... Methone: Smooth Egg Moon of Saturn . ... Saturns Moon Dione in Slight Color . ... Start with the fact that Saturn's moon Dione has one side that always faces Saturn, and one side that always faces away. ... A Full Moonset can be a dramatic celestial sight, and Full Moons can have many names. ... Planetary Nebula PK 164 31 . ... The Red Spider Planetary Nebula shows the complex structure that can result when a normal star ejects its outer gases and becomes a white dwarf star. ...

... 2012 November 6 . Methone: Smooth Egg Moon of Saturn . ... Explanation: Why is this moon shaped like a smooth egg? The robotic Cassini spacecraft completed the first flyby ever of Saturn's small moon Methone in May and discovered that the moon has no obvious craters. ... The smoothness and egg-like shape of the 3-kilometer diameter moon might be caused by Methone 's surface being able to shift -- something that might occur were the moon coated by a deep pile of sub-visual rubble . ...

T ethys ( "TEE this" ) is the ninth of Saturn 's known satellites: orbit : 294,660 km from Saturn diameter : 1060 km mass : 6.22e20 kg I n Greek mythology Tethys was a Titaness and sea goddess who was both sister and wife of Oceanus. ... T elesto and Calypso orbit in Tethys' Lagrange points (60 degrees ahead and behind Tethys in the same orbit). more images . ... T elesto ("tah LESS toh") is the tenth of Saturn's known satellites: orbit: 294,660 km from Saturn diameter: 29 km (34 x 28 x 36) mass: ? ...

Most of these images were obtained by Mike Bessell, Michelle Buxton, Hwankyung Sung, Ralph Sutherland and Bob Watson at SSO using a 2Kx2K Site CCD behind a Nikon or Hasselblad lens or directly on the 1m telescope. A few images are from the Hubble Space Telescope. Some of the M42 images were obtained with the KPNO 1m and ESO NTT telescope. One image is a mosaic of IRAS images. ... Details of the CCD imaging program at MSSSO. ... antenna.jpg (53KB) . ... ngc6744.jpg (59KB) . ...

... HIZOA J0836-43: a massive galaxy . ... The galaxy HIZOA J0836-43 was discovered by Donley et al. (2006) in the Parkes HI Survey of the Zone of Avoidance (HIZOA) and is also detected in the HI Parkes All Sky Survey (HIPASS) . ... The extended neutral hydrogen disk of HIZOA J0836-43, mapped with the Australia Telescope Compact Array, is at least 130 kpc in diameter (top panels) and rotates with over 300 km/s (bottom panels). ... today * ATNF | Parkes | ...

. Next: FSRQs Up: THE DEEP X-RAY RADIO Previous: Redshift Distribution . DXRBS' unique combination of a dual X-ray/radio survey method and high sensitivity has opened up important, large new regions of parameter space for both blazar sub-classes, within which a large fraction of our sample (nearly 50%) lie. This section is devoted to discussing these discoveries and their impact upon our understanding of the blazar class. љ . FSRQs . BL Lacs . Paolo Padovani . 1/5/1998

M1 image More About M1 Nice Color Picture . ... M16 image More About M16 HST image . ... M31 image More About M31 Nice Color Picture . ... M42 image ; M43 image More About M42/43 Nice Color CCD Picture . M51 image More About M51 Color Image of M51 M51 Supernova . M57 image More About M57 Nice Color CCD Picture Very Deep M57 Image . ... M81 image More About M81 M81 Supernova Ultraviolet Image of M81 More about Ultraviolet Imaging . M82 image More About M82 M82 False Color M82 True Color . ...

... 2010 . ... The following images are mosaics obtained on 03 August 2010 at the National Solar Observatory/Dunn Solar Telescope with the Interferometric Bidimensional Spectrometer (IBIS). ... The final images are approximately 238 x 242 arcseconds, or 4 x 4 arcminutes, with a pixel scale of 0.0976 arcseconds per pixel. ... The images show a broad range of typical chromospheric structures, including sunspots, superpenumbra, plage, filaments, and quiet internetwork. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Bad Astro Store . ... Site Info . ... It is from from Voyager 1 and shows a whopping big impact crater dominating the profile of the moon. Note that Mimas is about 400 kilometers across (about 250 miles). ... The wall around the crater is 5 kilometers high, and that central peak rises 6 kilometers above the surface (many impact craters have a large central peak which is caused by a pressure rebound from the impact). ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE DAILY REPORT #1223 PERIOD COVERED: 0000Z Daily Status Report as of 257/0000Z. 1.0 ACTIVITIES SCHEDULED AND ACCOMPLISHED: 1.1 Completed WF/PC-2 5092 (GTO Low Latitude Parallel Program: Cycle 4) The WF/PC-2 was used to make observations taken in parallel with the prime science observations. ... The observations were completed as planned, and no problems were reported. ... The observations were completed as planned, and no anomalies were noted. ... The data was not recoverable. ...

... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Astronomers recently discovered that Scholz's star passed close to the Sun 70,000 years ago. Wouldn't its gravity have sent Oort Cloud comets raining into the inner planets? ... COMETS | OORT CLOUD . Based on the number of long-period comets that enter the inner solar system, astronomers estimate there are probably trillions of them in the Oort Cloud. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Discover | ...

Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the updates and links web pages. Discovered independently by Lick Observatory Supernova Search (USA) and Koichi Itagaki (Japan). ... 2009/10/11.44 . 17.2 . ... Joseph Brimacombe . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Moon . Planets . ... Space Flight . ... A gorgeous image of the real ?Lord of the Rings? ... Saturn is a big planet, about nine times as wide as the Earth, so the rings are huge. Let me put them into scale, if Saturn and the rings were moved so that one edge of the rings touched the Earth, then the distance across the rings to the opposite edge would extend more than halfway to the Moon. ... Saturn has a lot of moons. ...

Proposal Identification No.: ... Proposal Type: General Category: Observation Category: Time Requested this semester : Hours Next Semester : Hours already used for this pro ject: Additional Hours required to complete pro ject: Minimum Useful Time : Expected Data Storage: Prop osal Title: Regular Pulsars Galactic 27 9 0 1 hour 100-500 GB Further Follow-up of Interesting Pulsars Discovered in the Arecibo 327 MHz Drift Scan Survey ABSTRACT: We propose to use 36 hours of Arecibo ...

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... Space Research Institute . ... Main research and development work completed in 2009 and ready for implementation . ... Development of the Northern Eurasia land cover map based on medium spatial resolution satellite data. ... The research and development has been completed of the first in Russia and in the whole world high-speed digital streams decoder for space and satellite channels with extremely high noise levels. ... Main research and development work completed in 2008 and ready for...

Turning the Camera Skyward . A reconfigured camera can take wide-field exposures of astronomical objects (constellations, the Milky Way, zodiacal light, moving artificial satellites, meteor showers, variable stars, etc.) to reveal much fainter objects and structures than seen by naked eye. ... This picture reveals objects more than 2.5 times fainter than can be seen by the naked eye, including not only stars but also the Orion nebula (M42), where new stars are being born. ...

Eyepieces Forum Message . Forums: . ... Eyepieces | ... Pictures . ... Posted by Jarvis Krumbein on November 2, 2003 05:23:47 UTC . ... I was having serious problems manhandling the tube assembly of the old setup around as the bloody thing was very heavy. ... Pictures - gjeckes - November 2, 2003 - 08:06 UTC . ... 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" . ...

The spectrophotometrical complex of the 6-m telescope in Nasmyth-1 focus . ... A new sample of 360 blue compact galaxies with a strong star formation was build on the base of the Second Byurakan Survey. ... More that 20 galaxies with the extremely low-abundances of heavy elements in the range of 1/30-1/10 of the Sun's one, were found. ... During the 15-years observation term near 500 spectra of the unique source SS~433, from which the relativistic jets were found for the first time, were obtained. ...

... Next: An IRAF-Independent Interface Up: Software Systems Previous: A New PROS . ... We present a high-level representation of the packages and tasks within IRAF/PROS. ... We have produced a high-level overview of PROS. ... The incremental stages were the short-term goals: a project overview diagram (i.e., an organizational diagram of software modules); high-level diagram (i.e., a bubble diagram of each module in the system); and unifying element tables (i.e., tables of task vs. software attributes)....