... On Monday, January 26, well-tracked asteroid 2004 BL86 made its closest approach, a mere 1.2 million kilometers from our fair planet. That's about 3.1 times the Earth-Moon distance or 4 light-seconds away. ... Comet Lovejoy in a Winter Sky . ... Skylights include the stars in Orion's belt, the Orion Nebula, the Pleiades star cluster, the bright stars Betelgeuse and Rigel, the California Nebula, Barnard's Loop, and Comet Lovejoy. Our Galaxys Magnetic Field from Planck . ... Launch to Lovejoy . ...

Photon Scattering: Basic Principle of Photon Scattering . Audio Narration is available . No Scattering: Photon Source and Detector . ... For optical photons, scattering goes as wavelength to the -4 power. In the case of blue photons compared to red photons, this means that blue photons are about 10 times more likely to get scattered than red photons. ... Watch the blue photons scatter away from the detector . ... Interstellar dust make stars appear redder than they really are . ...

... Some photos from my back garden (Dr Apostolos Christou, Armagh Observatory): . I would like to share with you some pictures of comet Lulin I captured from my back garden on 3 March 2009. ... A Java applet showing the motion of the comet in its orbit can be found here , while a plot of the comet's brightness over time can be found at the bottom of this page ." Monday, 16 March 2009 02:04 . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2006 May 12 . Comet Meets Ring Nebula: Part II . ... Explanation: Moving rapidly through planet Earth's night sky, Fragment C of crumbling comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 passed almost directly in front of M57 - the Ring Nebula, and faint spiral galaxy IC 1296 on May 8. ... About APOD | ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ...

... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... ESO Acronyms . ... Video News Releases . ... New on eso.org . ... ESO News . ... Rapid Eye Mount telescope . ... Black Hole at the Centre of our Galaxy . ... Planetarium shows . ... These images taken over the last decade using the NACO instrument on ESOтАЩs Very Large Telescope show the motion of a cloud of gas that is falling towards the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way. ... Milky Way : Galaxy : Component : Central Black Hole . ...

Nowadays at the Department the experimental and theoretical investigations, including astronomical and ionospheric observations, active experiments with space vehicles are taking place. ... Solar Corona physics and erruptive phenomenae. ... Stellar astronomy. ... The Department has organized and put into practice more then 50 expeditions for observation of Solar ecllipces, aurorae polaris, comets, meteor streams, controlled space experiments, and also for investigations of geophysical characteristics. ...

We present a mid-infrared analysis of star-formation activity in the Large Magellanic Cloud's molecular ridge (south of 30 Doradus). The Magellanic Clouds are a rare laboratory in which extragalactic star-formation diagnostics can be tested at high spatial resolution. ... Detailed analysis in very nearby galaxies, like the Magellanic Clouds, allows us to test and better understand the scaling relations used in unresolved and distant star-formation regions. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . Colin Johnston . ... Space Flight . Human Exploration . Robot Exploration . ... Science Fiction . ... Thanks to extensive training and consummate professionalism, the two astronauts successfully and without a fuss fixed the problem . ... Article by Colin Johnston, Science Communicator) . ... Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Star Atlas . ... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... The planet has extreme temperature swings and perhaps active lava flows. ... A digital supplement to Astronomy magazine. ... Join TravelQuest International with Astronomy and Discover magazines on one of three great tour options surrounding this celestial spectacle . ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

... a positive central nucleus , where most of the atom's mass is concentrated, and . one or more negative electrons . Nucleus and electrons are held together by the electric attraction between positive (+) and negative (-) charges. ... When such processes occur in air, they produce there free ions and electrons, which can move and carry an electric current, something neutral atoms cannot do. ... The next heavier atom is that of helium (chemical symbol He) and it contains two electrons. ...

Astronomy Discussion Forums . Forums: . Atm ћ Astrophotography ћ Blackholes ћ Blackholes2 ћ CCD ћ Celestron ћ Domes ћ Education . ... How Fast Can A Comet Move, And What Is A Comet Made Out Of? ... Post Message | ... Comets I know are very fast moving objects, but I was wondering just how fast they can actually move. ... www.astronomy.net . ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... The high angular resolution of the International Galactic Plane Survey has revealed a wide-spread, cold atomic hydrogen component of the interstellar medium in the form of dark self-absorption cloud complexes. These clouds resemble molecular cloud complexes in structure and trace the spiral arm structure of the Galaxy. ... Nevertheless, continuum absorption studies show that some of the cold atomic hydrogen clouds have temperatures as low as 15 - 20 K --- similar to dense molecular clouds. ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... History . Brief History of Rocket and Space Technology . ... Flights Chronology . ... Project History . ISS Russian Segment . Steps of ISS Assembly . Spaceflights Chronology . Chronology of Extravehicular Activity . ISS 45/46 . ... Rocket Space Complexes . ... Launches Chronology . ... Automatic Space Systems . ... HISTORY . ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

... SSAU History . SSAU roadmap . ... A member of the first launch campaign from the space-launch complex Vostochniy -the students nanosatellite SamSat-218 is completely assembled and sent to the Rocket and Space Centre "Progress". ... The nanosatellite has successfully passed the entrance control at the Rocket and Space Centre and now it is waiting for shipment to the space-launch complex Vostochniy. ... The nanosatellite SamSat-218 solves a number of technological and educational problems. ...

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What will happen when the fragments hit Jupiter? ... All the fragments will enter Jupiter's atmosphere at an angle of 42 degrees from the vertical and impact near a latitude of 44 degrees south, but on the back side of the planet as seen from Earth (about 10 degrees in longitude behind the edge of Jupiter, as seen from Earth). ... Any body moving through an atmosphere is slowed by atmospheric drag, by having to push the molecules of that atmosphere out of the way. ...

... For moving objects such as asteroids, comets, or planets, it is useful to include ephemeris information, both to provide predicted coordinates for planning observations, and to allow accurate airmass calculations in the reductions. ... These times can be given either as Modified Julian Dates ( ), or as ordinary date strings like 1995 Jan 23.0 . To allow good interpolation, include two ephemeris entries before and two after the interval of observations. ... UT date --- column label: DATE . ...

... This makes spatial event selection very hard of even impossible in cases where the object is too faint to clearly stand out against the X-ray background. movecalc takes an event table with aspect corrected X / Y coordinate columns (as generated by task attcalc ) and adds two new columns X_MOV / Y_MOV (different names can be specified via parameters xmovcol / ymovcol ) containing the corresponding coordinates in a reference frame that is centered on the moving object at all times. ...

Text of these problems is available also in other languages : . ... What can one see in the Moon's sky more often - the Sun or the Earth? ... There are about of 250 millions of stars in the elliptical galaxy M32 (a satellite of Andromeda galaxy). ... The masses of Capella's components. ... You are proposed to estimate the masses of Capella's components, using our observational data. ... A galaxy's mass. ... Estimate the mass of FGC 1908 and compare it to the mass of our galaxy. ...