... What clouds lurk beneath Saturn's unusual South Pole? ... Estimates made from distance, brightness and standard solar models had given one star in the open cluster Pismis 24 over 200 times the mass of our Sun, making it a record holder. This star is the brightest object located just above the gas front in the above image. ... Near the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy some 200 thousand light-years distant, lies 5 million year young star cluster NGC 602. ...

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... 2006 December 6 . Spirit Rover on Mars Imaged from Orbit . Credit: HiRISE , MRO , LPL (U. Arizona) , NASA . Explanation: If you have the right equipment, you can see the Spirit rover currently rolling across Mars. The right equipment, however, is currently limited to the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). ... Visible in the above spectacularly high resolution image is the Spirit rover in the Columbia Hills of Mars. ... About APOD | ...

The "ring of fire" seen by satellite cameras around the polar caps (picture below) is probably created by electrons leaking from the tail's plasma sheet, whose magnetic field lines form a somewhat imperfect trap. ... One possible explanation involves the close association between auroral arcs and electric currents which flow along field lines between the ionosphere and distant space ( Birkeland currents ). ... That produces an extra resistance to the flow of current. ...

... Aurora from Space . ... Magnetic Storms . ... The "ring of fire" seen by satellite cameras around the polar caps (picture below) is probably created by electrons leaking from the tail's plasma sheet, whose magnetic field lines form a somewhat imperfect trap. ... One possible explanation involves the close association between auroral arcs and electric currents which flow along field lines between the ionosphere and distant space ( Birkeland currents ). ... Why no aurora at the magnetic poles? ...

... HST . ... Data . ... HST Peer Review Process . ... HST Overview . ... Cycle 24 Announcement . ... Retrieving HST Data . ... HST imaging should resolve the galaxy into more than 100 million stars, all with common distances and foreground extinctions. ... Recently, deep images from the ACS camera aboard HST provided conclusive evidence that several massive intermediate-age star clusters in the LMC and SMC present multiple main-sequence turn-offs (MMSTO), and in some cases also dual red clumps. ...

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... Users . ... Data Collection and Analysis . ... This particular part of the analysis has been disabled since the code is struggling to cope with the number of users seen this year, in particular the large contingent of people who have re-tweeted NASA. ... Order accounts: by user number (effectively random) by number of tweets (includes retweets) by number of followers by number of followers that also tweeted about AAS225 by number of friends that also tweeted about AAS225 . ... by user number . ...

. Other Relevant Links . Number counts have been illustrated earlier in the talk. QSO Clustering and Large-Scale Structure , Scott Croom et al . QSO Evolution and the Luminosity Function , B.J. Boyle et al . | Front page | . | << - Contamination | QSO close pairs - >> | . Robert J. Smith, ">rsmith@mso.anu.edu.au Last modified: Fri Sep 24 11:39:02 EST 1999 .

... In 1930, Trumpler noticed that linear diameters (LD) of open clusters increase with distance (D) from the Sun. ... Since that time, the interstellar absorption has become one of the best studied factor in astrophysics, and we may hope that current OCL distance scales are free from this LD-D correlation. To verify if this is the case we have chosen several modern OCL distance scales and test them with the same clusters and the same angular diameters that Trumpler had used back in 1930. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . This year's annual Geminid meteor shower is active during the period December 7 - 17, with the peak of activity occurring during the night of December 13th/14th. The Geminid shower is currently one of the best of the major annual meteor displays, usually having a high number of relatively bright, medium-speed (130,000 km per hour) shooting stars. ... Last Revised: 2009 December 7th . ...

... 23 September 2004 - Telescope First Light! ... 30 July 2004 . ... NIC-FPS is an instrument combining the capabilities of a near-infrared imaging camera with a cryogenic Fabry-Perot etalon currently under development at the Center for Space Astrophysics and Space Astronomy , University of Colorado with support from Rice University , Ball Aerospace and the Astrophysical Research Consortium. It is scheduled to begin operations on the ARC 3.5m telescope at Apache Point Observatory in 2004. ...

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. The following is a list of the currently installed versions of the CIMA. The links refer to the CIMA version log page . Normal: version 3.0 - this is the next version of CIMA which has become the new default version --- NOTE that this version uses a new syntax for command file observations, uses new configuration files and needs source files with full velocity information . Old: version 2.2 - this is the old version of CIMA You can return to the main CIMA page by clicking here .

Next: Modes of Operation Up: CCD Scientific Performance Previous: Field of View . Thermal excitation of charge carriers from the valence to the conduction band creates a dark current signal which may vary with position in the array, and also has temporal shot noise variation. ... In a device devoid of localized defects which give rise to individual dark current spikes , most dark current arises from electrons generated at interface states at the surface. ...

... The star formation rate (SFR) of the current SF episode can be estimated from the total H luminosity. ... For the derived total flux F (H )=5.8 erg s -1 cm -2 we obtain a total H luminosity of 10 39 erg s -1 . ... The total mass of ionized gas can be obtained from the average mass density inside the H II region and its volume. An average mass density corresponding to the average electron density of 1 cm -3 within a volume with a diameter of 0.5 kpc yields a total ionized gas mass of 10 6 . ...

... 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 . ...

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