... 2009 September 1 . Shadows of Saturn at Equinox . ... Explanation: Unusual shadows and dark rings appeared around Saturn near its equinox last month. At that time -- early August -- Saturn's ring plane pointed directly at the Sun. ... Saturn's own shadow blacks out a large swath of rings on the right. ... Images near equinox at Saturn are giving astronomers a chance to search for unexpected shadows that may illuminate previously unknown features of Saturn's complex ring system . ...

... October 8, 1996 . ROSAT Explores the X-Ray Sky . ... Explanation: Launched in 1990, the orbiting ROSAT observatory explored the Universe by viewing the entire sky in x-rays - photons with about 1,000 times more energy than visible light . This ROSAT survey produced the sharpest, most sensitive image of the x-ray sky to date. The all-sky image is shown with the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy running horizontally through the center. ... About APOD | ...

Supernova 2004dj in NGC 2403 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2004dj in NGC 2403 . ... Thus, if you have any images of NGC 2403 taken in late July of 2004, they might be worth a second look. ... Icon generated from Bright supernova observing group's 2004dj image . ... JM Llapasset image . ... vsnet-campaign-sn 929] SN 2004dj (mag 11!) . vsnet-campaign-sn 930] SN 2004dj in NGC 2403 - visual magn. estimate . vsnet-campaign-sn 931] very bright SN 2004dj in NGC 2403 . ...

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... Отмеченная наградами АстроТоп-а . ... 1) К участию в конкурсе допускаются все российские сайты на тему астрономии и космонавтики, и все русскоязычные сайты за пределами России. ... II) Сайт года . ... Победитель: Астронет - http://www.astronet.ru/ : подано голосов экспертов - 109 (всего - 129) . ... 3-е место разделили: Астрономия и Телескопостроение - http://www.astronomer.ru/ и Лента новостей космонавтики от Железнякова - http://www.cosmoworld.ru/spaceencyclopedia/hotnews/ : подано по 37 голосов; ...

Moscow Astronomical Plate Archives: . Contents, Digitization, Current and Possible Applications . ... We describe the astronomical plate archives in Moscow and Zvenigorod and the existing digitization projects. ... 2 The Plate Archive of the Sternberg Institute . The contents of the most important Moscow astronomical plate archive, that of the Sternberg Astronomical Institute, was briefly presented in Shugarov et al. [1] in 1999. ... THE MOSCOW PLATE COLLECTION (STERNBERG INSTITUTE) . ...

The Nine Planets is best viewed on-line via a graphical WWW browser which displays the pictures in color and supports hypertext link traversal. ... To view the movies and hear the sounds, you'll need additional helper programs. ... I recommend that you use Netscape as your browser. Netscape can display gif and jpeg images directly without need of any additional helper apps. You do need additional helper apps for movies and sounds, however. ... Yahoo's Helper Applications .. ... Tech Help .. ...