... 2006 September 5 . Bright Cliffs Across Saturn's Moon Dione . Credit: Cassini Imaging Team , SSI , JPL , ESA , NASA . Explanation: What causes the bright streaks on Dione? Recent images of this unusual moon by the robot Cassini spacecraft now orbiting Saturn are helping to crack the mystery. ... The bright ice-cliffs run across some of Dione 's many craters, indicating that the process that created them occurred later than the impacts that created those craters. ... About APOD | ...

... November 12, 1996 . Comet Hale-Bopp Passes M14 . ... Explanation : Comet Hale-Bopp continues its slow trek across the night sky, and can now be seen superposed near the bright globular cluster M14 . Will Comet Hale-Bopp become as bright in early 1997 as Comet Hyakutake did in early 1996? It is still too early to tell. ... Because of the size of coma , some speculate that the nucleus of Hale-Bopp is unusually large. ... Tomorrow's picture: Seven Jets from Comet Hale-Bopp . ... About APOD . ...

... Armagh Planetarium . ... Universe . ... January . ... Posted on January 21, 2011 | No Comments Don Pollacco, a research astronomer at Queens University Belfast, came to Armagh Planetarium to give a fascinating talk on exoplanets in January 2011. ... No Comments Armagh Planetarium kicked off 2011 in style with some amazing astronomy-based events in association with the€а BBC. Sinead McNicholl has a personal report of our part in the exciting Stargazing [ ] . ... Newer Entries . ...

Quasar in an Elliptical Galaxy . ... Credit Copyright: J. S. Dunlop, R. J. McLure ( U. Edinburgh ), HST , NASA Explanation: Where do quasars live? ... The above false-color picture shows a central quasar embedded in an unusual elliptical galaxy . The galaxy is being gravitationally distorted by a neighboring galaxy. Recent evidence indicates that most quasars live near the centers of large, elliptical galaxies - even those quasars where no host galaxy could be found before. ...

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... HST . ... Data . ... HST Overview . ... Phase I Proposing . ... CTE Information . ... The WFC/ACS post-flash has been tested and a reference file has been created. ... The added noise from the post-flash, and the success of the CTE correction already in place in CALACS results in a limited set of cases where post-flash may be helpful. ... The ACS team will continue to monitor the CTE losses and the efficiency of the post-flash in mitigating CTE effects with a series of dedicated calibration programs...

... ESO PR Photo 07a/01 . ... ESO PR Photo 07b/01 . ... Caption : PR Photo 07a/01 shows Comet Hale-Bopp , still active at a distance of nearly 2,000 million kilometres from the Sun. ... This is quite unusual for a comet and is clearly confirmed on the present photo ( PR Photo 07a/01 ) from the WFI camera on the MPG/ESO 2.2-m telescope at La Silla, obtained a few days ago. ... ESO-Chile . ... ESO PR Photos 07a-b/01 may be reproduced, if credit is given to the European Southern Observatory (ESO). ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Site Info . ... Public Talks . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Who is this guy who calls himself "The Bad Astronomer?" ... First, yes, I am a real live astronomer (when people ask me what astronomers do, I tell them "They astronom !" ... These are emitted by powerful objects like black holes, exploding stars, and super-dense neutrons stars. ... Finally, am I really a bad astronomer? ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

Definitions of Magnitudes and Surface Brightness 1 The magnitude system 1.1 Apparent magnitude Astronomers are stuck with the antiquated old system of magnitudes and so a clear explanation of what this system is and how it relates to more sensible units is important. ... 1.2 Absolute magnitude Absolute magnitude is a logarithmic luminosity scale. ... One usually goes by the round about process of referring to the absolute magnitude of the sun. ... Magnitudes and surface brightness 6/6 ...