... 2006 February 22 . An Unusually Smooth Surface on Saturn's Telesto . Credit: Cassini Imaging Team , SSI , JPL , ESA , NASA . Explanation: Why is Saturn's small moon Telesto so smooth? ... Telesto orbits Saturn always just ahead of the much larger moon Tethys . Pictured above , Telesto's unusually smooth surface was found to show some large craters and boulders , but not the high density of craters found on nearby Tethys or most other Saturnian moons. ... About APOD | ...

... An Unusually Smooth Surface on Saturns Calypso . ... Credit Copyright: Cassini Imaging Team , SSI , JPL , ESA , NASA Explanation: Why is this moon of Saturn so smooth? This past weekend, humanity's Saturn-orbiting Cassini spacecraft passed as close to Saturn's small moon Calypso as it ever has, and imaged the small moon in unprecedented detail. ... Calypso orbits Saturn always behind Saturn's much larger moon Tethys , whereas Telesto's orbit always precedes Tethys. ... Saturn: Moons in Transit . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2000 February 28 . The Sombrero Galaxy from VLT . ... FORS1 , VLT ANTU , ESO . ... Reasons include the Sombrero 's unusually large and extended central bulge of stars, and dark prominent dust lanes that appear in a disk that we see nearly edge-on. Billions of old stars cause the diffuse glow of the extended central bulge. ... About APOD | ...

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... A brief look at Sakurai?s Object . ... Sakurai?s Object (V4334 Sagittarii) was discovered on the 20 th of Febuary 1996 by a Japanese astronomer Yukio Sakurai. ... Initially astronomers thought it to be a nova (an explosion on the surface of a white dwarf). ... When it failed to show any hydrogen emissions from the star, the charateristic of a nova, they realised that this was a very interesting star. ... Sakurai?s object was in fact a white dwarf when it went through this last helium burst. ...

... Pluto's orbit is also highly inclined -- tilted 17 degrees to the orbital plane of the other planets. ... Ground-based observations indicate that Pluto's surface is covered with methane ice and that there is a thin atmosphere that might freeze and fall to the surface as the planet moves away from the Sun. ... This is the first image-based surface map of the solar system's most remote planet, Pluto. ... This is the first surface map of Charon, the moon of the solar system's most remote planet, Pluto....

... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel to E-ELT Armazones . ... ESOтАЩs New Technology Telescope (NTT) has been used to find the first evidence that asteroids can have a highly varied internal structure. By making exquisitely precise measurements astronomers have found that different parts of the asteroid Itokawa have different densities. ... At Paranal, ESO operates the Very Large Telescope, the worldтАЩs most advanced visible-light astronomical observatory and two survey telescopes. ...

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EUROPA'S SURFACE COMPOSITION AND MORPHOLOGY ­ IMPLICATIONS FOR INSITU TARGET DEFINITIONS - Poster 5 Gabriele, E. Arnold (1,2), Harald Hiesinger (1), and Roland Wagner (2) (1) WestfДlische Wilhelms-UniversitДt MЭnster, Institut fЭr Planetologie (IfP), Germany; (2) German Aerospace Center (DLR), Berlin, Germany Moscow, ELW Workshop, IKI, 9 ­ 13. February 2009 EUROPA'S SURFACE COMPOSITION AND MORPHOLOGY ­ IMPLICATIONS FOR INSITU TARGET DEFINITIONS Pappalardo et al. ... February 2009 ...

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Ganymede is the largest moon in our solar system, larger even than the planets Pluto and Mercury. ... Ganymede's surface consists of two main types of terrain: old, dark polygonal units, and young, bright valleys and ridges (see figure 11 ). ... In a similar way, hitting a large block of ice with a hammer makes white marks. ... Ganymede as seen by Voyager 2. ... Because Voyager couldn't spot any large impact craters, scientists have concluded that the moon's surface is young. ... Moon . ... Europa . ...