Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Colin Johnston . ... Milky Way . Stars . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... June . ... This red supergiant is the brightest star in the constellation Scorpius and is of awesome size. ... Returning to Vega (which will be the pole star in about 12 000 years from now), follow an imaginary line between it and Arcturus, this line will cross two more constellations, faint and sprawling Hercules and that celestial smile Corona Borealis. ...

... Mars in View . ... Credit: Jean-Luc Dauvergne , Francois Colas Explanation: Very good telescopic views of Mars can be expected in the coming weeks as the Red Planet nears opposition on December 24th. ... Taking advantage of the shorter travel distance near opposition, NASA launched the Phoenix lander to Mars in August, scheduled to arrive in May 2008. ... Publications with keywords: Mars . ... Victoria Crater on Mars . ... Inside Victoria Crater on Mars . A Path Into Victoria Crater on Mars . ...

Educator's Guide to Micrometeorites . ... They are actually small bits of rock and metal that collide with Earth's upper atmosphere and, because of friction, burn up. On rare occasions, man-made satellites and spacecraft parts fall into the atmosphere and burn up the same way. ... That is what is happening to the particles in the upper atmosphere. ... Most meteorites fall into Earth's oceans. ... There is an easy way to collect meteorites, but we must be satisfied with finding small metal ones. ...

This page gives the name and meaning of the various parameters which can be queried in HyperLeda through SQL requests . ... real . ... actual error on t . ... log 10 of apparent major axis diameter d25 at 25 mag.arcsec -2 (d25 in 0.1') . ... actual error on logd25 . ... Apparent maximum rotation velocity of gas . ... log 10 of apparent corrected diameter (dc in 0.1') . ... total apparent corrected B-magnitude . ... total apparent corrected U-B color . ... Questions: leda@univ-lyon1.fr ...

TABLE: The Constellations . ... The Hunting Dogs . ... But the stars that make up Orion lie at very different distances from the Sun. ... String . ... Tape or glue the string to the top of the cardboard so that the "star" will not move. ... Name of Star . ... Other Constellation Activities Given a star chart without constellation figures marked on it (whether real star charts or made-up star patterns), students can invent their own constellations, looking for patterns in the stars that appeal to them. ...

... Nebulae are clouds of gas and dust in space. ... These clouds come in many different varieties: some are the remains of dead stars, while others are areas of vigorous star birth, like this one. In fact, two different types can be seen in this striking new image: emission nebulae and reflection nebulae. ... The bluish patch next to the red emission nebula shows light from recently formed stars being scattered in other words, reflected in many different directions by these tiny particles. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . Asteroid 2010 SO16 and the Earth follow similar orbits around . the Sun. ... out a horseshoe shape in space, taking 175 years to go from . ... Asteroid 2010 SO16 takes 175 years to make the trip from one end of the horseshoe to the other. ... Currently, three other horseshoe companions of the Earth are known to exist but, unlike 2010 SO16, these linger for a few thousand years at most before moving on to different orbits. ...

... 23a. The Centrifugal Force . ... 24a.The Rotating Earth . ... Sunlight Earth . ... One important rotating frame is the surface of the Earth, rotating with a period of about 24 hours--more accurately, 23 hrs 56.07 min or 86164 seconds. ... To derive the centrifugal acceleration on the equator (i.e. the force in Newtons on one gram mass, rotating with the Earth), we calculate in meters and seconds . ... Effective gravity on the equator is reduced by the rotation, but only by about 1/3 of a percent . ...

This page describes the Twitter feed that gives the current location of the Chandra X-ray Telescope. ... Further information on Chandra can be found at: . ... Tracking Chandra . ... The twitter feed is actually a simple Haskell program that grabs the current location from the Science@NASA Chandra Track page, and then uses the GeoNames web service to convert this location into something more readable than a latitude and longitude. ... If you have any other ideas send them to the Chandra Twitter feed . ...

... Your main research interests concern neutral hydrogen. ... That means that there must be enormous quantities of gas lying around, waiting for the chance to collapse under its own weight into lumps and form stars and galaxies. If we could actually observe this gas, as it moves around and assembles itself into lumps, we would be directly observing the process of galaxy formation. ... Optical astronomers seem to think that they can observe galaxy formation by taking optical images. ... In galaxies. ...

... The motion of a planet around the Sun or of a scientific satellite around Earth follows different equations (though a connection exists), but in many respect it resembles that of the stone. ... Kepler's law states: . ... Illustrating Kepler's 2nd law: . ... As an example, let the drawing on the right represent the orbit of an Earth satellite, and let AB and CD be the portions of the orbit covered in 3 hours near apogee and near perigee, respectively. ... Gravity can also provide energy. ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : The Moon only shows one face to us because it is not rotating. Better astronomy : The Moon only shows one face because it is rotating, once every time it revolves around the Earth. ... Place the Moon model on the table about 30 centimeters (one foot) away with the X facing the Earth model. ... You'll see that to keep the X facing the Earth model, you have to rotate the Moon model as it goes around the Earth model . ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

OFICCIAL PRESS RELEASE . about transport cargo vehicle Progress M-56 docking to the . International Space Station . ... During these operations MCC-M was attended by V.A. Grin, co-chairmen of the State Board, representatives of Roscosmos, NASA, ESA, S.P. Korolev RSC Energia, allied enterprises and organizations participating in the manufacturing, processing and launch of the Progress vehicles, as well as control of the ISS RS. ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

... It is possible to change the meaning of keywords (to `overload' them), but it can be confusing, primarily because your new commands may not behave the same way that this manual claims. ... If you said box in your macro, then overloaded the keyword, you'd have a macro that called itself. ... Another example is that (when overloaded) lines saves the line numbers used, so that you can write a macro to print the top 10 lines of a file (it's called head ). ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2015 August 11 . A Blue Moon Halo over Antarctica . ... Explanation: Have you ever seen a halo around the Moon? ... What is featured above might therefore be considered doubly rare -- a halo surrounding a blue moon . The featured image was taken late last month near Zhongshan Station in Antarctica. ... About APOD | ...

... Space flight . ... Simulators . ... Space camp . Space Hotel . ... Virtual reality-based stand for ISS crew training is used for cosmonauts pre-training preparation at different stages of training for the space flight. ... At present cosmonauts and astronauts can work both with the SM and FGB images independently and having them in mated state. ... Info: Industry news On-line Data Company ATLAS news Events We in press Contact . Copyright 2000-2016 ATLAS Aerospace . ...

... GOODS unites extremely deep observations from NASA's Great Observatories, Spitzer , Hubble , and Chandra , ESA's Herschel and XMM-Newton , and from the most powerful ground-based facilities, to survey the distant universe to the faintest flux limits across the electromagnetic spectrum. ... The space-based observations are complemented by ground-based imaging and spectroscopy, including extensive commitments of ESO and NOAO observing time. ... 2010-04-10: Deep VLA 1.4 GHz data for GOODS-North . ...

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... the average spectra was computed for each band. the rms/mean by channel was computed for each band. ... The rfi mask was used to compute the total power for each band. ... interim correlator 9 level sampling, 1 second spectra, 25 Mhz bw, 1024, centered at 1385. take data for 4200 seconds. rms/mean computed over the 4200 seconds and then a mask was created using a linear fit to rms/mean. total power was computed using the above mask. the spectrum of the total power was also computed. ...

And Aubrey was her name, a not so very ordinary girl or name. ... And Aubrey was her name. ... No it never came around. If it did it never made a sound, maybe I was absent or was listening to fast, catching all the words, but then the meaning going past, but god I miss the girl, and I'd go a thousand times around the world just to be closer the her than to me. ... But how I miss the girl and I'd go a million times around the world just to say she had been mine for a day, ...