... Following a series of failures, the Soviet probe touched down in the Moon's Oceanus Procellarum region February 3, 1966. ... But he went home from Cambridge one summer in 1665, thought a lot about the physical nature of the world, and came back two years later with a revolutionary understanding of mathematics, gravitation, and optics. ... Rivers in the Sun . ... These fleeting events are only visible to those in the path of the Moon's shadow as it races across the Earth. ... Is this one galaxy or...

... Armagh Planetarium . ... Universe . ... 1 Comment In July 2015, we will finally have our long-awaited closeup views of the dwarf planet Pluto and its moons when NASA?s New Horizons probe flies past the tiny and distant [ ] . ... No Comments As everyone knows on Friday 20 March 2015, a total solar eclipse will occur across the far northern regions of Europe and the Arctic. ... Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

... Contact . ... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . Development of the 20 March 2015 partial solar eclipse as seen from Northern Ireland from first contact at 08:26 to eclipse maximum at around 09:30. ... Armagh Observatory reports that the largest partial solar eclipse visible from Northern Ireland since 1927, when 97 percent of the SunтАЩs disc was obscured, occurs between 08:26 and 10:38 on the morning of Friday 20 March 2015. ...

... The awsome spectacle of a brilliant comet, with its long ghostly tail streaming behind it, is a rare event. ... Only one other comet, Comet Halley, was seen so far from the Sun, giving scientists an opportunity to watch it as it slowly warmed up and sprouted a tail. ... Comets are the Rip Van Winkles of the solar system -- mini-worlds that have changed little during their 4.5-billion-year nap far from the Sun. ... Observing Comets . ... Once, comets inhabited the entire solar system. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... Sky this Month . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... The Real Reality Show: Would aliens be anything like us? ... The Real Reality Show: All about the Drake Equation . ... Observing Basics . The Real Reality Show . ... The Real Reality Show: Why is there an antiscience movement? ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

... 2008 February 22 . Eclipsed Moonlight . Credit Copyright : Jerry Lodriguss ( Catching the Light ) . Explanation: Moon watchers blessed with clear skies over the Americas, Europe, Africa and western Asia enjoyed a total lunar eclipse this week. Catching eclipsed moonlight, astroimager Jerry Lodriguss offers this view of the inspiring celestial event with the shadowed Moon accompanied by wandering planet Saturn at the left, and bright Regulus, alpha star of the constellation Leo, above . ...

The period of this variable was first determined by Tony Vanmunster (Center of Backjard Astrophysics). We have taken the observations with CCD ST-7 and 60-cm reflector of SAI Crimean station. ... The longest set was taken at night of 2000 February 12 including 291 R 60 second long frames with the magnitude limit of 18. Summing all these frames in a single one I have taken a "deep sight" of this region having the limit of 21.7R. The effective exposition is 4 h. 51 m. Look at this frame! ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Data Handling and Products > Data Reduction FAQ > The MERGE2D spectrum shows lots of bad pixels. ... Observing Facilities . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... Science Software . ... Science Data Products Forum . ... Science Archive Facility . ... ESO Data . ... It interpolates across those bad pixels selected by the decode-bp parameter only in the extraction to the MERGE1D spectrum. There is no interpolation across bad pixels in the MERGE2D spectrum. ...

... Solar eclipse - the eighth wonder of the world . Best images of the SOHO spacecraft . Best images of the TRACE spacecraft . ... CORONAS-PHOTON spacecraft docking with the rocket Cyclon . ... Solar Satellites - towards the Sun . ... CORONAS-PHOTON testing in the Mirny sity (2009 January) . ...

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... STScI-PRC95-11 FOR RELEASE: February 20, 1995 HUBBLE'S CLOSE-UP VIEW OF A SHOCKWAVE FROM A STELLAR EXPLOSION This image shows a small portion of a nebula called the "Cygnus Loop." ... Blue shows emission from "doubly ionized" oxygen atoms (atoms that have had two electrons stripped away) produced by the heat behind the shock front. ... This sulfur emission arises well behind the shock front, in gas that has had a chance to cool since the passage of the shock. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... On Thursday, February 15th 2001 (and replayed on March 19), the Fox TV network aired a program called ``Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?'', hosted by X-Files actor Mitch Pileggi. ... Dust around the lander . ... However, it appeals to our common sense: when the sky is black here on Earth, we see stars. ... Bad: The program claims that when the top half of the lander took off from the Moon to bring the astronauts back into orbit, there was no flame from the rocket. ...

Instrument Science Report WFC3 2005-001 Results of WFC3 Thermal Vacuum Testing - UVIS Channel Ghosts T.M. Brown February 2, 2005 ABSTRACT The optical ghosts in the WFC3 UVIS channel, measured during the Fall 2004 thermalvacuum test, show the same morphologies and strengths as characterized previously while under ambient conditions. ... Introduction The WFC3 UVIS channel shows significant optical ghosts in a subset of its filters. ...

... Club By-laws . ... Other Club Activities . ... Public Nights . ... Dr. James Green, NASA, Director Planetary Science will be our esteemed speaker on Tuesday, April 12, 2016 at 7:30 PM in Peyton Hall on the Princeton University campus. ... Our astronomers setup telescopes for public use at Communiversity in Princeton, Super Science Saturday at the NJ State Museum in Trenton and at various public events around Mercer County. ... Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton, Inc., ...

ECLIPSES, TRANSITS OF MERCURY AND VENUS . Year 1999 . Year 2000 . Year 2001 . Year 2002 . Year 2003 . Year 2004 . Year 2005 . ... Total solar eclipse . ... Transit of Mercury across the solar disk . ... Total lunar eclipse . ... Partial solar eclipse . ... Partial lunar eclipse . ... Annular solar eclipse . ... Penumbral lunar eclipse . ... big map . ... Transit of Venus across the solar disk . ... Annular-total solar eclipse . ... Non-central annular solar eclipse . ...

... It turns out one possibility is a form of matter/energy invented by Einstein in the 1920s to make sure his equations of General Relativity did not predict the Expansion of the Universe. Although Einstein was willing to predict several things with his equations of General Relativity, he obviously thought an expanding Universe was too much, and so he invented the Cosmological Constant, which repels itself, and was meant to balance the force of gravity, and make the Universe static. ...

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... Pluto's orbit is also highly inclined -- tilted 17 degrees to the orbital plane of the other planets. ... Ground-based observations indicate that Pluto's surface is covered with methane ice and that there is a thin atmosphere that might freeze and fall to the surface as the planet moves away from the Sun. ... This is the first image-based surface map of the solar system's most remote planet, Pluto. ... This is the first surface map of Charon, the moon of the solar system's most remote planet, Pluto....

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... Initial mass function and binary stars . ... The principal goal of this study is to show that the real shape of the initial mass function for low- and intermediate-mass stars differs from the observed one. In particular, comparison of radii of eclipsing binary components and single stars shows a noticeable difference for B0V-G0V components of eclipsing binaries and single stars of the corresponding spectral type. ...