... 2010 February 25 . Edge-on Spiral Galaxy NGC 891 . ... The spiral galaxy spans about 100 thousand light-years and is seen almost exactly edge-on from our perspective. ... At first glance, it has a flat, thin, galactic disk and a central bulge cut along the middle by regions of dark obscuring dust . Also apparent in NGC 891's edge-on presentation are filaments of dust that extend hundreds of light-years above and below the center line. ... About APOD | ...

... This beautiful, bright, spiral galaxy is Messier 64, often called the Black Eye Galaxy or the Sleeping Beauty Galaxy for its heavy-lidded appearance in telescopic views. ... Comet PANSTARRS and the Andromeda Galaxy . ... Coincidentally, both comet and galaxy appear now to be just about the same angular size. ... For northern hemisphere skygazers, fading Comet PanSTARRS (C/2011 L4) still hangs above the western horzion, after sunset but before moonrise in the coming days. ... 2011 2012 . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Moon . Planets . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... February . ... The ringed planet will be quite bright, but unlike Jupiter it will not be the brightest point of light in the sky, this accolade will return to Sirius which is the brightest star in our night sky in the constellation of Canis Major. ... Seven days later on February 18, the Moon will be in its full Moon phase. ... Tweets that mention Wonders of the February Night Sky | ... Astronotes . ...

... February 21, 1996 . Millions of Stars in Omega Centauri . ... Explanation: Pictured above is the largest ball of stars in our Galaxy. About 10 million stars orbit the center of this globular cluster - named Omega Centauri - as this giant globular cluster orbits the center of our Galaxy . Recent evidence indicates that Omega Centauri is by far the most massive of the about 160 globular clusters in the Milky Way . ... About APOD | ...

... Comet Ikeya-Zhang, designated C/2002 C1 (Ikeya-Zhang), is named after Kaoru Ikeya of Shizuoka prefecture, Japan, and Daqing Zhang of Henan province, China, who independently discovered it on the night of 1 February 2002. A preliminary orbit reported the following day indicated that it would come moderately close to both the Earth and the Sun and that it might become visible to the naked eye during late March and April 2002. ... Bailey, M.E., Clube, S.V.M. and Napier, W.M. The Origin of Comets . ...

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... Sun images . ... Active areas . February : 2016 . ... The following regions with sunspots can be now observed on the Sun's surface . Group number . ... Group length (in degrees) . ... Beta . ... Coordinates and other characteristics of active regions are issued for February 09, 2016 00:31 UT The following H-alpha plages without spots can be currently observed on the Sun's surface . ... Coordinates and other characteristics of active regions are issued for February 09, 2016 00:31 UT . ...

Astronomy Discussion Forums . Forums: . Atm ћ Astrophotography ћ Blackholes ћ Blackholes2 ћ CCD ћ Celestron ћ Domes ћ Education . ... Discussion Forums . ... Brightest Northern Hemisphere Galaxy . Forum List | ... Post Message | ... In which constellation would I find the brightest galaxy in the northern hemisphere? ... www.astronomy.net . ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... Keith S. Noll, Space Telescope Science Institute . ... Abstract . ... AGNs with Intermediate-mass Black Holes: Testing the Black Hole-Bulge Paradigm, Part II . ... Douglas R. Gies, Georgia State University Research Foundation . ... Increasing the Accuracy of HST Astrometry with FGS1r . ... WFPC2 Imaging of the Lockman Hole . ... HST Observations of Titan's Escaping Atmosphere in Transit and in Emission . ... Saturnian aurorae . ... GO 11967: WFPC2 Imaging of the Lockman Hole . ... Past weeks: . ...

... Users . Connections (constellation) . ... Data Collection and Analysis . AAS 221 . ... The graph below represents the connections between users tweeting about the 221st meeting of the American Astronmical Society . ... The circles represent Twitter accounts; the color is coded based on the number of followers of each account using the scale given at the top of the graph (it's also included in the mouse-over text for each node), although I don't have this information for all users. ...

Wednesday, February 15th, 2012 . ... Monday, February 13th, 2012 . ... Сделать это можно использую Map Tools проекта SOPAC (http://sopac NULL .ucsd NULL .edu/maps/) . ... Wednesday, February 8th, 2012 . ... You are currently browsing the Лаборатория лазерной интерферометрии blog archives for February, 2012. ... Наши публикации . ... Публикации за 2010 . Публикации за 2011 . Публикации за 2012 . ... February 2012 . ... Лаборатория лазерной интерферометрии is proudly powered by WordPress . ...

... Asteroid . ... In case you didn't hear about it, which you probably didn't: On Jan. 7, an asteroid 1,000 feet across -- nearly three times the current diameter of Marlon Brando -- barely missed the Earth, which is most likely your planet of residence. ... What if this asteroid had hit the Earth? ... As it happens, the American Astronomical Society was holding a conference in Washington AT THE VERY SAME TIME as the asteroid nearly hit the Earth. ...

... Leonid CHEKHOV (Steklov Institute and Poncelet lab, Moscow) . ... Ivan DYNNIKOV (MSU, Moscow) . ... Oleg KARPENKOV (Poncelet lab, Moscow) . ... Gleb KOSHEVOY (CEMI and Poncelet lab, Moscow) . Serguei LANDO (Poncelet lab, Moscow) . ... 16:00-16:50 S. Natanzon: Klein topological field theories . ... 16:00-16:50 G. Duchamp: On some interactions between Combinatorics, Computer Science and Physics . ... evening Conference dinner . ... 14:45-15:30 O. Karpenkov: Energies of knots and of certain graphs . ...

... The Pleiades star cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, is a conspicuous object in the night sky with a prominent place in ancient mythology . ... The stars in the Pleiades are thought to have formed together around 100 million years ago, making them 1/50th the age of our sun, and they lie some 130 parsecs (425 light years ) away. ... Data for these stars are listed in a table below. ... Yes . ... WEBDA Pleiades cluster data . ... M45: The Pleiades Star Cluster (2007 November 18) ...

... APT Activities and Science Results 3. ... APT Secretary Philip Edwards (ISAS) reviewed the aims of the APT (http://www.vsop.isas.ac.jp/apt/DefinitionAndAims.html). ... The Australia Telescope Compact Array, and Ceduna, Hartebeesthoek, Kashima, Mopra, Parkes, and Shanghai telescopes of the Asia-Pacific Telescope participated in these observations. ... In the absence of Tetsuo Sasao, Philip Edwards briefly described results of the APT 22 GHz observations conducted from October 1st to 5th, 1997. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . News . Observing . ... Magazine . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... 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 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... February 2015 . ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

... Stephen G. Bowen (CAPTAIN, USN) . ... NASA EXPERIENCE: €а Bowen is the first Submarine Officer selected by NASA in July 2000 as a mission specialist.€а He reported for training at the Johnson Space Center in August 2000.€а Following the completion of two years of training and evaluation, he was initially assigned technical duties in the Astronaut Office Station Operations Branch.€а A veteran of three spaceflights, STS-126 in 2008, STS-132 in 2010, and STS-133 in 2011, €аBowen has logged ...

. Mercury, January/February 2004 Table of Contents .

Regions designation | Regions models | ASCII files description . The real time regions passing . ... The IB_TAIL geocentric distance as a function of the UT (Plot) . Geomagnetic local time in the IB_TAIL position as a function of the UT (Plot) . The orbital data ASCII files . The IB_TAIL magnetic mapping and conjugations with groundbased instruments and anothers spacecraft . Updated 4 May, 1999 . IKI RAN | SSC IKI RAN | INTERBALL mission  ...

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