... 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. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 11.01.2012 . ... Credit Copyright: Alex Cherney ( Terrastro , TWAN ) Explanation: Once a bright apparition in the southern hemisphere dawn Comet Lovejoy is fading, but its long tail still stretches across skies near the south celestial pole. Captured on the morning of December 30th, the comet appears near edge of this little planet as well. ... January 2012 . ... Publications with keywords: comet - planet . Publications with words: comet - planet . ...

... 2012 January 11 . Little Planet Lovejoy . ... Explanation: Once a bright apparition in the southern hemisphere dawn Comet Lovejoy is fading, but its long tail still stretches across skies near the south celestial pole. Captured on the morning of December 30th, the comet appears near edge of this little planet as well. Of course, the little planet is actually planet Earth and the image was created from a 12 frame mosaic used to construct a spherical panorama . ... About APOD | ...

Armagh, 2nd May 2002. Saturn and Mars are at the top left, Venus is the very bright object and Mercury appears through the clouds. ... All five planets visible to ancient astronomers can now be seen in alignment in the western sky. ... Next is Venus, the brightest planet or "Evening Star", followed by Mars, a much fainter red planet, then Saturn (near the red star Aldebaran, the brightest star in Taurus), and finally, slightly higher in the sky, the largest planet Jupiter. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Bright planets meet at dusk . ... Astronomy magazine subscribers can read the full article for free. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter....

... Night Sky Questions . Q. I saw a bright light streak across the sky last night. ... A. Meteors are the bright trails left by fragments of natural space debris called meteoroids (usually chunks of rock or metal) falling through the EarthтАЩs atmosphere. ... As the Earth moves around the Sun over a year, planets will move in and out of view, so the sky changes.To confirm if it was one of the planets, go to www.heavens-above.com . ... Q. I saw a bright light moving steadily across the sky last night. ...

... Abstract . ... Quasars at Redshift z=6 and Early Star Formation History . ... The Red Sequence at 1.3 . ... Coronagraphic Polarimetry of HST-Resolved Debris Disks . ... Exploring the Scaling Laws of Star Formation . ... ACS imaging of the "Little Red Spot" from April, 2006 . ... Using the High Resolution Camera (HRC) on ACS, HST obtained a series of images of the `Little Red Spot' in early 2006. ... Observations of the A0 star, HD 32297, and the G3 dwarf, HD 61005, are scheduled in the coming week. ...

. [ Go back to Comet WWW site ] . Andrew A. Martis . martis @ sai.msu.ru .

... Makemake, a dwarf planet in our Solar System, appears to have no atmosphere; it is bald! ... Until a few years ago, Pluto was considered to be the most distant planet, until it was downgraded to a dwarf planet like Makemake. ... If there was an atmosphere around Makemake, the star would have slowly faded away as the dwarf planet blocked it. ... Cool fact: Beside Makemake there are four other known dwarf planets in our Solar System: Pluto, Ceres, Haumea and Eris. ...

Microsymposium 38, MS083, 2003 (A4 format) MERCURY: LOCAL VARIATIONS OF THE PHOTOMETRIC RELIEF. ... Because of trajectory and pointing angle constraints the planet could be observed from Mariner 10 only over a small range of phase angles between about 75o and 110o. Therefore the photometric investigations are restricted to measuring the distribution of brightness on the Mercurian disk. ... Raw versions of real-time processing pictures FDS 0000984 and FDS 0000986 were used (images 196 and 202). ...

... Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Rm 54416 Cambridge, MA (617) 253-7568 hbh@zilla.mit.edu HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE WIDE FIELD PLANETARY CAMERA 2 OBSERVATIONS OF NEPTUNE Two groups have recently used the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC 2) to acquire new high-resolution images of the planet Neptune. ... These bright clouds and dark spots were tracked as they moved across the planet's disk, revealing wind speeds as large as 325 meters per second (730 miles per hour)....

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The basic problems of the Laboratory are connected with researches of dynamics of minor planets and comets. ... THE ORBIT IMPROVEMENT of minor planets from optical and radar observations, . the utilization of minor planet observations for THE DETERMINATION OF ORIENTATION OF STAR CATALOGUES and DETERMINATION OF MASSES OF MINOR PLANETS BY DYNAMICAL METHOD, . THE ESTIMATION OF COLLISION PROBABILITY of minor planets with other bodies and with each other, . ...

... Assignments 4, 5 and 6 all involve the imaginary world of Ziggy. ... Each week, you should write a short executive briefing to Captain Howard, explaining to her what you have learned from that week's data. ... A 500 word limit applies to each briefing you submit. You will submit three briefing papers (due dates below): one for each data release. ... First briefing due (Assignment 4). 2nd data set released. ... Second briefing due (Assignment 5). 3rd and final data set released. ...

You Can Make Stellar Images Brighter . Articles | ... A few months ago I wrote an article titled "You Can’t Make Them Brighter". So why am I now writing that you can make them brighter. ... The image of a focused star is actually a small disk called the Airy disk, named after the 19 th century scientist Sir George Airy. ... For a given aperture, a smaller Airy disk means that the light is focused to a smaller disk and is therefore brighter. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ...

... The awsome spectacle of a brilliant comet, with its long ghostly tail streaming behind it, is a rare event. ... Only one other comet, Comet Halley, was seen so far from the Sun, giving scientists an opportunity to watch it as it slowly warmed up and sprouted a tail. ... Comets are the Rip Van Winkles of the solar system -- mini-worlds that have changed little during their 4.5-billion-year nap far from the Sun. ... Observing Comets . ... Once, comets inhabited the entire solar system. ...

... В четверг, 14 апреля 2016 г., состоится семинар кафедры астрофизики. Повестка дня . ... Начало в 11 час.15 мин. Ауд. ... В четверг, 31 марта 2016 г., состоится семинар кафедры астрофизики . ... В четверг, 24 марта 2016 г. , состоится семинар кафедры. ... В четверг, 17 марта 2016 г. , состоится заседание кафедры. ... ОСП НИИ ПММ Национального исследовательского Томского государственного университета) . ... Copyright 2016 Астрономия в Санкт-Петербургском университете . ...

... The function is accessible, if the file with the image is open, and Ю identification of a star field is made. ... a) Load a first image by the command " Open ", and others by the command " Open +". b) Make an identification of the field. c) Open the menu " File ", select " Next " or press . ... It is necessary tree or more images. a) Load the first image by the command " Open" , and others by the command " Open + ". b) Open the menu " Marking ", select "Detect moving objects" or press - . ...

. Mars is "behind" the sun from the earth's point of view and is therefore not visible in the nighttime sky (i.e. its up in the daytime). Venus it at greatest elongation and appears in the western sky as a bright object for 2-3 hours after sunset .