... Orion: Head to Toe . ... Explanation: Cradled in cosmic dust and glowing hydrogen, stellar nurseries in Orion the Hunter lie at the edge of a giant molecular cloud some 1,500 light-years away. ... To its left are the Horsehead Nebula , M78 , and Orion's belt stars. Sliding your cursor over the picture will also find red giant Betelgeuse at the hunter's shoulder, bright blue Rigel at his foot, and the glowing Lambda Orionis ( Meissa ) nebula at the far left, near Orion's head. ...

... 2010 October 23 . Orion: Head to Toe . ... Explanation: Cradled in cosmic dust and glowing hydrogen, stellar nurseries in Orion the Hunter lie at the edge of a giant molecular cloud some 1,500 light-years away. ... To its left are the Horsehead Nebula , M78 , and Orion's belt stars. Sliding your cursor over the picture will also find red giant Betelgeuse at the hunter's shoulder, bright blue Rigel at his foot, and the glowing Lambda Orionis ( Meissa ) nebula at the far left, near Orion's head. ...

... October 9, 1997 . Hale-Bopp and the North American Nebula . ... Explanation: Comet Hale-Bopp 's recent encounter with the inner Solar System allowed many breath-taking pictures. Above, Comet Hale-Bopp was photographed on March 8th in the constellation of Cygnus . ... The North American Nebula is about 1500 light years away, much farther than the comet, which was about 8 light minutes away. ... About APOD > . ...

I was wondering what conditions should be met to have the "darkest" sky .. ... Upon the above publication of the Southern Galactic hemisphere, TunГ Tezel started seeking opportunities to create the Northern counterpart image. ... So, the initial quest of having the darkest possible sky have delivered us these two all-sky images of the two galactic hemispheres as seen from Planet Earth. Zoomable and 'full-screenable' fisheye view of the "darkest sky" Southern Galactic Hemisphere image. ...

... Stars . ... Straight away the three stars in his belt will grab your attention, followed by the glittering white star Rigel in his left foot and the bright orangish star Betelgeuse in his right shoulder (assuming Orion is standing facing us and not with his back to us). ... Orion Belt?s with the stars Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka. ... In short, Orion was a big, loud giant of a man and indeed a mighty hunter, he also inherited some aquatic superpowers from his father who was the sea god Neptune. ...

... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Universitetsky 13, Moscow, 119899 , Russia, . MICROSYMPOSIUM 34, Topics in Comparative Planetology October 8-9, 2001, Moscow, Russia . ... V.I.Chikmachev, S.G.Pugacheva and V.V.Shevchenko, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Moscow, chik@sai.msu.ru . Brown University - Vernadsky Institute Microsymposium 40, 2004, Moscow, Russia . ... Chikmachev, S.G.Pugacheva, Sternberg State Astronomical institute. ...

... 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 . ... Aurora . ... Corona . Fireballs . ... Zodiacal Light . ... The first thing to do is get acquainted with what the night sky looks like. ... The National Schools Observatory web site has very good horizon views of the sky for the current night. ... If the object is moving slowly across the sky then it may be one of the larger satellites. ... Cloudbait Observatory - October 2002 . ... October 2003 Aurora at Armagh . ...

home publications > mercury . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... ASP Conference Series . Monograph Publications . ... Publications of the ASP (PASP) . ... Mercury Magazine Contents . ... September/October 1997 . ... Instructors fret that no textbook is quite right, authors and publishers get shot down when they try to innovate, students count the days 'til they can sell back their unfriendly tomes. ... Astronomers have begun to rethink graduate education, and none too soon. ...

Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . 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. Discovered independently by Lick Observatory Supernova Search (USA) and Koichi Itagaki (Japan). ... 2009/10/11.44 . 17.2 . ... Joseph Brimacombe . ...

... I rewrote my unit testing code to get the pixmap from python and am debugging the unit tests. ... My new plan is to compare the results from the current version of drizzlepac to my new version. ... I spent the morning solving a link problem with the old version of drizzlepac linking with the unit tests. ... Naturally it did not match the result I got from the new drizzlepac code. ... I did a comparison of the old regression tests to the results from the new code. ... Archive for 2014 . ...

T he Siding Spring Survey (SSS) is a Near-Earth Object search program that utilises the 0.5-m Uppsala Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, N.S.W., Australia. ... The mission of the Siding Spring Survey is to contribute to the inventory of near-earth objects (NEOs), or more specifically, the potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) and comets (PHOs) that may pose a threat of impact and thus harm to civilization. ... Based on the CSS Mission page . ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

October 30-31, 1992 . ... Modified images of the October 30-31, 1992 event. (a) - This NRH image is adapted to show a very bright loop-like source over AR 7321 near the SW-limb identified with the X1.7 soft X-ray LDE event peaked on 30d at 17:30 UT (see the GOES-7 soft X-ray plot also at the upper right corner). ... Here and hereafter, the white features are radio filaments. (c) - This modified NRH image shows some large scale microwave blob chains and structures. ...

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... Flux density at 1 GHz (/Jy): 160 . ... Radio: Limb-brightened to NE, with faint extension to the E. Optical: Brightest to the NE, with faint filaments outside the NE boundary. ... Fesen 1984, ApJ, 281, 658. ... ADS . ... 151 MHz observations (1'.2?3'.1) and Half-Mile Telescope at 1.4 GHz (2'.1?5'.4). ... Radio, IR, optical, UV and X-ray comparison, including VLA at 1.6 GHz (3".8?3".3 and 40''). ... 1988, ApJ, 335, 215. ... IR observations of shocked O 2 . ... Observations of shocked molecular...

... Comet Animation . ... Comet structures are diverse and very dynamic, but they all develop a surrounding cloud of diffuse material, called a coma, that usually grows in size and brightness as the comet approaches the Sun. ... As comets approach the Sun they develop enormous tails of luminous material that extend for millions of kilometers from the head, away from the Sun. ... The evaporated molecules boil off and carry small solid particles with them, forming the comet's coma of gas and dust. ...

Large-scale neutral hydrogen distribution and mean velocity field of the Circinus galaxy taken with various arrays of the ATCA. Jones, K.L., Koribalski, B.S. , Elmouttie, M., Haynes R.F. 1999, MNRAS 302, 649 . ... Gas and star formation in the Circinus galaxy . ... The large-scale atomic and molecular gas in the Circinus Galaxy . ... DSS optical image of the Circinus galaxy . ... Left: ESO composite image of the rings and outflow cone of ionized gas in the Circinus galaxy as observed by . ...

In this rendition of the early universe, the sky is ablaze with primeval starburst galaxies, while giant elliptical and spiral galaxies have yet to form. Within the starburst galaxies, bright knots of hot blue stars come and go like bursting fireworks shells. ... The most massive stars self-detonate as supernovas, which explode across the sky like a string of firecrackers. ... Adolf Schaller for STScI ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... When Venus is on the far side of the Sun, we see the entire near side lit by the Sun. ... When it is on the near side of the Sun, it shows a beautiful thin crescent, because it is between us and the Sun and we see the mostly unlit dark half. ... To see this for yourself, draw a circle one centimeter across, then, next to it, draw a circle 6 centimeters across. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

. Shutter video (to view, right click on the link, download to your machine and use Quicktime, VLC viewer, or Windows media player) . Note: This presentation will use gotomeeting to better show the assembly of the instrument. Meeting code is: 244-576-637. Once on the gotomeeting page select "Join a Meeting" in the upper right of the page. Enter the code we will provide.