... Tonight's Sky . ... Sky this Month . ... Star Atlas . ... stars . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... VLT takes a close look at NGC 6357 . ... ESOт??s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has taken the most detailed image so far of a spectacular part of the stellar nursery called NGC 6357. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. Registration is FREE and only takes a couple minutes. ...

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... More on 51 Peg: . The discovery of a Jupiter--mass planet in orbit around the solar--type star 51Peg has been reported by Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz (Geneva Observatory) on October 6th at the 9th Cambridge workshop on "cool stars, stellar systems, and the sun" held at Florence (Italy). ... Recall that the measurements of radial velocity only yield v sin i which in turn gives us M sin i. For most values of i, sin i will be greater than 0.5 and this gives a mass estimate of 0.5 Jupiter masses. ...

... The most spectacular view however is from space, where large areas of aurora can be observed simultaneously, even the entire polar cap. ... Such pictures often show a continuous ring of aurora around the polar cap (picture above), caused mostly by electrons leaking out along magnetic field lines, from the plasma sheet of the Earth's magnetic tail. ... Field lines from the auroral oval are believed to lead to the plasma sheet. ... A near-Earth circular polar orbit has many uses. ...

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... This year's eclipse is unique in duration. ... Although, at the present time, there are 6 solar observatories belonging to leading space agencies in orbit around the Earth, the eclipse of 22 July, 2009, will only be seen by two of them: the Russian CORONAS-PHOTON satellite equipped with TESIS telescopes and Japan's HINODE satellite fitted with an XRT space telescope. ... TESIS will be the first of the two devices (and the very first on Earth) to witness the solar eclipse. ...

Laboratory of Stellar Physics . ... A study of close binaries with black holes, neutron stars and white dwarfs. ... A study of SS433 - the massive close binary with a black hole in the regime of supercritical accretion . ... A search for intermediate-mass black holes (IMBH). The black holes which are not supermassive black holes observed in quasars, and which were formed not in massive stars. ... A search for new magnetic stars, new CP stars, measurements of magnetic fields in stars . ...

Asteroid 2055 YU55 passes close by Earth; how close did it get? ... As Elizabeth Flock reported: An asteroid the size of an aircraft carrier missed Earth by only 200,000 miles as it flew by Tuesday night the closest an asteroid has been to Earth in 200 years Asteroid 2005 YU55, as it has been dubbed, streaked by at about 30,000 mph, but some scientists and lucky amateur astronomers caught a glimpse in their telescopes, where they saw strange structures on the asteroid\u2019s dark-colored surface. ...

... It is now recognised that food and wine festivals and events can play a significant role in rural and urban development and regeneration and the impacts of these events can be far ranging at a social, political, economic and environmental level.Food and Wine Festivals and Events Around the World: development, management and markets is a pioneering text that recognises the importance of this area of the tourism industry. ...

Lab . Main page News People . ASA . Master . Master net Homepage . ... Lomonosov Moscow State University Sternberg Astronomical Institute . ... MASTER . ... Lomonosov (ShOK) . ... About Space Monitoring Laboratory, scientific directions, instruments, contacts . People, who work in lab . Latest news and news archive . ... All news ...

... This section describes some special kinds of dialog that exist for your convenience, and for UI consistency. ... GtkWidget* gnome_about_new (const gchar* title , const gchar* version , const gchar* copyright , const gchar** authors , const gchar* comments , const gchar* logo ); . ... Gnome provides several "types" of message box; they have different icons next to the text, and corresponding titles. ... GtkWidget* gnome_message_box_new (const gchar* message , const gchar* messagebox_type , .. ...

... Your main research interests concern redshift surveys. ... Over half the history of the universe has occurred since redshift one. If we observe out to redshift 1.5, that is around 70% of the whole history of the universe! ... Little evolution in the numbers of elliptical galaxies is seen out to redshift one. ... Galaxy clusters have also changed: at redshifts around one, clusters seem to contain more spiral galaxies, fewer S0s and the same number of giant elliptical galaxies as we see today. ...

Please find below methods for getting to Cambridge by air , rail , Eurostar or coach . ... London Stansted Airport: This is the closest major airport, about 25 miles from Cambridge (40 minutes by car). ... The times of trains between Stansted Airport and Cambridge can be found on the National Rail website. ... A fast train service, the Heathrow Express , connects the airport with London Paddington station. ... A direct train service connects the airport with Kings Cross station. ...

... Monday 3, 17:35 Concert of chamber music by the Kazan State Chamber Orchestra ?La Primavera? after the opening of the conference and before reception. Wednesday 5, 15:00-18:00 Excursion to Kazan Kremlin. ... The Local Organizing Committee in Kazan has proposed organizing an excursion to the ancient city of Bulghar , 130 km down the Volga River, just south of where the Volga joins with it's main tributary, the Kama, and widens considerably . ... Agriculturers palace on Palace square in Kazan . ...

Nickolai Copernic: "making the Sun stop, pushing the Earth". ... The aim of Copernic's investigations is improving the calculating schemes. ... In heliocentric system appeared an opportunity of calculating real proportions of Solar system using the radius of the Earth's orbits as an astronomical unit. Copernic's book "About Rotation of Celestial Bodies" contains a discription of astronomical devices as well as a new more exact catalogue of stable stars. ...

Harvest Moon . ... The Harvest Moon refers to the Full Moon that comes closest to the autumnal equinox, or the first day of autumn. Depending on the year, the Harvest Moon can fall anywhere from two weeks before to two weeks after the equinox, which arrives annually on or near September 23. ... It was once common knowledge that at the vicinity of Full Moon, the Moon rises around sunset, shines all night long and sets around sunrise. ... Re-published on Astronomy Net with permission of the author. ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... Brief History of Rocket and Space Technology . ... Flights Chronology . Martian Mission . ... I want to dedicate this first space mission to the people of communism - the phase in the development of society, which our Soviet people are already entering, and which, I am sure, will eventually enter all the people of Earth. ... Contribution of RSC Energia to the Russian Rocket-Space Technology . ...

НОВОСТИ ФЕДЕРАЦИЯ ЭНЦИКЛОПЕДИЯ ИСТОРИЯ СТАНЦИЯ МИР ENGLISH . ... Мои публикации . ... ПУБЛИКАЦИИ . ... Man has reached Earth orbit, carried out missions to the Moon, built the international space station, and sent probes to most of the planets of the solar system. ... A new design for future long space missions is desperately needed. Conquest of deep space is impossible without the development of new propulsion systems based on a new approach. ... Под эгидой Федерации космонавтики России. ...

... Very few of us can do something without the feeling that it can be done and done good. So, I want to say several words on the possibility of building the Open society in Russia. ... Even if we can't find long happy periods in the history, but can find ideas, which were original for Russia and the whole world, which were created by Russian philosophers, we can say that we can try to build the Open Society, because Russian way of thinking has something in common with the ideas of the Open society. ...