The Bringer of Peace V enus is the second planet from the Sun and the sixth largest. ... S ince Venus is an inferior planet, it shows phases when viewed with a telescope from the perspective of Earth. ... T he pressure of Venus' atmosphere at the surface is 90 atmospheres (about the same as the pressure at a depth of 1 km in Earth's oceans). ... Craters on Venus seem to come in bunches indicating that large meteoroids that do reach the surface usually break up in the atmosphere. ... Earth .. ...

... 2007 June 16 . Lunar Orbiter Views Crater Copernicus . Credit: NASA , U.S. Geological Survey . ... The mosaic of 93 kilometer wide impact crater Copernicus features central peaks rising above the crater floor and rugged crater walls. Note : As of today, June 16 , the APOD editors have enjoyed presenting images from space missions, major observatories, and professional and amateur cosmic tourists alike for twelve years . ... About APOD | ... NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices . ...

In this gallery are many images of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies which have recently been discovered and analyzed. ... The central surface brightness of this galaxy is 24.28 . Malin 2 This galaxy is another huge disk galaxy with a scale length of 15 kpc and a redshift of 15000 km/a. The high surface brightness knot in one of its spiral arms actually has the same color, luminosity and H-alpha equivalent width as the entire Large Magellanic Cloud . ... Truly it is a Low Surface Brightness Galaxy. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 16.06.2007 . ... Credit: NASA , U.S. Geological Survey Explanation: To prepare for the Apollo landings , five Lunar Orbiter spacecraft were launched during 1966 and 1967 to gather detailed images of our fair planet's large, natural satellite . ... Note : As of today, June 16 , the APOD editors have enjoyed presenting images from space missions, major observatories, and professional and amateur cosmic tourists alike for twelve years . ... June . ... June 2007 . ...

... News . ... NASA's New Horizons detects Pluto surface features, including possible polar cap . ... New Horizons scientists interpreted the data to reveal that the dwarf planet has broad surface markings some bright, some dark including a bright area at one pole that may be a polar cap. ... These latest New Horizons images allow the mission science team to detect clear differences in brightness across Pluto s surface as it rotates. ... NASAт??s New Horizons nears historic encounter with Pluto . ...

... WFC3 Data Handbook > Chapter 5: WFC3-UVIS Sources of Error > 5.5 Image Anomalies . ... Ghosts appear as images of the pupil formed from the light of a bright target in, or near the UVIS detector FOV. ... Further details concerning these ghosts may be found in WFC3 ISR 2007-09. ... Specifically, in full-frame, unbinned UVIS readouts, the CT level is ~2x10 -4 of the source when the target is in quadrants A or C and about 8x10 -5 when the target is in quadrants B or D ( WFC3 ISR 2009-03 ). ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... FileљStructure . ... Atmosphere Class Reference . ... More... #include < Atmosphere.hpp > . voidљ . computeColor (double JD, Vec3d _sunPos, Vec3d moonPos, float moonPhase, StelCore *core, float eclipseFac, float latitude=45.f, float altitude=200.f, float temperature=15.f, float relativeHumidity=40.f) . ... Get fade in/out duration in seconds. ... getFlagShow () const . ... getFadeIntensity (void) const . ... Definition at line 40 of file Atmosphere.hpp . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Meteors and Meteorites . ... Stars . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... This famous depiction of the Leonids was based on a first hand account of a meteor storm by a minister, Joseph Harvey Waggoner. ... In the autumn the Great Square of Pegasus is visible in the southern night sky. ... I hope this guide to the November night sky is helpful and have fun star sight-seeing! ... Tweets that mention The Leonid meteors: highlights of the November night sky | ...

... NASA SPACECRAFT FINDS NEW EVIDENCE FOR WATER ICE ON MERCURY . ... The new data indicate the water ice in Mercury's polar regions, if spread over an area the size of Washington, D.C., would be more than 2 miles thick," said David Lawrence, a MESSENGER participating scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., and lead author of one of three papers describing the findings. ... Water ice concentrations are derived from the hydrogen measurements. ...