... The Gum Nebula Supernova Remnant . ... Spiral Galaxy In Centaurus . ... Centaurus, the Centaur, is one of the most striking constellations in the southern sky. The lovely Milky Way flows through this large constellation whose celestial wonders also include the closest star to the sun, Alpha Centauri, the largest globular star cluster in our galaxy, Omega Centauri, and the closest active galaxy, Centaurus A. Double Eruptive Prominences . ... A Crescent Nebula Star Field . ...

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I was wondering what conditions should be met to have the "darkest" sky .. ... Upon the above publication of the Southern Galactic hemisphere, TunГ Tezel started seeking opportunities to create the Northern counterpart image. ... So, the initial quest of having the darkest possible sky have delivered us these two all-sky images of the two galactic hemispheres as seen from Planet Earth. Zoomable and 'full-screenable' fisheye view of the "darkest sky" Southern Galactic Hemisphere image. ...

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... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. November 18, 1998 . Close-Up of the Bubble Nebula . ... Explanation: It's the bubble versus the cloud. NGC 7635, the Bubble Nebula , is being pushed out by the stellar wind of massive central star BD+602522. ... The cloud is able to contain the expansion of the bubble gas, but gets blasted by the hot radiation from the bubble's central star. ...

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• APOD: 2000 November 7 - The Gum Nebula Supernova Remnant
• APOD: 2003 April 20 - The Gum Nebula Supernova Remnant
• APOD: 2004 August 16 - Close Up of the Lagoon Nebula

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Bright planets meet at dusk . ... Astronomy magazine subscribers can read the full article for free. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter....

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• Close comet flyby threw Mars' magnetic field into chaos | Astronomy.com
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• Cassini rocks Rhea rendezvous | Astronomy.com

... Planets . ... Earth Satellites . ... The newly discovered ?mega-Earth? ... Its sibling, the lava world Kepler-10b, is in the background (the two planets? proximity is grossly exaggerated) .€а Kepler-10c has a diameter of about 29 000 km, 2.3 times as large as Earth, and weighs 17 times as much. ... The first mega-earth to be discovered is Kepler-10c which orbits a star lying about 560 light years from the Sun in the constellation Draco. ... Astronomers Find a New Type of Planet: The ?Mega-Earth? ...

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• Supernova in the Cigar Galaxy | Astronotes
• A Summer Night?s Stargazing | Astronotes
• March Sky Wonders | Astronotes

... Figure 8: Can you detect the motion of the near-Earth asteroid 2000PH against the background stars during its close approach to Earth around 27 July 2004? ... Down) observed and imaged the unusual near-Earth asteroid 2000PH during its close approach to the Earth around 27 July 2004. The observations were carried out remotely using the new 2m aperture Faulkes telescope situated on the 10,000-foot summit of Haleakala, on the island of Maui in Hawaii. ...

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• ASTRONOMICAL PHENOMENA FROM MARS
• Armagh Observatory
• Stars Beyond Maturity

... Submitted by Al Takeda on 09/24/2015 13:03:02 . Veil Nebula - Supernova Remnant . The Veil Nebula is a supernova remnant located in the Cygnus constellation. ... The entire Veil Nebula covers an area more than 3 degrees, which is 6 times the diameter of the full moon. ... AstroTech AT66, 66mm, f/5 ED Refractor using an AstroTech flat field corrector, SBIG STL-6303E monochrome CCD camera, Losmandy Gemini G-11 EQ mount. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

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... Our Sun is part of a huge wheel-shaped collection of stars. ... Astronomers have long suspected it was a very massive black hole, and that every galaxy had such a central mass, created early in the history of the universe. ... However, unless that object happens to be headed directly at the black hole (a relatively small target) it will just swing around and fly away again, like a comet making a pass at the Sun. The velocity acquired in falling towards the black hole also helps it escape. ...

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• Auroral Images
• Close-up of the Aurora
• Seasons of the Year

Cosmic rays are not the only sign of high energy particles in the distant universe. Additional evidence comes (like most astronomical data) from visible light and other types of electromagnetic waves , e.g. x-rays and radio waves. ... Photons of visible light have about 2 electron volts (ev), while medical x-ray photons may have energies of 50,000 ev and those of gamma rays reach 1,000,000 ev and even more. ... To produce x-rays or gamma rays, electrons must collide with something. ...

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MAIN PAGE . ... Nova Cygni August 1975! ... 1975/76: Comet West! ... Dr. Richard West (4th from left) & AAL members visiting SES Betzdorf on occasion of our club's 25th anniversary - October 1996 . Comet West Information . ... It was the brightest comet visible from Earth since Comet West in 1976. ... 1997: Comet Hale-Bopp! ... Thus Comet Hale-Bopp never got closer to Earth than Earth gets to the Sun. ... Comet Hale-Bopp JPL Page . ... 1999: Total solar eclipse over Luxembourg! ...

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Proposal Identification No.: P2684 Date Received: 2012-Oct-03 08:41:51 Technical Page Proposal Type: General Category: Observation Category: Total Time Requested: Minimum Useful Time: Prop osal Title: Regular Pulsars 2.75 Hours 2.50 Hours Pulsar wind nebula HESS J1943+213 and the case of the missing Supernova Remnants ABSTRACT: HESS J1943+213 is very high energy gamma-ray point source close to the Galactic plan, found in 2011, and originally classified as an extreme BL Lacertae blazar. ...

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• http://www.naic.edu/vscience/schedule/tpfiles/VantagP2684tp.ps
• The Tarantula Nebula
• AAS 1996 January Meeting Photo Release Images

... STScI-PRC99-13 HUBBLE CLICKS IMAGES OF IO SWEEPING ACROSS JUPITER While hunting for volcanic plumes on Io, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured these images of the volatile moon sweeping across the giant face of Jupiter. Only a few weeks before these dramatic images were taken, the orbiting telescope snapped a portrait of one of Io's volcanoes spewing sulfur dioxide "snow." ... Astronomers increased the color contrast and added false colors to the image to make the faint plume visible. ...

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• http://www.arcetri.astro.it/~palla/ANDREAIMMAGINI/ISM/CygnusLoop.txt
• APOD: 2000 March 20 - Mercury on the Horizon
• The Sun: a Pictorial Introduction

. True Color Image Gallery: Galactic SNR | Magellanic Cloud SNR . Images show regions used to extract spectra . Regions with red strikes are excluded . Background was subtracted from a region around or close to the SNR. Back to G263.5-02.7 Index . Chandra Supernova Remnant Catalog . Main Page | Galactic SNR | Magellanic Cloud SNR . True Color Image Gallery: Galactic SNR | Magellanic Cloud SNR .

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Laboratory of Stellar Physics . ... A study of close binaries with black holes, neutron stars and white dwarfs. ... A study of SS433 - the massive close binary with a black hole in the regime of supercritical accretion . ... A search for intermediate-mass black holes (IMBH). The black holes which are not supermassive black holes observed in quasars, and which were formed not in massive stars. ... A search for new magnetic stars, new CP stars, measurements of magnetic fields in stars . ...

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... Our restless globe and its companion. ... A Look at the Motions of the Earth in Space and How They Are Changing . ... Earth's rotation as viewed from above the north and south geographic poles. ... The Earth revolves around the Sun-also counterclockwise viewed from above the North Pole, clockwise viewed from the South Pole-to give us our years (see Figure 2 ). The plane of the Earth's orbit is called the ecliptic (where eclipses happen). ... Earth's orbit as viewed from the north ecliptic pole. ...

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• ASP: The Return of Halley's Comet
• ASP: A Special Issue on Halley's Comet
• ASP: Exploring Invisible Skies

... The Vela pulsar was the first discovered in the southern hemisphere (Large et al., 1968) and in an exciting rush of papers was shown to be slowing down, having a polarization sweep across the pulse and to glitch (Radhakrishnan et al., ... Whilst the Vela X nebula had been imaged in great detail at 20 cm by Bock et al. (1998; 2002) and the VLA had imaged the region around the pulsar at 6 cm (Bietenholz et al., 1991) no arcsecond observations close to Vela had been undertaken at the ATCA. ... 2002). ...

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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. ...

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• Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy: Bitesize Astronomy
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Supernova 1987A in LMC . One day in 1987, an astronomer by the name of Ian Shelton was making observations of the Tarantula Nebula in Large Magellanic cloud at Las Campanas Observatory, and he noticed something strange on his image. ... SN 1987A got as bright as 2.7, the only other recent SN even to come close was 1885A in M31 which got up to mag 6. ... Mag 4.5 . ... IAUC 4318 2/25/87 Type II? ... IAUC 7354 2/1/00 New structure in the inner ring . ... IAUC 7360 2/7/00 HST observation of new spot . ...

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• Supernova 1999gi in NGC 3184
• Supernova 2000C in NGC 2415
• Supernova 1999ee and 1999ex in IC 5179

... For the past years I have been working on the problem of synthesis of light curves of close binary systems, consisting of a normal star and a compact object (point object with fixed X-ray luminosity). ... Possible existence of a bright spot on the disk's lateral surface is taken into account. ... The last of then will be published in Gordon and Breach Publishers ( Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ... Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ...

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... This year's eclipse is unique in duration. ... Although, at the present time, there are 6 solar observatories belonging to leading space agencies in orbit around the Earth, the eclipse of 22 July, 2009, will only be seen by two of them: the Russian CORONAS-PHOTON satellite equipped with TESIS telescopes and Japan's HINODE satellite fitted with an XRT space telescope. ... TESIS will be the first of the two devices (and the very first on Earth) to witness the solar eclipse. ...

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• This year's largest group of sunspots passes across the solar disk
• The culmination of the solar eclipse coincided with the strongest magnetic
• TESIS has recorded new sizeable mass ejections from the Sun's atmosphere