... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2010 September 29 . An Airplane in Front of the Moon . ... Explanation: If you look closely at the Moon, you will see a large airplane in front of it. ... Well, if you're lucky . OK, extremely lucky. ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply . NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices . ...

... September 5, 1998 . The Pulsar Powered Crab . Credit: J. Hester and P. Scowen ( ASU ), NASA . ... Using a stunning series of visible light images taken with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) , astronomers have discovered spectacular pulsar powered motions within the Crab nebula. Highlights of this HST Crab "movie" show wisps of material moving away from the pulsar at half the speed of light, a scintillating halo, and an intense knot of emission dancing, sprite-like, above the pulsar's pole. ...

... Water Found in Space Rock . ... 7.09.1999 . ... NASA Explanation: What would you do if it rained blue water from space? On 1998 March 22, no umbrella was needed, as the blue water came attached to a stony meteorite that landed in Monahans , Texas . ... The scientists discovered an unusual patch of salt crystals on the meteorite's surface, turned blue by radiation in space. ... Publications with keywords: meteorit - water - space . Publications with words: meteorit - water - space . ...

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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . Colin Johnston . ... Space Flight . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... September . ... By admin September 24, 2012 Posted in: Comets and Asteroids . Space debris on a one-way trip.( Image credit:Colin Campbell) . Here is how Colin describes how he captured this remarkable image: . ... It really was quite stunning, like a slow moving firework. ... Posted September 25, 2012 at 3:23 PM . ... Fireball of 21 September 2012 | ...

... Archive for September 2009 . ... Posted by hlee . ... Category: Algorithms , arXiv , Cross-Cultural , Data Processing , Imaging , Jargon | ... A number of practical Bayesian data analysis books are available these days. ... Algorithms arXiv Astro Bad AstroStat Bayesian CHASC Cross-Cultural Data Processing Fitting Frequentist Galaxies gamma-ray High-Energy Imaging Jargon Job Languages MC MCMC Meta Methods Misc News Nuggets Objects Optical Physics Quotes Spectral Stars Stat Timing Uncertainty X-ray . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Site Info . ... Public Talks . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Who is this guy who calls himself "The Bad Astronomer?" ... First, yes, I am a real live astronomer (when people ask me what astronomers do, I tell them "They astronom !" ... These are emitted by powerful objects like black holes, exploding stars, and super-dense neutrons stars. ... Finally, am I really a bad astronomer? ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... Home Education Workshops at Adorama Astro Imaging Workshop: Deep Sky Astro Imaging with a DSLR ? September 14, 2014 . ... Astro Answers . ... 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 . ...

... I 1968 Meudon France II 1969 Manchester United Kingdom III 1970 Dwingeloo The Netherlands IV 1971 Bonn (West) Germany V 1972 Bologna Italy VI 1973 Cambridge United Kingdom VII 1974 Onsala Sweden VIII 1975 Meudon France IX 1976 Torun Poland X 1977 Dwingeloo The Netherlands XI 1978 Manchester United Kingdom XII 1979 Puschino U.S.S.R. XIII 1980 Bologna Italy XIV 1981 Bonn (West) Germany XV 1982 Cambridge United ...

Monday, September 18 . ... Sabir Gussein-Zade : Monodromy zeta functions and Poincare series of filtrations on ring of functions. ... Alexey Panchishkin : Explicit form of Shimura's conjecture for S_p3 . Lunch break . ... Alexey Zykin : The Generalized Brauer-Siegel Theorem . ... Philippe Lebacque : Generalized Mertens and Brauer-Siegel theorems. ... Conference dinner . ... Antanas Laurincikas : Limit theorems for the Mellin transform of the square of the Riemann zeta-function . ...

... Colouring the Galactic Plane . by Ron Ekers Jan H gbom . This photo, taken at CSIRO's Parkes Observatory circa 1965, shows scientists take their colouring in seriously. In the photo, astronomer Jan H gbom and assistants carefully colour in an early survey of the Galactic Plane . ... today * ATNF | Parkes | ...

Astronomy Discussion Forums . Forums: . ... How Do You Feel About Numbers? ... Post Message | ... Posted by Richard D. Stafford, Ph.D. on September 15, 2002 16:22:25 UTC . ... Wait - harvey1 - September 15, 2002 - 22:20 UTC . I don't follow you! - doctordick - September 16, 2002 - 14:59 UTC . ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

Next: The Chemical Evolution of Up: Stellar Astrophysics Previous: Stellar Astrophysics . Simon Jeffery has used a novel camera attached to the William Herschel Telescope (WHT) to obtain the best light curves ever obtained for pulsating subdwarf B stars. These stars pulsate non-radially in several modes with different frequencies and enable astronomers to establish their overall properties and internal structure with unusual precision. ...

... These Frontier Fields will combine the power of HST with the natural gravitational telescopes of high-magnification clusters of galaxies. ... We are soliciting gravitational lensing maps for the last four Hubble Frontier Fields clusters (MACSJ0717.5+3745, MACSJ1149.5+2223, AbellS1063, and Abell 370) based upon the exceptionally deep HST FF imaging and other new ancillary data. ... For the full set of proposal instructions and requirements, see the FY16 Frontier Fields Lensing Map Call for Proposals....

... The default run_state of all incoming runs is now OPEN . The support astronomer has to inform the operations support scientists if the run_state for a run has to be changed (e.g. after consulting the Database Consistency Check Page which is updated hourly from 9:30 to 17:30, Garching time) . The default run_state of all SM runs for next period is NEXT . By default, all NEXT runs will be set to OPEN at the start of the new period. ... COMPLETED or TERMINATED . ... COMPLETED . ...

The aim of Ulyanovsk International School-Seminar ( UISS-97 ) is twofold. First, to bring together cosmologists from different countries to discuss the most exciting theoretical problems of the Universe with Russian gravitational and cosmological groups. ... Program of UISS-97 . ... Location of UISS-97 . ... Scientific Secretary of the School-Seminar : . ... 432700, Ulyanovsk, Russia . ... President of Russian Gravitational Society, Professor V.N. Melnikov . ... RUSSIAN GRAVITATIONAL SOCIETY . ...

home publications > mercury . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... ASP Conference Series . ... Steering by Different Stars? Astronomers and the Dark-Sky Movement . ... Photo courtesy of the International Dark-Sky Association. by Susan McGowan . ... According to Arthur Upgren, senior research scientist at Yale University and emeritus professor of astronomy at Wesleyan University, only 17% of ASP members were also members of the International Dark-Sky Association in 2001. ...

Crater Gassendi . ... I made this drawing was made on the 26th of november 2001. If you compare this one with the previous drawing of Gassendi (below) the differences are clear. ... This drawing was made on the 28th of september 2001. After nearly a full month without observations I had a one hour gap between the thicker clouds. ... This drawing was made on the 29th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 27th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 25th of august 2001. ...

... Timeline . ... I had secured diagrams of all the groups and detached spots, and was engaged at the time in counting from the chronometer and recording the contacts of the spots with the cross-wires used in the observation, when within the area of the great north group (the size of which had previously excited great remark), two patches of intensely bright and white light broke out, in the positions indicated in fig. ... Click here for a text of Carrington's full article , including illustration.. ...

... Timeline . ... 16b. Carrington, 1859 . ... While engaged in the forenoon of Thursday, September 1, in taking my customary observation of the forms and positions of the solar spots, an appearance was witnessed which I believe to be exceedingly rare. ... In this lapse of 5 minutes, the two patches of light traversed a space of about 35,000 miles. Click here for a text of Carrington's full article , including illustration.. ... Timeline Expanded timeline Glossary . ...