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... APOD: 1999 August 6 - Hubble Tracks Jupiter's Great Red Spot . ... It is Jupiter 's Great Red Spot, the largest swirling storm system in the Solar System . ... Explanation: Jupiter's Great Red Spot is a swirling storm seen for over 300 years, since the beginning of telescopic observations. ... While astronomers still don't exactly understand why Jupiter's red spots are red , they do think the appearance of Red Spot Jr. provides evidence for climate change on the Solar System's ruling gas giant . ...

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... This talk focuses on exploring the connection between Ly absorbers and galaxies. The theorist view of gas in the low z universe is based on the filamentary structures that are evident in simulations based on the CDM paradigm. ... The observer's view of gas in the low-z universe is based on the Ly absorbers which have column densities as low as 10 cm , while galaxies are at column densities of 10 cm . ... The absorber has N cm . ... Can examine LSS defined by gas-rich galaxies around absorbers. ...

home publications > mercury . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Publications of the ASP (PASP) . ... A Minor Planet's Night Out . ... Orbiting between Mars and Jupiter are thousands of rocky bodies. ... In 1804 came Juno; in 1807, Vesta. ... Most minor planets, as asteroids are sometimes affectionately called, hum in elliptical orbits between Mars and Jupiter. ... This helps us as we select the Guest Observer, and it helps readers to understand what you studied. ...

... The search for distant objects which can be both galaxies and quasars is one of the most important problems of observational astrphysics, because it allows one to determine cosmological parameters connected with the time of appearence and evolution of stellar systems, large scale structure of the Universe. ... Radio galaxies are important objects to be studied because they are sources of infrared-optical-ultraviolet continuum, emission lines and continual radio emission. ...

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The Hubble SWEEPS Field . ... Credit Copyright: NASA , ESA , K. Sahu ( STScI ) and the SWEEPS Science Team Explanation: This crowded star field towards the center of our Milky Way Galaxy turns out to be a great place to search for planets beyond our solar system. ... Their search looked for brief, periodic dips in brightness caused as a large planet eclipses or transits its parent star. ... Large planets orbiting so close to their stars are termed hot Jupiters . ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...

... Bojan Nikolic web pages (r. 329) . Currently I hold a Principal Research Associate position at the University of Cambridge. ... More information on the SKA SDP consortium will be available shortly on the public web-pages . ... Previous to that, I developed the technique of Out-Of-Focus (OOF) holography and wrote the software that is currently used for this at the Green Bank 100m (GBT) and other telescopes. ... Welcome . ... Copyright 2005 -- 2016, Bojan Nikolic feedback welcome ...

Title: A Dark-Matter Spike at the Galactic Center? Authors: Piero Ullio , HongSheng Zhao , Marc Kamionkowski . ... Title: The Galaxy Environment of Quasars in the Clowes-Campusano Large Quasar Group at z~1.3 . ... Title: The Galaxy Environment of a Quasar at z=1.226: A Possible Cluster Merger . ... 16 matches for the search pattern galaxy environment . The URL for this page is: http://xxx.itep.ru/find/astro-ph/1/galaxy+environment/0/1/0/past,all/0/0 www-admin@xxx.lanl.gov ...

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Next: Fitting of data Up: Extraction of Information Previous: Extraction of Information . For projects which perform statistical analysis on groups of objects, it is important to rely on an objective search method to extract them from the data frames. ... The simplest and fastest method is using a given level over a previously determined background value as the criterion to identify possible sources. ...

... These other worlds are the moons of our Solar System , of which there are approximately 170 in orbit around our planets.Some of these moons are very interesting, and have diverse and unique features, very different to our barren, heavily cratered Moon .Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system has the most moons of any planet with known 64 moons in orbit.The four ... Ganymede, the largest moon in the Solar System thought to have oceans located underneath its icy surface.( ...

... After the best fit is obtained, the confidence limits on two parameters can be obtained by running search_grid . This task calculates a grid of values for a given input model. ... Then search_grid will select the last dataset used (from pkgpars ), will use the best fit from the last run of fit (the null string ``'' at the model prompt will always select the best fit from the _prd.tab file), and will place the results in a _grd.tab file with the same root as the observed file. ...

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K-band Arcetri Obscured Supernova Search . What is the KAOSS Project? W hat is the KAOSS Project? Some recent surveys aimed at detecting Supernovae (SNe) in the optical have found that starburst galaxies do not show evidence for an enhanced SN rate, with respect to quiescent galaxies (Richmond et al. ... A similar result was obtained by Navasardyan et al. (2001) who looked for SNe in interacting galaxies, finding no evidence for correlations between SN rate and galaxy properties. ...