... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2004 December 25 . Big Beautiful Saturn . Composition Credit: Mattias Malmer , Image Data: Cassini Imaging Team . Explanation: As a present to APOD readers, digital imager Mattias Malmer offers a very high resolution view of big beautiful Saturn. ... About APOD | ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ...

... Labtayt Sulci on Saturns Enceladus . ... Credit Copyright: Cassini Imaging Team , SSI , JPL , ESA , NASA Explanation: Do some surface features on Enceladus roll like a conveyor belt ? ... Inspection of these images show clear tectonic displacements where large portions of the surface all appear to move all in one direction. Near the top of the image appears one of the most prominent tectonic divides: Labtayt Sulci , a canyon about one kilometer deep. ... Publications with keywords: Enceladus . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

From: TerryMosel aol.com Date: 30 November 2006 00:12:38 GMT Subject: Greenwich job, Geminid Meteors Hi all, 1. ROYAL OBSERVATORY GREENWICH: Job Vacancy - Astronomer - Public Engagement: Astronomer - Public Engagement. ... You can start to see the first Geminids in the late evenings from about December 8, but activity starts to pick up about the 10th, building to the maximum which this year will be in the early hours of December 14. ... Clear skies, Terry Moseley . ...

... December 13, 1997 . The Coma Cluster of Galaxies . ... The Coma Cluster of Galaxies pictured is one of the densest clusters known - it contains thousands of galaxies . Each of these galaxies house billions of stars - just as our own Milky Way Galaxy does. ... In fact, the Coma Cluster is so big it takes light millions of years just to go from one side to the other! Most galaxies in Coma and other clusters are ellipticals , while most galaxies outside of clusters are spirals . ...

... Главная . ... Новости . ... Проекты . Любителям астрономии . Проект ISON . ... Подробнее . ... Категория: Новости проекта ISON . ... Метки: Космический мусор ,љ Астероиды ,љ Гамма-всплески ,љ Любителям астрономии ,љ Кометы љ . ... Метки: Космический мусор ,љ Астероиды ,љ Любителям астрономии љ . ... Новости обсерваторий проекта] - Обсерватория Кубанского государственного университета от Иванов А - 09.04.2016 11:08:49 . ... 1999-2013 Copyright "Астрономия и Телескопостроение" . ...

... The material contained in this Handbook is derived from ground tests and design information obtained by the IDT and the engineering team at JPL, and from on-orbit measurements. ... HST Phase II Proposal Instructions , (Version 8.0, 15 December 1995). ... Calibrating Hubble Space Telescope: Post Service Mission (1995).1 . ... The Imaging Performance of the Hubble Space Telescope , Burrows, C. J., et. al., ... The Performance and Calibration of WFPC2 on the Hubble Space Telescope, Holtzman, J., et al....

Browse the articles below for new ideas for your classroom. Mercury September/October 2005: Astronomy Education and Public Outreach: Steps and Missteps Toward an Emerging Profession (pdf) . Focus on Education articles as they appeared in Mercury: . ... March/April 2000: . ... Education Newswire articles as they appeared in Mercury, by issue. ... January/February 2000 . November/December 1999 . ... March/April 1999 . ... November/December 1998 . ... November/December 1997 . ...

Last Updated: December 9, 1992 This README file can be found on the FTP site (cs.uwp.edu) in the directory /pub/music/lyrics/g/gibson.debbie or /pub/music/lists/btl/lyrics along with all of the below named files. The album files contain lyrics for the entire album, as they appear in the CD booklet. out.of.the.blue electric.youth anything.is.possible The lyric files for each individual song contains the 'sing along' version which should accurately represent what is actually sung on the album. ...

M1 image More About M1 Nice Color Picture . ... M16 image More About M16 HST image . ... M31 image More About M31 Nice Color Picture . ... M42 image ; M43 image More About M42/43 Nice Color CCD Picture . M51 image More About M51 Color Image of M51 M51 Supernova . M57 image More About M57 Nice Color CCD Picture Very Deep M57 Image . ... M81 image More About M81 M81 Supernova Ultraviolet Image of M81 More about Ultraviolet Imaging . M82 image More About M82 M82 False Color M82 True Color . ...

This striking view of the Cartwheel Galaxy is a composite of GALEX (blue), Hubble Space Telescope (green), Spitzer Space Telescope (red) and Chandra X-ray Observatory (purple) images. The outer ring, which could encircle our Milky Way Galaxy, appears blue and violet. Pink clumps along the outer ring show X-ray and ultraviolet sources occuring together. ... The Cartwheel's inner ring and nucleus appear yellow-orange because they emit primarily at visible and infrared wavelengths. ...

Astronomy Articles . Articles | ... Moon | ... Astronomy Binoculars - The Skies The Limit - by Scott Gray, September 2006 . ... Astronomy Terms - To Help You Study The Universe - by Scott Gray, October 2006 . ... Himalia is the only moon other than Europa, Ganymeade, Callisto and IO visible with small telescopes. ... The Harvest Moon refers to the Full Moon that comes closest to the autumnal equinox, or the first day of autumn. ... Think the study of stars is best left to professional astronomers? ...

... EXPN DNO D A T E UT TIME FQ SOURCE CORR-Telescopes VT734 355-MO Dec 21 08:00-21:00 C TAU-A Pointing VT735 356-TU Dec 22 08:00-21:00 C TAU-A Pointing VT736 358-TH Dec 24 09:00-20:00 K ORIONKL Pointing VT737 359-FR Dec 25 09:00-20:00 K ORIONKL Pointing VT738 360-SA Dec 26 09:00-20:00 C 0528+134 Mitk-UD KA SH W018c 364-WE Dec 30 06:00-15:00 L 0552+398 Socr-VLBA W071n 6-WE Jan 06 10:00-17:00 L J0745+10 Mitk-AT HO MP UD SH KA W059e 7-TH ...

... Today this year's largest group of sunspots will cross the Sun's central meridian. ... The next day, the number of spots in the group reached five, and the day after, on June 2nd, it was possible to count thirteen sunspots on solar disk, which had been clear prior to this. ... This year's two most powerful active areas, which passed across the solar disk at the beginning of May, 2009, are set to appear in the Sun's eastern sector in two days, on June 6th. ...

... Tte tables of ionosphere and plasmasphere parameters are contained in a file param.tbl. ... Latitude Longitude Numbers of tables for (degree) (degree) Month Wm=10 Wm=100 Wm= 150 80 30 March 1 - 3 397-399 793-795 80 150 March 4 - 6 400-402 796-798 80 270 March 7 - 9 403-405 799-801 60 30 March 10 - 12 406-408 802-804 60 150 March 13 - 15 409-411 805-807 60 270 March 16 - 18 412-414 808-810 40 30 March 19 - 21 415-417 811-813 40 150 March 22 - 24 418-420 814-816 40 270 ...

An image of the grand design of spiral galaxy M100 obtained with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope resolves individual stars within the majestic spiral arms. ... Hubble has the ability to resolve individual stars in other galaxies and measure accurately the light from very faint stars. This makes space telescope invaluable for identifying a rare class of pulsating stars, called Cepheid Variable stars embedded within M100's spiral arms. ... 617) 495-7062 . Fax: (617) 495-7356 . ...

... Observing . ... Solar Observing . ... April 3 (SUN) - Solar Observing, Central Park , Manhattan . ... APRIL'S SKY . ... Lecture Series at the American Museum of Natural History The Amateur Astronomers Association is proud to present an astronomy lecture series from October through May each year for our members and the .. ... The€аAmateur Astronomers Association of New York€аwas organized in 1927 to promote the study of Astronomy, emphasizing its cultural and inspirational value. ...

I-GALFA View of a Galactic Tangent Region . ... Image featured in NAIC Newsletter #46 . I-GALFA image of hydrogen gas in a tangent region outside the Sagittarius arm. ... Because we are viewing this gas in a direction closely aligned with (tangent to) its orbital motion, it appears to be moving away from us (we are orbiting the Galactic center with a similar speed, but our own motion in a different direction). ... The gas near 60 degrees longitude is being viewed tangent to its orbital motion. ...

... Stars . ... If you werenтАЩt lucky enough to see a meteor in the skies during the previous two months, December will not disappoint. ... Also try locating the constellation of Orion which is easy to find in the south western part of the sky and contains some of the skies best features while waiting for your eyes to adjust. ... Hanging proudly from OrionтАЩs belt is his sword, but for those with a telescope you will be able to see the Orion nebula, a stellar nursery where young stars are being born. ...

... V838 Mon is a member of a new class of eruptive variables which appear as a peculiar novae having late K-M type spectra in their outburst. Before its outburst, it was a wide binary system of B3V type stars. ... The B3V companion was seen in the outburst in the UV spectrum taken with HST (Rauch et al., ... In the latest spectra, the light of B3V companion was predominating in the short-wave photometric bands. ... CCD blue frames of V838 Mon before the eclipse (left) and in the eclipse (right). ...