... Storm Clouds Over Jupiter . ... Apollo 12 Visits Surveyor 3 . ... Fliers Around the Blue Snowball Nebula . ... Planetary nebulae are strange. ... Next, although hundreds of planetary nebulae have been catalogued and thousands surely exist in our Galaxy, aspects of the formation process are still debated. The Blue Snowball Planetary Nebula . ... The Blue Snowball is a planetary nebula - and in 5 billion years the Sun will throw off its outer layers and go through a planetary nebula phase. ...

... 2001 February 1 . Jupiter's Brain . Credit: Cassini Imaging Team , Cassini Project , NASA . ... Famous for its Great Red Spot , Jupiter is also known for its regular, equatorial cloud bands, visible in very modest sized telescopes. The dark belts and light-colored zones of Jupiter's cloud bands are organized by planet girdling winds which reach speeds of up to 500 kilometers per hour. ... About APOD | ... NASA Technical Rep.: ... A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Solar System . ... Posted on March 1, 2016 | No Comments See you later February, youтАЩve been a wonderful month, but now it is time to welcome March. ... Continue Reading.. ... Posted on October 20, 2015 | No Comments New HorizonтАЩs arrival at Pluto this year, after a nine year-long traverse through the Solar System has revealed many new things about this little icy planet. ... 11 Comments Our Solar System is vast. ...

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What's New in Views of the Solar System . ... Mars Icosahedraon Added . ... Rotation Earth Movie . Europa Rotation Movie . ... Color Rotation Tethys Movie . Rotation Tethys Movie . ... Rotating Mars Movie . ... Animation: Io Rotation Movie . ... Rotating Moon Animation . ... Animation of Janus, The Rotating Moon of Saturn . ... Two excellent animations of Mars' moons Phobos and Deimos were added on 9/3/97. ... A high-resolution mosaic image of Phobos , a moon of Mars, was added on 7/8/97. ...

... Galileo Probe . The Galileo spacecraft was designed to study Jupiter's atmosphere, satellites, and surrounding magnetosphere for two years. ... From there, Galileo will spend more than five years traveling to Jupiter, where it will become the first spacecraft to make direct measurements from an instrumented probe within Jupiter's atmosphere. ... This image, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the predicted site at which the Galileo Probe will enter Jupiter's atmosphere on December 7, 1995. ...

... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... ESO's Governing Bodies . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Star Clusters . ... Large JPG Zip File (4.6 GB) . ... Stars@ESO . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... Very Large Telescope . ... ESO 3.6-metre telescope . ... MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope . ... The star that exploded on February 23 in the Large Magellanic Cloud (the progenitor of supernova 1987A) has now been identified. ...

We present IRAC and MIPS images and photometry of a sample of previously known planetary nebulae (PNe) from the Surveying the Agents of a Galaxy's Evolution (SAGE) survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) performed with the Spitzer Space Telescope. Of the 233 known PNe in the survey field, 185 objects were detected in at least two of the IRAC bands, and 161 detected in the MIPS 24 ЮМm images. ... We also explore the potential value of IR PNe luminosity functions (LFs) in the LMC. ...

... GSAOI Home . ... Science . ... Despite vast increase in our understanding of the evolutionary nature of planetary nebulae (PNe) during the last three decades, a central question remains: where is the missing mass? Theoretical evolutionary tracks predict that all stars with masses in the range 1.4-8 M Sun should become PNe. ... Clearly, much of the mass of the planetary nebula shell must remain un-ionized, and much of it may be in molecular form. ... The Magellanic Cloud PNe are ideal for this. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... A numerical simulation of the Oort cloud is used to explain the observed orbital distributions and numbers of Jupiter-family and Halley-type short-period comets. ... Virtually all observed Halley-type comets and nearly half of observed Jupiter-family comets come from the Oort cloud, and initially (4.5 Gyr ago) from orbits concentrated near the outer planetary region. ...

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... Sun images . ... February : 2016 . ... Image of Sun's photosphere obtained 09.02.2016 at 23:40 UT with HMI instrument on board SDO spacecraft . ... Image of Sun's magnetic field obtained 09.02.2016 at 23:52 UT with HMI instrument on board SDO spacecraft . ... Image of Sun's transition region obtained 09.02.2016 at 23:39 UT with AIA instrument on board SDO spacecraft . Image of Sun's corona . Image of Sun's corona obtained 09.02.2016 at 23:39 UT with AIA instrument on board SDO spacecraft . ...

Weaving together Astronomy+Statistics+Computer Science+Engineering+Intrumentation, far beyond the growing borders . ... Archive for February 2011 . ... http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/brdi/PGA_060422 . ... Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy V (including summer school & tutorials) . ... Tags: Announcement , astroinformatics , AstroStat , conference . ... Entries RSS . ... Book] The Elements of Statistical Learning, 2nd Ed. mini-Workshop on Computational AstroStatistics [announcement] . ...

... In summer 1994, the biggest news in astronomy was the collision of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter. During this school year, Jupiter will charge back into the limelight with the arrival of the Galileo spacecraft (see figure 8 ). On Dec. 7, following a tortuous six-year ramble through the solar system, Galileo will begin its two-year mission studying Jupiter and its gaggle of moons. ... Besides the camera, Galileo will carry instruments capable of identifying minerals on Jupiter's moons. ...

... The IB_TAIL magnetic conjugations with the others Spacecraft . ... ASCII file description | Plot description | ... ASCII file | real time plot . ... The IB_TAIL magnetic conjugations with the groundbased magnetic observatories . ... The IB_TAIL magnetic mapping polar diagram, and ASCII files for each decade of month: . ... ASCII files description | DEC 1 (ASCII file, size more then 350Kb!) ... Back to the IB_TAIL Home page. ... INTERBALL mission  ...

GRANAT is the Russian x-ray sattelite launched to the high apogee orbit (200,000 km) and operated almost for 10 years (1989 -1999) , carrying out four major instruments: French SIGMA coded-mask hard x-ray telescope (30-1000 keV), Soviet ART-P coded-mask telescope (2??-60?? keV), all-sky monitor WATCH (6-150 keV), and a gamma-burst detector PHEBUS . ... Since September 1994, GRANAT is in the survey mode. ... Explore pages devoted to individual GRANAT instruments (including main scientific results): . ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... Rocket Systems . ... ISS Russian Segment . ... Sea Launch . ... News . ... At the launch site the pre-launch processing and launch operations were supervised by the State Commission for manned systems flight tests and the Technical Management for flight tests of manned space systems, headed by the RSC Energia President and General Designer V.A. Lopota. ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

... Jupiter. ... The time in the table is the mean solar time for the Almaty time zone. ... Almaty and Cholpon-Ata are in the same time zone. h 25 h 36 h 00 h 12 h 24 h 36 h 48 h 12 h 48 m (February 28) m m m m m m m m (March 1) m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m 14.92 15.08 15.41 15.44 15.37 15.12 14.92 14.89 14.80 14.78 14.80 14.82 14.85 14.96 14.72 14.72 14.63 14.65 14.77 14.84 15.10 15.43 15.32 15.05 14.90 14.75 14.73 14.70 Bishkek ­ Cholpon-Ata , Kyrgyzstan ...

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