... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. February 17, 1998 . Shocked by Supernova 1987a . Credit: P. Garnavich ( Harvard CfA), WFPC2 , HST , NASA . ... The onset of this collision is shown by the arrow in the above picture as the yellow spot on the interior of the ring. ... As the supernova blast wave moves out, it shock-heats any gas it encounters, causing it to glow. ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. February 9, 1999 . A Supernova Star-Field . Credit: Hubble Heritage Team ( AURA / STScI / NASA ) . Explanation: Bright stars don't last forever. ... The above picture is a composite of recent images taken over several years. The explosion originated from a bright massive star that ran out of nuclear fuel . ... About APOD > . ...

... Eros From Orbit . ... On February 14th, the NEAR spacecraft became the first artificial moon of an asteroid. Captured by the gentle gravity of a 20 mile long slipper-shaped mountain of rock, NEAR recorded this premier image while orbiting asteroid 433 Eros at a distance of about 200 miles. M106: A Spiral Galaxy with a Strange Core . ... A swirling disk of stars and gas, M106's appearance is dominated by two bright spiral arms and dark dust lanes near the nucleus. ... Eros Encounter Nears . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Posted on February 6, 2014 | 2 Comments While the winter sky may be the тАШAladdinтАЩs caveтАЩ for skywatchers, and we may already have plundered deeply one of its greatest celestial treasures, the constellation of Orion, we forge [ ] . Continue Reading.. Posted on January 22, 2014 | ... Posted on December 6, 2013 | ... Posted on November 6, 2013 | ... Posted on October 4, 2013 | ... Posted on September 9, 2013 | ...

We report far-infrared and submillimeter observations of supernova 1987A, the star whose explosion was observed on 23 February 1987 in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy located 160,000 light years away. ... The intensity and spectral energy distribution of the emission suggest a dust mass of about 0.4 to 0.7 times the mass of the Sun. ... Our observations imply that supernovae can produce the large dust masses detected in young galaxies at very high redshifts. ... ADS Citation Query . ...

... 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 . ...

... 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  ...

Four spacecraft: INTERBALL Tail probe (IB_TAIL), MAGION 5 (IB_MAG5), POLAR(NASA/ISAS), GEOTAIL (NASA) are considered. ... four spacecraft . ... INTERBALL . ... IB_MAG5) . ... NASA) . GEOTAIL . NASA, ISAS) . The four spacecraft . ... INTERBALL mission | ...

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PRESS-RELEASE . about the launch of Progress M-63 logistics spacecraft . ... S.P.Korolev RSC Energia is the prime manned space flight organization in the Russian rocket and space industry, responsible for the development of the ISS Russian Segment, its integration into the Space Station and its operation, including development and operation of principal Russian modules (Zvezda, Pirs, etc.), manufacturing, launch and operation of Soyuz TMA and Progress M spacecraft. ...

2014 May version . ... Green D. A., 2014 , Bulletin of the Astronomical Society of India, 42 , 47-58. ( .pdf , or arXiv.org:1409.0637 ) If you make use of the detailed version of the catalogue, then plaese also cite: . Green D. A., 2014, `A Catalogue of Galactic Supernova Remnants (2014 May version)' , Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, United Kingdom (available at "http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/surveys/snrs/" ). ... Copyright D. A. Green 2014. 25872nd access to this version of the catalogue. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . News . Observing . ... Magazine . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Open cluster NGC 2818, spiral galaxy NGC 2964, and spiral galaxy NGC 2976 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... February 2005 . ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

Armagh Observatory, 1 March 1999 . According to Armagh Observatory, the total rainfall during February amounted to 2.00 inches, slightly less than the average February figure of 2.31 inches. ... Overall the month was quite mild with an average temperature of 5.8 degrees Celsius (42.4 degrees Fahrenheit) compared with the mean February value of 4.2 degrees C (39.5 degrees F). ... FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John McFarland at the Armagh Observatory. ... Last Revised: 15th June 1999 . ...

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... Leonid CHEKHOV (Steklov Institute and Poncelet lab, Moscow) . ... Ivan DYNNIKOV (MSU, Moscow) . ... Oleg KARPENKOV (Poncelet lab, Moscow) . ... Gleb KOSHEVOY (CEMI and Poncelet lab, Moscow) . Serguei LANDO (Poncelet lab, Moscow) . ... 16:00-16:50 S. Natanzon: Klein topological field theories . ... 16:00-16:50 G. Duchamp: On some interactions between Combinatorics, Computer Science and Physics . ... evening Conference dinner . ... 14:45-15:30 O. Karpenkov: Energies of knots and of certain graphs . ...

... ESO Science Newsletter February 2016 . ... This newsletter is a summary of recent ESO Science Announcement items. ... A new Band 9 receiver was installed inside the Swedish ESO PI receiver for Apex ( SEPIA ) at APEX in early February. ... After on-sky commissioning in late March, Science Verification (SV) observations are planned. ... The Call for Proposals for SEPIA Band 9 SV can be found here and the deadline is 12:00 CET, Friday 11 March 2016 . ... Joint ESO, ALMA, NAOJ, NRAO Workshop. ...

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The radio emission from SN 1987A has been observed with Australian telescopes since a few days after the first detection of the supernova in February 1987. ... From mid-1990 a new phase of radio emission began, with an increasing flux density and an optically thin spectrum. These are the first observations of the birth of a supernova remnant. ... 6cm flux densities . 13cm flux densities . ... Measured flux densities for the radio remnant of SN 1987A in four bands, obtained using the ATCA. ...

home publications > mercury . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... ASP Conference Series . Monograph Publications . IAU Publications . ... Publications of the ASP (PASP) . ... Mercury Magazine . ... Order Mercury Issues . ... Astronomy Beat . ... Mercury Magazine Contents and Select Excerpts . ... January/February 2006 . ... Deadly Cosmic Storms, Jennifer Birriel and Ignacio Birriel . ... Sky Events, Richard Talcott . January Sky Map | February Sky Map | ...

... APT Activities and Science Results 3. ... APT Secretary Philip Edwards (ISAS) reviewed the aims of the APT (http://www.vsop.isas.ac.jp/apt/DefinitionAndAims.html). ... The Australia Telescope Compact Array, and Ceduna, Hartebeesthoek, Kashima, Mopra, Parkes, and Shanghai telescopes of the Asia-Pacific Telescope participated in these observations. ... In the absence of Tetsuo Sasao, Philip Edwards briefly described results of the APT 22 GHz observations conducted from October 1st to 5th, 1997. ...