... 50 Weirdest Objects . ... Get to Know the Night Sky . ... Picture of the Day . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... How can the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) take pictures of objects light-years away but not get a good picture of Pluto? ... At its distance, it subtends a smaller angle on the sky than does a galaxy at a distance of billions of light-years. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Get full access to StarDome PLUS . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2004 August 28 . M17: A Hubble Close-Up . Credit: NASA , ESA , J. Hester ( ASU ) . Explanation: Sculpted by stellar winds and radiation, these fantastic, undulating shapes lie within the stellar nursery known as M17 , the Omega Nebula, some 5,500 light-years away in the nebula-rich constellation Sagittarius. ... About APOD | ...

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Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 8.03.2008 . ... Credit: Vicent Peris ( OAUV / PTeam ), MAST , STScI , AURA , NASA Explanation: The striking spiral galaxy M104 is famous for its nearly edge-on profile featuring a broad ring of obscuring dust. ... Here, Hubble Space Telescope archival image data has been reprocessed to create this alternative look at the well-known galaxy . ... March 2008 . ... Publications with keywords: spiral galaxy - dust . Publications with words: spiral galaxy - dust . ...

Images of Pluto taken by the NASA Hubble Space Telescope with the ESA Faint Object Camera. These images, taken in late June and early July, 1994 are the first views which allow resolution of features on Pluto's surface. ... The large lower images are processed versions made from a number of Hubble observations. ... Central Latitude/Longitude (deg): N/A . ... Instrument: HST ESA Faint Object Camera (FOC) . ... Illumination Incidence Angle (deg): N/A . ... Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA . ...

... The European HST Archive has been moved to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre ( ESAC ), Spain, where most of ESA's Space Science Archives are located and operated from. ... The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), jointly operated by ESA and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) was, until the end of 2010, the European HST science facility, supporting the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

home publications > mercury . ... ASP Conference Series . ... Cover Story: Hubble House Call . Mercury, January/February 2001 Table of Contents . ... Swiss astrophysicist-turned-astronaut Claude Nicollier talks about life on the Space Shuttle and how he and his crewmates saved the Hubble Space Telescope. by John Alan Cohan . ... To find out, read this interview in the January/February 2001 issue of Mercury Magazine with Swiss astronaut Claude Nicollier, a veteran of four Space Shuttle missions. ...

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... Visible Distribution of Galaxies. ... Features of Elliptical, Lens-Shaped, Spiral and Irregular Galaxies. Galaxies with Bar. ... Distribution of Surface Brightness of Surface and Spiral Galaxies. ... Color Characteristics of Galaxies. ... Methods of Galaxies' Mass Determination. ... Hidden Mass of Spiral Galaxies. ... Features of Dark Matter Distribution in E and SO Galaxies. ... The Whole Number of Galaxies and Their Density by the Results of Observation on the 'Hubble' Space Telescope. ...

These are very prominent absorption lines is most all galaxies. ... These pair of absorption lines will appear in all the spectra and they should be your principle source for determining the redshift. ... When this applet opens you will see an iconic representation of galaxies in the left hand side of the applet and a target area in the right side of the applet. ... Note: What you are doing in this excercise is identical to what Hubble did in the 1920's and you are using the same galaxies. ...

... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... ESO . ... Survey Telescopes . ... ESO Supernova . ... Star Clusters . ... Stars@ESO . ... ESO 3.6-metre telescope . ... MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope . ... ESO 1-metre Schmidt telescope . ... Future Projects . ... This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the positions of the past, present and predicted future appearances of the Refsdal supernova behind the galaxy cluster€а MACS J1149+2223 . ...

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1996/22/text/ Probing the mysterious heart of the Crab Nebula, the tattered remains of a stellar cataclysm witnessed more than 900 years ago, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found that the Crab is even more dynamic than previously understood, based on a cosmic "movie" assembled from a series of Hubble observations. ... Because of this flickering, the neutron star is also called a "pulsar." ...

... UA SCIENTIST & TEAM DISCOVER SURFACE FEATURES COVER TITAN (Science contacts: Peter H. Smith, (602) 621-2725; Mark Lemmon, (602) 621-1485; UA Lunar and Planetary Laboratory) . Scientists for the first time have made images of the surface of Saturn 's giant, haze-shrouded moon, Titan. ... About three weeks before Cassini's first flyby of Titan, the spacecraft is to release the European Space Agency's Huygens Probe to parachute to Titan's surface. ... Upper left: hemisphere facing Saturn. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Saturn as you haven't seen it (Image credit: NASA/ESA) . This false colour image from the Hubble Space Telescope not only shows Saturn in an unfamiliar light, but displays some of the giant planet?s features. ... Viewing Saturn at this time not only allows us to see the famous rings almost edge on but also to observe both polar regions at once. There we see Saturn?s aurorae, analogous to Earth?s Northern lights and Southern Lights. ...

... Это первое изображение звезды, отличной от Солнца, полученное космическим телескопом. Звезда, называемая Aльфой Ориона (Бетельгейзе), отмечена крестиком на правом изображении зимнего созвездия Ориона (Охотника). На изображении показана огромная ультрафиолетовая атмосфера звезды с таинственным ярким пятном размером в десять раз большим диаметра Земли и имеющем температуру по-крайней мере на 2000 К больше температуры остальной поверхности звезды. ...

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... This paper describes two approaches for user interfaces to the Hubble Space Telescope ( HST ) archive. StarView is a custom interface with many interactive features for the serious archive user. An experimental World Wide Web (WWW) interface is also described, which supports some of the basic features of StarView available via standard WWW clients such as NCSA Mosaic. ... StarView is the primary user interface to the HST archive (Williams 1993; Long 1994). ...

GTK+ / Gnome Application Development . ... Home . ... There simply isn't space to cover all of glib's features in this book. ... Here's a brief list of features not already mentioned: . ... G_VA_COPY copies a va_list in a portable way. ... Convenience/portability routines to get the user's home directory, get the name of a /tmp directory, and similar tasks. ... If you need some generally-useful routine that's not in glib already, consider writing it in glib style and contributing it to the library! ...

Next: Feature enhancement: normalizing Up: No Title Previous: Feature enhancement: pulsing . The inverse transform is at the core of the best known applications of wavelets: data compaction and numerics. ... Two applications fall within our scope: filtering and denoising. Filtering consists of using only a portion of the wavelet map in the inverse transform process, masking out certain durations. ... Figure 23: Filtered reconstruction of the intermittent signal. ...