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. ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : "That's as remote as the dark side of the Moon!" ... As the tired, hackneyed refrains went on, one in particular caught my ear: " Fly me away to the bright side of the moon, and meet me on the other side." ... As the Moon orbits the Earth, different parts of it get illuminated by the Sun. ... Bad Addendum : At the end of the album "Dark Side of the Moon" by Pink Floyd, there is a voiceover that actually says "There is no dark side of the moon. ...

... A Close-Up of the Horsehead Nebula . ... 5.10.1996 . ... How did the dark dust cloud shown above come to be shaped like a horse's head? ... Barnard 33 , as this region is known to some, is surely a dark dust cloud absorbing the light from the bright red emission nebula behind it. The Horsehead Nebula is also thought to be a region where low-mass stars form. ... The Horsehead Nebula's dust distribution might just be the result of a specific irregular distribution of stars and gas in its vicinity. ...

These Dreams - Heart Spare a little candle Save some light for me Figures up ahead Moving in the trees White skin in linen Perfume on my wrist And the full moon that hangs over These dreams in the mist Darkness on the edge Shadows where I stand I search for the time On a watch with no hands I want to see you clearly Come closer than this But all I remember Are the dreams in the mist These dreams go on when I close my eyes Every second of the night I live ...

... A language centre has helped move a group of Russian academics a step closer to realising their ambition of studying for a prestigious research degree in the UK. The scholars from Samara State Aerospace University lacked the English language skills needed to study at Glynd?r University for a PhD, one of the highest academic qualifications. ... This has seen Glynd?r University Professor Richard Day, Professor of Composites, visit Russia to deliver guest lectures to students at Samara. ...

... 2007 September 28 . A Hole in Mars Close Up . ... Explanation: In a close-up from the HiRISE instrument onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, this mysterious dark pit, about 150 meters across, lies on the north slope of ancient martian volcano Arsia Mons . Lacking raised rims and other impact crater characteristics, this pit and others like it were originally identified in visible light and infrared images from the Mars Odyssey and Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft. ... About APOD | ...

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... Staff . Research staff . Technical, administrative & librarian staff . ... Staff in alphabetic order . ... Galaxies, AGN, Cosmology . ... Star formation . ... The impact of Warm Dark Matter of the ages of galaxies . ... Nicola Menci (INAF-Rome) and collaborators have delevoped a model (the Rome semi-analytic model) that connects the physics of gas and star formation in galaxies with the merging history of dark matter halo in a Warm Dark Matter scenario. ...

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home publications > mercury . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Editorial: Climbing a Little Closer . ... In the late 1950s, my uncle Morgan and his best friend, Gerald, were using my uncle's small telescope to look at the night sky. ... Sputnik spurred them like so many others to build ships to climb into the sky, to join that chilly, violent Universe that embraces our little warm droplet of life. ... Yet they climbed higher each successful shot. ... Trying to climb higher. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Comets and Asteroids . ... Space Flight . ... Earth Satellites . ... By admin February 19, 2011 Posted in: Comets and Asteroids . ... Since it was launched in 1999, the Stardust spacecraft has travelled about 5.7 billion km (3.5 billion miles) on its odyssey from Earth to comet Wild 2, back to Earth then on to comet Tempel 1. ... Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . Mopra radio telescope . ... Australia Telescope Online Archive (ATOA) . ... ATCA | ... CSIRO Radio Astronomy Image Archive . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ... The Australia Telescope National Facility Colloquium . ...

... On the equator (point C) the sun would always rise until it was overhead, while at the poles (A and B) it would always be on the horizon, going around the horizon once a day. ... Because everything is symmetric with respect to the line AB, the dark and light portions are always equal, and so are day and night, anywhere on Earth. ... Twice a year, the angle is as big as it can get, at the summer and winter solstices , when it reaches 23.5 degrees. ... That part of Earth enjoys summer . ...

... The European HST Archive has been moved to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre ( ESAC ), Spain, where most of ESA's Space Science Archives are located and operated from. ... The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), jointly operated by ESA and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) was, until the end of 2010, the European HST science facility, supporting the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

... Our Sun is part of a huge wheel-shaped collection of stars. ... Astronomers have long suspected it was a very massive black hole, and that every galaxy had such a central mass, created early in the history of the universe. ... However, unless that object happens to be headed directly at the black hole (a relatively small target) it will just swing around and fly away again, like a comet making a pass at the Sun. The velocity acquired in falling towards the black hole also helps it escape. ...

... PLE: Just another reminder about the Penumbral Lunar Eclipse on March 14 - 15. ... The moon passes completely inside the penumbra, or 'partial shadow', of the Earth, but no part of it actually enters the umbra, which would give a partial eclipse. ... 22 March, 7.30 p.m., Lecture Room 5, Stranmillis College, Belfast: IAA Public Lecture, "The Solar Wind: from Explosions on the Sun to Us", by the redoubtable Dr Miruna Popescu of Armagh Observatory (Doctorate just awarded - congratulations!) ...

Apr 13 2015 Scutum - The Shield IC 1287 31mmT5 Nebula R W/ OIII ,EF,EL, NEB DET AROUND BRTER *,SOME NEB SUSP FURTHER OUT, OIII HELPS,R=F Sep 05 2007 31 IC 1295 12mmT4 17mmT4 Planetary Neb 3b+2 MF,PL,OVAL,PATCHY,NO C*,SEVERAL F*'S IN NEB ,SOME CLOSE TO CENTER, OIII HELPS,DARK INNER HOLE,BREAK IN EDGES,PAIR=SAND2-374,R=F W/ OIII ,MB,ML,OVAL,PATHC,SHISB,PARCHY AREAS,FEW F*'S IN NEB ,R=E Aug 23 2009 31 Sep 05 ...

MOSCOW CENTER FOR CONTINUOUS MATHEMATICAL EDUCATION . ... A MATHEMATICS PROGRAM IN ENGLISH . FOR UNDERGRADUATES AND GRADUATE STUDENTS . List of Alumni | ... Impressions | Alumni reports | ... About HSE Math Department . ... Current semester info: . ... 2002 spring | 2002 fall | ... I learned more math this semester than in any other before. ... Math in Moscow was awesome ! ... Math in Moscow is a wonderful program that I would recommend to anyone seriously interested in mathematics. ...

... HST . ... Data . ... HST Overview . ... To facilitate the reduction in the residual noise, a series of post-SAA dark exposures will be automatically scheduled following SAA passage and before any NICMOS science observations. ... Post-SAA darks an be identified by the target name "POST-SAA-DARK". ... The associated post-SAA dark exposures to an observation will be automatically retrieved with the science data whenever a post-SM3B NICMOS science observation is retrieved from the HST Archive. ...

Galaxies follow tight scaling relations linking their dynamical properties to their baryonic content. The study of these dynamical laws strongly constrains cosmological models of galaxy formation. I will present new results on the baryonic Tully-Fisher relation (BTFR), which links the total baryonic mass of a galaxy to its outer rotation velocity. I will discuss both successes and failures of LCDM models that attempt to reproduce the BTFR using gas outflows from stellar feedback. ...