... Sprawling across hundreds of light-years, emission nebula IC 1396, visible on the upper right, mixes glowing cosmic gas and dark dust clouds. Stars are forming in this area, only about 3,000 light-years from Earth. ... Where are all of these meteors coming from? ... That is why the last week's meteor shower was known as the Perseids -- the meteors all appear to come from a radiant toward Perseus. ... About 50,000 years ago, however, a large meteor created Barringer Meteor Crater in Arizona, USA. ...

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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Solar System . Sun . ... March . ... The extent of the solar eclipse of 3 November€а 2013 at 13:22 UTC as seen from Accra, Ghana. We will see a similar sight.€а (Image credit: Kwabena under Creative Commons Licence) . ... Your viewing location is not important as long as it offers an unobstructed view of the south eastern sky.. ... You can use ?eclipse glasses? to view the Sun, these are made from aluminized Mylar filter material. ...

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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. February 2, 1998 . A Triple Eclipse on Jupiter . ... Actually, three parts appear to be missing. ... The unusual alignment of three of Jupiter 's moons between the Jovian giant and the Sun was imaged last November 10th. ... When a shadow from Earth's Moon crosses the Earth's surface, the people inside the shadow see an eclipse of the Sun. ...

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• APOD: 2011 January 2 - Looking Back at an Eclipsed Earth
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... August 30, 1999 . Looking Back on an Eclipsed Earth . ... Explanation: Here is what the Earth looks like during a solar eclipse. ... Only observers near the center of the dark circle see a total solar eclipse - others see a partial eclipse where only part of the Sun appears blocked by the Moon . This spectacular picture of the 1999 August 11 solar eclipse was one of the last ever taken from the Mir space station , as Mir is being decommissioned after more than ten years of productive use. ...

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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 . ...

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... On the morning of Thursday, 26 February, amid the Gal pagos Islands, the Sun will fade from view. Not the culmination of ancient prophecy, but none less mystical, Earth's small Moon will be executing a slow slide past the enormous Sun. ... And anyone living in southern North America, Central America, northern South America, or on islands and cruise ships in the Caribbean Sea will, weather permitting, have the opportunity to experience the wonder of a solar eclipse. ...

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... 21 February 2008 total lunar eclipse photographed by Bob English in Franklin, TN. ... Friday, 22 February 2008 11:16 . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

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... Home Astro-Imaging Page 10 . ... AAA Fall Astronomy Class: Astronomy Basics тАУ October-November 2015 . ... This MonthтАЩs Sky тАУ April 2015 . This MonthтАЩs Sky тАУ May 2015 . This MonthтАЩs Sky тАУ June 2015 . ... Beyond New York City . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

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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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... Here are a few features of the tweets from the 221st meeting of the American Astronmical Society . ... The retweet numbers are close to the values that Twitter has for the tweets, which means that I can't have messed up too much (I wouldn't expect perfect agreement since Twitter does not guarantee that any search will return all matching tweets). The most re-tweeted accounts. ... Number of re-tweets . ... The number of tweets used in this analysis is and the graph accounts for of this total. ...

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... The shining stars and swirls of glowing gas in this picture make up part of the beautiful Seagull Nebula. ... This picture actually shows just a small part of the nebula, can you guess which part? ... The colour tells astronomers that what we're looking at is hydrogen the most common element in the Universe. There are lots of materials on Earth, but did you know that when you break them down they're all made from just a few basic chemicals? We call these chemicals 'elements'. ...

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... Astronomy for Kids . ... Astronomy 101 . ... Eicher book signing at Northeast Astronomy Forum . Buy and sell astronomy gear April 9 . ... Astronomy Foundation . ... Astronomy Day . ... When using my astronomy software or looking at various books, I notice that not everyone draws the constellations the same way. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... If you are already registered on Astronomy.com, please log in below. ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

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VIEW OUT OF THE WINDOW FROM ARIZONE, USA . ... Our whole class was excited to share with you what we see when we look out our window here, in Chandler, Arizona. Our classroom has no windows, so we decided to go outside on February 2, 1998, and describe to you what we see. You look out across the desert and you see endless roads and it sees almost as if you are in a dream. It's cold; about 65 degrees F (cold for Chandler, anyway) and there has been a touch of fog this morning. ...

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• Moon and eclipses

... Eclipses of the Moon in 2009 : . In 2009 there are four eclipses of the Moon (tree penumbral eclipses on February 9, July 7, and August 5-6 and a partial eclipse on December 31). ... Moon enters penumbra (P 1 ) . ... Moon leaves penumbra (P 4 ) . ... Eclipse, lunar : . ... It may be total (the Moon passing completely through the Earth's umbra ), partial (the Moon passing partially through the Earth's umbra at maximum eclipse), or penumbral (the Moon passing only through the Earth's penumbra ). ...

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• Celestial calendar - Solar Eclipses

The Sun's corona . ... For instance, short "plumes" rising from the polar regions of the Sun look very much like field lines coming out of the end of a bar magnet, and they therefore suggest that the Sun, in addition to the intense fields of sunspots, also has a global magnetic field like the Earth's. Arches above the . Sun's surface . ... It is brightest near sunspots, whose arched field lines apparently hamper the outflow of solar wind which carries away energy and helps cool the corona. ...

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• The Path of the Sun, the Ecliptic

Having studied the solar corona and its radio emissions sunspot cycles ago, I was keen to verify its existence optically during the total solar eclipse of Wednesday, 4 December 2002, the first on Australian soil since 1976. The moon's shadow was to travel from the south-Atlantic west of The Congo, across southern Africa, the Indian Ocean and into the Great Australian Bight, finally making Australian landfall at Ceduna, South Australia (SA). ... The favoured site to observe the eclipse was Ceduna. ...

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... Bad Astronomy . ... This first Snack of the year 2000 (yes, I am one of those who says the Millennium begins in 2001) will talk a little about a wonderful event: a total lunar eclipse. On the evening of Thursday, January 20 (or the early morning Friday, January 21 if you lives east of England) the Moon will go undergo one of the best eclipses it can. ... The Moon stays in the Earth's shadow in a lunar eclipse longer the Earth stays in the Moon's shadow during a solar eclipse. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

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Milky Way X-ray background emission « »: , . ... RXTE , . ... Using near-infrared Galaxy intensity measured with COBE/DIRBE experiment and X-ray data from RXTE and INTEGRAL it was shown that X-ray brightness of the Galactic background emission closely follows its stellar density and can be explained by a cumulative emission of a large number of weak Galactic X-ray sources. ... Map of Galactic background emission in hard X-ray energy band obtained with INTEGRAL observatory. ... 2006, &, 452, 169 ., ...

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... Looking south-east to the constellations of CтАж . ... Title: Looking south-east to the constellations of Centaurus and Scorpius behind the ANU 2.3m telescope building . ... Looking south-east to the constellations of Centaurus and Scorpius behind the ANU 2.3m telescope building NOTE: All images are copyright and must not be reproduced or mirrored in any form without written permission. ...

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• Looking past the ANU 24-inch telescope to the constellations of the Southern

XMM-Newton EPIC TTD Meeting Preparation for next eclipse season 7th Feb 2001 Mauro Casale ESA H/Q: 7th February 2001 XMM 1 Facts / lessons learned from previous eclipses 1) the eclipses will occur before perigee in the period 19-03- 2001 / 24-04- 2001 2) the shortest time between end of eclipse and Perigee time is about 22 minutes; in most of the other cases it is around 30-31 ... T0 - 1.6/1h: Eclipse start. ... ESA H/Q : 7th February 2001 XMM 7 ...

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