... Similar in size and grand design to our own Milky Way, spiral galaxy NGC 3370 lies about 100 million light-years away toward the constellation Leo. ... Aurora Over Clouds . ... Stars and Dust of the Lagoon Nebula . ... The Galactic Center in Infrared . ... In visible light, much of the Galactic Center is obscured by opaque dust. ... Streaking skyward, a Boeing Delta 2-Heavy rocket carries NASA's Space InfraRed Telescope Facility (SIRTF) aloft during the early morning hours of August 25th. ... August...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2000 August 23 . NGC 6960: The Witch's Broom Nebula . ... Pictured above is the west end of the Veil Nebula known technically as NGC 6960 but less formally as the Witch's Broom Nebula. ... The supernova remnant lies about 1400 light-years away towards the constellation of Cygnus . ... About APOD | ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Planets . ... Our Galaxy . ... Stars . ... Posted on March 14, 2012 | 23 Comments How big is the largest known star? ... Continue Reading.. ... Posted on November 10, 2011 | ... 2 Comments Once planets orbiting other stars were unknown as they could not be directly observed. ... 5 Comments Once exoplanets, worlds orbiting other stars, were the stuff of science fiction but now we know of literally hundreds of real alien planets circling other stars. ...

MAIN PAGE . ... Nova Cygni August 1975! ... 1975/76: Comet West! ... Dr. Richard West (4th from left) & AAL members visiting SES Betzdorf on occasion of our club's 25th anniversary - October 1996 . Comet West Information . ... It was the brightest comet visible from Earth since Comet West in 1976. ... 1997: Comet Hale-Bopp! ... Thus Comet Hale-Bopp never got closer to Earth than Earth gets to the Sun. ... Comet Hale-Bopp JPL Page . ... 1999: Total solar eclipse over Luxembourg! ...

... Aug 2nd, 2010| 05:21 pm | ... There is an ambitious project afoot to build a 3D map of a meteor stream during the Perseids on Aug 11-12. ... I would be especially interested in your comments on the statistical technique I propose to use in analyzing the data. ... Tags: Announcement , Aug 2010 , August , meteors , modeling , Perseids , spatial-temporal modeling . ... Posted by chasc . ... Tags: 2010 , Announcement , astronomical data , astrostatistics , Aug 2010 , August , Computational , workshop . ...

The Spectrograph for Photometric Imaging with Numeric Reconstruction sounding rocket experiment was launched on 2000 August 4 to record far-ultraviolet (912-1450 У?) spectral and spatial information for the giant reflection nebula in the Upper Scorpius region. ... These flux measurements were used to constrain a radiative transfer model and to determine the dust albedo for the Upper Scorpius region. ...

... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... VLBI . ... Monday, 31 August 2009 . ... Friday, 28 August 2009 . ... RE: LBA recorder disk speed tests Shaun.Amy_at_email.protected . RE: LBA recorder disk speed tests C.Hotan_at_email.protected . Re: LBA recorder disk speed tests Jamie.Stevens_at_email.protected . Re: LBA recorder disk speed tests Chris.Phillips_at_email.protected . Re: LBA recorder disk speed tests c.reynolds_at_email.protected . ...

Armagh Observatory reports that the weather in August was wetter and slightly warmer than normal. The monthly rainfall recorded was 126.2 mm (5.0 in), which is about 55% more than the August average. ... The mean monthly temperature was 15.5 degrees Celsius (59.9 degrees Fahrenheit), that is, about 0.8 C above average. ... These data refer to observations at Armagh Observatory, which has been recording the weather at Armagh since 1795. ... Last Revised: 2009 September 2nd . ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center . ... SHANNON W. LUCID (Ph.D.) . nasa astronaut (former) . ... She is qualified for assignment as a mission specialist on Space Shuttle flight crews. ... A veteran of five space flights, Dr. Lucid has logged 5,354 hours (223 days) in space. ... Dr. Lucid retired from NASA in January 2012. ... In completing this flight, Dr. Lucid logged 838 hours and 54 minutes in space. ... FEBRUARY 2012 ...

Magnetic field measurements onboard the Interball Tail spacecraft are carried out by the FM-3I instrument which consists of two flux-gate magnetometers covering two different ranges: [-200, +200] nT and [-1000, +1000] nT. Besides scientific goals, the FM-3I experiment data is used to perform the attitude control of the Interball Tail spacecraft. ... August 22, 1995 . ... October 18, 1995 . Top of the page . ... Back to the Interball Home Page . ...

... The Pleiades star cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, is a conspicuous object in the night sky with a prominent place in ancient mythology . ... The stars in the Pleiades are thought to have formed together around 100 million years ago, making them 1/50th the age of our sun, and they lie some 130 parsecs (425 light years ) away. ... Data for these stars are listed in a table below. ... Yes . ... WEBDA Pleiades cluster data . ... M45: The Pleiades Star Cluster (2007 November 18) ...

... Voyager Spacecraft Introduction (This Page) . ... The twin Voyager spacecraft, over the course of a dozen years, drew back the curtain on nearly half of the solar system . From launch in 1977 through the spectacular parting shots in 1989 of Neptune at the outer reaches of the solar system, this pair of gangly, instrument-laden spacecraft explored four planets -- Jupiter , Saturn , Uranus and Neptune -- as well as tens of moons, and the rings and magnetic environments of those planetary systems. ...

Photon Scattering: Basic Principle of Photon Scattering . Audio Narration is available . No Scattering: Photon Source and Detector . ... For optical photons, scattering goes as wavelength to the -4 power. In the case of blue photons compared to red photons, this means that blue photons are about 10 times more likely to get scattered than red photons. ... Watch the blue photons scatter away from the detector . ... Interstellar dust make stars appear redder than they really are . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... Star Atlas . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Satellite discovers record-breaking gamma-ray burst . ... NASA's Swift satellite has found the most distant gamma-ray burst (GRB) ever detected. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ... A gamma-ray burst hints that LIGO's double black holes started as one massive star . ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter....

... One of this year's largest mass ejections from the Sun's atmosphere was recorded last Sunday by TESIS telescopes aboard the CORONAS-PHOTON satellite ( video - wmv 4.3 MB ). ... Over the course of a week, two gigantic solar prominences were simultaneously ejected from the surface of the Sun. ... Earth will not feel the Sun's influence either. ... The TESIS observatory ї TESIS: www.tesis.lebedev.ru . ... One of this year's largest mass ejections from the Sun's atmosphere (movie WMV, 4.3 MB) . ...

... ISC Kosmotras . ... Comments, Opinions Publications Dnepr Program . Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. ... Baikonur Cosmodrome Yasny launch base Downloads . ... Over the years of its successful business operations , ISC Kosmotras has performed 22 Dnepr orbital flights with a total of 128 payloads inserted into their orbits. ... Below is the list of payloads lofted into their target orbits on Dnepr launch missions put together by ISC Kosmotras: . ... MEGSAT-1 (Italy) . ... LATINSAT-A, -B (USA) . ...

... What's New? Bad Astronomy . ... August 24, 2005 . ... That says Mars will be closer to the Earth on August 27th than it has in 5000 years, and it may be 2267 until it gets this big again? ... Mars won't be closest in August, it won't be as big as the full Moon, and it was actually closer back in 2003. ... It's a near-exact duplicate of an email sent around the internets back in 2003, August 2003 , to be exact, when Mars really did have a close apparition with the Earth. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

These images have been selected from those recorded with the telescopes at Mt. ... This is the full 25 arcminute field of view of the CDK700 with its Apogee U16 camera. ... Jupiter on November 1, 2011, at 07:06 UT was recorded with the CDK125 Shared Skies Live telescope and an AVT Prosilica GX-3300 video camera. ... The first quarter moon on August 17, 2010 at 02:20 UT was recorded through thin cirrus with the CDK125 Shared Skies Live telescope at Moore Observatory. ...

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