... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2012 August 26 . The Cat's Eye Nebula . Image Credit: J. P. Harrington ( U. Maryland ) K. J. Borkowski ( NCSU ) HST , NASA . ... This image from the Hubble Space Telescope reveals the Cat's Eye Nebula to be one of the most complex planetary nebulae known. ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply . ...

From: TerryMosel@aol.com Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 16:39:45 EDT Subject: BBQ TV Progs Hi all, As promised in STARDUST, I said I would hold a 'Perseids BBQ' for IAA members ( others) on the first clear night of 9, 10, 11 or 12 August. ... Venue is the picnic site at Big Collin, on the B94 from Ballyclare to Broughshane. ... As for the Midsummer BBQ at Armagh Observatory, I'll bring the BBQ, fuel etc, you bring your own food, drink, cooking eating equipment. ... Clear skies, Terry Moseley . ...

... Armagh Planetarium . ... Universe . ... September . ... Posted on September 19, 2011 | ... 7 Comments On 14 September €а2011, NASA revealed€а the design of its new rocket, the Space Launch System. ... Part of [ ] . ... 3 Comments The astronomy community is excited by the discovery of an exploding star, a supernova, in a galaxy 21 million light years away in the constellation Ursa Major. ... Newer Entries . Hello, IтАЩm Colin, welcoming you to Astronotes, the PlanetariumтАЩs official blog. ...

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... Credit: Mike Simmons ( Astronomers Without Borders , TWAN ) Explanation: Contrary to the famous myth , you can't see the Great Wall of China from the Moon ... even during a total solar eclipse . But on August 1 you could see the Moon eclipsing the Sun from the Great Wall. In fact, from this location near the Great Wall's western end, the Moon completely blocked the Sun's overwhelming disk revealing a shimmering solar corona and bright planets in the briefly darkened sky. ... August Moons . ...

The 2016 Project ASTRO introductory workshop will take place September 16-17, 2016. ... Participating teachers and astronomers are required to attend. ... Home Phone: . ... work email . ... Please briefly describe your background and your experiences in astronomy (if different). Describe experiences you have working with schools or explaining astronomy to students and/or the public. ... What grade level(s) do you prefer to work with (check all that apply) . ... either work or home . ...

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... Aug 2nd, 2010| 05:21 pm | ... There is an ambitious project afoot to build a 3D map of a meteor stream during the Perseids on Aug 11-12. ... I would be especially interested in your comments on the statistical technique I propose to use in analyzing the data. ... Tags: Announcement , Aug 2010 , August , meteors , modeling , Perseids , spatial-temporal modeling . ... Posted by chasc . ... Tags: 2010 , Announcement , astronomical data , astrostatistics , Aug 2010 , August , Computational , workshop . ...

... HST . ... Data . ... Science Blog . ... HST Overview . Overview . ... Phase I Proposing . ... Retrieving HST Data . ... HST Science Year in Review . ... Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) | August 2014 +--------------------------------------------------------+ In this Newsletter we provide some updates of interest to STIS users: Contents: . ... PIs of pending STIS CCD programs that use GAIN=1 should verify that their science programs are not adversely affected by this change. ...

CSIRO Ref 98/194 . Astronomers using CSIRO 's Parkes radio telescope have made a picture that shows our Galaxy ripping apart its nearest neighbours. ... The two nearest neighbouring galaxies, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (left), are less than a tenth of our Galaxy in size. ... One was a process called ram-pressure stripping - gas being swept out of the Magellanic Clouds as the Clouds travelled through our Galaxy's outskirts." ... Email: hsim@atnf.csiro.au . ...

... 2000 August 18 . X-Rays From Antennae Galaxies . ... CXC , SAO , NASA . Explanation: A bevy of black holes and neutron stars shine as bright, point-like sources against bubbles of million degree gas in this false-color x-ray image from the orbiting Chandra Observatory . ... The exploding stars litter the scene with bubbles of shocked hot gas and collapsed stellar cores . ... Tomorrow's picture: X-ray Sky . ... About APOD | ... NASA Technical Rep.: ... A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC . ...

Lectures . ... Home Lectures Lecture Series 2009-2010 Lecture Series 2009-2010 ? Best Targets for Amateur Astrophotography and What They Reveal About Our Universe? ? ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... Dr. Ruben Kier, a radiologist with a special interest in astrophotography, will wrap up the AAA?s 2009-10 lecture series on Friday, May 7, when he discusses ?Best Targes for Amateur Astrophotography and What They Reveal About Our Universe?. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Site Info . ... Public Talks . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Who is this guy who calls himself "The Bad Astronomer?" ... First, yes, I am a real live astronomer (when people ask me what astronomers do, I tell them "They astronom !" ... These are emitted by powerful objects like black holes, exploding stars, and super-dense neutrons stars. ... Finally, am I really a bad astronomer? ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... Day-by-day lines contain complete set and intended for those who have been there (I mean, in Kyoto :) . ... Large format is mainly for 1600x1200 screens and fast link (pictures are up to 150K in size). Normal is for typical 1024x768 screen (i.e. 15" monitors). ... Photos look incredible on it. ... Large . ... Normal . ... Thumbnails . ... Contents with thumbnails: Large | ... Nara, one of the historical cities of Japan . ... August 17, Sunday. ... Nara. ... return to photo album contents | ...

NIFS was assembled and readied for its first cooldown on Friday August 24 2001. The cryostat contained the cold work surface plate and the radiation shields, but not the spectrograph or the On-Instrument Wavefront Sensor. ... The center of the cold work surface plate reached a minimum temperature of ~ 46.1 K. The getter reached ~ 9.2 K. Both are well below the required final operating temperature. ... Peter Conroy lowering the cold work surface plate into the cryostat. ... Pumping the cryostat. ...

... Be Stars . ... Magnetic Stars . ... In Germany one cannot study astronomy from scratch; it's only offered from post-graduate level on, and so in 1988 I started to study physics in Heidelberg. ... I stayed in Heidelberg for a few more months and in 1999 went to ESO-Garching as a postdoctoral fellow for three years, until 2002. ... Already since May 2005, however, I'm back at ESO, this time as staff member of the science operations group in Chile and on the Paranal Observatory. ... Rivi; Sep 2007 ...

The preliminary ALFA pulsar surveys started on August 1st, 2004. In the first day of observations, a new 67.8-ms pulsar, PSR J1928+1746, was discovered: this was the first new pulsar found with ALFA. ... Strangely, the pulsar could not be detected in a 430-MHz observation. This pulsar's apparently unusual spectrum might not be so unusual: 1400-MHz surveys are biased towards finding this kind of object, but the pulsars found in these surveys were not consistently observed at higher frequencies. ...

... STELLAR DYNAMICS: FROM CLASSIC TO MODERN . ... Sobolev Astronomical Institute, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia . ... The proposed meeting is being organized by the St.Petersburg State University, assisted by an international Scientific Organizing Committee, and marks the centennial of Professor K.F.Ogorodnikov's birth. ... The conference will be organized by the Sobolev Astronomical Institute of St.Petersburg State University in the building of the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . News . Observing . ... Magazine . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Open cluster NGC 2818, spiral galaxy NGC 2964, and spiral galaxy NGC 2976 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... August 2008 . ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

... Robert L. Stewart (Brigadier General, USA, Ret.) ... SPECIAL HONORS: Awarded Army Distinguished Service Medal , Defense Superior Service Medal , 2 Legion of Merit, 4 Distinguished Flying Crossed, a Bronze Star, a Meritorious Service Medal , 33 Air Medals, the Army Commendation Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster and V Device, 2 Purple Hearts, the National Defense Service Medal , the Armed Forces Expeditionary Recipient of NASA Space Flight Medal (1984 & 1985). ...