Discover the cosmos! ... 2005 December 5 . Fountains Discovered on Saturn's Enceladus . Credit: Cassini Imaging Team , SSI , JPL , ESA , NASA . Explanation: Fountains of ice shoot out from Saturn's moon Enceladus. Clear discovery images of the fountains were made using observations from the robot Cassini spacecraft currently orbiting Saturn . During a recent pass, Cassini was programmed to look back toward the Sun where Enceladus would appear as a thin crescent . ... About APOD | ...

... Ice Fountains Discovered on Saturns Enceladus . ... Credit: Cassini Imaging Team , SSI , JPL , ESA , NASA Explanation: Fountains of ice shoot out from Saturn's moon Enceladus. Clear discovery images of the fountains were made using observations from the robot Cassini spacecraft currently orbiting Saturn . During a recent pass, Cassini was programmed to look back toward the Sun where Enceladus would appear as a thin crescent . ... Publications with keywords: Enceladus - Saturn . ...

... By default the task will reduce the effective area produced in the ARF if the source area contains bad pixels/columns or contains area which lies outside the CCD boundaries. ... Although the correction for point sources is quite good the extended source correction assumes a uniform surface brightness of the source. ... There is currently no way of performing an accurate correction for chip gaps and bad pixels within extended source regions within arfgen . ...

... casa::WCCompound . ... WCCompound (const ImageRegion &region1, const ImageRegion &region2) . ... WCCompound (const PtrBlock < const ImageRegion * > &regions) . WCCompound ( Bool takeOver, const PtrBlock < const WCRegion * > &regions) . ... The image regions have to contain WCRegion objects, otherwise an exception is thrown. casa::WCCompound::WCCompound . ... const PtrBlock < const WCRegion * > & casa::WCCompound::regions . ... PtrBlock <const WCRegion *> casa::WCCompound::itsRegions [private] . ...

... Massive stars, having 10-150 masses of the Sun, with metallicities Z tens to hundreds times less than that of the Sun (Zo), are the main regulators of the galaxy formation and evolution processes in the early Universe. ... In this galaxy, using the 6 m BTA telescope, a new massive blue variable star with high luminosity (>=10 5 Sun's luminocities in visible light) was found. As far as its properties are concerned, this star falls into an LBV (Luminous Blue Variable) class of stars. ...

... Scientists from G. I. Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics- Syberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk State Technical University, Samara State Aerospace University (SSAU) and Image Processing Systems Institute (IPSI) of the Russian Academy of Science, became the first people in the world obtained terahertz non-diffractive twisted Bessel beams and used them for the first time the formation of surface electromagnetic waves on the metal surface. ...

Instrument Science Report WFC3 2008-07 WFC3 TV3 Testing: UVIS Channel Glints Thomas M. Brown Apr 14, 2008 ABSTRACT In the previous thermal vacuum (TV) campaign of 2007, it was discovered that the UVIS channel was subject to strong glints (containing ~1% to 30% of the source energy) due to reflections between the CCD surface and the CCD housing. ... These glints contained anywhere from 1% to 30% of the source energy and spanned thousands of pixels. ... 2001, ISR WFC3 2001-17). ...

Galaxies are diffuse objects which are imaged against a background of finite brightness and noise. Galaxies which have the maximum contrast with respect to this background are the ones that are first discovered. ... These galaxies have been missed to date but active surveys for them are underway. ... In this page we present several examples of these newly discovered Low Surface Brightness galaxies as well as examples of high surface brightness galaxies. ...

... 2 Columns At the present time, the REGION table is de ned for a two-dimensional space. ... ROTANG (rotation angle): for rotated elements; like X and Y, this column needs to contain vectors of suфcient length. ... Table 1: REGION Table SHAPEs SHAPE X Y R ROTANG Point X Y Circle Xcen Ycen R Ellipse Xcen Ycen Rmaj ; Rmin Angle Annulus Xcen Ycen Rin ; Rout Elliptannulus Xcen Ycen Rinmaj ; Rinmin ; Angin ; Routmaj ; Routmin Angout Box Xcen Ycen Xsize ; Ysize Rotbox Xcen ...

Enceladus . ... Enceladus [en-SELL-ah-dus] is one of the innermost moons of Saturn. ... Parts of Enceladus shows craters no larger than 35 km in diameter. ... This Voyager 2 mosaic of Enceladus was made from images taken through the clear, violet and green filters on August 25, 1981, from a distance of 119,000 kilometers (74,000 miles). ... This image was created by projecting a digital map of Enceladus onto an orthographic view and then replacing the color channels by low resoultion color images. ...

... It contains: electromagnetic radiation (photons); hot plasma (electrons, protons and other ions) a.k.a. the solar wind ; cosmic rays; microscopic dust particles; and magnetic fields (primarily the Sun's). W hile the Sun 's radiation is obvious, the other components of the interplanetary medium were not discovered until very recently. ... Within a few solar radii of the Sun the magnetic field determines the flow of the solar wind; much of the flow is trapped in magnetic loops. ... Sun .. ...

... A total of 462 were detected, about half of these for the first time. ... Ojects not Detected ----------------------------------------- l b BRMS mK Notes ----------------------------------------- 6.490 + 0.084 5.1 W28 SNR 6.648 + 0.084 4.2 W28 SNR 8.989 +35.502 3.5 S33 B 11.531 +36.350 3.1 S36 A 13.456 + 0.156 3.5 SNR 16.732 + 0.079 3.5 SNR 19.961 - 0.175 3.5 SNR 21.347 - 0.628 3.8 Extragalactic 25.253 - 0.150 5.7 Extragalactic 25.520 0.215 5.2 28.600 - 0.126 4.0 SNR+HII+? ...

... The spectrum of the Sgr B2 molecular cloud has been surveyed between 215 and 265 GHz towards 3 positions, the dense cores Sgr B2(N)and Sgr B2(M), and the quiescent core Sgr B2(NW). ... The Sgr B2 molecular cloud, located approximately 100 pc from the Galactic Centre and with a mass of , is one of the most extreme cases among star formation sites ( Lis & Goldsmith (1991) ). ... Of the 3 observed positions Sgr B2(N) has the strongest line emission in most molecular species with a few exceptions. ...

... HIDEEP was a deep neutral hydrggen (HI) survey carried out with the multibeam receiver on the 64-m Parkes telescope in Australia. ... The cosmological significance of low surface brightness galaxies found in a deep blind neutral hydrogen survey Minchin et al. ... HIDEEP an extragalactic blind survey for very low column-density neutral hydrogen Minchin et al. ... Properties of galaxies found in a deep multibeam survey for extragalactic neutral hydrogen: HIDEEP Minchin et al. ...

The Earth's magnetosphere global structure is conditioned by the interaction of the Solar wind and Earth's magnetic field. ... Solar wind (SW) - the region outside BS; . ... Auroral field lines (AUR) region - the funnel-shape cavity restricted by the geocentric distance of the order of 6 RE, between surfaces formed by magnetic field lines emerged from the polar and equatorial OVAL borders; . ... Fairfield D.H., Average and unusual location of the Earth's magnetopause and bow shock, J. Geophys. ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... Company's History . ... ISS Russian Segment . ... Missions Archive . ... Bus Module . ... In accordance with the mission plan of the International Space Station (ISS), Russian cosmonauts, flight engineers of the 22/23rd Expeditions to ISS, Oleg Kotov and Maxim Suraev performed a scheduled extravehicular activity. ... Exiting onto the ISS surface was performed from the docking compartment-module Pirs of the Russian Segment of the space station. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Have you ever looked at pictures of Saturn's rings and noticed what look like gaps in the rings? ... Gian Domenico Cassini discovered a large gap in Saturn's rings in 1675. Later, an astronomer named Encke discovered a smaller gap near the edge of the rings. ... It was found long ago that an orbit in the Cassini Division, as the large gap is named, has a period almost exactly one-half that of one of Saturn's moons named Mimas. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... We computed the permanently shadowed areas and temperatures inside the craters for the variation of the position of the lunar pole of rotation with respect to the ecliptic pole with a period of 18.6 years. ... According to our results, the total permanently shadowed area in the polar craters of the Moon is equal to 50428.7 km2, or 0.13% of the total area of the lunar surface [3]. ... The area of permanently shaded part of a crater makes 59 % from all area of a crater [3]. ...

Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the updates and links web pages. Discovered independently by Lick Observatory Supernova Search (USA) and Koichi Itagaki (Japan). ... 2009/10/11.44 . 17.2 . ... Joseph Brimacombe . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Fountains on Enceladus . ... That changed in late November, when Cassini flew behind Enceladus and looked back at the moon's crescent disk. ... This false-color view shows the extent of Enceladus' fountain-like plumes, which emanate from the moon's warm south polar region. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article...