... Jelly Donut Shaped Rock Appears on Mars . ... Credit Copyright: Mars Exploration Rover Mission , Cornell , JPL , NASA Explanation: What if a rock that looked like a jelly donut suddenly appeared on Mars? ... The unexpectedly placed rock, pictured above , was imaged recently by Opportunity after not appearing in other images taken as recently as twelve Martian days ( sols ) before. ... Publications with keywords: Mars . Publications with words: Mars . ... Opportunity s Decade on Mars . ...

... Click on an object in the solar system or choose from the list at left to learn more . The Arecibo Observatory planetary radar is the world's most powerful instrument for post-discovery characterization and orbital refinement of near-Earth objects. ... The Solar System Studies group is a department of the Arecibo Observatory, which is an NSF facility operated under cooperative agreement by SRI International, Universities Space Research Association (USRA), and la Universidad Metropolitana (UMET). ...

GCVS Research Group: . Recent publications . Kazarovets E.V., Samus N.N., Durlevich O.V., Kireeva N.N., Pastukhova E.N., The 81st Name-List of Variable Stars. ... Kazarovets E.V., Samus N.N., Durlevich O.V., Kireeva N.N., Pastukhova E.N., The 80th Name-List of Variable Stars. ... Samus N.N., Kazarovets E.V., Kireeva N.N., Pastukhova E.N., Durlevich O.V. General Catalogue of Variable Stars: Current status and new Name-lists Odessa Astronomical Publications, 2010, V. 23, p. 102-105. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... Sky this Month . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Can you explain Mercury's retrograde motion? Do other planets appear to do this also? ... When astronomers talk about retrograde motion, generally they refer to the apparent motion outer planets make as Earth passes them while orbiting the Sun. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

... Data . ... As part of the STIS calibration closeout effort, a number of revised calibration reference files have recently been delivered for STIS data. ... Time dependent sensitivity tables (*_tds.fits files listed in the TDSTAB keyword of the science data file headers) contain the information necessary to correct the STIS flux calibration for those throughput variations as a function of wavelength that depend directly on time or detector temperature. ... MAMA Detector Dark (DRK and TDC) files . ...

... 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. ...

... November 15, 1996 . Searching For Solar Systems . Credit: Ball Aerospace, The Kepler Mission , NASA/Ames Research Center . ... Are there nearby solar systems with Earth-sized planets as well? ... The goal of this mission would be to discover Earth-sized planets in the habitable zone of solar-type stars , taking a step toward answering the profound question - Does life exist on other worlds beyond our Solar System? ... Search | ... About APOD . ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

... Natalya V. Raguzova and Sergei B. Popov . ... We present a compilative catalogue of Be/X-ray binaries and candidates in the Galaxy and in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. This catalogue contains 160 sources and provides information on names and spectral types of optical components, distances, on spin characteristics of neutron stars, and on orbital and X-ray properties of binary systems. ... Be/X-Ray Binaries and candidates in the Galaxy . Galactic sources: comments to the Table 1 . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... This image combines orbital imagery with 3-D modelling to show flows that appear in spring and summer on a slope inside Mars' Newton crater. ... Warm season flows on a slope in Newton Crater, possible evidence of salty liquid water active on Mars today. Image credit: NASA) . ... Frozen water is common on and under the surface of Mars but these images are the best evidence to date for the presence of liquid water on the Martian surface today. ...

Finally, the deep space explorers --spacecraft which break away from the Earth's gravity . ... The "Luna" series of the USSR conducted 7 soft landing of unmanned probes, two of them with wheeled robotic "Lunokhods," and two of those missions returned samples to Earth. Others spacecraft have visited the major planets of the Solar system. ... The Mariner series have explored Venus and Mars--and Mariner 10 even reached Mercury, for three separate encounters! ... Sojourner" on Mars, its top . ...

home publications > mercury . ... Astronomy Beat . ... Celebrating 30 Years of Mercury . ... In January 1972, a new voice of astronomy appeared on the scene: the premier issue of Mercury magazine. ... After rejecting the name Astronomy , he proposed Mercury , after the messenger of the heavens in Roman mythology who appears on the Society's logo. ASP President Harold F. Weaver wrote in part: "Publication of this first issue of the new Journal of our Society is an important event in our history. ...

... Spacecraft . ... To space by cannon? Finally, the deep space explorers --spacecraft which break away from the Earth's gravity . ... The "Luna" series of the USSR conducted 7 soft landing of unmanned probes, two of them with wheeled robotic "Lunokhods," and two of those missions returned samples to Earth. Others spacecraft have visited the major planets of the Solar system. ... The Mariner series have explored Venus and Mars--and Mariner 10 even reached Mercury, for three separate encounters! ...

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Please select one or more authors to see their list of publications. ... publications for last year, please click here first . ... Buntov, Michael . ... Grebenev, Sergey . ... Kaniovsky, Alexander . Konovalov, Alexey . ... Kuznetsov, Alexander . Kuznetsov, Sergey . Kuzmin, Alexey . ... Lutovinov, Alexander . ... Mescheryakov, Alexander . Mol'kov, Sergey . ... Pavlinsky, Michael . Revnivtsev, Michael . Sazonov, Sergey . ... 2001 . ... 1998 . 1997 . 1996 . ...

... Project page . ... Project workpage . Turbulence in the Multiphase Interstellar Medium . Project I | ... Project highlight | ... Towards simulating turbulence with adaptive meshes . ... A. Kritsuk, P. Padoan, M. Norman . ... A. Kritsuk M. Norman . ... A. Kritsuk, M. Norman, P. Padoan . astro-ph/0411626 | ... P. Padoan, A. Kritsuk, M. Norman, A. Nordlund . ... Introducing Enzo, an AMR Cosmology Application . B. O'Shea, G. Bryan, J. Bordner, M. Norman, T. Abel, R. Harkness, A. Kritsuk . ...

... All images on this page are copyright Robert H. McNaught. ... There have been so many requests for high resolution copies of these images that I ask that all enquiries for these to go directly to Science Photo Library. C/2006 P1 on Jan 18, 10:22 UT. Photo: R. H. McNaught, Siding Spring Observatory. Canon 5D, 135mm, f/2.0, 2 sec exp., ISO 1600 . ... ISO 200 . ... Canon 5D, 50mm, f/2.0, 30 sec exp., ... Canon 5D, 135mm, f/2.0, 120 sec exp., ... Canon 5D, 50mm, f/2.0, 110 sec exp., ...

... Forum . MAO main . ... Announcing the ASTERICS 2016-06-15/16 European Data Provider Forum and Training Event . ... Тема: Announcing the ASTERICS 2016-06-15/16 European Data Provider Forum and Training Event . ... European Data Provider Forum and Training Event at the Zentrum f?r . ... ASTERICS (Astronomy . ... Neither the European Data Provider Forum nor the accompanying workshop . ... Board Categories MAO main - Info - MAO - news - Flame Technical - Technical Support(Forum)(Техподдержка(Форум)) . ...

... Jay Apt (Ph.D.) . NASA Astronaut (Former) . ... PUBLICATIONS: Dr. Apt shared his images and knowledge in the publication Earth in Orbit : NASA Astronauts Photograph the Earth , written in conjunction with NASA scientists Michael Helfert and Justin Wilkinson and published by the National Geographic Society. ... From 1976 to 1980 he was a staff member of the Center for Earth & Planetary Physics, Harvard University, supporting NASA s Pioneer Venus Mission by making temperature maps of Venus from Mt. ...

Supernova 2002fk in NGC 1309 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2002fk in NGC 1309 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. ... 2002/09/19.848 . ... JM Llapasset image . ... 13.0 . ... Josep M. Bosch . ... Josep M. Bosch image . ... vsnet-campaign-sn 476 ] SN 2002fk in NGC 1309 . ...

Next: Data Analysis and Simulations of Spectroscopic and Continuum Mapping with the ISO P HOT I nteractive A nalysis ( PIA ) . ... DH1 3LE, U.K. GAIA, the Graphical Astronomy and Image Analysis Tool, is a derivative of the ESO Skycat program. ... Skycat provides a fundamental image, graphics and web catalogue context, which GAIA extends by providing image analysis tools. This article describes new tools recently added to GAIA and gives a brief description of the technologies that underly it. ...