Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Comets and Asteroids . ... Image credit:ESO/J.Emerson/VISTA. ... However others are less pessimistic and it has even been claimed that the mysterious ?Wow! signal? received in 1977 originated from the direction M55.б  Sadly, this still unexplained pulse of radio energy originated from a location rather to the northwest of M55 so I doubt if the source was this cluster (if indeed the signal was genuinely of extraterrestrial origin). ... Mysterious Wow! ...

. Authors: A.A. Suchkov , V.A. Marakov . Journal: Pis'ma Astron. Zh., 1976, v.2, p.38-385. Metallisity function of globular clusters in the Galaxy is constructed. It is found to have three "humps". This leads to a conclusion that there were three metal enrichment outbursts during the period of globular cluster formation. The constraints on the nature of metal sourses and on the early evolution of Galaxy are considered.

... ISC Kosmotras . ... Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. Cluster Launch of Dnepr LV 22 August 2013 KOMPSAT-5 Launch 21 November 2013. ... Baikonur Cosmodrome Yasny launch base Downloads . ... Swedish Space Corporation s (SSC) PRISMA and French Space Agency s (CNES) PICARD satellites have been delivered to the Yasny launch base. ... Concurrently with the preparation of the launch from the Yasny launch base, ISC Kosmotras carries out TanDEM-X launch campaign at Baikonur cosmodrome. ... Dnepr LV . ...

A Canadian and American team of Astronomers have used the 305-m wide Arecibo radio dish, the world's largest and most sensitive radio telescope, to uncover a dozen new super-fast-spinning pulsars. The team directed their search for these rare and exotic stars by pointing the Arecibo radio telescope towards massive star clusters, called Globular Clusters, orbiting our Milky Way galaxy. ... One of the most exotic residents in the Globular cluster system are the millisecond pulsars. ...

... The most powerful and widely used methods to calculate the scattering matrix of a fractal cluster are based on the coupled dipoles methods (e.g. the Discrete Dipole Approximation, DDA) and the theory of light scattering by a cluster of spherical particles [2-4]. ... At present the procedure of calculation of the scattering matrix is well developed for both an oriented cluster of spherical particles and for chaotically oriented clusters of such particles [4]. ...

... Curriculum Vitae Observations and theory of star cluster formation 22) A.K.Dambis and Yu.N.Efremov Journal for History of Astronomy, 31, 115-134, 2000 Dating Ptolemy's star catalogue through proper motions: the Hypparchan epoch 23) B.G.Elmegreen, Yu.N.Efremov, S.Larsen Astrophys. J., 535, 748 - , 2000 A young globular cluster in the galaxy NGC 6946 24) Yu.N.Efremov. ... 28) Yu.N.Efremov. ... The location of star complexes in the Galaxy was studied in papers with E.Alfaro, L.Berdnikov and T.Sitnik. ...

RED SEQUENCE DWARF GALAXIES IN CLUSTERS F. G. Kopylova and A.I. Kopylov Special astrophysical observatory, Russian Academy of Sciences Red sequence galaxies in clusters are an important population for understanding galaxy formation and evolution in general. ... To study the red sequence luminosity function and dwarf-to-giant ratio (DGR), we select 10 clusters of galaxies of the Leo Supercluster (z 0.035, D 150 · h-1 M pc) (Fig.1). ...

... Запорожский клуб АЛЬТАИР > . Catalogue of 109 new Galactic open clusters, for Cartes du Ciel . ... Cartes du Ciel - Sky Charts . ... Этот каталог является версией части каталога "J/A+A/440/403 109 new Galactic open clusters (Kharchenko+, 2005) ", а именно файла stars.dat, содержащего информацию о 26778 звездах до 14.627m , находящихся в 130 рассеяных скоплениях района Млечного Пути (Galactic Open Cluster). ... We present a list of 130 Galactic Open Clusters, found in the All-Sky . ...

Astronomy Education News . ... T he SELB Schools Cluster Programme is an innovative learning strategy developed by the Armagh Rhymers in collaboration with the Armagh Observatory to teach children science and the arts in a new and fun way. During this programme, children from seven schools in Armagh have learnt astronomy through storytelling and music; and creative writing and music through science and astronomy. ... Schools involved: . ... Armagh Observatory - Astronomy Education . ...

... Сегодня: 10 апреля 2016 г. [ESA] Принадлежащий Европейскому космическому агентству (European Space Agency, ESA) квартет спутников Cluster 2 с танцевальными названиями Salsa, Samba, Rumba и Tango скоро приступит к полноценным научным наблюдениям. В начале декабря должна завершиться проверка и калибровка всего оборудования спутников и начаться их нормальная эксплуатация. ... Некоторые приборы спутников уже начали работать. ... Часть аппаратуры спутников Cluster 2 уже приступила к работе . ...

ABSOLUTE PROPER MOTIONS OF 331 OPEN CLUSTERS . ... The proper motions of stars in the fields of 331 open clusters were taken from Four-Million Star Catalog (4M-catalog) of positions and proper motions (Volchkov et al. ... The absolute proper motions for 21 young open clusters have been derived by comparison of precise relative proper motions of individual stars and their corresponding absolute proper motions. ... Sign of proper motions in RA . ... 0.0001 arcsec/yr . ... rms error in RA proper motion . ...

... Анк а дня . ... Ученые узнали подробности о магнитном пересоединении 2004 года . ... Космические аппараты ЕКА Cluster и разработанные совместно Китаем и Европой аппараты Double Star позволили ученым установить место прохождения солнечных частиц через магнитосферу Земли 8 мая 2004 .. ... Собранная спутниками Double Star TC-2 и Cluster информация позволила европейским ученым впервые заговорить о возможности возникновения трещин на поверхности нейтронной звезды.. Все ключевые слова . ...

. The seminar is supported by the grant of Federal Programm "Integration" . annotation of talk . Yu.N.Efremov "GRBs and triggered star formation" . Evidences are presented that giant arcs of young stars and clusters are formed in the gas swepted-up by GRBs near their centres. Multiple arcs suggested that the source of GRBs progenitors is in the same region, this must be old massive cluster. The candidate cluster for the arcs in the LMC is suggested.

... News . ... Star Atlas . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... stars . ... Globular cluster NGC 2808, elliptical galaxy NGC 2986, and the Sextans Dwarf . ... Chandra X-ray Observatory delivers new insight into formation of star clusters . ... STAR CLUSTERS | CHANDRA . ... Using data from NASA s Chandra X-ray Observatory and infrared telescopes, astronomers have made an important advance in the understanding of how clusters of stars come into being. ...

Clusters of galaxies are the largest gravitationally bounded structures in the Universe dominated by dark matter. We review the observational appearance and physical models of plasma structures in clusters of galaxies. ... The knowledge of the complex dynamical and feedback processes is necessary to understand the energy and matter balance as well as to constrain the role of the non-thermal components of clusters. ...

... Up: Data Analysis Tools, Techniques, and Software . Previous: An Automatic Astronomical Classifier Based on Topological Neural Networks . ... Teuben, P. J., Wolfire, M. G., Pound, M. W., & Mundy, L. G. 2000, in ASP Conf. ... P. J. Teuben, M. G. Wolfire, M. W. Pound, L. G. Mundy . ... We have assembled a cluster of Intel-Pentium based PCs running Linux to compute a large set of Photodissociation Region (PDR) and Dust Continuum models. ... 2000). ... Teuben, P. J. 2000, BIMA memo (in preparation) . ...

ATMoB "Open Cluster Observing Award " Guidelines Purpose: To promote observing among the membership of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston through participation in the Open Clusters Observing Awards program. Introduction: This awards program is oriented towards visually observing open clusters above magnitude 9.9. ... It turns out that a very unprejudiced and convenient method to dermine the limiting magnitude is to count the number of visible stars in certain areas on the sky. ...

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... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... The next step up are true clusters, called open clusters . Open clusters (sometimes misleadingly called "galactic clusters") are groups of stars ranging in size from a few dozen stars up to tens of thousands. ... The youngest is about 1 or 2 million years old, while the oldest is about 6 or 7 billion years, making it just older than our own solar system. ... So by looking at the stars in the cluster we can tell pretty well how old they are. ...

Structure Formation : Bright side of the Universe Anatoly Klypin New Mexico State University Also: Stefan Gottloeber (Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam) Gustavo Yepes (UAM, Madrid) Cosmological ... -body+hydro simulations Codes: SPH + TREE AMR + shock capturing hydro Physical processes: Compton cooling/heating on CMB Radiative gas cooling Star formation with simple approximations Metal enrichment Energy/momentum feedback from young stars and SN Galaxies too concentrated. ...