... The remote planet Pluto and its moon Charon orbit the Sun at a mean distance of almost 6,000 million kilometres, or nearly fourty times farther out than the Earth. During a recent investigation by an international group of astronomers [1], the best picture ever of Pluto and Charon [2] was secured with the European Space Agency's Faint Object Camera at the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). ... The new HST image was taken when Charon was near its maximum elongation from Pluto (0.9 arcseconds). ...

Armagh Observatory press release, 1999 April 21st. Research by David Asher and Mark Bailey , of Armagh Observatory, and Vacheslav Emel'yanenko , of South Ural University, Chelyabinsk, Russia, has explained the unexpected, spectacular shower of bright meteors seen in the small hours of 17 November last year. ... The observed meteors are produced by the collision with the Earth's atmosphere of small dust particles ejected from the parent comet, Tempel-Tuttle . ...

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 . ...

XMM-Newton CCF Release Note XMM- CCF -REL-172 Improving pn Window mode CTI correction and re ning the long term CTI correction for all pn Modes M. Kirsch July 19, 2004 1 CCF components Name of CCF VALDATE List of Blocks changed CAL VERSION XSCS ag EPN CTI 0013 2000-01-01T00:00:00 CTI - HIGH ADD PAR 3.169 NO EPN CTI 0013 2000-01-01T00:00:00 LONG TERM CTI 3.169 NO 2 Changes The EPN ... The upper panel is using the old EPN CTI 0012.CCF and the lower the new EPN CTI 0013.CCF. ...

A press release on the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey was associated with this poster. ... Below are maps of HI emission, HISA, and 12 CO emission in the eastern 25% of the survey, given as projections along the velocity ( Figure 1 ) and latitude ( Figure 2 ) axes. ... 2000, A. J. , submitted . ... GIF | ... We are developing automated methods of locating HISA in velocity cubes by removing large-scale emission in space and velocity and flagging small-scale dark residuals. ...

... Radiation mechanisms of astrophysical objects: classics today . ... S.A. Balashev, D.A. Varshalovich, A.V. Ivanchik, V.V. Klimenko , Ioffe Institute, Russian Federation . ... D.P. Barsukov, A.I. Tsygan , Ioffe Institute, Russian Federation . ... A.I. Kopylov, F.G. Kopylova , Special Astrophysical Observatory (SAO RAS), Russian Federation . ... F.G. Kopylova, A.I. Kopylov , Special Astrophysical Observatory (SAO RAS), Russian Federation . ... Conference poster . ... Slide shows and posters . ...

CSIRO Ref 98/194 . Astronomers using CSIRO 's Parkes radio telescope have made a picture that shows our Galaxy ripping apart its nearest neighbours. ... The two nearest neighbouring galaxies, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (left), are less than a tenth of our Galaxy in size. ... One was a process called ram-pressure stripping - gas being swept out of the Magellanic Clouds as the Clouds travelled through our Galaxy's outskirts." ... Email: hsim@atnf.csiro.au . ...

Animations at: http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/~krause/ Galactic Winds & Radio Galaxies: A New Hint of the Starburst - AGN Connection? ... 2000) ·Extended low density shell: no, pressure too low for outflow (Krause 2005) Ly a halo of a big radio galaxy with radio contours (>100 kpc, Reuland et al. ... Then the jet starts, and is absorbed while small. ... This points to a starburst ­AGN connection: about 100 Myr after the starburst starts causing a wind, the black hole starts the jet production. ...

. The area imaged by Mars Express January 13, 2013, lies southeast of the Amenthes Planum region and north of Hesperia Planum and shows Tinto Vallis and Palos Crater in broader context. The smaller rectangle shows the region covered in this ESA Mars Express High-Resolution Stereo Camera image release. // NASA MGS MOLA Science Team

... Fields Observed . ... Data Archive . ... Complete Optical and X-ray data for all ChaMPlane fields are available through the DS9 VO interface . ... functionality of DS9 is available to manipulate the results in addition to those provided by the "Champlane tools" You can select images, compare . ... our region of interest has been selected by drawing a red square region on the image. at bottom left the high res optical image of that selected region, and on the right is the X-ray image. ...

... Ancient Cratered Plains on Ganymede . ... The largest moon in the Solar System shows regions that are ancient and battered. ... This photo is one of a series released by NASA two days ago from the Galileo spacecraft orbiting Jupiter. ... Ganymede's surface is a wrinkled mess. ... M74: A Grand Design Spiral Galaxy . ... Like our Milky Way, M74 is classified a spiral galaxy. ... Born in 1656, he computed in 1705 that a bright comet was periodic and would make another appearance in 1758. ...

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1996/22/text/ Probing the mysterious heart of the Crab Nebula, the tattered remains of a stellar cataclysm witnessed more than 900 years ago, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found that the Crab is even more dynamic than previously understood, based on a cosmic "movie" assembled from a series of Hubble observations. ... Because of this flickering, the neutron star is also called a "pulsar." ...

Solar Flare Origin - critical analysis" Lev Pusti'lnik We analyze current approach to solar flare origin in 3 aspects: a. Pre-flare equilibrium state of current-magnetic structure above active region and its evolution to flare state, b. Possible reasons of stability loss with transition of system in flare state c. Flare energy release in turbulent current sheet and particle acceleration in this system. ...

... STScI-PRC95-11 FOR RELEASE: February 20, 1995 HUBBLE'S CLOSE-UP VIEW OF A SHOCKWAVE FROM A STELLAR EXPLOSION This image shows a small portion of a nebula called the "Cygnus Loop." ... Blue shows emission from "doubly ionized" oxygen atoms (atoms that have had two electrons stripped away) produced by the heat behind the shock front. ... This sulfur emission arises well behind the shock front, in gas that has had a chance to cool since the passage of the shock. ...

The following images of the icy surface of Ganymede, the Solar System's largest moon, were made by the Galileo spacecraft during its ongoing mission to explore Jupiter and the Jovian system. ... This image was taken when Galileo was 7,448 kilometers (4,628 miles) away from Ganymede; north is to the top of the picture, and sunlight illuminates the surface from the lower left nearly overhead (77 degrees above the horizon). ... The image was taken June 27 at a range of 7,448 kilometers (4,628 miles). ...

... It turns out one possibility is a form of matter/energy invented by Einstein in the 1920s to make sure his equations of General Relativity did not predict the Expansion of the Universe. Although Einstein was willing to predict several things with his equations of General Relativity, he obviously thought an expanding Universe was too much, and so he invented the Cosmological Constant, which repels itself, and was meant to balance the force of gravity, and make the Universe static. ...

... Image Quality of the VLT . Total Optical Control . First light for the ESO VLT unit telescope 1 occurred during the workshop. ... The image shown (Figure 1 ) here was obtained with the VLT on May 16, 1998, in red light (R band), i.e. while the mirror was still uncoated. ... In this diagram (FIgure 2), the measured image quality of the VLT UT1 astronomical images is plotted versus the ``seeing", as measured by the Seeing Monitor, a small telescope also located on top of the Paranal Mountain. ...

Next: Catalog Construction Up: Observations and Analysis Previous: Source Detections . ... It was assumed that the highest signal gives the most likely position of the source. ... Comparing the summed map with the maps from the individual energy ranges, the one which produced the smallest error box was chosen to represent the source position, as long as was greater than 4, a level chosen to reflect a reasonable degree of confidence in the detection. ...

April 4, 2008 (Friday) Maxim Pospelov, Victoria University . ... Fall 2007 . Winter 2008 . Fall 2006 . Winter 2007 . Spring 2007 . ... A new generation cosmic ray detector, the Pierre Auger Observatory, has been designed to study cosmic rays with energy above 10 18 eV and answer the crucial questions of ultra high energy cosmic ray physics. ... Oscillating scalar fields, with an oscillation frequency much greater than the expansion rate, have been proposed as models for dark energy. ...