... November 22, 1996 . Fliers Around the Blue Snowball Nebula . ... But now yet another mystery has come to light: what created the fast-moving gas clouds that appear around planetary nebula ? Dubbed FLIERs for Fast Low-Ionization Emission Regions, these knots of dense gas appear to have been ejected from the central star before it cast of the planetary nebula. ... In the above false-color picture of NGC 7662, the Blue Snowball Planetary Nebula , the FLIERs are featured in the image inserts. ...

... 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. ...

... WFPC2 , HST , NASA Explanation: Unusual appendages around bright stars are commonplace, but never seem to be mentioned. ... First, a telescope brings starlight falling over a large area to a small area . ... These annoying spikes steal precious light from the central image and hide light from fainter, more interesting stars. Above, astronomers are more interested in the half-circled point near the image center, than the cool-looking diffraction spikes from the bright star at the bottom. ...

... November 5, 1997 . The Milky Way's Gamma-Ray Halo . Credit: D. Dixon ( UCR ), D. Hartmann ( Clemson ), E. Kolaczyk ( U. Chicago ), NASA . Explanation: Our Milky Way galaxy appears to be surrounded by a halo of gamma rays . Gamma rays are the most energetic form of electromagnetic radiation , with more than a hundred thousand times the energy of visible light, but known gamma-ray sources don't account for the diffuse distribution of this high-energy glow. ... About APOD > . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Meteors and Meteorites . ... Stars . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... This famous depiction of the Leonids was based on a first hand account of a meteor storm by a minister, Joseph Harvey Waggoner. ... In the autumn the Great Square of Pegasus is visible in the southern night sky. ... I hope this guide to the November night sky is helpful and have fun star sight-seeing! ... Tweets that mention The Leonid meteors: highlights of the November night sky | ...

Next: A box, to include Up: To produce a region Previous: To produce a region . select cursor and circle . When in the image window, the mouse now has a box shape with an arrow at the upper left corner. The mouse buttons act as follows: . LEFT - to move the center of the circle at the position of the arrow point. ... RIGHT - idle. center the circle at the point source by positioning the arrow point and clicking on the LEFT mouse button. A circle will appear at the arrow position. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . See also images taken on November 22nd . Image taken by Andy McCrea who says, . To me the comet appears yellowish and it has gone from star-like to a . ... More images from Andy McCrea here . ... The true explanation is that a very faint comet, known as periodic comet Holmes, produced a massive outburst of material and became a million times brighter than it was just a day earlier. ... More images from Andy McCrea . ...

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NASA's Galileo spacecraft radioed confirmation late this week that it has entered Jupiter's environment, crossing over the boundary from interplanetary space into the giant magnetic cocoon around Jupiter called the magnetosphere. ... On Thursday, December 7, Galileo's previously deployed atmospheric probe will plunge into Jupiter's cloud tops at 5:56 p.m. EST and descend into the giant planet on a parachute. ... Jupiter's magnetosphere is like a giant bubble around the planet. ...

... Home Lectures Lecture Series 2015-2016 . ... Lecture Series 2014-2015 . ... Beyond New York City . ... The Amateur Astronomers Association is proud to present an astronomy lecture series from October through May each year for our members and the public. ... Amateur Astronomer Association is pleased to announce we will be offering select, limited reserved seating for current AAA members for the Friday, January 8, 2015 AAA Lecture entitled Robert Nemiroff ?2015 Astronomy Picture of the Day?. ...

... Makemake, a dwarf planet in our Solar System, appears to have no atmosphere; it is bald! ... Until a few years ago, Pluto was considered to be the most distant planet, until it was downgraded to a dwarf planet like Makemake. ... If there was an atmosphere around Makemake, the star would have slowly faded away as the dwarf planet blocked it. ... Cool fact: Beside Makemake there are four other known dwarf planets in our Solar System: Pluto, Ceres, Haumea and Eris. ...

... The Pleiades star cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, is a conspicuous object in the night sky with a prominent place in ancient mythology . ... The stars in the Pleiades are thought to have formed together around 100 million years ago, making them 1/50th the age of our sun, and they lie some 130 parsecs (425 light years ) away. ... Data for these stars are listed in a table below. ... Yes . ... WEBDA Pleiades cluster data . ... M45: The Pleiades Star Cluster (2007 November 18) ...

This false-color composite image, taken with the Hubble Space Telescope, reveals the orbital motion of the planet Fomalhaut b. Based on these observations, astronomers calculated that the planet is in a 2,000-year-long, highly elliptical orbit. The planet will appear to cross a vast belt of debris around the star roughly 20 years from now. ... The black circle at the center of the image blocks out the light from the bright star, allowing reflected light from the belt and planet to be photographed. ...

... This artist's concept shows a lump of material in a swirling, planet- . ... Astronomers have witnessed odd behavior around a young star. Something, perhaps another star or a planet, appears to be pushing a clump of planet-forming material around. ... Spitzer observed infrared light coming from one such disk around a young star, called LRLL 31, over a period of five months. ... could be shoving planet-forming material together, causing its thickness to vary as it spins around the star. ...

November 1-4, 1993 . ... On Nov 2 (b), strong evolution of the chain takes place during the LDE/CME event occurred in AR 7613 (see Figure 2 for details): new chain fragments are developed from the regions 1 and 2 eastward and westward respectively. (d)-(e) - Comparing the Nobeyama radio heliograms with the Yohkoh/SXT images, one can see that during three days the long-living chain between sources 1 and 2 coincides with a sharp SE boundary of the large coronal hole. ...

... Solar Wind . ... During a total eclipse of the Sun, when for a few minutes the Moon completely covers the Sun's face, a glow appears around the darkened Sun--the solar corona, the Sun's outermost atmosphere. ... Such high levels of ionization require the atoms to be buffeted around by extremely high temperatures, around 1,000,000 C (1,800,000 F). ... It is brightest near sunspots, whose arched field lines apparently hamper the outflow of solar wind which carries away energy and helps cool the corona...

Astronomy Discussion Forums . ... Atm ћ Astrophotography ћ Blackholes ћ Blackholes2 ћ CCD ћ Celestron ћ Domes ћ Education . ... New model: How do the Sun and Moon appear to move across the sky - mito111 - September 15, 2011 - 04:22 UTC . ... Note the change - rick_crockett - April 19, 2007 - 09:38 UTC . ... A Question Regarding Photons and Absolute Zero - inalitalllane - December 25, 2004 - 22:06 UTC . ... Virtual Space Agency - dupagepilot - November 18, 2003 - 12:03 UTC . ... www.astronomy.net . ...

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... Australian telescopes have helped the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) find thousands of new galaxies. ... Preliminary HST results were released today by NASA's Space Telescope Science Institute , as were the results from the Australian institutions. ... Called the Hubble Deep Field South , it complements the original Hubble Deep Field , another small patch in the northern sky. ... The Anglo-Australian Telescope has measured the distances of about 75 faint far-flung galaxies in the field. ...

... Circumstellar disc of beta Pictoris: constraints on grain properties from polarization. To appear in the Astronomy & Astrophysics . abs , src , ps ] . ... Dust influx to Titan from Hyperion . ... abs ] . ... Characteristics of bulges and disks in interacting galaxies . ... Dust grains around Herbig Ae/Be stars: porous, cometary-like grains? ... To appear in the Astronomy & Astrophysics Supplement . ... Finally, Links may lead you to more options (e.g. via the LANL preprint system). ...