... 2005 February 28 . Unusual Plates on Mars . ... Mars Express , DLR , ESA . Explanation: What are those unusual plates on Mars? A leading current interpretation holds that they are blocks of ice floating on a recently frozen sea covered by dust. The unusual plates were photographed recently by the European Space Agency 's Mars Express spacecraft currently orbiting Mars . Oddly, the region lies near the Martian equator and not near either of Mars' frozen polar caps . ... About APOD | ...

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... February 22, 1999 . NGC 1316: After Galaxies Collide . ... WFPC2 , HST , NASA . ... A preliminary inspection indicates that NGC 1316 is an enormous elliptical galaxy that started devouring a smaller spiral galaxy neighbor about 100 million years ago. ... Most elliptical galaxies have more and brighter globular clusters than evident in NGC 1316 . ... One hypothesis therefore holds that these globulars survive from an even earlier galaxy that was subsumed into NGC 1316. ... About APOD > . ...

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... WFPC2 , HST , NASA . Explanation: An unusual dust disk surrounds nearby star Beta Pictoris . ... Recent images and computer simulations indicate that the disk contains several elliptical dust rings larger than our own Solar System . The above image taken with the Hubble Space Telescope uncovered evidence of these rings as apparent knots in the edge-on disk . ... These rings might have been formed when a nearby star passed Beta Pic about 100,000 years ago. ... February . ... February 2000 . ...

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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... February . ... Posted on February 2, 2016 | No Comments Goodbye January blues, hello February fun! ... Continue Reading.. ... 1 Comment If you look towards the west just after sunset this February you will see a very bright star in the darkening sky. ... 2 Comments The long dark nights continue through February, but this does give us a chance to see some interesting objects in our night sky. ...

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Dimitri ZVONKINE (Paris-7 Jussieu): Models of 2-dimensional gravity and enumeration of ramified coverings of the sphere . We explain why the enumeration of ramified coverings of the sphere provides a model of 2-dimensional gravity. ... We also prove some combinatorial results concerning ramified coverings of the sphere. ... It appears naturally in elementary graph enumeration problems, in the intersection theory on moduli spaces of stable curves, and in the enumeration of ramified coverings. ...

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... On the morning of Thursday, 26 February, amid the Gal pagos Islands, the Sun will fade from view. Not the culmination of ancient prophecy, but none less mystical, Earth's small Moon will be executing a slow slide past the enormous Sun. ... And anyone living in southern North America, Central America, northern South America, or on islands and cruise ships in the Caribbean Sea will, weather permitting, have the opportunity to experience the wonder of a solar eclipse. ...

... Asteroid . ... In case you didn't hear about it, which you probably didn't: On Jan. 7, an asteroid 1,000 feet across -- nearly three times the current diameter of Marlon Brando -- barely missed the Earth, which is most likely your planet of residence. ... What if this asteroid had hit the Earth? ... As it happens, the American Astronomical Society was holding a conference in Washington AT THE VERY SAME TIME as the asteroid nearly hit the Earth. ...

... February: 25 out of 28 days with mesureable precipitation . March 1-12: 6 degrees below normal average temperature . ... March: Average high temperatue 6 degrees below normal. 11 days with highes below 50 . ... April 16: Record high = 77 . ... June 9: Record Low - 34 . ... August 7; High = 65; rain =0.41 inches (both close to records) . August 11: Record Low maximum of 68. ... Sept 2: Record low of 38 . Sept 28: Record Low - 31 (all time record low for the month of September) . ...

... Archive for February 2007 . ... Sometime early this year, Jeremy Drake asked this innocuous sounding question in the context of determining the bounds on the amplitude of an absorption line: Is the 3sigma error bar the same length as 3 times the 1sigma error bar? ... Likelihoodists will say ?Maybe, yeah, er, depends?, and Bayesians will say ? ... Tags: Bayesian , central limit theorem , confidence bounds , error bar , Frequentist , highest posterior density , HPD , likelihoodist , sigma . ...