Most of these images were obtained by Mike Bessell, Michelle Buxton, Hwankyung Sung, Ralph Sutherland and Bob Watson at SSO using a 2Kx2K Site CCD behind a Nikon or Hasselblad lens or directly on the 1m telescope. A few images are from the Hubble Space Telescope. Some of the M42 images were obtained with the KPNO 1m and ESO NTT telescope. One image is a mosaic of IRAS images. ... Details of the CCD imaging program at MSSSO. ... antenna.jpg (53KB) . ... ngc6744.jpg (59KB) . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Star Atlas . ... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... The planet has extreme temperature swings and perhaps active lava flows. ... A digital supplement to Astronomy magazine. ... Join TravelQuest International with Astronomy and Discover magazines on one of three great tour options surrounding this celestial spectacle . ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . Mars: A Journey's End . ... Mars Pathfinder is nearing the end of its 7 month journey. The robot spacecraft is scheduled to use parachutes, rockets, and airbags to "bouncedown" on the red planet tomorrow - July 4th. ... Gamma-Ray Burst: A Milestone Explosion . ... Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) were discovered by accident. ... Asteroid 253 Mathilde's Large Craters . ... You're zipping through the Solar System when you pass ... asteroid 253 Mathilde. ... Antares . ...

... Each day we feature a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. August 18, 1995 . Pluto: The Frozen Planet . ... Tomorrow's picture: Our Solar System from Voyager . Chronological Archive | Subject Sorted Archive | ... Astronomy Picture of the Day (TM) is created and copyrighted in 1995 by Robert Nemiroff and Jerry Bonnell who are solely responsible for its content. ...

... The HDF Project. ... How to obtain the data catalogs. Observing logs and ancillary information. Technical information on the data reduction pipeline. Technical information on image registration and combination. Technical information on source detection and photometry. HDF Clearinghouse -- followup observations and analysis. ... Hubble Deep Field Academy -- Educational Resource for Middle School students . Hubble Deep Field South The Space Telescope Science Institute home page . ...

... What's New? Bad Astronomy . ... On CNN's Headline News, they had a report talking about the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). ... This is the first image-based surface map of the solar system's most remote planet, Pluto. This map was assembled by computer image processing from four separate images of Pluto's disk taken with the European Space Agency's (ESA) Faint Object Camera (FOC) aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ... THE BIRDCAGE: ARCHIVE OF OTHER BAD NEWS ITEMS . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Moon . Planets . ... Space Flight . ... A gorgeous image of the real ?Lord of the Rings? ... Saturn is a big planet, about nine times as wide as the Earth, so the rings are huge. Let me put them into scale, if Saturn and the rings were moved so that one edge of the rings touched the Earth, then the distance across the rings to the opposite edge would extend more than halfway to the Moon. ... Saturn has a lot of moons. ...

... 2010 . ... The following images are mosaics obtained on 03 August 2010 at the National Solar Observatory/Dunn Solar Telescope with the Interferometric Bidimensional Spectrometer (IBIS). ... The final images are approximately 238 x 242 arcseconds, or 4 x 4 arcminutes, with a pixel scale of 0.0976 arcseconds per pixel. ... The images show a broad range of typical chromospheric structures, including sunspots, superpenumbra, plage, filaments, and quiet internetwork. ...

... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... ESO's Governing Bodies . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Travel to E-ELT Armazones . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Star Clusters . ... Stars@ESO . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... ESO 3.6-metre telescope . ... MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope . ... ESO 1-metre Schmidt telescope . ... Wide view centred on the CatтАЩs Paw Nebula (NGC 6334). ... Cat's Paw Nebula , Digitized Sky Survey 2 (DSS 2) , NGC 6334 . ...

8th of February 2016 . The Year of the Monkey . ... The 8th of February 2016 is the first day of the Chinese New Year, the year of the monkey. Overlaid onto the Hubble color-composite image for the Monkey Head Nebula is a pattern of Chinese paper cutting for a monkey. ... The Monkey Head Nebula (NGC 2174) is an HII emission nebula located in Orion and is associated with the open star cluster NGC 2175 about 6,400 light-years away from Earth. Picture credit: ESA/Hubble NASA) . ...

The AstroGuide . ... Home | ... AstroGuide Listing . ... See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . Hubble.site, the official online home of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, has spectacular pictures, news about Hubble discoveries, telescope facts, astronomy education resources, and games. ... 410) 338-4444 . ... Web Site . ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

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... SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Graduate Student Researcher, Lick Observatory, UC Santa Cruz . Randi writes: "When I was in third grade, I didn't know what I wanted to be. ... I decided to become an astronomer because that way I could use electronic instruments and computers to study the natural world." ... Vy writes: "I wanted to be a veternarian as a kid. ... Only later, in high school, did I start thinking that I wanted to be an astronomer." ... search . ...

Neptune . ... Triton . Neptune 291k gif . Full Disk Neptune 93k gif ; 29k jpg . ... New Dark spot 25k jpg ; 113k gif ; caption ; press release . ... Another thin Crescent of Neptune 166k gif . ... low resolution shot of Neptune, possibly showing great black spot 210k gif . ... Parting view of Neptune and moon Triton 59k gif ; 17k gif ; 23k jpg . ... Small Dark Spot 190k gif ; 133k jpg . Small Dark Spot 55k gif ; 23k jpg . ... The Great Dark Spot 423k gif ; 153k gif ; 97k jpg . ...

... STScI-PRC95-45a CRUCIBLE OF CREATION: PANORAMIC HUBBLE MOSAIC ZOOMS IN ON MAELSTROM OF STAR BIRTH This spectacular color panorama of the center the Orion nebula is one of the largest pictures ever assembled from individual images taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. ... Though this 2.5 light-years wide view is still a small portion of the entire nebula, it includes almost all of the light from the bright glowing clouds of gas and a star cluster associated with the nebula. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Aurora . ... Corona . Fireballs . ... Zodiacal Light . ... The first thing to do is get acquainted with what the night sky looks like. ... The National Schools Observatory web site has very good horizon views of the sky for the current night. ... If the object is moving slowly across the sky then it may be one of the larger satellites. ... Cloudbait Observatory - October 2002 . ... October 2003 Aurora at Armagh . ...

To initiate orbital motion click on any of the icons in tool bar with red sign + or – , permitting also to speed or to slow planet motion by repeated clicking on them. ... Selecting Orbits item in menu bar and by subsequent choosing corresponding items in drop-down menu one can also fulfil the above actions. ... To enter new initial epoch or to change list of minor or major planets which are shown in the picture, select Orbits in menu bar and then select Input data in drop-down menu. ...

... The Impact of HST on European Astronomy . ... These range from the study of nearby planets, the processes of star and planet formation, the stellar and interstellar components of galaxies, the discovery that most, if not all, galactic nuclei harbor a massive black hole that profoundly affects their evolution, to the realisation that the universe as a whole is undergoing acceleration as a result of a yet unknown form of dark energy . ... Formation, structure and evolution of galaxies . ...

... Our friends from Chile send us wonderful description of planet they found on their way to blue planet. ... Shambala, planet of highly developed creatures. ... Picture 1) We investigated and found wonderful caverns with pictures that showed high development in all disciplines: Music, Art, Poetry, Singing, Astronomy, Mathematics, Language, Geometry, Grammar; Science and Technology. ... Picture 4 Dark creatures who destroyed their own lives and the planet development attracting disaster. ... Chile. ...