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... The March 3rd total lunar eclipse was widely viewed by denizens of planet Earth. But only a day before, well placed observers could also watch a lunar occultation of Saturn as the planet passed behind the nearly Full Moon. ... This was just the experience of the New Horizons spacecraft as it approached and flew by Jupiter earlier this year. ... A red Moon rose over Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA on March 3rd, immersed in Earth's shadow near the total phase of a lunar eclipse. ...

... International Year of Astronomy in Ireland . ... Christmas Moon", painting by Miruna Popescu, Armagh Observatory, featured as " Lunar photo of the Day " and " Astronomy Sketch of the Day " on 25 December 2009. ... To mark the 400th anniversary of GalileoтАЩs first use of the telescope to observe the sky, 2009 has been celebrated worldwide as the International Year of Astronomy. Moon over Armagh - link to Astronomy Sketch of the Day on 25 December 2009 . ... Monday, 11 May 2009 23:54 . ...

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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Posted on October 10, 2011 | ... Continue Reading.. ... No Comments This portrait of the Earth and Moon together in space was taken on 26 August by NASAтАЩs Juno spacecraft which is currently en route for Jupiter. ... No Comments Armagh Planetarium kicked off 2011 in style with some amazing astronomy-based events in association with the€а BBC. Sinead McNicholl has a personal report of our part in the exciting Stargazing [ ] . ...

... 2004 November 11 . Pastel Planet, Triple Eclipse . ... Arizona ), NASA . Explanation: This false-color image of banded gas giant Jupiter shows a triple eclipse in progress on March 28 - a relatively rare event, even for a large planet with many moons. Captured by the Hubble Space Telescope's near-infrared camera are shadows of Jupiter's moons Ganymede (left edge), Callisto (right edge) and Io, three black spots crossing the sunlit Jovian cloud tops. ... About APOD | ...

Class 1 Introduction, Background History of Modern Astronomy The Night Sky, Eclipses and the Seasons Kepler's Laws Newtonian Gravity General Relativity Matter and Light Telescopes Class 2 Solar System Characteristics Formation Exosolar Planets Class 3 Stars The Sun Stellar Evolution of Low and High Mass Stars Deaths of Stars Exotic Stars Class 4 Galaxies Galaxy Classification Formation of Galaxies Galactic Evolution ... So far, one planet has been studied by this method. ...

Table of Contents . ... Solar System Introduction . ... Educator's Guide to Convection . Educator's Guide to Eclipses . Educator's Guide to Sunspots . ... Chronology of Sun Exploration . ... Chronology of Mercury Exploration . ... Venusian Impact Craters . ... Chronology of Venus Exploration . ... Educator's Guide to Impact Craters . ... Educator's Guide to Moon Phases . Mars . ... Chronology of Mars Exploration . ... Comets . ... Chronology of Comet Space Exploration . ... Introduction . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Bad Astro Store . ... Slacker Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Life Under the Moon . ... Seeing Jupiter's Moons . ... Time Zones and the Spherical Earth . A Companion to the Earth? ... December 19, 1999) . ... Big Moon, Little Moon . ... How Big is the Moon? ... 14, 2000) . ... 2008 Phil Plait. ... Subscribe to the Bad Astronomy Newsletter! Talk about Bad Astronomy on the BA Bulletin Board! ...

Table of Contents . ... Image and Animation Index . Solar System Introduction . ... Educator's Guide to Convection . ... Chronology of Sun Exploration . ... Chronology of Mercury Exploration . ... Chronology of Venus Exploration . ... Mars . Mars Introduction . ... Selected Images from Mars Pathfinder . ... Chronology of Mars Exploration . ... Mars Image Browser . ... Galileo Spacecraft Press Releases and Information . ... Comets . ... Chronology of Comet Space Exploration . ... Introduction . ...

... SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Women in Astronomy . ... Science Fiction with Good Astronomy . ... Dramatic, complex history and future of the battle between dark matter and regular matter life-forms in the universe. ... 1996, Ace)  Complex hard-science novel by a Canadian amateur astronomer with intriguing ideas about dark matter and even dark matter life forms. back to topic list . ... The Milky Way becomes an active galaxy, but life on Earth is saved by a higher intelligence...

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . News | ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Mopra radio telescope . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ... Now, new Australia Telescope observations of the polar ring galaxy NGC 4650a suggest that the dark matter in this galaxy lies in a flattened distribution aligned with the polar ring. ...

... ROTATION CURVE: When studying spiral galaxies it is invariably found that the stellar rotational velocity in the disk remains constant, or "flat", with increasing distance away from the galactic center. ... The rotation speed of the stars in galaxies is found NOT to decrease with increasing distance from the galactic center (see emission lines in the spectrum), implying that the overall mass distribution of the galaxy is different from the light distribution. ...

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... Travel to E-ELT Armazones . ... Star Clusters . ... ESO's Wide Field Imager has captured the intricate swirls of the spiral galaxy Messier 83, a smaller look-alike of our own Milky Way. ... Both the Milky Way and Messier 83 possess a bar across their galactic nucleus, the dense spherical conglomeration of stars seen at the centre of the galaxies. ... The brighter stars in the foreground are stars in our own galaxy, whilst behind M83 the darkness is peppered with the faint smudges of distant galaxies...

... Visible Distribution of Galaxies. ... Features of Elliptical, Lens-Shaped, Spiral and Irregular Galaxies. Galaxies with Bar. ... Distribution of Surface Brightness of Surface and Spiral Galaxies. ... Color Characteristics of Galaxies. ... Methods of Galaxies' Mass Determination. ... Hidden Mass of Spiral Galaxies. ... Features of Dark Matter Distribution in E and SO Galaxies. ... The Whole Number of Galaxies and Their Density by the Results of Observation on the 'Hubble' Space Telescope. ...

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... Here some data observed on the 6m telescope with IFP installed in the OLD focal reducer are presented. ... Mkn 3: velocity field . ... NGC 5252: [OIII] image . ... NGC 5252 was observed 23 Feb. 1998 in the [OIII]5007 emission line with CCD TK1024 as detector. ... We observed the ionized gas velocity fields of the spiral galaxies with two purpose. ... Restored velocity field of NGC 157 in the reference frame rotating with the pattern speed overlaid on the Ha image of the galaxy . ... NGC 4100 . ...

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