... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2015 November 24 . Aurora over Clouds . ... Explanation: Auroras usually occur high above the clouds. ... There, a determined astrophotographer withstood high winds and initially overcast skies in an attempt to capture aurora over a picturesque lighthouse , only to take, by chance, the featured picture along the way . ... About APOD | ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 2.04.2001 . ... Credit: Sigurdur H. Stefnisson Explanation: Aurorae usually occur high above the clouds. ... The relative heights of clouds and aurorae are shown clearly in the above picture from Iceland , where aurorae are relatively common. ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ... Publications with keywords: aurora - clouds - iceland . Publications with words: aurora - clouds - iceland . ... Unusual Aurora During Solar Wind Dropout . ...

home publications > mercury . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... ASP Conference Series . Monograph Publications . IAU Publications . ... Publications of the ASP (PASP) . ... Mercury Magazine . ... Astronomy Beat . ... Mercury Magazine Contents . ... November/December 1997 . ... What about Africa? ... The Problems of Science in Africa, Rodney T. Medupe and Loveness Kaunda . ... In today's South Africa, the problems of education are the problems of science. ...

... Views of Martian Clouds . ... Although not as pronounced as on Earth , clouds are common features on Mars. The Martian atmosphere has only a trace of water vapor; however, the temperature and pressure is such that the atmosphere is usually close to saturation and produces clouds. Even from Earth based telescopes, clouds have been observed by transient brightening on the surface of Mars. ... Lee waves . ... Wave clouds . ... Image Credit: Calvin J. Hamilton) . Lee Wave . ... Wave Clouds . ...

There is often dust associated with ionized regions. Compact HII regions usually have associated dust from a molecular cloud in which the massive star is being "born". ... For such stars the dust is not produced by the star, and a variety of dust features are observed. The planetary nebulae also usually have associated dust from the previous stage of evolution where they were either carbon stars or M-type giants. ... The feature near 11.5 microns in the IC 418 spectrum may be due to SiC dust. ...

... Project page . ... Project workpage . Turbulence in the Multiphase Interstellar Medium . Project I | ... Project highlight | ... Towards simulating turbulence with adaptive meshes . ... A. Kritsuk, P. Padoan, M. Norman . ... A. Kritsuk M. Norman . ... A. Kritsuk, M. Norman, P. Padoan . astro-ph/0411626 | ... P. Padoan, A. Kritsuk, M. Norman, A. Nordlund . ... Introducing Enzo, an AMR Cosmology Application . B. O'Shea, G. Bryan, J. Bordner, M. Norman, T. Abel, R. Harkness, A. Kritsuk . ...

... This is a preliminary summary of the event on November 24, 1996, considered during the INTERBALL Workshop in Kiljavanranta, Finland, February 1998. ... Pronounced plasma sheet thinning (Bz decrease) . ... Particle burst observed inside the Polar Cap and in tail lobes . A short burst of particles detected by the Auroral Probe particle detectors during the Polar Cap crossing at 21:45 UT, almost simultaneously with the Tail Probe detectors registration of the particle burst inside the North Lobe. ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... AMI Publications . ... AMI Consortium: Hurley-Walker N. et al., 2011, preprint (arXiv:1103.0947) . ... AMI Consortium: Olamaie M. et al., 2010, preprint (arXiv:1012.4996) . ... AMI Consortium: Shimwell T. W. et al., 2010, preprint (arXiv:1012.4441) . ... AMI Consortium: Davies et al., 2010, preprint (arXiv:1012.3659) . ... AMI Consortium: Franzen et al., 2010, preprint (arXiv:1012.3711) . ... AMI Consortium: Rodriguez-Gonzalvez C. et al., 2010, preprint (arXiv:1011.0325) . ...

spaceweb@oulu.fi - last update: 20 November 1998, 1600 UT (RR) . Solar flares are huge explosions on the surface of the Sun . They were first observed by Carrington (1860) and Hodgson (1860) in connection with the great aurora of 1859. ... Carrington, R. C., Description of a singular appearance seen on the Sun on September 1, 1859, Mon. ... R. Astron. ... 20 , 13, 1860. Hodgson, R., On a curious appearance seen in the Sun, Mon. ... Space Physics Text Book of Oulu ...

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... Pre-university education . ... On March 16 a meeting with Raymond Murphy - the author of the world famous series of English grammar textbooks: English Grammar in Use and Essential Grammar in Use took place in Samara State Aerospace University within the framework of the conference Peculiarities of grammatical skills formation in various stages of English language teaching (Innovative Approaches to ELT). ... The textbook of Raymond Murphy is a practical guide to learning English as a foreign language...

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... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . News . Observing . ... Magazine . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Open cluster NGC 2818, spiral galaxy NGC 2964, and spiral galaxy NGC 2976 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... November 2011 . ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

Armagh Observatory press release, 1999 April 21st. Research by David Asher and Mark Bailey , of Armagh Observatory, and Vacheslav Emel'yanenko , of South Ural University, Chelyabinsk, Russia, has explained the unexpected, spectacular shower of bright meteors seen in the small hours of 17 November last year. ... The observed meteors are produced by the collision with the Earth's atmosphere of small dust particles ejected from the parent comet, Tempel-Tuttle . ...

Crater Gassendi . ... I made this drawing was made on the 26th of november 2001. If you compare this one with the previous drawing of Gassendi (below) the differences are clear. ... This drawing was made on the 28th of september 2001. After nearly a full month without observations I had a one hour gap between the thicker clouds. ... This drawing was made on the 29th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 27th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 25th of august 2001. ...

... ISC Kosmotras . ... Comments, Opinions Publications Dnepr Program . Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. ... The success of PICARD launch re enforces our high level of appreciation of the quality of the DNEPR launcher and of the professionalism and efficiency of ISC Kosmotras. ... The distinguishing feature of the THEOS launch by a converted SS-18 ICBM (Dnepr LV) is that it was the first ISC Kosmotras mission from the Yasny launch site that headed southward to its Sun-synchronous target orbit. ...

... Contacts . 2010: . Sources of polarized radiation with unusual spectral features discovered in the Sun. In the framework of the study of solar active regions that produce powerful flares the researchers from the RATAN-600 radio telescope have detected sources with features in the form of a sharp decrease in the intensity of polarized radiation in various parts of the recorded frequency range (2-16GHz), sometimes changing the sign of polarization. ... Contacts: Bogod V.M. ) . Archive . ...

... self-absorption - the absorption of light shining on an object by a process similar to that which produced the light originally; if a cloud emits less light than it absorbs from other clouds behind it, this net loss of light, termed self-absorption , causes the foreground cloud to appear darker than the background field (the term is from spectroscopy, where small absorption dips sometimes occur in larger emission lines, making the latter look as if it is absorbing part of itself) . ... HISA Main ...

... Archives . ... ArXiv] 5th week, Apr. ... highlighting some equation that is widely used in astrophysics or astrostatistics. ... The expected signal, M(E?, p? ,t) is then compared with the collected data to infer the values and uncertainty in theta , the parameters that define the source model. ... Tags: ARF , effective area , EotW , Equation , Equation of the Week , LRF , point spread function , PSF , response matrix , RMF , source . ... Chandra Blog . ... SAMSI AstroStat Prog. ...

... Brown University - Vernadsky Institute Microsymposium 38, October 27-29, 2003, Moscow, Russia . ... Michael G. G., European Space Agency, Research and Scientific Support Department, ESA/ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, greg.michael@esa.int . ... 2Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow, greg.michael@esa.int . ... Brown University - Vernadsky Institute Microsymposium 40, 2004, Moscow, Russia . ... Brown University - Vernadsky Institute Microsymposium 42, October 10-12, 2005, Moscow, Russia . ...