... 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. ...

... Of course Earth's large natural satellite, the Moon , at a distance of 400,000 kilometers, is by far the brightest object in this sky. ... Streaking across the twilight sky between the two celestial beacons, Earth's largest artificial moon, the International Space Station , orbits about 400 kilometers above the planet's surface. ... Publications with keywords: Moon - Mars - international space station . Publications with words: Moon - Mars - international space station . ... Mars in View . ...

... The TRACE images may be used without restrictions in publications of any kind. ... These two images, taken on 18 November 2000 at 15:54UT and 16:11UT, respectively, show such an event: the red circle in the image to the left shows a region where many loops are cooling, with bright loop tops (the intensity scales with the square root of the image to reduce the dynamic range). ... See also a collection of images related to the Sun, other cool stars, and solar-terrestrial effects . ... Images | ...

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. ...

... SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... ASP Conference Series . ... Accidental Astrophysics: The Devil's In the Magnitudes, Part II . ... The star second to the Sun in brilliance is Sirius. ... Recall the magnitude system, passed down to us through a hundred generations of sky watchers, as a means of quantifying stellar brightness ("Accidental Astrophysics," May/June, p. 9). ... Yes, it is a magnitude difference, but that difference is due to the distance between us and the star. ...

... Circumstellar disc of beta Pictoris: constraints on grain properties from polarization. To appear in the Astronomy & Astrophysics . abs , src , ps ] . ... Dust influx to Titan from Hyperion . ... abs ] . ... Characteristics of bulges and disks in interacting galaxies . ... Dust grains around Herbig Ae/Be stars: porous, cometary-like grains? ... To appear in the Astronomy & Astrophysics Supplement . ... Finally, Links may lead you to more options (e.g. via the LANL preprint system). ...

... ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Governance overview . Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Our people overview . ... Publications overview . ... Careers overview . ... ATNF facilities . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Parkes | ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ... Surface brightness measurements of . extended galactic nebulae . ...

Our publications in 2004 year Kniazev, Alexei Y.; Grebel, Eva K.; Pustilnik, Simon A.; Pramskij, Alexander G.; Kniazeva, Tamara F.; Prada, Francisco; Harbeck, Daniel . ... 704-727 (02/2004) . Kniazev, A. Y.; Grebel, E. K.; Pramskij, A. G.; Pustilnik, S. A. American Astronomical Society Meeting 204, #80.06 (05/2004) . Pustilnik, S.; Kniazev, A.; Pramskij, A.; Izotov, Y.; Foltz, C.; Brosch, N.; Martin, J.-M.; Ugryumov, A. Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.419, p.469-484 (05/2004) . ... 419.. ...

... R.S. de Jong, A.C. Seth, D.J. Radburn-Smith, E.F. Bell, T.M. Brown, J.S. Bullock, S. Courteau, J.J. Dalcanton, H.C. Ferguson, P. Goudfrooij, S. Holfeltz, B.W. Holwerda, C. Purcell, J. Sick, D.B. Zucker, 2007, ApJL 667, 49 . ... S.A. Kassin, R.S. de Jong, B.J. Weiner 2005, ApJ 643, 804 . ... I. Near-Infrared and Optical Broadband Surface Photometry of 30 Galaxies . ... Eric F. Bell and Roelof S. de Jong 2001, ApJ 550, 212-229 . ... Roelof S. de Jong 1996, A Suppl. ... Back to Roelof's home page () . ...

... Kirby, E., Jerjen, H., Ryder, S., Driver, S., Deep Near-IR Surface Photometry of 57 Galaxies in the Local Sphere of Influence , AJ, 136, 1866 (2008) . Kirby, E., Jerjen, H., Ryder, S., Driver, S., 2007, to appear in proceedings of "Galaxies in the Local Volume", Sydney, July 2007 (astro-ph/ 0709.2192 ) Deepest Near-IR Surface Photometry of Galaxies in the Local Sphere of Influence . Kirby, E., Jerjen, H., Ryder, S., Driver, S., The Maximum Baryonic Content of a Galaxy , in preparation . ...

... 2005 August 8 . Mars to Appear Normal This August . ... Regardless of numerous urban legends circulating, Mars will appear relatively normal in August. October is the best month to see Mars this year. ... As Earth catches up to Mars in their respective orbits around the Sun, Mars will keep rising earlier in the night. On 2005 October 30, Earth will have caught up to Mars and the planets will be the nearest to each other in their orbits -- this time around. ... About APOD | ...

... Z., to appear; 3. ... D. Crowley, S. Ferry, M. Skopenkov, The rational classification of links in codimension > 2, Forum Math., to appear; 6. D. Repov M. Skopenkov, F. Spaggiary, On the Pontryagin­Steenrod­Wu theorem, Israel J.Math. 145 (2005), 341­347; s, 7. M. Cencelj, D. Repov M. Skopenkov, Classification of knotted tori in the 2-metastable dimension, Sbornik Math., to s, appear; 8. ... M. Cencelj, D. Repov M. Skopenkov, Classification of framed links in 3-manifolds, Proc. Indian Acad. ...

... 2004: . ... An increase in star brightness is followed by a decrease in asphericity and wind velocity to the point where stationary and even accreting fraction of the wind appears in extremely bright objects together with a flowing out fraction. ... Based on an analysis of observations obtained with BTA and on the published data it was found that degree of abnormality of energy distribution in continuum of magnetic chemically peculiar stars increases with an increase of their rotation period. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . See also images taken on November 22nd . Image taken by Andy McCrea who says, . To me the comet appears yellowish and it has gone from star-like to a . ... More images from Andy McCrea here . ... The true explanation is that a very faint comet, known as periodic comet Holmes, produced a massive outburst of material and became a million times brighter than it was just a day earlier. ... More images from Andy McCrea . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Earth Satellites . ... Leonid meteors seen from 13 km altitude aboard an aircraft during the 1999 Leonids Multi-Instrument Aircraft Campaign (Leonid-MAC). Comet Tempel-Tuttle provides the cometary debris for the Leonid meteor shower. ... Every 17-19 November Earth crosses Tempel-TuttleтАЩs orbit and the Leonids become visible. With clear, dark skies observers may see 10 to 15 Leonid meteors every hour on those mornings. ...

Umbriel . Uranus II . Umbriel [UM-bree-ul] is the darkest satellite of Uranus. It is about the same size as Ariel and has about the same density. The surface appears to be old with large craters and does not change much from one location to another. Near the top is a puzzling bright ring called the fluorescent cheerio . ... Dark regions are represented as red and bright regions are represented as blue. The two white regions are bright ejecta from two fresh craters. ...

. As with the dome, the bright areas face south and reflect the radar signal strongly. Scientists say the flow looks like it crossed Titan's surface, and they note it appears as a raised landform, which bolsters this interpretation. NASA / JPL

... Karachentsev I.D., Dolphin A., Tully R.B., Sharina M., Makarova L., Makarov D. , Karachentseva V., Sakai S., Shaya E.J. Advanced Camera for Surveys Imaging of 25 Galaxies in Nearby Groups and in the Field . ... Karachentseva V.E., Melnyk O.V., Vavilova I.B., Makarov D.I. Virial and total masses of galaxy triplets in the Local Supercluster . 2005, Astron. ... Karachentsev I.D., Makarov D.I. "The Galaxy Motion Relative to Nearby Galaxies and the Local Velocity Field" . ...

Proceedings of Turbulent Shear Flows XI , 1997. NASA Technical Paper # 3555 , 1997. Proceedings of European Turbulence Conference VI , 1996. ESPRI Research Report # 104, 117-143 (1996) . ... Proceedings of Turbulent Shear Flows X , 1995. ASME Paper 95-GT-437 , 1995. ... Invited AIAA Paper 94-2281 presented at the 1994 AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, Colorado Springs, CO. AIAA Paper 94-2323, presented at the 1994 AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, Colorado Springs, CO. ...

The night sky brightness, together with number of clear nights, seeing, transparency, photometric stability and humidity, are some of the most important parameters that qualify a site for front-line ground--based astronomy. ... Night sky at ESO-Paranal (Chile). ... Night sky brightness data . ... UBVRI night sky brightness at ESO-Paranal during sunspot maximum (A 2003, PDF) . ... The Dancing Sky: six years of night sky observations at Cerro Paranal (Starlight 2007 conference proceedings, PDF) . ...