... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2015 March 9 . Galaxy and Cluster Create Four Images of Distant Supernova . ... In this case the masses are a large galaxy and its home galaxy cluster . ... Measuring the locations and time-delays between the supernova images should allow astrophysicists to recover the amount of dark matter in the galaxy and cluster. ... About APOD | ...

... SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... ASP Conference Series . ... Publications of the ASP (PASP) . ... Creating NASA's Space Science Education and Public Outreach Program: The Real Stuff (Abridged) . ... This is a part of the story about how the program recently recognized by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) through its presentation of the 2006 Klumpke-Roberts Award?NASA's Space Science Education and Public Outreach (E/PO) program?was actually planned and implemented. ...

... Credit: Cassini Imaging Team , ISS , JPL , ESA , NASA Explanation: What's causing those strange dark streaks in the rings of Saturn? ... Specifically, an orbital dance involving Saturn's moon Prometheus keeps creating unusual light and dark streamers in the F-Ring of Saturn. ... Prometheus' gravity then pulls the closest ring particles toward the 100-km moon. ... Since Prometheus orbits faster than the ring particles, the icy moon pulls out a new streamer every pass. ... Titan Beyond the Rings . ...

... April 9, 1999 . WR 104: Pinwheel Star . ... Explanation: Like a cosmic lawn sprinkler, dust streaming from a rotating star system creates a pinwheel pattern in this false color infrared image . Astronomers discovered the surprising star dust scenario using a sophisticated interferometer and the 10 meter Keck I telescope to observe the bright Wolf-Rayet star WR 104. ... The problem is, their starlight would also be so intense that any dust flakes should be destroyed! ... About APOD > . ...

... Educational programs (English) . ... SSAU History . ... On June 11 Heinz Palkovski, Director of Institute of Metallurgy from Germany conducted a lecture on Preparation, testing and use of sandwich materials . ... The very same material is a sandwich, where the base and the filler arranged in layers of a certain thickness. ... Professor Heinz Palkovski is currently engaged in research of sandwich materials and his lecture was devoted to this theme. ... Tags: heinz palkovski lecture sandwich materials...

... APT . Using APT to Write Big Phase II Programs . ... Astronomer's Proposal Tool . ... 1) Use APT to perfect a template visit (or subset of a visit). ... b) Use the Export Text Proposal feature to create the new text representation of your perfected 1 visit program. Then use a script or text editor to create duplicates and import the program back into APT. or . ... Use the Export Text Proposal feature to create the text representation of your program and use a text editor to search and replace. ...

Blackholes Forum Message . ... Can Black Holes Create Space Time? ... Quasar jet streams (QJS) have been exhibiting Faster than light motion since they were first discovered by radio astronomy a long time ago. ... But what if Black holes were creating Space time, what if a relationship between matter energy and space time exists, in a conundrum what can matter exist in, it can exist in side of it's self, how about this as a hypothesis, can black holes create space time? ... www.astronomy.net . ...

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Next: Third: Create a session Up: Starting up correlator control Previous: First: Log on to б  Contents . Both the correlator interface and the correlator spectra display program are run from lbaccc . ... lbaccc . ... A more complete explanation of SPD, including available commands, is found in Appendix C. Next: Third: Create a session Up: Starting up correlator control Previous: First: Log on to б  Contents . ...

... Aurora from Space . ... Magnetic Storms . ... The "ring of fire" seen by satellite cameras around the polar caps (picture below) is