... 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 Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ...

... AURA , NSF Explanation: Two storms systems larger than Earth are nearly colliding right now on planet Jupiter . ... In the above false-color infrared image taken last week by the Gemini Observatory in Hawaii , the red spots appear white because their cloud tops tower above other clouds. ... Astronomers will continue to monitor Red Spot Jr. closely, however, to see if it will remain red when it rotates away from the larger Great Red Spot . ... Jupiter s Clouds from New Horizons . ...

... 2003 November 14 . Jupiter Portrait . Credit: Cassini Imaging Team , Cassini Project , NASA . ... Jupiter's composition is dominated by hydrogen and the clouds contain hydrogen compounds like ammonia, hydrogen sulfide, and even water. A truly giant planet, Jupiter's diameter is over 11 times the diameter of Earth and the smallest storms visible in the Cassini Jupiter portrait are similar in size to large terrestrial hurricanes . ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...

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... Today this year's largest group of sunspots will cross the Sun's central meridian. ... The next day, the number of spots in the group reached five, and the day after, on June 2nd, it was possible to count thirteen sunspots on solar disk, which had been clear prior to this. ... This year's two most powerful active areas, which passed across the solar disk at the beginning of May, 2009, are set to appear in the Sun's eastern sector in two days, on June 6th. ...

... 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. ...

... Jupiter Eyes Ganymede . Credit: Cassini Team , U. Arizona , JPL , NASA . ... This moon, visible on the lower right, is Ganymede , and the planet it orbits, Jupiter , seems to be keeping a watchful eye, as its Great Red Spot appears serendipitously nearby. This recently released enhanced-contrast image from the robot spacecraft Cassini captures new details of the incredible intricacies of Jupiter's complex cloud patterns. ... Tomorrow's picture: Manicouagan Impact Crater . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Moon . ... According to Ron Miller, author of the respected history of spaceship concepts The Dream Machines , the first known appearance of the tale in print was in the 2 October Тљ1909 issue of Scientific American where the hero was named т??Wang Tuт?? ... Naming a crater after Wan Hu т??the legendary Chinese inventorт?? was proposed shortly after the Soviet probe Zond 3 flew past the Moon in July 1965 returning images of the Moon?s western farside. ...

... Close What Happened to Comet Holmes? November 15, 2007 by J. Kelly Beatty Click here to get a sky chart and simple instructions for finding Comet Holmes in the sky. ... The tiny black square indicates the area around the nucleus imaged three days later by the Hubble Space Telescope. ... Acquired on November 4, 2007, this Hubble Space Telescope view of Comet Holmes's nucleus is 10 wide, about 7,500 miles at the comet's distance. Even HST's powerful camera cannot resolve the 2-mile-wide nucleus. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... Magazine . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... large (8 inches or larger) . ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

... In summer 1994, the biggest news in astronomy was the collision of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter. During this school year, Jupiter will charge back into the limelight with the arrival of the Galileo spacecraft (see figure 8 ). On Dec. 7, following a tortuous six-year ramble through the solar system, Galileo will begin its two-year mission studying Jupiter and its gaggle of moons. ... Besides the camera, Galileo will carry instruments capable of identifying minerals on Jupiter's moons. ...

... From the chain visibility point of view, it is very recommended to look at the Javascript movies , especially if the frame rate can be not regulated in your MPEG player. ... The non-CH-associated large-scale chains visible on the SOHO/EIT images at three wavelengths of 171, 195 and 284 as well as on the MLSO/HAO He I 10830 spectroheliogram of December 16, 1997. ... The SOHO/EIT movies at 171 and 195 show the chain dynamics on June 1-3, 1998. ... Javascript movie (230 KB), SOHO/EIT, 171 . ...

... They had expected to see impact craters like those on the other terrestrial bodies and from their number per unit area to estimate the age of Io's surface. ... This may have been the most important single discovery of the Voyager missions; it was the first real proof that the interiors of other "terrestrial" bodies are actually hot and active. ... A nalysis of the Voyager images led scienties to believe that the lava flows on Io's surface were composed mostly of various compounds of molten sulfur. ...

... Recherche dans le site : . Ciel Espace, le magazine qui vous guide toujours plus loin . ... Ciel Espace, nouvelle formule, c'est . ... Accueil Challenge Photo Jupiter en 2014. Fichiers de 2000 pix de large maxi, et sans caractГЕres spГїciaux dans les noms). ... Jupiter en 2014. ... Etat du ciel . ... Espace annonceurs . ...

A 1 channel wide spike was found in the center of sbc 1, polB using the interim correlator. ... spike in center of the band, 1 channel wide. ... It was seen in 3 level (and stokes) and 9 level configurations. ... 12aug11 13:00 problem went away. ... problem went away. ... The large spike is causing the Tsys to increase. ... A large spike in the center of the band (5 times Tsys) occurred for: . ... A spike in the center of the band has been seen before (sep 2002) but at a much weaker level. ...

... A dynamo is created in a magnetic field by an electric circuit, part of which is moving relative to the rest (additional conditions must also be met). ... Furthermore, the plasma between them conducts electricity very well along its magnetic field lines, which act as if they were wires connecting Io and the planet (drawing). ... The drawing is not to scale. ... The Hubble Space Telescope , using its Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, has been photographing auroras of the planet Jupiter. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Armagh Observatory, 30 July 2015: The sky above a nearby "failed star" or brown dwarf lying in the summer constellation Lyra shimmers with a beautiful green and yellow aurora ten thousand times brighter than the northern lights. ... Even a few years ago, brown dwarfs were thought by most astronomers to be incapable of emitting any significant radio emission, so its first detection came as a great surprise. ...

Gerhardt Meurer (Johns Hopkins University) . The accompanying picture shows NGC 2915, which Australian, Canadian, and American astronomers have shown to be the darkest known disk galaxy. ... The team of astronomers, lead by Gerhardt Meurer at Johns Hopkins University, analyzed the rotation of the galaxy and showed that NGC 2915 is composed mostly of "dark matter". Dark matter is extremely difficult to detect since it does not emit any radiation. ... Gerhardt R. Meurer . ...

Software Forum Message . ... Astronomy Software Discussion | ... Starry Night Pro Plus 6 - How Do I Enter Large Asteroid Database . ... The starry night pro asteroid.txt file is confusing. ... I have downloaded a page of Near Earth Asteroids from the Nasa website but I'm not sure what format starry night requires. ... 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" . ...

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