... 2004 February 18 . Anvil Cloud Over Sicily . ... Appearing to float above a remote monastery in Sicily , Italy , the anvil cloud 's shape shows several classic cloud features. ... The dramatically flat cloud bottom is caused by temperature falling in the lower atmosphere -- above a specific height water-saturated air is forced to condense out water droplets. The shape of the cloud middle is caused by the water-droplet-laden column of air being blown both upward and to one side. ...

... This is because moist warm air that rises and cools will condense into water droplets at a specific temperature, which usually corresponds to a very specific height. As water droplets grow , an opaque cloud forms. Under some conditions, however, cloud pockets can develop that contain large droplets of water or ice that fall into clear air as they evaporate. ... Resulting mammatus clouds can appear especially dramatic if sunlit from the side. ... Publications with keywords: clouds . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... Circumstellar disc of beta Pictoris: constraints on grain properties from polarization. To appear in the Astronomy & Astrophysics . abs , src , ps ] . ... Dust influx to Titan from Hyperion . ... abs ] . ... Characteristics of bulges and disks in interacting galaxies . ... Dust grains around Herbig Ae/Be stars: porous, cometary-like grains? ... To appear in the Astronomy & Astrophysics Supplement . ... Finally, Links may lead you to more options (e.g. via the LANL preprint system). ...

... 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 28 . The Sombrero Galaxy from VLT . ... FORS1 , VLT ANTU , ESO . ... Reasons include the Sombrero 's unusually large and extended central bulge of stars, and dark prominent dust lanes that appear in a disk that we see nearly edge-on. Billions of old stars cause the diffuse glow of the extended central bulge. ... About APOD | ...

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home publications > mercury . ... Astronomy Beat . ... Nearly four centuries ago, Galileo's simple observations of Earth's planetary sibling, Venus, buoyed the proponents of a Copernican universe. ... The Italian astronomer had settled into a new house in Florence and had begun to observe Venus, which in November 1610 would have appeared as an evening star, bright in the western sky after dusk. ... From these two observations, Galileo inferred that Venus must orbit closer to the Sun than does Earth. ...

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... 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) ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . Noctilucent clouds as photographed by Mark Bailey from Lisdoart on 14th July 2006 at 11.30 pm. ... These so-called noctilucent (night glowing) clouds (NLCs), are formed by sunlight reflecting off ice crystals high in the atmosphere, and usually appear in the northwest, through north to northeast during twilight in the late spring and summer months at our latitude. ...

... All images on this page are copyright Robert H. McNaught. ... There have been so many requests for high resolution copies of these images that I ask that all enquiries for these to go directly to Science Photo Library. C/2006 P1 on Jan 18, 10:22 UT. Photo: R. H. McNaught, Siding Spring Observatory. Canon 5D, 135mm, f/2.0, 2 sec exp., ISO 1600 . ... ISO 200 . ... Canon 5D, 50mm, f/2.0, 30 sec exp., ... Canon 5D, 135mm, f/2.0, 120 sec exp., ... Canon 5D, 50mm, f/2.0, 110 sec exp., ...

... Laboratory for Spectroscopy of Molecular Structures . ... News . ... A new article entitled Description of optical properties of cholesteric photonic liquid crystals based on Maxwell equations and Kramers-Kronig relations has appeared in Physical Review E. Congratulations to Grigoriy Ksyonz on his first publication! . 25 th February 2013 . ... 22 nd November 2012 . ... 22 nd February 2012 . 4 th Workshop on Liquid Crystals for Photonics 2012 will take place in Hong Kong December 9-11, 2012. ...

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Small quantity of engineering data (RIU direct) bypasses NSSC-I . NSSC-I can provide an additional level of subcommutation to the data . ... This table is accessible to the SI specific application processors . This table is also accessible to the SI specific applications processors . Used like the PITs, provides communication between SI computers and NSSC-I . This table is accessible to the SI specific applications processors . ... Previous slide . Next slide . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Colin Johnston . ... This submillimetre-wavelength image of the region surrounding the reflection nebula M78 made with the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope (overlaid on a view of the same region in visible light) shows the position of interstellar dust grains (orange) to show where new stars are being formed.( ... Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

... Almost two year long scrutinizing some publications by astronomers gave me enough impression that astronomers live in the Gaussian world. ... Category: arXiv , Astro , Bad AstroStat , Cross-Cultural , Frequentist , Jargon , News , Quotes , Stat , Uncertainty | ... He quotes Fisher who described a statistician as a post-mortem examiner or a pathologist, but thinks that statisticians (statistical consultants) are doctors who maintain close, active, and alive relationships with their patients. ...

... In temperate latitudes, this is a good time to see halos formed by clouds of ice crystals high in the atmosphere where the temperature is always well down below -30 deg. ... The most prominent halos, however, appear quite close to the sun where it can be uncomfortably bright to look. ... In a sense, halos are like rainbows, glories and coronae in that they require the presence of a bright source of light, the Sun or the Moon, and water floating in the air. ...

... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . Sun . ... News . ... Supernova showered Earth with radioactive debris . ... Imaging Basics . ... New images show cloud exploding from Sun ripples like clouds on Earth . ... Scientists, led by a researcher at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom, studying new images of clouds of material exploding from the Sun have spotted instabilities forming in that exploding cloud that are similar to those seen in clouds in Earth's atmosphere. ... LATEST NEWS . ...

... About meteorites . ... Meteorite Dronino . ... New iron meteorite shower found! Meteorite Encyclopedia . ... About laboratory . ... Dronino iron meteorite . ... Mr. Gus'kov felt that further efforts by Milanovsky were likely to be unsuccessful, so he searched further and found our Meteorites Laboratory. The Laboratory's analysis showed that the Dronino Iron has a meteorite origin. ... Dronino is the 111th meteorite and only the third iron-meteorite shower found in Russia in the last 250 years. ...