... 2014 August 13 . Rings Around the Ring Nebula . Image Credit: Hubble , Large Binocular Telescope , Subaru Telescope ; Composition Copyright: Robert Gendler . ... There is much more to the Ring Nebula (M57) , however, than can be seen through a small telescope . ... The Ring Nebula is about 2,000 light-years away toward the musical constellation Lyra . Follow APOD on: Facebook , Google Plus , or Twitter . ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply . ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 3.11.1997 . ... November 1997 . ... 1997 1998 . ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . NASA Official: Jay Norris. ... A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC . ... U. Based on Astronomy Picture Of the Day . Publications with keywords: Uranus . Publications with words: Uranus . ... Uranus Moon 18 . ... Infrared Uranus . Uranian Moons, Rings, And Clouds . All publications on this topic >> ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... This yearтАЩs Perseid meteor shower is already in progress and will continue till around 24th August. ... Most meteors are produced by comets, which shed trails of dust while passing through the inner solar system on their elliptical orbits around the Sun, In this case, the comet is a Halley-type short-period comet, 109P/Swift-Tuttle which was discovered in July 1862 and has an orbital period of 133 years. ...

... On one clear, starry night a Portuguese explorer called Ferdinand Magellan sailed over the equator to the Southern Hemisphere. ... Since the southern half of the planet is facing a different direction in space than the north, southerners see different stars and galaxies than the northerners do. Looking at this new set of stars, Magellan noticed what looked like a blurry cloud. ... We now know that the LMC is a dwarf galaxy, about 10 times smaller than the Milky Way (our home galaxy). ...

... Planetary Protection: Safeguarding Islands of Life by multiple authors The Planetary Report . ... 6 articles and two full pages of astrobiology references and websites. (p 42-43) including: A Sense of Place: Planetary Protections' Role in Astrobiological Exploration by John Rummel and Margaret Race . Activities . ... Putting a different twist on the above activity Astro-Venutres is an educational, interactive, multimedia web environment highlighting NASA careers and astrobiology research. ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. August 18, 1999 . Sun Block . ... Explanation: During a total solar eclipse, Earth's moon blocks the sun - almost exactly. While the sun is about 400 times wider than the moon, it is also about 400 times farther away and each appears to be half a degree or so in diameter. ... Tomorrow's picture: Light From The Dark Sun . ... About APOD > . ...

... Armagh Planetarium . ... Universe . ... Posted on April 2, 2014 | ... Continue Reading.. ... No Comments Astronomy is a science that knows no borders. ... 1 Comment Comets are frozen lumps of ice (often called volatiles) and rock that come from distant parts of our Solar System. ... 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. ...

... It was discovered that it would pass about 0.02 AU (about 3 million miles) from the Earth on 1998 August 11 --- close enough to be observed by the Arecibo Planetary Radar and (at much lower S/N) by the Goldstone Solar System Radar. ... Even at this distance, the Arecibo Planetary Radar can obtain images at up to 7 meter resolution. ... This delay-Doppler image of asteroid 1998 ML14 was taken on UTC 1998 August 15 12:45. ... A higher-resolution image taken on Aug 16. ... The Arecibo Observatory . ...

... Click on this icon if you would like to see a collection of snapshots of actual pages from the "Other Worlds from Earth" Electronic PictureBook. ... The Other Worlds from Earth Electronic PictureBook is a HyperCardЁ stack designed to run on a color MacintoshЁ computer with at least 2.5 megabytes of available RAM, sufficient hard disk space to contain the Electronic Picturebook, System 7.0, and HyperCard 2.1 or HyperCard Player 2.1. ...

... solar system . ... Solar eclipse travelogue: Sulawesi delivers a spectacular eclipse . ... Observe the Solar System . ... Tour the Solar System . ... Please explain why the total solar eclipse in August 2017 starts on the west coast and progresses eastward. ... RELATED TOPICS: SOLAR ECLIPSE . ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... If you are already registered on Astronomy.com, please log in below. ... Join Astronomy for America's 2017 total solar eclipse! ...

11 august 2014/Monday: Arriving, Registration . ... The variation of solar flare coronal X-ray source spatial properties. ... Melnikov V.F., Charikov Yu.E., Kudriavtsev I.V. Directivity of X-ray and gamma-ray emission from different parts of flaring magnetic loops. ... E., Melnikov V.F. Angular characteristics of polarization degree of hard X-ray emission from different parts of flaring magnetic loops. ... The thick target model and analytical calculations of the hard X-ray emission from solar flares. ...

... Robert L. Stewart (Brigadier General, USA, Ret.) ... SPECIAL HONORS: Awarded Army Distinguished Service Medal , Defense Superior Service Medal , 2 Legion of Merit, 4 Distinguished Flying Crossed, a Bronze Star, a Meritorious Service Medal , 33 Air Medals, the Army Commendation Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster and V Device, 2 Purple Hearts, the National Defense Service Medal , the Armed Forces Expeditionary Recipient of NASA Space Flight Medal (1984 & 1985). ...

The trapping of particles by magnetic fields was first studied by Kristian Birkeland in Norway, starting around 1895. ... Poincare managed to solve the motion of charged particles near an isolated magnetic pole, showing that they spiraled around field lines and that they were repelled from regions of strong field. ... A more realistic problem, of more interest to Birkeland, was particle motion near a compact bar magnet or "dipole", which better approximated the field of the Earth or of his terrella. ...

... Magnetic storms online . ... Geomagnetic activity forecast . ... August : 2015 . ... No magnetic storm is expected . From 2 August 2015 to 28 August 2015 the following magnetic storms and disturbances are expected: . August 10, 2015 geomagnetic storm of level G1 (minor) . August 28, 2015 geomagnetic disturbances . ... August 06, 2015 geomagnetic disturbances 2 August 2015 - 28 August 2015 . 01.08.2015 . ... Probability of a magnetic storm . ... Probability of a strong magnetic storm . ...

... It was done. ... Agenda of the RadioAstron teleconference August 25, 2010 Corrections to the Agenda 1 2 3 N. Kardashev N. Kardashev N. Babakin Project status Present status of tests of science payload in LA Brief review of Pushchino TS verifications with Venus Express: current status and outlook Current status and activities related to TS in South Africa and in New Zealand Action items L.Gurvits S.Likhachev S.Gulyaev M.Popov 4 5 Chairman: N.Kardashev List of ...

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 . ...

... Master . Master net Homepage . ... Ten years ago it was realized that robotic observatories boost the capabilities of astronomical observations of non-stationary and short-lived phenomena in the Universe. ... The first Russian robot-telescope MASTER was developed in 2002 and installed nearby Moscow. ... OAO MO "Optica" has mastered the production of such systems. The workshop is devoted to the results achieved by MASTER-net, that recently stretch over the globe from Blagoveshensk to Argentina. ...

Statistics of sunspot activity . The sunspot indices . ... NGDC's observations . The solar regions . ... Average annual indices . ... August . ... August, 2013 . Visual indices of solar activity by National Geophysical Data Center . ... Average . ...

... The apparent path of the Sun across the sky. ... Like the planets, the Sun, too, moves around the zodiac, making one complete circuit each year. ... In one year, as the Earth completes a full circuit around the Sun (drawing above), the Earth-Sun line and its continuation past Earth sweep the entire plane. ... Since the Sun and Earth are in the plane of the ecliptic, the line is automatically in that plane too; if the moon is also on the same line, it must be in the plane of the ecliptic as well. ...

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