... It's the dim star, not the bright one, near the center of NGC 3132 that created this odd but beautiful planetary nebula. ... Characteristic of large, complex impact craters on the Moon, the central uplift was produced by a rebound of the suddenly molten lunar crust during the violent impact event. ... Saturns Iapetus: Moon with a Strange Surface . ... A strange ridge crosses the moon near the equator, visible near the bottom of the above image, making Iapetus appear similar to the pit of a peach. ...

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... 2015 October 27 . Bright from the Heart Nebula . ... Explanation: What's that inside the Heart Nebula? ... The nebula glows brightly in red light emitted by its most prominent element: hydrogen . ... In the center of the Heart Nebula are young stars from the open star cluster Melotte 15 that are eroding away several picturesque dust pillars with their energetic light and winds. ... The Heart Nebula is located about 7,500 light years away toward the constellation of Cassiopeia . ... About APOD | ...

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Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the updates and links web pages. Discovered independently by Lick Observatory Supernova Search (USA) and Koichi Itagaki (Japan). ... 2009/10/11.44 . 17.2 . ... Joseph Brimacombe . ...

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A team of scientists believes they have discovered a chain of impact craters in the central African country of Chad that suggests ancient Earth may have been hit by a large, fragmented comet or asteroid similar to the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet that slammed into Jupiter in 1994. The craters were discovered in radar images of the Earth taken by the Spaceborne Imaging Radar C/X-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SIR-C/X-SAR) that flew on the Space Shuttle Endeavour in April and October of 1994. ...

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The AstroGuide . ... AstroGuide | ... AstroGuide Listing . ... See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . Information on impact craters here on Earth. ... Listed Since July 15, 1998 . ... Web Site . ... Additional Information . Web . www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . are trademarks of John Huggins ...

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... October 9, 1997 . Hale-Bopp and the North American Nebula . ... Explanation: Comet Hale-Bopp 's recent encounter with the inner Solar System allowed many breath-taking pictures. Above, Comet Hale-Bopp was photographed on March 8th in the constellation of Cygnus . ... The North American Nebula is about 1500 light years away, much farther than the comet, which was about 8 light minutes away. ... About APOD > . ...

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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Moon . ... Space Flight . ... One of the best-known lunar craters, Tycho is not especially large at some 85 km across. ... Bright and with prominent rays of material radiating from it, Tycho is a young crater; there has been little time for the slow and steady rain of micrometeorites to erode it. ... NASAтАЩs LRO recently took this evocative image of the steep slopes of TychoтАЩs central peak illuminated by the morning Sun. ...

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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. ...

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Analysis of Observations of Earth Impact Object 2008 TC3 . ... Central (Pulkovo) Astronomical Observatory of RAS, St. Petersburg, Russia Abstract: . On-line astrometric and photometric observations of asteroid 2008 TC3 , discovered 19 hours before its impact on Earth [1], were carried out with the mirror astrograph ZA-320 пњ at Pulkovo observatory at night of 7 th October, 2009. ... Results of analysis of the of 837 observations taken at 26 observatories worldwide are presented. ...

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... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Bad Astro Store . ... Site Info . ... It is from from Voyager 1 and shows a whopping big impact crater dominating the profile of the moon. Note that Mimas is about 400 kilometers across (about 250 miles). ... The wall around the crater is 5 kilometers high, and that central peak rises 6 kilometers above the surface (many impact craters have a large central peak which is caused by a pressure rebound from the impact). ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

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... 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) ...

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... all new HIPASS galaxies (Table 2.4) that have no yet been observed with the ATCA . ... Table : Remaining ATCA target list (sorted by RA) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name RA DEC ID Max mom0 mom1 mom2 w50 w20 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ZSS 13 07:33:16 -28:41:07 new -HIZSS013 0.151 9.2 2077.6 21.6 52.8 144.6 HIP 358 07:44:56 -41:47:02 ESO311-G006/7 0.262 30.9 1049.4 34.5 127.1 149.5 ...

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Imaging photometry of the optical continuum during Deep Impact Tanyu Bonev1 and Klaus Jockers Max Planck Institute fЭr Aeronomie · Feasibility · Brightness and color measurements of a disintegrated comet · Simulations of the impact ejecta dust cloud · Conclusions 1 on leave from I nsti tute of Astronomi e, Bulgari an Aca demy of Sc i ence s Feasibility or · What we know about the dust coma of comet 9P/Tempel? and · Is the material added by the impact sufficient to be detected? ...

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... We had a unique diagnostic tool for determining whether or not the secondary was fractured during the dark run in that we had 3 sets of focus sweep data for the imaging camera taken on the nights of 05 October 1999, 11 October 1999, and 14 October 1999. ... Figure: 05 October 1999, CCD g1 . ... Surface plot. ... Figure 32 plots the same data but for CCD g3. ... Figure: Comparison of normalised brighness for the out-of-focus doughnuts for the nights of 05, 11, and 14 October 1999 for CCD g1. ...

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... October 8, 15:00 15:40 . ... PDF [7.2б MB] October 8, 15:40 16:10 . ... The sky brightness, atmospheric extinction, cloud coverage and auroral appearance are obtained from these images. ... Aurorae are identified by comparing the observed sky brightness to the sky brightness expected from this model. ... The identification of few potential sites for future's larger facility require several instruments, measuring various site characterizing parameters. ...

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