Discover the cosmos! ... February 28, 1996 . Explosions Discovered Near Galactic Center . ... Explanation: Tremendous explosions near the center of our Galaxy were discovered just this past December and are being announced today by a paper in Nature and a press conference at NASA . Bursts like these have never been seen before, and so the exact cause is unknown and will likely be the source of astronomical speculations and observations for years to come. ... About APOD | ...

12th of February 2016 . Aussie innovation helps hunt down gravitational waves . For the first time in history, astronomers have detected the presence of elusive gravitational waves - ripples in space time that provide direct evidence of violent cosmic events taking place in the Universe. ... 2016) . ... Related: Gravity Wave Animation (by John Rowe Animation/Australia Telescope National Facility, CSIRO) and Merging Black Holes in Galaxies - our first Southern Cross Astrophysics Conference. ...

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) . ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . Eclipse In The Shade . ... Near the shadow of the moon under a shady tree, dozens of images of a 1994 solar eclipse in progress are visible in this striking picture from the campus of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. ... Comet Hale-Bopp Over Val Parola Pass . ... Ida and Dactyl: Asteroid and Moon . ... NASA probe Deep Space 1 zoomed past asteroid 9969 Braille last week as it continued to test its new ion drive in the inner Solar System. ...

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... 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. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... Observing . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Mars camera celebrates a decade of discoveries . ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

. Next: Participants Up: Front Cover Previous: Preface . љ . Figure 1: Conference Participants . љ . Figure 2: Some of the participants enjoying the relaxed Mediterranean atmosphere . Norbert Pirzkal . 1998-07-09

... Maintenance and Work Completed on M1: September 10, 1999 . Whiffles Installed on M2: September 10, 1999 . M1 Support System Maintenance: September 10, 1999 . M1 Temperature Sensor Work and Repair: September 10, 1999 . M1 Hex-cell Deterioration: September 14, 1999 . ... M1 Whiffle Mount and M1 Back, September 21, 1999 . ... Views of Secondary Mirror (Back): April 13, 2000 . ... Front Portals: June 8, 2001 . ... M2 and M3 Baffle Work: June 8, 2005 . ... M3 Work: November 7, 2007 . ...

Official Arecibo picture site . Below are some pictures of the place where I work. ... Picture of the platform, taken by my dad. It doesn't look that big!", he says. Well, we'll see. My dad, in front of the primary. ... You can see how holey the surface really is. ... We see the line feed on the left and part of the Gregorian dome on the right. See from inside, the platform is quite complex. ... Looking down on the Gregorian dome! ... Below: Pictures of my new Office! ...

Mosiac of photos of Mercury taken from Mariner 10 in 1974 110k gif ; 2000k gif ; 187k jpg . ... recently reprocessed mosaic 132k gif ( caption ) . Mariner 10 mosaic 488k gif . another Mariner 10 mosaic 690k gif . another mosaic 24k jpg . ... Caloris Basin 319k gif ; 238k jpg ; 292k gif ; 3000k gif ; 108k jpg . ... Southwest Mercury 31k jpg ; 1000k gif ; 488k gif . Hills of Mercury 127k jpg ; 185k gif ; 614k gif . ... Degas, a rayed crater (Mariner 10) 439k gif ( caption ) . ...

Weaving together Astronomy+Statistics+Computer Science+Engineering+Intrumentation, far beyond the growing borders . ... Archive for February 2011 . ... http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/brdi/PGA_060422 . ... Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy V (including summer school & tutorials) . ... Tags: Announcement , astroinformatics , AstroStat , conference . ... Entries RSS . ... Book] The Elements of Statistical Learning, 2nd Ed. mini-Workshop on Computational AstroStatistics [announcement] . ...

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... ImgCutout is a Web application that enables professional astronomers and the general public to interactively visualize and explore large, complex astronomical data sets. The application consists of a Web interface that calls a Web service, which accesses SkyServer, a 1 TB SQL Server database containing catalog data for 100 million objects, spectra and images from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. ... The database provides images and object data to an image cutout service in response to SQL queries. ...

... Camera (cold) going up to observing level for insertion into Telescope using the handling tool (blue). July 2007 . image: VISTA_IR_Camera_to_Telescope_2.JPG . ... Camera being moved from its stand in the lower floor of the Enclosure below the Azimuth floor, using the handling tool (blue). image: remove camera from stand.jpg . ... Camera inside the upper part of the enclosure after being lifted up to the Azimuth floor on its handling tool (blue). image: camera reaches az floor.jpg . ...

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... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... I have a fun video on how to stand an egg on end on my blog at Discover Magazine . ... At the end of the show, one of the characters looks up the words "egg" and "equinox" on the web... and says it sent him to "thingsthatarewrong.com". ... Bad Astronomy : Only on the day of the Vernal (spring) Equinox, can you stand a raw egg on its end. Good astronomy : If you can stand a raw egg on end, it has nothing to do with the Equinox. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

Turning the Camera Skyward . A reconfigured camera can take wide-field exposures of astronomical objects (constellations, the Milky Way, zodiacal light, moving artificial satellites, meteor showers, variable stars, etc.) to reveal much fainter objects and structures than seen by naked eye. ... This picture reveals objects more than 2.5 times fainter than can be seen by the naked eye, including not only stars but also the Orion nebula (M42), where new stars are being born. ...

Making HST Pictures: Examples and Illustrations . ... These illustrations represent some of the steps and techniques used to produce “pretty pictures” from HST images. ... TIFFs (ftp) . ... Separate images are exposed through different color filters. ... An alternate way to make color images . ... Eight bit (one byte) images contain 256 different values that may be represented by 256 shades of gray or 256 arbitrary colors from a color map (or palette) of all possible colors. ...