... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2015 October 25 . Jupiter and Venus from Earth . Image Copyright: Marek Nikodem (PPSAE) . ... The sunset conjunction of Jupiter and Venus in 2012 was visible almost no matter where you lived on Earth. ... Follow APOD on: Facebook , Google Plus , or Twitter . ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply . ...

... 24.10.2015 . ... The sunset conjunction of Jupiter and Venus in 2012 was visible almost no matter where you lived on Earth. ... Jupiter and Venus will be at it again this week before sunrise, passing under two degree from each other -- and even with bonus planet Mars nearby. ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ... Publications with keywords: Jupiter - Venus - conjunction . Publications with words: Jupiter - Venus - conjunction . ... Comet Meets Moon and Morning Star . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Planets . ... Alien Life . ... Space Flight . ... Prof. Pinklepot and the Aliens (Image credit: D-Signs and Displays ) . ... A sing-song concludes our visit to Planet Alien and the time-machine begins to start up again.€а We make our way back to Planet Earth and Professor Pinklepot thanks us for coming on this massive journey with him.€а The images used during the fly through space are stunning and we get a real sense of moving through the Cosmos. ...

I was wondering what conditions should be met to have the "darkest" sky .. ... Upon the above publication of the Southern Galactic hemisphere, TunГ Tezel started seeking opportunities to create the Northern counterpart image. ... So, the initial quest of having the darkest possible sky have delivered us these two all-sky images of the two galactic hemispheres as seen from Planet Earth. Zoomable and 'full-screenable' fisheye view of the "darkest sky" Southern Galactic Hemisphere image. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . Armagh Observatory, 11 June 2015: Armagh Observatory reports that the next two weeks will provide an interesting opportunity to observe the brightest planet, Venus, and the largest planet, Jupiter, as they move towards one another in the evening twilight. ... The image shows the sky view towards the West at around 11pm on 20 June 2015. ... Professor Mark E. Bailey, Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG. ...

... The study of extra solar planets will be one of the most important areas of research in astronomy in this century. ... The first planets outside the solar system were found in 1992 around the millisecond pulsar PSR B1257+12 by Alex Wolszczan at the Arecibo Observatory . ... Three space missions based on this principle (MOST, COROT and Kepler ) have already been launched or approved, and have the last one at least has the potential to find Earth-sized planets. ... SIM ( NASA ) is one of such missions...

... Aurora from Space . ... Magnetic Storms . ... The "ring of fire" seen by satellite cameras around the polar caps (picture below) is probably created by electrons leaking from the tail's plasma sheet, whose magnetic field lines form a somewhat imperfect trap. ... One possible explanation involves the close association between auroral arcs and electric currents which flow along field lines between the ionosphere and distant space ( Birkeland currents ). ... Why no aurora at the magnetic poles? ...

The Search for Planets Around Other Stars As we live out our lives securely attached to the Earth, breathing its air, and using its water, it becomes all too easy to take planets for granted. ... Yet the surprising fact is, we do not know for certain whether there are planets around other stars. ... A few years ago there was a flurry of excitement as some astronomers found wobbles in the motions of several nearby stars, suggesting the presence of planets. ... a stillborn star, if you will ? ...

Laboratory of Stellar Physics . ... A study of close binaries with black holes, neutron stars and white dwarfs. ... A study of SS433 - the massive close binary with a black hole in the regime of supercritical accretion . ... A search for intermediate-mass black holes (IMBH). The black holes which are not supermassive black holes observed in quasars, and which were formed not in massive stars. ... A search for new magnetic stars, new CP stars, measurements of magnetic fields in stars . ...

... The unexpected discovery of Jupiter-size planets very close to their parent stars (two examples of which are 51 Peg and Boo) creates a challenge for theories of planetary formation and structure. ... Direct observation of such extra-solar planets with an infrared interferometer is a difficult task because of the very high dynamic range required (typically 3?104 to 3?105), but not impossible if a very careful spatial filtering and calibration is imposed upon the recombined beams. ...

Альтернативный форум . ... Abramyan G.L. (@) - 10.01.2007 01:10 . Astronomers Create 3D Map of Dark Matter Space.com 07 January 2007 01:37 pm ET . ... Re: Astronomers Create 3D Map of Dark Matter Space.com 07 January 2007 01:37 pm ET Котофеич, 10.01.2007 13:55 . Re: Astronomers Create 3D Map of Dark Matter Space.com 07 January 2007 01:37 pm ET Анатолий Рыков, 10.01.2007 11:20 . ... Astronomers Create 3D Map of Dark Matter Space.com 07 January 2007 01:37 pm ET Abramyan G.L., 10.01.2007 01:10 . ...

... Submitted by Paul Cicchetti on 11/21/2012 19:59:04 . Jupiter 19 Nov 2012 . Single processed image from Flea 3 Firewire camera. APO 6" Scope at F 45. Stacked in Images Plus; around 2500 frames, through a red, green, and blue filter. Created a RGB image in PS CS5. Sharpen image and saved. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... This paper describes the main algorithms used by the Einstein Level One processing to create the exposure masks and the background maps for Einstein IPC images, and how these algorithms were recreated in the IRAF environment. Our goal was to recreate the algorithms used by the Level One Processing to create exposure masks and background maps for Einstein Image Proportional Counter (IPC) data (cf. sections 2.5 and 2.7 of Harnden et al. ...

... If requested ( runbackground =Y), the task creates a background lightcurve, as well as a background spectrum for the imaging modes (FF, eFF, LW, SW) using background masks. ... The background masks are created by task badpixfind using threshold parameters, appropriate for the detection of real X-ray sources. ... As the GTIs strongly depend on the intended science this screening is not performed and only background masks, the lightcurve, and a GTI file are created by epchain . ...

... 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 . ...

... The forcing by the solar wind is able to modify this field, creating a cavity called the magnetosphere. ... The outer boundary of the magnetosphere is called the magnetopause . In front of the dayside magnetopause another boundary called the bow shock is formed because the solar wind is supersonic. ... Solar wind and the magnetic field it carries along ( IMF ) modify the form of the magnetosphere, by pushing it in in the dayside and creating a long magnetotail in the nightside. ...

... Globular cluster NGC 2808, elliptical galaxy NGC 2986, and the Sextans Dwarf . ... I read recently about the possibility of two white dwarfs colliding to create a type la supernova. Why do astronomers think it has to be two white dwarfs instead of a white dwarf colliding with a regular star? ... In the case of two white dwarfs, the two stars spiral closer and closer, giving off gravitational radiation, until they collide. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

... More on 51 Peg: . The discovery of a Jupiter--mass planet in orbit around the solar--type star 51Peg has been reported by Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz (Geneva Observatory) on October 6th at the 9th Cambridge workshop on "cool stars, stellar systems, and the sun" held at Florence (Italy). ... Recall that the measurements of radial velocity only yield v sin i which in turn gives us M sin i. For most values of i, sin i will be greater than 0.5 and this gives a mass estimate of 0.5 Jupiter masses. ...

Galileo Finds Giant Iron Core in Jupiter's Moon Io . Jupiter's volcano-pocked moon Io has been found by NASA's Galileo spacecraft to have a giant iron core that takes up half its diameter, scientists report in today's issue of Science magazine. The spacecraft also has detected a large "hole" in Jupiter's magnetic field near Io, leading to speculation about whether Io possesses its own magnetic field. If so, it would be the first planetary moon known to have one. ... Space History Galileo . ...

Asteroid 2055 YU55 passes close by Earth; how close did it get? ... As Elizabeth Flock reported: An asteroid the size of an aircraft carrier missed Earth by only 200,000 miles as it flew by Tuesday night the closest an asteroid has been to Earth in 200 years Asteroid 2005 YU55, as it has been dubbed, streaked by at about 30,000 mph, but some scientists and lucky amateur astronomers caught a glimpse in their telescopes, where they saw strange structures on the asteroid\u2019s dark-colored surface. ...