... 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. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 20.08.1997 . ... Credit Copyright: W. Pacholka Explanation: Has Orion the Hunter acquired a new weapon? ... Actually, the bright streak is a meteor from the Perseid Meteor Shower , a shower that put on an impressive display last Tuesday morning, when this photograph was taken. ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ... Publications with keywords: meteor . Publications with words: meteor . ... Geminid Meteor Shower over Dashanbao Wetlands . ...

... 2005 August 8 . Mars to Appear Normal This August . ... Regardless of numerous urban legends circulating, Mars will appear relatively normal in August. October is the best month to see Mars this year. ... As Earth catches up to Mars in their respective orbits around the Sun, Mars will keep rising earlier in the night. On 2005 October 30, Earth will have caught up to Mars and the planets will be the nearest to each other in their orbits -- this time around. ... About APOD | ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... Observing . ... Why do the constellations and the Moon appear upside down from the Southern Hemisphere? ... From the Southern Hemisphere, any object or constellation that lies near the celestial equator (the imaginary line that divides the northern and southern halves of the sky) would appear both upside down and reversed left to right compared to a northern perspective. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy...

Use these guidelines to fill out or edit the corresponding fields in the preprint entrytool. NOTE: Inside INPUT fields, Netscape DOES replace special symbols that appear in the default value for that field by the actual character. ... 1) The Space Velocity Institute Bedrock City, FS 00001 USA (2) Also: The Apple Institute for advanced juices Cambridge, MA 00002 UK (3) Sun Center, Telescope Rd 149 12600 Earth City, SS (4) On leave from the Transylvanian Penitentiary Results in: . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Earth Satellites . ... Leonid meteors seen from 13 km altitude aboard an aircraft during the 1999 Leonids Multi-Instrument Aircraft Campaign (Leonid-MAC). Comet Tempel-Tuttle provides the cometary debris for the Leonid meteor shower. ... Every 17-19 November Earth crosses Tempel-TuttleтАЩs orbit and the Leonids become visible. With clear, dark skies observers may see 10 to 15 Leonid meteors every hour on those mornings. ...

Seven months ago, on Mar 19, 2008, at 09:12 Moscow time, a new star appeared on the sky. The Sun had already risen over the Russia, but people of the Western hemisphere might be able to see by their eyes a faint starlet near one of Bootes constellation stars. This starlet appeared and faded by an order of magnitude in a minute. Astronomers named it GRB080319B or, informally, the Naked-Eye Burst, as it was twice as bright as human eye can see a star. ... Royal Astronomical Society . ...

... STScI-PRC01-04 HUBBLE'S ULTRAVIOLET VIEWS OF NEARBY GALAXIES YIELD CLUES TO EARLY UNIVERSE Astronomers are using these three NASA Hubble Space Telescope images to help tackle the question of why distant galaxies have such odd shapes, appearing markedly different from the typical elliptical and spiral galaxies seen in the nearby universe. ... Light from these galaxies travels great distances (billions of light-years) to reach Earth. ... These stars emit mostly ultraviolet light. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... The Perseid meteor shower, which this year peaked around midnight on the evening of August 12th, will continue at a low rate until around August 24th. ... Video clips in AVI and mp4 formats of some of the brightest Perseid meteors detected by the ObservatoryтАЩs cameras together with an image illustrating the parallel tracks in space of the Perseid meteors detected at Armagh can be found here . ...

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The Sun's corona . ... For instance, short "plumes" rising from the polar regions of the Sun look very much like field lines coming out of the end of a bar magnet, and they therefore suggest that the Sun, in addition to the intense fields of sunspots, also has a global magnetic field like the Earth's. Arches above the . Sun's surface . ... It is brightest near sunspots, whose arched field lines apparently hamper the outflow of solar wind which carries away energy and helps cool the corona. ...

The Wideband Arecibo Pulsar Processor - File Format Page . WAPP files have three sections that appear sequentially in this order: an ASCII header description, the binary header, and finally the actual binary data. ... The WAPP realtime observation engine does not produce files larger that 2 Gbytes. At one time this represented a fundamental limit to Linux files. ... Each file will have it's own header, even when the files are simply continuations of a single observation. ... long int . ...

In autumn 1994, two groups of astronomers announced that they had discovered Cepheid variable stars in a distant cluster of galaxies. ... As the term suggests, variable stars change in brightness over time. ... Variable stars are an ideal way to get high-school students doing real science, with real data, from the real sky. ... a sky chart to find the stars . ... Students can use the nearby stars to estimate the magnitude of Delta. ... Locate the star Delta in Cepheus and estimate its brightness . ...

... While space seems to be expanding at present (just as in our own universe), this expansion seems to be a recent phenomenon: in the past it appears to have been contracting. Data It is now clear that fuzzballs are actually galaxies. ... For the brightest fuzzballs, those from which we detect more than 100 photons per second, the pattern seems to match what we would expect. The fuzzball galaxies are indeed redshifted, and the fainter ones are more redshifted than the bright (nearby) ones. ...

... Most people will tell you the Sun is yellow, but if you could fly out into space and look at our star without going blind, you d actually see that it looks white. ... Our Sun appears yellow to us because of the Earth s atmosphere (the gases that surround our planet). ... This picture is an artist s illustration of one of the most rare and awesome stars in the Universe a yellow hyper-giant . ... Cool fact: This yellow hyper-giant is the 12th largest star to be found in the entire Universe! ...

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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 . ...

... This is a personal project collecting and documenting early images of Harvard College Observatory, focusing on the site at Observatory Hill (previously Summer House Hill). ... Ida Woods . ... Earliest source: "[Observatory data analysis by women computers] ." ... I've dated this photo to March of 1898 based on a calendar visible in the image. ... Immediatly in front of her are Eve Leland (back row center) and Ida Woods to the right. ... Mabel Gill (or "Edith F. Gill" sipickwomen ) . ...

... Circumstellar disc of beta Pictoris: constraints on grain properties from polarization. To appear in the Astronomy & Astrophysics . abs , src , ps ] . ... Dust influx to Titan from Hyperion . ... abs ] . ... Characteristics of bulges and disks in interacting galaxies . ... Dust grains around Herbig Ae/Be stars: porous, cometary-like grains? ... To appear in the Astronomy & Astrophysics Supplement . ... Finally, Links may lead you to more options (e.g. via the LANL preprint system). ...

As a result of preceding actions the File opening dialog box appears and user is suggested to open the file with observations (the file may be created for the first time). ... To see the list of files with desirable extension in chosen folder define the type of extension with the help of File type drop-down list at the bottom of the dialog box. ... The name of the file will appear in File name dialog box. ... In case you want to open the file with new name, type it in the File name dialog box. ...