Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Earth Satellites . ... Sadly C/ 2014 Q2 will probably not be as spectacular a sight as Comet C/ 2011 W3 (Lovejoy), visible near Earth?s horizon in this nighttime image from the International Space Station on 22 December 2011. ... The comet made its closest approach to Earth on 7€а January 2015, at a distance of 72 million km (45 million miles).€а In January the comet will race though the constellations Eridanus, Taurus, Aries and Triangulum. ...

... December 11, 1999 . A Close Encounter Of The Stellar Kind . Credit: Digitized Sky Survey , SkyView . Explanation: The unassuming star centered in this sky view will one day be our next door stellar neighbor . ... This future stellar encounter was discovered by researchers Joan Garcia-Sanchez and Robert Preston ( JPL ), and collaborators while studying stars in the solar neighborhood using data from the Hipparcos Astrometry Satellite . ... About APOD > . ...

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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 . ...

Discover the cosmos! ... December 6, 1999 . M83: The Southern Pinwheel Galaxy from VLT . ... Explanation: M83 is one of the closest and brightest spiral galaxies on the sky. Visible with binoculars in the constellation of Hydra , majestic spiral arms have prompted its nickname as the Southern Pinwheel. Although discovered 250 years ago, only in this century was it appreciated that M83 was not a gas cloud but a barred spiral galaxy much like our own Milky Way Galaxy . ... About APOD > . ...

... Scientists from G. I. Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics- Syberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk State Technical University, Samara State Aerospace University (SSAU) and Image Processing Systems Institute (IPSI) of the Russian Academy of Science, became the first people in the world obtained terahertz non-diffractive twisted Bessel beams and used them for the first time the formation of surface electromagnetic waves on the metal surface. ...

... Unusual Silica Rich Soil Discovered on Mars . ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . NASA Official: Jay Norris. ... A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC . ... Publications with keywords: Mars - Martian Rover . Publications with words: Mars - Martian Rover . ... Mars Rover Races to Survive . Mars in View . Victoria Crater on Mars . A Hole in Mars Close Up . Inside Victoria Crater on Mars . A Path Into Victoria Crater on Mars . ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Although the comet itself never comes dangerously close to the Earth, the particles of dust that it has shed during its many past passages through perihelion found their way into the Earth's atmosphere, appearing as meteors in the cold December sky. ... Animation 1 . ... An Ursid meteor captured by the Armagh Observatory's NE-facing meteor camera in the early morning of 23rd December. ... Meteor Showers Online . ...

... Submitted by Al Takeda on 01/01/2015 18:28:32 . Comet Lovejoy (C/2014 Q2) in the constellation of Columba . It is the 5th comet discovered by the Australian amateur astronomer, Terry Lovejoy using an 8-inch telescope. This comet has a very long orbital period of 11,500 years. ... On January 1, 2015, Comet Lovejoy is in the constellation of Lepus and is visually a 5.6-magnitude glowing fuzz ball in moderately sized telescopes. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... Observing . ... Solar Observing . ... April 3 (SUN) - Solar Observing, Central Park , Manhattan . ... APRIL'S SKY . ... Lecture Series at the American Museum of Natural History The Amateur Astronomers Association is proud to present an astronomy lecture series from October through May each year for our members and the .. ... The€аAmateur Astronomers Association of New York€аwas organized in 1927 to promote the study of Astronomy, emphasizing its cultural and inspirational value. ...

... К вопросу возможной модификации двигателя Шкадова и ее перспективах для решения некоторых задач SETI . ... А.Л.Зайцев . ... КОНЕЦ СОЦИУМА И ПРОБЛЕМА SETI . Л.М.Гиндилис . ... ОБОСНОВАНИЕ METI . ... Борис Николаевич Пановкин о познаваемости мира и о возможности связи с внеземными цивилизациями (к 80-летию со дня рождения) . ... Alexander Zaitsev . ... КНИГА ОБ ЭВОЛЮЦИИ И ВНЕЗЕМНЫХ ЦИВИЛИЗАЦИЯХ (Рецензия на книгу А.Д.Панова Универсальная эволюция и проблема поиска внеземного разума (SETI) . ...

The McDonald 30-inch Prime Focus camera (f/2.98) uses a thick, front-side illuminated Loral-Fairchild 2048x2048 CCD with a Metachrome II coating. ... Hence, placing a 2048x2048 CCD at the Prime Focus would result in an angular field of view of approximately 1 square degree. ... These kinds of galaxies, previously unknown, represent a new population of objects that has recently been discovered by members of our team (see May 1994 issue of Discover magazine) using wide field CCD imaging techniques. ...

... Globular cluster NGC 2808, elliptical galaxy NGC 2986, and the Sextans Dwarf . ... Astronomers recently discovered brown dwarfs of only a few hundred degrees fahrenheit, which seems about the same temperature as some planets. So what is the difference between a brown dwarf and a planet? ... RELATED TOPICS: BROWN DWARFS . This is an excellent question, and it s one that even astronomers have a hard time agreeing on. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Discover | ...

... Discovered originally in Fermi gamma-ray telescope data and labelled the Fermi Bubbles , the polarized radio counterparts of these structures were discovered with the Parkes telescope in 2012. ... The shocks are sites for cosmic ray acceleration. Emission from these cosmic rays explains the WMAP Haze observed at microwave wavelengths around the Galactic centre as well as the Bubbles wider-scale radio polarization and gamma-ray emission. ...

... Galileo Probe . The Galileo spacecraft was designed to study Jupiter's atmosphere, satellites, and surrounding magnetosphere for two years. ... From there, Galileo will spend more than five years traveling to Jupiter, where it will become the first spacecraft to make direct measurements from an instrumented probe within Jupiter's atmosphere. ... This image, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the predicted site at which the Galileo Probe will enter Jupiter's atmosphere on December 7, 1995. ...

Browse the articles below for new ideas for your classroom. Mercury September/October 2005: Astronomy Education and Public Outreach: Steps and Missteps Toward an Emerging Profession (pdf) . Focus on Education articles as they appeared in Mercury: . ... March/April 2000: . ... Education Newswire articles as they appeared in Mercury, by issue. ... January/February 2000 . November/December 1999 . ... March/April 1999 . ... November/December 1998 . ... November/December 1997 . ...

... Asteroseismology of Extrasolar Planet Host Stars . ... GO 11945: Asteroseismology of Extrasolar Planet Host Stars . ... Asteroseismology uses those pulsations to study the internal structure of stars. ... Detecting such variations require extemely high signal-to-noise; nonetheless, observations have been extended to a handful of other stars. ... Past weeks: . Cycle 14 observations (from March 13 2006 to June 30 2006) . Cycle 15 observations (from July 1 2006) . ...

The Many Streams of the Magellanic Stream . ... As a part of the ongoing GALFA survey we have obtained an H I image of a region located at the tip of the Magellanic Stream. ... Figure 1 shows the velocity field of the tip of the Stream. ... Comparison with numerical simulations by Connors et al. (2006) suggests that a 3-way splitting of the main Stream filament may have taken place due to gravitational interactions between the SMC, the LMC, and the Galaxy. ... 2006) . ...

... Comet Lovejoy over the Parkes Dish . ... This beautiful picture of Comet Lovejoy was taken by CSIRO's Parkes staff member John Sarkissian when it was visible above the illuminated 64-m Parkes Telescope on the 28th of December 2011. The comet, official known as C/2011 W3 (Lovejoy) was discovered on the 27th of November 2011 by Australian amateur astronomer Terry Lovejoy . His new find, C/2014 Q2 , discovered on the 17th of August 2014, is currently visible in the sky . ... today * ATNF | ...

... Massive stars, having 10-150 masses of the Sun, with metallicities Z tens to hundreds times less than that of the Sun (Zo), are the main regulators of the galaxy formation and evolution processes in the early Universe. ... In this galaxy, using the 6 m BTA telescope, a new massive blue variable star with high luminosity (>=10 5 Sun's luminocities in visible light) was found. As far as its properties are concerned, this star falls into an LBV (Luminous Blue Variable) class of stars. ...