... Credit: A. Vannini , G. Li Causi , A. Ricciardi , A. Garatti Explanation: This gorgeous view of stars, nebulae, and the Milky Way comes from the dark night sky above the lovely island of La Palma in the Canaries archipelago . The picture was made by a group of experienced astrophotographers who traveled there to take advantage of the ideal observing conditions near La Palma's Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos . ... Sirius, is part of the constellation Canis Major (Big Dog). ...

... Armagh Planetarium . ... Universe . ... Posted on July 3, 2012 | 17 Comments Mankind is responsible for numerous achievements in technology, arts and science.However, how much can this attributed solely to the human mind or is there another reason man has achieved such [ ] . ... Newer Entries . Hello, IтАЩm Colin, welcoming you to Astronotes, the PlanetariumтАЩs official blog. Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

... March 5, 1998 . Canaries Sky . ... Explanation: This gorgeous view of stars, nebulae, and the Milky Way comes from the dark night sky above the lovely island of La Palma in the Canaries archipelago . ... Orion's famous red giant star Betelgeuse , near picture center, has a yellowish cast and Rigel is the bright star in Orion at lower right. Brilliant white Sirius , near the bottom, is the brightest star in the picture (and in Earth's night sky). ... About APOD > . ...

The night sky brightness, together with number of clear nights, seeing, transparency, photometric stability and humidity, are some of the most important parameters that qualify a site for front-line ground--based astronomy. ... Night sky at ESO-Paranal (Chile). ... Night sky brightness data . ... UBVRI night sky brightness at ESO-Paranal during sunspot maximum (A 2003, PDF) . ... The Dancing Sky: six years of night sky observations at Cerro Paranal (Starlight 2007 conference proceedings, PDF) . ...

... SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Lapping up the Milky Way . ... The Milky Way is an average-sized spiral galaxy, one of about 100 billion islands of stars in the universe. ... Thomas Wright in 1750 and Immanuel Kant in 1755 suggested that the band of light we see is a flattened disc of stars. ... This really depends on your location and sky conditions, but generally you'll see the Milky Way stretched as a band between the northeastern and southwestern horizons. ...

NMW survey overview . Access image archive . ... The New Milky Way survey aims to detect bright (V<13.5) optical transients near the Galactic plane using an automated wide-field (8x6 deg.) system capable of surveying the whole Milky Way area visible from the observing site in one night. ... All images obtained during the transient search survey are available online (please use the image archive access form ). ... Images per field: . ... Images per night: . ... Milky Way imaging time: . ...

... ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Governance overview . Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Our people overview . ... Publications overview . ... Careers overview . ... ATNF facilities . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Parkes | ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ... Surface brightness measurements of . extended galactic nebulae . ...

Summer Triangle . Articles | ... As dusk deepens into night in early June, look a bit north of east, not real high in the sky, for a sparkling blue-white star, whose name is Vega . ... Since the stars rise some four minutes earlier with each passing day, expect the stars of the Summer Triangle to light up the twilight dusk around middle to late June -- a sure harbinger of the change of seasons, of spring giving way to summer. ... Re-published on Astronomy Net with permission of the author. ...

Discovery Channel :: News - Space :: Andromeda Galaxy Broader, Study Finds 4/1/08 11:05 PM News -- Space Andromeda Galaxy Broader, Study Finds Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News Submit to: Jan. 10, 2007 -- The Milky Way's sister galaxy Andromeda has been hiding a gigantic secret: its true size. ... Discovery Channel | ... The leading global real-world media and entertainment company. http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/01/10/andromeda_spa.html?category=space&guid=20070110091500 Page 3 of 3 ...

... Siding Spring Observatory by night - Bob ShobтАж . Sidebar Left . ... The moonlit ANU 2.3m telescope building, theтАж . Views: 4724 . ... Looking to the south-west to the Milky Way inтАж . ... Title: Siding Spring Observatory by night - Bob Shobbrook . Description: Dr Bob Shobbrook is a semi-retired professional astronomer and official Observatory Visitor at Siding Spring Observatory. ... Bob was one of Stromlo's first astronomy graduates, receiving his PhD from the ANU in 1964. ...

... The Pleiades star cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, is a conspicuous object in the night sky with a prominent place in ancient mythology . ... The stars in the Pleiades are thought to have formed together around 100 million years ago, making them 1/50th the age of our sun, and they lie some 130 parsecs (425 light years ) away. ... Data for these stars are listed in a table below. ... Yes . ... WEBDA Pleiades cluster data . ... M45: The Pleiades Star Cluster (2007 November 18) ...

... Like the night sky on the Earth, the martian sky hosts a plethora of astronomical phenomena occurring around the clock in a neverending space opera played out for the benefit of robotic and future human observers alike. ... Moons . Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos . ... Under the same conditions, Deimos would be as bright as -5, somewhat brighter than the planet Venus appears in Earth's sky. ... The moons are also eclipsed by Mars itself (a situation analogous to lunar eclipses at the Earth). ...

... In typical nightly use, the wide field and planetary telescope and cameras record images of favorably placed objects in the sky, including constellations, bright variable stars, nebulae through narrow-band filters, comets, the Moon, and planets. ... Shared Skies telescopes are available for use by students at the University of Louisville and the University of Southern Queensland, and by teachers and students in middle and high schools mentored by faculty at the universities. ...

CELESTIAL PORTRAITS Orion the Hunter Famous for bold stars and strong, linear features, the Hunter trims his warrior attire with some of the most gorgeous nebulae in the sky. ... Orion's seven brightest stars are all 2nd magnitude or better. ... THE ORION NEBULA glows brilliantly as the middle "star " in Orion's sword. ... This cluster contains about twenty-five stars -- most of them faint -- across an area 8' in febr u ar y 04 NGC 2174 is a vivid emission nebula near the tip of Orion's club. ...

... 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 . ... Richard Sanders from Sydney, Australia [Oi!] writes in and asks, "How much of the Milky Way galaxy do we see with the naked eye?" ... Let's go to my model of the Milky Way that I used in episode 1 because, Milky Waste not want not. [ holding up CD model ] The Milky Way is 100,000 light years across, so it takes light 100,000 years to go from one end of the galaxy to another. The Sun is about half way from the center of the galaxy to the edge, so that's about 25,000 light years. ...

Our publications in 2002 year Kniazev, A. Y.; Grebel, E. K.; Pustilnik, S. A.; Pramskij, A. G. American Astronomical Society, 201st AAS Meeting, #52.23; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 34, p.1195 (12/2002) . ... N.; Pustilnik, S. A.; Kniazev, A. Y.; Elmegreen, B. G.; Larsen, S. S.; Alfaro, E. J.; Hodge, P. W.; Pramsky, A. G.; Richtler, T. Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.389, p.855-870 (07/2002) . ... 253-253 (02/2002) . ... 24P (01/2002) . ...

In this gallery are many images of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies which have recently been discovered and analyzed. ... The central surface brightness of this galaxy is 24.28 . Malin 2 This galaxy is another huge disk galaxy with a scale length of 15 kpc and a redshift of 15000 km/a. The high surface brightness knot in one of its spiral arms actually has the same color, luminosity and H-alpha equivalent width as the entire Large Magellanic Cloud . ... Truly it is a Low Surface Brightness Galaxy. ...

... November 12, 1996 . Comet Hale-Bopp Passes M14 . ... Explanation : Comet Hale-Bopp continues its slow trek across the night sky, and can now be seen superposed near the bright globular cluster M14 . Will Comet Hale-Bopp become as bright in early 1997 as Comet Hyakutake did in early 1996? It is still too early to tell. ... Because of the size of coma , some speculate that the nucleus of Hale-Bopp is unusually large. ... Tomorrow's picture: Seven Jets from Comet Hale-Bopp . ... About APOD . ...

... 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 . ...