... Where's the other star? ... Once a bright apparition in the southern hemisphere dawn Comet Lovejoy is fading, but its long tail still stretches across skies near the south celestial pole. ... Bright Star Regulus near the Leo I Dwarf Galaxy . ... The star near the top is so bright that it is sometimes hard to notice the galaxy toward the bottom. Pictured above, both the star, Regulus, and the galaxy, Leo I, can be found within one degree of each other toward the constellation of the Lion (Leo). ...

... 2006 December 9 . Three Planets in Dawn Skies . ... Explanation: Three children of the Sun rise in the east in this peaceful dawn skyview recorded December 7th near Bolu, Turkey. Inner planet Mercury , fresh from its second transit of the 21st century, stands highest in the bright sky at the top right. Gas giant Jupiter lies below the cloud bank near picture center. ... About APOD | ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ... A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Colin Johnston . ... Our Galaxy . ... To locate it, look along the imaginary line between the two end stars on the leading edge of the PloughтАЩs blade (Merak and Dubhe) and Polaris (the North Star), the galaxy M82 (also known as the Cigar Galaxy) along with its companion M81, lies just off this line about a third of the way between the Plough and Polaris. €а€аAs usual, the supernova is far brighter than its home galaxy, appearing as an extra star. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Risks Comparable to NEOs . ... The Increasing Rate of Discovery of Asteroids . ... Comet and Asteroid Collision Probabilities . ... Extreme albedo comets and the impact hazard (PDF Format) . ... Asteroid Impact Animations . ... Workshop on Scientific Requirements for Mitigation of Hazardous Comets and Asteroids - 2002 . ... The Spaceguard Survey Report, 1992 (PDF) . Tsunami from Asteroid/Comet Impacts . ...

... 2000 December 20 . Sgr A*: Fast Stars Near the Galactic Center . ... Explanation: Why are these stars moving so fast? Shown above is a time-lapse movie in infrared light detailing how stars in the central light-year of our Galaxy have moved over the past eight years. ... If these fast stars are held to the Galactic Center by gravity, then the central object exerting this gravity must be both compact and massive. ... About APOD | ...

... 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. ...

... at 14 00 on Friday, December 20 , 1996 . 5-th seminar) . ... APhI, Alma-Ata) . ... 30 min.) ... News (M.E.Prokhorov) . Discovery of million Faint X-ray Flashes, (Gothelf E., Hamilton T., Helfand D. ApJ,466,779)" . ... The secretary of the seminar - M.E.Prokhorov . Access free . ...

The properties of the midplanes of planet-forming protostellar disks remain largely unprobed by observations due to the high optical depth of dust and commonly observed molecules. However, rotational emission lines from rare molecules may have optical depths near unity in the vertical direction, so that the lines are strong enough to be detected, yet remain transparent enough to trace the disk midplane. In this talk, I will present a chemical evolution model of an MRI-active T-Tauri disk. ...

Top] [Prev] [Next] . Astronomy traces its roots to our early struggle to understand the wanderings of planets within our solar system. ... White dwarfs, the endpoints of stellar evolution for most stars, experience a quieter birth than pulsars. While a pulsar's planetary companions are probably second generation objects, planets around white dwarfs are almost certainly surviving members of original systems, and more closely related to our solar system. ...

The AstroGuide . ... AstroGuide | ... AstroGuide Listing . ... See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . Urania is a public observatory situated in Hove near Antwerp (Belgium). ... Listed Since December 26, 1998 . ... Hove, ZZ B-2540 . Belgium . Web Site . http://www.urania.be/english/ . ... Web . ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... When Venus is on the far side of the Sun, we see the entire near side lit by the Sun. ... When it is on the near side of the Sun, it shows a beautiful thin crescent, because it is between us and the Sun and we see the mostly unlit dark half. ... To see this for yourself, draw a circle one centimeter across, then, next to it, draw a circle 6 centimeters across. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

. Look for Jupiter as it climbs in the eastern sky in the early evening. The giant planet spends December near the center of the constellation Taurus. Astronomy: Roen Kelly

... ESO Science Newsletter December 2015 . 17 Dec 2015 . ... This newsletter is a summary of recent ESO Science Announcement items. Follow the links or visit ESO Science Announcements to read more. ... Read more . ... The allocation of ESO telescope time for Period 97 (1 April БЂ“ 30 September 2016) is expected to be emailed in the week beginning 21 December 2015. ... ESO Workshop, ESO Headquarters, Garching, Germany, 27 June БЂ“ 1 July, 2016 . ... Joint ESO, ALMA, NAOJ, NRAO Workshop. ...

The program "Pioneer" . Pioneer - 10", the first space vehicle started in March, 1972 to the Jove, has reached . ... This photo of the Jove was received December, 1, 1973 when space probe " pioneer - 10 " has come nearer to a planet on distance 2,5 million km. ... This photo was received by "Pioneer - 11" December, 6, 1974 from distance 1,1 million km from a planet. ... The picture is received in December, 12, 1974 when "Pioneer - 11" was on distance of 1207 thousand kms from the Jove. ...

delay-doppler image of the Maxwell Montes region of Venus, taken using the S-Band (2380 MHz or 12.6 cm) radar transmitter and the 305m dish at the Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico in June of 1988. The horizontal resolution is about 2 km. ... This delay-doppler radar image shows craters near the North pole of Mercury. The resolution of this image is about 15 km. ...

... It was designed to observe the solar wind approaching Earth, from a position near the Lagrangian point L1, and it is part of the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) Initiative . ... The original plan called for "Wind" to approach its final station over two years, undergoing two close encounters with the Moon to boost its speed. ... If however the object is moving , the encounter is not symmetric, and in the end the spacecraft may have gained or lost speed, depending on its trajectory. ...

... It was designed to observe the solar wind approaching Earth, from a position near the Lagrangian point L1, and it is part of the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) Initiative . ... The original plan called for "Wind" to approach its final station over two years, undergoing two close encounters with the Moon to boost its speed. ... If however the object is moving , the encounter is not symmetric, and in the end the spacecraft may have gained or lost speed, depending on its trajectory. ...

... The air just sit there and doesn't get stirred. ... Normally, the air is hottest near the ground and gets cooler as you go up. ... If it weren't for the temperature profile, convection wouldn't occur: Because the temperature decreases with altitude, cold air sits on top of hot air, allowing convection. ... The air above the ground is hot, the air above the water is cold. ... The land cools down faster than the sea, so the air above the ground is colder than the air above the water. ...

SN 1999aa - A Third Supernova Discovery . Just 9 weeks after the discovery of SN 1998ey a suspect was found 1" east and 28" north from the centre of NGC 2595 on Feb.11.0166 U.T.. ... Further inspection of 6 images of NGC 2595 taken during Feb. and March 1998 showed no object at the position of the suspect. ... Beijing Astronomical Observatory recorded SN 1999aa on Feb. 11.6 and 12.6 UT, the first obervation being only 14 hours after the discovery. ... Back to Supernova 1999aa in NGC 2595 . ...

2014 May version . ... Green D. A., 2014 , Bulletin of the Astronomical Society of India, 42 , 47-58. ( .pdf , or arXiv.org:1409.0637 ) If you make use of the detailed version of the catalogue, then plaese also cite: . Green D. A., 2014, `A Catalogue of Galactic Supernova Remnants (2014 May version)' , Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, United Kingdom (available at "http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/surveys/snrs/" ). ... Copyright D. A. Green 2014. 25872nd access to this version of the catalogue. ...