... 2011 September 7 . SDSS J102915+172927: A Star That Should Not Exist . ... Explanation: Why does this star have so few heavy elements? Stars born in the generation of our Sun have an expected abundance of elements heavier than hydrogen and helium mixed into their atmospheres. Stars born in the generation before our Sun, Population II stars , the stars that created most of the heavy elements around us today, are seen to have some, although fewer, elements heavier than H and He. ...

... Comet Hale-Bopp Inbound . ... Headed toward the inner Solar System, the much anticipated Comet Hale-Bopp has promised to put on a big show next spring. ... Interstellar space is filled with extremely tenuous clouds of gas which are mostly Hydrogen. ... Light flooded the local interstellar neighborhood, illuminated this existing gas cloud, excited the existing hydrogen, and hence caused the red emission. ... Here a very distant QSO happened to be placed right behind a massive galaxy. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Sky this Month . ... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Early Mars bombardment likely enhanced life-supporting habitat . ... The Real Reality Show: Would aliens be anything like us? ... April 2016: the historic journey to Europa . The Real Reality Show: All about the Drake Equation . ... The Real Reality Show . ... The Real Reality Show: Could Life Exist on Europa or Titan? ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...

... About ATNF overview . ... CSIRO ATNF Data Archives . ... Next: Obtaining Your Final Files Up: Correlating your Data Previous: Correlating your Data б  Contents . Put in next set of tapes. Edit your schedule file on elleba and comment out the newtapes and file close commands that have just been executed and uncomment the next set of file close and newtapes commands. We now restart the correlator on the next set of data, which for example starts at 16:00:00 on all tape sets; . ...

God Science Forum Message . ... God and Science ћ SETI ћ Software ћ UFO ћ XEphem . ... God and Science | ... Does God Exist? ... Firstly, in Scientific Proof of God's Existence, Marco Biagini states, "The existence of these mathematical equations implies the existence of a personal, conscious and intelligent Creator." Put simply, "Why?" I see no connection between the existence of mathematical equations, no matter how profound, implies the existence of God. ... www.astronomy.net . ...

... Running Rings Around a Planet . ... Saturn's delicate rings have caught human eyes for over three centuries. ... Now we know, thanks to the Voyager space probes, that Saturn's rings consist of thousands of "ringlets," each made of chunks of ice ranging in size from dust to boulders [see "Rally Around the Ring," March/April 1995, p. 10]. ... The appearance of Saturn's rings to us ground-hugging Terrans is changing constantly. ... Saturn's diameter is 120,000 kilometers, so how large are the rings? ...

European . ... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science and Technical Meetings > Conferences 2008 > The Seventh NEON Observing School . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... The NEON Observing Schools are supported by OPTICON and the European Astronomical Society ( EAS ). ... For more information on the Third NEON Archive Observing School at ESO pelase follow the links on the top right of this page or below. ... For more information about the NEON schools please contact: neon08@eso.org . ...

... Home Education Workshops at Adorama Astro Imaging Workshop: Deep Sky Astro Imaging with a DSLR ? September 14, 2014 . ... Astro Answers . ... Beyond New York City . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... Presented by€а Adorama €аFor the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

Statistics of sunspot activity . The sunspot indices . ... The solar regions . ... 2015 . ... September . ... September, 2015 . Visual indices of solar activity by author's observations . ... Average . ... 0.40 . ...

... For many years, all email related to a given HST observing program has been stored in that program's "history" file on SOGS. ... Nevertheless, we continued to store HST observing program emails in text files. ... Beginning on December 19, 2011, Exchange Public Folders will be used to store all future HST observing program related email. ... One folder per HST observing program . ... Exchange public folders are visible only to Outlook and Outlook Web Application (OWA) and not to other mail clients. ...

... Eagle Nebula. Images obtained using the Faulkes Telescope North, operated by Las Cumbres Observatory. ... We submitted a request to the 2m telescope at Siding Spring to observe the Helix Nebula and the 2m telescope at Haleakala to observe the Eagle Nebula on the 15th of September. ... We would like to thank the Faulkes Telescope Project and Las Cumbres Observatory for giving us this telescope time and making these observations possible. ... More astronomical projects with the Faulkes Telescopes . ...