Amalthea . Jupiter V . Amalthea [am-al-THEE-uh] is one of Jupiter's smaller moons. ... These four images of Jupiter's moon, Amalthea, were taken by Galileo's solid state imaging system at various times between February and June 1997. ... Amalthea, whose longest dimension is approximately 247 kilometers (154 miles) across, is tidally locked so that the same side of the satellite always points towards Jupiter, similar to how the near side of our own Moon always points toward Earth. ...

... Satellites of the planets are assigned a provisional designation (indicating year of discovery) by the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams ( CBAT ) upon satisfactory demonstration of the existence of a new object. ... In the past, Comets were first given a provisional designation, consisting of the year and a lowercase letter indicating the order of discovery in the year (e.g., 1994a was the first comet discovered or recovered in 1994, 1994b the second, etc.) ... Names .. ...

... Uranus Moon 18 . 31.05.1999 . ... Erich Karkoschka (U. Tycho Brahe Measures the Sky . ... Tycho Brahe was the most meticulous astronomical observer of his time. ... The Plane of the Ecliptic is illustrated in this Clementine star tracker camera image which reveals (from right to left) the Moon lit by Earthshine, the Sun's corona rising over the Moon's dark limb, and the planets Saturn, Mars, and Mercury. ... NGC 4603 and the Expanding Universe . ... NGC 6872: A Stretched Spiral . ... 1999 2000 . ...

... The variability of the spectrum of the optical component of the IR-source IRAS01005+7910 was discovered for the first time in the BTA spectra [1]. ... The spectral features include absorptions that form in near-photospheric layers, narrow envelope emissions, and emission-absorption profiles that form in photosphere-to-envelope transition layers (the wind). ... Discovery of spectral variation in the optical counterpart of IRAS01005+7910. ... Dashed line - envelope curve of all the SiII 5979 profiles ...

... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Astronomers recently discovered that Scholz's star passed close to the Sun 70,000 years ago. Wouldn't its gravity have sent Oort Cloud comets raining into the inner planets? ... COMETS | OORT CLOUD . Based on the number of long-period comets that enter the inner solar system, astronomers estimate there are probably trillions of them in the Oort Cloud. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Discover | ...

... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel and Contacts . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Solar System . ... ESOcast . ... Astronomers using ESO instruments have discovered a remarkable extrasolar planetary system that has some striking similarities to our own Solar System. ... Entitled т??Richest planetary system discoveredт??, it explains how these faraway planets were detected and exactly what we know about them. ... ESOcast 20: Richest planetary system discovered ....

... Цвет: фиолетовый . Коллекция: Осень-зима 2015/2016 . Материал верха: нейлон, спилок . ... Материал подошвы: резина . ... Пол: Мужской . Кроссовки Umbro. ... Материал: нейлон, спилок. Сезон: Осень-зима 2015/2016. ... Исследование причин нескольких крупнейших в истории авиации катастроф помогли сделать современные авиаперелеты самым безопасным способом передвижения. ... Цвет: серый . Коллекция: Весна-лето 2016 . ... Пол: Женский . ... Сезон: Весна-лето 2016. ... Цвет: розовый . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Solar System . ... Planets . ... Space Flight . ... Neptune, which is not visible with the naked eye, was discovered by mathematical prediction in 1846 before being observed through a telescope. ... Tidal interactions between Neptune and Triton mean that in 100 million years these two bodies may come too close to one another causing Triton to be torn apart leaving Neptune with a ring system more spectacular than SaturnтАЩs. ...

... The highest redshift X-ray jet discovered . by Chandra in GB 1428+4217 at z = 4.72 . X-ray jet discovered by Chandra . ... Science Papers on ADS . ... Chandra Press Release . The paper describing the details nas been published in ApJ and it is available also on astro-ph Feb. ... The jet paper published in ApJ Letters is available on astro-ph Oct. ... ApJ Letters paper available on astro-ph: Paper 2003 Feb. ... ApJ papers available on astro-ph: Paper 1, 2002 and Paper 2, 2007 . ...

Astronomy Education News . News . ... Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell will feature in a new BBC4 series that looks at modern men and women who will be remembered for the brilliance of their minds . ... Her father was the architect of the Armagh Planetarium. ... Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell receiving the Robinson Medal in 2004 in Armagh . ... Beautiful Minds тАУ Jocelyn Bell Burnell . ... Armagh Observatory - Astronomy Education . ...

... Coming Soon to a Channel Near You: Oracle.. ... But now users are discovering that this beefy class of multiprocessing, "fault-tolerant" PC servers handle databases just as well as mainframes and minicomputings. ... Programmers at four competing Unix software vendors are working together on what may be the last chance for Unix on the corporate desktop. ... COSE's Common Desktop Environment goes a long way toward establishing a standard Unix interface that's easy enough for novice users to master. ...

... The name Discovery Date mag Size(m) Publication MASTER -Observatory --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HAZARDOUS ASTEROIDS : 7 MASTER HAZARD Asteroid 2015 UM67 2015 Oct 28.88218 16.9 940m MPEC 2015-V01 MASTER -SAAO automatically MASTER software 6 MASTER rediscovered HAZARD Asteroid 2011 QG21 2015 Aug 17.94764 17.2 300m MPEC 2015-Q28 ...

... Master . ... About Space Monitoring Laboratory, scientific directions, instruments, contacts . ... 20.06.2012 . ... 27 Apr 2012: GRB 120427A: MASTER follow up observations GCN13274 . ... 29 Mar 2012: MASTER OT 123412-632503 detection during Swift trigger 518853 ATel4007 . 26 Mar 2012: GRB 120323A: MASTER follow up observations GCN13116 . ... 29 Jan 2012: GRB 120129A: MASTER optical observations GCN12907 . 06 Jan 2012: GRB 120106A: MASTER Early OT marginally detection GCN12818, GCN12811 . ...

We have discovered a very radio loud narrow-line Seyfert 1 candidate: PKS 2004-447. This Seyfert is consistent with the formal definition for NLS1s, although it does not have quite the same spectral features as some typical members of this subclass. ... A full comparison of this source with other members of the subclass will improve our physical understanding of NLS1's. In addition, using standard calculations, we estimate the central black hole to have a mass of 5 10 6 M solar ;. ... Australia . ...

Next: Data Compression in Astronomy . ... Previous: VOTable JAVA Streaming Writer and Applications. ... Kale, S., Vijayaraman, T. M., Kembhavi, A., Krishnan, P. R., Navelkar, A., Hegde, H., Kulkarni, P., & Balaji, K. D. 2003, in ASP Conf. ... We describe a graphical visualization tool, VOPlot, which can be interfaced with data in VOTable format to form a valuable aid in scientific discovery. ... This method is inconvenient and hence the requirement of a web-based tool that can plot data online. ...

... Laboratory and theoretical modelling of the UV bump on the interstellar extinction curve is a very popular topic in dusty investigations. ... feature is illustrated by Fig. 10 where the profiles were calculated using the model of graphite spheres. Figure 10: Normalized extinction efficiencies for graphite spheres. ... The lower panel shows the summary extinction of two graphite spheres with radii and (from upper panel) taken in equal proportions. ...

home publications > mercury . ... The Historic Hunt for Moons . ... When Galileo pointed his primitive 2-inch refractor at Jupiter in 1610, little did he know that he would start a great moon chase that continues to the present day. ... This article traces the history of moon discoveries from Galileo?s day to the late 1990s. Along the way, it talks about the great moon discoverers, people like Giovanni Cassini, William Herschel, William Lassell, Asaph Hall, Seth Nicholson, and Gerard Kuiper. ...

... Комментариев нет 22 августа 2010, 13:58 Blogger , English , Астрономия . ... Neptune will finally complete its first full orbit of the sun since it was discovered in 1846a approximately one year from now, according to NASA estimates. ... Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-21 . ...

... Discovery of the Radiation Belts . ... Early US magnetospheric research was mainly focused on the Earth's radiation belts, discovered by Van Allen and his colleagues in the spring of 1958. ... Sputnik 1 was launched October 4, 1957, followed on November 3 by Sputnik 2; Explorer 1, the first successful US spacecraft, was launched January 31, 1958, and Explorer 3, by which the radiation belt was discovered, was orbited March 26. ... That was how the radiation belt was discovered [ Van Allen et al. ...

... On January 1, 1925, thirty-five-year-old Edwin Hubble announced findings that ultimately established that our universe was a thousand trillion times larger than previously believed, filled with myriad galaxies like our own. ... Six years later, continuing research by Hubble and others forced Albert Einstein to renounce his own cosmic model and finally accept the astonishing fact that the universe was not immobile but instead expanding. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...