... Star Cluster R136 Bursts Out . ... Aurora Shimmer, Meteor Flash . ... Southern Geminids . ... Dust particles strung out along the orbit of extinct comet Phaethon vaporize when they plow through planet Earth's atmosphere causing the impressive display. ... In 1996, an unexpectedly bright comet passed by planet Earth. ... Created as planet Earth sweeps through dusty debris from extinct comet Phaethon, the annual Geminid meteor shower is predicted to peak on December 14th, around 0510 UT (12:10am EST)....

... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... Supernova showered Earth with radioactive debris . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Michael Rampino: How long will life last on Earth? New York University biologist Rampino describes at length one of his many research specialties: catastrophic impacts on Earth, including the K-Pg Impact that killed the dinosaurs some 66 million years ago, and muses on life in the universe. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...

... Armagh Planetarium . ... Universe . ... Posted on November 25, 2011 | ... Continue Reading.. ... 1 Comment Here is possibly the only joke in all of astronomy. ... Posted on October 20, 2011 | ... Newer Entries . Hello, IтАЩm Colin, welcoming you to Astronotes, the PlanetariumтАЩs official blog. Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ... So that's the introduction out of the way, now on with the Universe! ...

Catalyst: Decade of Cosmology View High Quality View Low Quality Transcript . September 16, 2010, Catalyst ABC Science Show, Host: Graham Philips, Charley Lineweaver and other cosmologists look at what we've discovered about our universe in the last ten years. Series 11, Episode 30, Duration 8 minutes . ... Duration 58 minutes . Catalyst: Future of the Moon View High Quality View Low Quality Transcript . ... Catalyst: Space Storms View High Quality View Low Quality . ...

... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... ESO Acronyms . ... Video News Releases . ... New on eso.org . ... ESO News . ... Rapid Eye Mount telescope . ... Black Hole at the Centre of our Galaxy . ... Planetarium shows . ... These images taken over the last decade using the NACO instrument on ESOтАЩs Very Large Telescope show the motion of a cloud of gas that is falling towards the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way. ... Milky Way : Galaxy : Component : Central Black Hole . ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... News Feed . ... 2009 December 15th . ... Second Wettest November Since 1838 . ... 2009 November 26th . ... 2009 November 24th . ... 2009 November 23rd . ... 2009 November 20th . ... 2009 November 17th . ... 2009 November 13th . ... 2009 November 9th . ... 2009 November 4th . ... 2009 November 2nd . ... Pleasant September . ... Humid August . ... June Sunnier and Warmer than Average . ... March Drier and Milder Than Average ...

Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the updates and links web pages. Discovered independently by Lick Observatory Supernova Search (USA) and Koichi Itagaki (Japan). ... 2009/10/11.44 . 17.2 . ... Joseph Brimacombe . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... This first Snack of the year 2000 (yes, I am one of those who says the Millennium begins in 2001) will talk a little about a wonderful event: a total lunar eclipse. On the evening of Thursday, January 20 (or the early morning Friday, January 21 if you lives east of England) the Moon will go undergo one of the best eclipses it can. ... The Moon stays in the Earth's shadow in a lunar eclipse longer the Earth stays in the Moon's shadow during a solar eclipse. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2005 August 6 . Raining Perseids . Credit Copyright: Fred Bruenjes . Explanation: Comet dust rained down on planet Earth last August, streaking through dark skies in the annual Perseid meteor shower . ... This year, the Perseids Meteor Shower will peak in the early morning hours on Friday, August 12. ... About APOD | ...

... The top quark, discovered at the Tevatron in 1995 and not long ago re-discovered at the LHC, is strongly coupled to the Higgs sector and therefore expected to be related to electroweak symmetry breaking. ... I will talk about the basics of jet substructure analysis, our top tagging approach and several applications for top physics, especially stop searches and the potential of the ttbar forward-backward asymmetry measurement at the LHC. 4:00pm, 472 Willamette Hall . ... return to top . ...

Next: Scientifically discovered God Up: No Title Previous: Simple Universe . ... As a matter of fact, it stands already for several centuries. ... The characteristic time, t , of civilization development, was known already. ... Indeed, the expansion of the Universe was not yet discovered, and, the Universe was believed to be eternal! ... If the Universe has lived for an infinitely long time then the Tsiolkovskii's paradox can be solved only with this key, the key of ``Superintelligence''. ...

Mercury Spring 2010 Table of Contents . This artist s impression shows the transiting exoplanet Corot-9b. Credit: ESO / L. Cal ada. First Temperate Exoplanet . ... Combining observations from the CoRoT satellite and the ESO HARPS instrument, astronomers have discovered the first . ... Designated Corot-9b, the . ... If you enjoyed this excerpt from a feature article and would like to receive our quarterly Mercury magazine, we invite you to join the ASP and receive 4 issues a year. ...

... Kuiper belt objects are icy bodies in the outer solar system. ... Views of Kuiper Belt Objects . Object 1993 SC . This image shows a small part of the discovery frames of 1993 SC, one of the brightest Kuiper-Belt objects so far discovered. ... Assuming that Object 1993 SC reflects light much like other primitive asteroids and comets in the out solar system, the diameter is around 300 kilometers (186 miles), or just a quarter the size of Pluto's moon Charon. ... Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Impact . ...

... About ATNF overview . ... Governance overview . Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Our people overview . ... Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder . ... Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Very Long Baseline Interferometry . ... Australia Telescope Online Archive (ATOA) . ... Observing schedules . ... ATCA . ... Square Kilometre Array overview . ... Australia Telescope 20GHz Survey . ... Visiting Australia Telescope Compact Array . ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... News . ... S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia takes part in the 10th International Aerospace Show. ... S.P. Korolev RSC Energia's stand presents the company's work on manned spacecraft and space stations, space launchers and unmanned spacecraft in the past and at present, as well as its proposals for the future. ... Contribution of RSC Energia to the Russian Rocket-Space Technology ...

... Astronomy news . ... NASA's Spitzer Images Out-of-This-World Galaxy . ... It is spiral-shaped like our Milky Way, with long, spindly arms of stars. The "eye" at the center of the galaxy is actually a monstrous black hole surrounded by a ring of stars. In this color-coded infrared view from Spitzer, the area around the invisible black hole is blue and the ring of stars, white. ... The ring around the black hole is bursting with new star formation. ...

... AAS 225 . ... Here are a few features of the tweets from the 225th meeting of the American Astronomical Society . ... The retweet numbers are close to the values that Twitter has for the tweets, which means that I can't have messed up too much (I wouldn't expect perfect agreement since Twitter does not guarantee that any search will return all matching tweets; also, the Twitter values are updated whereas mine are fixed until the next set of tweets gets analyzed). The most re-tweeted accounts. ...

... Hubble Detects Faster-Than-Light Motion in Galaxy M87 . ... Click on image for larger version. (100kB GIF) Sequence of Hubble images showing apparent motion at six times the speed of light in the galaxy M87. ... The slanting lines track the moving features, and the speeds are given in units of the velocity of light ``c." The images were made between 1994 and 1998 with the Faint Object Camera on the Hubble Space Telescope. ... PHOTO CREDIT: John Biretta, Space Telescope Science Institute. ...

ALBUM: Cover songs Author: Metallica @ALBUM: Am I Evil? ... Yes I am Am I evil? ... I am man Am I evil? Yes I fucking am Am I evil? I am man, yeah! ... Repeat verse 1 Repeat chorus 2 times One Last Caress today, Ohhh Ohhh Ohhh (repeat) @SONG: Breadfan Metallica , originally performed by Budgie (Recorded in 1973) - words and music by Bourge, Shelley and Phillips *Breadfan Open up your mind Open up your purse Open up your bones Never, never gonna lose ...

... UA SCIENTIST & TEAM DISCOVER SURFACE FEATURES COVER TITAN (Science contacts: Peter H. Smith, (602) 621-2725; Mark Lemmon, (602) 621-1485; UA Lunar and Planetary Laboratory) . Scientists for the first time have made images of the surface of Saturn 's giant, haze-shrouded moon, Titan. ... About three weeks before Cassini's first flyby of Titan, the spacecraft is to release the European Space Agency's Huygens Probe to parachute to Titan's surface. ... Upper left: hemisphere facing Saturn. ...