... 2012 February 29 . Moon and Planets Over Catalonia . ... Explanation: Venus and Jupiter will appear unusually close in the sky over the next month. ... In the above image composite taken late last week from Catalonia , Spain , a bright crescent moon appears to the right of Venus, while Jupiter appears near the top of the image. ... A gallery of conjunction images is visible on the Asterisk -- APOD's discussion board. ... The next Jupiter-Venus conjunction will occur in May 2013. ... About APOD | ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 2.02.2016 . ... Credit Copyright: ESA , Rosetta , NAVCAM Explanation: Spacecraft Rosetta continues to circle and map Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Crossing the inner Solar System for ten years to reach the vicinity of the comet in 2014, the robotic spacecraft continues to image the unusual double-lobed comet nucleus . ... February 2016 . ... 2013 2014 . ... Publications with keywords: comet - comet nucleus . Publications with words: comet - comet nucleus . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Moon . Planets . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... February . ... The ringed planet will be quite bright, but unlike Jupiter it will not be the brightest point of light in the sky, this accolade will return to Sirius which is the brightest star in our night sky in the constellation of Canis Major. ... Seven days later on February 18, the Moon will be in its full Moon phase. ... Tweets that mention Wonders of the February Night Sky | ... Astronotes . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2000 February 28 . The Sombrero Galaxy from VLT . ... FORS1 , VLT ANTU , ESO . ... Reasons include the Sombrero 's unusually large and extended central bulge of stars, and dark prominent dust lanes that appear in a disk that we see nearly edge-on. Billions of old stars cause the diffuse glow of the extended central bulge. ... About APOD | ...

... 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. ...

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. ...

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... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . On Friday 15th February the recently discovered Apollo-class near-Earth asteroid 2012 DA14 will make a close pass by the Earth. The asteroid will come within about 34,000 km (21,000 miles) of the centre of our planet at 7.26 p.m. That is, within the ring of geostationary communication satellites which orbit at some 35,800 km above the surface of the Earth. ... Last Revised: 2013 February 11th . ...

... 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. ...

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... Observing . ... Home Education Workshops at Adorama Astronomy Workshop: Observing Variable Stars from the City ? February 15, 2015 . ... 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 €аFor the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

... WFC3 Data Handbook > Chapter 5: WFC3-UVIS Sources of Error > 5.5 Image Anomalies . ... Ghosts appear as images of the pupil formed from the light of a bright target in, or near the UVIS detector FOV. ... Further details concerning these ghosts may be found in WFC3 ISR 2007-09. ... Specifically, in full-frame, unbinned UVIS readouts, the CT level is ~2x10 -4 of the source when the target is in quadrants A or C and about 8x10 -5 when the target is in quadrants B or D ( WFC3 ISR 2009-03 ). ...

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... X CB (X) Opening of a set X by a disk B. Closing of a set X by a disk B. Science-Driven Feature Selection (a) (b) Mount Wilson Classification The Mount Wilson classification scheme groups sunspots into four classes based on the complexity of magnetic flux distribution in associated active regions [1]: class : groups dominated by a single unipolar sunspot class : a pair of sunspots of opposite magnetic ... Convex hulls are utilized to measure polarity mixture in (j). ...

... Pluto's orbit is also highly inclined -- tilted 17 degrees to the orbital plane of the other planets. ... Ground-based observations indicate that Pluto's surface is covered with methane ice and that there is a thin atmosphere that might freeze and fall to the surface as the planet moves away from the Sun. ... This is the first image-based surface map of the solar system's most remote planet, Pluto. ... This is the first surface map of Charon, the moon of the solar system's most remote planet, Pluto....

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Four spacecraft: INTERBALL Tail probe (IB_TAIL), Auroral probe (IB_AUR), POLAR(NASA/ISAS), GEOTAIL (NASA) are considered. ... Orbital ASCII files | ... four spacecraft . ... INTERBALL . Tail Probe . ... ASCII files . ... Auroral probe . ... NASA) . ... NASA, ISAS) . ... The four spacecraft . ... INTERBALL mission | ...

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 . ...