... 2008 July 14 . Changes in Angular Mars . ... As both Earth and Mars orbit the Sun, the apparent angular size of Mars changes as viewed from the Earth. Pictured above from Enschede , Holland , Mars was captured in 2007 and 2008 with 30 separate images, all taken with the same magnification. When Earth and Mars are on opposite sides of the Sun, Mars appears relatively small. ... Since Mars is always more distant from the Sun than the Earth, Mars never shows a crescent phase to Earthlings. ...

... Mysterious Changing feature on Titan . ... 15.10.2014 . ... Credit Copyright: Cassini Radar Mapper , ASU , JPL , ESA , NASA Explanation: What is that changing object in a cold hydrocarbon sea of Titan? Radar images from the robotic Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn have been recording the surface of the cloud-engulfed moon Titan for years. ... Subsequent observations in 2014 found the object remained -- but had changed! ... Publications with keywords: Titan . Publications with words: Titan . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Sky this Month . ... Star Atlas . ... stars . ... The Sky This Week: April 1 - 10 . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Why do some stars appear to flash a variety of different colors when you look at them through a telescope? ... So, Earthт??s atmosphere will bend some colors from especially bright stars more so than others, which makes the source look like itт??s flashing colors. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

... 2000 June 21 . Solstice Celebration . ... Each individual image highlights a different temperature regime in the upper solar atmosphere and was assigned a specific color; red at 2 million, green at 1.5 million, and blue at 1 million degrees C. The combined image shows bright active regions strewn across the solar disk, which would otherwise appear as dark groups of sunspots in visible light images, along with some magnificent plasma loops and an immense prominence at the righthand solar limb. ...

home publications > mercury . ... Astronomy Beat . ... Nearly four centuries ago, Galileo's simple observations of Earth's planetary sibling, Venus, buoyed the proponents of a Copernican universe. ... The Italian astronomer had settled into a new house in Florence and had begun to observe Venus, which in November 1610 would have appeared as an evening star, bright in the western sky after dusk. ... From these two observations, Galileo inferred that Venus must orbit closer to the Sun than does Earth. ...

... As part of the initial data delivery, the observer receives a package of so-called paper products , which are intended to provide a quick look at the data in hard-copy form. ... The information is presented in three separate tables: Target List, Observation List, and Observation Statistics. ... First, they do not have the visit-level summary of observations; some of the information is available via the tape log, but without any data quality flags or image statistics. ...

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A team of U.S. and German astrophysicists have made the first ever detection of X-rays coming from a comet. ... Following the initial detection, the team reported repeated X-ray emissions from the comet over the next 24 hours. ... One preliminary theory is that X-ray emission from the Sun was absorbed by a cloud of gaseous water molecules surrounding the nucleus of the comet, and then were re-emitted by the molecules in a process physicists call "fluorescence." ... Comets . ...

XMM-Newton CCF Release Note XMM-CCF-REL-174 pn telescope e ective area modi cation M. Kirsch June 9, 2004 1 CCF components Name of CCF VALDATE List of Blocks changed CAL VERSION XSCS ag XRT3 XAREAEF 0009 2000-01-13T00:00:00 ONAXISXAREAEF 3.169 NO 2 Changes XMM EPIC-pn observations with very high statistic show residuals at the Silicon edge around 1.8 keV and gold edge around 2.2 keV (see Figure 1). The gold edge feature can be explained by not perfect calibration of the telescope e ective area. ...

... Any water on Mars is locked up in the ice caps. ... The most recent successful mission to Mars is the Mars Science Laboratory better known as the Curiosity rover. ... CuriosityтАЩs primary role is to search for conditions that may have once been able to harbour any sort of bacterial life concealed beneath the Martian surface. ... Using what we know about life on Earth, where there is water, there is life, signs of water may help us understand what Mars was like billions of years ago. €а . ...

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... Archives . ... X-ray summer school is on going. ... Recently I went to JSM 2007 and tried to attend talks about (bayesian) change point problems, which frequently appears in time series models, often found in economics. ... Tags: ARCH , Bayesian Block , challenges , change point problem , GARCH , light curves , summer school , X-ray . ... I received another type of changing point problem, defining a peak precisely, from a x-ray school student, who tried bayesian block but said it didn?t work. ...

Image credit: Michael Nolan, Arecibo Observatory. These radar images of near-Earth asteroid 2001 SN263 were obtained on 2008 Feb 12 and 13. ... Image from Feb 12 . ... First near-Earth triple asteroid discovered by Arecibo Observatory . ... was discovered this week by astronomers at the sensitive radar telescope at Cornell University?s Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. ... For example, Arecibo has discovered more than half of the near-Earth binary asteroid systems discovered since 1999. ...

M1 image More About M1 Nice Color Picture . ... M16 image More About M16 HST image . ... M31 image More About M31 Nice Color Picture . ... M42 image ; M43 image More About M42/43 Nice Color CCD Picture . M51 image More About M51 Color Image of M51 M51 Supernova . M57 image More About M57 Nice Color CCD Picture Very Deep M57 Image . ... M81 image More About M81 M81 Supernova Ultraviolet Image of M81 More about Ultraviolet Imaging . M82 image More About M82 M82 False Color M82 True Color . ...

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... The HH flow associated with young stellar object HL Tau has an exciting history and even until now the origin of some its features is not clear yet. ... Knotty structures of Herbig-Haro jets are common phenomena and knowing the origin of such structures is essential for understanding the processes of jet formation. ... In the flow detected compact knots with high (-150 km/s) and bow shape structures in front of those, with low radial velocities (-50 km/s). ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... Science Users Information > Observing Facilities > La Silla Facilities > La Silla Science Operations . ... La Silla News . ... Internal Pages . La Silla Science Operations Department (LSO) is part of the La Silla Paranal Observatory and is in charge of the operations of the telescopes on La Silla. ... In the La Silla Science Operation pages, you should find all the information you need for your observations from the time you have an idea of observations until when you finish processing your data. ...

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1996/22/text/ Probing the mysterious heart of the Crab Nebula, the tattered remains of a stellar cataclysm witnessed more than 900 years ago, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found that the Crab is even more dynamic than previously understood, based on a cosmic "movie" assembled from a series of Hubble observations. ... Because of this flickering, the neutron star is also called a "pulsar." ...

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