... Blue Jet Lightning . ... Recently two new types of lightning have been verified: red sprites and blue jets. These atmospheric discharges occur very high in the Earth's atmosphere - much higher than the familiar form of lightning. ... M104: The Sombrero Galaxy . ... Low density gas is shown as blue, and high density gas as red. Eagle EGGs in M16 . ... Star forming regions known as "EGGs" are uncovered at the end of this giant pillar of gas and dust in the Eagle Nebula (M16). ...

Supernova 2002fk in NGC 1309 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2002fk in NGC 1309 Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the updates and links web pages. ... 2002/09/19.848 . ... JM Llapasset image . ... 13.0 . ... Josep M. Bosch . ... Josep M. Bosch image . ... vsnet-campaign-sn 476 ] SN 2002fk in NGC 1309 . ...

... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Astronomers recently discovered that Scholz's star passed close to the Sun 70,000 years ago. Wouldn't its gravity have sent Oort Cloud comets raining into the inner planets? ... COMETS | OORT CLOUD . Based on the number of long-period comets that enter the inner solar system, astronomers estimate there are probably trillions of them in the Oort Cloud. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Discover | ...

... By means of deep optical images obtained at the Special Astrophysical Observatory 6-m telescope it was discovered that some Seyfert galaxies that were earlier considered to be non-interacting objects displayed signatures of elongated tidal envelopes belonging to satellite debris. ... Our results suggest that statistic studies based on popular imaging surveys (for example SDSS) can lead to an underestimation of the fraction of minor mergers among galaxies with active nuclei (AGN). ...

In this gallery are many images of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies which have recently been discovered and analyzed. ... The central surface brightness of this galaxy is 24.28 . Malin 2 This galaxy is another huge disk galaxy with a scale length of 15 kpc and a redshift of 15000 km/a. The high surface brightness knot in one of its spiral arms actually has the same color, luminosity and H-alpha equivalent width as the entire Large Magellanic Cloud . ... Truly it is a Low Surface Brightness Galaxy. ...

Many small irregular jovian satellites have been discovered recently. Many new moons of Saturn and Uranus are also showing up. Callirrhoe (S/1999 J1) was discovered by the Spacewatch project and the Minor Planet Center in 2000 from images taken in 1999. ... Names for the first 11 of these new moons were assigned by the IAU in Oct 2002. ... Data on the newly discovered moons can be found at JPL and Scott Sheppard's site . ... Discoveries in 2003 . new names . IAUC 7555 . IAUC 7460 . ...

... Posts tagged ?Ptolemy? ... Hyunsook once lamented that astronomers seem to be rather trigger happy with correlations and regressions, and everyone knows they don?t constitute proof of anything, so why do they do it? ... Tags: astrostatistics , curve fitting , Earth , ellipses , epicycles , Galileo , history , inference , iTunesU , Kepler , Mars , Owen Gingerich , planetary motion , Ptolemy , Quotes . ... Recipe [ 1 ] is no more suitable as a statistical bible than Ptolemy is for astronomy. ...

... It contains: electromagnetic radiation (photons); hot plasma (electrons, protons and other ions) a.k.a. the solar wind ; cosmic rays; microscopic dust particles; and magnetic fields (primarily the Sun's). W hile the Sun 's radiation is obvious, the other components of the interplanetary medium were not discovered until very recently. ... Within a few solar radii of the Sun the magnetic field determines the flow of the solar wind; much of the flow is trapped in magnetic loops. ... Sun .. ...

Dr John Butler making adjustments to the recently restored . Calver 18-inch telescope at the Armagh Observatory. The International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center recently named an asteroid after Armagh astronomer, Dr John Butler. ... Christopher John Butler (b. 1940) has worked on cool stars, the effects of solar variability on climate, and preserving Armagh Observatory's scientific heritage for future generations. ... John Butler was born in Cambridgeshire. ...

Proposal Identi cation No.: P1685 Date Received: 2002-May-30 20:02:45 Technical Page Proposal Type: Regular General Category: Pulsars Observation Category: Galactic Total Time Requested: 150 Hours Proposal Title: Timing of Pulsars Recently Discovered in 430-MHz Drift-Scan Search Data ABSTRACT: We request 150 hr of observing time to carry out regular timing observations spanning a 12-month baseline on pulsars recently discovered in 430-MHz drift-scan search data. ...

... NGC 6221 . NGC 6215 . NGC 6221 is a barred spiral galaxy which is interacting with its brightest neighbour, NGC 6215, and possibly also with two newly discovered low-surface brightness galaxies (see Figure). The galaxy group lies only 10 degrees below the Galactic plane which explains the rather crowded field in the optical. ... Not much is known about NGC 6215, which is classified as a non-barred spiral galaxy of type SAS5 (RC3). ...

... Authors: Christian Knigge, Mario Livio Blue- and red-shifted Hydrogen and Helium satellite recombination lines have recently been discovered in the optical spectra of at least two supersoft X-ray sources (SSSs), RX J0513-069 and RX J0019.8+2156, and tentatively also in one short-period cataclysmic variable star (CV), the recurrent nova T Pyx. These features are thought to provide evidence for the presence of highly collimated jets in these systems. ... huizinga@stsci.edu . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Solar System . ... Planets . ... Space Flight . ... Neptune, which is not visible with the naked eye, was discovered by mathematical prediction in 1846 before being observed through a telescope. ... Tidal interactions between Neptune and Triton mean that in 100 million years these two bodies may come too close to one another causing Triton to be torn apart leaving Neptune with a ring system more spectacular than SaturnтАЩs. ...

... Spacecraft . 29b. Satellites looking down . ... 29e. Explorers of distant space . ... The Hubble orbiting telescope. ... The Hubble telescope , in low Earth orbit, overcomes such limitations, in the visible range and in part of the UV. ... So fruitful was this observation that a second "deep field" exposure of such length, near the southern pole of the heavens, was recently conducted. ... Some satellites specialize in observing the Sun, such as the Japanese Yohkoh and NASA's SOHO . ...

EURO­ASIAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY R o u n d G r o u p lang lang uage uage Obs XX XX International Astronomy Olympiad , , 15 ­ 23. X. 2015 Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia English Code of participant Draw number . ... 10.1. ... Recently, astronomers have discovered a new open cluster. ... Draw configuration of the «stars». Answer 10.2. ... One of astronomers recognized familiar constellation in the outlines of the cluster. Write the standard threeletter designation of that constellation. ...

GCVS Research Group: . Recent publications . Kazarovets E.V., Samus N.N., Durlevich O.V., Kireeva N.N., Pastukhova E.N., The 81st Name-List of Variable Stars. ... Kazarovets E.V., Samus N.N., Durlevich O.V., Kireeva N.N., Pastukhova E.N., The 80th Name-List of Variable Stars. ... Samus N.N., Kazarovets E.V., Kireeva N.N., Pastukhova E.N., Durlevich O.V. General Catalogue of Variable Stars: Current status and new Name-lists Odessa Astronomical Publications, 2010, V. 23, p. 102-105. ...

... Unfortunately, a bug in emproc was recently discovered, whereby hkgtigen is called with the option: instrument=epn . ... The only workaround is to calculate off-line the housekeeping GTI (file, e.g. , gti.ds ), and applying it to emproc with the option withgtiset=yes and gtiset=gti.ds , simultaneously disabilitating the call to hkgtigen in emproc , through the option runhkgtigen=no . ... Pages maintained by SAS librarian . Any question about SAS should be addressed to the XMM-Newton help desk . ...

Ida and Dactyl . Ida . ... On August 28, 1993 Galileo came within 2,400 kilometers (1,500 miles) of 243 Ida, the second asteroid ever encountered by a spacecraft. ... Dactyl . ... This color picture is made from images taken by the Galileo spacecraft about 14 minutes before its closest approach to Ida at a range of about 10,500 kilometers (6,500 miles). ... This image is the first full picture showing both asteroid 243 Ida and its moon Dactyl transmitted to Earth from NASA's Galileo spacecraft. ...

... Let $Y$ be an affine algebraic variety, and let $X$ be a smooth resolution of singularities of the variety $Y$. Singularities of $Y$ are said to be symplectic if $X/Y$ carries a closed holomorphic 2-form which is non-degenerate outside of the exceptional set. ...

... Star Clusters . ... Stars@ESO . ... By discovering the first double star where a pulsating Cepheid variable and another star pass in front of one another, an international team of astronomers has solved a decades-old mystery. ... This embarrassing discrepancy has been known since the 1960s. To resolve this mystery, astronomers needed to find a double star containing a Cepheid where the orbit happened to be seen edge-on from Earth. ... It contains a Cepheid variable star pulsating every 3.8 days. ...