... 2009 September 1 . Shadows of Saturn at Equinox . ... Explanation: Unusual shadows and dark rings appeared around Saturn near its equinox last month. At that time -- early August -- Saturn's ring plane pointed directly at the Sun. ... Saturn's own shadow blacks out a large swath of rings on the right. ... Images near equinox at Saturn are giving astronomers a chance to search for unexpected shadows that may illuminate previously unknown features of Saturn's complex ring system . ...

... Shadows of Saturn at Equinox . ... Credit: Cassini Imaging Team , ISS , JPL , ESA , NASA Explanation: Unusual shadows and dark rings appeared around Saturn near its equinox last month. At that time -- early August -- Saturn's ring plane pointed directly at the Sun. ... Images near equinox at Saturn are giving astronomers a chance to search for unexpected shadows that may illuminate previously unknown features of Saturn's complex ring system . ... Publications with keywords: Saturn - equinox . ...

... Circumstellar disc of beta Pictoris: constraints on grain properties from polarization. To appear in the Astronomy & Astrophysics . abs , src , ps ] . ... Dust influx to Titan from Hyperion . ... abs ] . ... Characteristics of bulges and disks in interacting galaxies . ... Dust grains around Herbig Ae/Be stars: porous, cometary-like grains? ... To appear in the Astronomy & Astrophysics Supplement . ... Finally, Links may lead you to more options (e.g. via the LANL preprint system). ...

... 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. ...

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... Fig. ... One of these is a pink-coloured solar prominence, a tongue of incandescent hydrogen gas spewing out of the obstructed solar disc, visible at the 2 o'clock position. ... Such an eclipse was predicted to be visible from deep within the Asian continent on the 1st August 2008. ... A pink-coloured prominence was visible right from the onset (Fig. 1), while several streamers appeared to emanate from the obstructed solar disk throughout the event (Fig. ... Last Revised: 2008 September 8th . ...

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Weekly Bulletin on Solar and Geomagnetic Activity Highlights on 20 - 26.08.2012, Forecast on 27.08 - 03.09.2012, Carrington Rotation 2127 (15,04.08.2012) SUNSPOT ACTIVITY OF THE SUN REMAINED AT THE AVERAGE LEVEL. ... ON THE VISIBLE SOLAR DISK CONSTANTLY THERE WERE 4-5 SUNSPOT GROUPS ONE OF WHICH, APPEARING ON THE VISIBLE SOLAR DISK ON AUGUST 25, AVERAGE SIZES. NEXT WEEK THE LEVEL OF SUNSPOT ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO BE AVERAGE. ... FLARE ACTIVITY WAS ON THE LOW LEVEL IN ALL DAYS. ...

... 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) ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Meteors and Meteorites . ... Space Flight . ... Posted on December 6, 2013 | No Comments While you may have plans afoot to adorn a certain coniferous sapling of verdant hue with all things bright, shiny, and sparkling in the next few weeks, letтАЩs for a [ ] . Continue Reading.. Posted on August 5, 2013 | ... 3 Comments In February 2013, the asteroid 2012 DA14 flew past the Earth closer than many of the EarthтАЩs geo-stationary satellites. ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Publications > Archive of the ESO Enews > ESO-Enews #6: August 2007 . ... Phase 1 Proposals . ... Instrument Pipelines . ... NEW DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS FOR SCIENCE DEMONSTRATION OBSERVATIONS WITH MAD . ... Given the importance of finding appropriate asterisms, and in order to avoid overlap with the deadline for Hawk-I Science Verification proposals, the deadline for submission of such proposals has been postponed, and is now 10 September 2007. ...

Near-infrared images of star forming regions containing masers ( Figure 1 ) . L. Testi, M. Felli, P. Persi, M. Roth . 1997, A&AS, in press . ... C. Kramer, J. Alves, C. Lada, E. Lada, A. Sievers, H. Ungerechts, M. Walmsley . ... 1997, "Star Formation with ISO", Lisboa, June 24-26, ASP Conference Series, eds. J. Yun and R. Liseau . ... R. Cesaroni, M. Felli, L. Testi, C.M. Walmsley, L. Olmi . ... Click to examine publications from other years . ... Star Formation Group . ... Arcetri Home Page . ...

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... TIPS: 19 September 1996 FOS Keyes SPACETELESCOPESCIENCEINSTITUTE Instrument Status (18 August ­ 16 September 1996 ): FOS instrumental operation nominal Target Acquisition and Related Problems: ­ one instance of loss­of­lock during target acquisition sequence (6584) ­ all subsequent science exposures lost (7 orbits). ­ ...