... Most people that are interested in supernovae use whatever telescopes they can get access to, but researchers at certain colleges and universities are able to access specialized telescopes like NASA?s Chandra X-ray Observatory . It?s a telescope that orbits the Earth and that has a specialized purpose of being able to observe X-ray emissions from supernovae, clustered galaxies and the materials around black holes. ... super@supernovae.net . ... Copyright x000A9; 2016 Supernovae.net ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bad Astronomy: The North Star, Polaris, is a very bright star. Good Astronomy: Polaris is a middling-bright star, easily missed. ... He said it was close to Polaris, the North Star, but he also said it was in the East. ... It's natural, I suppose, to think that such an important star should be bright, but really, that's a conceit, like thinking that the Earth is at the center of the Universe. If more people knew just why Polaris is the North Star, this Bad Idea would stop. ...

... Donate to Support Science Literacy . ... 2016 Annual Awards . The ASP is accepting nominations for the organizationòÀÙs national annual awards which recognize special achievements in astronomy research, technology, education, and public outreach. ... Shop the AstroShop . ... The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) is accepting nominations for the organizationòÀÙs national annual awards which recognize special achievements in astronomy research, technology, education, and public outreach.. ...

... B elfast City Council, 9 June 2008 : BelfastÁ€™s new Lord Mayor, Councillor Naomi Long, will be inviting the people of the city to literally Á€˜Look UpÁ€™ at the stars later this month. The Belfast City Carnival will help celebrate the International Year of Astronomy, when one of the highlights of the cityÁ€™s cultural calendar takes to the streets on Saturday 27 June. ... Direct link to the press release from Belfast City Council . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... Most people will tell you the Sun is yellow, but if you could fly out into space and look at our star without going blind, you d actually see that it looks white. ... Our Sun appears yellow to us because of the Earth s atmosphere (the gases that surround our planet). ... This picture is an artist s illustration of one of the most rare and awesome stars in the Universe a yellow hyper-giant . ... Cool fact: This yellow hyper-giant is the 12th largest star to be found in the entire Universe! ...

As the Universe expands, gravity pulls on the Universe, and slows the expansion down over time. As we look to great distances, we are looking back in time. If we can measure how fast the Universe is expanding in the past, and compare it to how fast it is expanding now, we can see the total gravitational effect of all matter in the Universe. Here we plot the distance between two galaxies as a function of time. ... Universes with lots of material . ...

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. ...

... One of the brightest, M78, is centered in this colorful, wide field view, covering an area north of Orion's belt. ... If you could go far away from the Earth and look around the entire sky -- what would you see? ... For reasons unknown, star V838 Mon's outer surface suddenly greatly expanded with the result that it became the brightest star in the entire Milky Way Galaxy in January 2002. ... Shiny NGC 253 Galaxy, is one of the brightest spiral galaxies visible, and also one of the dustiest. ...

... Sky Telescope editor Robert Naeye presents a whirlwind and colorfully illustrated trip through this amazing scientific story. ... Bob is editor in chief of Sky Telescope magazine and SkyandTelescope.com , and a proud member of the American Astronomical Society, the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, and the Astronomical Society of Harrisburg, which is based near his hometown of Hershey, Pennsylvania. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc....

Various types of stars have dust around them. In the well known case of the Pleiades the dust around the stars is unrelated to the stars, and is instead dust from an interstellar cloud that the Pleiades cluster has drifted into on its way through the galactic disk. ... The dust in interstellar space is observed in a variety of ways: due to its passive absorption of starlight ("extinction"), by its production of polarization in starlight, and then at long wavelengths due to its thermal radiation. ...

... The expansion is measured as a number called the Hubble Constant . ... Our value is about 20% lower than the one got with the Hubble Space Telescope in 1994," said Dr Jim Lovell, leader of the team that made the measurement. The Hubble Constant is named after American astronomer Edwin Hubble, who in the 1920s found that other galaxies were moving away from ours. ... The Hubble Constant links the galaxy's distance with its speed." ... A short run-down on the Hubble Constant: . ...

... The retweet numbers are close to the values that Twitter has for the tweets, which means that I can't have messed up too much (I wouldn't expect perfect agreement since Twitter does not guarantee that any search will return all matching tweets; also, the Twitter values are updated whereas mine are fixed until the next set of tweets gets analyzed). The most re-tweeted accounts. ... Below I show the distribution of the number of times an account tweeted (this excludes retweets made by the account). ...

In this gallery are many images of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies which have recently been discovered and analyzed. ... The central surface brightness of this galaxy is 24.28 . Malin 2 This galaxy is another huge disk galaxy with a scale length of 15 kpc and a redshift of 15000 km/a. The high surface brightness knot in one of its spiral arms actually has the same color, luminosity and H-alpha equivalent width as the entire Large Magellanic Cloud . ... Truly it is a Low Surface Brightness Galaxy. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . Colin Johnston . ... Our Galaxy . ... Other Galaxies . ... I took some quick images of the Moon just by putting an Ipod Touch to the eyepiece of the telescope. ... Image credit: Colin Johnston/Armagh Planetarium) . ... Image credit: Colin Johnston & Julie Thompson/Armagh Planetarium) . ... I am looking forward to sharing the sky with our visitors when our monthly Open Nights return in October (date to be confirmed). ...

... The ancient chronical said about the colour rings around the Sun and the Moon, about three suns in the sky, light columns, bright lightning, different "comets" rushing to the Earth, moving among the stars or round the Earth with the sky. All these occurrences may be divided into three categories: one that occur in the near or far space, processes going on in the Earth atmosphere under the influence of cosmic factors and at last the occurrences connected with the Earth atmosphere. ... Rainbow . ...

Supernova 2000au in MCG +8-15-14 This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2000au in MCG +8-15-14 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 Supernova links web page. ... Tim takes several thousand images with his telescope, then divides them up among several people to look at and scan for supernovae. ... Tim Puckett image . ...

Astronomy Discussion Forums . Forums: . ... Observation Report From Coyle 07/19/03 . ... Post Message | ... Observation report from Coyle 07/19/03 . ... The background became jet black with the bright ring just floating there in the middle. ... It looked more like a ball. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | Advertise on Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... Search . ... Astrophysics Group . Research . ... Research and Instrumentation . ... While this seems an extraordinary endeavour, in light of what we have learnt about Solar System planets, only a handful of key ingredients are required to start characterising an exoplanet. ... The NGTS project is a partnership between the University of Cambridge, Queen?s University Belfast, University of Warwick, University of Leicester, Observatoire de Geneve, DLR (Berlin) and Universidad Catolica de Chile. ...

... Our Sun is part of a huge wheel-shaped collection of stars. ... Astronomers have long suspected it was a very massive black hole, and that every galaxy had such a central mass, created early in the history of the universe. ... However, unless that object happens to be headed directly at the black hole (a relatively small target) it will just swing around and fly away again, like a comet making a pass at the Sun. The velocity acquired in falling towards the black hole also helps it escape. ...

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