... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Weekend Visits to the ALMA OSF . ... 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 . ... This view shows a new picture of the dust ring around the bright star Fomalhaut from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). ... Note that ALMA has so far only observed a part of the ring. ...

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• ALMA observes a ring around the bright star Fomalhaut | ESO Ireland
• ALMA observes a ring around the bright star Fomalhaut | ESO Australia
• ALMA observes a ring around the bright star Fomalhaut | ESO United States

... Press Release Images . Individual Images . ... The right-hand image shows Hubble's close-up view of the galaxy's core, taken in December 1995 by the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. The bluish-purple clumps that form the ring are the clusters of infant stars. Two dark, wispy lanes of dust and a pair of blue spiral arms are just outside the star-forming ring. ... The gas is trapped inside the ring through the stars' gravitational attraction. ... Amazing Space | ...

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This view shows a new picture of the dust ring around the bright star Fomalhaut from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). The underlying blue picture shows an earlier picture obtained by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The new ALMA image has given astronomers a major breakthrough in understanding a nearby planetary system and provided valuable clues about how such systems form and evolve. ... ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO); visible light image: NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope ...

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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Solar System . ... Moon . ... Comets and Asteroids . ... What changed our view of Chariklo is the discovery of a ring system around it, the first such feature found around a Solar System body smaller than a gas giant planet. ... Almost certainly the rings were born when a collision with a smaller asteroid blasted millions of tonnes of debris off CharikloтАЩs surface. ... A ring system detected around the Centaur (10199) Chariklo (Braga-Rigas et al.) ...

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... 19.12.2005 . ... Credit: Cassini Imaging Team , SSI , JPL , ESA , NASA Explanation: How thin are the rings of Saturn? ... The above artistic looking image was taken early last month in infrared polarized light. ... Reflection of light off of moons like Enceladus (pictured) and the billions of small particles in Saturn's rings , however, gives the giant space orb an unusual glow, an effect highlighted in polarized light. ... 2007 . ... Publications with keywords: Saturn - saturn rings . ... Ring Scan...

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• Running Red Rings Around Jupiter
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... February 5, 1997 . Running Red Rings Around Jupiter . ... Explanation : Jupiter has rings, too. Unlike Saturn's bright rings which are composed of chunks of ice, Jupiter's rings are darker and appear to consist of fine particles of rock. ... Quite visible are Jupiter's rings , bands and spots in the outer atmosphere . ... The origin of Jupiter's rings remains unknown , although hypothesized to be created by material scattered from meteorite impacts onto Jupiter's moons . ... About APOD > . ...

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• APOD: 2005 December 19 - Thin Rings Around Polarized Saturn
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• APOD: January 4, 1999 - Ring Around the Cluster

... Running Rings Around a Planet . ... Saturn's delicate rings have caught human eyes for over three centuries. ... Now we know, thanks to the Voyager space probes, that Saturn's rings consist of thousands of "ringlets," each made of chunks of ice ranging in size from dust to boulders [see "Rally Around the Ring," March/April 1995, p. 10]. ... The appearance of Saturn's rings to us ground-hugging Terrans is changing constantly. ... Saturn's diameter is 120,000 kilometers, so how large are the rings? ...

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• ASP: Lord of the Rings
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... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . News | ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Mopra radio telescope . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ... Now, new Australia Telescope observations of the polar ring galaxy NGC 4650a suggest that the dark matter in this galaxy lies in a flattened distribution aligned with the polar ring. ...

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• A new HI ring: LGG 138
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... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Have you ever looked at pictures of Saturn's rings and noticed what look like gaps in the rings? ... Gian Domenico Cassini discovered a large gap in Saturn's rings in 1675. Later, an astronomer named Encke discovered a smaller gap near the edge of the rings. ... It was found long ago that an orbit in the Cassini Division, as the large gap is named, has a period almost exactly one-half that of one of Saturn's moons named Mimas. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

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The "ring of fire" seen by satellite cameras around the polar caps (picture below) is probably created by electrons leaking from the tail's plasma sheet, whose magnetic field lines form a somewhat imperfect trap. ... One possible explanation involves the close association between auroral arcs and electric currents which flow along field lines between the ionosphere and distant space ( Birkeland currents ). ... That produces an extra resistance to the flow of current. ...

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... In the nuclear area of the galaxy within the ring, the nucleus appears elongated, and a fainter 3rd star-like component is discernable. ... The 'yellowy' halo about the off-centre nucleus of the ring galaxy is likely composed of redder stars, while the color-neutral nucleus doesn't appear distinctly different in color than either of the ring 'impactor' candidates at bottom center and top right of the picture. ... If so then why are the bright regions within the ring apparently color neutral? ...

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... According to the most popular cosmological paradigm, the greater part of the galaxy mass is accumulated in the dark matter halo. ... The polar ring galaxies (PRGs) reveal external rings or disks of gas, dust and stars rotating in a plane roughly perpendicular to the disk of the central galaxy. ... The shape of the dark halo in the model was chosen so as to achieve the best fit to the observed rotation of both galaxies themselves and their polar rings. ... The SPRC-7 galaxy. ...

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• Detection of unique bright radio flare of X-ray binary

... Bojan Nikolic web pages home . ... Previous: Visiting ALMA Santiago office and the ALMA.. This is the second memo in the series. ... By observing bright and compact astronomical sources while also taking data with the 183 GHz Water Vapour Radiometers, ALMA will be able to measure the `empirical' relationship between fluctuations in the phase of the astronomical signal and the fluctuations of sky brightness around 183 GHz. ... Copyright 2012, Bojan Nikolic feedback welcome ...

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• Inference of Coefficients for Use in Phase Correction Bojan Nikolic web pages

... 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 . ...

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OBSERVATIONS OF COORBITAL SATELLITES OF SATURN Emel'yanov N., Varfolomeev M. Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow, e-mail : emelia@sai.msu.ru Institut de MИcanique CИleste et de Calcul des иphИmИrides, Paris, e-mail : emelia@imcce.fr Abstract. To improve the orbital parameters and masses of coorbital satellites of Saturn, Janus and Epimetheus, new observations of these satellites are necessary. ... IN: Saturn. ... New observations of Saturn's coorbital satellites" - Icarus. ...

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• Natural Satellites Service. Saturn coorbital satellites ephemerides

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. ...

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... Высокого качества (19.5 MB) . Низкого качества (2.9 MB) MPEG . ... Низкого качества (2.9 MB) This movie shows dynamic rings, wisps and jets of matter and antimatter around the pulsar in the Crab Nebula as observed in X-ray light by Chandra (left, blue) and optical light by Hubble (right, red). ... To produce a movie of reasonable length the sequence was looped several times, as in looped weather satellite images. ... Авторские права: X-ray: NASA/CXC/ASU/J.Hester et al.; ...

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Next: Characteristics of the Up: The Epsilon Aurigae Previous: The Epsilon Aurigae . ... Epsilon Aurig? is an F0 Ia star with an enigmatic companion which partially eclipses the visible star for 2 years every 27.1 years. ... The eclipse light curve has a long, flat minimum (Figure ), implying that the secondary is not appreciably convex. ... We develop hydrostatic models for the Aurig? secondary in Section D.3 and present synthetic eclipse light curves calculated using these models in Section D.4. ...

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... Aurora from Space . ... Magnetic Storms . ... The "ring of fire" seen by satellite cameras around the polar caps (picture below) is probably created by electrons leaking from the tail's plasma sheet, whose magnetic field lines form a somewhat imperfect trap. ... One possible explanation involves the close association between auroral arcs and electric currents which flow along field lines between the ionosphere and distant space ( Birkeland currents ). ... Why no aurora at the magnetic poles? ...

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• Close-up of the Aurora
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The annual Quandrantid meteor shower makes its return in 2007 from 1st - 6th January. ... Viewing conditions, however, for the shower this time around are somewhat unfavourable as the peak of activity occurs near full Moon thus making it difficult to observe the fainter meteors. ... Peter Jenniskens of the NASA Ames Research Center in California, USA has pointed out that the source for the Quadrantids might be a recently discovered asteroid, or inert comet, 2003 EH1. ...

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