Sentences with phrase «astronomy picture of the day»

The picture obtained by joining the horizons of the two all - sky images was the Astronomy Picture of the Day on July 30, 2011 (A Tale of Two Hemispheres).

C. Mayhew and R. Simmon - NASA / GSFC, NOAA / NGDC, DMSP Digital Archive (larger and jumbo composite images; see also Astronomy Picture of the Day) The presence of Homo sapiens sapiens is evident from night - time observations of Earth's surface.

A real - color, field image of Proxima by David Malin is available at Astronomy Picture of the Day.

(See Sloan Digital Sky Survey field images of Alpha Centauri AB from WikiSky.org, and and at Astronomy Picture of the Day.)

The mass and orbit of planetary candidate «b» is similar to 79 Ceti b, depicted at left with rings and two moons, as imagined by Bacon (more from NASA and Astronomy Picture of the Day).

It was a featured Astronomy Picture of the Day on February 17, 2016!

Eventually, Gacrux may become a dramatic pulsating variable like Mira (Omicron Ceti A, more from Astronomy Picture of the Day).

NASA, CXC, and SAO (larger x-ray image) Sirius B is a much brighter source of x-rays than Sirius A. For more information, see the Chandra X-Ray Observatory's photo album and an Astronomy Picture of the Day.

I also found this from the Astronomy Picture of the Day site.

Colored according to x-ray energy intensity, this supernova remnant's bluish shockwave bubble is twice as hot as the mottled gaseous debris expanding behind at 10 million degrees Celsius (more at Astronomy Picture of the Day and CXC).

In 2003, astronomers announced that they had discovered that iron from supernovae of the first stars (possibly from Type Ia supernovae involving white dwarfs) indicate that «massive chemically enriched galaxies formed» within one billion years after the Big Bang, and so the first stars may have preceded the birth of supermassive black holes (more from Astronomy Picture of the Day, ESA, and Freudling et al, 2003).

In the first half of 2008, the EPOXI probe also carried out observations for its Extrasolar Planet Observations and Characterization (EPOCh) mission, which used its cameras to look for transiting exoplanets, observe the «wobbling» motions of stars with planets, and analyze the light reflected off the surfaces of far away planets (NASA press release; and Astronomy Picture of the Day).

The Klumpke - Roberts Award for outstanding contributions to public understanding and appreciation of astronomy is awarded to Dr. Robert Nemiroff (right) and Dr. Jerry Bonnell (far right) for their work on the Astronomy Picture of the Day.

In addition, the collision with a 372 - kilogram (820 - pound) projectile launched by NASA's Deep Impact probe in 2005 has created a 150 - meter - wide (490 - foot - wide) crater with a small mound in the center, as some of the ejecta of the impact apparently fell back down within the crater, but the crater's relatively soft outline indicates that its edges have undergone significant changes since the 2005 impact (NASA / STARDUST / NExT news release; Astronomy Picture of the Day; David Shiga, New Scientist, February 15, 2011; Jonathan Amos, BBC News, February 15, 2011; and Richard A. Lovett, Nature News, February 15, 2011).

See a large, bluer image from Astronomy Picture of the Day.

Tycho's supernova remnant is located around 7,500 ly away in Cassiopeia (more at Astronomy Picture of the Day and HEASARC).

Meanwhile, a different physical process in the comet's smooth mid-section was causing water ice to vaporize and flow through porous material to escape as a cloud of water vapor at the same time (NASA news release, and page on «fluffy snowballs;» David Shiga, New Scientist, November 18, 2010; and Astronomy Picture of the Day).

The large ridges or grooves seen in early images appear to fully encircle Vesta, and the northern hemisphere is believed to have some of the heaviest cratering of known objects in the Solar System (NASA news release and science news; and Astronomy Picture of the Day).

(More from astronomer Mike Brown's blog on Make - make and Astronomy Picture of the Day).

More information and links can be found at Astronomy Picture of the Day's web pages for July 31 and August 1, 2005.)

This two light - year square image of the innermost region of the galactic core depicts hot stars in blue and cool stars in red, and two arrows pointing towards Sgr A * and S2 (more at ESO and Astronomy Picture of the Day).

More information and links is also available for Astronomy Picture of the Day)

(More at hubblesite.org and at Astronomy Picture of the Day.)

One of my favorite Android apps is called Astronomy Picture of the Day (by Sam Oakley).

The Astronomy Picture of the Day for 2010 February 16 shows a beautiful picture of the space shuttle against the limb of the Earth.

NASA provides an astronomy picture of the day, which alone should be enough to lift your spirits (and there's always an accompanying scientific comment, for those who require instruction in order... [more]

NASA provides an astronomy picture of the day, which alone should be enough to lift your spirits (and there's always an accompanying scientific comment, for those who require instruction in order to be diverted).