... 2016 March 17 . Close Comet and Large Magellanic Cloud . ... Explanation: Sporting a surprisingly bright , lovely green coma Comet 252P/Linear poses next to the Large Magellanic Cloud in this southern skyscape. ... In fact, it is one of two comets that will make remarkably close approaches in the next few days as a much fainter Comet Pan-STARRS (P/2016 BA14) comes within 3.5 million kilometers (9 times the Earth-Moon distance) on March 22. ... About APOD | ... A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC . ...

... ESO is building what will be the World's largest optical telescope array, The Very Large Telescope (VLT). The VLT Project organisation is responsible for the design and construction of the Unit Telescopes, including enclosures, optics, adapter-rotators and coating unit. ... Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ...

... 17.03.2016 . ... Explanation: Sporting a surprisingly bright , lovely green coma Comet 252P/Linear poses next to the Large Magellanic Cloud in this southern skyscape. ... In fact, it is one of two comets that will make remarkably close approaches in the next few days as a much fainter Comet Pan-STARRS (P/2016 BA14) comes within 3.5 million kilometers (9 times the Earth-Moon distance) on March 22. ... Publications with keywords: comet - LMC . ... Infrared Portrait of the Large Magellanic Cloud . ...

... Today this year's largest group of sunspots will cross the Sun's central meridian. ... The next day, the number of spots in the group reached five, and the day after, on June 2nd, it was possible to count thirteen sunspots on solar disk, which had been clear prior to this. ... This year's two most powerful active areas, which passed across the solar disk at the beginning of May, 2009, are set to appear in the Sun's eastern sector in two days, on June 6th. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Our Galaxy . ... Space Flight . ... Posted on April 21, 2011 | No Comments An image from the European Southern Observatory, reveals two galaxies, NGC 3169 and NGC 3166, meeting in intergalactic space. ... Continue Reading.. ... 1 Comment NGC 2841 is a rather beautiful flocculent spiral galaxy. The Hubble Space Telescope recently imaged NGC 2841 as part of an investigation into how new stars are created. ... Posted on October 28, 2010 | ...

... A team of Japanese scientists including Armagh astronomer Dr David Asher have announced the discovery of the second largest known Earth-crossing asteroid. The group is based at the new Japanese Spaceguard Centre at Bisei, west of Osaka. ... The subsequent tracking and orbit determination was assisted by Armagh asteroid expert David Asher, who is currently visiting Japan to help in the setting up of the new Spaceguard Centre funded by the Japanese government. ...

... STScI-PRC99-27 A CLOSER ENCOUNTER WITH MARS Taking advantage of Mars's closest approach to Earth in eight years, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have taken the space-based observatory's sharpest views yet of the Red Planet. ... In these views the north polar cap is tilted toward the Earth and is visible prominently at the top of each picture. ... Dark sand dunes that surround the polar cap merge into a large, dark region called Acidalia. ...

... Our Sun is part of a huge wheel-shaped collection of stars. ... Astronomers have long suspected it was a very massive black hole, and that every galaxy had such a central mass, created early in the history of the universe. ... However, unless that object happens to be headed directly at the black hole (a relatively small target) it will just swing around and fly away again, like a comet making a pass at the Sun. The velocity acquired in falling towards the black hole also helps it escape. ...

General Information . ... The conference is organized by the Sternberg Astronomical Institute (SAI) of Moscow University and the IAU Working group "Site-testing Instruments" . ... Use of site data in telescope operation and adaptive optics. ... Recent conferences on this subject (2007, 2008) demonstrated great interest of the community, hence the need for a new meeting. ... Unlike previous recent conferences, this meeting will cover all aspects of site monitoring for optical/IR astronomy. ...

Blastoff to Saturn . ... Voyager 1 flew 124,000 kilometers (77,000 miles) above Saturn's cloudtops in 1980, showing us a close look at Saturn's large moon Titan and sending back stunning images of Saturn and its rings. ... In the early moonlit morning of October 15, 1997, Cassini launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida, to join these three trailblazing spacecraft on its voyage to Saturn. ... The Cassini-Huygens mission has two major phases: cruise and tour. ... Analogy: Titan and Saturn . ...

Using the data obtained with the Spitzer Space Telescope as part of the Surveying the Agents of a Galaxy's Evolution (SAGE) legacy survey, we have studied the variations of the dust composition and abundance across the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). ... Using a model and comparing with a reference spectral energy distribution from our Galaxy, we deduce the relative abundance variations of small dust grains across the LMC. ... ADS Citation Query . ... citations vs. year [year,citations] . ...

... Clearing the north-south hallway. Note the laтАж . Sidebar Left . Sidebar Top . No Sidebar . Sidebar Bottom . Sidebar Right . ... Title: Clearing the north-south hallway. Note the large fallen concrete lintel. Description: NOTE: All images and movies are copyright and must not be reproduced or mirrored in any form without written permission. ... NOTE: All images and movies are copyright and must not be reproduced or mirrored in any form without written permission. ...

... Telescopes . ... The International Conference "Dark Ages and White Nights (Spectroscopy of the CMB)" (June 20-24, 2016) . ... The International Conference "Stars: from collapse to collapse" (October 3-7, 2016) . The traditional annual competition conference of scientific and scientific-engineering papers of the Observatory staff members . ... A session of the Dissertation Council (October 16, 2015) . ... International scientific conference "Large Optical Telescopes" (October, 10-13, 2011) . ...

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 . ...

... News . ... NASA captures new images of large asteroid passing Earth . ... NASAт??s Deep Space Network antenna in Goldstone, California, has captured new radar images of asteroid 2005 YU 55 passing close to Earth. ... The image was taken November 7 at 2:45 p.m. EST, when the asteroid was approximately 860,000 miles (1.38 million kilometers) away from Earth. ... NASA detects, tracks, and characterizes asteroids and comets passing close to Earth using both ground- and space-based telescopes. ...

... Every effort is made to bring together a first-class panel of speakers, which will both inform and challenge those present. ... Several of the large cabins at Hidden Hollow Camp will be designated as dorm type accommodations for single registrants. ... Motels: L & K Travelodge Motel (1-419-756-7600), Super 8 Motel (1-419-756- 8875), Amerihost (1-800-434-5800), and the Baymont Inn (1-419-774-0005), located at the intersection of I-71 and State Route 13 about 10 minutes from Hidden Hollow '00. ...

Large-scale activity in solar eruptive events of October-November 2003 by SOHO/EIT data . ... We analyze large-scale disturbances associated with extremely powerful flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) occurred during two passages across the solar disk of a grandiose complex of three active regions in October–November 2003 using SOHO/EIT imaging data. ... In events repeating with short time intervals, the main dimmings observed show clear homology by their form and location. ...

... M ercury is the closest planet to the Sun and the eighth largest. ... Heraclitus even believed that Mercury and Venus orbit the Sun, not the Earth. ... The perihelion of its orbit precesses around the Sun at a very slow rate. 19th century astronomers made very careful observations of Mercury's orbital parameters but could not adequately explain them using Newtonian mechanics. ... Actually Earth's density is due in part to gravitational compression; if not for this, Mercury would be denser than Earth...

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