... 2002 January 1 . The Secret of the Black Aurora . ... Explanation: What causes black aurora? These gaps in normal bright aurora are frequently recorded but rarely questioned. Recent research using data from four Cluster spacecraft orbiting the Earth has now likely found the secret: black auroras are actually anti-auroras. ... In black anti-auroras, however, negatively charged particles are sucked out from the Earth's ionosphere along adjoining magnetic field lines. ... About APOD | ...

The Secret of the Black Aurora . ... Credit Copyright: Jan Curtis Explanation: What causes black aurora? These gaps in normal bright aurora are frequently recorded but rarely questioned. Recent research using data from four Cluster spacecraft orbiting the Earth has now likely found the secret: black auroras are actually anti-auroras. ... In black anti-auroras, however, negatively charged particles are sucked out from the Earth's ionosphere along adjoining magnetic field lines. ...

... Files in red?history) . ... Trapped Motion . ... 10a. Particle Drift . ... Fast Particles . ... The fact charged particles circle around field lines was well known to J.J. Thomson when he experimented with electron and ion beams in a magnetic field. ... The notion of adiabatic invariance is tied with the early years of quantum theory. ... By about1910, physicists realized that these patterns indicated changes in the laws of physics as one approached atomic dimensions. ...

... Files in red?history) . ... Trapped Motion . ... 10a. Particle Drift . ... Fast Particles . ... The fact charged particles circle around field lines was well known to J.J. Thomson when he experimented with electron and ion beams in a magnetic field. ... The notion of adiabatic invariance is tied with the early years of quantum theory. ... By about1910, physicists realized that these patterns indicated changes in the laws of physics as one approached atomic dimensions. ...

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... 2000 July 20 . AR9077: Solar Magnetic Arcade . Credit: TRACE , Stanford-Lockheed ISR, NASA . Explanation: On July 14th , solar active region 9077 (AR9077) produced a massive flare . ... It shows million degree hot solar plasma cooling down while suspended in an arcade of magnetic loops . ... After the flare, AR9077's activity decayed as it was carried farther across the Earth-facing hemisphere of the Sun by solar rotation . ... About APOD | ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Have you ever looked at pictures of Saturn's rings and noticed what look like gaps in the rings? ... Gian Domenico Cassini discovered a large gap in Saturn's rings in 1675. Later, an astronomer named Encke discovered a smaller gap near the edge of the rings. ... It was found long ago that an orbit in the Cassini Division, as the large gap is named, has a period almost exactly one-half that of one of Saturn's moons named Mimas. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... xmmtrack . ... xmmtrack is an interactive IDL application that visualizes the orbit and attitude data in an ODF in the form of a 3-D animation sequence. The presented scenery includes an astronomically accurate simulation of the Earth-Sun system plus the actual and predicted trajectory of the XMM satellite on its path around the Earth. ... Please note: XMM's orbit is highly time variable and the predicted orbit will significantly deviate from the actual trajectory if the reference epochs differ. ...

SPACE WEATHER . The response of our space environment to the constantly changing Sun is known as space weather. ... Some of the most dramatic space weather effects occur in association with eruptions of material from the solar atmosphere into interplanetary space. ... Space weather disturbances are generally caused by solar storms. ... the Sun. ... Every object in the solar system experiences the equivalent of Earth's space weather, although its detailed characteristics differ from place to place. ...

... 8, ``Celestial Mechanics'', 2002 Orbits with osculation of higher orders and their use in celestial mechanics Yu. V. Batrakov Institute of Applied Astronomy, St. Petersburg, Russia The idea of the generalized or intermediate orbits with osculation of the second and third order was proposed and considered rigorously in 1981 [1]. ... The equations of the perturbed motion in the elements of the generalized (intermediate) orbits were derived for the first time in [5,6]. ... Batrakov Yu. ...

... Planets . ... Earth Satellites . ... The newly discovered ?mega-Earth? ... Its sibling, the lava world Kepler-10b, is in the background (the two planets? proximity is grossly exaggerated) .€а Kepler-10c has a diameter of about 29 000 km, 2.3 times as large as Earth, and weighs 17 times as much. ... The first mega-earth to be discovered is Kepler-10c which orbits a star lying about 560 light years from the Sun in the constellation Draco. ... Astronomers Find a New Type of Planet: The ?Mega-Earth? ...

Your Phase II Proposal and Using RPS2 . ... Perhaps the single most important thing to bear in mind when you look at your RPS2 output for a GHRS program is that RPS2 assumes your observations fall into tidy orbits with a nominal observing period and without being interrupted by the South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA). ... In some programs requiring very high wavelength precision you will not want to have your exposures interrupted by SAA passage or earth occultation because that time delay adds uncertainty. ...

... Research objects and scientific purposes . Space scientific program includes development and launch of two supersmall spacecrafts "Universitetskiy" and "Kompas-2" intended for monitoring of radiation conditions near the Earth. ... All the studies conducted in the near-Earth space are characterised by strong radiation fields. ... The circular polar orbits, which cover all the near-Earth space, are the most favorable for comprehensive studies of the radiation conditions near the Earth. ...

Lectures . ... Home Lectures Lecture Series 2010-2011 Lecture Series 2010-2011 ? Particle Physics at the LHC and Cosmology? by Michael Tuts . ... Lecture Series 2010-2011 . ... 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 . ... Amateur Astronomers Medal . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

... It would be the ultimate backpacking trip: an exploration of Saturn's rings. ... The partly hidden Sun glinting off the field of ring chunks, the gentle gravitational symphony of collective motion that carries both chunks and explorers safely around the planet, the feeling of being surrounded yet freely floating -- all disguise the fact that everything is whirling around Saturn at tens of thousands of kilometers per hour. ... Dark side of the ringed planet. ... The rings are enormous. ...

Astronomers Detect Coolest Radio Star . ... The new radio-star is much smaller and colder than our Sun.€а With a surface temperature not much higher than that of a giant planet, and a size comparable to JupiterтАЩs, it is scarcely visible in optical light.€а Yet the radio flares seen at Arecibo show it must have a strong magnetic field, implying that the same could be true of other similar stars. ...

... More on 51 Peg: . The discovery of a Jupiter--mass planet in orbit around the solar--type star 51Peg has been reported by Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz (Geneva Observatory) on October 6th at the 9th Cambridge workshop on "cool stars, stellar systems, and the sun" held at Florence (Italy). ... Recall that the measurements of radial velocity only yield v sin i which in turn gives us M sin i. For most values of i, sin i will be greater than 0.5 and this gives a mass estimate of 0.5 Jupiter masses. ...

Next: Mixing types of E-P-A Up: ``Ecology'' of Magnetic Rotators Previous: Evolutionary Tracks . So far we have considered evolution of a magnetic rotator related to single rotators or those entering binary system with circular orbits. ... Orbital eccentricity necessarily emerges after the first supernova explosion љ and mass expulsion from the binary system. ... Here, we concentrate on the evolutionary consequences of eccentricity. Mixing types of E-P-A binary systems with non-zero orbital . ...

... Funnily, astronomers have named one of the dwarf galaxies that orbits our galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud! ... This is a cloud of gas and dust, which is called a Super-bubble . ... Fierce winds from massive stars and the explosions of dying stars have hollowed-out the centre of the cloud, leaving just a ring of gas and dust. ... If enough gas and dust particles clump together in one region of the Super-bubble, a new star is created, as stars are just big balls of gas and dust! ...

. Computer Ephemeris. Elements of osculating planetary orbits. Explanations. Each row contains at 0h of Time Dynamical Terrestrial of specified date in system of mean equator and ecliptic J2000.0 the ecliptic osculating elements of heliocentric orbit: inclination of orbital plane (degrees), longitude of ascending node (degrees), argument of perigelion (degrees), semimajor axis (astronomical units), mean motion (degrees per day), eccentricity (dimensionless), mean anomaly (degrees).