Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 2.03.2016 . ... Credit Copyright: Alfred Lee Explanation: What's that in the sky? Earlier this month, in the sky high above Hong Kong, China, not just one unusual type of cloud appeared -- but two. ... Higher in the sky, and further in the background, was a colorful iridescent cloud. ... Either type of cloud is unusual to see in Hong Kong, and unfortunately, after only a few minutes, both were gone. ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ...

... 2016 March 2 . Unusual Clouds over Hong Kong . ... Earlier this month, in the sky high above Hong Kong , China , not just one unusual type of cloud appeared -- but two. ... Higher in the sky, and further in the background, was a colorful iridescent cloud. ... Either type of cloud is unusual to see in Hong Kong , and unfortunately, after only a few minutes, both were gone. ... About APOD | ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Sky this Month . ... Star Atlas . ... stars . ... The Sky This Week: April 1 - 10 . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Why do some stars appear to flash a variety of different colors when you look at them through a telescope? ... So, Earthт??s atmosphere will bend some colors from especially bright stars more so than others, which makes the source look like itт??s flashing colors. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

... 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. ...

... self-absorption - the absorption of light shining on an object by a process similar to that which produced the light originally; if a cloud emits less light than it absorbs from other clouds behind it, this net loss of light, termed self-absorption , causes the foreground cloud to appear darker than the background field (the term is from spectroscopy, where small absorption dips sometimes occur in larger emission lines, making the latter look as if it is absorbing part of itself) . ... HISA Main ...

The Mars Flag has a different design on the reverse side. obverse side of flag . ... The orbit lines on the obverse cross the Sun on the lower half of the flag and appear to go behind the Sun on the upper half of the flag. The reverse side has the orbits lines continuing around the Sun on the upper half of the flag. ... The Mars Flag reverse side is a continuation of the obverse side and not just a different design on the back and not a mirror image of the obverse. Main Flag Background Color . ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . Noctilucent clouds as photographed by Mark Bailey from Lisdoart on 14th July 2006 at 11.30 pm. ... These so-called noctilucent (night glowing) clouds (NLCs), are formed by sunlight reflecting off ice crystals high in the atmosphere, and usually appear in the northwest, through north to northeast during twilight in the late spring and summer months at our latitude. ...

M1 image More About M1 Nice Color Picture . ... M16 image More About M16 HST image . ... M31 image More About M31 Nice Color Picture . ... M42 image ; M43 image More About M42/43 Nice Color CCD Picture . M51 image More About M51 Color Image of M51 M51 Supernova . M57 image More About M57 Nice Color CCD Picture Very Deep M57 Image . ... M81 image More About M81 M81 Supernova Ultraviolet Image of M81 More about Ultraviolet Imaging . M82 image More About M82 M82 False Color M82 True Color . ...

Making HST Pictures: Examples and Illustrations . ... These illustrations represent some of the steps and techniques used to produce “pretty pictures” from HST images. ... TIFFs (ftp) . ... Separate images are exposed through different color filters. ... An alternate way to make color images . ... Eight bit (one byte) images contain 256 different values that may be represented by 256 shades of gray or 256 arbitrary colors from a color map (or palette) of all possible colors. ...

OptInt PmWiki : Pm Wiki / Wiki Style Examples . Wiki styles | ... PmWiki uses WikiStyles for styling text with color and other attributes. PmWiki 2.0 introduced the ability to control the styling further and to even place styles on blocks. ... In addition, an author can define a style "shortcut" by using the define= property. For example, to define a style of %red% , one can use: . define=mystyle color=red% Here is some %mystyle% red text created using a style shortcut. ...

... PmWiki . Summary: PmWiki group header. ... Summary: Styling text for colour and other attributes:) See also Wiki Styles Plus and Wiki style colors . ... PmWiki 2.0 introduced the ability to control the styling further and to even place styles on blocks. ... This text is %color=red% red, %color=blue% blue, %% and normal (black). ... For example, to define a style of %red% , one can use: . define=mystyle color=red% Here is some %mystyle% red text created using a style shortcut. ... Group . ...

... STScI-PRC98-18 AN INFRARED VIEW OF SATURN In honor of NASA Hubble Space Telescope's eighth anniversary, we have gift wrapped Saturn in vivid colors. ... This view provides detailed information on the clouds and hazes in Saturn's atmosphere. ... The green and yellow colors indicate a haze above the main cloud layer. ... Red clouds are even higher than orange clouds. ... This Saturn image was taken at longer infrared wavelengths of 1.0, 1.8, and 2.1 micrometers, displayed as blue, green, and red. ...

True Color Image Gallery: Galactic SNR | Magellanic Cloud SNR . ... Chandra Proposer's Guide pile up section ] During frame readout, the ACIS CCDs take 40 microsec to (parallel) transfer the charge by one pixel. As a result of this, each frame readout, each pixel is exposed for 40 microsec to a source (plus cosmic X-ray background) at each location along its column. ... Note also that the image does not just trail, it extends along the whole column. ... Chandra Supernova Remnant Catalog . ...

... Data Reduction FAQ > The reduced science spectrum displayed in the Reflex window appears good but when I try to plot it, it is quite different. How can I get it? ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... ESO-MIDAS . ... Reflex . ... ESO Data . ... ESO HST Image Galleries . ... ESO Data Access Policy . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... ESO Annual Reports . ... Seminars at ESO Santiago . ... Seminars at ESO Garching . ... ESO Telescope Bibliography . ... Last Update: 01.04.14 ESO . ...

... a greenish glow is often seen in the sky, known as the "Northern Lights." ... During magnetic storms, the glow may move southwards, and on occasion it can be seen in much of the US. ... A similar phenomenon is also seen in southern polar regions. ... Auroral light is produced at a height of about 100 km (60 miles) when fast electrons, arriving from space, slam into atoms and molecules of the atmosphere. ... The green light of the aurora puzzled scientists for many years, since it fit no known...

... Some people have asked why Venus appears in "different places" in these photos. ... Dave Wallace . ... It was taken from Brookline, NH using my Celestron 5" SCT through a Tutill Solar Skreen filter using Fuji Superia Reala color print film. ... Marblehead Middle School Fifth Grade Students viewed the 2004 Transit of Venus from Riverhead Beach on Marblehead Harbor when the Sun broke through the clouds at about 6:45 a.m. Eyepiece projection with my 8" Meade SCT and Televue 32mm Plossl worked well. ...

Astronomers usually measure the flux of an object by collecting light with a telescope, sending it through a known filter, and then determining the power. ... But astronomers usually give their photometric results in terms of magnitudes. ... Astronomers define an absolute magnitude that is independent of the distance of a star and only depends on the intrinsic properties of the object: the absolute magnitude is the magnitude the star would have if it were 10 parsecs away from the Earth. ...

... Nashville. ... Is it my fault that I can't reap what I sow? Nashville, did you give me half a chance With your southern style, and your hidden dance away? ... Nashville , I'd like to know your fate I'd like to stay a while But I've seen your lowered states today ( I've seen them today , honey, I swear I've seen them today ) Now I'm leaving - I've got all these debts to pay You know we all have our dues - I'll pay 'em some other place I'd ...

... Astronomy news . ... Double Engine Fuels Star's Remarkable Nebula . ESO has just released a stunning new image of a field of stars towards the constellation of Carina (the Keel). ... Interactions in this double system, surrounded by a dusty disc, may be the engine fuelling the star s remarkable nebula. The new image, showing a very rich field of stars towards the Carina arm of the Milky Way, is centred on the star HD 87643, a member of the exotic class of B[e] stars [1]. ...

Molecular clouds in the central 200 pc of the Galaxy (the Central Molecular Zone ) exhibit different (and more extreme) physical properties than those in the disk, yet because this is the closest galactic nucleus, detailed studies of this region can provide insight on galactic nuclei in general in the nearby universe. ... In this talk I will present a case study of one of the clouds - a dense and unusual cloud, GCM0.253+0.016 - also known as The Brick . ...