... Each day we feature a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. August 15, 1995 . Venus: Earth's Sister Planet . ... Explanation: This picture in visible light was taken by the Galileo spacecraft. Venus is very similar to Earth in size and mass - and so is sometimes referred to as Earth's sister planet - but Venus has a quite different climate. ... Chronological Archive | Subject Sorted Archive | ...

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... Venus: Earth's Sister Planet . ... Credit: NASA , Galileo , Copyright Calvin J. Hamilton Explanation: This picture in visible light was taken by the Galileo spacecraft. Venus is very similar to Earth in size and mass - and so is sometimes referred to as Earth's sister planet - but Venus has a quite different climate. Venus' thick clouds and closeness to the Sun (only Mercury is closer) make it the hottest planet - much hotter than the Earth. ... Publications with keywords: Earth - Venus . ...

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home publications > mercury . ... Let Venus Be My Guide . Mercury, July/August 1997 Table of Contents . ... Earth's simmering sibling burns through our early evening skies in July and August. ... Venus's bland, dense, cloudy atmosphere does not allow us to see the surface. Astronomers in the 1930s, looking at the sunlight reflected from Venus, discovered that its atmosphere is rich in carbon dioxide. ... Venus's atmosphere, 96 percent carbon dioxide, is a car with the windows rolled up tight. ...

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In this gallery are many images of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies which have recently been discovered and analyzed. ... The central surface brightness of this galaxy is 24.28 . Malin 2 This galaxy is another huge disk galaxy with a scale length of 15 kpc and a redshift of 15000 km/a. The high surface brightness knot in one of its spiral arms actually has the same color, luminosity and H-alpha equivalent width as the entire Large Magellanic Cloud . ... Truly it is a Low Surface Brightness Galaxy. ...

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... August 19, 1999 . Light From The Dark Sun . ... Explanation: Only in the fleeting darkness of a total solar eclipse is the light of the solar corona easily visible from Earth. ... In this series of images recorded from Siofok, Hungary during the total phase of the August 11 eclipse, progressively longer exposures (top left to bottom center) have been used to more faithfully capture different regions of the elusive solar corona. ... About APOD > . ...

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... Fig. ... One of these is a pink-coloured solar prominence, a tongue of incandescent hydrogen gas spewing out of the obstructed solar disc, visible at the 2 o'clock position. ... Such an eclipse was predicted to be visible from deep within the Asian continent on the 1st August 2008. ... A pink-coloured prominence was visible right from the onset (Fig. 1), while several streamers appeared to emanate from the obstructed solar disk throughout the event (Fig. ... Last Revised: 2008 September 8th . ...

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... Extended Narrow-line Emission in the Bright Seyfert 1.5 Galaxy HE 2211-3903 Scharw chter, J. , Dopita, M.A., Zuther, J., Fischer, S., Komossa, S., Eckart, A. 2011, AJ, v. 142, Issue 2, August 2011, pp. ... The nearby QSO host I Zw 1: the stellar disk and adjacent objects Scharw chter, J. , Eckart, A., Pfalzner, S., Saviane, I., Zuther, J. 2007, A , v. 469, Issue 3, July III 2007, pp. ... Krips, M., Eckart, A., Neri, R., Zuther, J., Downes, D. Scharw chter, J. 2005, A , v. 439, Issue 1, pp. ...

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