... November 26, 1997 . Uranian Moons, Rings, And Clouds . ... But this pair of near-infrared mosaics from the Hubble Space Telescope's NICMOS camera reveals moons, rings, and clouds of this distant gas planet . ... Ring systems are a common to the solar system's giant planets. ... The eight specks beyond the ring system are small Uranian moons which also show counter-clockwise motion over ninety minutes as traced by the arrows on the right hand image. ... About APOD > . ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

... Moving Echoes Around SN 1987A . ... Yesterday's image highlighted reflective rings of light emitted by a supernova explosion. Today's pictures, taken over a year apart, highlight how these echoes are seen to move over time. ... Echoes of Supernova 1987A . ... Although this stellar detonation was seen more than a decade ago, light from it continues to bounce off nearby interstellar dust and be reflected to us. ... The Antennae Galaxies . ... Cold Wind From The Boomerang Nebula . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Our Galaxy . ... Other Galaxies . ... Space Flight . ... October . ... Posted on November 19, 2010 | 1 Comment Could HIP 13044 b be the strangest exoplanet yet found? ... Continue Reading.. ... 2 Comments Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have been looking ten thousand years into the future of the vast globular cluster Omega Centauri. ... Posted on October 4, 2010 | 1 Comment Gorgeous! ... Posted on September 27, 2010 | ...

... Australian telescopes have helped the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) find thousands of new galaxies. ... Preliminary HST results were released today by NASA's Space Telescope Science Institute , as were the results from the Australian institutions. ... Called the Hubble Deep Field South , it complements the original Hubble Deep Field , another small patch in the northern sky. ... The Anglo-Australian Telescope has measured the distances of about 75 faint far-flung galaxies in the field. ...

... NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided a never-before-seen view of a warped disk flooded with a torrent of ultraviolet light from hot gas trapped around a suspected massive black hole. ... This composite image of the core of the galaxy was constructed by combining a visible light image taken with Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2), with a separate image taken in ultraviolet light with the Faint Object Camera (FOC). ... The inset box shows Hubble Space Telescope's field of view. ...

... STScI-PRC95-45a CRUCIBLE OF CREATION: PANORAMIC HUBBLE MOSAIC ZOOMS IN ON MAELSTROM OF STAR BIRTH This spectacular color panorama of the center the Orion nebula is one of the largest pictures ever assembled from individual images taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. ... Though this 2.5 light-years wide view is still a small portion of the entire nebula, it includes almost all of the light from the bright glowing clouds of gas and a star cluster associated with the nebula. ...

Program Number . ... Program Title . ... Abstract . ... Todd Henry, Georgia State University Research Foundation . ... The present HST program combines observations that are designed to tackle both questions. ... Observations of M81 and two dwarf systems, DDO 183 and KKH37, are scheduled during the coming week. ... The current GO program pursues observations of six planetary hosts, and FGS observations of HD 38529, which has at least two planetary companions, are scheduled over the next week. ...

... ESO is building what will be the World's largest optical telescope array, The Very Large Telescope (VLT). The VLT Project organisation is responsible for the design and construction of the Unit Telescopes, including enclosures, optics, adapter-rotators and coating unit. ... Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ...

From: TerryMosel@aol.com Date: 13 November 2006 22:08:17 GMT Subject: IAA Lecture, Leonids, Astronomy news, Hi all, 1. ... LEONIDS: Don't forget the 'normal' Leonids maximum on Nov 17. This shower is active between 15 and 20 November each year, and produces respectable activity even in those years when no storm activity is expected. ... Then there's the brief intense burst expected early on Nov 19, as already notified, but repeated here for convenience: BRIEF HIGH LEONID ACTIVITY for Nov 19? ...

... The MROI makes use of optical interferometry, much like COAST . ... As a major collaborator, the Cambridge Astrophysics Group is currently developing some of the mechanisms below, specifically the delay line and the fast tip-tilt system. ... Fringe tracking is used to control the positions of the delay line trolleys to make sure the light beams from the different telescopes in the MROI arrive at the science camera beam combiners in phase so that an interference pattern can be produced. ...

... Высокого качества (19.5 MB) . Низкого качества (2.9 MB) MPEG . ... Низкого качества (2.9 MB) This movie shows dynamic rings, wisps and jets of matter and antimatter around the pulsar in the Crab Nebula as observed in X-ray light by Chandra (left, blue) and optical light by Hubble (right, red). ... To produce a movie of reasonable length the sequence was looped several times, as in looped weather satellite images. ... Авторские права: X-ray: NASA/CXC/ASU/J.Hester et al.; ...

Classification of Sunspot Groups Using SOHO/MDI Magnetogram and White-Light Images Tuesday, November 3, 2009 Background/Motivation · Sunspot classification is (for the most part) done manually by experts in the field. ... Tuesday, November 3, 2009 The Plan An automatic sunspot detection and classification procedure will be developed using SOHO/MDI magnetogram and whitelight images. ... Tuesday, November 3, 2009 Then, we cut out a region on the white-light image that matches the magnetogram. ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : "We're light years more advanced than our competition!" ... Even the closest astronomical object, the Moon, is 400,000 kilometers away! ... A beam of light will travel 9,500,000,000,000 kilometers in one year. This distance is defined as a light year ; the distance light travels in a year. ... This is another example of Bad Astronomy; like a light year, a parsec is a unit of distance, not time (to be specific, it equals 3.26 light years) . ...

... SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... November 2 ? 11, 2010 . From 69 degrees north, your cruise aboard the ms Midnatsol weaves along Norway’s breathtaking coastline from Bergen to Kirkenes. ... 1-night hotel Bergen . ... Northern lights hunt each night . ... Tuesday, November 2, 2010 — U.S.A. – Bergen, Norway . ... Wednesday, November 3, 2010 — Bergen, Norway . ... Thursday, November 4, 2010 — Sail from Bergen, Norway . ... Cross the Arctic Circle at 66 degrees. ...

... Feeding the Monster: Gas Caught in its Death Spiral into a Massive Black Hole . ... Stromlo Professor Mike Dopita have used the Hubble Space Telescope to discover how a massive Black Hole in a nearby galaxy feeds itself. ... Earlier Hubble Telescope data obtained by another team member, Professor Holland Ford of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, had found a disk of gas rushing around the Black Hole at a speed of 500 kilometers a second. ...

... Maintenance and Work Completed on M1: September 10, 1999 . Whiffles Installed on M2: September 10, 1999 . M1 Support System Maintenance: September 10, 1999 . M1 Temperature Sensor Work and Repair: September 10, 1999 . M1 Hex-cell Deterioration: September 14, 1999 . ... M1 Whiffle Mount and M1 Back, September 21, 1999 . ... Views of Secondary Mirror (Back): April 13, 2000 . ... Front Portals: June 8, 2001 . ... M2 and M3 Baffle Work: June 8, 2005 . ... M3 Work: November 7, 2007 . ...

... Spacecraft . 29b. Satellites looking down . ... 29e. Explorers of distant space . ... The Hubble orbiting telescope. ... The Hubble telescope , in low Earth orbit, overcomes such limitations, in the visible range and in part of the UV. ... So fruitful was this observation that a second "deep field" exposure of such length, near the southern pole of the heavens, was recently conducted. ... Some satellites specialize in observing the Sun, such as the Japanese Yohkoh and NASA's SOHO . ...

The image at left shows the nearby Andromeda galaxy. The rectangular box marks the region probed by NASAтАЩs Hubble Space Telescope (a blend of visible and ultraviolet light). ... The bright area near the center of the image is a grouping of stars nestled around the galaxy's black hole. The blue dots sprinkled throughout the image are ultra-blue stars whose population increases around the crowded hub. The square box shows a close-up view of an area around the core. ...

These are very prominent absorption lines is most all galaxies. ... These pair of absorption lines will appear in all the spectra and they should be your principle source for determining the redshift. ... When this applet opens you will see an iconic representation of galaxies in the left hand side of the applet and a target area in the right side of the applet. ... Note: What you are doing in this excercise is identical to what Hubble did in the 1920's and you are using the same galaxies. ...

Bigbang Forum Message . ... Post . ... Confused . ... Post Message | ... Posted by Snapon on November 9, 2006 19:33:49 UTC . hubble can see galaxys that are 80 billion light years away so i think that contradicts the 16.7 billion theory . ... seriously confused - zinzana - November 17, 2006 - 18:05 UTC . ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...