Astronomy Picture of the Day . Up Close to Jupiter's Moon Io . ... 7.06.2000 . ... Credit: Galileo Project , JPL , NASA Explanation: Above is the highest resolution photograph yet taken of the Solar System 's strangest moon. The surface of Jupiter 's moon Io is home to violent volcanoes that are so active they turn the entire moon inside out. ... June 2000 . ... Publications with keywords: Jupiter - Moon - Io - terrain . Publications with words: Jupiter - Moon - Io - terrain . ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope: The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) offers unprecedented observing opportunities in the near- and mid-infrared for the planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. ... Obser vations of the Giant Planets J. N o r w o o d ( N M S U ), J. M o s e s (S SI), L . ... Jupiter S a t ur n Uranus Neptune Ephemeral phenomena are fairly common in the atmospheres of the giant planets. ... Uranus/ Neptune spectra are from Spitzer/ IRS cour tesy of G. Or ton. ...

Hubble Observations Shed New Light on Jupiter Collision . Was it a comet or an asteroid? ... Their initial findings, combined with results from other space-borne and ground-based telescopes, shed new light on Jupiter's atmospheric winds, its immense magnetic field, the mysterious dark debris from the impacts, and the composition of the doomed comet itself. ... Hubble's ultraviolet observations show the motion of very fine impact debris particles now suspended high in Jupiter's atmosphere. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... News . Observing . ... Supernova showered Earth with radioactive debris . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Supernova simulations reveal new processes . ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2000 June 7 . Up Close to Jupiter's Moon Io . ... The surface of Jupiter 's moon Io is home to violent volcanoes that are so active they turn the entire moon inside out. ... In general, the bright areas are higher terrain than the darker areas, but some areas of the surface appear eroded by an unknown process. ... About APOD | ...

Next: The STScI NICMOS Calibration Up: No Title Previous: CONICA: The high resolution . The STScI NICMOS Calibration Pipeline . Introduction . ... Dark Current Subtraction . ... Input Data . ... Scalar Background Subtraction . 2-D Background Subtraction . ... Status and Goals of the NICMOS Calibration Plan . ... Photometry . ... Photometric Performance of NICMOS . ... NICMOS Photometry. ... ST-ECF Grism Spectrum Software for NICMOS Grism Data . ... Analysis . ... STScI NICMOS Software . ...

Next: Analysis Tools for Nebular Emission Lines . ... Extracting spectra from a large number of NICMOS grism images requires a convenient interactive tool which allows a user to manipulate direct/grism image pairs. ... The direct image is used to locate objects of interest, to find the position of the appropriate spectra in the grism image, to determine the optimal extraction technique to use, and to calibrate the wavelength range of the extracted spectra. ... Figure 1: The NICMOSlook User Interface . ...

... Impact craters and associated concentric rings are about the only features to be found on Callisto. ... It has a bright central region that is 600 kilometers in diameter, and its rings extend to 3000 kilometers in diameter. ... This image shows the heavily cratered surface of Callisto. ... Also visible is a fresh, sharp-rimmed crater some 90 km (56 miles) across named Igaluk (center left third of picture), and a bright zone in the south polar area (bottom of image) which could be an impact scar. ...

... A dynamo (or electric generator) is a device converting . ... Faraday discovered that by moving a magnet next to a closed electric circuit, or changing the magnetic field passing through it, an electric current could be "induced" to flow in it. ... Faraday's disk dynamo Faraday showed that another way of inducing the current was to move the electric conductor while the magnetic source stood still. ... Faraday's disk dynamo needs a magnetic field in order to produce an electric current. ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Data Handling and Products > Data Reduction FAQ > I see unexpected boxy emission-like features in my REDL spectra - where do they come from? ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... ESO-MIDAS . ... ESO Data . ... The pipeline by default interpolates across the bad columns in the REDL CCD when it creates the master bias, but does not so when it processes the science data. This inconsistency can create boxy emission-like features as seen in the figure below. ...

Semiconductor Home > Products > Mixed Signal and Analog > CCD IMAGERS Family > . TC213, 1024- X 512-PIXEL CCD IMAGE SENSOR . ... The TC213 is a frame-transfer charge-coupled device (CCD) image sensor that provides very high-resolution image acquisition for image-processing applications such as robotic vision, medical X-ray analysis, and metrology. The image format measures 12.00 mm horizontally by 6.12 mm vertically; the image-area diagonal is 13.5 mm. ... 13.5-mm Image-Area Diagonal . ...

... Dodson, Legge et al, ApJ, 2003 Spectral Line Sources · Requirement of high brightness temperatures means no thermal emission · Masers: Galactic Extragalactic · OH, H2O · OH, H2O, SiO, CH3OH · Galactic extra-galactic HI absorption VLBI arrays · VLBA (Very Long Baseline Array) Dedicated US array of ten 25m telescopes 330 MHz ­ 90 GHz · EVN (European VLBI Network) Formal collaboration of radio telescopes in Europe, Asia and South Africa ~15 telescopes 15m to 100m 330 MHz ­ 22/43 GHz ...

... International Year of Astronomy in Ireland . ... Christmas Moon", painting by Miruna Popescu, Armagh Observatory, featured as " Lunar photo of the Day " and " Astronomy Sketch of the Day " on 25 December 2009. ... To mark the 400th anniversary of GalileoтАЩs first use of the telescope to observe the sky, 2009 has been celebrated worldwide as the International Year of Astronomy. Moon over Armagh - link to Astronomy Sketch of the Day on 25 December 2009 . ... Monday, 11 May 2009 23:54 . ...

SAS home . ... List of SAS threads . OM data processing from A to Z is performed by two "chains": omichain and omfchain , for image and fast mode data respectively. ... Then a source detection algorithm is used to identify the sources present in the image. ... A final source list is obtained from all exposures and filters. ... If the user has PPS products from the processing of his/her observation, or from the XSA, then the first thing to do is to overlay the image source list onto the sky image. ...

... 11 Yellow-Green (78% transmission): Contrasts well with the red and blue characteristics of surface features on Jupiter and Saturn. ... 82A Light Blue (73% transmission): Useful on the Moon, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, this subtle pale blue filter enhances areas of low contrast while avoiding significant reduction of overall image brightness. ... Meade Series 4000 Photo-Visual Color Filters may be ordered individually or in the following sets: . ... Meade Series 4000 Broadband Nebular Filters . ...

... Other Characteristics of the Sun: Variability of Rotation, Magnetism, Chemical Structure, Planetary System. ... Methods of Solar Magnetic Fields Measuring: Visual, Photografic, Photoelectric. ... Empiric Datas of Magnetic Fields in Photosphere, Chromosphere and Corona. ... Characteristics of Magnetic Field in Balanced Force Tubes by Potential and Forceless Field. ... Phenomenons in Active Region (Magnetic Field, Spots, Torches, Solar Prominences, Flares, Discharges. ... Magnetic Fields in Flares. ...

... Contacts . 2009: . ... We finalized the development of a facility for observations (including remote observations) of the star-shaped objects with the temporal resolution of 1 micro second. ... For contacts: G.M.Beskin ) . RATAN-600 Multi-Octave Frequency Range Overlapping Finalized. We finalized the multi-octave overlapping of the RATAN-600 frequency range from 0.75 to 18GHz with the frequency resolution of 1% using the parallel spectrum analysing complex. ... Archive . ...

... The GALFA Continuum Transit Survey group ( GALFACTS ; PI: A. R. Taylor) has conducted several test observations and will begin an all-sky full-Stokes continuum survey later this year with the new P-ALFA spectrometer. ... Sample Perseus images of GALFA H I 21cm-line and full-Stokes continuum emission are shown below along with maps of molecular (CO) gas, thermal dust, and ionized gas optical emission for comparison. ... The GALFA H I emission appears to envelop the molecular cloud gas traced by CO. ...

... Stellar Evolution is driven entirely by the never ending battle between Pressure and Gravity . As imbalances are reached, the star is driven to find a new Energy source. ... Pressure and gravitational forces are equal, the star is stable and its core is sufficiently hot to fuse Hydrogen into Helium More about main sequence stars . ... The luminosity generated by the core fusion of Helium into Carbon is far greater than the shell luminosity associated with the fusion of Hydrogen into Helium. ...

home publications > mercury . ... Astronomy Beat . ... School superintendent Kenneth Shadowen had gotten wind of a shocking fact: The fifth- and sixth-grade science textbook, Discovery Works published by Simon Schuster, devoted two pages to the Big Bang, and nothing to Genesis. ... If we can bring people to understand how these terms are used, then we wouldn't have problems like we're having in many parts of the country now, such as laws to force teachers to teach evolution as `theory,"' Scott said. ...