... February 9, 1998 . The Witch Head Nebula . ... Maybe Macbeth should have consulted the Witch Head Nebula . This suggestively shaped reflection nebula is associated with the bright star Rigel in the constellation Orion . More formally known as IC 2118, the Witch Head Nebula glows primarily by light reflected from Rigel. ... The blue color is caused not only by Rigel's blue color but because the dust grains reflect blue light more efficiently than red. ... About APOD > . ...

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• APOD: 2003 December 29 - The Witch Head Nebula
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• APOD: 2007 February 21 - Mira Over Germany

... The Witch Head Nebula . ... Explanation: Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble -- maybe Macbeth should have consulted the Witch Head Nebula. ... More formally known as IC 2118 , the Witch Head Nebula glows primarily by light reflected from Rigel , located just outside the top right corner of the above image . ... The blue color is caused not only by Rigel's blue color but because the dust grains reflect blue light more efficiently than red. ...

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• APOD: 2000 February 28 - The Sombrero Galaxy from VLT

... 27.02.2001 . ... This suggestively shaped reflection nebula is associated with the bright star Rigel in the constellation Orion . More formally known as IC 2118 , the Witch Head Nebula glows primarily by light reflected from Rigel , located just outside the top right corner of the above image . ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ... Publications with keywords: reflection nebula - IC 2118 - Witch Head . Publications with words: reflection nebula - IC 2118 - Witch Head . ...

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... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . See also images taken on November 22nd . Image taken by Andy McCrea who says, . To me the comet appears yellowish and it has gone from star-like to a . ... More images from Andy McCrea here . ... The true explanation is that a very faint comet, known as periodic comet Holmes, produced a massive outburst of material and became a million times brighter than it was just a day earlier. ... More images from Andy McCrea . ...

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... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Earth Satellites . ... Leonid meteors seen from 13 km altitude aboard an aircraft during the 1999 Leonids Multi-Instrument Aircraft Campaign (Leonid-MAC). Comet Tempel-Tuttle provides the cometary debris for the Leonid meteor shower. ... Every 17-19 November Earth crosses Tempel-TuttleтАЩs orbit and the Leonids become visible. With clear, dark skies observers may see 10 to 15 Leonid meteors every hour on those mornings. ...

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... Observing . ... Solar Observing . ... April 3 (SUN) - Solar Observing, Central Park , Manhattan . ... APRIL'S SKY . ... Lecture Series at the American Museum of Natural History The Amateur Astronomers Association is proud to present an astronomy lecture series from October through May each year for our members and the .. ... The€аAmateur Astronomers Association of New York€аwas organized in 1927 to promote the study of Astronomy, emphasizing its cultural and inspirational value. ...

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... The Pleiades star cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, is a conspicuous object in the night sky with a prominent place in ancient mythology . ... The stars in the Pleiades are thought to have formed together around 100 million years ago, making them 1/50th the age of our sun, and they lie some 130 parsecs (425 light years ) away. ... Data for these stars are listed in a table below. ... Yes . ... WEBDA Pleiades cluster data . ... M45: The Pleiades Star Cluster (2007 November 18) ...

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... To go back in time, archaeoastronomers and teachers can turn to personal computers and any of a number of software packages. ... Examples include the Long Man of Wilmington, England and the Owl Man of Peru (see figure 8 and figure 9 ). ... Deciphering the unique number system of the Maya is another archaeoastronomy topic that involves a minimum of math. ... Several collections of early writing of the Maya survive; numbers from them can be read and in some cases interpreted (see figure 12 ). ...

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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. ...

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EMBARGOED UNTIL: 9:20 AM CST, January 6, 1999 CONTACT: John Biretta Space Telecsope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD (Phone: (410) 338-4917; Internet: biretta@stsci.edu) HUBBLE DETECTS FASTER-THAN-LIGHT MOTION IN GALAXY M87 Astronomers reported today discovering clouds which appear to move many times faster than the speed of light, shooting out from the region of a black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy. ... It's an illusion created by the finite speed of light and rapid motion," Biretta said. ...

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... Bringing news from across the Universe to children all around the world . ... Have you ever walked down the street late a night and seen a point of light in the distance? ... This is because things look fainter when they're farther away. ... That s what astronomers did in 1995 when the Hubble Space Telescope was pointed at a region of the night sky about the size a tennis ball would look if it were a 100-metres away. ... One camera, called MUSE, was used to take a fresh look at the patch of sky. ...

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Check out the new images (Jan 18-25) and (Jan 26-Feb 05) of the comet by Rob McNaught. ... Every few years a comet becomes bright enough to be easily seen with the naked eye but only every decade or so are these comparable with comets like Halley. ... Before Jan 13, the comet is not visible in the Australian sky after sunset. ... SOHO images . ... On Jan 12 at approximately 09:00 UT (8pm NSW time), comet C/2006 P1 McNaught appears at the 11 o'clock position in the images. ... STEREO images . ...

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True Color Image Gallery: Galactic SNR | Magellanic Cloud SNR . ... Chandra Proposer's Guide pile up section ] During frame readout, the ACIS CCDs take 40 microsec to (parallel) transfer the charge by one pixel. As a result of this, each frame readout, each pixel is exposed for 40 microsec to a source (plus cosmic X-ray background) at each location along its column. ... Note also that the image does not just trail, it extends along the whole column. ... Chandra Supernova Remnant Catalog . ...

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Seven months ago, on Mar 19, 2008, at 09:12 Moscow time, a new star appeared on the sky. The Sun had already risen over the Russia, but people of the Western hemisphere might be able to see by their eyes a faint starlet near one of Bootes constellation stars. This starlet appeared and faded by an order of magnitude in a minute. Astronomers named it GRB080319B or, informally, the Naked-Eye Burst, as it was twice as bright as human eye can see a star. ... Royal Astronomical Society . ...

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... Paul Bennie pbe@star.le.ac.uk Friday, 16 February 2001 XMM EPIC MOS MOS-2 pixels. ... Paul Bennie pbe@star.le.ac.uk Friday, 16 February 2001 The defect seem to be most quick CCDs 1, 2 XMM EPIC MOS MOS-1 pixels. ... Paul Bennie pbe@star.le.ac.uk Friday, 16 February 2001 XMM EPIC MOS New Defects in rev. 108 flare. XMM EPIC MOS Paul Bennie pbe@star.le.ac.uk Friday, 16 February 2001 New Defects in rev. 169 flare. ... Paul Bennie pbe@star.le.ac.uk Friday, 16 February 2001 XMM EPIC MOS ...

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