... Details of the crazed cracks criss-crossing Europa's frozen surface are apparent in this mosaic of the Galileo spacecraft's latest images of Jupiter's ice-covered moon. Curious white stripes, also seen by Voyager, are clearly visible marking the center of the wide dark fractures. ... Leo Triplet Spiral Galaxy M65 . ... Spiral galaxy M65 is a normal spiral galaxy not unlike our own Milky Way. In fact, M65 is a typical spiral galaxy of a type that could be found anywhere in the local universe. ...

... 2014 December 9 . The Flame Nebula in Visible and Infrared . ... Explanation: What lights up the Flame Nebula? Fifteen hundred light years away towards the constellation of Orion lies a nebula which, from its glow and dark dust lanes, appears, on the left, like a billowing fire. ... The above false-color picture of the Flame Nebula (NGC 2024) was taken is a composite of both visible and infrared light , the later energy band being where a young star cluster becomes visible . ... About APOD | ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . Armagh Observatory, 1st December 2015: This year s Geminid meteor display, the best of the annual meteor showers, will be visible from approximately the 7th to 17th December, peaking on the evening of the 14th. ... Unlike most meteor showers, however, which originate from dust grains ejected into space by comets, the Geminid meteors originate from an unusual near-Earth asteroid, namely (3200) Phaethon. ...

Discover the cosmos! ... December 6, 1999 . M83: The Southern Pinwheel Galaxy from VLT . ... Explanation: M83 is one of the closest and brightest spiral galaxies on the sky. Visible with binoculars in the constellation of Hydra , majestic spiral arms have prompted its nickname as the Southern Pinwheel. Although discovered 250 years ago, only in this century was it appreciated that M83 was not a gas cloud but a barred spiral galaxy much like our own Milky Way Galaxy . ... About APOD > . ...

... The Sun of our solar system is a typical star of intermediate size and luminosity. ... The Sun has a very complex surface magnetic field created by convective flow of the electrically conducting solar material. ... The escaping hot coronal plasma is called the solar wind . ... See the table below for the observed features above the Sun's surface. ... Chromospheric features . Coronal features . ... dense clouds of material suspended above the surface of the Sun by magnetic field line loops . ...

... Conference abstracts (PDF, 92k) . 09:30-10:30 . ... Translation flows on Z d covers of compact translation surfaces . ... Coffee . ... Volume entropy for surface groups . ... Ergodicity of infinite translation surfaces . ... Stationary measures on homogeneous spaces . ... Dynamics of SL (2, R ) on Prym eigenforms . ... Symbolic dynamics of a traffic map . ... Ergodic flows and some problems in analysis . ... Connected components of the strata of the moduli space of meromorphic differentials . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Stars . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... This month Jupiter the largest of all planets, remains visible in the sky after sunset, not setting until after 11pm.€а On the evening of 12and 13 December the bright star-like object close to the Moon will be this gas giant planet. ... Rising this month is the great winter constellation of Orion the Hunter who will remain in our night sky through until March. ... Tweets that mention Wonders of the December Sky | ...

... Sun images . ... Sun flares . ... Active areas . December : 2009 . ... No sunspots and sunspot groups can be currently observed on the Sun's surface . No H-alpha plages without spots can be currently observed on the Sun's surface . Last updated: December 10, 2009 00:00 UT . ... 1953-2016 Laboratory of X-ray astronomy of the Sun, LPI RAS, Russia . ... 7(499)132-65-96, Fax: +7(499)132-65-97 . ...

The largest asteroid, Texas-size Ceres, may be a mini-planet with a water-rich mantle. The Hubble Space Telescope imaged Ceres in December 2003 and January 2004, revelaing never-before-seen detail. Top: This contrast-enhanced false-color composite of Ceres is made from Hubble Space Telescope visible and ultraviolet images. Bottom: Surface features change position as Ceres rotates in this sequence of visible image. Hubble tracked Ceres through multiple 9-hour rotations. ...

... The highlight of the month is the total eclipse of the Moon during the night of December 20/21. ... Listed below are some of the key events, and the times they will occur, during December's total lunar eclipse. ... The eclipse is also visible in its entirety from Alaska (local time is UT тАУ 9 hours) and Hawaii (UT тАУ 10 hours), but be aware that most of the eclipse occurs on the 20th in these two regions. ... Penumbral Eclipse Begins . ... Partial Eclipse Begins . ... Total Eclipse Begins . ...

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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... 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. ...

Accretion torques in windaccreting pulsars Nikolay Shakura Sternberg Astronomical Institute Moscow, Russia K.Postnov (SAI), D. Klochkov, V. Doroshenko, V. Suleimanov (IAAT), L. Hjalmarsdotter (SAI) December 2010 HEA-2010 1 Outline Introduction: disc and quasi-spherical accretion Settling accretion regime Spin-up/spin-down torques Specific pulsars Conclusions December 2010 HEA-2010 2 I. Disc and quasi-spherical accretion December 2010 HEA-2010 3 Disc accretion Shakura N.I. Astron. ... 2010 15 III. ...

Журнал ПОВЕРХНОСТЬ публикует оригинальные статьи и обзоры по наиболее актуальным проблемам изучения поверхностных явлений. ... Редакция журнала 'Поверхность. ... Англоязычная версия журнала Journal of Surface Investigation . X-Ray, Synchrotron and Neutron Techniques выходит 6 раз в год . The Journal of Surface Investigation. X-ray, Synchrotron and Neutron Techniques ( Poverkhnost '. ... X-ray, Synchrotron and Neutron Techniques is abstracted and/or indexed in (Impact Factor 0.359): . ...

... Home Education Workshops at Adorama Astro Imaging Workshop: Planetary Astro Imaging with a DSLR ? December 7, 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€а For the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

E c l i p s e s, 2001 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- V. Penumbral Lunar Eclipse of 2001 December 30 The beginning of the eclipse visible in north-eastern Asia, North and Cen- tral America, Greenland, South America except the Atlantic coast, New Zealand, the northern Atlantic Ocean, the Arctic Ocean, and the Pacific Ocean. ... 16 15.91 16 07.44 Circumstances of the Eclipse Position Angles of the Moon's axis h m o Moon enters penumbra . ... of Moon | ...

... In typical nightly use, the wide field and planetary telescope and cameras record images of favorably placed objects in the sky, including constellations, bright variable stars, nebulae through narrow-band filters, comets, the Moon, and planets. ... Shared Skies telescopes are available for use by students at the University of Louisville and the University of Southern Queensland, and by teachers and students in middle and high schools mentored by faculty at the universities. ...

... Comet Lovejoy over the Parkes Dish . ... This beautiful picture of Comet Lovejoy was taken by CSIRO's Parkes staff member John Sarkissian when it was visible above the illuminated 64-m Parkes Telescope on the 28th of December 2011. The comet, official known as C/2011 W3 (Lovejoy) was discovered on the 27th of November 2011 by Australian amateur astronomer Terry Lovejoy . His new find, C/2014 Q2 , discovered on the 17th of August 2014, is currently visible in the sky . ... today * ATNF | ...

The Star called the Sun. The Sun as the star . ... The visible star value . ... Spectrum class . ... 149 597 870 km . ... The Solar energy sourse is the core transformation of the Sun, where temperature is 15 000 000 K. The energy from inside is carried by irradiation and then in the external layer with 0,2 Ra of thikness - by convection. ... The Earth, situating far from the Sun (149 mil km), receives about 2.1017 W of the Solar beam energy (see item "The Solar constant" ). ...