Astronomy Picture of the Day . Mercury's Surface in Exaggerated Color . ... Credit Copyright: NASA / JHU APL / CIW Explanation: The robotic MESSENGER spacecraft recently completed over 100 orbits of Mercury . ... Otherwise, to the unaided human eye, Mercury's surface colors would appear comparatively muted . ... Publications with keywords: Mercury - Mercury program - Mercury surface - Messenger - color . Publications with words: Mercury - Mercury program - Mercury surface - Messenger - color . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2011 June 16 . Mercury's Surface in Exaggerated Color . Credit: NASA / JHU APL / CIW . ... This sharp image combines three of the MESSENGER wide angle camera's colors, but in exaggerated fashion. Otherwise, to the unaided human eye, Mercury's surface colors would appear comparatively muted . ... About APOD | ...

... Another option is to buy slides of astronomical objects at different wavelengths to show students why astronomers use different bands of the spectrum to bring out specific characteristics in celestial objects. ... He then uses the camera to scan the entire classroom, asking students to identify what they are seeing. ... Once students see light in action, they can investigate its properties - such as frequency, wavelength, and interference - with wave experiments. ...

... Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy: Progress Report" . ... The VISTA Project: a review of its progress and lessons learned developing the current programme , McPherson, Emerson, Born & Sutherland, in Ground-based Telescopes, eds Oschmann & Tarenghi, Proc of SPIE, 5489, 638, 2004 . Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy: overview Emerson and Sutherland, in Survey and Other Telescope technologies and Discoveries, eds Tyson & Wolff, Proc of SPIE, 4836, 35, 2003 . ...

. Multiwavelength Photographs . IMAGES OF OUR SUN . RADIO . ULTRAVIOLET . VISIBLE . INFRARED . X-RAY . Images of the moon . RADIO . ULTRAVIOLET . VISIBLE COLOR . INFRARED . X-RAY . Images of a Large Magellanic Cloud . RADIO . ULTRAVIOLET . VISIBLE DSS . FAR-INFRARED . X-RAY . Images of galaxy M81 . RADIO . ULTRAVIOLET . VISIBLE COLOR . INFRARED . X-RAY . For a great mini-tutorial on the different kinds of light click here . Image home . Student Home

. This wide-angle image (spanning 320 miles [510 km]) shows different compositions in the material on MercuryтАЩs surface. The camera used three of the 11 filters available to take this image. (The wide-angle camera can image in 11 filters across the range of visible to near-infrared radiation.) This image combines data taken at 1,000 nanometers (red), 750nm (green), and 430nm (blue) to create a color image. NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington

... STScI-PRC98-18 AN INFRARED VIEW OF SATURN In honor of NASA Hubble Space Telescope's eighth anniversary, we have gift wrapped Saturn in vivid colors. ... This view provides detailed information on the clouds and hazes in Saturn's atmosphere. ... The green and yellow colors indicate a haze above the main cloud layer. ... Red clouds are even higher than orange clouds. ... This Saturn image was taken at longer infrared wavelengths of 1.0, 1.8, and 2.1 micrometers, displayed as blue, green, and red. ...

Making HST Pictures: Examples and Illustrations . ... These illustrations represent some of the steps and techniques used to produce “pretty pictures” from HST images. ... TIFFs (ftp) . ... Separate images are exposed through different color filters. ... An alternate way to make color images . ... Eight bit (one byte) images contain 256 different values that may be represented by 256 shades of gray or 256 arbitrary colors from a color map (or palette) of all possible colors. ...

... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Star Clusters . ... FLAMES . ... 100 Hours of Astronomy . ... IMAX€о 3D Film Hidden Universe . ... This image, the first to be released publicly from VISTA, the worldтАЩs largest survey telescope, shows the spectacular star-forming region known as the Flame Nebula, or NGC 2024, in the constellation of Orion (the Hunter) and its surroundings. ...

... Imaging Spectrograph For Visible And Near Infrared (NIR) Spectral Ranges n High-Efficiency Holographic Grating n First Direct-Sight C-Mount Imaging Spectrograph n Polarization Independent n Specim Ltd. ImSpectorTM Ima ging Spectr o g raph General Description The ImSpector adds spectral resolution to conventional imaging cameras via a standard Cmount. ... The ImSpector N17, Specim's latest imaging spectrograph, is designed for NIR imaging in 900 - 1750 nm with InGaAs matrix cameras. ...

... Description . Catalog . ... In the Catalog, we publish equatorial (ЮБ 2000 , ЮД 2000 ) and galactic (l,b) coordinates of cluster centers derived as the position of overdensity in 2MASS catalog (Koposov et al. ... Distances, color-excesses and ages are the mean-square values calculated using all available evaluations from different color-magnitude diagrams. ... There are individual pages for every cluster where all available plots and parameters are published. ... 2002). ...

... As an experiment, I made some three-color images of Messier 42, more commonly known as the Great Nebula of Orion. ... green enhanced . ... halfsize or fullsize . ... Each image is a ``true color'' composite of three monochromatic images, in which the red, green, and blue intensities each correspond to the intensity of one of the original images. ... The HST image is assembled from different filters than mine: red is Nitrogen [II] at 6583 , green is H-alpha at 6563 , and blue is O [III] at 5007 . ...

We present a time-lapse sequence of 20 near-infrared ( J and K band) snapshots of the central 20 20 of the Crab pulsar wind nebula, taken at subarcsecond resolution with the Hokupa`a/QUIRC adaptive optics camera on the Gemini North Telescope and sampled at intervals of 10 minutes and 24 hr. It is observed that the equatorial wisps and polar knots in the termination shock of the pulsar wind appear to fluctuate in brightness on kilosecond timescales. ...

Scale-heights of the Galactic disk subsytems with different ages and metallicities . V.Marsakov & Yu. ... It is based on the fact, that all stars cross the disk plane several times during their Galactic orbital period. ... We have used our representative sample of nearby disk F2-G2 stars Marsakov & Shevelev (1995) in which fundamental stellar parameters was determined on the basis of published date on uvby-photometry, proper motion and radial velocities. ... Marsakov V.A., Shevelev Yu.G. Bull. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... What Color is Mars? ... Bizarre Image Analysis . ... One image of Mars shows a giant green splotch . Some images show it to have a blue sky, others a red sky, and in yet others the sky is butterscotch. ... When the images from Mars are returned to Earth, and then processed to make a color image, what you are seeing at best is an approximation to what your eye can see. ... When that infrared filter greyscale image is used to construct a color image, the blue tab turns pink. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Our Galaxy . ... Stars . ... Other Galaxies . ... Light of other eyes, other times: The X-rays and IR radiation making up the image have been travelling for a long time. ... The inspiration here came from a new ESA image of M31, the Andromeda Galaxy, composed from two very different images. ... Our nearest galactic neighbour, the Andromeda Galaxy?s brightness is caused by the hundreds of billions of stars that are contained within. ...

... Most Important Journals . Less Popular Astronomical Journals . Physics . Space, Selectial mechanics, .. Russian Journals . ... Astrophysics & Astronomy . ... Astronomical Journal . ... New Astronomy . ... Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific . ... STScI News . Space Telescope Insitute Newsletter . ... Journal of Astronomical Data . ... Journal of High-Energy Physics (mirror in CERN ) [astro, grav, hi-energy .. ... Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics . ...

Venus in visible light (violet filter) 50k gif ; 25k jpg . ... image from Pioneer Venus 15k jpg ; 28k jpg ( caption ) . ... 7 pancake volcanoes, alpha region 227k gif ; 327k jpg . ... Lada Regio, 47 deg S, 25 Long, showing mountains and craters 121k gif ; 321k jpg . ... Gula Mons and Cunitz crater, flat image of gulacun.gif 250k gif ; 178k jpg . ... Crater Farm, Lavinia Region, small 107k gif ; 147k jpg . ... Central Ovida region, 1 deg s by 83 deg 191k gif ; 531k jpg . ... Pictures .. ... Venus .. ...

... Data Analysis SAS News What is SAS? ... Archive, Pipeline & Catalogues XMM-Newton Science Archive Pipeline Processing System Observation Data Status Time Correlation Fix Serendipitous Source Catalogue OM Serendipitous Source Catalogue Slew Survey Catalogue Latest Slew Results Browsing Interface for RGS Data Live Radiation Monitor Plots Radiation Monitor Files . ... About XMM-Newton Image Gallery XMM-Newton Technical Details XMM-Newton SOC Overview XMM-Newton 10th Anniversary . ...

There is a full list of publications by members of SSSG . ... Seismic calibration of the solar envelope model" . ... Ayukov, S.V., Baturin, V.A., Mironova, I.V.[ RFBR ] . ... Postscript (110KB) ] . Ayukov, S.V., Baturin, V.A.[ RFBR ] . ... Baturin, V.A., Ayukov, S.V., [ RFBR ] . ... Testing models of solar convection zone by helioseismic methods ", . ... Baturin, V.A., Ayukov, S.V., . Parameters of solar convection zone in evolutionary and seismic models" , . ... Ayukov, S.V., Baturin, V.A., . ...