... 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. ...

... The Magnetic Carpet Of The Sun . ... Credit: SOHO Consortium , ESA , NASA Explanation: The Sun has a magnetic carpet . Its visible surface appears to be carpeted with tens of thousands of magnetic north and south poles joined by looping field lines which extend outward into the Solar Corona . ... A close-up of the Solar surface is illustrated in the inset. ... Publications with keywords: Sun - corona - magnetic field . Publications with words: Sun - corona - magnetic field . ...

... October 24, 1999 . The Magnetic Carpet Of The Sun . Credit: SOHO Consortium , ESA , NASA . Explanation: The Sun has a magnetic carpet . Its visible surface appears to be carpeted with tens of thousands of magnetic north and south poles joined by looping field lines which extend outward into the Solar Corona . ... A close-up of the Solar surface is illustrated in the inset. ... About APOD > . ... NASA Technical Rep.: ... A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC . ...

... Star Atlas . ... stars . ... Globular cluster NGC 2808, elliptical galaxy NGC 2986, and the Sextans Dwarf . ... Proxima Centauri is a red dwarf star, so would it appear red from the surface of an Earth-like planet in that star's habitable zone? ... Astronomers haven t found planets around our Sun s nearest neighbor, the red dwarf Proxima Centauri. ... Most exoplanets orbit red dwarfs the most common and longest-lived type of star. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

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Ice Volcanoes Reshape Europa's Chaotic Surface . Ice-spewing volcanoes and the grinding and tearing of tectonic plates have reshaped the chaotic surface of Jupiter's frozen moon Europa, images from NASA's Galileo spacecraft reveal. ... Although the images do not show currently active ice volcanoes or geysers, they do reveal flows of material on the surface that probably originated from them, said Galileo imaging team member Dr. Ronald Greeley of Arizona State University, Tempe. ... Europa . ...

ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Governance overview . Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Our people overview . ... Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Mopra radio telescope . ... Observing schedules . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ... A summary of the schedule in text format. The schedule in postscript format. The schedule in pdf format. The schedule in png format . ...

The Earth. ... The middle raiding of the Earth is 6371,032 km, the pole 6356,777 km equatorial - 6378,160 km. The Earth surface area is 510,2 mln km^2, 70,8% of which is the World ocean. ... According to the modern cosmogonical views the Earth was formed 4,6 - 4,7 billions years ago from the protoplanet cloud captured by the Sun. ... The Earth is conditionally divided into 3 parts: a bark a cloak and a core (in the centre). The external layer - the bark is 35 km thick. ... Above the Earth. ...

... May 27, 2009 - The CORONAS-PHOTON has registered the formation of the Sun's southern belt of activity . 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. ...

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