... Active Region 1002 on an Unusually Quiet Sun . ... Our Sun has shown few active regions -- that house even fewer associated sunspots -- for over a year now, and such a period of relative calm is quite unusual. What is well known is that our Sun is in a transitional period between solar cycles called a Solar Minimum , where solar activity has historically been reduced. ... Publications with keywords: active region - solar cycle - sunspot . ... A Sunspot in the New Solar Cycle . ... Solar Moss . ...

... Sun images . ... Sun flares . ... Active areas . August : 2009 . ... No sunspots and sunspot groups can be currently observed on the Sun's surface . No H-alpha plages without spots can be currently observed on the Sun's surface . Last updated: August 10, 2009 00:00 UT . ... 1953-2016 Laboratory of X-ray astronomy of the Sun, LPI RAS, Russia . ... 7(499)132-65-96, Fax: +7(499)132-65-97 . ...

... 2002 August 1 . Sunspots and Solar Active Regions . ... Explanation: July was a good month for sunspots ... really big sunspots. ... While individual sunspots are not numbered or cataloged, groups of sunspots, designated solar active regions, are given consecutive numbers as they appear on the visible solar disk . That numbering began on January 5, 1972 and on June 14, 2002, reached active region number 10,000. ... About APOD | ...

... The active time at each angular bin is the sum over frames of the active time contributions from all CCD pixels, within the node-specific telemetry window, which overlap the surface of the bin. ... The active time, per frame, of a normal pixel is the full frame integration time multiplied by the node-specific fractional exposure; bad pixels contribute no active time. ... If an event is rejected for this reason only, then its pixels remain normal in the exposure map. ...

Galaxies are diffuse objects which are imaged against a background of finite brightness and noise. Galaxies which have the maximum contrast with respect to this background are the ones that are first discovered. ... These galaxies have been missed to date but active surveys for them are underway. ... In this page we present several examples of these newly discovered Low Surface Brightness galaxies as well as examples of high surface brightness galaxies. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... Ciel Espace, le magazine qui vous guide toujours plus loin . ... des pages consacr†йes †а la publication de vos photos Mais c'est aussi une vraie communaut†й avec laquelle partager votre passion et nourrir votre curiosit†й. Accueil La com†иte Chury toujours active . ... Cette photo prise le 1 er mars 2016, †а seulement 26,7 km de distance, met en †йvidence un beau jet de mati†иre qui s'†йchappe en bordure des r†йgions Imhotep et Bes, sur le lobe de l'h†йmisph†иre Sud de la com†иte. ... Etat du ciel ...