... A Close Pass of Saturns Moon Dione . ... Credit Copyright: Cassini Imaging Team , ISS , JPL , ESA , NASA Explanation: What's that past Dione? When making its closest pass yet of Saturn's moon Dione late last year, the robotic Cassini spacecraft snapped this far-ranging picture featuring Dione, Saturn's rings, and the two small moons Epimetheus and Prometheus . ... Neon Saturn . ... Dione, Rings, Shadows, Saturn . ... Rings and Seasons of Saturn . Flyby Image of Saturns Sponge Moon Hyperion . ...

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. ...

... January 20, 1996 . Mercury's Caloris Basin . ... Explanation: Mercury , the closest planet to the Sun , has a surface with so many craters it resembles the Earth 's Moon . The largest surface feature on Mercury is the Caloris Basin, which resulted from a collision with an asteroid . ... The Caloris Basin gets very hot because it is near the "sub-solar point" - the point on Mercury 's surface that is directly under the Sun when Mercury is closest to the Sun . ... About APOD | ...

... F. Rodionova and E. A. Kozlova . ... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, 119899, Moscow, Russia; jeanna@sai.msu ru. ... Brown University - Vernadsky Institute Microsymposium 34, October 8-9, 2001, Moscow, Russia . ... Brown University - Vernadsky Institute Microsymposium 38, October 27-29, 2003, Moscow, Russia . ... Brown University - Vernadsky Institute Microsymposium 40, 2004, Moscow, Russia . ... 1 Sternberg State Astronomical Institute Lomonosov Moscow University, Russia; marss8@mail.ru . ...

... Yu.A.Nefyodov, M.R.Trunin, A.F.Shevchun, D.V.Shovkun, N.N.Kolesnikov, M.P.Kulakov, A.Agliolo Gallitto, and S.Fricano, Europhysics Letters 58 (3), 422 (2002) . ... M.R. Trunin, Yu.A. Nefyodov, A.F. Shevchun Phys. Rev. Lett. 92 , 067006 (2004) . ... M.R. Trunin, Yu.A. Nefyodov, A.F. Shevchun, Supercond.Sci. ... V.N. Egorov, V.L. Masalov, Yu.A. Nefyodov, A.F. Shevchun, M.R. Trunin, V.E. Zhitomirsky, and M. McLean. ... Yu.A. Nefyodov, A.F. Shevchun, A.M. Shuvaev, M.R. Trunin . ... Publications . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... Magazine . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Sky Events . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... How close does Pluto's orbit come to Neptune? ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ... Astronomy Magazine...

New Images Hint at Wet and Wild History For Europa . Chunky ice rafts and relatively smooth, crater-free patches on the surface of Jupiter's frozen moon Europa suggest a younger, thinner icy surface than previously believed, according to new images from Galileo's spacecraft released today. ... These features, which lend credence to the idea of hidden, subsurface oceans, also are stirring up controversy among scientists who disagree about the age of Europa's surface. ... Europa . ...

... ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... 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 | ... Australia Telescope 20GHz Survey . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . Visiting Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ...

... Contacts . 2012: . ... We refined the fundamental parameters of the components, the orbital periods, and the conditions of photospheric heating of the secondary component by the ultraviolet radiation of the hot component. ... The observations of the star clusters associated with ultra-luminous x-ray sources (ULXs) in four galaxies on the 6-meter and VLT telescopes have shown that all the ULXs are located within 200pc of very young star clusters (younger than 5 million years). ... Archive . ...

Go directly to the moons of: . Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto . MARS . Pronunciation . Earth's Moon . ... Aeolis . ... Aestuum . ... Aeria . ... A-muh-ZAHN-is . ...

... Satellites of the planets are assigned a provisional designation (indicating year of discovery) by the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams ( CBAT ) upon satisfactory demonstration of the existence of a new object. ... In the past, Comets were first given a provisional designation, consisting of the year and a lowercase letter indicating the order of discovery in the year (e.g., 1994a was the first comet discovered or recovered in 1994, 1994b the second, etc.) ... Names .. ...

Bojan Nikolic . ... My publications . ... Download: pdf . Proceedings in conferences: . Phase Retrieval Measurements of Antenna Surfaces Using Astronomical Sources , Bojan Nikolic, John Richer and Richard Hills in Proceedings of the General Assembly of U.R.S.I. , 2002. ... Ground-Based Mid Infra-Red Observations of Nearby Starburst and AGN Galaxies , Bojan Nikolic, Marcel Clemens, Paul Alexander, Garret Cotter and Malcolm Longair in Proceedings of Galaxy Evolution III, Kiel, Germany , 2002. ...

... These other worlds are the moons of our Solar System , of which there are approximately 170 in orbit around our planets.Some of these moons are very interesting, and have diverse and unique features, very different to our barren, heavily cratered Moon .Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system has the most moons of any planet with known 64 moons in orbit.The four ... Ganymede, the largest moon in the Solar System thought to have oceans located underneath its icy surface.( ...

... WFC3 Data Handbook > Chapter 5: WFC3-UVIS Sources of Error > 5.5 Image Anomalies . ... Ghosts appear as images of the pupil formed from the light of a bright target in, or near the UVIS detector FOV. ... Further details concerning these ghosts may be found in WFC3 ISR 2007-09. ... Specifically, in full-frame, unbinned UVIS readouts, the CT level is ~2x10 -4 of the source when the target is in quadrants A or C and about 8x10 -5 when the target is in quadrants B or D ( WFC3 ISR 2009-03 ). ...

... Version 2.8.2 (2002-03-01) HB ----------------------------- identical to 2.8.1 which for some reason was not ingested into the system properly Version 2.8.1 (2002-02-27) HB ----------------------------- Closed SPR : -SSC- SPR -2718: INSR array out of range if input source table empty (on Linux) Version 2.8 (2002-01-10) HB --------------------------- test harness updated ... Version 1.3 ---------------------- Closed SPRs: - 0363: Scientific functionality added. ...

R1643 2002-Jan-17 15:58:35 Technical Page Proposal Type: Regular General Category: Planetary Radar Observation Category: Solar System Total Time Requested: 12.75 Hours Proposal Title: Radar imaging of asteroid 5604 (1992 FE) ABSTRACT: We propose delay-Doppler imaging of 1992 FE during its close approach in July 2002 to discern hectometer-scale surface features, to reconstruct the asteroid's shape, and to determine its spin state. ... Maybe Part of the observing run. ...

... Asher, D.J. , 1999, ``The Leonid meteor storms of 1833 and 1866'', MNRAS, 307, 919-924. ... Asher, D.J., Bailey, M.E. , Emel'yanenko, V.V., 1999, ``The resonant Leonid trail from 1333'', Irish Astron. ... McNaught, R.H., Asher, D.J. , 1999, ``Leonid dust trails and meteor storms'', WGN, Journal of the Int. Meteor Org., 27, 85-102. 23. ?zeren, F.F., Doyle, J.G., Jevremovic, D. , 1999, ``The Wilson-Bappu relation for RSCVn stars'', A&A, 350, 635-642. ...

... ESO Acronyms . ... Quasars and Black Holes . ... Black Hole at the Centre of our Galaxy . ... This view shows a simulation of how a gas cloud that has been observed approaching the supermassive black hole at the centre of the galaxy may break apart over the next few years. This is the first time ever that the approach of such a doomed cloud to a supermassive black hole has been observed and it is expected to break up completely during 2013. ... Milky Way : Galaxy : Component : Central Black Hole . ...

... Most Important Journals . Less Popular Astronomical Journals . Physics . Space, Selectial mechanics, .. Russian Journals . ... Astrophysics & Astronomy . ... Astronomical Journal . ... New Astronomy . ... Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific . ... STScI News . Space Telescope Insitute Newsletter . ... Journal of Astronomical Data . ... Journal of High-Energy Physics (mirror in CERN ) [astro, grav, hi-energy .. ... Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics . ...

... Pre-university education . ... On March 16 a meeting with Raymond Murphy - the author of the world famous series of English grammar textbooks: English Grammar in Use and Essential Grammar in Use took place in Samara State Aerospace University within the framework of the conference Peculiarities of grammatical skills formation in various stages of English language teaching (Innovative Approaches to ELT). ... The textbook of Raymond Murphy is a practical guide to learning English as a foreign language...