... Bright Star Regulus near the Leo 1 Dwarf Galaxy . ... Credit Copyright: Russell Croman Explanation: The star on the upper left is so bright it is sometimes hard to notice the galaxy on the lower right. Both the star, Regulus , and the galaxy, Leo I , can be found within one degree of each other toward the constellation of Leo. ... Leo I is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy in the Local Group of galaxies dominated by our Milky Way Galaxy and M31 . ... Galaxies, Stars, and Dust . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2011 July 25 . Milky Way Over Abandoned Kilns . ... Explanation: What's that below the Milky Way? ... Visible above the unusual kilns is a colorful star field, highlighted by the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy appearing along a diagonal toward the lower right. ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply . ...

... Image at four different wavelengths of the scattered light from the TW Hya protoplanetary disk. The images come from the Hubble Space Telescope Instruments (upper left) STIS--visible, (upper right) NICMOS--1.1 micron, (lower left) NICMOS--1.7 micron, and (lower right) NICMOS--2.2 micron. The images are scaled by the distance in the disk from the star squared to highlight a gap observed halfway out in the disk. ... Scattered Light Images of Young Circumstellar Disks . ...

... Hikers: Ben, Dan, Dakota, Connor, Marisol, myself, Richard, Alfredo, Ting-Hui, Jeroen, and Simon . Left to right: myself, Ting-Hui, and Jeroen . ... Hikers: Ben, Dan, Dakota, Marisol, Nobuko, myself, Richard, Andrew, Giampiero, Wayne, Alfredo, Ting-Hui, Jeroen, Mike . Left to right: Ting-Hui, Mike, Richard, Nobuko, Ben, Giampiero, Andrew, Jeroen, myself, Wayne, Dan, and Dakota . ... Hikers: Ben, Marisol, myself, Richard, Giampiero, Wayne, Ting-Hui, Brenda, Jeroen, Simon, and Steph . ...

From: TerryMosel aol.com Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 18:01:28 EDT Subject: Venus, NLCs Hi all, Look out for Venus on 8 June, when it will lie about 5 deg below right of a nice young thin crescent Moon, very low in the WNW. ... Noctilucent' means 'night-shining' and these beautiful high-level clouds are indeed visible long after all other lower clouds have ceased to be illuminated as the Sun slips lower and lower below your local horizon. ... Clear Skies, Terry Moseley . Last Revised: 2005 June 7th . ...

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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. ...

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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... August . ... Posted on August 3, 2015 | 1 Comment August, itтАЩs one of our favourite months of the year. Whether youтАЩve been on your summer holidays or not, August is a month to relax, and have fun with family [ ] . Continue Reading.. ... 1 Comment In August the Summer Triangle continues to dominate the seasonal sky. ... Posted on November 6, 2013 | ... Posted on September 27, 2013 | ... Posted on August 30, 2013 | ...

... June 4, 8 46.4 8.80 Moon enters umbra . ... eclipse|eclipseя– | eclipse | eclipse -----+-----+------+------+------+------++-----+-----+------+------+------+------ h mя– я– я– я€ я– я– я–я– h mя– я– я– я€ я– я– 8 40я – 5900я– 2.120я– 113.7я– - я– - я–я–11 10я – 3030я– 1.090я– 177.5я– 0.374я– 1.341 50я – 5599я– 2.012я– 115.6я– - я– 0.055я–я– 20я – 3078я– 1.108я– 184.0я– 0.350я– 1.317 я– я– я– я– я– я–я– 30я – 3166я– 1.139я– 190.3я– 0.306я– 1.273 9 00я – 5304я– 1.907я– 117.6я– - я– 0.203я–я– ...

... Comet Tutorial . ... On July 1, 1993 an image was taken with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) that clearly shows at least 15 individual fragments in one image frame of the train. ... This made an accurate orbit (or orbits) difficult to determine; however, after numerous observations of the comet, astronmers determined that the comet had passed within 96,000 kilometers (60,000 miles) of the center of Jupiter or 25,000 kilometers (16,000 miles) from the cloud tops during the July 8, 1992, approach. ...

. Two labeled images of the Pluto system taken by the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 ultraviolet visible instrument with newly discovered fourth moon P4 circled. The image on the left was taken June 28, 2011. The image on the right was taken July 3, 2011. Image credit: NASA/ESA/M. Showalter (SETI institute)

. Re-arrange Engineering Trailer: July 11, 2001 . This is the reconfiguration of the SDSS engineering's trailer. Occupants now include: French and Ruth (partial area at right), STeve, Carlos, Lynn and Wendell (lower left), Jon Brinkman and I'm not sure who (lower right and bottom left), and ther est of Jon's boxes yet to arrive in his trailer office.

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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 . ...

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If the image header contains World Coordinate System information, SAOtng will display WCS positions as the mouse is moved across the image. The format for the display is controlled by the Coords Menu (or using the right mouse button on the screen WCS display). ... WCS information is displayed on the lower part of the image. ... The coordinates are returned in the current format, (e.g. if your image supports WCS information, you can get RA/Dec output). ...