... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... More questions readers want answered . ... Stephen Cullen In т??40 cosmic questions and answers,т?? which appeared in Astronomy т??s August 2011 issue, I answered 40 common questions we receive at the magazine. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

New Images Hint at Wet and Wild History For Europa . Chunky ice rafts and relatively smooth, crater-free patches on the surface of Jupiter's frozen moon Europa suggest a younger, thinner icy surface than previously believed, according to new images from Galileo's spacecraft released today. ... These features, which lend credence to the idea of hidden, subsurface oceans, also are stirring up controversy among scientists who disagree about the age of Europa's surface. ... Europa . ...

... Pre-university education . ... On March 16 a meeting with Raymond Murphy - the author of the world famous series of English grammar textbooks: English Grammar in Use and Essential Grammar in Use took place in Samara State Aerospace University within the framework of the conference Peculiarities of grammatical skills formation in various stages of English language teaching (Innovative Approaches to ELT). ... The textbook of Raymond Murphy is a practical guide to learning English as a foreign language...

... Epimetheus: A Small Moon of Saturn . ... Epimetheus sometimes orbits Saturn in front of Janus, another small satellite, but sometimes behind. NGC 281: The Pacman Nebula . ... NGC 281 is a busy workshop of star formation. ... Desolate Mars: Rub al Khali . ... A Lenticular Cloud Over Hawaii . ... Like grains of sand on a cosmic beach, individual stars of large spiral galaxy NGC 300 are resolved in this sharp image from the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS). ...

... Are HVCs a common feature of star forming galaxies? ... Consider the typical properties of the smallest HVCs (compact HVCs) found in HIPASS: . Distance . HI Mass . ... At 5 kpc . meager objects ~116 solar masses . ... 1.15 x 10 4 solar masses . ... Putman et al. (2003) found none to 10 7 solar masses. 2% of Sculptor to 3 x 10 6 solar masses by de Blok et al. (2001) found none. ... High velocity gas around other galaxies can be identified from maps and dynamics: . ... 2003) . ...

... 2006 August 28 . Eight Planets and New Solar System Designations . ... Explanation: How many planets are in the Solar System? This popular question now has a new formal answer according the International Astronomical Union (IAU): eight. Last week, the IAU voted on a new definition for planet and Pluto did not make the cut. ... The eight planets now recognized by the IAU are: Mercury , Venus , Earth , Mars , Jupiter , Saturn , Uranus , and Neptune . ... About APOD | ...

... Why Do People Strive To Develop Science? ... Sometimes it is hard to imagine why anybody could find satisfaction from science. There are so many unanswered questions, and, for every one question that is answered, an uncountable number of new questions arise. ... If our only purpose were to find ways to stop boredom, we would be...well...bored! ... Where frontiersmen moved west in a developing America to open up new country and find a place with fewer people, we are exploring science to find more. ...

... UA SCIENTIST & TEAM DISCOVER SURFACE FEATURES COVER TITAN (Science contacts: Peter H. Smith, (602) 621-2725; Mark Lemmon, (602) 621-1485; UA Lunar and Planetary Laboratory) . Scientists for the first time have made images of the surface of Saturn 's giant, haze-shrouded moon, Titan. ... About three weeks before Cassini's first flyby of Titan, the spacecraft is to release the European Space Agency's Huygens Probe to parachute to Titan's surface. ... Upper left: hemisphere facing Saturn. ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Data Handling and Products > Data Reduction FAQ > I see unexpected boxy emission-like features in my REDL spectra - where do they come from? ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... ESO-MIDAS . ... ESO Data . ... The pipeline by default interpolates across the bad columns in the REDL CCD when it creates the master bias, but does not so when it processes the science data. This inconsistency can create boxy emission-like features as seen in the figure below. ...

... His suggestions were: VIEWS DB COMMUNICATIONS WIZARDS CONSTRAINTS ON THE OBSERVATION (what is needed) TOOLS PERFORMANCE LOOK AND FEEL So I will use this outline to organize the items that we chose to definitely address. ... VIEWS Multiple views (ASCII, Table, Graphical) available for viewing as well as modifying (5.4+5.13) VTT with access to datasets in archives (5.5+5.7) ETC (1.3) Ability to made and edit exposure groups 2. ...

Canadian Paper Money] . This page will attempt to answer questions pertaining to Canadian Paper Money.љ ... 4) What does the "*" beside the serial number represent? ... Following the creation Canada's central bank, the Bank of Canada introduced its first paper money issue.љ ... Starting with the 1954 Bank of Canada issue, defective notes produced during the printing process were replaced by these 'replacement notes' which carried the asterisk before the serial number.љ ...

... Most of our support services are available via the World Wide Web Homepage http://http.hq.eso.org/midas-info/midas.html . The MIDAS Users Support provides help for users that have problems or questions during installation or usage of the MIDAS system. ... The most convinient and best way to contact us is using the ESO-MIDAS Problem Report Form that enable us to deal the reporting quickly using a set of processing tools. ... uucp: midas@eso.uucp . internet: midas@eso.org . ... MIDAS HOT-LINE) . ...

. NEdit is a popular GUI-style text editor for Unix and VMS systems. These are answers to the most frequently asked questions to discuss@nedit.org. This information is also available from: . ftp://ftp.nedit.org/pub/ <current>/FAQ, . and from the NEdit web page at: . http://nedit.org . Where to get information . Diagnosing and reporting problems . Building . Customization . Features . Server mode and nc . Editing techniques . Bugs . About the NEdit FAQ

... 2014 Irkutsk-Listvyanka, Russia G r o u p language English Theoretical round General note. ... Footstep of babr. Babr is a local representative of the biological family of cats (felidae) depicted on the coat of arms of Irkutsk, and the emblem of the X APAO (with a telescope in his mouth). ... Orion's Belt. The Babr decided to join company of astronomy animals-observers and came to Listvyanka to the X APAO to take photos of stars of Orion's Belt near the horizon. ... ISS in Zenith. ...

... The Scientist's Expert Assistant (SEA) is a prototype effort for the Next Generation Space Telescope that uses a combination of artificial intelligence and user interface techniques to explore ways to substantially reduce the time and effort involved in proposal preparation for both scientists and the telescope operations staff. ... At the time, SEA supported only a single observation, had the basics of a graphical exposure calculator and a visual target tuner, and had a very limited expert system. ...

... Archives . ... I?ve copied below the text of an ISBA announcement for the first workshop in a new series addressing Bayesian methods for machine learning. It builds on the model of the earlier well-known ?Bayesian case studies? workshops, where just a few applications are featured at each workshop, with the format tailored to produce a lot of back-and-forth between application scientists and statisticians. ... Workshop on Case Studies in Bayesian Statistics and Machine Learning . ...

... Visible Distribution of Galaxies. ... Features of Elliptical, Lens-Shaped, Spiral and Irregular Galaxies. Galaxies with Bar. ... Distribution of Surface Brightness of Surface and Spiral Galaxies. ... Color Characteristics of Galaxies. ... Methods of Galaxies' Mass Determination. ... Hidden Mass of Spiral Galaxies. ... Features of Dark Matter Distribution in E and SO Galaxies. ... The Whole Number of Galaxies and Their Density by the Results of Observation on the 'Hubble' Space Telescope. ...

Astronomy Discussion Forums . ... NASA Featured In New Nat Geo Documentary . ... Post Message | ... Hunt for Aliens features Peter Smith, Richard Greenberg, University of Arizona; Geoff Marcy, University of California Berkeley; Debra Fisher, Yale, Seth Shostak, SETI; Simon Conway Morris, Cambridge University; and GeoffreyLandis, NASA. ... www.astronomy.net . ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... An article about Tycho and several pictures of him . ... Probably pretty bad: daily showers were still a few centuries off.. ... A tidbit: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, the Danish courtiers in Shakespeare's "Hamlet" (and in Tom Stoppard's play " Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead") probably got their names from two relatives of Tycho who visited England in 1592 on a diplomatic mission, Frederick Rosenkrantz, 3rd cousin of Tycho, and Knut Gyldenstierne, also a cousin. ...

From: TerryMosel aol.com Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 17:28:24 EST Subject: Lidl Binocs, IAA lecture, Dunsink, Geminids Hi all, Some people have been asking me about the binoculars featured in the next Lidl Special Offer, available from Monday 13 December. ... But my most serious reservation is the small field of view, which is 78m at 1000m, or just about 4.5 degrees, at 8x. Most 8x binocs would have a FOV of about 8 degrees; my 10x50's have a 7 degree field. ... Last Revised: 2004 December 9th . ...