... Enjoying the bright Moon's absence from early morning skies, observers around the world reported lovely displays during this year's Perseid meteor shower. ... Chasing the brief flash of a meteor trail across the sky with a very large telescope is a nearly impossible task. ... A Perseid Meteor . ... The ongoing Perseid Meteor Shower should be at its strongest tonight and tomorrow night. ... Connecting the Pipe Nebula to the bright star Antares is a flowing dark cloud nicknamed the Dark River. ...

... It was the fiery death of a massive star, one of the most violent events in nature. We call these explosions 'supernovae', and this one was bright enough to outshine the rest of its galaxy combined! This stunning view of the nearby galaxy was captured by astronomers studying the after-effects of the explosion. ... This galaxy is known as a spiral galaxy , like the Milky Way. Named so because of the loosely wound spiral-shape arms that can be seen wrapping around the bright galaxy centre. ...

... 2006 September 5 . Bright Cliffs Across Saturn's Moon Dione . Credit: Cassini Imaging Team , SSI , JPL , ESA , NASA . Explanation: What causes the bright streaks on Dione? Recent images of this unusual moon by the robot Cassini spacecraft now orbiting Saturn are helping to crack the mystery. ... The bright ice-cliffs run across some of Dione 's many craters, indicating that the process that created them occurred later than the impacts that created those craters. ... About APOD | ...

... Fit the ring around the equator and then change its inclination from 0 degrees (equatorial orbit used by geosynchronous satellites) to 28.5 degrees (space shuttle orbit) to 51.6 degrees (space station orbit) to 90 degrees (polar orbit used by spy satellites). by Rob Landis, Space Telescope Science Institute . ... With so many satellites now in orbit, it is likely that you have seen an artificial satellite zipping across the night sky. ... http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ftpsoft.html . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Solar System . ... Moon . ... Comets and Asteroids . ... What changed our view of Chariklo is the discovery of a ring system around it, the first such feature found around a Solar System body smaller than a gas giant planet. ... Almost certainly the rings were born when a collision with a smaller asteroid blasted millions of tonnes of debris off CharikloтАЩs surface. ... A ring system detected around the Centaur (10199) Chariklo (Braga-Rigas et al.) ...

APPLE PICKER'S REEL (Larry Hanks) Hey, ho, makes you feel so fine Looking out across the orchard in the bright sunshine. Hey, ho, you feel so free Standing in the top of an apple tree. Up in the morning before the sun I don't get home until the day is done; My pick-sack's heavy and my shoulder's sore But I'll be back tomorrow to pick some more. ... Hey, ho, you lose your mind If you sing this song about a hundred times; Hey, ho, you feel so free Standing in the top of an apple tree. ...

... Press Release Images . Individual Images . ... The right-hand image shows Hubble's close-up view of the galaxy's core, taken in December 1995 by the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. The bluish-purple clumps that form the ring are the clusters of infant stars. Two dark, wispy lanes of dust and a pair of blue spiral arms are just outside the star-forming ring. ... The gas is trapped inside the ring through the stars' gravitational attraction. ... Amazing Space | ...

... Like the night sky on the Earth, the martian sky hosts a plethora of astronomical phenomena occurring around the clock in a neverending space opera played out for the benefit of robotic and future human observers alike. ... Moons . Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos . ... Under the same conditions, Deimos would be as bright as -5, somewhat brighter than the planet Venus appears in Earth's sky. ... The moons are also eclipsed by Mars itself (a situation analogous to lunar eclipses at the Earth). ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bad Astronomy: The North Star, Polaris, is a very bright star. Good Astronomy: Polaris is a middling-bright star, easily missed. ... He said it was close to Polaris, the North Star, but he also said it was in the East. ... It's natural, I suppose, to think that such an important star should be bright, but really, that's a conceit, like thinking that the Earth is at the center of the Universe. If more people knew just why Polaris is the North Star, this Bad Idea would stop. ...

The image at left shows the nearby Andromeda galaxy. The rectangular box marks the region probed by NASAтАЩs Hubble Space Telescope (a blend of visible and ultraviolet light). ... The bright area near the center of the image is a grouping of stars nestled around the galaxy's black hole. The blue dots sprinkled throughout the image are ultra-blue stars whose population increases around the crowded hub. The square box shows a close-up view of an area around the core. ...

... In principle, two observers on the ground can tell, by comparing the position of the same auroral arc against the background stars. ... The display stretches across Canada; just below it, in the middle of the picture, are the lights of Chicago, next to Lake Michigan. ... The Canadian scientific satellite Isis-2 (1971) carried an auroral imaging camera and discovered the diffuse aurora, a broad ribbon around the auroral oval, too spread-out to be noticed from the ground. ... Auroral Acceleration . ...

In this gallery are many images of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies which have recently been discovered and analyzed. ... The central surface brightness of this galaxy is 24.28 . Malin 2 This galaxy is another huge disk galaxy with a scale length of 15 kpc and a redshift of 15000 km/a. The high surface brightness knot in one of its spiral arms actually has the same color, luminosity and H-alpha equivalent width as the entire Large Magellanic Cloud . ... Truly it is a Low Surface Brightness Galaxy. ...

Various types of stars have dust around them. In the well known case of the Pleiades the dust around the stars is unrelated to the stars, and is instead dust from an interstellar cloud that the Pleiades cluster has drifted into on its way through the galactic disk. ... The dust in interstellar space is observed in a variety of ways: due to its passive absorption of starlight ("extinction"), by its production of polarization in starlight, and then at long wavelengths due to its thermal radiation. ...

Supernova 2002bj in NGC 1821 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2002bj in NGC 1821 Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the updates and links web pages. ... Somewhere around the night of 2002/03/14 this supernova dropped dramatically in brightness. ... Icon generated from Tim Puckett's discovery image. ... Mag . ...

... Auroral Currents . ... 25c. Space tether . ... Aurora from Space . ... But the best view is still from space. ... The Canadian scientific satellite Isis-2 (1971) carried an auroral imaging camera and discovered the diffuse aurora, a broad ribbon around the auroral oval, too spread-out to be noticed from the ground. ... Currently, NASA's Polar (1996) collects images of the polar aurora using three cameras--in visible light (sometimes as frequently as 12 seconds apart), in ultra-violet and in x-rays. ...

... High-velocity clouds (HVCs) were discovered by Muller, Oort & Raimond (1963) in the 21-cm line emission of neutral, atomic hydrogen. They are gas clouds which are characterised by high radial velocities incompatible with a participation in the rotation of our Galaxy. ... This suggestion was seized by Braun & Burton (1999) who identified 66 compact high-velocity clouds (CHVCs) with positional and kinematic characteristics being compatible with a distribution across the entire Local Group. ...

... The delightful images from the All Around Us slipcase are now in this fun, interactive format. By lifting the big, sturdy flaps, young readers will learn new words and concepts through Eric Carle's bright, beautiful images and simple phrases. A perfect companion title for Eric Carle's ABC and Opposites. Артикул: 1470_1114 Цвет: зеленый Состав: 50% вискоза, 45% полиэстер, 5% эластан Описание: стильный брючный комбинезон зеленого цвета без рукавов. ... Коллекция: Весна-лето 2016 . ...

... The ancient chronical said about the colour rings around the Sun and the Moon, about three suns in the sky, light columns, bright lightning, different "comets" rushing to the Earth, moving among the stars or round the Earth with the sky. All these occurrences may be divided into three categories: one that occur in the near or far space, processes going on in the Earth atmosphere under the influence of cosmic factors and at last the occurrences connected with the Earth atmosphere. ... Rainbow . ...

... A dynamic spectra was made of the calOff spectra (1 second samples) for the 15 minutes (.gif) . The hcorcal Tsys values for 2012 were plotted (.ps) ( .pdf ) . The Tsys values for polA have been jumping around. ... mock spectrometer measured 21 MHz bw spectra centered at 432 MHz. 2 millisecond dump time to give 10 samples on calOn,calOff . ... CalOff/(calOn-caloff) * Tcal . ... Black is polA, red is polB. ... The 430 Tsys is measured at +/-.5 MHz about 431 MHz. black is polA, red is polB . ...

... The theater "U Nikitskikh Vorot" is located at the Nikitskiye Vorota (Nikita Gate) Square, at the intersection of the Nikitskiy (formerly Suvorovckiy) Boulevard and the Bolshaya Nikitskaya (formerly Gerzen) Street. ... 1) From "Arbatskaya" metro station (any of the two). ... Then walk for 5-6 minutes on the right side of the Nikitskiy Boulevard in the direction of the Pushkinskaya Square until you see the theater's front porch. ... BACK to "U Nikitskikh Vorot" theatre page . ...