... Explanation: Even though you may have just read an email claiming Mars will be incredibly bright tonight, the brightest star on the horizon is not Mars. From central Iran on August 24th, the brightest star in this twilight desert skyview is Venus, aka the Evening Star. But a bright Mars is in the picture, just above and right of more brilliant Venus . ... Farther right of Venus, Saturn peeks through the sunset's fading glow just above the clouds. ... Saturn: Bright Tethys and Ancient Rings . ...

... 2010 August 27 . Brighter Than Mars . ... Explanation: Even though you may have just read an email claiming Mars will be incredibly bright tonight, the brightest star on the horizon is not Mars. From central Iran on August 24th, the brightest star in this twilight desert skyview is Venus, aka the Evening Star. But a bright Mars is in the picture, just above and right of more brilliant Venus . ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... When Venus is on the far side of the Sun, we see the entire near side lit by the Sun. ... When it is on the near side of the Sun, it shows a beautiful thin crescent, because it is between us and the Sun and we see the mostly unlit dark half. ... To see this for yourself, draw a circle one centimeter across, then, next to it, draw a circle 6 centimeters across. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... August 6, 1998 . Infrared Horsehead . ... Explanation: This famous cosmic dust cloud was imaged in infrared light by the European Space Agency's Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) satellite. The false-color picture shows the bright infrared emission from dust and molecular gas in part of the Orion star forming region surrounding the Horsehead Nebula . In visible light, the horsehead-shaped dust cloud looks dark against a background of bright glowing gas. ... About APOD > . ...

home publications > mercury . ... Let Venus Be My Guide . Mercury, July/August 1997 Table of Contents . ... Earth's simmering sibling burns through our early evening skies in July and August. ... Venus's bland, dense, cloudy atmosphere does not allow us to see the surface. Astronomers in the 1930s, looking at the sunlight reflected from Venus, discovered that its atmosphere is rich in carbon dioxide. ... Venus's atmosphere, 96 percent carbon dioxide, is a car with the windows rolled up tight. ...

... 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) ...

... This spectacular new photograph of space contains so many bright shining stars it looks like someone spilt a pot of glitter over it! ... On the left is a very bright star cluster called NGC 3603. This cluster is famous within our Galaxy for having the highest concentration of massive stars of any star cluster! ... While Wolf-Rayet stars are thought to be fairly common across the Universe, they live such short lives we rarely stumble across them. ...

... Gallery . ... Mars . Mars through the 40-inch . Sidebar Left . Sidebar Top . No Sidebar . ... Sidebar Right . View full size . Title: Mars through the 40-inch . Description: Mars as viewed from ANU's 40-inch telescope Siding Spring Observatory . Left: 26 July 2003 Right: 27 August 2003 . Note the growth in the apparent size of Mars over just a month. ... Mars through the 40-inch Mars as viewed from ANU's 40-inch telescope Siding Spring Observatory . ...

... Date: 1 April 2010 23:48:38 GMT+01:00 . Subject: Mercury+Venus, IAA Lecture, BCO Astronomy, COSMOS, Shuttle + ISS . ... ТљТљТљ OnТљthe evening of 2 April Mercury will lie only 3ТА just below and right of Venus. ... 2 Apr: 3ТА 4т??; ... ТљТљ By 15 April Mercury will have moved back to about 7ТА below right of Venus, and faded to mag +1.1, but on that evening you have a rare chance to see the Moon closer to the Sun in the sky than Mercury! ... Events at Blackrock Castle Observatory, Cork: . ...

... Research . ... Star Forming Regions in the Magellanic Clouds | ... Made by B. Lawton (2010). Karl D. Gordon (STScI, Baltimore, USA) . Brian Babler (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) . ... Lynn R. Carlson (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA) . ... Margaret Meixner (STScI, Baltimore, USA) . ... 16) Gordon, K. D., (26 coauthors), Lawton, B., et al. 2012, in preparation; Surveying the Agents of Galaxy Evolution in the Tidally Stripped, Low Metallicity, Small Magellanic Cloud (SAGE-SMC). ...

... Star Atlas . ... stars . ... exoplanets . ... What percent of star systems have orbits in the right orientation for scientists to find exoplanets through the transit method? ... RELATED TOPICS: EXOPLANETS . The probability of having an exoplanetт??s orbit oriented along our line of sight so that there is a transit depends on two things: the size of the star and the size (or radius) of the orbit. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Atlas of the Stars . ...

List of publications . ... Moscow University Press. 160 pp. ... Shevchenko V.V. A Lunar Base. Moscow. ... Shevchenko V.V., Chikmachev V.I. Lunar Base - a Project of XXI Century. ... Shevchenko V.V., Pugacheva S.G., Dehktereva K.I. Brightness Characteristics of the Infrared and Visible Radiation of the Lunar Surface. ... Problems of Complex Research of the Moon. ... Solar System Research. ... Baydal G.M., Sizentzev G.A., Sotnikov B.I., Shevchenko V.V. Lunar Base Infrastructure and Lunar Resources. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... June . ... Posted on February 8, 2013 | ... Continue Reading.. ... 1 Comment In June 1882, at 30 years of age, John Dreyer was appointed Director of Armagh Observatory following the death of Thomas Romney Robinson, who had held the post for a [ ] . ... Posted on August 31, 2012 | ... 2 Comments ItтАЩs the beautiful clear morning of 6 June 2012 here in Armagh and the Sun is rising into a cerulean blue sky.But look closer, and you can see a tiny [ ] . ...

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Spectrograph Fiber Inspection: August 23, 2001 . Multiple view of fibers before being unplugged. Cartridge upright and flipped over. Unplugged bundle (right) . Measured bundle (lower left) . Top view of unplugged cartridge (lower right) . ... View of cartridge with new plate (lower left) . ... Cartridge and fibers ready to be plugged (upper left) . ... Normal position of fibers when plugged (left) . Finished side of plugged fibers (upper left) . ...

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Table of Contents . ... Image and Animation Index . Solar System Introduction . ... Educator's Guide to Convection . ... Chronology of Sun Exploration . ... Chronology of Mercury Exploration . ... Chronology of Venus Exploration . ... Mars . Mars Introduction . ... Selected Images from Mars Pathfinder . ... Chronology of Mars Exploration . ... Mars Image Browser . ... Galileo Spacecraft Press Releases and Information . ... Comets . ... Chronology of Comet Space Exploration . ... Introduction . ...

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... Archives . ... ArXiv] SDSS DR6, July 23, 2007 . Quote of the Week, August 2, 2007 . ... Bayesian? methods have, I think, rightly gained favor in astronomy . ... as any Bayesian. ... Comment ( RSS ) | ... Algorithms arXiv Astro Bad AstroStat Bayesian CHASC Cross-Cultural Data Processing Fitting Frequentist Galaxies gamma-ray High-Energy Imaging Jargon Job Languages MC MCMC Meta Methods Misc News Nuggets Objects Optical Physics Quotes Spectral Stars Stat Timing Uncertainty X-ray . ... Chandra Blog . ...

ALMA | ... In this section, we explain why we need to correct phase fluctuations and ALMA's strategy to do this. Rapid fluctuations will be corrected with water vapour radiometers (WVRs). The Cavendish Astrophysics Group was also a leading contributor to the ALMA prototype WVRs, which were put through their paces in tests at the Submillimeter Array (SMA). ... The Cavendish Astrophysics Group in partnership with the Onsala Space Observatory built two prototype WVRs for the ALMA project. ...