... Please find below the final programme of the workshop. Each regular talk will be 20 minutes long plus another 10 minutes for questions and discussion at the end. On Friday there will be a pizza lunch combined with an informal discussion session kindly facilitated by John Dickey and Felix J. Lockman. ... Coffee . ... Magnetic Fields in the Thick Disk of the Milky Way . ... Highly Ionized Plasma in High-Velocity Clouds . ... Limits on the Hot Diffuse Galactic Halo . ... John Dickey . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Solar System . ... Comets and Asteroids . ... Space Flight . ... Posted on June 29, 2015 | 759 Comments Maybe you have seen one of the alarming videos or emails circulating around the internet claiming that the End is Nigh. ... Continue Reading.. ... Posted on December 5, 2014 | ... Posted on October 18, 2013 | ... 3 Comments In February 2013, the asteroid 2012 DA14 flew past the Earth closer than many of the EarthтАЩs geo-stationary satellites. ...

... Image courtesy of Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute . ... There are already 29 multi-planet extrasolar planetary systems discovered (including this last one), so what makes this particular system unique? ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

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... For a long time we've known that planets form and live around stars. ... When a star is born, any leftover gas and dust forms a disc around it, similar to Saturn's rings. Within this disc, small dust grains made of rock sometimes form. ... Now, for the first time ever astronomers have spotted solid grains in the gassy disc around a 'brown dwarf' an object that is neither a planet nor a star. ... Astronomers didn't expect to find these solid grains around brown dwarfs for a number of reasons. ...

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How Do Children Learn? ... Here we propose an innovative approach to children's learning, one that integrates the transmission, constructivism, and social constructivism models by having teachers present some of the fundamental concepts involved in astronomy education at the elementary level. ... learn the story . ... Before presenting sample stories and curricular ideas, we must discuss some of the impediments, pedagogical and professional, to teaching and learning astronomy at the elementary level. ...

... The closer galaxy's gravity will act like a huge lens , pulling images of the background galaxy around both sides. ... The distorted galaxy is said to appear as an Einstein ring , named after Albert Einstein who accurately predicted many attributes of the gravitational lens effect -- although he also guessed that such an effect was unlikely to be seen in practice. ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ... Abell 2218: A Galaxy Cluster Lens . Dark Matter Ring Modeled around Galaxy Cluster CL0024 17 . ...

... December 23, 1998 . Ring Around the Galaxy . ... Explanation: It is difficult to hide one galaxy far behind another. The closer galaxy's gravity will act like a huge lens , pulling images of the background galaxy around both sides. This is just the case observed in the above recently released image from the VLT : the red galaxy in the middle is in the foreground, lensing the image of the background green galaxy into surrounding contorted arcs . ... About APOD > . ...

... Carl Lindenmeyer and Ron Miksa (both FNL) are on site 2/24-3/1 to install the plate manipulator arm. Yesterday, they were able to find the marks they had previous made (last Fall!) on the concrete to drill the support holes for the arm.. In the first series of pictures are Carl (left) and Ron (on ladder) continuing to install all the parts that are piled around. Another view of the arm's installation. ...

What's New in Views of the Solar System . ... Mars Icosahedraon Added . ... Rotation Earth Movie . Europa Rotation Movie . ... Color Rotation Tethys Movie . Rotation Tethys Movie . ... Rotating Mars Movie . ... Animation: Io Rotation Movie . ... Rotating Moon Animation . ... Animation of Janus, The Rotating Moon of Saturn . ... Two excellent animations of Mars' moons Phobos and Deimos were added on 9/3/97. ... A high-resolution mosaic image of Phobos , a moon of Mars, was added on 7/8/97. ...

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Time sequence of the disk evolution around the first star. ... Already 110 years after the first protostar formed, three neighboring stars have emerged. The assembly process of the first stars will continue for another 100,000 years or so, at which point a massive double-star will likely have formed, possibly accompanied by a small group of somewhat lower-mass stars. ...

NASA's Galileo spacecraft radioed confirmation late this week that it has entered Jupiter's environment, crossing over the boundary from interplanetary space into the giant magnetic cocoon around Jupiter called the magnetosphere. ... On Thursday, December 7, Galileo's previously deployed atmospheric probe will plunge into Jupiter's cloud tops at 5:56 p.m. EST and descend into the giant planet on a parachute. ... Jupiter's magnetosphere is like a giant bubble around the planet. ...

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... Spacecraft . ... To space by cannon? Finally, the deep space explorers --spacecraft which break away from the Earth's gravity . ... The "Luna" series of the USSR conducted 7 soft landing of unmanned probes, two of them with wheeled robotic "Lunokhods," and two of those missions returned samples to Earth. Others spacecraft have visited the major planets of the Solar system. ... The Mariner series have explored Venus and Mars--and Mariner 10 even reached Mercury, for three separate encounters! ...

pic] Soumit's World Foundation extends sincere and heart-felt thanks, appreciation and gratitude to all of you for your attendance, participation and contribution to Soumit's World Foundation on Soumit's Birthday/Graduation Luncheon on Sunday the October 8th 2006. The luncheon raised approximately $5500.00 from the contributions made by family and friends from the town and out of town to fulfill the dream of under-privileged children around the world, a mission of the Foundation. ...