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Astronomy Picture of the Day . The Galaxy Within Centaurus A . ... About 1,000 light-years across, the twisted cosmic.. ... Big, beautiful spiral galaxy M101 is one of the last entries in Charles Messier's famous catalog, but definitely not one of the least. ... The Flaming Star Nebula from CFHT . ... The bright star.. ... No one is sure what it will do next. ... A closer look at the Eagle Nebula, however, shows the bright region is actually a window into the center of a larger dark shell of dust. ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2012 November 24 . NGC 1365: Majestic Spiral with Supernova . ... Explanation: Barred spiral galaxy NGC 1365 is truly a majestic island universe some 200,000 light-years across. ... Discovered on October 27, the position of a bright supernova is indicated in NGC 1365. ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. February 5, 1996 . COBE Dipole: Speeding Through the Universe . Credit: NASA , COBE , DMR , Four-Year Sky Map . ... The Milky Way Galaxy orbits in the Local Group . ... The map indicates that the Local Group moves at about 600 kilometers per second relative to this primordial radiation . ... About APOD | ...

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... It s because some sunlight bounced off the Earth and dimly lit the side of the Moon that is facing away from the Sun. ... Recently, astronomers used earthshine to help in the search for aliens. Signs of life can be found in the quantities of particular gases in a planet s atmosphere, such as oxygen, ozone, methane and carbon dioxide. And astronomers can work out what gases are in a planet s atmosphere by studying the light that bounces off them their planetshine . ...

... Wonderful Eclipses: The Greatest Saros - Monday 1 December 2008 . ... Thursday 13 November 2008 . The ninth Armagh Observatory Robinson Lecture will be held on Thursday 20th November 2008 at The Armagh City Hotel, 2 Friary Road, Armagh. The Lecture will be delivered by Professor Peter W.J.L. Brand FRSE, of the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Edinburgh. ... The title of Professor Brand's lecture is: GOD AND THE UNIVERSE. ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... The HDF Project. ... How to obtain the data catalogs. Observing logs and ancillary information. Technical information on the data reduction pipeline. Technical information on image registration and combination. Technical information on source detection and photometry. HDF Clearinghouse -- followup observations and analysis. ... Hubble Deep Field Academy -- Educational Resource for Middle School students . Hubble Deep Field South The Space Telescope Science Institute home page . ...

The next Australia Telescope Users Committee (ATUC) meeting will be held on 13 - 14 November 2001, at ATNF headquarters, Marsfield. ... Information may be found at http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/~pn_symp/ . A workshop on "Millimetre Science with the upgraded Australia Telescope" will be held at the University of Melbourne on 29 - 30 November 2001. ... A workshop on "Next-Generation Astronomical Surveys: Opportunities and Science Drivers" will be held at the University of Sydney on 3 - 4 December 2001. ...

... Astronomy from the Ground Up . ... Universe At Your Fingertips . Universe At Your Fingertips TOC . Universe At Your Fingertips Activities TOC . ... Resource Guides . ... Resources . ... ASTRONOMY BACKGROUND - SECTION 2 . ... Resources for Exploring the Moon . ... Resources for Exploring the Big Bang and the Expansion of the Universe . ... Resources for Exploring Astrology and Other Astronomical Pseudoscience . ... Resources for Exploring Skylore (the Astronomical Mythology of Many Cultures) . ...

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Astronomy Terms - To Help You Study The Universe . Articles | ... Learning about the universe, or the study of astronomy, can be fun for the individual or for the whole family. ... Learning a few simple terms will help you with this fascinating study. ... You will use a telescope or binoculars for your observation of the sky at night. ... Celestial Terms . ... Meteor or a shooting star – the light caused when a meteoroid burns up in Earth's . ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ...

... Archive for November 2007 . Nov 24th, 2007| 09:26 am | ... ArXiv] 4th week, Nov. ... ArXiv] 3rd Week, Nov. ... ArXiv] Post Model Selection, Nov. ... three different statistics: chi2 with the model variance, chi2 with . ... Algorithms arXiv Astro Bad AstroStat Bayesian CHASC Cross-Cultural Data Processing Fitting Frequentist Galaxies gamma-ray High-Energy Imaging Jargon Job Languages MC MCMC Meta Methods Misc News Nuggets Objects Optical Physics Quotes Spectral Stars Stat Timing Uncertainty X-ray . ...

ECLIPSES, TRANSITS OF MERCURY AND VENUS . Year 1999 . Year 2000 . Year 2001 . Year 2002 . Year 2003 . Year 2004 . Year 2005 . ... Total solar eclipse . ... Transit of Mercury across the solar disk . ... Total lunar eclipse . ... Partial solar eclipse . ... Partial lunar eclipse . ... Annular solar eclipse . ... Penumbral lunar eclipse . ... big map . ... Transit of Venus across the solar disk . ... Annular-total solar eclipse . ... Non-central annular solar eclipse . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... If you even glance at the night sky from a dark site, you'll see that stars are not evenly spread out across the heavens. ... When you look up in the sky, it's hard not to see patterns formed by stars. ... We call these patterns of stars ``constellations'', meaning ``groups of stars''. Different people see different shapes, so it's no surprise that different cultures have different names and even boundaries for the constellations. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... The HI - Star Formation Connection . ... Coffee . ... Dark Galaxies and Dark Matter . ... HI in Normal Galaxies . HI and Galaxy Evolution over Cosmic Time . ... How Galaxies Accrete Gas . ... The Billion Galaxy Survey . ... Searches for Dark Galaxies . ... Evidence for Dark Matter in Galaxies . HI in Galaxies: Overview . ... Open Questions in Normal Galaxies . ... Starburst galaxies and BCDs . ... HI Rich Galaxies . ... Open Questions in HI and Galaxy Evolution . HI and Galaxy Evolution . ...

... One major problem with this work is that metallicity calibrations have been hindered by large discrepancies, particularly between diagnostics that use different sets of emission-lines, and these discrepancies are not well understood. Fortunately, large integral field spectroscopic surveys offer the first large local datasets to resolve this issue and in this project, 6 different metallicity calibrations were applied to a star-forming galaxies from the SAMI galaxy survey. ...

... Modern aspects of statistical physics and its applications. The seminar welcomes survey talks by senior researchers for the student audience and, more importantly, talks by students of undergraduate and graduate level on their research in progress. ... Olga STETIUKHINA, MSU Math. ... Anna BODROVA, MSU Physics Dept : Size distribution of particles in the rings of Saturn . ... Misha TAMM, MSU Physics Dept : A queue model (continued) . ... Misha TAMM, MSU Physics Dept : A queue model . ...

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