... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2008 October 18 . Sharpless 171 . ... Explanation: Cosmic pillars of cold molecular gas and clouds of dark dust lie within Sharpless 171, a star-forming region some 3,000 light-years away in the royal constellation Cepheus . ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply . ... A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC . ...

... October 11, 1999 . Eta Carinae in X-Rays . Credit: Chandra X-ray Observatory , NASA . Explanation: Eta Carinae is the one of the most luminous star systems in our Galaxy , radiating millions of times more power than our Sun . Eta Carinae is also one of the strangest star systems known, brightening and fading greatly since the early 1800s. Recently, the Chandra Observatory observed Eta Carinae in X-ray light , adding even more unanticipated pieces to this enigmatic puzzle. ...

... The central ring is about one light-year across, but this remarkably deep exposure - a collaborative effort combining data from two different telescopes - explores the looping filaments of glowing gas extending much farther from the nebula's central star . Of course, in this well-studied example of a planetary nebula , the glowing material does not come from planets. ... Publications with keywords: Ring Nebula - planetary nebula . Publications with words: Ring Nebula - planetary nebula . ...

... Armagh Planetarium . ... Universe . ... Posted on November 25, 2014 | ... Continue Reading.. Posted on October 30, 2014 | ... Posted on September 26, 2014 | ... Newer Entries . 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. ... Subscribe to Astronotes . ... Copyright Armagh Planetarium 2014 All Rights Reserved. ...

... Welcome to the star-studded premiere of the most complex telescope on Earth: ALMA! To celebrate the launch of ALMA, astronomers have released the first photo taken by the telescope, which shows a pair of galaxies called the Antennae Galaxies. ... For this picture of the Antennae Galaxies, only 12 of ALMA s dishes were used because the telescope is still under construction. ... ALMA needs very dry air, because water in the atmosphere absorbs sub-millimetre waves. ...

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Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the updates and links web pages. Discovered independently by Lick Observatory Supernova Search (USA) and Koichi Itagaki (Japan). ... 2009/10/11.44 . 17.2 . ... Joseph Brimacombe . ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Flights Chronology . ... News . ... S.P. Korolev Rocket Space Corporation Energia held a session chaired by General Designer V.P. Legostaev of the General Designers Review Board for the Russian Segment (RS) of the International Space Station (ISS). ... On the flight test program for the Rocket-Space Complex with LV Soyuz-2.1a to launch cargo vehicles Progress M-M; . ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

The AstroGuide . ... AstroGuide | ... AstroGuide Listing . ... See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . Page of Krono Branch of the Polish Amateur Astronomers Society. Info about our activity, results of latest observation and links to other Polish sities are included . ... Listed Since October 26, 2004 . ... Web Site . http://ptma-krosno.teleskopy.pl/ . ... Web . www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ... dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

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. ...

Orbital intersection . ... Structure of Taurid stream . ... Meteoroid swarm and Taurid fireballs . ... The following four diagrams schematically show four different Taurid orbits and the orbits of Earth and Jupiter. ... The Taurid stream contains particles (small, solid grains) at different stages of their precession cycles. ... The study of when a meteor stream can produce a meteor shower is the study of when precession brings orbits to intersection with Earth, or e.g. with Mars . ...

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To the Deputy Head of the Administration of Russian Federation President Mr. A.V.Ogarev . ... First the international space station (ISS) Alpha, which is under construction now, will compare to the OS Mir on the amount of information only in 5-7 years. ... Thirdly, the participation of Russian Federation in the international space projects, including work on the international space station (ISS) Alpha, is to be aimed first of all at the providing of Russian interests. ...

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home publications > mercury . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... ASP Conference Series . Monograph Publications . ... Publications of the ASP (PASP) . ... Mercury Magazine Contents . ... September/October 1997 . ... Instructors fret that no textbook is quite right, authors and publishers get shot down when they try to innovate, students count the days 'til they can sell back their unfriendly tomes. ... Astronomers have begun to rethink graduate education, and none too soon. ...

Magnetic field measurements onboard the Interball Tail spacecraft are carried out by the FM-3I instrument which consists of two flux-gate magnetometers covering two different ranges: [-200, +200] nT and [-1000, +1000] nT. Besides scientific goals, the FM-3I experiment data is used to perform the attitude control of the Interball Tail spacecraft. ... August 22, 1995 . ... October 18, 1995 . Top of the page . ... Back to the Interball Home Page . ...

... We had a unique diagnostic tool for determining whether or not the secondary was fractured during the dark run in that we had 3 sets of focus sweep data for the imaging camera taken on the nights of 05 October 1999, 11 October 1999, and 14 October 1999. ... Figure: 05 October 1999, CCD g1 . ... Surface plot. ... Figure 32 plots the same data but for CCD g3. ... Figure: Comparison of normalised brighness for the out-of-focus doughnuts for the nights of 05, 11, and 14 October 1999 for CCD g1. ...

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... Moon . ... What can astronomers tell us about the different colors on the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa? ... We can use the colors of Europa s surface to tell us about the chemical compounds that make up the surface and subsurface of the jovian moon. Even before the first spacecraft made a close visit to Europa, astronomers on Earth used telescopes to study the moon and were able to use a technique called spectroscopy to determine that Europa s surface is composed mostly of water ice. ...