Astronomy Picture of the Day . Dueling Auroras . ... Will it be curtains for one of these auroras? A quick inspection indicates that it is curtains for both, as the designation "curtains" well categorizes the type of aurora pattern pictured. ... Meteor Storm Sights and Sounds . ... Indeed similar sights are astonishingly familiar world-wide to witnesses of this November's fireball-rich Leonid meteor storm. ... Ancient Layered Rocks on Mars . ... Is this a picture of Mars or Earth? ...

On September 15, 1998, the STScI director, Dr. Steven Beckwith, announced a special observation opportunity to the astronomical community during the Leonid Meteor Shower. During the peak of the Leonid meteor shower on November 17, 1998, HST will be pointed near the anti-radiant for ten hours. Anyone who is interested can submit ideas to STScI for scientific observations during this time. ... There are no HST observations in the archives for objects in this field. ...

This is a series of periodic postings by Terry Moseley of the Irish Astronomical Association . ... Issued 2003 December 17th . Mars Dust storms, lecture, TV, Bargain telescope . ... Another aurora? ... Issued 2003 September 30th . ... Issued 2003 September 25th . ... Issued 2003 September 21st . ... Issued 2003 September 14th . ... Issued 2003 September 12th . ... Issued 2003 September 11th . ... Issued 2003 September 10th . ... Issued 2003 September 9th . ... Issued 2003 August 29th . ... Aurora? ...

... 2006 November 21 . A Leonid Meteor Over Sweden . ... Incoming reports , however, have this year's Leonid meteor shower as less active than Leonid meteor showers a few years ago . ... The parent body of the Leonids meteor shower, Comet Tempel-Tuttle , leaves a trail of expelled sand-size particles every 33 years when it returns to the inner Solar System. ... Pictured above , a Leonid meteor was captured two days ago during the early morning hours of November 19 over Vallentuna , Sweden . ...

... Aurora from Space . ... Magnetic Storms . ... Solar fast Particles . ... Currently more than 200 communication satellites circle the Earth in synchronous orbit . ... Another effect of magnetic storms (and to lesser extent, of substorms) is a greater intensity of the electric currents circulating between Earth and distant space. ... One spacecraft would orbit near Earth, the other would be stationed elsewhere in the Earth's orbit around the Sun, capturing a sideways view of solar eruptions. ...

New Moons of Uranus . Brent Gladman's Home Page . ... The discovery of two probable distant satellites of Uranus was reported by B. Gladman, P. Nicholson, J. Burns and J. Kavelaars. ... This discovery was reported in the IAU Circular 6764 . ... Discovery image of S/1997 U 2 . This shows the discovery image of brighter of the two new moons of Uranus. ... This shows the discovery image of faint new moons of Uranus. ... This shows another discovery image of faint new moons of Uranus. ... Uranus . ...

... Travel . ... Parkes Radio Telescope , Parkes (Australia) . Project P837, May September 2013 . ... 100-m Radio Telescope , Effelsberg (Germany) . ... Workshop H?? in Dwarf Galaxies . 15 16 July 2015, Sydney, NSW, Australia . ... Conference The Periphery of Disks . 3 6 November 2014, Sydney, NSW, Australia . ... 21 October 2014, Sydney, NSW, Australia . ... 19 21 June 2013, Sydney, NSW, Australia . ... 9 11 November 2011, Sydney, NSW, Australia . ... 9 13 July 2007, Sydney, NSW, Australia . ...

Crater Gassendi . ... I made this drawing was made on the 26th of november 2001. If you compare this one with the previous drawing of Gassendi (below) the differences are clear. ... This drawing was made on the 28th of september 2001. After nearly a full month without observations I had a one hour gap between the thicker clouds. ... This drawing was made on the 29th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 27th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 25th of august 2001. ...

BaBar Collaboration Meeting , December 6-10, 2004 . ... APS April Meeting 2004 , May 1-4, 2004 . ... Workshops in Particle Physics , February 29 - March 6, 2004 . ... Aspen 2004 Winter Conference on Particle Physics , February 1-7, 2004 . ... Exp Talks - Prior Years . ... Energy Spectrometer Designs and Beam Tests , Eric Torrence . ... Recent Results from the LIGO Experiment, Isabel Leonor . ... Experimental Introduction , Ray Frey . ... CCD R at Oregon University , Nick Sinev, Olya Igonkina . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Stars . ... Posted on January 30, 2012 | 1 Comment If you look towards the west just after sunset this February you will see a very bright star in the darkening sky. ... Continue Reading.. ... 1 Comment After last yearтАЩs success, BBC2тАЩs Stargazing Live returned to our screens this month for another three nights of astronomy wonders.€а Holding the reins again were the charismatic Professor Brian Cox [ ] . ... Posted on December 5, 2011 | ...

Astronomy Discussion Forums . Forums: . ... Venus Transit - jhuggins - June 3, 2012 - 19:45 UTC . ... New Theory Of Relativity [Nwobu's Effect] - rayhugh - August 21, 2010 - 16:58 UTC . ... Comet 2003/K4 - jaypa - August 5, 2004 - 02:30 UTC . xt8i - leonard - March 9, 2004 - 07:51 UTC . ... Saturn and others - leonard - November 12, 2003 - 06:39 UTC . ... observations of mars - leonard - August 21, 2003 - 03:09 UTC . ... Hi Thom - leonard - August 21, 2003 - 03:23 UTC . ... www.astronomy.net . ...

... This document is copyright (c) 1999, 2000 Greg O'Keefe. ... The lastest version of this document lives at From Powerup To Bash Prompt as does its companion ``Building a Minimal Linux System from Source Code''. ... For contributing some ``ramblings'' about the kernel deamons. ... added change history . ... add more exercises, perhaps a whole section on larger exercises, like creating a minimal system file by file from a distro install. add makefile hack to bash build instructions - see easter notes. ...

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Published in the 2 nd announcement . The X Asian-Pacific will be organised on November 24 - December 2 , 2014 . ... Tuesday, November 25 City Irkutsk excursion . ... Thursday, November 27 Listvyanka excursion . ... Friday, November 28 Excursion . ... Sunday, November 30 Excursion . ... LOC e-mail: S Y a z e v [a] g m a i l . ... The official APAO e-mail: a p a o [a] l i s t . ... Dr. Michael G. Gavrilov, Founding Chairman and Coordinator of the Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad (APAO) . ...

... Timeline . ... 16b. Carrington, 1859 . ... While engaged in the forenoon of Thursday, September 1, in taking my customary observation of the forms and positions of the solar spots, an appearance was witnessed which I believe to be exceedingly rare. ... In this lapse of 5 minutes, the two patches of light traversed a space of about 35,000 miles. Click here for a text of Carrington's full article , including illustration.. ... Timeline Expanded timeline Glossary . ...

... Special Reports Giant space cloud may be powered by black holes 17:57 23 April 2007 NewScientist.com news service David Shiga An enormous cloud of roiling plasma in space may be drawing its energy from black holes, new observations suggest. Such clouds might be sources for the mysterious particles that occasionally crash into Earth's atmosphere at ultra - high speed. ... But higher energy particles in the cloud may be able to escape, he says. ...

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Microsymposium 34, MS047, 2001 SOME PROBLEMS OF THE EVOLUTION OF ASTEROIDS ­ RUBBLE PILE. ... Evidently, we can distinguish two processes: distant interactions, where there is no direct contact between separate fragments, and close contact interactions, where the fragments collide with one another. ... Such a rubble pile with a dust atmosphere differs from a cometary nucleus only in the absence of a volatile gas component, which is usually considered the cause of the appearance of cometary dust. ...