... Mars to Appear Normal this August . ... October is the best month to see Mars this year. ... As Earth catches up to Mars in their respective orbits around the Sun, Mars will keep rising earlier in the night. On 2005 October 30, Earth will have caught up to Mars and the planets will be the nearest to each other in their orbits -- this time around. On October 30, Mars will be nearly opposite to the Sun, rise at sunset, set at sunrise, and appear highest and brightest around midnight. ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. August 4, 1997 . A Rusty Sunset on Mars . Credit: IMP Team , JPL , NASA . Explanation: On Mars, sunsets can appear salmon pink. ... A day on Mars lasts 24.6 hours - very similar to Earth's, but a Martian year lasts almost twice as long as an Earth year. ... About APOD > . ... NASA Technical Rep.: ... A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC . ...

... 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. ...

... 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). ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. August 17, 1999 . A Crescent Sunrise . ... Explanation: Normally, the Moon shows phases, but the Sun does not. ... When the Moon is closer to the Sun than the Earth, only part of it appears to be lit - resulting in a familiar crescent-shaped phase . ... Nothing was wrong with Sun - viewers were witnessing the end of a solar eclipse . ...

... HST . What is the offset in the U2 direction that can be taken before a gap appears? ... HST Peer Review Process . ... HST Overview . Overview . ... Retrieving HST Data . ... HST Science Year in Review . ... What is the offset in the U2 direction that can be taken before a gap appears in the coverage of the sky between the two pointings? ... Same question for a U3 offset. ... This should allow you to accurately address the issue of optimal offsets in the mosaic. ...

... It was discovered that it would pass about 0.02 AU (about 3 million miles) from the Earth on 1998 August 11 --- close enough to be observed by the Arecibo Planetary Radar and (at much lower S/N) by the Goldstone Solar System Radar. ... Even at this distance, the Arecibo Planetary Radar can obtain images at up to 7 meter resolution. ... This delay-Doppler image of asteroid 1998 ML14 was taken on UTC 1998 August 15 12:45. ... A higher-resolution image taken on Aug 16. ... The Arecibo Observatory . ...

... 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. ...

Browse the articles below for new ideas for your classroom. Mercury September/October 2005: Astronomy Education and Public Outreach: Steps and Missteps Toward an Emerging Profession (pdf) . Focus on Education articles as they appeared in Mercury: . ... March/April 2000: . ... Education Newswire articles as they appeared in Mercury, by issue. ... January/February 2000 . November/December 1999 . ... March/April 1999 . ... November/December 1998 . ... November/December 1997 . ...

... now - return the registration form . May 10 - deadline for conference registration and accommodation form . ... July 1 - final information to participants . ... RETURN] . ... Please send the abstracts to LOC. E-mail address: astro@te.net.ua . ... All participants are requested to fill in the enclosed Registration Form and send it to us before May 10, 1999 (via electronic mail to astro@te.net.ua ) . ... Please complete and return this form (even if you sent the pre-registration form) . ...

... The task also issues a number of housekeeping related messages and values and also writes several keywords to the EXPOSURE extension (the information is usually CCD-dependent and it is thus important that it is kept and propagated through the event file processing chain). ... Filter: the filter wheel position is derived from the position sensor potentiometer (housekeeping column F1122 contained in the main periodic housekeeping file PNPMH1 , HK mnemonic H_CE_FWSPOT). ...

Title: A Dark-Matter Spike at the Galactic Center? Authors: Piero Ullio , HongSheng Zhao , Marc Kamionkowski . ... Title: The Galaxy Environment of Quasars in the Clowes-Campusano Large Quasar Group at z~1.3 . ... Title: The Galaxy Environment of a Quasar at z=1.226: A Possible Cluster Merger . ... 16 matches for the search pattern galaxy environment . The URL for this page is: http://xxx.itep.ru/find/astro-ph/1/galaxy+environment/0/1/0/past,all/0/0 www-admin@xxx.lanl.gov ...

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... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... Sky this Month . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Can you explain Mercury's retrograde motion? Do other planets appear to do this also? ... When astronomers talk about retrograde motion, generally they refer to the apparent motion outer planets make as Earth passes them while orbiting the Sun. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

... Solar System . ... Milky Way . Stars . ... Blue-white Vega is of course one of the brightest stars in our night sky lying about 25 light years from us in Lyra. ... Also in Lyra is the double star Beta Lyrae (Sheliak). This is in fact a close eclipsing pair of B-class stars about 960 light years from the Sun and was only the second eclipsing binary system to be discovered after Algol. ... Planet of Beta Lyrae (from The New Challenge of the Stars by Patrick Moore & David Hardy 1977) . ...

... Standard-star files, however, must also have the standard photometric values (in place of the rough MAG column). The column label should be the usual name of the magnitude or index in the column, e.g., V or U-B or c1; see Table . ... MIDAS table files do not distinguish between upper and lower case in column labels. Thus, while it is possible to use 'u-b' as a column label for the uvby system, it cannot be distinguished from 'U-B' by programs or MIDAS procedures that read these files. ...

... Virginia Kilborn's program gfinder was run on 388 luthered and edge-masked HIPASS cubes , covering the whole southern sky, over all 1024 channels (i.e. -1281 to 12741 km/s), with an HI peak flux cutoff of 60 mJy/beam. ... The large number of candidates is mostly due to artifacts generated in areas of strong continuum flux, mostly the Galactic Plane, (causing a baseline ripple), the HI emission in our Galaxy, and lots of interference (1408 MHz birdie, GPS etc.) ... Number of galaxies: . ... galaxies ...

The First Law (1): Energy is Conserved in a closed system: . ... We usually consider work and heat flow as the two kinds of energy . The Second Law (2): The Law of Entropy: . ... The amount of disorder increases . ... You can not go from a disordered system to an ordered system without inputting more energy (this is the most important attribute of the second law) . ... In no way can we recover work of that this disordered system without putting energy into the system. ... More on Thermodynamics . ...

... File view and tree view . ... Show (expand) directory tree starting from that point (the sign appears near directory name). ... Alternative way is to click on a [+] sign which appears near directory names throughout the archive (it will bring the tree into view from that directory). ... E.g., searching for "nftp" will find "nftp103.zip", "nftp/readme" and so on. ... nftp*" will find all files (NOT directories) which have the characters "nftp" in their names, including "nftp103.zip" and "about.nftp";...

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. ...