М.Гиндилис . ... ОБОСНОВАНИЕ METI . ... Борис Николаевич Пановкин о познаваемости мира и о возможности связи с внеземными цивилизациями (к 80-летию со дня рождения) . ... Alexander Zaitsev . ... КНИГА ОБ ЭВОЛЮЦИИ И ВНЕЗЕМНЫХ ЦИВИЛИЗАЦИЯХ (Рецензия на книгу А.Д.Панова Универсальная эволюция и проблема поиска внеземного разума (SETI) . ...

Астрономия и Космос Небесные тела Планеты и их спутники . Видимым парадом планет называется планетная конфигурация, когда пять ярких планет Солнечной системы (Меркурий, Венера, Марс, Юпитер и Сатурн) в своем движении по небосводу подходят друг к другу на близкое расстояние и становятся видны в одно время в небольшом секторе (10 - 40 градусов) неба. ... Из выше описанного видно, что парад планет можно наблюдать, либо вечером, либо утром. ... Не пропустите ОСЕННИЙ ПАРАД планет 2002 года! ...

Click on a date or title to see an image (JPEG) of the article . ... May 3, 2001 . ... June 3, 1999 . ... s not a disaster movie, just an astronomy convention . New York Times . ... A New Baby Picture of the Southern Sky . ... May 25, 1999 . In Cosmic Blasts, Clues to Black Holes . ... April 3, 2001 . ... From Light to Darkness: Astronomy?s New Universe . Science News . ... Weekly World News . ... Copyright © 1999 The Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. ...

... 2012 September 27 . Stars and Dust Across Corona Australis . ... Explanation: Cosmic dust clouds sprawl across a rich field of stars in this sweeping telescopic vista near the northern boundary of Corona Australis , the Southern Crown. ... The smaller yellowish nebula (NGC 6729) surrounds young variable star R Coronae Australis . ... While NGC 6723 appears to be part of the group, it actually lies nearly 30,000 light-years away, far beyond the Corona Australis dust clouds . ... About APOD | ...

... Home Observing Solar Bridge Across New York Harbor . ... Clear Sky Chart . This Month's Sky . ... 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 . ... Amateur Astronomers Medal . ... Get on board with the Amateurs Astronomers Association, Sunday, September 20th, 2015 . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

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... View on Arno from the opposite side of ponte S. Niccolo. b06. ... A view on east of Florence from the climb to piazzale Michelangelo. b10. ... Old city wall going from piazza Poggi to Forte di Belvedere. b20. ... Gate near Forte di Belvedere. b23. ... On costa San Giorgio (going down from Forte di Belvedere to palazzo Pitti). b34. ... Giardino di Boboli, stadium. c02. Palazzo Pitti; view from Giardino di Boboli. c03. ... Giardino di Boboli . ... Palazzo Pitti; view from Giardino di Boboli. c12. ...

Statistics of sunspot activity . The sunspot indices . ... Visual indices of solar activity . ... n - number of spot groups . A - Waldmeier class of unipolar spot groups without penumbra . B - class of bipolar spot groups without penumbra . C - class of bipolar spot groups with one penumbra pole . D - class of small bipolar spot groups with two penumbra poles . E - class of middle bipolar spot groups with two penumbra poles . ... H - class of unipolar penumbrated spot groups . ...

... Model . ... Karpachev A.T., IZMIRAN, e-mail: karp@izmiran.ru . ... To the Model: . The empirical median model of the shape and position of the MIT (Main Ionospheric Trough) in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres is presented. ... Geomagnetism and aeronomy, v.26, № 1, p.63-68, 1986. ... Karpachev A.T., Afonin V.V. Dependence of the ionospheric trough occurrence probability on the season, local time, longitude, and level of magnetic activity Geomagnetism and aeronomy, v.38, № 3, p.79-91, 1998. ...

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