... 2007 December 2 . Gibbous Europa . Credit: Galileo Project , JPL , NASA ; reprocessed by Ted Stryk . Explanation: Although the phase of this moon might appear familiar, the moon itself might not. In fact, this gibbous phase shows part of Jupiter 's moon Europa . The robot spacecraft Galileo captured this image mosaic during its mission orbiting Jupiter from 1995 - 2003. ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply . ... A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC . ...

... Saturn's large moon Titan would be unique in our solar system, the only world with stable liquid lakes and seas on its surface ... except for planet Earth of course. ... But small, measurable color differences have been greatly exaggerated to make this telescopic, multicolored, moonscape captured during the Moon's full phase. ... Geminid Meteors over Teide Volcano . ... Gibbous Europa . ... The Bubble Nebula . ... The annual Geminid meteor shower is raining down on planet Earth this week. ...

Most of these images were obtained by Mike Bessell, Michelle Buxton, Hwankyung Sung, Ralph Sutherland and Bob Watson at SSO using a 2Kx2K Site CCD behind a Nikon or Hasselblad lens or directly on the 1m telescope. A few images are from the Hubble Space Telescope. Some of the M42 images were obtained with the KPNO 1m and ESO NTT telescope. One image is a mosaic of IRAS images. ... Details of the CCD imaging program at MSSSO. ... antenna.jpg (53KB) . ... ngc6744.jpg (59KB) . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. December 17, 1996 . Mariner's Mercury . ... Explanation: Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, remains the most mysterious of the Solar System's inner planets. ... The only spacecraft to explore Mercury close-up was Mariner 10 which executed 3 flybys of Mercury in 1974 and 1975, surveying approximately 45 percent of its surface. ...

... Fundamentals of Aperture Antennas and Arrays . ... Summary: The types of aperture antennas covered in this book include the main types of horns, reflectors and arrays as well as microstrip patches, reflectarrays and lenses. ... Also included is an introduction to arrays on non-planar surfaces, which is of importance for applications that involve curved surfaces such as in aerodynamics or for making aperture antennas unobtrusive. ... today * ATNF | ...

Venus in visible light (violet filter) 50k gif ; 25k jpg . ... image from Pioneer Venus 15k jpg ; 28k jpg ( caption ) . ... 7 pancake volcanoes, alpha region 227k gif ; 327k jpg . ... Lada Regio, 47 deg S, 25 Long, showing mountains and craters 121k gif ; 321k jpg . ... Gula Mons and Cunitz crater, flat image of gulacun.gif 250k gif ; 178k jpg . ... Crater Farm, Lavinia Region, small 107k gif ; 147k jpg . ... Central Ovida region, 1 deg s by 83 deg 191k gif ; 531k jpg . ... Pictures .. ... Venus .. ...

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Four spacecraft: INTERBALL Tail probe (IB_TAIL), MAGION 5 (IB_MAG5), POLAR(NASA/ISAS), GEOTAIL (NASA) are considered. ... Orbital ASCII files | ... four spacecraft . ... INTERBALL . ... ASCII files . ... NASA) . ... NASA, ISAS) . ... The four spacecraft . ... INTERBALL mission | ...

In this gallery are many images of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies which have recently been discovered and analyzed. ... The central surface brightness of this galaxy is 24.28 . Malin 2 This galaxy is another huge disk galaxy with a scale length of 15 kpc and a redshift of 15000 km/a. The high surface brightness knot in one of its spiral arms actually has the same color, luminosity and H-alpha equivalent width as the entire Large Magellanic Cloud . ... Truly it is a Low Surface Brightness Galaxy. ...

Official Arecibo picture site . Below are some pictures of the place where I work. ... Picture of the platform, taken by my dad. It doesn't look that big!", he says. Well, we'll see. My dad, in front of the primary. ... You can see how holey the surface really is. ... We see the line feed on the left and part of the Gregorian dome on the right. See from inside, the platform is quite complex. ... Looking down on the Gregorian dome! ... Below: Pictures of my new Office! ...

... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Star Clusters . ... FLAMES . ... 100 Hours of Astronomy . ... IMAX€о 3D Film Hidden Universe . ... This image, the first to be released publicly from VISTA, the worldтАЩs largest survey telescope, shows the spectacular star-forming region known as the Flame Nebula, or NGC 2024, in the constellation of Orion (the Hunter) and its surroundings. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Sky Events . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Tune into the Asteroid Day press conference . ... How do spacecraft safely navigate the asteroid belt? ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter....

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Moon . ... Apollo 17?s CSM, named America, seen over the Moon?s cratered surface. ... Image credit: NASA) . ... Harrison Schmitt with our homeworld (Image credit: Eugene Cernan/NASA) . ... In this still from a video recording Schmitt is holding a rake used to collect small pebbles (Image credit: NASA) . ... The Earth was lower in the lunar sky over the Apollo 17 landing site than on other missions so it appears in more images. (image credit: NASA) . ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... I have a fun video on how to stand an egg on end on my blog at Discover Magazine . ... At the end of the show, one of the characters looks up the words "egg" and "equinox" on the web... and says it sent him to "thingsthatarewrong.com". ... Bad Astronomy : Only on the day of the Vernal (spring) Equinox, can you stand a raw egg on its end. Good astronomy : If you can stand a raw egg on end, it has nothing to do with the Equinox. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

Eyepieces Forum Message . Forums: . ... Eyepieces | ... Pictures . ... Posted by Jarvis Krumbein on November 2, 2003 05:23:47 UTC . ... I was having serious problems manhandling the tube assembly of the old setup around as the bloody thing was very heavy. ... Pictures - gjeckes - November 2, 2003 - 08:06 UTC . ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... Calendar . ... I n the last day of the International Year of Astronomy ( early evening of 31 December 2009), the Moon had the smallest partial eclipse that we have seen in Ireland and the UK for 40 years: the Moon was 8% covered by the Earth's shadow. Incidentally, this was also a "Blue Moon" - the name given for the second full Moon within a calendar month. ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

FOURTEENTH CREW REQUIRED RESOURCES ELEVENTH RUSSIAN VISITING CREW IMAGE . ... ISS Flight Engineer . ... In January - June 1993 he passed training under EC-14 program on the Mir Station as a commander of the backup (third) crew. ... From October 1998 to September 2000 at JSC (NASA) he passed training for a space flight by the Shuttle Orbiter under the ISS assembly program (flight 2A, 2A/2B). ... He is currently training as a flight engineer within the ISS-14 back-up crew for a space flight. ...

... Matching the Surface of Best Focus . ... The plug-plates of SDSS project are responsible for locating the optical-fiber plugs spatially and for defining the plug tilt with respect to the surface of best focus. ... Approximately 670 holes are drilled in each plate. ... In the first attempts to match the curvature of the plug-plates to that of the best focal surface, the bending fixture was set upon 3 6.630mm metal supports that were affixed to a table top and spaced 120 apart. ...

... Date : the picture was taken on December 14th 1998 . Location : Courroux / Ju (Switzerland) . Equipement : telescope Celestron Ultima 8 operating at F/D=6.3 camera CCD ST7 operating at high resolution autoguided mode . Exposures : 6 exposures of 10 minutes each . Pictures treatment : logarithmic . Software : Prism98 version 3.0 for acquisition and treatment of the pictures . ... 2822 Courroux . ... David Bishop Last modified: Wed Dec 16 13:55:05 EST 1998 ...

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