... Blue Sun Glaring . ... The Sun is a bubbling ball of extremely hot gas. ... On the left is a normal star field containing the constellation Orion. ... A Wolf-Rayet Star Blows Bubbles . ... Wolf-Rayet stars can blow bubbles. ... Wolf-Rayet stars generate bubbles because they continually eject their outer atmosphere as a stellar wind. ... The main suspect is the Wolf-Rayet star in the center of one of the bubbles - visible slightly below and to the right of the center of the above photograph. ...

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Computer Ephemeris for 2015 from DE200/LE200. Elements of the Total Lunar eclipse - 04 Apr 2015. ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2009 January 6 . Jupiter Eclipsing Ganymede . Credit: NASA , ESA , and E. Karkoschka ( U. Arizona ) . Explanation: How hazy is Jupiter's upper atmosphere? ... When near Jupiter's limb, Ganymede reflects sunlight though Jupiter's upper atmosphere, allowing astronomers to search for haze by noting a slight dimming at different colors. ...

... We present a computer program for modelling energy flux distribution and light curves of eclipsing binaries from far ultraviolet to infrared regions. The Roche model is assumed. Proximity effects of components (reflection of radiation and surface gravity darkening) are taken into account. ... Figure 1: The surface temperature distribution for Algol A-B system before (upper plot) and after (lower plot) correction for temperature due to the irradiation effect. ...

... Ah ha~ Once I questioned, ?what is systematic error?? (see [Q] systematic error. Thanks to L. Lyons? work discussed in [ArXiv] Particle Physics , I found this paper, titled Systematic Errors describing the concept and statistical inference related to systematic errors in the field of particle physics. ... Tags: coverage , Heinrich , likelihood , Lyons , nuisance parameter , objective priors , p-value , particle physics , statistical error , subjective priors , systematic error . ...

What will happen when the fragments hit Jupiter? ... All the fragments will enter Jupiter's atmosphere at an angle of 42 degrees from the vertical and impact near a latitude of 44 degrees south, but on the back side of the planet as seen from Earth (about 10 degrees in longitude behind the edge of Jupiter, as seen from Earth). ... Any body moving through an atmosphere is slowed by atmospheric drag, by having to push the molecules of that atmosphere out of the way. ...

We present far-infrared spectra, ЮЛ = 52-93 ЮМm, obtained with the Spitzer Space Telescope in the spectral energy distribution mode of its MIPS instrument, of a representative sample of the most luminous compact far-infrared sources in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). ... First, we introduce a spectral classification scheme. ... The efficiency of photoelectric heating in the interfaces of ionized gas and molecular clouds is estimated at 0.1%-0.3%. ...

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... Future seminars . P a s t seminars . Seminar council . ... Computer simulations of the orbital evolution of Jupiter-family comets (JFCs), resonant asteroids, and asteroidal, trans-Neptunian, and cometary dust particles were made. ... For dust particles we also considered radiation pressure, Poynting-Robertson drag, and solar wind drag. ... The maximum probability of a collision of an asteroidal or cometary dust particle with the Earth during its lifetime was for diameter d~100 microns. ...

... A violent event of a different type occurred in March 1991, when a powerful interplanetary shock wave hit the Earth's magnetic field and created a new radiation belt. ... At 03:42 Greenwich time on March 24, 1991, the population of high-energy electrons and protons trapped in the Earth's magnetic field suddenly received huge reinforcements. ... The passage of the shock also left Earth with a new long-lived belt of high-energy protons. ... The horizontal axis measures distance from the Earth's center...

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Armagh Observatory, 21 December 2001: . ... The Armagh Observatory's contribution, led by astronomers Simon Jeffery and Gerry Doyle , is to develop new computational tools to study the atmosphere of the Sun and other stars. ... Computers will communicate with one another using the grid, and computing power will become a commodity just like electricity. ... FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Simon Jeffery or Mark Bailey at the Armagh Observatory (Tel.: ... WWW contact: webmaster@star.arm.ac.uk . ...

. This is BTA "indome" main server computer tb.sao.ru . It is local address in SAO's Intranet. But it is visible from Internet through our Web-site proxy as: http://www.sao.ru/tb/ . BTA TSC online Web-pages located here: http://www.sao.ru/tb/tcs/ . BTA WebCameras: . "In-Dome" TV-camera . and it's last images . "Outdor" TV-camera . and it's last images . Also, one can find here some documents: .

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... More on 51 Peg: . The discovery of a Jupiter--mass planet in orbit around the solar--type star 51Peg has been reported by Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz (Geneva Observatory) on October 6th at the 9th Cambridge workshop on "cool stars, stellar systems, and the sun" held at Florence (Italy). ... Recall that the measurements of radial velocity only yield v sin i which in turn gives us M sin i. For most values of i, sin i will be greater than 0.5 and this gives a mass estimate of 0.5 Jupiter masses. ...

The original files with the data were in different formats. ... Such files were named "standard data files" and linked to the database. They can be easily transformed to any desirable format by a code. Here we present two simple computer programs of this kind. ... When running the code, you can specify columns in the output file: wavelength, energy (eV) or wavenumber (cm -1 ) as the first column, and complex refractive index or dielectric function as the second and third columns. ...

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Hubble Observations Shed New Light on Jupiter Collision . Was it a comet or an asteroid? ... Their initial findings, combined with results from other space-borne and ground-based telescopes, shed new light on Jupiter's atmospheric winds, its immense magnetic field, the mysterious dark debris from the impacts, and the composition of the doomed comet itself. ... Hubble's ultraviolet observations show the motion of very fine impact debris particles now suspended high in Jupiter's atmosphere. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... I turned back to the Moon, and noticed a red glow to the sky. ... Figuring it was simply a high altitude cirrus cloud illuminated by the just-set Sun, we went back in. I logged on to my computer to check my email, and found one from a woman who had also seen the red glow, and asked me if it were an aurora. ... So when I do see something odd, I'll have to be careful lest I fall the other way, and think every red cloud is an aurora. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...