... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2015 November 7 . Earth and Milky Way from Space . Image Credit: NASA , Scott Kelly . Explanation: Since November 2000 , people have been living continuously on the International Space Station. ... The Milky Way stretches below the curve of Earth's limb in the scene that also records a faint red, extended airglow. ... About APOD | ...

... Hammer Versus Feather on the Moon . ... Credit Copyright: Apollo 15 Crew, NASA Explanation: If you drop a hammer and a feather together, which reaches the ground first? On the Earth, it's the hammer, but is the reason only because of air resistance? ... A good place free of air resistance to test this equivalence principle is Earth's Moon , and so in 1971, Apollo 15 astronaut David Scott dropped both a hammer and a feather together toward the surface of the Moon. ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. November 8, 1996 . A Solar Corona Ejection . ... One reason, besides the extreme heat, is that explosions are common there . In the above picture, magnetic fields buckle releasing previously constrained hot material from the upper atmosphere of the Sun . ... CMEs are more common but less intense than solar flares . ... About APOD | ...

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Weaving together Astronomy+Statistics+Computer Science+Engineering+Intrumentation, far beyond the growing borders . ... Archives . ... On the other hand, there is none in astronomy although astronomers have a long history of comprising a huge volume of catalogs and data archives. ... Nevertheless, I?ve noticed a few astronomers rigorously apply principle component analysis (PCA) in order to reduce the dimensionality of a data set. ... Chandra Blog . ... The e-Astronomer . ... SAMSI AstroStat Prog. ...

... Armagh Planetarium . ... Universe . ... Space Flight . ... December . ... No Comments To get the latest on space and astronomy go to Carnival of Space. ... No Comments Carnival of Space, the regular and vital guide to space and astronomy blogs is hosted by a different site every week. ... Newer Entries . Hello, IтАЩm Colin, welcoming you to Astronotes, the PlanetariumтАЩs official blog. Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Site Info . ... Public Talks . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Who is this guy who calls himself "The Bad Astronomer?" ... First, yes, I am a real live astronomer (when people ask me what astronomers do, I tell them "They astronom !" ... These are emitted by powerful objects like black holes, exploding stars, and super-dense neutrons stars. ... Finally, am I really a bad astronomer? ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... From Mark Bailey, Armagh Observatory, and Greer Ramsey, Armagh County Museum . The National Museums Northern Ireland and the Armagh Observatory announce the launch of the exhibition "Portraits of Astronomers", at 8.00pm on Thursday 19th November at Armagh County Museum . ... Among the invited guests will be Lucinda Douglas-Menzies who took the images and whose book and exhibition is a fitting tribute to the United Nations International Year of Astronomy 2009. ... Thursday, 12 November 2009 00:16 . ...

... Dark energy is believed to be a component of the Universe whose repulsive gravity is presently accelerating the expansion of the Universe.€а Although it comprises the bulk of the mass-energy of the Universe, its nature is not well understood.€а €аAlbert Einstein originally suggested its existence about 80 years ago. A supernova is the explosive death of a star, which unleashes a burst of light through the cosmos. ... This website is a gift from Nancy Riess . ...

... Science Users Information > Science and Technical Meetings > Conferences 2011 > ADASS XXI . ... Tutorial: GPU Comp. for Astronomy . ... Oral Presentations . ... Nov 5 . ... The Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems (ADASS) conference provides a forum for scientists and developers concerned with algorithms, software and software systems employed in the acquisition, reduction, analysis, and dissemination of astronomical data. ... ADASS XXI will be hosted by the Observatoire de Paris in...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... 55 years since Yuri Gagarin's flight . ... Experiments and Researches from 2013 . ... Sea Launch . ... Anniversaries . ... Important Anniversaries of the Corporation . ... November 15, 2013 - 25 years since the launch of reusable transportation space system "Energia-Buran". ... April 28, 2013 - 5 years since the first launch under Land Launch Program from Baikonur Cosmodrome. ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

... Home Lectures Lecture Series 2015-2016 . ... Lecture Series 2014-2015 . ... Beyond New York City . ... The Amateur Astronomers Association is proud to present an astronomy lecture series from October through May each year for our members and the public. ... Amateur Astronomer Association is pleased to announce we will be offering select, limited reserved seating for current AAA members for the Friday, January 8, 2015 AAA Lecture entitled Robert Nemiroff ?2015 Astronomy Picture of the Day?. ...

... If Earth's sphericity is of prime importance as the ultimate cause of weather and climate, Earth's *ROTATION* is almost as important, although the atmosphere would still exhibit motions even if it wouldn't rotate. ... Take any one of those two conditions away,and these waves become mathematically impossible. ... The Coriolis force is the force directly caused by Earth's rotation, and should be mentioned when going into a more detailed description of the physics of Rossby waves. ...

Crater Gassendi . ... I made this drawing was made on the 26th of november 2001. If you compare this one with the previous drawing of Gassendi (below) the differences are clear. ... This drawing was made on the 28th of september 2001. After nearly a full month without observations I had a one hour gap between the thicker clouds. ... This drawing was made on the 29th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 27th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 25th of august 2001. ...

... CIMAFITS is the name for the Arecibo FITS-file format. ... This is a list of (fairly) up-to-date documents describing CIMA and CIMAFITS: . The CIMA version history log which is the most up-to-date page listing all changes made to the different versions of CIMA . ... The CIMA user's log which chronologically lists changes made to CIMA that may be relevant to an observer. The CIMA engineering log which lists engineering changes made to CIMA that probably are of less interest to an observer. ...

... It seems likely that field-aligned potential drops (upward directed electric fields) are formed to create this effect (e.g., Weimer and Gurnett, 1993), although different wave-related schemes have also been suggested (e.g., Bryant et al., ... Auroral arcs have been related to large, perpendicular electric field structures, electrostatic shocks , observed mostly at geocentric distances 1.4 - 1.8 Re (9000 - 12000 km altitude; Mozer et al., 1977; Torbert and Mozer, 1978; Mozer et al., ... Res. ...

home publications > mercury . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Community Involvement . ... Observatories, amateur astronomy meetings, star parties, museums, planetariums, science centers, and research centers are likely to be somewhere near your school. ... Believe it or not, there are resources to help scientists learn how to be more effective in science education classroom environments, and you don't have to enroll in an education degree program to take advantage of them. ...

... NASA Astronaut . ... NASA EXPERIENCE: Selected by NASA in April 1996, Dr. Pettit reported to the Johnson Space Center in August 1996. ... He lived aboard the International Space Station for 5-1/2 months during Expedition 6, was a member of the STS-126 crew, and again lived aboard the station for 6-1/2 months as part of the Expedition 30/31 crew. ... Expedition 30/31 (December 21, 2011 to July 1, 2012) launched to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz TMA-03M craft from Kazakhstan. ...

ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... CSIRO ATNF Data Archives . ... Teacher workshops . ... CSIRO Astronomy Space Science is holding a workshop on phase transitions in the diffuse interstellar medium. The motivation for the meeting is to synthesise new observational and numerical work which place us in a strong position to address broad issues related to cold gas in the diffuse ISM. ... John Dickey (University of Tasmania) . ...

... Ancient Greeks understood it quite well, and they considered astronomy not only as science, but also as art, with its Muse - Urania. ... Pushkin . ... Vulcano Island . ... Vulcano Workshop . ... Jim Beall Tree, Washington . ... Julia Tree, Pushkin . ... Tyumen, St.Peter and Pavel church . ... Binary Star . Binary System of X-ray Pulsar . Disk Accretion onto Magnetized Neutron Star . ... Discovery of X-ray stars . ... X-ray stages of binary evolution and Non X-ray stages of binary evolution . ...