... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2011 June 16 . Mercury's Surface in Exaggerated Color . Credit: NASA / JHU APL / CIW . ... This sharp image combines three of the MESSENGER wide angle camera's colors, but in exaggerated fashion. Otherwise, to the unaided human eye, Mercury's surface colors would appear comparatively muted . ... About APOD | ...

... 2000 November 28 . BZ Cam Bow Shock . ... Explanation: BZ Cam is a binary star system that is not well understood. ... In BZ Cam , however, light appears to flicker unpredictably, and an unusually large wind of particles is being expelled. Pictured above , BZ Cam 's wind creates a large bow-shock as the system moves through surrounding interstellar gas . BZ Cam lies about 2500 light-years away toward the constellation of Camelopardalis . ... About APOD | ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

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 .. ...

Supernova 2005cs in M51 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2005cs in NGC 5194 (= M51 ). ... Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the updates and links web pages. Discovered by amateur Wolfgang Kloehr (Germany) [ Translate ]. ... SNWeb has a 2005cs page . ... Sky and Telescope news release on Supernova 2005cs . ... 2005/01/ . ... mirror . W. Kloehr image . ... Joel Nicolas image . ... Wolfgang Kloehr image . ... 2006/01/06.504 . ...

... What's new . ... The new version of the General Catalogue of Variable Stars (GCVS4.2) revised taking into account the new data accumulated since the 4th GCVS edition for the constellations: Canis Minor, Capricornus The new version of the GCVS ! ... The new version of the General Catalogue of Variable Stars (GCVS4.2) revised taking into account the new data accumulated since the 4th GCVS edition for the constellations: Apus, Cancer, Canes Venatici and Canis Major The new version of the GCVS ! ...

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... The distance scales of the objects are matched both by comparing the first derivatives of the angular velocity determined separately from radial velocities and proper motions and by the statistical-parallax method. ... Good agreement between the inferred 0 and our calculations based on space velocities suggests that the Lindblad relation holds throughout the entire sample volume. ... Brandt and Blitz (1993) published the distances and radial velocities for a total of 206 H II-regions. ... Astron. ...