... 2010 November 29 . Dark Belt Reappearing on Jupiter . Credit: NASA's JPL , U. Oxford , UC Berkeley , Gemini Obs. ... Explanation: Why are planet-circling clouds disappearing and reappearing on Jupiter? ... Earlier this year, unexpectedly, Jupiter's dark Southern Equatorial Belt (SEB) disappeared. ... Detailed professional observations revealed that high-flying light-colored ammonia -based clouds formed over the planet-circling dark belt. ... About APOD | ... A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC . ...

... 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. ...

... Dark Belt Reappearing on Jupiter . ... 29.11.2010 . ... North), USC Philippines Explanation: Why are planet-circling clouds disappearing and reappearing on Jupiter? ... Pictured above two weeks ago, far infrared images -- depicted in false-color red -- show a powerful storm system active above the returning dark belt. ... November 2010 . ... 2009 2010 . ... Publications with keywords: Jupiter - clouds - storm - infrared . Publications with words: Jupiter - clouds - storm - infrared . ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . Armagh Observatory, 1st December 2015: This year s Geminid meteor display, the best of the annual meteor showers, will be visible from approximately the 7th to 17th December, peaking on the evening of the 14th. ... Unlike most meteor showers, however, which originate from dust grains ejected into space by comets, the Geminid meteors originate from an unusual near-Earth asteroid, namely (3200) Phaethon. ...

... Run Specview In Applet Mode . ... Press Releases . ... Release Notes . ... You don't have to install Specview in your computer to have a taste of it, you can just run it in your Web browser as a Java applet. ... Clicking on the "Demonstration" link below will download the applet version of Specview. ... To run an "empty" (no pre-loaded data) version of the Specview applet, use the "Run" link instead. ... The applet requires that your Web browser be equipped with version 1.6 of the Java Plug-in. ...

In autumn 1994, two groups of astronomers announced that they had discovered Cepheid variable stars in a distant cluster of galaxies. ... As the term suggests, variable stars change in brightness over time. ... Variable stars are an ideal way to get high-school students doing real science, with real data, from the real sky. ... a sky chart to find the stars . ... Students can use the nearby stars to estimate the magnitude of Delta. ... Locate the star Delta in Cepheus and estimate its brightness . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... Observing . ... Why do the constellations and the Moon appear upside down from the Southern Hemisphere? ... From the Southern Hemisphere, any object or constellation that lies near the celestial equator (the imaginary line that divides the northern and southern halves of the sky) would appear both upside down and reversed left to right compared to a northern perspective. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy...

Have you ever heard the name of a star or constellation and wondered what it meant? ... I've compiled a table of commonly known star names and their definitions in the Western tradition, grouped by constellation. ... Following each constellation entry are any named stars found therein (in order from brightest to faintest), listing the Bayer (Greek letter) or other common designation, the star name, and English translation. ... Some other sites with star name information: . ...

Uranus ' innermost ten moons are: . ... C ordelia is the innermost of Uranus' known satellites: orbit : 49,752 km from Uranus diameter : 26 km mass : ? ... D iscovered by Voyager 2 in 1986. ... O phelia is the second of Uranus' known satellites: orbit : 53,764 km from Uranus diameter : 32 km mass : ? ... B ianca is the third of Uranus' known satellites: orbit : 59,165 km from Uranus diameter : 44 km mass : ? ... P uck and the other small moons are very dark (albedo less than 0.1). from LANL . ...

... Your mission in this level is to clear out the ice station and make your way to the Supply Depot. ----------------------едддWAD Informationддде----------------------- Name: Ice Station Alpha Game: Doom II 1.9 Maps Replaced: map02 Authors: S. 'Metabolist' Woodman, Mattias Berggren Email Address: sewoodman@talk21.com, mattias. berggren @mail.bktv.se New Graphics: MORTRES.WAD New Sounds: no New Music: Yes - Damage Assessment by Mark Klem (MM2MK13) ...

... The event, a Type II supernova explosion, would have briefly dominated the night sky on Earth. ... Popularly known as the Veil Nebula, NGC 6960, NGC 6992, and NGC 6995 together constitute the corpse of a single supergiant star that perished in that supernova explosion. ... Such stars age about 1,000 times faster than does our Sun. ... Each nuclear-fusion stage releases energy and helps the star fight the ever-present pull of gravity. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... The Witch Head Nebula . ... Explanation: Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble -- maybe Macbeth should have consulted the Witch Head Nebula. ... More formally known as IC 2118 , the Witch Head Nebula glows primarily by light reflected from Rigel , located just outside the top right corner of the above image . ... The blue color is caused not only by Rigel's blue color but because the dust grains reflect blue light more efficiently than red. ...

Gerhardt Meurer (Johns Hopkins University) . The accompanying picture shows NGC 2915, which Australian, Canadian, and American astronomers have shown to be the darkest known disk galaxy. ... The team of astronomers, lead by Gerhardt Meurer at Johns Hopkins University, analyzed the rotation of the galaxy and showed that NGC 2915 is composed mostly of "dark matter". Dark matter is extremely difficult to detect since it does not emit any radiation. ... Gerhardt R. Meurer . ...

Search this album . ... Title: The First 100 Years . Description: This album contains photographs and images that survived or have been donated from private collections. Photographs and images that survived or have been donated from private collections. Most of the site images prior to 1990 were taken by Stromlo photographers Vince Hunt or Keith Smith. ... Sidebar Left . ... Views: 3914 . Mt Stromlo Observatory - General views . ... The Commonwealth Solar Observatory building aтАж . ...

The perturbation method is based on the small-parameter expansion of an unknown solution of the light scattering problem in a vicinity of the exact solution. ... The only probably exclusion is the case of anisotropic particles for which the rigid solution is either impossible or too complicated. For such problems the perturbation method can give information of the first approximation, which is important for understanding of the basic principles of influences of the material anisotropy. ...

... In 1995, two intermittent detector features (aka hotspots) particular to the ROSAT HRI have been noticed on the edge of the HRI field. ... To view the hotspots: . HS #1 > xdisplay "rh123456n00.qp[key=(rawx,rawy)][186:697,230:741]" HS #2 > xdisplay "rh123456n00.qp[key=(rawx,rawy)][3380:3891,297:808]" HS #3 > xdisplay "rh123456n00.qp[key=(rawx,rawy)][2753:3252,3065:3564]" OR > xexamine rh...qp[key=(rawx,rawy)] [HS #1, if present, appears as a spot in the lower left; HS #2 in the lower right.] ...

Summary of the pro ject by A. Shlapunov "The Cauchy Problem for Elliptic Complexes" It is well known, that the Cauchy problem for elliptic equations is ill-posed in all the standard functional spaces. ... For overdetermined elliptic systems this approach was based on Integral Representation Method. ... Differential complexes appear as compatibility conditions for overdetermined systems of differential equations (such as, for example, Maxwell system or multidimensional Cauchy-Riemann system). ...

... October 10, 1604 a new star unknown before appeared in Snakebearer constellation. ... Mostly Kepler saw farther than Galilei , understanding that planets were influenced by the Sun. ... The most of all wonders is that I opened four new planets and observed their own movement and the movement according each other and according the other stars. These new planets are mooving around the other great star as well as Venus, Mercury, and perhaps the other known planets are moving around the Sun". ...

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... The 209 candidates were selected from our first and second priority samples introduced in Paper IV. Of 169 first priority candidates, 141 objects appeared in our list as new ones. 28 objects were listed in the NED as galaxies or objects from various catalogs with known redshifts and some of them already had information on emission lines in earlier publications. ... The ``random selected sample'' was created to access the fraction of BCGs in the second priority list and contains 43 objects. ...