... Mass . ... Following several successful moon landings,NASA decided to use its last Saturn V not to fly to the moon but to place in low Earth orbit a large space station, named Skylab. ... It was followed that year by three manned flights using the smaller Saturn IB, each carrying 3 astronauts for a prolonged stay aboard Skylab. ... Mass measurements aboard Skylab were part of the medical experiments conducted there. ... Measuring body mass in the M172 chair (see illustration) was not a simple matter...

... 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. ...

... Following several successful moon landings,NASA decided to use its last Saturn V not to fly to the moon but to place in low Earth orbit a large space station, named Skylab. ... It was followed that year by three manned flights using the smaller Saturn IB, each carrying 3 astronauts for a prolonged stay aboard Skylab. ... Mass measurements aboard Skylab were part of the medical experiments conducted there. ... Measuring body mass in the M172 chair (see illustration) was not a simple matter. ...

... Preliminary analysis of early data returned by NASA's historic Galileo probe mission into Jupiter's atmosphere has provided a series of startling discoveries for project scientists. ... These initial findings are encouraging scientists to rethink their theories of Jupiter's formation and the nature of planetary evolution processes, according to probe project scientist Dr. Richard Young of NASA's Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA. ... GIF, 29K ) . ... Structure of Jupiter's Atmosphere . ...

... The WFPC2 CCDs have a small b ut significant charge transfer efficiency (CTE) problem which causes some signal to be lost when charge is transferred down the chip during readout. This has the effect of making objects at higher row numbers (more charge transfers) appear fainter than they would if they were at low row numbers. The effect depends on the temperature of the CCDs. ... It is also possible that proportional losses for fainter stars, at least with no background, may be larger. ...

... Yogi appears to be leaning into the prevailing winds causing some to suggest that its color contrast may be caused by the accumulation of rust colored dust on its windward face. ... Mira A is a red giant star undergoing dramatic pulsations, causing it to become more than 100 times brighter over the course of a year. ... These ice chips were shed from Comet Swift-Tuttle. ... Dubbed NGC 6589 and NGC 6590, the colors of this nebulosity, are caused by gas and dust. ... The Hydra Cluster of Galaxies . ...

The antenna element Ravi ATNF, Narrabri 1. ... Miriad works out the radio Parabolic reflector: A parabolic reflector adds all the fields from a surface = aperture at a focal point. ... Feeds are `compact' and `corrugated' horns The inner profile is curved The inner surface has grooves Cross-section of a horn Sub-reflector 28 main-reflector Feed horn O `optical axis' The feed horn adds all the rays that come from the 28 deg. wide sub-reflector. The feed down-weights rays that come off-axis. ...

... 2010 November 29 . Dark Belt Reappearing on Jupiter . Credit: NASA's JPL , U. Oxford , UC Berkeley , Gemini Obs. ... Explanation: Why are planet-circling clouds disappearing and reappearing on Jupiter? ... Earlier this year, unexpectedly, Jupiter's dark Southern Equatorial Belt (SEB) disappeared. ... Detailed professional observations revealed that high-flying light-colored ammonia -based clouds formed over the planet-circling dark belt. ... About APOD | ... A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC . ...

Astronomy Discussion Forums . ... Teleportation . ... If the Sun lost half its mass; = includes basic concept apparently Sun losing "half its uncertainty", = Sun becoming more factorised (concentrated) .. ... If the sun lost half its mass, on this idea it would partially let go of gravity (well conventional physics says this too?) ... www.astronomy.net . ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the pos