Astronomy Picture of the Day . Mysterious Acid Haze on Venus . ... Credit: ESA / MPS , Katlenburg-Lindau , Germany Explanation: Why did an acidic haze spread across Venus? The unusual clouds were discovered last July by ESA 's robotic Venus Express spacecraft currently orbiting Venus . ... The above false-color picture of Venus was taken last July 23rd in ultraviolet light , and shows the unusual haze as relatively smooth regions across the image bottom. ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...

... 2008 February 26 . Mysterious Acid Haze on Venus . ... Explanation: Why did an acidic haze spread across Venus? The unusual clouds were discovered last July by ESA 's robotic Venus Express spacecraft currently orbiting Venus . ... There, sunlight broke these molecules apart and some of them recombined into the volatile sulfuric acid . Over the course of just a few days last July, the smooth acidic clouds spread from the South Pole of Venus across half the planet. ... About APOD | ...

Hubble Observations Shed New Light on Jupiter Collision . Was it a comet or an asteroid? ... Their initial findings, combined with results from other space-borne and ground-based telescopes, shed new light on Jupiter's atmospheric winds, its immense magnetic field, the mysterious dark debris from the impacts, and the composition of the doomed comet itself. ... Hubble's ultraviolet observations show the motion of very fine impact debris particles now suspended high in Jupiter's atmosphere. ...

We report on recent observations of molecular clouds in the tidal Magellanic Bridge; specifically, the Ы?kpc-long, tidally extended "tail" of the Small Magellanic Cloud. In particular, we identify an unusually high 12CO(3-2)/12CO(1-0) ratio of 2-3 to 1, toward one of the clouds, suggesting a warm and dense molecular material associated with imminent or current formation of stars. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Moon . Planets . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... February . ... The ringed planet will be quite bright, but unlike Jupiter it will not be the brightest point of light in the sky, this accolade will return to Sirius which is the brightest star in our night sky in the constellation of Canis Major. ... Seven days later on February 18, the Moon will be in its full Moon phase. ... Tweets that mention Wonders of the February Night Sky | ... Astronotes . ...

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... Solar System . ... Sun . ... Comets . ... Some get thrown out of the solar system forever, whereas others end up on yet smaller orbits, visiting the inner solar system fairly frequently - such as comet Halley. ... When a comet moves into the inner solar system, this is heated by the Sun, and the ices turn into gas which forms the head or coma of the comet, which may be hundreds of thousands of kilometres across and visible from Earth. The most striking part of many active comets is the tail . ...

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... Jupiter. ... The time in the table is the mean solar time for the Almaty time zone. ... Almaty and Cholpon-Ata are in the same time zone. h 25 h 36 h 00 h 12 h 24 h 36 h 48 h 12 h 48 m (February 28) m m m m m m m m (March 1) m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m 14.92 15.08 15.41 15.44 15.37 15.12 14.92 14.89 14.80 14.78 14.80 14.82 14.85 14.96 14.72 14.72 14.63 14.65 14.77 14.84 15.10 15.43 15.32 15.05 14.90 14.75 14.73 14.70 Bishkek ­ Cholpon-Ata , Kyrgyzstan ...

... Animation of the neutral hydrogen data cube from Westerbork. ... VIRGOHI 21 was a dark galaxy candidate discovered in 2005 it was found to contain no starlight down to a very low surface-brightness level, yet its velocity structure implied that it had a mass of 10 10 10 11 solar masses. ... VIRGOHI 21 was first observed in the 21-cm line of neutral hydrogen with the Lovell telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory and the detection was confirmed using the Arecibo telescope ( Davies et al. ...

... Project page . ... Project workpage . Turbulence in the Multiphase Interstellar Medium . Project I | ... Project highlight | ... Towards simulating turbulence with adaptive meshes . ... A. Kritsuk, P. Padoan, M. Norman . ... A. Kritsuk M. Norman . ... A. Kritsuk, M. Norman, P. Padoan . astro-ph/0411626 | ... P. Padoan, A. Kritsuk, M. Norman, A. Nordlund . ... Introducing Enzo, an AMR Cosmology Application . B. O'Shea, G. Bryan, J. Bordner, M. Norman, T. Abel, R. Harkness, A. Kritsuk . ...