Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 9.03.2015 . ... These included a dark night, few clouds, an epic auroral display, and a body of water that was both calm enough and unfrozen enough to show reflected stars. The featured skyscape of activity and serenity appeared over Iceland 's Vatnajфkull Glacier a year ago January, with the Jфkulsюrlяn Iceberg Lagoon captured in the foreground. ... March 2015 . ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ... Publications with keywords: aurora . ...

... 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. ...

... 2010 November 29 . Dark Belt Reappearing on Jupiter . Credit: NASA's JPL , U. Oxford , UC Berkeley , Gemini Obs. ... Explanation: Why are planet-circling clouds disappearing and reappearing on Jupiter? ... Earlier this year, unexpectedly, Jupiter's dark Southern Equatorial Belt (SEB) disappeared. ... Detailed professional observations revealed that high-flying light-colored ammonia -based clouds formed over the planet-circling dark belt. ... About APOD | ... A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC . ...

... Gift Center . ... Why do aurorae appear strongest within rings centered on Earth's poles instead of filled-in circles? ... RELATED TOPICS: AURORAE . The visible aurorae result from electrons that move along magnetic field lines from space into the upper atmosphere. ... Just make sure you're registered with the website. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... If you are already registered on Astronomy.com, please log in below. ...

Giant radio galaxies constitute a class of radio sources with linear sizes on the megaparsec scale (Saripalli 1988). ... The Westerbork Northern Sky Survey (WENSS) has discovered several cases of "inner-double" or "double-double" giant radio galaxies: the findings suggest that such structures predominantly occur among the larger of radio galaxies. ... Close to the core of B0114-476, a narrow jet-like feature is seen directed toward the southern inner lobe which also has the brighter hotspots. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . Sequence of four video frames captured at 01:05 BST at Armagh Observatory on the night of the 24/25th July 2013, showing the onset, development and demise of the sprite. ... Unlike common lightning discharges, which often jump between clouds or between the clouds and the ground, sprites are associated with similarly powerful electrical fields that occur high above the clouds of the EarthтАЩs atmosphere. ...

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 . ...

... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... ESO . ... Survey Telescopes . ... ESO Supernova . ... Star Clusters . ... Stars@ESO . ... ESO 3.6-metre telescope . ... MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope . ... ESO 1-metre Schmidt telescope . ... Future Projects . ... This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the positions of the past, present and predicted future appearances of the Refsdal supernova behind the galaxy cluster€а MACS J1149+2223 . ...

... Jupiter Eyes Ganymede . Credit: Cassini Team , U. Arizona , JPL , NASA . ... This moon, visible on the lower right, is Ganymede , and the planet it orbits, Jupiter , seems to be keeping a watchful eye, as its Great Red Spot appears serendipitously nearby. This recently released enhanced-contrast image from the robot spacecraft Cassini captures new details of the incredible intricacies of Jupiter's complex cloud patterns. ... Tomorrow's picture: Manicouagan Impact Crater . ...

... SGML . The text/html content type . In this section, we begin the specification of HTML 4.0, starting with the contract between authors, documents, users, and user agents. ... These recommendations are not normative and conformance with this specification does not depend on their realization. ... An HTML document is an SGML document that meets the constraints of this specification. ... A user is a person who interacts with a user agent to view, hear, or otherwise use a rendered HTML document. ...

... X CB (X) Opening of a set X by a disk B. Closing of a set X by a disk B. Science-Driven Feature Selection (a) (b) Mount Wilson Classification The Mount Wilson classification scheme groups sunspots into four classes based on the complexity of magnetic flux distribution in associated active regions [1]: class : groups dominated by a single unipolar sunspot class : a pair of sunspots of opposite magnetic ... Convex hulls are utilized to measure polarity mixture in (j). ...

... A rough estimation is that in the United States there is one planetarium per 100,000 population, ranging in size from the Hayden Planetarium's 20-meter dome seating 430 people, to three-meter inflatable portable domes where children sit on the floor. ... Together dblo associates make a huge impact in the architecture, interior design and development arena in London. ... With the holidays around the corner what better way to spoil your family than with your very own private home cinema. ...

... Bus Hound may be the very first product of its kind -- a software bus analyzer for capturing device I/O and protocol. ... When the capture buffer fills to capacity, Bus Hound can be configured to stop the capture process or continue capturing, keeping the most recent acquired data. ... IDE : Bus Hound captures command and data transfers for ATA and ATAPI devices. ... B us Hound captures I/O using a device driver. ... The below figure demonstrates how Bus Hound captures data for SCSI devices. ...

Analysis of general features of the chaotic system behavior and investigation of the properties of concrete chaotic sources. ... Analysis of information properties of chaotic systems and chaotic oscillations as concrete objects for information processing and comunications. ... This hypothesis gives a possibility of designing simple mathematical structures accomplishing various processes of information processing using chaos. ... Activities | ... E-mail: chaos@mail.cplire.ru ...

home publications > mercury . ... Astronomy Beat . ... Celebrating 30 Years of Mercury . ... In January 1972, a new voice of astronomy appeared on the scene: the premier issue of Mercury magazine. ... After rejecting the name Astronomy , he proposed Mercury , after the messenger of the heavens in Roman mythology who appears on the Society's logo. ASP President Harold F. Weaver wrote in part: "Publication of this first issue of the new Journal of our Society is an important event in our history. ...

. Fig. The SOHO/EIT 171 image (a) illustrating a pronounced transequatorial inverted V-shaped chain 1-2-3-4 which appears to outline the large soft X-ray CH observed with the Yohkoh/SXT (b) on March 1-2, 1999. The BBSO H-alpha (c) and MLSO/HAO He I 10830 (d) heliograms are shown to demonstrate relation of this and some other EUV chains to other large-scale structures such as H-alpha filaments and He I 10830 features. Back to paper .

Phobos . Mars I . Phobos [FOH-bohs] (fear) is a moon of Mars and was named after an attendant of the Roman war god Mars. ... Phobos shows striated patterns which are probably cracks caused by the impact event of the largest crater on the moon. ... The striking feature in this image is the giant Stickney crater. ... Courtesy NASA) . ... Because Phobos is only 28 by 20 kilometers (17 by 12 miles), the moon must have been nearly shattered from the force of the impact that caused the giant crater. ...

... Much of the cold atomic hydrogen in the interstellar medium can only be studied skiagraph- ically as H i self-absorption (HISA) shadows against background H i 21cm emission. ... The brightness of the H i behind the HISA is estimated from emission adjacent to the HISA features in space and velocity, and this background intensity is then used to nd the amount of absorption and various gas properties. ... The strongest HISA appears to congregate in lamentary complexes. ... Strong vs. ...

... The State that has the highest rate of usage of ethanol as an alternative fuel . ... The last time the Oregon Ducks beat UCLA in basketball . The participants and score of the 1980 Rose Bowl . ... An Image of Issac Newton . ... The second highest paid player in the NBA last season . ... A map of the dams that comprise the British Columbia Hydropower System . ... The current freeway traffic flow in Seattle Washington . An image of a 1966 Shelby (Mustang) . ... Dr DarkMatter's Home Page . ...

To Do List ========== November 10, 2007 =============== Progress in base code not yet on this site will appear in the next beta version released here. ... Features in development for the next stable release include TDI with absolute timing Binning and subarea readout Autoguiding with the tracking control and adaptive optics features XML based server/client for remote use Command line version Browser version Connection to XmTel and XEphem for coordinate information in FITS headers ...