... Jupiters Great Red Spot from Voyager 1 . ... Credit Copyright: NASA , JPL ; Digital processing: Bjфrn Jяnsson ( IAAA ) Explanation: What will become of Jupiter's Great Red Spot? ... A hurricane larger than Earth, the Great Red Spot has been raging at least as long as telescopes could see it. ... Publications with keywords: Jupiter - Great Red Spot . Publications with words: Jupiter - Great Red Spot . ... Jupiter and Venus from Earth . Jupiter in 2015 . Venus and Jupiter are Close . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... Sky this Month . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Can you explain Mercury's retrograde motion? Do other planets appear to do this also? ... When astronomers talk about retrograde motion, generally they refer to the apparent motion outer planets make as Earth passes them while orbiting the Sun. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

... Date: 5 June 2010 01:19:14 GMT+01:00 . ... Solarfest, IAA/UAS sostice event, NLCs. ... 12:00 - Tea/Coffee . ... 15:30 - Solar Imaging Workshop - Dave Gradwell (IFAS) . ... 20:00 - Evening Public Lecture - "The Power of the Sun" - Dr. David Williams (UCL, MSSL) . ... ТљТљТљ At 8pm, our Evening Public Lecture will be presented by Dr. David Williams of the Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London http://www.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/~drw/ who is flying over just for the event. ...

... 2014 May 18 . Jupiter's Great Red Spot from Voyager 1 . Image Credit: NASA , JPL ; Digital processing: BjЖrn JСnsson ( IAAA ) . Explanation: What will become of Jupiter's Great Red Spot? Recorded as shrinking since the 1930s, the rate of the Great Red Spot 's size appears to have accelerated just in the past few years. A hurricane larger than Earth, the Great Red Spot has been raging at least as long as telescopes could see it. ... Poll: Do you like APOD's leading question? ...

... 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. ...

Contents] [Prev page] [Next page] [Index] . Navigator 4 from Netscape, which is part of the Communicator product suite, includes three new areas of functionality that taken together give you Dynamic HTML. The three components of Dynamic HTML are style sheets, content positioning, and downloadable fonts. Used together, these three components give you greater control over the appearance, layout, and behavior of your web pages. ... Introducing Downloadable Fonts . ...

On,off position switching is done to remove standing waves from the resulting spectra. ... 1,5,10,20,25,50,100 samples corresponding to great circle angular offsets of .004,.02,.04,.07,.09,.18, and .35 degrees. ... Page 1: rms vs great circle offset. ... Page 2: rms vs little circle offset. ... The rms increase correlates better with great rather than little circle offsets. the 1 usec standing wave starts to be seen in the .07 degree offsets. a .9 usec standing wave is seen at .35 degrees offset. ...

... Comet Tutorial . ... On July 1, 1993 an image was taken with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) that clearly shows at least 15 individual fragments in one image frame of the train. ... This made an accurate orbit (or orbits) difficult to determine; however, after numerous observations of the comet, astronmers determined that the comet had passed within 96,000 kilometers (60,000 miles) of the center of Jupiter or 25,000 kilometers (16,000 miles) from the cloud tops during the July 8, 1992, approach. ...

... Comet Tutorial . ... On July 1, 1993 an image was taken with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) that clearly shows at least 15 individual fragments in one image frame of the train. ... This made an accurate orbit (or orbits) difficult to determine; however, after numerous observations of the comet, astronmers determined that the comet had passed within 96,000 kilometers (60,000 miles) of the center of Jupiter or 25,000 kilometers (16,000 miles) from the cloud tops during the July 8, 1992, approach. ...

... HST . What is the offset in the U2 direction that can be taken before a gap appears? ... HST Peer Review Process . ... HST Overview . Overview . ... Retrieving HST Data . ... HST Science Year in Review . ... What is the offset in the U2 direction that can be taken before a gap appears in the coverage of the sky between the two pointings? ... Same question for a U3 offset. ... This should allow you to accurately address the issue of optimal offsets in the mosaic. ...

fitcircle - find mean position and pole of best-fit great [or small] circle to points on a sphere. fitcircle [ xyfile ] -L norm [ -H [ nrec ] ] [ -S ] [ -V ] [ -: ] [ -bi [ s ][ n ] ] fitcircle reads lon,lat [or lat,lon] values from the first two columns on standard input [or xyfile ]. ... Then two locations are found: the mean of the input positions, and the pole to the great circle which best fits the input positions. ... If no file is specified, fitcircle will read from standard input. ...

Classroom Activity: Pinhole Protractor Gene Byrd and Renato Dupke . ... We cannot directly perceive the distances or sizes of far-away objects. Instead, our eyes only detect the angular size of objects. ... In Part II, which will appear in a future issue of The Universe in the Classroom, students will see how astronomers use parallax -- an extension of binocular vision -- to determine the distances of stars in the Sun's neighborhood. ... distance = 57.3 x physical size angular size (in degrees). ...