... Precisely one month ago, on 11 July 2009, the last active area of the new solar cycle disappeared from the surface of the Sun. Over the 30 days following this, neither observers on Earth nor devices in space have been able to detect the emergence of any sunspots. ... Therefore, it seems that our star has once again returned to a state of deep solar "winter", following several sparks of activity in May-June 2009. ... To date, this period has lasted 30 days. ...

... 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. ...

... News Research . ... Expert in the characterisation of magnetic activity and the coronae of slowly rotating (solar-type) and planet-hosting stars. ... Characterising the spectra of M dwarfs in the optical and NIR and studying the effects of strong magnetic fields. ... Experienced in modelling the coronae of planet-hosting cool stars and currently mapping magnetic fields in young pre-main sequence stars using HARPS spectropolarimetric data. ... Space Girls Space Women - Gaitee . Science Fuse . ...

The Sun is our nearest star and the source of energy for life on Earth. ... For centuries astronomers wondered whether they were clouds floating in the Sun's atmosphere, but we now know that they really are huge regions of magnetic field, about as intense as the field at the poles of an iron magnet. ... Such abrupt events were named solar flares , and what made them especially interesting was that occasionally, after a prominent flare, a magnetic storm would erupt on Earth. ...

Next: C.S. Jeffery, Research Astronomer Up: Research Previous: J.E. Chambers, Research Astronomer Contents . During 1998 Dr Gerry Doyle was involved with three PPARC PDRA research grants, and was also a co-organiser of two international conferences (the COSPAR Symposium `Activity Observed in the Sun and in Similar Stars', and the Armagh Cool Star Workshop `Solar and Stellar Activity: Similarities and Differences'). He was Associate Scientist with the CDS and SUMER instruments on SOHO. ...

... Credit Copyright: Solar Optical Telescope, Hinode Satellite , JAXA Explanation: Plumes of hot gas shoot across the surface on even an average day on the Sun. ... Near the horizon, active regions around a sunspot eject hot plasma along the magnetic field lines that connect the sunspot to surrounding regions in the solar atmosphere . ... The above movie in representative color covers a solar region of 8,000 kilometers. ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ... Publications with keywords: Hinode - Sun - flare...

... 2014: . Suppression of cooling by strong magnetic fields in white dwarf stars . ... 69, 439, 2014. Evidence of supercritical accretion in SS433 . ... We discovered a flat portion (white noise) in the power spectrum of SS433 due to an abrupt increase of the disk thickness in the supercritical region. ... Both the hard X-ray radiation and the visual light are seen reflected from the walls of the funnel that forms in the wind of the supercritical disk of SS433. ... Archive . ...

Mariner 10 . ... Mariner 10 was the seventh successful launch in the Mariner spacecraft series, and the first to use the gravitational pull of one planet ( Venus ) to reach another ( Mercury ). ... It measured 1.39 meters (4.56 feet) diagonally and 0.457 meters (1.5 feet) in depth. ... Views of Mariner 10 . ... Venus/Mercury Mission . ... Launched in November 1973, this mission provided new information about Mercury and Venus in the Mariner program's first dual-planet mission. ...

Astronomical Society . ... Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another. ... ASP Staff . Annual Awards . ... Amateur Astronomy . ASP Annual Meeting . Astronomy Resource Guides . ... The complex, yet flawless landing of the rover Curiosity on Mars in August 2012 led to worldwide acclaim. ... Dr. Fenton gives an overview of the rover?s capabilities, accomplishments, and plans on Mars, and describes what it?s really like on the surface of the red planet. ...

... The Sun gives us light and heat, sustaining life on Earth. ... This uneven rotation, coupled with the churning of the upper layers, might well be what produces (by a "dynamo mechanism", described in a later section) regions of intense magnetic field, seen by observers on Earth as dark sunspots. ... Near sunspots those streamers seem to be shaped by the Sun's magnetic field lines, and above the Sun's poles they suggest field lines rising from twin magnetic poles like those of the Earth. ...

... Fig.1 shows an image between RA 4hrs and 8 hrs reduced using new data reduction algorithms implemented by Mark Calabretta. ... An Ordered Magnetic Field in the Large Magellanic Cloud Magnetic fields are hard to study in detail in the Galaxy because of projection effects and distance uncertainties. ... 2005; Science, 307, 1610) were able to detect a coherent magnetic field in the LMC using the radio continuum data