... 2013 December 31 . The Horsehead Nebula . ... Explanation: The Horsehead Nebula is one of the most famous nebulae on the sky . It is visible as the dark indentation to the red emission nebula in the center of the above photograph. The horse-head feature is dark because it is really an opaque dust cloud that lies in front of the bright red emission nebula . ... The emission nebula 's red color is caused by electrons recombining with protons to form hydrogen atoms. ... About APOD | ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... It is visible as the dark indentation to the red emission nebula in the center of the above photograph. The horse-head feature is dark because it is really an opaque dust cloud that lies in front of the bright red emission nebula. ... Just to the lower left of the Horsehead nebula featured picture is a blueish reflection nebulae that preferentially reflects the blue light from nearby stars . ... Publications with keywords: Horsehead Nebula . ...

Discover the cosmos! ... 2000 December 29 . The Dark Horsehead Nebula . ... Image Processed by Al Kelly . Explanation: While drifting through the cosmos this magnificent interstellar dust cloud, sculpted by stellar winds and radiation, has chanced to assume a recognizable shape. Fittingly named The Horsehead Nebula it is embedded in the immense complex of star forming gas and dust surrounding the Orion Nebula some 1,500 light-years distant. ... About APOD | ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Stars . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... This month Jupiter the largest of all planets, remains visible in the sky after sunset, not setting until after 11pm.€а On the evening of 12and 13 December the bright star-like object close to the Moon will be this gas giant planet. ... Rising this month is the great winter constellation of Orion the Hunter who will remain in our night sky through until March. ... Tweets that mention Wonders of the December Sky | ...

... International Year of Astronomy in Ireland . ... Christmas Moon", painting by Miruna Popescu, Armagh Observatory, featured as " Lunar photo of the Day " and " Astronomy Sketch of the Day " on 25 December 2009. ... To mark the 400th anniversary of GalileoтАЩs first use of the telescope to observe the sky, 2009 has been celebrated worldwide as the International Year of Astronomy. Moon over Armagh - link to Astronomy Sketch of the Day on 25 December 2009 . ... Monday, 11 May 2009 23:54 . ...

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... The Pleiades star cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, is a conspicuous object in the night sky with a prominent place in ancient mythology . ... The stars in the Pleiades are thought to have formed together around 100 million years ago, making them 1/50th the age of our sun, and they lie some 130 parsecs (425 light years ) away. ... Data for these stars are listed in a table below. ... Yes . ... WEBDA Pleiades cluster data . ... M45: The Pleiades Star Cluster (2007 November 18) ...

home publications > mercury . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... ASP Conference Series . Monograph Publications . IAU Publications . ... Publications of the ASP (PASP) . ... Astronomy Beat . ... Mercury Magazine Contents . ... November/December 1998 . ... The study of this debris has intrigued astronomers for more than 300 years. ... Sci-Fi in the Classroom: Making a "Deep Impact" on Young People's Interest in Science, Leroy W. Dubeck and Rose Tatlow . ... publications . ...

... The expansion is measured as a number called the Hubble Constant . ... Our value is about 20% lower than the one got with the Hubble Space Telescope in 1994," said Dr Jim Lovell, leader of the team that made the measurement. The Hubble Constant is named after American astronomer Edwin Hubble, who in the 1920s found that other galaxies were moving away from ours. ... The Hubble Constant links the galaxy's distance with its speed." ... A short run-down on the Hubble Constant: . ...

Next: Feature enhancement: filtering Up: No Title Previous: Commentary . A sharp contrast is seen between the `crowded' energy map of the modulated oscillations (individual minima and maxima of the signal identified by the Mexican hat wavelet) in section 13 and and the `smooth' presentation of the norm-Morlet transforms of the same data in section 15. ... construct an energy map based on individual events. smooth the map by merging the events that are `close enough' to each other. ...

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... V838 Mon is a member of a new class of eruptive variables which appear as a peculiar novae having late K-M type spectra in their outburst. Before its outburst, it was a wide binary system of B3V type stars. ... The B3V companion was seen in the outburst in the UV spectrum taken with HST (Rauch et al., ... In the latest spectra, the light of B3V companion was predominating in the short-wave photometric bands. ... CCD blue frames of V838 Mon before the eclipse (left) and in the eclipse (right). ...

Ganymede . ... Ganymede Statistics . ... Hubble Finds Ozone on Jupiter's Moon Ganymede . ... Like Callisto , Ganymede is most likely composed of a rocky core with a water/ice mantle and a crust of rock and ice. ... Ganymede's mantle is most likely composed of ice and silicates, and its crust is probably a thick layer of water ice. ... Ganymede's surface is rich in water ice and Voyager and Galileo images show features which are evidence of geological and tectonic disruption of the surface in the past. ...

Next: Edition of the Up: Typical Run Previous: Creation of the . The coefficients of the continuum are to be entered in keyword CLDCT. Edition of the table containing the emission line parameters. ... Command: . ... Computation of the spectrum. The command COMPUTE/EMI creates a 1D image, containing emission lines and continuum. ... EMI : input table containing the emission line parameter. if no table name is given, the output spectra will contain only . ...