... 2014 August 13 . Rings Around the Ring Nebula . Image Credit: Hubble , Large Binocular Telescope , Subaru Telescope ; Composition Copyright: Robert Gendler . ... There is much more to the Ring Nebula (M57) , however, than can be seen through a small telescope . ... The Ring Nebula is about 2,000 light-years away toward the musical constellation Lyra . Follow APOD on: Facebook , Google Plus , or Twitter . ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply . ...

... Credit Copyright: Kwon, O Chul ( TWAN ) Explanation: Rising in the dark hours before dawn, wandering Venus now shines as the brilliant morning star. Its close conjunction with the Moon on August 13 was appreciated around planet Earth. But skygazers in eastern Asia were also treated to a lunar occultation , the waning crescent Moon passing directly in front of the bright planet in still dark skies. ... Publications with keywords: Moon - occultation . ... Morning, Moon, and Mercury . ...

... The usual maximum is due around August 12, 17h30m-20h00m UT, but Esko Lyytinen suggests we may encounter the 1610 Perseid trail earlier on August 12, around 9h00m UT (ЮЛo = 139ТА661). ... Image: Are we in for a Perseid spike? ... This is a nice automatic page made for IMO (the International Meteor Organisation ) by Geert Barensten, currently a PhD student at Armagh OBservatory. ... Monday, 10 August 2009 01:26 . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

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... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. August 18, 1999 . Sun Block . ... Explanation: During a total solar eclipse, Earth's moon blocks the sun - almost exactly. While the sun is about 400 times wider than the moon, it is also about 400 times farther away and each appears to be half a degree or so in diameter. ... Tomorrow's picture: Light From The Dark Sun . ... About APOD > . ...

... Armagh Planetarium . ... Universe . ... Posted on August 30, 2013 | ... Continue Reading.. ... 1 Comment тАЬMars is red, Earth is Blue, WeтАЩve discovered lots of new worlds, And one of them is blue too!тАЭ So IтАЩm not a poet and I definitely know it! ... The Universe [ ] . ... Posted on July 31, 2013 | ... 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. ...

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. ...

The AstroGuide . ... AstroGuide | ... Other Sites . ... AstroGuide Listing . ... See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . ... Last Update August 21, 2005 . Listed Since August 21, 2005 . ... Web Site . ... A real goldmine for amateur and professional astronomers. We should have more of such site around. ... Web . ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... 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. ...

... January 8, 2007 . ... SENTINEL CORRESPONDENT . Astronomers at UC Santa Cruz have discovered a surprisingly massive halo of bright, old stars around our galactic neighbor Andromeda, pushing the outer limits of the galaxy to 1.5 million light years, and teaching them how spiral galaxies behave. ... Younger stars may be remnants of a galaxy devoured, but older stars could have formed with the birth of the galaxy. ... http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2007/January/08/local/stories/03local.htm . ...

... Home Lectures Lecture Series 2015-2016 . ... Lecture Series 2014-2015 . ... Beyond New York City . ... The Amateur Astronomers Association is proud to present an astronomy lecture series from October through May each year for our members and the public. ... Amateur Astronomer Association is pleased to announce we will be offering select, limited reserved seating for current AAA members for the Friday, January 8, 2015 AAA Lecture entitled Robert Nemiroff ?2015 Astronomy Picture of the Day?. ...

... 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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CSIRO Ref 98/194 . Astronomers using CSIRO 's Parkes radio telescope have made a picture that shows our Galaxy ripping apart its nearest neighbours. ... The two nearest neighbouring galaxies, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (left), are less than a tenth of our Galaxy in size. ... One was a process called ram-pressure stripping - gas being swept out of the Magellanic Clouds as the Clouds travelled through our Galaxy's outskirts." ... Email: hsim@atnf.csiro.au . ...

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... Moscow Centre for Continuous Mathematical Education . ... Grigori L. Litvinov : Dequantization of mathematical structures and tropical/idempotent mathematics. ... Coffee break . ... Dmitry A. Nikolayev (Lipetsk, Russia): Modelling and control of multiagent systems by idempotent algebra methods. ... Theodor E. Krenkel (Moscow, Russia) On the geometry of quantum codes. ... Dima Grigoriev (Lion, France) and Vladimir V. Podolskii (Moscow, Russia) Complexity of tropical and min-plus linear prevarieties ....

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 . ...

... Sun images . Magnetic storms online . Sun flares . ... Active areas . August : 2015 . ... X-ray emission of the Sun from 08.08.2015 to 09.08.2015 (GOES-15) . Today, 1 solar flare was observed: . Active region . ... Flare of class C4.2 . 2396 . ... Yesterday, 4 solar flares were observed: . ... Last updated: August 10, 2015 00:00 UT . ... 1953-2016 Laboratory of X-ray astronomy of the Sun, LPI RAS, Russia . ...