... 2012 December 19 . NGC 5189: An Unusually Complex Planetary Nebula . Image Credit: NASA , ESA , Hubble Heritage Team ( STScI / AURA ) . Explanation: Why is this nebula so complex? ... In the case of planetary nebula NGC 5189 , however, no such simple structure has emerged. To help find out why, the Earth-orbiting Hubble Space Telescope recently observed NGC 5189 in great detail. ... APOD Editors to Speak: RJN in Philadelphia on Jan. ... About APOD | ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 10.07.1996 . ... Credit: Galileo Mission Team , Galileo Spacecraft NASA Explanation: Ganymede's surface is slowly being pulled apart. This photo of Ganymede was released earlier today by the Galileo team at NASA. The Galileo Spacecraft arrived at Jupiter in December 1995. In late June, the spacecraft passed within 10,000 kilometers of Ganymede 's icy surface, and took pictures showing complex surface details for the first time. ... 1995 1996 . ...

... December 27, 1999 . Solar Moss . Credit: TRACE Project , NASA . ... The false-color TRACE image above was recorded in extreme ultraviolet light on October 18. It shows the solar moss associated with hot magnetic plasma loops arching above one of the Sun's active regions . ... Solar moss isn't found growing only on the Sun's north side, but as a rule seems to lie above the photosphere or visible surface, in the transition region of the solar atmosphere. ... About APOD > . ...

... The spacecraft of Magion type have been selected as the subsatellites of the Interball project: Magion-4 (C2-X) for the Tail Probe and Magion-5 (C2-A) for the Auroral Probe. ... Magion-4 was produced in the Czech Republic in collaboratrion with Russia, Ukraine, Hungary, Austria and has onboard scientific instruments and sensors designed and built in Czech Republic, Russia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Slovak Republic. ... Plasma flow detector VDP-S (Czech Republic, Russia) . ...

... International Year of Astronomy in Ireland . ... Christmas Moon", painting by Miruna Popescu, Armagh Observatory, featured as " Lunar photo of the Day " and " Astronomy Sketch of the Day " on 25 December 2009. ... To mark the 400th anniversary of GalileoтАЩs first use of the telescope to observe the sky, 2009 has been celebrated worldwide as the International Year of Astronomy. Moon over Armagh - link to Astronomy Sketch of the Day on 25 December 2009 . ... Monday, 11 May 2009 23:54 . ...

... The large-scale chains visible on the inverted SOHO/EIT images (a-c) at three wavelengths of 171, 195 and 284 as well as on the normal MLSO/HAO He I 10830 spectroheliogram (d) of December 16, 1997. ...

home publications > mercury . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... ASP Conference Series . Monograph Publications . IAU Publications . ... Publications of the ASP (PASP) . ... Mercury Magazine . ... Order Mercury Issues . Mercury Advertising Rates . ... Astronomy Beat . ... Mercury Magazine Contents . ... November/December 2003 . ... What Is a "Planet"?, ... The Planet Neptune . ... The Night Sky Network . ... October/November Sky Map | December/January Sky Map . ...

IMPLEMENTATION OF THE MIR ORBITAL COMPLEX . MISSION PROGRAM . Since the launch of core module on February 20, 1986, till March, 23, 2001 Mir Orbital Complex (Mir OC) was in operational use on orbit under the Flight Test Program of the module-based permanently manned Mir station. A total of more than 100 launches of different spacecraft and modules (including the US Shuttle launches) were performed under the Mir Complex Mission Program. ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... solar system . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Open cluster NGC 2818, spiral galaxy NGC 2964, and spiral galaxy NGC 2976 . ... Observe the Solar System . Astronomy for Kids . ... December 2005 . ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Stars . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... This month Jupiter the largest of all planets, remains visible in the sky after sunset, not setting until after 11pm.€а On the evening of 12and 13 December the bright star-like object close to the Moon will be this gas giant planet. ... Rising this month is the great winter constellation of Orion the Hunter who will remain in our night sky through until March. ... Tweets that mention Wonders of the December Sky | ...

... ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . Mopra radio telescope . ... Australia Telescope Online Archive (ATOA) . ... ATCA | ... Australia Telescope 20GHz Survey . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . Visiting Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ...

In early mid-infrared observations (c 1970) two prominent dust emission features were discovered. ... Soon after the discovery of the silicate features another feature at about 11.3 microns was discovered in the spectra of some carbon stars, not as wide or as strong as the silicate features but still thought to be due to a solid material. ... less common features: extreme carbon stars, the AlO/silicate complex, the "unidentified infrared" features, unusual silicate features . ...

... It was designed to observe the solar wind approaching Earth, from a position near the Lagrangian point L1, and it is part of the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) Initiative . ... The original plan called for "Wind" to approach its final station over two years, undergoing two close encounters with the Moon to boost its speed. ... If however the object is moving , the encounter is not symmetric, and in the end the spacecraft may have gained or lost speed, depending on its trajectory. ...

... Sun images . ... December : 2015 . ... Image of Sun's photosphere obtained 09.12.2015 at 23:40 UT with HMI instrument on board SDO spacecraft . ... Image of Sun's magnetic field obtained 09.12.2015 at 23:28 UT with HMI instrument on board SDO spacecraft . ... Image of Sun's transition region obtained 09.12.2015 at 23:39 UT with AIA instrument on board SDO spacecraft . Image of Sun's corona . Image of Sun's corona obtained 09.12.2015 at 23:39 UT with AIA instrument on board SDO spacecraft . ...

A Christmas Carol Featuring Ghosts · Past · Present · Future Eric Torrence 1/9 December 2004 The Ghost of Christmas Past 7 Preliminary Analyses Presented Very impressive showing, broad physics interests 14 AWG readers, 21 RC members,.. ... Eric Torrence 3/9 December 2004 Ghost of Christmas (near) Future We are trying to get two Moriond Tau talks (one EW, one QCD) Publications of Tau04 results would be a natural reason to argue for these talks CWR must start no later than Feb. 11th! ...

... Smithsonian WORKS TO SAVE JSC'S Saturn V JOHNSON SP ACE CENTER'S LANDMARK ROCKET IS GETTING AN OVERDUE F ACE-LIFT by John Ira Petty The Saturn V on display at JSC, intended for Apollo 18, never got off the ground. ... An actual Apollo Saturn V launch vehicle (center frame), which was originally built to start a crew of astronauts on its way to the Moon, has been on permanent exhibit since 1977, along with models of the Little Joe and Mercury-Redstone rockets. ... NASA JSC2003-E-46913 Lt. ...

Next: SAOTk: Tcl/Tk Widgets for Imaging and Data Visualization . ... Xguiphot is a new GUI driven interactive aperture photometry tool being developed to run under the IRAF environment. Xguiphot as a new aperture photometry tool being developed to run under the IRAF environment. ... On task startup Xguiphot requests a list of images, a list of objects files, a list of output files, initial values for the algorithm parameters, and the name of the GUI definition file. ...

... Laboratory and theoretical modelling of the UV bump on the interstellar extinction curve is a very popular topic in dusty investigations. ... feature is illustrated by Fig. 10 where the profiles were calculated using the model of graphite spheres. Figure 10: Normalized extinction efficiencies for graphite spheres. ... The lower panel shows the summary extinction of two graphite spheres with radii and (from upper panel) taken in equal proportions. ...

... OCR by H.Andernach 1/96, to be proof-read) This is the first of a series of papers presenting results of a 10-GHz radio continuum survey of the galactic plane region using the 45-m telescope at Nobeyama. ... Weak Nonthermal Sources: A comparison with the Bonn S-GHz survey reveals a number of weak nonthermal sources near the galactic plane. ... For this reason we conducted a survey of the galactic plane region at 10 GHz using the 45-m radio telescope at the Nobeyama Radio Observatory (NRO). ...

... SSAU History . SSAU roadmap . ... Equipment testing began on January 4. ... The magnetometer Shtil-M No. 2 is equipped with six sensors that measure the magnetic field in different compartments of the device, fix electrical discharges and the impact of the space environment on the equipment functionality. ... The magnetometer Shtil-M No. 2 is the third unit of the series, which was created in SSAU Institute of Space Device Engineering led by Professor Nicholay Syomkin. ... e-mail: ssau@ssau.ru . ...