Picture of John Phillips (1800 - 1874), the geologist
John Phillips, British geologist. Statue on permanent display in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.
Philip Plait at The Amazing Meeting on January 20, 2007
Phil Plait speaking at TAM London October 2009
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I took the picture at a conference where Arno Penzias was a member of the panel.
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H. Bitterlich: Josef Johann und Carl Littrow, 1892 (Wien, Universität)
Title page of Selenographia, sive Lunae descriptio
Map of the moon from the, Selenographia, sive Lunae descriptio
en:Johannes Hevelius, astronomer by en:Daniel Schultz (1615-1683).
Hevelius' quadrant. German subtitle says (Peter) CrГјger's large azimuthal quadrant, completed by Hevel, according to Hevel's Machina coelestis
Drawing of the 150-foot telescope of Hevelius
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Hevelius and his wife Elisabetha making observations, 1673
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A USSR stamp, Scientists. Date of issue: 8th October 1987. Designer: A. Starilov Michel catalogue number: 5758Zf. 5 K. black, dull-green and blue. Portrait of Isaac Newton (mathematician and physicist)
Stamp issued in 1956 by Iran picturing Nasir al-Din Tusi, astronomer
Article 1259. Objects of Copyright
Photo of Dandridge MacFarlan Cole
Riccardo Giacconi receiving the 2003 National Medal of Science
Self made photo
Standing, left to right: Mark Gertler, Hewy Levy, Walter J. Turner, Edward Arthur Milne. Seated, left to right: Ralph Hodgson, J.W.N. Sullivan and S. S. Koteliansky
Christian Nitschelm
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Alexei Filippenko
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Sculpture,
The Astonomer, located at Questacon in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, is a sculpture made by Tim Wetherell in 2003 made out of fire damaged steel from the Mount Stromlo Observatory which was destroyed by the 2003 Canberra bushfires.
BГјste von de:Friedrich Magnus Schwerd in Speyer
The portable Eidouranion: or juvenile transparent Solar System Material: paper Language: English Country of Origin: U.K. Earliest/Single Date: 1824 publisher John Offor Place: London
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Statue of al-Khwarizmi in front of the Faculty of Mathematics of Amirkabir University of Technology in Tehran.
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Performance of an Eiduranion at the Royal Opera House in London 1817
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East coast of North America
Oil on canvas painting of David Rittenhouse; size without frame 124.5Г—100.3 cm.
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  Description: Bust of Friedrich Simon Archenhold in front of the Archenhold Sternwarte (Archenhold observatory) in Berlin Author: Sebastian Wallroth Date: July 25, 2004 Source: German Wikipedia License: public domain
Medieval astronomer with text by the german poet Hans Sachs
Astronomer
The statue of Ole Rømer at Observatorium Tusculanum, Vridsløsemagle, Denmark by Ludvig Brandstrup (1861–1935)
Walter Baade (1893-1960), memorial plaque for one of the most inspiring astonomers and astrophysicists attached in 2007 to the school building (now museum of the village fire brigade) at his birthplace Schröttinghausen, part of Preußisch Oldendorf, Germany. Since 1931 Baade worked with the largest telescopes in California. To his memory even in the year 2000 one of the Magellan Telescopes in Chile was given the name Walter Baade Telescope.
Illustration created using Starry Night Pro software. On 1818-Jan-03, Jupiter was 6.2AU and Venus 1.6AU from the Earth. Both were on the opposite side of the Sun in the constellation Sagittarius and 16 degrees from the Sun in the morning sky.
From http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/2004/10/image/ External Links V838 at ESA/Hubble
Image of a transit of Uranus as seen from Neptune, 6 August 46,915 23:14 UTC. A screenshot from en:Stellarium, which is licensed under the en:GPL.
Transit of Mercury 2003, Observatory Grosshadern / Munich. Analog photography (detail) with a 4
Discovery image (left panel) of the afterglow of GRB 050904 taken with the 4.1m Southern Observatory for Astrophysical Research (SOAR) telescope at infrared wavelengths. The afterglow can be seen fading away on subsequent nights (right panels, also from SOAR).
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Recurrent nova RS Ophiuchi as seen 23 FEB 2006 from Mt Laguna, Calif. 30sec @ f/2.8 @ ISO 1600, Canon 20D, 400mm f/2.8 on Meade LXD55. Paul Martinez & Philip Brents, [1].
FenГіmeno celeste de NГјremberg en 1561
Sequence of Mercury's passage across a sunspot group. Made in Sicily, at the 5,700-foot Mount Aetna Station of Catania Observatory. Analog photography with a 3-inch finder of the 36-inch reflector. Planet and spot were closest at 11:08 UT.
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona A transit of Io across Jupiter. The Galilean satellite Io floats above the cloudtops of Jupiter in this image captured on the dawn of the new millennium, en:January 1 en:2001 10:00 en:UTC (spacecraft time), two days after Cassini's closest approach. The image is deceiving: there are 350,000 kilometers — roughly 2.5 Jupiters — between Io and Jupiter's clouds. Io is the size of our en:Moon, and Jupiter is very big. Source en:January 22 en:2001 press release (no longer online) http://sse.jpl.nasa.gov/whatsnew/images-cassini.html
Simulated view of the Earth transiting the Sun, as seen from Mars on November 10, 2084.
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Colliding galaxies NGC 4485 & NGC 4490 in Canes Venatici
Campo del Cielo iron meteorite with natural hole, 576 grams
FenГіmeno celeste de Basilea en 1566
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Born from clouds of gas and dust, stars like our Sun spend most of their lifetime slowly burning their primary nuclear fuel, hydrogen, into the heavier element helium. After leading this bright and shiny life for several billion years, their fuel is almost exhausted and they start swelling, pushing the outer layers away from what has turned into a small and very hot core. These “middle-aged” stars become enormous, hence cool and red — red giants. All red giants exhibit a slow oscillation in brightness due their rhythmic “breathing” in and out, and one third of them are also affected by additional, slower and mysterious changes in their luminosity. After this rapid and tumultuous phase of their later life, these stars do not end in dramatic explosions, but die peacefully as planetary nebulae, blowing out everything but a tiny remnant, known as white dwarf.
Shows the counting rate in the gamma-ray instrument on Swift for two gamma-ray bursts. The top panel is for the high redshift burst observed on September 4, 2005 (GRB 050904). The bottom panel shows a typical burst for comparison; it is the one Swift detected on March 26, 2005 (GRB 050326). GRB 050904 is fainter and much longer than typical.
This diagram shows a cross-section of a solar-type star. The image size is 468 Г— 334 pixels. It was converted from GIF format to high-quality JPG by the contributor.
Stellar aberration
vectors showing relation between an object's proper motion and its velocity
view 3D of Percipio
Satellite view of the New-Caledonian capital NoumГ©a
Location of New Horizons, 2009-06-30
Location of New Horizons, 2009-05-08
New Horizons location, as of 22/9/08
This image shows New Horizons' current position (as of 2010-01-28). The green segment of the line shows where New Horizons has traveled since launch; the red indicates the spacecraft's path toward Jupiter, Pluto and beyond. Positions of stars with magnitude 12 or brighter are shown from this perspective, which is above the Sun and
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Milanković theorie beschrijft de effecten van de beweging van de planeet aarde op het wereldklimaat. Milutin Milankovićbeschrijft in een publicatie in 1941 dat de variaties in de baan van de aarde rond de zon (excentriciteit), de variaties in de aardashoek (obliquiteit) en de tolbeweging van de aardas (precessie) van invloed zijn op de temperatuur op aarde. Als gevolg van deze variaties varieert de temperatuur op aarde en zijn de ijstijden gedurende het Kwartair (2,5 miljoen jaar – heden) te verklaren.
Drawing of lunar method applied on a ship with stars and moon in sky
This star chart illustrates the large patch of sky that Kepler will stare at for the duration of its planned three-and-a-half-year lifetime. The full field of view occupies 100 square degrees of our Milky Way galaxy, in the constellations Cygnus, Lyra and Draco.
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Facsimile of Bradley;s observations of gamma-Draconis. Original data in Special Relativity by A. P. French, p. 43
Internal structure of an active galaxy
ModГЁles de la structure interne des lunes galilГ©ennes.
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The radial velocity method to detect exoplanet is based on the detection of variations in the velocity of the central star, due to the changing direction of the gravitational pull from an (unseen) exoplanet as it orbits the star. When the star moves towards us, its spectrum is blueshifted, while it is redshifted when it moves away from us. By regularly looking at the spectrum of a star - and so, measure its velocity - one can see if it moves periodically due to the influence of a companion.
Esquema donde se ilustra el mГ©todo que se utiliza para deducir el ГЎngulo lunar
Components of proper motion
Colour-magnitude diagram for 20546 nearby stars
Orbit of ESA's four Cluster satellites during one week from 2004-03-21 T00:00:00Z, produced using the Orbit Visualization Tool. The wire grids represent the bow shock (outer, green) and the magnetopause (inner, blue) of the Earth's magnetosphere. The sun is in the upward direction.
Azimuth simple
SchГ©ma de l'automate planГ©taire de Huygens
Fol. 93v planetary
A comet is commonly described as having 3 parts: Nucleus - the dark dirty snowball composed of ice, dirt, rock and gas Coma - the halo of gas, ice and rock bursting forth from the nucleus Tail - in this case, both the dust and ion tail
This is the picture which I took in July 22 in Shanghai, China.
Herbig-Haro object diagram Italian (translated from Image:HH object diagram.svg)
Konfiguration des Sitnikov Problems/configuration of the Sitnikov problem
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Quasi-Zenith Satellite System Orbit, which is an Inclined Geosynchronous Orbit (IGSO). Inclination: 45В°; exccentricity: 0.09; argument of periapsis: 270В°.
The relation between sidereal and synodic orbital period of a planet.
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Orbit and data of the Moon
Orbit and data of the Moon.
Nightfall over Europe and Africa. The image is centered on latitude 48В° north, longitude 4В°17' east. The solar terminator is shown for UTC July 5, 2005 18:45:00. This is an artificial image generated using the Earth and Moon Viewer, earth imagery derived from the NASA Visible Earth Terra/MODIS cloudless Earth and DMSP city lights images.
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Illustration couverture orbite de Molniya
Figura explicando efeito de marГ© - Tides
A contour plot of the effective potential of a two-body system. (the Sun and Earth here), showing the 5 Lagrange points. An object in free-fall would trace out a contour (such as the Moon, shown).
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Inclined Geosynchronous Orbit (IGSO). Inclination: 30В° + 63В°; exccentricity: 0.0;
Heliocentric_orbit
Illustration for gravitational lens. Bending light around a massive object from a distant source. The orange arrows show the apparent position of the background source. The white arrows show the path of the light from the true position of the source.
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The four degrees of freedom of a telescope
Afbeelding waarin grafisch de betekenis van het begrip elongatie te zien is voor een planeet die dichter bij de zon staat dan de aarde. Deze afbeelding heb ik zelf getekend.
While in reality the Earth goes in an orbit around the Sun, it seems from the Earth that the Sun moves over the ecliptic (red) on the celestial dome. When the Sun seems to pass through the vernal equinox (longitude 0В°), the longitude of the Earth itself is 180В° longitude.
Nadir of Artemis satellite
Scenographia Systematis Copernicani (The Copernican System)
LG KP 100 mobile phone
a Tunisian calendar page: Yennayer 1st = January, 14th
A calander showing the Xmas day
A calander showing the Xmas day
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wall calendar
Photograph of historical sign pointing towards the differnce of local time towards
Rep. Vincent Morrison Brennan, Republican of Michigan, listening in on the proceedings of the House, with a radio receiving set.
Uhrenarmbandkalender
Taschenkalender im Scheckkartenformat
T-Mobile's G1 phone (HTC Dream), using Google's Android software
Kalendereinteilung im Grab des Senenmut (TT353); astronomical ceiling in the tomb of Senenmut (TT353)
ЧћЧЁЧ›Ч– Ч”Ч”Ч“ЧЁЧ›Ч” ЧўЧњ Ч©Чќ Ч‘Чџ Ч’Ч•ЧЁЧ™Ч•Чџ Ч‘ЧЎЧ’'ЧЁЧ”, Ч”Ч™Чђ ЧђЧ™ЧњЧ Ч™Ч”. Ч¦Ч•ЧњЧќ ЧўЧњ Ч™Ч“Ч™
Saint Louis Psalter 4 recto
Russian handwritten menologion
GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba - Calendars written in Arabic remind detainees of important religious holidays and periods. Calendars are displayed throughout the recreational area regardless of camp location. Oct. 4, 2007. (JTF Guantanamo photo by Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Richard M. Wolff)
The Flying Carpet
Puerto Rico 365 2010 Calendar
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Gregory XIII, Pope (1502 - 1585)
Priorato di Piona: Calendar. Detail from the fresco in the cloister. Picture by: Giorces.
Priorato di Piona: Calendar. Detail from the fresco in the cloister. Picture by: Giorces.
Priorato di Piona: Calendar. Detail from the fresco in the cloister. Picture by: Giorces.
Priorato di Piona: Calendar. Detail from the fresco in the cloister. Picture by: Giorces.
Priorato di Piona: Calendar. Detail from the fresco in the cloister. Picture by: Giorces.
Priorato di Piona: Calendar. Detail from the fresco in the cloister. Picture by: Giorces.
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3rd third of 10th century
an image of mayan calendar on cosumel island' Mexico
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A page of a calendar.
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Fragment of a roman kalender, Museo Epigrafico, Rome
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Hundertjähriger Kalender. Lahr: Schauenburg 1924
Blatt aus dem Kalendarium des Johannes Regiomontanus, gedruckt Augsburg, Erhard Ratdolt, 1499.
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Inca Raymi
The Gediminas Sceptre, a medieval en:Lithuanian calendar. Showing 12 months and 9 days in a week
El Yunque National Forest 2010 Calendar
First drawing in the book
First drawing in the book
Coya Raymi
Coligny calendar.
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A calendar like a clock
Chinese calendar
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A Chinese calendar for Dog Year (2006)
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Egyptian ancient calendar based on Nile flooding, Edfu temple
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Vintage Avirex 1990 year calendar
A calendar showing the leap year day.
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A calendar like a clock
Kalender nach Johannes von Gmunden, 1 Bl. doppelseitig bedruckt mit 2 Holzschnitten. Blockgröße: 27,6 x 38,7 cm. Blattgröße: 41,3 x 30,2 cm. Abzug wohl des 18. Jahrhunderts von einem Holzstock um 1470.
Almanach auf das Schaltjahr ... 1780, Wien, gedruckt bey Mathias Andreas Schmidt 1779
Calendar in Thessaloniki 1896, a cosmopolitic city The first 3 lines are in Turkish language, the 4th and 5th on the left in Armenian language, the 5th on the right in В«Hebrew-SpanishВ» (sic, Ladino?), the 6th on the left in Greek and the 7th in Bulgarian, the French is for the Western Europeans. The calendars used are the Islamic, the Hebrew, the Julian (October 20th) and the Gregorian (November 1st).
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Antiker Kalendar (Welches Jahrhundert ist unbekannt)
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Dutch agenda
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