... How can two stars create such a strange and intricate structure? ... Some stars are members of close binary systems where material from one star swirls around the other in an accretion disk. Apollo 17 Lunarscape: A Magnificent Desolation . ... Buzz Aldrin, Apollo 11 Lunar Module pilot and the second human to walk on the Moon, described the lunar landscape as "a magnificent desolation". ... Eclipsed Moon in Infrared . ... November s Lunar Eclipse . ... November . ...

... Armagh Planetarium . ... Universe . ... Continue Reading.. ... This new comet was in January 2013 just a dim speck in the constellation Gemini, between the stars Castor and Pollux. ... 3 Comments The тАШLifestyles of the rich and the famousтАЩ are usually splashed across the fronts of magazines and tabloids and itтАЩs pretty common today know more than necessary about many people [ ] . ... Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

... 2000 November 30 . Palomar 13's Last Stand . ... Explanation: Globular star cluster Palomar 13 has roamed the halo of our Milky Way Galaxy for the last 12 billion years. ... Observations spanning forty years indicate that Palomar 13's galactic halo orbit is a highly eccentric one which, every one or two billion years, brings it relatively close to the galactic center. ... Palomar 13's latest close approach was only about 70 million years ago. ... About APOD | ...

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... Feeding the Monster: Gas Caught in its Death Spiral into a Massive Black Hole . ... Stromlo Professor Mike Dopita have used the Hubble Space Telescope to discover how a massive Black Hole in a nearby galaxy feeds itself. ... Earlier Hubble Telescope data obtained by another team member, Professor Holland Ford of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, had found a disk of gas rushing around the Black Hole at a speed of 500 kilometers a second. ...

... In particular, members of the project regularly organize events dedicated to various interesting astronomical phenomena and events - solar and lunar eclipses, transit of Venus, etc. On November 3rd a team of astronomers will venture deep into Turkana National Park, Kenya and attempt to broadcast the magic of a total solar eclipse to the world. ... Solar eclipse . A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth, and the Moon fully or partially blocks the Sun from our view. ...

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... HUBBLE UNCOVERS DUST DISK AROUND A MASSIVE BLACK HOLE . Resembling a gigantic hubcap in space, a 3,700 light-year-diameter dust disk encircles a 300 million solar-mass black hole in the center of the elliptical galaxy NGC 7052. ... Because the jets in NGC 7052 are not perpendicular to the disk, it may indicate that the black hole and the dust disk in NGC 7052 do not have a common origin. ... NGC 7052 is located in the constellation of Vulpecula, 191 million light-years from Earth. ...

... Staff . ... Galaxies, AGN, Cosmology . ... Star formation . ... Galaxy archaeology over the last 7 billion years . The stellar populations in galaxies can gain us insight into galaxy evolution. ... The increase of passive galaxies and the decrease of star-forming galaxies from early times to the present-day indicates that the overall star formation activity has declined and galaxies have been transitioning from the active to the passive phase at a fast rate since about 8 billion years ago. ...

Astronomers at Armagh Observatory observed the partial eclipse of the Sun on 29 March under unusually good conditions. ... The images, taken by astronomer Miruna Popescu, shows the eclipse as seen from the Armagh Observatory at around 11:30 (Summer Time) on 29th March, and the way it was observed by astronomer Apostolos Christou with a small portable telescope equipped with a filter to protect against the Sun's dangerous radiation. ... For more images from Armagh see: Miruna Popescu's Pages . ...

... Australian telescopes have helped the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) find thousands of new galaxies. ... Preliminary HST results were released today by NASA's Space Telescope Science Institute , as were the results from the Australian institutions. ... Called the Hubble Deep Field South , it complements the original Hubble Deep Field , another small patch in the northern sky. ... The Anglo-Australian Telescope has measured the distances of about 75 faint far-flung galaxies in the field. ...

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... The storm began quite unexpectedly. The strongest geomagnetic storm for the last seven months began on Earth almost precisely at the same time as the solar eclipse reached its maximal stage, the culmination of which occurred at GMT 02:35 (06:35 Moscow time). ... Oscillations of such amplitude in the magnetic field have not been observed since October, 11th of last year, which is more than seven months ago. ... We can only add that the magnetic storm lasted approximately 9 hours. ...

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