Astronomy Picture of the Day . Night Lightning on Jupiter . ... Credit: The Galileo Project , NASA Explanation: Why is there lightning on Jupiter ? ... To create lightning , charges must first separate inside a cloud. On Earth , drafts of colliding ice and water droplets usually create this charge separation, but what happens on Jupiter ? Many astronomers theorize that Jovian lightning is also created in clouds containing water ice. ... Publications with keywords: Jupiter - lightning . ...

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• Io's Active Volcanoes
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... December 16, 1997 . Night Lightning on Jupiter . Credit: The Galileo Project , NASA . ... To create lightning , charges must first separate inside a cloud. On Earth , drafts of colliding ice and water droplets usually create this charge separation, but what happens on Jupiter ? Many astronomers theorize that Jovian lightning is also created in clouds containing water ice. ... Clouds are dimly lit by sunlight reflected off Jupiter's moon Io . ... About APOD > . ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

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• APOD: 2001 October 16 - A Newly Active Volcano On Jupiters Io
• APOD: October 27, 1996 - Io's Active Volcanoes
• APOD: 2013 October 6 - Hubble Remix: Active Galaxy NGC 1275

... October 18, 1999 . NGC 3603: An Active Star Cluster . ... Explanation: NGC 3603 is home to a massive star cluster, thick dust pillars, and a star about to explode . The central open cluster contains about 2000 bright stars, each of which is much brighter and more massive than our Sun . ... These stars are less massive than our Sun, demonstrating that great numbers of low-mass stars also form in active starburst regions . ... About APOD > . ...

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... Sun images . ... Active areas . October : 2014 . ... The following regions with sunspots can be now observed on the Sun's surface . Group number . ... Group length (in degrees) . ... Alpha . ... Coordinates and other characteristics of active regions are issued for October 09, 2014 00:31 UT The following H-alpha plages without spots can be currently observed on the Sun's surface . ... Coordinates and other characteristics of active regions are issued for October 09, 2014 00:31 UT . ...

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• Sunspots and active regions October 10, 2011
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• Sunspots and active regions October 10, 2006

... SAO RAN RATAN-600 EXCURSIONS 40 YEARS of R/T REFERENCES . ... GPS radio sources . ... Thursday, April 30, 10-00 . ... Friday, December 19, 10-30 . ... N. Bursov, V. Chaykin, A. Storozhenko "Preliminary results of RATAN-600 antenna measurements with the help of the geostationary Satellite Turksat 2A/3A". ... The basic results. ... Information-analytical system of estimating the parameters of radio sources in continuum with the RATAN-600 (the message for a conference, IPA St. Petersburg). ......

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... 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. ...

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... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . This year's annual Geminid meteor shower is active during the period December 7 - 17, with the peak of activity occurring during the night of December 13th/14th. The Geminid shower is currently one of the best of the major annual meteor displays, usually having a high number of relatively bright, medium-speed (130,000 km per hour) shooting stars. ... Last Revised: 2009 December 7th . ...

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• Latest News
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... ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Governance overview . Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Our people overview . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ... Orientation and Evolutionary Effects in Active Galactic Nuclei . ... In this invited review, I present observational results of Active Galactic Nuclei that my colleagues and I have recently obtained. ...

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... ESO Science Newsletter March 2016 . ... Follow the links or visit ESO Science Announcements to read more. ... The Call for Proposals for observations at ESO telescopes in Period 98 (1 October 2016 - 31 March 2017) has been released. ... The deadline for proposals is 12:00 CEST 31 March 2016 . ... ESO Workshop, ESO Headquarters, Garching, Germany, 27 June БЂ“ 1 July, 2016 . ... Upcoming ESO or ESO-Related Workshops . ... The workshop is open for registration and the abstract deadline is 1 March 2016 ...

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• ESO - Newsletter December 2015
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... Artist's concepts of two ATLAST designs . ... ATLAST: Characterizing Habitable Worlds (Postman et al. ... Science drivers and requirements for an Advanced Technology Large Aperture Space Telescope (ATLAST):Implications for technology development and synergies with other future facilities (Postman et al.) ... A 16-m ATLAST Mission Design (Lillie et al.) ... Conceptual Design for a 16-m Segmented UVOIR Space Telescope (Korechoff et al.) ... Science with an 8-m to 16-m ATLAS Telescope (Postman et al.) ...

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... Galileo Probe . The Galileo spacecraft was designed to study Jupiter's atmosphere, satellites, and surrounding magnetosphere for two years. ... From there, Galileo will spend more than five years traveling to Jupiter, where it will become the first spacecraft to make direct measurements from an instrumented probe within Jupiter's atmosphere. ... This image, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the predicted site at which the Galileo Probe will enter Jupiter's atmosphere on December 7, 1995. ...

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... Planets . ... Earth Satellites . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... As the sun sets in the west each evening, Jupiter, the largest planet in our Solar System, is rising in the east in the constellation of Aries, where it is visible throughout the night setting just before sunrise. ... On 28 October the Earth comes between the Sun and Jupiter, in opposition, meaning as the Sun sets in the sky Jupiter will rise. ... Also this month rising into