... 2001 December 15 . Ganymede: Torn Comet - Crater Chain . ... What caused this crater chain? Remarkably, the exploration of the Solar System , has shown that crater chains like this one are not unique , though they were considered mysterious until a dramatic object lesson was offered by comet Shoemaker-Levy 9. ... It is very likely that similar torn comets from the early history of the Solar System are responsible for this and other crater chains . ... About APOD | ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

... December 8, 1996 . Degas Ray Crater on Mercury . ... Explanation : Like the Earth's Moon, Mercury is scarred with craters, testifying to an intense bombardment during the early history of the Solar System. ... In the above mosaic the bright rays emanating from the 27 mile wide Degas crater almost appear to be painted on . The rays consist of light colored material blasted out during the crater's formation. Numerous smaller, younger craters are seen superposed on the Degas crater itself. ...

... APOD: 2011 December 7 Kepler 22b: An Almost Earth Orbiting an Almost Sun . ... 7.12.2011 . ... Recently discovered planet Kepler 22b has therefore instantly become the best place to find life outside our Solar System. ... The planet, Kepler 22b , is over twice the radius of the Earth and orbits slightly closer in, but lies in the habitable zone where liquid water could exist on the surface. ... December . December 2011 . ... Kepler 16b: A Planet with Two Suns . ... Kepler s Suns and Planets . ...

... Conference abstracts (PDF, 92k) . 09:30-10:30 . ... Translation flows on Z d covers of compact translation surfaces . ... Coffee . ... Volume entropy for surface groups . ... Ergodicity of infinite translation surfaces . ... Stationary measures on homogeneous spaces . ... Dynamics of SL (2, R ) on Prym eigenforms . ... Symbolic dynamics of a traffic map . ... Ergodic flows and some problems in analysis . ... Connected components of the strata of the moduli space of meromorphic differentials . ...

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... Find the three stars of his belt and follow the line they make up the sky and you will meet Aldebaran, the brightest star in Orion?s neighbour, Taurus the Bull . ... A K5 III red giant about 350 times as luminous as our Sun, it appears as a red-orange magnitude 0.9 object in our sky. ... The name Aldebaran is derived from the Arabic for тАШthe FollowerтАЩ as the ancient Muslim astronomers saw it as trailing behind the Pleiades star cluster across the sky. ... Posted April 2, 2014 at 8:03 PM . ...

This is a series of periodic postings by Terry Moseley of the Irish Astronomical Association . ... Issued 2004 December 28th . Mercury correction; Comet Macholz, lecture . ... Lidl Binocs, IAA lecture, Dunsink, Geminids . ... 2004's best meteors, TV, Lecture, IAA Party . ... IAA lecture, TV Prog, 2 New Lectures, IAA sub . ... Two Lectures, ISS, next IAA lecture . ... Major TV Series, IAA Lecture . ... 2 Lectures, Lecture series, S.A.N. -Issued 2004 September 21st . ... Issued 2004 June 27th . ...

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... Home Education Workshops at Adorama Astro Imaging Workshop: Planetary Astro Imaging with a DSLR ? December 7, 2014 . ... Astro Answers . ... Beyond New York City . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... Presented by€а Adorama€а For the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

... I fixed the bugs that caused the map_point changes to fail tests. Then I removed the no longer needed dimensional variables from the p structure and got those changes to pass all the tests. ... I put the code under subversion control in a new branch called refactor. ... The code change which processes each drizzle kernel over an entire image rather than a line at a time now passes the unit tests and was checked in. ... I got the keywords argument changes done and got the tests to pass. ...

The Sun is our nearest star and the source of energy for life on Earth. ... For centuries astronomers wondered whether they were clouds floating in the Sun's atmosphere, but we now know that they really are huge regions of magnetic field, about as intense as the field at the poles of an iron magnet. ... Such abrupt events were named solar flares , and what made them especially interesting was that occasionally, after a prominent flare, a magnetic storm would erupt on Earth. ...

Construction Punch List: December 27, 1999 . ... Cold temperatures aloft and warm temperatures at the Basin's surface left the lovely cloud cover. ... Above: close gap between door and cowling . Above right: clean up terminatinon . Right: seal door guard . ... Left: interior trim around dorr missing . Below left: seal around shroud; close gap between cowling and door . Below: patch hole from old cable reel . Right: remove old cable rel bracket and extra conduit . ...

... The European HST Archive has been moved to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre ( ESAC ), Spain, where most of ESA's Space Science Archives are located and operated from. ... The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), jointly operated by ESA and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) was, until the end of 2010, the European HST science facility, supporting the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : The Moon only shows one face to us because it is not rotating. Better astronomy : The Moon only shows one face because it is rotating, once every time it revolves around the Earth. ... Place the Moon model on the table about 30 centimeters (one foot) away with the X facing the Earth model. ... You'll see that to keep the X facing the Earth model, you have to rotate the Moon model as it goes around the Earth model . ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... The Moon (1) . ... At any time, only half of the Moon's surface is visible from Earth, but librations allow us to "peek around the edges." ... Just as the rotation axis of the Earth is inclined by (90њ?23.5њ) to the Earth-Sun direction ( drawing above , from section #3 "Seasons of the year"), so the rotation axis of the Moon is inclined by about (90њ?6.5њ) to the mean Moon-Earth line. ... When it speeds up, the rotation of the Moon-Earth line around the Earth (measured in degrees per hour) is faster...

Mercury magazine is now digital only, with all of the same articles and features that appeared in the print version. The magazine will be formatted to download and include space for advertising. Our readers are directly involved in the mainstream of astronomy research and education. ... 86% are involved in astronomy education at some level . ... 1/4 page . ... Additional work includes resizing of ad material, reformatting or correcting electronic files and correction of advertiser errors. ...

ARECIBO, P.R. -- The smog-shrouded atmosphere of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, has been parted by Earth-based radar to reveal the first evidence of liquid hydrocarbon lakes on its surface. The observations are reported by a Cornell University-led astronomy team working with the world's largest radio/radar telescope at the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Arecibo Observatory. ... The piggybacking Huygens probe is scheduled to plunge into the hazy Titan atmosphere and land on the moon's surface. ...

August 26, 2006, . ... The 2 nd Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad to be held in Vladivostok and Ussurijsk (Far East of Russian Federation). Preliminary dates for the 2 nd Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad are December 4-11 (a couple weeks later than the 11 th IAO in Bombay ). ... For the teams which ask for Russian visa - together with the personal data for visas (or before). E-mails for sending the applications . ... The Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad 2006 - last information . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . Sun . ... Observing . ... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... A tough comet survives a close encounter with the Sun . ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

... Submitted by Al Takeda on 01/01/2015 18:28:32 . Comet Lovejoy (C/2014 Q2) in the constellation of Columba . It is the 5th comet discovered by the Australian amateur astronomer, Terry Lovejoy using an 8-inch telescope. This comet has a very long orbital period of 11,500 years. ... On January 1, 2015, Comet Lovejoy is in the constellation of Lepus and is visually a 5.6-magnitude glowing fuzz ball in moderately sized telescopes. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...