... X Rays Indicate Star Ripped Up by Black Hole . ... The M7 Open Star Cluster in Scorpius . ... While stirring a morning cup of coffee and thinking cosmic thoughts many astronomers would glance at this Hubble Space Telescope image of spiral galaxy NGC 4622 and assume that the galaxy was rotating counterclockwise in the picture. ... Anvil Cloud Over Sicily . ... Almost all of the bright objects in this just-released Hubble Space Telescope image are galaxies in the cluster known as Abell 2218. ...

Genesis That's All Just as I thought it was going all right I find out I'm wrong, when I thought I was right It's always the same, it's just a shame , that's all I could say day, and you'd say night Tell me it's black when I know that it's white Always the same, it's just a shame , that's all I could leave but I won't go Though my heart might tell me so I can't ...

... The twilight zone is not just an old television series. ... Most places on Earth pass through the twilight zone twice a day; the result is an enchanting hour at dawn and dusk of low sunlight and long shadows. ... Before assigning your students to watch a sunrise or sunset, have them try the following activities to develop their global sense. ... Armed with a global sense of our spinning planet, go out to watch the sky as your part of the Earth moves through the twilight zone. ...

... 2009 July 4 . Mount Rushmore's Starry Night . ... Explanation: This starry night sky sparkles above the Black Hills of South Dakota and the United States' Mount Rushmore National Park . ... Above the monumental symbols of the country's independence and early history, the night features stars and constellations familiar to northern skygazers around the world . ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply . NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices . ...

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... 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 . ...

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... NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided a never-before-seen view of a warped disk flooded with a torrent of ultraviolet light from hot gas trapped around a suspected massive black hole. ... This composite image of the core of the galaxy was constructed by combining a visible light image taken with Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2), with a separate image taken in ultraviolet light with the Faint Object Camera (FOC). ... The inset box shows Hubble Space Telescope's field of view. ...

Neptunes in the Noise: Improved Precision in Exoplanet Transit Detection AimИe Hall , Simon Hodgkin , Gabor Kovacs and Don Pollacco 1 1 1 1 2 Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge 2 Department of Physics, University of Warwick Figure 2 (right): Distribution of radii of all known exoplanets (grey), with those from Kepler (green) and SuperWASP (blue) also shown. We present early results from a new analysis of raw data taken with the SuperWASP telescope[1]. ...

... Armagh Planetarium . ... Our Galaxy . ... Universe . ... For those of you that are still bearing the psychological scars from PlutoтАЩs demotion from planet to dwarf planet a decade ago, here is news that may add salt to [ ] . ... In 2015 Armagh PlanetariumтАЩs website (including Astronotes) received well over 2.6 million page views (and over 75 million web hits*) from all over the world. ... Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration....

... 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. ...

I was wondering what conditions should be met to have the "darkest" sky .. ... Upon the above publication of the Southern Galactic hemisphere, TunГ Tezel started seeking opportunities to create the Northern counterpart image. ... So, the initial quest of having the darkest possible sky have delivered us these two all-sky images of the two galactic hemispheres as seen from Planet Earth. Zoomable and 'full-screenable' fisheye view of the "darkest sky" Southern Galactic Hemisphere image. ...

T he Siding Spring Survey (SSS) is a Near-Earth Object search program that utilises the 0.5-m Uppsala Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, N.S.W., Australia. ... The mission of the Siding Spring Survey is to contribute to the inventory of near-earth objects (NEOs), or more specifically, the potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) and comets (PHOs) that may pose a threat of impact and thus harm to civilization. ... Based on the CSS Mission page . ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

The International Astronomical Union XXVII General Assembly, . ... 1. the IAU/UNESCO International Year of Astronomy 2009 goal 8: facilitate the preservation and protection of the world's cultural and natural heritage of dark skies in places such as urban oases, national parks and astronomical sites, . 2. the Declaration approved during the International Conference in Defence of the Quality of the Night Sky and the Right to Observe Stars (La Palma, Canary Islands, 2007), . ...

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. ... Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. ... Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. ... Rage, rage against the dying of the light. ...

... I may have lied to you and about you, and made a few pronouncements a bit too sweeping, perhaps, and possibly forgotten to tag the basses here or there, And damned your extravagance, and libeled your tastes and libeled your relatives, and slandered a few your friends O.K., Nevertheless, come back. ... Come back.. ... We will invite the undertaker, who lives beneath us, And a couple of boys from the office, And some other friends. ... And a few reporters, if anything should break. ...

... 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. ...

... Star Atlas . ... stars . ... exoplanets . ... What percent of star systems have orbits in the right orientation for scientists to find exoplanets through the transit method? ... RELATED TOPICS: EXOPLANETS . The probability of having an exoplanetт??s orbit oriented along our line of sight so that there is a transit depends on two things: the size of the star and the size (or radius) of the orbit. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Atlas of the Stars . ...

Target: Various bright stars Date: Night of 2011-01-03 - 2011-01-04 Time: See Unix timestamp in file name Telescope: CDK125 Camera: Nikon D3s Filters: None Exposure time: Various - see file name Observer: John Kielkopf Processing: John Kielkopf Images are jpgs from the camera rotated in Gimp to put N up and W to the right. If the exact time for an image is needed, extract it from the timestamp in the file name. ...