... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2009 February 24 . Barnard's Loop around the Horsehead Nebula . ... Although hard to make out, the famous Horsehead Nebula is the slight dark indentation in the bright streak just to the left of the image center. Glowing like an emission nebula , the origin of the bubble , known as Barnard's Loop , is currently unknown. ... About APOD | ...

... 17.02.2003 . ... Credit Copyright: WMAP Science Team , NASA Explanation: The above sky map tells us the universe is 13.7 billion years old -- but how? At first look, one only sees the microwave glow of gas from our Milky Way Galaxy, coded red, and a spotty pattern of microwaves emitted from the early universe , coded in gray. ... February 2003 . ... 2003 2004 . ... Publications with keywords: WMAP - CMB . Publications with words: WMAP - CMB . ... WMAP Resolves the Universe . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. February 5, 1996 . COBE Dipole: Speeding Through the Universe . Credit: NASA , COBE , DMR , Four-Year Sky Map . ... The Milky Way Galaxy orbits in the Local Group . ... The map indicates that the Local Group moves at about 600 kilometers per second relative to this primordial radiation . ... About APOD | ...

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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Posted on April 30, 2014 | ... Continue Reading.. Posted on March 21, 2014 | ... 1 Comment Mars, our rusty, red neighbour, has long since been a source of fascination for star-gazers, scientists and science fiction fans. ... 2 Comments The year 2014 could see the first 3D printer brought into space, the first fare-paying passengers leave Planet Earth on the Virgin Galactic and the first test mission of a [ ] . ... First Name . ...

... Observing . ... Home Education Workshops at Adorama Astronomy Workshop: Observing Variable Stars from the City ? February 15, 2015 . ... Beyond New York City . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... Presented by€а Adorama €аFor the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

... It s because some sunlight bounced off the Earth and dimly lit the side of the Moon that is facing away from the Sun. ... Recently, astronomers used earthshine to help in the search for aliens. Signs of life can be found in the quantities of particular gases in a planet s atmosphere, such as oxygen, ozone, methane and carbon dioxide. And astronomers can work out what gases are in a planet s atmosphere by studying the light that bounces off them their planetshine . ...

Next: J.E. Chambers, Research Astronomer Up: Research Previous: Research Contents . ... Solar Variability and Climate . Other Activities . ... Applied to data of flares on Gliese866 he was able to estimate the area of hydrogen emitting flare regions as 1-13% of the stellar surface. ... As partners in the project, Armagh Observatory has been asked to contribute to the selection process in exchange for priority access to the data which will eventually flow from the satellite. ...

... I'm modifying the stsci_python package so that it runs under python 2 and 3. So far I've got the code set up and converted the code in the top directory. ... I've been converting the stsci_python code so it works under python 2 and 3. ... It turns out that before I can test any of the migrated code, I need to first convert pandokia so it runs under 2 and 3. ... I finished making code changes to Pandokia. ... I spent the day trying to debug problems with the database tests. ... Archive for 2015 . ...

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... The Cross-Quarter Days thus mark the middle of each season under our current system, or seasonal boundaries under the alternative system. ... Beltane / Bealtaine - Celtic bonfire festival May 4-7 2nd Cross-Quarter Day May 5 - Cinco de Mayo (Mexico) May 2nd Sunday - Mother's Day May last Monday - Memorial Day ( Decoration Day , officially May 30) June 14 - Flag Day June 3rd Sunday - Father's Day June 20-22 2nd Quarter Day - Summer Solstice June 21 - Litha (Norse/Anglo-Saxon for ...

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... Astrophysics Group . ... FIRST . ... This site is an initiative by MRAO Cambridge to provide improved access for the UK to the images being produced from the FIRST survey. ... Note that a small image returned by this server will have different gridding and orientation from an image of corresponding position and size returned by the FIRST CUTOUT server at the main site. ... This site may evolve to provide more of the facilities available at the FIRST main site in due course. ...

... Your main research interests concern neutral hydrogen. ... That means that there must be enormous quantities of gas lying around, waiting for the chance to collapse under its own weight into lumps and form stars and galaxies. If we could actually observe this gas, as it moves around and assembles itself into lumps, we would be directly observing the process of galaxy formation. ... Optical astronomers seem to think that they can observe galaxy formation by taking optical images. ... In galaxies. ...

The angular power spectrum of the anisotropy of the CMB contains information about the formation of the Universe and its current contents. ... The image above shows an all-sky map with only ell=2 power on the left, and another map with only ell=16 power on the right. ... The current status of microwave background anisotropy measurements in my compilation from the literature has 95 data points from 25 experiments. These are all plotted in the figure below: . ...

12th of February 2016 . Aussie innovation helps hunt down gravitational waves . For the first time in history, astronomers have detected the presence of elusive gravitational waves - ripples in space time that provide direct evidence of violent cosmic events taking place in the Universe. ... 2016) . ... Related: Gravity Wave Animation (by John Rowe Animation/Australia Telescope National Facility, CSIRO) and Merging Black Holes in Galaxies - our first Southern Cross Astrophysics Conference. ...

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January 11, 2012 (Wednesday) Tom Schwarz, Fermilab SEMINAR CANCELLED . ... Noon, 472 Willamette Hall . return to top . ... Recent results and an outlook for dedicated stop and sbottom searches will be discussed. 4:00pm, 472 Willamette Hall . ... I will review the measurements done with the inclusive W (and Z) samples, focusing on the W charge asymmetry and the W transverse momentum measurements and their connection with the broader ATLAS physics program. 4:00pm, 472 Willamette Hall . ...