... 6.08.2007 . Can a gas cloud eat a galaxy? ... APOD: 2007 August 5- The Dotted Dunes of Mars . ... What causes the black dots on dunes on Mars? ... In fact, 18th century cosmic tourist Charles Messier cataloged two of them; M8, the nebula below and right of center, and colorful M20 at the upper right. ... APOD: 2007 August 1- Unusual Cratering on Saturns Dione . ... Start with the fact that Saturn's moon Dione always has one side that faces Saturn, and always has one side that faces away. ...

... We're heading for home Before the dawn comes Arrive Alive.. ... We're heading for home Before the dawn comes Eyes in the night Keeping me right Eyes in the night Flying through Towns cloaked in fog Looking in People asleep Now they're safe and warm Behind closed doors Lying back Feeling the speed Knowing that We're on the move Now we're eating up the miles from home ==================================================================== @ SONG : CUT AND RUN Cold city, runs hot with ...

... 2015 October 30 . The Witch Head Nebula . ... Explanation: Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble .... maybe Macbeth should have consulted the Witch Head Nebula. ... In this composite portrait , the nebula's color is caused not only by the star's intense bluish light but because the dust grains scatter blue light more efficiently than red. ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply . NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices . ...

... Unlike the clouds on Earth which are made of water, nebulae are made up of gas and dust. ... Gas and dust are cold, so they don't glow with light bright enough for our eyes to see the hotter an object is, the brighter it shines. ... The nebula in this picture is glowing red because of a very hot star at its centre, you can see it here as the seagull's eye . ... This is dust that has been lit up by hot, young stars inside the nebula. ... The two stars orbit each other, we called them binary stars! ...

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Villains and Heroes of Lights and Lighting Fixtures . If we are to reduce the effects of light pollution, we must learn about the types, both good and bad, of fixtures used in outdoor lighting. ... In fact, this type of fixture is often chosen for this very reason. ... Although these lamps are not very energy efficient, and they are often found in older, inefficient fixtures that enhance light pollution, they still exist in great abundance in most locations and are still sold by the millions. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... Although they look tranquil here, observed up close such young stars would seethe and glare violently. ... Once thought to be a satellite of our own galaxy, increasingly the Small Magellanic Cloud is believed to be an interloper from the intergalactic void which has wandered into its present location and will eventually recede away into the darkness. ... Your email address will not be published. ...

... Hearing meteors? It could happen -- and indeed it did, plenty of times during this month's Leonid meteor storm. ... Meteor listeners have long been reluctant to report their experiences -- a result of Halley-esque skepticism. ... According to Keay, glowing meteor trails give off not only visible light, but also very low frequency (VLF) radio signals. ... When he began his work on electrophonic meteors in the 1970's, physicists had no idea how VLF waves might emerge from a meteor's ionized trail. ...

... Image Quality of the VLT . Total Optical Control . First light for the ESO VLT unit telescope 1 occurred during the workshop. ... The image shown (Figure 1 ) here was obtained with the VLT on May 16, 1998, in red light (R band), i.e. while the mirror was still uncoated. ... In this diagram (FIgure 2), the measured image quality of the VLT UT1 astronomical images is plotted versus the ``seeing", as measured by the Seeing Monitor, a small telescope also located on top of the Paranal Mountain. ...

... self-absorption - the absorption of light shining on an object by a process similar to that which produced the light originally; if a cloud emits less light than it absorbs from other clouds behind it, this net loss of light, termed self-absorption , causes the foreground cloud to appear darker than the background field (the term is from spectroscopy, where small absorption dips sometimes occur in larger emission lines, making the latter look as if it is absorbing part of itself) . ... HISA Main ...

This is the homepage of Andrew Fruchter, an astronomer on the staff of the Space Telescope Science Institute . ... Here you can look at an HST images of the optical counterparts of gamma-ray bursts and their host galaxies. ... Therefore, substantial information on the fine scale structure of objects can be obtained by offsetting the pointing of the telescope between exposures and then combining these "dithered" exposures into a single image. ...

Astronomy Discussion Forums . ... God and Science ћ SETI ћ Software ћ UFO ћ XEphem . ... OSETI On Steroids (Venus Lights Up In Spots) . ... Post Message | ... OSETI might want to monitor the "Venus Transit" and record those "Unnatural Ashen Lights". ... Topic: Venus 'Ashen Light' seen! by; Dave Lillis . ... 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" . ...

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... 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. ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : "We're light years more advanced than our competition!" ... Even the closest astronomical object, the Moon, is 400,000 kilometers away! ... A beam of light will travel 9,500,000,000,000 kilometers in one year. This distance is defined as a light year ; the distance light travels in a year. ... This is another example of Bad Astronomy; like a light year, a parsec is a unit of distance, not time (to be specific, it equals 3.26 light years) . ...

... STScI-PRC95-02 HUBBLE VIEWS A STARRY RING WORLD BORN IN A HEAD-ON COLLISION [Right] - A rare and spectacular head-on collision between two galaxies appears in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope true-color image of the Cartwheel Galaxy, located 500 million light-years away in the constellation Sculptor. The new details of star birth resolved by Hubble provide an opportunity to study how extremely massive stars are born in large fragmented gas clouds. ...

Netscape Communications Corporation . ... Here is an extract from a press release about Netscape Netcaster. On August 13 1997, Netscape Communications announced the availability of Netscape Netcaster push client software as part of Netscape Communicator. ... You can use a DIV tag to align a block of content to the right. ... Use the P tag to display paragraphs. ... The basic structure of an HTML document is: header info goes here body content goes here </XMP> . ...

... AstroImageJ (AIJ) .. ... Reads and writes FITS images with standard headers . ... Provides a time and coordinate converter tool with capability to update/enhance FITS header content (AIRMASS, BJD, etc.) ... Creates color images and with native ImageJ processing power . ... AstroImageJ_Updater . Update operation now updates AIJ version number in Info.plist CFBundleVersion and CFBundleShortVersionString (MacOSX only) . ... AstroImageJ is ImageJ with astronomy plugins and macros installed. ...

The Sun is our nearest star and the source of energy for life on Earth. ... For centuries astronomers wondered whether they were clouds floating in the Sun's atmosphere, but we now know that they really are huge regions of magnetic field, about as intense as the field at the poles of an iron magnet. ... Such abrupt events were named solar flares , and what made them especially interesting was that occasionally, after a prominent flare, a magnetic storm would erupt on Earth. ...

Since the light from galaxies represents the integrated contribution of its consitutient stars, then we can learn about stellar populations in galaxies by modelling their light by summing up individual stellar spectra for different kinds of stars. ... The data cover the wavelength range 3500 - 9000 angstroms. ... Retrieve Digital Stellar Spectra Click on the appropriate spectral type. ... Note that the designation V means main sequence, IV means subgiants, III means giants, I means supergiant. ...