... AFGL 2591: A Massive Star Acts Up . ... Young star AFGL 2591 is putting on a show. ... AFGL 2591 is estimated to be about.. ... Where have all the dim stars gone? ... Uranus: The Tilted Planet . ... Uranus is composed mostly of rock and ices, but with a thick hydrogen and helium atmosphere. ... Shown in this stunning false-color Hubble Space Telescope image, the galaxy's disk - composed of spectacular star clusters in winding spiral arms and dramatic dark lanes of dust - spans some 70,000 light...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2001 August 29 . AFGL 2591: A Massive Star Acts Up . ... Explanation: Young star AFGL 2591 is putting on a show. ... AFGL 2591 is estimated to be about one million years old -- much younger than our own Sun 's 5 billion-year age -- and has created a nebula over 500 times the diameter of our Solar System in just the past 10,000 years. ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2000 February 13 . Southwest Mercury . Credit: Mariner 10 , NASA . Explanation: The planet Mercury resembles a moon. ... In fact, the Earth is the only planet more dense. ... From Earth , Mercury's proximity to the Sun cause it to be visible only for a short time just after sunset or just before sunrise. ... About APOD | ...

... Armagh Planetarium . ... Universe . ... Posted on February 19, 2011 | ... Continue Reading.. ... The Hubble Space Telescope recently imaged NGC 2841 as part of an investigation into how new stars are created. ... No Comments Kepler-11 is an amazing, newly-discovered system of exoplanets. ... Hello, IтАЩm Colin, welcoming you to Astronotes, the PlanetariumтАЩs official blog. Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

Program Number . ... The Host Environments of Type Ia Supernovae in the SDSS Survey . ... Those changes are most apparent in Jovian atmosphere, which displays a wide variety of bands and spots, reflecting complex meteorological phenomena (see, e.g., previous ACS observations of the upper atmosphere and of the new little red spot ). ... The present program builds on past HST programs (see Program GO 10534 ) that have monitored atmospheric changes in the two outermost gas giants, Uranus and Neptune. ...

... Measurement of the MASS detectors parameters with mass program January 24, 2015 [112707] . MASS/DIMM electronics. ... Turbina-core(D): Dimm User Guide. ... N.Shatsky, V.Kornilov, The revision of the MASS/DIMM star catalogue. ... О.Возякова, В.Корнилов, Н.Шатский, Новое программное обеспечение прибора MASS/DIMM. ... V.Kornilov, N.Shatsky, S.Potanin, O.Voziakova, B.Safonov Preliminary results of astroclimate parameters measurements at the Sternberg 2.5m telescope installation site. ...

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Giant Jupiter. Jupiter . ... Jupiter has no solid surface that is why speaking about its dimensious point the radius of the upper border line of the clouds, where the presseru is about 10 KPa; radius of Jupiter on the equator is 71400 km. ... The Jupiter satellites. ... Nowadays 16 satellites of the Jupiter are known: Adrastea, Mitis, Amaltea , Phina,then 4 Galilei satellites: Io , Europe , Hanimed , Callisto , Leda, Aimalia, Zicitea, Elara, Ananke, Carme, Pasipe and Sinope. ... Jupiter's ring. ...

... 2005 Some important issues Europa moves relative to magnetospheric magnetic field with velocity ~ 105 km/sec (subsonic velocity ) Europa has induced magnetosphere and Alfven wings Europa has atmosphere (51014 cm-2) and ionosphere (~103 ­ 104 cm-3) Energetic particles hit Europa's surface that leads to sputtering rate of ~31027 molecules/sec Europa is an important source of neutrals particles (50kg of 2) and ionized ...

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... PRESENTATIONS . Session 1: Missions to Jupiter system . ... Lebreton J.-P. (Invited) . ... The Europa-Jupiter System Mission: study results and prospects . ... Session 2: Technical aspects of the Europa Lander mission . ... V. Sasi Prabhakaran (POSTER PRESENTATION) . ... Geophysical investigations for a landed mission to Europa . ... The surface composition of Europa and implications for a landed mission . ... Vorobyova E. Search for Life on Europa: Objectives for Lander Mission . ...

... Observing . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Problems posed by massive stars . ... These questions were at least part of the motivation when CУЕssio Barbosa of Brazil's University of SУ?o Paulo and Donald Figer of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore surveyed observers and theorists to see what they believed were the most pressing problems concerning massive stars. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

... Jupiter is our Solar System?s very own superhero. The giant planet is two and a half times more massive than all the rest of the planets in our Solar System combined. And with great mass, comes great gravity. With the power of super-strong gravity, Jupiter plays a heroic role in our Solar System, protecting life on Earth. ... Unfortunately, we have found lots of solar systems with massive planets that lie close to their star, but not so many that lie far away, like Jupiter. ...

... The RAS Meteorite Collection: State on the 1 st of June, 1999 . ... About the laboratory . ... Find 1749. One mass of 687 kg . ... Fall 09 February 1929. 11 masses totaling 3738 g, the largest is 2128 g . ... Chondrite . ... Find 1986. 3 masses totaling about 25 kg . ... Fall 24 March 1933. 75 masses totaling 3-4 kg . ... Fall 29 July 1935. 5 masses totaling 37.35 kg, the largest is 23 kg . ... Fall 23 May 1938. 4 masses totaling 127.5 g . ... Fall 02 October 1933. 10 masses totaling 3.4 kg . ...

ECLIPSES, TRANSITS OF MERCURY AND VENUS . Year 1999 . Year 2000 . Year 2001 . Year 2002 . Year 2003 . Year 2004 . Year 2005 . ... Total solar eclipse . ... Transit of Mercury across the solar disk . ... Total lunar eclipse . ... Partial solar eclipse . ... Partial lunar eclipse . ... Annular solar eclipse . ... Penumbral lunar eclipse . ... big map . ... Transit of Venus across the solar disk . ... Annular-total solar eclipse . ... Non-central annular solar eclipse . ...

... 142,800 Mean density (kg/m^3) .. ... 5.203 Rotation period (length of day in Earth hours).. 9.8 Revolution period (length of year) (in Earth years). 11.86 Obliquity (tilt of axis) (degrees).. 3.08 Orbit inclination (degrees).. 1.3 Orbit eccentricity.. 0.048 Mean surface temperature (K)........................ 120 (cloud tops) Visual geometric albedo.. 0.44 Atmospheric components.............................. 90% hydrogen, 10% helium, .07% methane Rings.. ...

... The HI - Star Formation Connection . ... Coffee . ... Dark Galaxies and Dark Matter . ... HI in Normal Galaxies . HI and Galaxy Evolution over Cosmic Time . ... How Galaxies Accrete Gas . ... The Billion Galaxy Survey . ... Searches for Dark Galaxies . ... Evidence for Dark Matter in Galaxies . HI in Galaxies: Overview . ... Open Questions in Normal Galaxies . ... Starburst galaxies and BCDs . ... HI Rich Galaxies . ... Open Questions in HI and Galaxy Evolution . HI and Galaxy Evolution . ...

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13th of February 2015 . The Atlas3D view of massive galaxies with deep optical images . ... In a recent paper, Duc et al. (2015; including ATNF's Paolo Serra) present the result of a large observational campaign to study the faint outskirts of early-type galaxies as part of the Atlas3D project. These spectacular images reveal a large number of new features invisible in previous images, such as blue star-forming spiral arms, shells and a large diversity of tidal tails. ... today * ATNF | ...