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... GOODS unites extremely deep observations from NASA's Great Observatories, Spitzer , Hubble , and Chandra , ESA's Herschel and XMM-Newton , and from the most powerful ground-based facilities, to survey the distant universe to the faintest flux limits across the electromagnetic spectrum. ... The space-based observations are complemented by ground-based imaging and spectroscopy, including extensive commitments of ESO and NOAO observing time. ... 2010-04-10: Deep VLA 1.4 GHz data for GOODS-North . ...

Lectures . ... 100 Years of Cosmology: From Spiral Nebulae to the Cosmic Microwave Background.тАЭ ? ... Michael Way, astronomer/computer scientist at NASAтАЩs Ames Research Center and its Goddard Institute of Space Studies, will give the first lecture of the AAAтАЩs 2009-10 lecture series Friday, October 2 when he discusses тАЬ100 Years of Cosmology: From Spiral Nebulae to the Cosmic Microwave Background.тАЭ The free public lecture is at 6:15 p. m. at the Kaufmann Theater of the AMNH. by . ...

... Apr 14, 2016 - Monthly Meeting . ... The Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ATMoB) is an astronomy club devoted to telescope making, observing, and studying the heavens. ... CURRENT MOON . ... April Sky . ... Lyrids Meteor Shower . ... Sources: NASA JPL Space Calendar , StarDate Online , Sky Telescope , Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics , RASC Observer’s Handbook , Abrams Planetarium Sky Calendar and Astronomy Magazine . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

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Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 27.11.1996 . ... Credit: The Galileo Project , JPL , NASA Explanation: Storm clouds , similar to the familiar cumulonimbus thunderheads of Earth , appear to be present on Jupiter. ... The false colors represent altitude. Low altitude clouds are blue, high, thick clouds are white and high, thin clouds are pink, with the box at the upper right containing the high cloud features likened to the storm clouds of Earth. ... Publications with keywords: Jupiter - storm . ...

home publications > mercury . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... The Universe in the Classroom . ... The Great Cosmic Map . ... But maps can also provide vivid insights into fundamental truths about the world we live in. ... Maps have also been fundamental to understanding our place in the universe beyond Earth. Cosmographies — maps of the universe — are as old as human civilization, and have gone hand in hand with cosmogonies describing the creation of the world. ...

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... August 2, 1996 . Galileo, Cassini, and the Great Red Spot . Credit: Galileo Project , JPL , and NASA . ... Jupiter's Great Red Spot indeed seems to be a giant hurricane-like storm system rotating with the Jovian clouds. ... The Great Red Spot is a cold, high pressure area 2-3 times wider than planet Earth. ... Jupiter's own rapid rotation period is a brief 10 hours. ... APOD thanks to Alan Radecki for assembling a preliminary mosaic from the Galileo imagery!) ... About APOD | ...

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... Has Jupiter been hit, or does it have a new storm? From Anthony Wesley, Australia: " Yes, believe it or not, it seems that Jupiter has been hit by something and there is a jet black impact mark near its south pole. ... The last one I remember was the Shoemaker-Levy impacts in 1994." Link to the Irish Astronomy blog . ... Sunday, 19 July 2009 22:52 . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

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... Yes, Exploding Comet 17P/Holmes is one of the strangest things ever seen by astronomers - professional and amateurs alike. ... We also had some club members who received some Astronomical League awards...and we'd like to congratulate them! ... It is again a potluck, and is being held at the Masonic Temple in Galion ( 1252 State Route 598, Galion , OH 44833) Here's a map: Map of 1252 State Route 598 Galion, OH 44833-9367, US And, along with the party come RAS elections for 2008! ... Comet 17P/Holmes ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Planets . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... October . ... By admin October 8, 2010 Posted in: Monthly Sky Notes . A giant from close up: an image made using data from the Cassini probe which flew past Jupiter in 2000. ... As it is so far from us, it takes JupiterтАЩs light a significant time to reach us тАУso when you see Jupiter tonight you are seeing it as it was 35€а minutes in the past. ... Posted October 12, 2010 at 11:15 PM . ... Astronotes . ...

Sloan Digital Sky Survey Telescope Technical Note 19910801 . ... It has long been apparent that an all-sky picture of clouds over an observatory site and available in near real-time would be a great benefit to personnel using a telescope. ... We have anecdotal evidence from J.T. Williams of MMTO and David Westfall, formerly of CFHT and now of New Mexico Institute of Mining, that video-rate 10 micron cameras are very effective at imaging clouds. ... The focal length of the mirror is 25 mm. ...

... no comet has been observed with an orbit that indicates that it came from interstellar space, . ... From this he proposed that comets reside in a vast cloud at the outer reaches of the solar system. ... Unfortunately, since the individual comets are so small and at such large distances, we have no direct evidence about the Oort Cloud. ... T he Kuiper Belt is a disk-shaped region past the orbit of Neptune roughly 30 to 100 AU from the Sun containing many small icy bodies. ... Small Bodies .. ...

... Archives . ... 7, 2007 . ... Nov 7th, 2007| 06:52 pm | ... Another one in the CXC/CfA Visualizing Astronomy series: ?The Digital Universe: Cosmic Cartography and Data Visualization?, by Brian Abbott of Hayden Planetarium & Department of Astrophysics, next Tuesday, Nov 13, at 2pm in Phillips. ... The Digital Universe is a 3-D, interactive atlas of the universe created and distributed by the American Museum of Natural History and the Hayden Planetarium. ... Comment ( RSS ) | ... Chandra Blog . ...

Giant Jupiter. Jupiter . ... Jupiter has no solid surface that is why speaking about its dimensious point the radius of the upper border line of the clouds, where the presseru is about 10 KPa; radius of Jupiter on the equator is 71400 km. ... The Jupiter satellites. ... Nowadays 16 satellites of the Jupiter are known: Adrastea, Mitis, Amaltea , Phina,then 4 Galilei satellites: Io , Europe , Hanimed , Callisto , Leda, Aimalia, Zicitea, Elara, Ananke, Carme, Pasipe and Sinope. ... Jupiter's ring. ...

... The Earth's magnetosphere is not unique. Space probes which have visited the giant planets--Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune--found that all were magnetized, even more intensely than the Earth, and all were surrounded by radiation belts. ... The earliest evidence came from cosmic rays , discovered in 1912 by Victor Hess. ... In the biggest events, a few times each solar cycle, such ions spread throughout interplanetary space, at energies which can reach those of low-energy cosmic rays. ...