... 2000 August 24 . Eros At Sunset . Credit: NEAR Project , JHU APL , NASA . Explanation: Gleaming in the rays of the setting sun, boulders litter the rugged surface of asteroid 433 Eros . ... In orbit around Eros since February 2000, the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft's camera recorded the dramatic view earlier this month from an altitude of about 50 kilometers. ... Eros and other near-Earth asteroids originally orbited in the main asteroid belt , between Jupiter and Mars . ... About APOD | ...

... Armagh Planetarium . ... Universe . ... Posted on April 2, 2014 | ... Continue Reading.. ... No Comments Astronomy is a science that knows no borders. ... 1 Comment Comets are frozen lumps of ice (often called volatiles) and rock that come from distant parts of our Solar System. ... Newer Entries . Hello, IтАЩm Colin, welcoming you to Astronotes, the PlanetariumтАЩs official blog. Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

... Astronomer s Moon . ... Credit Copyright: Mikhail Abgarian, Konstantin Morozov, Yuri Goryachko (Minsk, Belarus) Explanation: Jupiter is an astronomer's planet -- its large size and contrasting global cloud belts and zones allow detailed studies with a range of earthbound telescopes . ... But this impressive picture from a small, ground-based telescope reveals a stunning amount of detail on Ganymede, a jovian moon about the same size as Earth's moon but at least 1,500 times farther away. ...

... August 30, 1999 . Looking Back on an Eclipsed Earth . ... Explanation: Here is what the Earth looks like during a solar eclipse. ... Only observers near the center of the dark circle see a total solar eclipse - others see a partial eclipse where only part of the Sun appears blocked by the Moon . This spectacular picture of the 1999 August 11 solar eclipse was one of the last ever taken from the Mir space station , as Mir is being decommissioned after more than ten years of productive use. ...

... The famous fictional detective Sherlock Holmes always has his magnifying glass with him, ready to uncover a barely visible but crucial piece of evidence to solve the case. ... But very occasionally, astronomers stumble across a cosmic phenomena that creates a natural, cosmic magnifying glass and boosts our vision. ... Massive structures, like galaxies and clusters of galaxies, can bend the light from objects behind with their strong gravity. ...

... Fig. ... One of these is a pink-coloured solar prominence, a tongue of incandescent hydrogen gas spewing out of the obstructed solar disc, visible at the 2 o'clock position. ... Such an eclipse was predicted to be visible from deep within the Asian continent on the 1st August 2008. ... A pink-coloured prominence was visible right from the onset (Fig. 1), while several streamers appeared to emanate from the obstructed solar disk throughout the event (Fig. ... Last Revised: 2008 September 8th . ...

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... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... It's semi-common knowledge that stars twinkle and planets don't. By semi-common, I mean that a lot of folks know that, but I also mean it isn't strictly true. Stars twinkle because we see them from the bottom of a sea of air. ... These small bundles of air act like little lenses, bending light as it passes through them. ... What we see is the light from the star flickering. ...

... Our competition was open to school students from around Australia. ... Students displayed great ingenuity and creativity with their work. Many of the entries were displayed the Parkes Observatory Visitors Centre during National Science Week and on the recent Open Days. ... The ATNF offers the possibility of one or two weeks work experience (WE) for high school and TAFE students of normally 16 ? ... WE programs help students make future career choices by seeing what work life is like in practice. ...

Aristarchus of Samos, around 200 BC, proposed that the Earth revolved around the Sun, but found few supporters. ... For a discussion of the discovery of the solar system which includes a "moving picture" illustrating retrograde motion, click here . ... The Sun and Moon, he claimed, obviously moved around Earth. ... The full story of the discovery of the solar system--of Copernicus, Galileo, Tycho and Kepler--is long and would take this discussion too far afield. ... Nicolaus Copernicus . ...

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home publications > mercury . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... ASP Conference Series . ... IAU Publications . ... Publications of the ASP (PASP) . ... Mercury Magazine Contents . ... July/August 1996 . ... By Doppler shifts, by interferometry, by photometry -- the hunt to find planets around other stars is on, and amateur astronomers may soon be taking a leading role. ... Last May, the Space Telescope Science Institute canceled the Hubble amateur program for lack of interest. ...

... Total solar eclipse 2008 live from Novosibirsk On August 1, 2008, a total solar eclipse was being visible in Russia. ... The solar eclipse in Novosibirsk started at 9h41m UT and finished at 11h45m UT. ... Special Astrophysical Observatory of RAS eclipse expedition team made 3 channels live Web-cast of the eclipse from Novosibirsk in collaboration with . ... Total phase . ... It's preferably to install on computer VLC media player free program for Web-cast live receiving. ...

... Ryoanji Temple and around. d01. Pond in the garden of Ryoan-ji temple, where Rock Garden is. d02. In the Ryoan-ji temple garden. d03. The trees, moss and rocks look like handpainted. ... In the garden. d05. In the garden. d06. Ryoan-ji Rock Garden. ... Ryoan-ji Rock Garden. d11. Ryoan-ji Rock Garden. d12. Ryoan-ji temple, inner yard. d13. Ryoan-ji Rock Garden. d14. ... In the forest, on the hill near the temple. d17. In the forest, on the hill near the temple. ...

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... Our Sun is part of a huge wheel-shaped collection of stars. ... Astronomers have long suspected it was a very massive black hole, and that every galaxy had such a central mass, created early in the history of the universe. ... However, unless that object happens to be headed directly at the black hole (a relatively small target) it will just swing around and fly away again, like a comet making a pass at the Sun. The velocity acquired in falling towards the black hole also helps it escape. ...

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... Feeding the Monster: Gas Caught in its Death Spiral into a Massive Black Hole . ... Stromlo Professor Mike Dopita have used the Hubble Space Telescope to discover how a massive Black Hole in a nearby galaxy feeds itself. ... Earlier Hubble Telescope data obtained by another team member, Professor Holland Ford of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, had found a disk of gas rushing around the Black Hole at a speed of 500 kilometers a second. ...

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