... Oral traditions have since time immemorial satisfied generations of children and adults with stories of wonder, fantasy, truth, and mystery. ... The story of astronomy and astronomy's evolution as a science includes countless tales originally crafted to explain the visible celestial bodies, their motions (regular and irregular), the mysteries behind their existence, and the powers they exert over us on Earth. ... Impediments to Elementary Astronomy Programs . ... Storytelling Activities - Moon Story...

... One of the brightest galaxies in planet Earth's sky and similar in size to the Milky Way, big, beautiful spiral M81 lies 11.8 million light-years away in the northern constellation Ursa Major. ... Intrepid Crater on Mars . ... The robotic rover Opportunity has chanced across another small crater on Mars. ... Too Close to a Black Hole . ... Sunset at the Spiral Jetty . ... The small, northern constellation Triangulum harbors this magnificent face-on spiral galaxy, M33. ... Hartley 2 Star Cluster Tour...

Oberon . Uranus IV . Oberon [O-buh-ron] is a moon of Uranus that is characterized by an old, heavily cratered, and icy surface. The surface shows little evidence of internal activity other than some unknown dark material that apparently covers the floors of many craters. The above image shows several large impact craters towards the center of the image. ... This image of Oberon shows several large impact craters towards the center of the picture. ... Polar Stereographic Map of Oberon . ...

... The author of the cover picture is Vasilisa Verkhodanova. The picture symbolizes our perception of the world. The modified emblem of the SAO unifying the 6-m optical telescope and the raditelescope RATAN-600 of SAO RAS is placed in the center of the radio galaxy isophotes. From the one hand, we can investigate the properties of radio galaxies with these (and other) telescopes, and try to study physical processes providing their activity. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Bad Astro Store . ... Site Info . ... It is from from Voyager 1 and shows a whopping big impact crater dominating the profile of the moon. Note that Mimas is about 400 kilometers across (about 250 miles). ... The wall around the crater is 5 kilometers high, and that central peak rises 6 kilometers above the surface (many impact craters have a large central peak which is caused by a pressure rebound from the impact). ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Earth Satellites . ... A recent image of Lindsay Crater assembled from Lunar Recconnaissance Orbiter imagery.On Earth any of those tiny craters in the main crater's floor would be major tourist attractions.( ... Time passed, intelligent life arose on Earth and gave the crater a name, Dollond-C.Then €аin 1972 Apollo 16 landed about 100km to the craterтАЩs southeast€а but that is as close as life as ever come to it. ... Name * . ...

... A view to Karasuma dori; center of the city is in opposite direction. ... After my presentation, on the KICH verandah. ... In the Japanese-style restaurant near KICH (Todoroki). ... Standing in the garden of Nijo castle. c18. ... Look at their faces covered with thick layer of lime. c23. Pagoda of Toji temple. ... Small shrine, dedicated to one of half-legendary persons in Kyoto history and boars who saved him from enemies. d03. ... In the forest, on the hill near the temple. e02. ...

Hipparchus (and possibly Aristarchus before him) also derived the Moon's distance from the duration of a lunar eclipse . Because the Earth casts a much larger shadow than the Moon, such an eclipse usually darkens the entire Moon, for several hours. ... If the Sun is assumed to be very distant, and if the Moon crosses the middle of the shadow (if not, corrections must be made), the width of the shadow is expected to be about 2r , twice the Earth's radius r . ... Last updated 4 February 1999 Moon. ...

. Small spherical objects fill the field in this mosaic combining four images from the Microscopic Imager on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. The view covers an area about 2.4 inches (6 centimeters) across, at an outcrop called "Kirkwood" in the Cape York segment of the western rim of Endeavour Crater. The individual spherules are up to about 0.125 inch (3 millimeters) in diameter. // Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell Univ./ USGS/Modesto Junior College

... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . Time Assignment Committee . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . ... Cosmic engine for senior students . ... Since then, powerful AGN have been identified across the electromagnetic spectrum and in galaxies from the local Universe up to z~7. ... How do powerful AGN influence their host galaxies? ... How do powerful AGN trace the build-up of galaxies with the peaks of dark matter over-densities? ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... This takes you past the village of Killylea (about 5 miles from Armagh), and then across the River Blackwater past the entrance to the Caledon Estate and into the architecturally attractive village of Caledon, approximately nine miles from Armagh. ... View of the Knockmany Chambered Cairn from the south, showing the modern enclosure. ... In its present state the cairn is an almost circular mound approximately 25m in...

... 12c. Venus transit (1) . ... Predictions for the transit give four "contact" times, at which the dark Venus disk touches the edge of the Sun's disk (marked by numbers on Figure 3 )" . First contact - Venus disk touches the Sun from the outside , on entry . Second contact - Venus disk touches the Sun from the inside , on entry . Third contact - Venus disk touches the Sun from the inside , on exit . Fourth contact - Venus disk touches the Sun from the outside , on exit . ... sin? sin? ...

The following activities are included in the Universe at Your Fingertips guide. ... Clicking on each activity will take you to a "reviews" page where you can post a review, or read reviews posted by others who have used the activity. ... Activity Online . ... MOON AND PHASES . ... Observing Phases and Features . ... Modeling Moon Phases . ... SUN AND SEASONS . ... Observing the Sun Safely . ... Observing Where the Sun Sets . ... Making Pictures of Motion . ... Morning Star and Evening Star . ...

... Billions of years ago the surface of Mars looked very different than it does today. Where there is now only a dry red desert, there was once an vast ocean that covered about 20% the planet's surface. That means it covered more of the surface of Mars than the Atlantic Ocean covers on Earth! ... So, by looking at how much heavy water is in Mars' atmosphere in comparison to the lighter kind, we can tell how much normal water the planet has lost into space. ...

COPRATES CHASMA NORTH WALL INTERIOR LAYERED DEPOSIT: LAYER MEASUREMENTS AND COMPARISON WITH JUVENTAE CHASMA ILDS USING MARS EXPRESS HIGH RESOLUTION STEREO CAMERA (HRSC) DERIVED TOPOGRAPHY Michael, G.1, E. Hauber1, K. Gwinner1, R. Stesky2 ... Planets, Freie Universitaet, Berlin, Germany 5ESTEC, ESA, Noordwijk, The Netherlands Introduction: The interior layered deposit ( ILD ) in the north wall of Coprates ... The lesser section of the ILD is confined by a ridge of the chasma wall. ...

... Stage A was used as stage I . of launch vehicle N1. ... height across mating interfaces - 11.5 m. The rocket was a package design with suspended, single-unit, spherical fuel tanks and multi-engine propulsion units on stages I, II, and III. Relying on the analysis, it was decided to employ engines sized to 150 tf. ... For this, stages I, II, and III of LV were provided with the Kord engine control system to shut down the engine at its derating. ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

... Space flight . Crew training . ... Space camp . ... acquiring practical habits and skills of performing all the flight operations envisaged for a flight participant; . maintaining and honing professionally required qualities and skills for a successful activity in conditions of effect of adverse factors of a space flight, as well . ... preparing for the activity outside the spacecraft; . ... preparing for professional activity in conditions of effect of the space flight factors; . ...

Analysis of general features of the chaotic system behavior and investigation of the properties of concrete chaotic sources. ... Analysis of information properties of chaotic systems and chaotic oscillations as concrete objects for information processing and comunications. ... This hypothesis gives a possibility of designing simple mathematical structures accomplishing various processes of information processing using chaos. ... Activities | ... E-mail: chaos@mail.cplire.ru ...

... Table of Contents - Index . Cover Illustration: . This figure, pertaining to the paper by Markus Dolensky, Alberto Micol, Benoit Pirenne and Michael Rosa , shows the ``HST Jitter Ball" visualized by a Java applet. ... This information can be used to combine images in an optimal way and with minimum loss of resolution using the ``drizzling" technique described at the last ADASS and used for combining the images of the Hubble Deep Field. ...

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