Statement by Administrator Daniel S. Goldin on the Release of New Galileo Spacecraft Images Of Europa . ... We'll shoot a whole photo album when Galileo takes its targeted pass at Europa in December. ... These pictures do not prove the existence of liquid water on Europa, and the higher-resolution pictures yet to come may not prove it. ... We'll ask the best minds in the world to analyze these pictures, and the pictures from our targeted pass at Europa. ... Jupiter Europa . ...

Most of these images were obtained by Mike Bessell, Michelle Buxton, Hwankyung Sung, Ralph Sutherland and Bob Watson at SSO using a 2Kx2K Site CCD behind a Nikon or Hasselblad lens or directly on the 1m telescope. A few images are from the Hubble Space Telescope. Some of the M42 images were obtained with the KPNO 1m and ESO NTT telescope. One image is a mosaic of IRAS images. ... Details of the CCD imaging program at MSSSO. ... antenna.jpg (53KB) . ... ngc6744.jpg (59KB) . ...

... Астронет | Картинка дня | ... планета Астронет | ... Астрономическая картинка дня . ... Около равноденствия магнитное поле Земли ориентировано так, что создаются благоприятные условия для взаимодействия с солнечным ветром, которое и вызывает прекрасное северное сияние. ... Полярные сияния и магнитосфера Юпитера . ... Слегка сжатое магнитное поле словно через воронку несет заряженные частицы к полюсам Юпитера, опуская их прямо в его атмосферу. ... Туманность Пузырь крупным планом . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . News . Observing . ... Sky this Month . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... New month, new target . ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

... The Great Nebula in Carina . ... Eta Carinae , the most energetic star in the nebula, was one of the brightest stars in the sky in the 1830s, but then faded dramatically. Eta Carinae is the brightest star near the image center, just left of the Keyhole Nebula . While Eta Carinae itself maybe on the verge of a supernova explosion, X-ray images indicate that much of the Great Carina Nebula has been a veritable supernova factory . Tomorrow's picture: open space . ...

... Universe At Your Fingertips Activities TOC . ... Why do we have stereotypes about what an astronomer looks like? ... A reading list on 20th century astronomers and their work is included in the Resources Bibliographies section of the Universe at Your Fingertips. ... Be sure the students do the activity before the astronomer comes. ... After the visit, give students an opportunity to talk about how the astronomer was similar or different from the mental picture they had before the visit. ...

... ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Governance overview . Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Our people overview . ... Student list | ... Publications overview . ... Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Mopra radio telescope . ... Parkes | ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ... This gallery shows photos of project activities. ... Wildflowers Home . ...

... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Travel to E-ELT Armazones . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Images . ... Star Clusters . ... Usage of ESO Images and Videos . ... Usage of ESO Videos and Images . ... Stars@ESO . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... Catch a Star 2013 . ... The pie-chart shows the starтАЩs composition: it is almost entirely made from hydrogen and helium with only a tiny trace of heavier elements. ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... I have a fun video on how to stand an egg on end on my blog at Discover Magazine . ... At the end of the show, one of the characters looks up the words "egg" and "equinox" on the web... and says it sent him to "thingsthatarewrong.com". ... Bad Astronomy : Only on the day of the Vernal (spring) Equinox, can you stand a raw egg on its end. Good astronomy : If you can stand a raw egg on end, it has nothing to do with the Equinox. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

Jupiter . ... HST view (true color) 1877k tiff ; 264k gif ; 96k jpg ; 34k jpg . Jupiter Storms (HST) 37k jpg ; 169k gif ; 1800k tiff ; ( caption ) . ... Jupiter and Ganymede 60k jpg . Jupiter with Narrow Angle Camera (Violet filter) 359k gif . Jupiter with Narrow Angle Camera (Violet filter) 182k gif . Jupiter with Narrow Angle Camera (Violet filter) 274k gif . Jupiter with Narrow Angle Camera (Violet filter) 291k gif . ... Jupiter with Wide Angle Camera (Orange filter) 324k gif . ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Aurora . ... Corona . Fireballs . ... Zodiacal Light . ... The first thing to do is get acquainted with what the night sky looks like. ... The National Schools Observatory web site has very good horizon views of the sky for the current night. ... If the object is moving slowly across the sky then it may be one of the larger satellites. ... Cloudbait Observatory - October 2002 . ... October 2003 Aurora at Armagh . ...

... In the nuclear area of the galaxy within the ring, the nucleus appears elongated, and a fainter 3rd star-like component is discernable. ... The 'yellowy' halo about the off-centre nucleus of the ring galaxy is likely composed of redder stars, while the color-neutral nucleus doesn't appear distinctly different in color than either of the ring 'impactor' candidates at bottom center and top right of the picture. ... If so then why are the bright regions within the ring apparently color neutral? ...

My wife and I went to Mohican State Park the weekend just before our first anniversary (April 7th). That Saturday, we went hiking and took some pictures. It was a good hike, with some difficult parts. my wife holding the camera . a crevice with a tiny waterfall, that opens up into a big valley . the tiny creek flowing into the crevice . more crevice . ... my wife taking a (non-digital) picture . another tiny waterfall flowing over a wide cliff . ... the lake by our lodge . ...

Astrophotography Forum Message . ... IMerge Processing Moon Craters Pictures . ... I have just downloaded the iMerge program in witch i made some mosaics .you can see them on http://astrofotografieluna.blogspot.com .I think the pictures made are great but still i have to learn .some advices would be great. ... 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" . ...

... Spectrometer board from the first (test) run . Spectrometer board from the second (production) run; assembled with cPCI mounting hardware and FPGA heatsink . ... Quadrature downconverter board . ... Full GALFA system test (simulating 2 beams input) . A full 7-spectrometer test . Top of multi-beam receiver at Arecibo feeding GALFA spectrometer . ... Spectrometer boards in cPCI rack installed and operational at Arecibo . Full GALFA system installed and operational at Arecibo . ...

The Space Shuttle Discovery is pictured here docked to the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station. It's going to be hard to top this mission," NASA Administrator Michael Griffin said. ... The crew got phone calls from two world leaders. ... Commander Eileen Collins and the crew of the STS-114 mission, Jim Kelly, Charlie Camarda, Wendy Lawrence, Steve Robinson, Andy Thomas and Soichi Noguchi of Japan, landed at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., at 7:11 a.m. CDT on Aug. ...

M1 image More About M1 Nice Color Picture . ... M16 image More About M16 HST image . ... M31 image More About M31 Nice Color Picture . ... M42 image ; M43 image More About M42/43 Nice Color CCD Picture . M51 image More About M51 Color Image of M51 M51 Supernova . M57 image More About M57 Nice Color CCD Picture Very Deep M57 Image . ... M81 image More About M81 M81 Supernova Ultraviolet Image of M81 More about Ultraviolet Imaging . M82 image More About M82 M82 False Color M82 True Color . ...

... Next: An IRAF-Independent Interface Up: Software Systems Previous: A New PROS . ... We present a high-level representation of the packages and tasks within IRAF/PROS. ... We have produced a high-level overview of PROS. ... The incremental stages were the short-term goals: a project overview diagram (i.e., an organizational diagram of software modules); high-level diagram (i.e., a bubble diagram of each module in the system); and unifying element tables (i.e., tables of task vs. software attributes)....

... An article about Tycho and several pictures of him . ... Probably pretty bad: daily showers were still a few centuries off.. ... A tidbit: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, the Danish courtiers in Shakespeare's "Hamlet" (and in Tom Stoppard's play " Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead") probably got their names from two relatives of Tycho who visited England in 1592 on a diplomatic mission, Frederick Rosenkrantz, 3rd cousin of Tycho, and Knut Gyldenstierne, also a cousin. ...

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