... The Pleiades star cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, is a conspicuous object in the night sky with a prominent place in ancient mythology . ... The stars in the Pleiades are thought to have formed together around 100 million years ago, making them 1/50th the age of our sun, and they lie some 130 parsecs (425 light years ) away. ... Data for these stars are listed in a table below. ... Yes . ... WEBDA Pleiades cluster data . ... M45: The Pleiades Star Cluster (2007 November 18) ...

... About meteorites . ... Meteorite Encyclopedia . ... About laboratory . ... On the night of September 24-25, in the north of Irkutsk Oblast, local residents saw a brightly glowing space object draw a line across the sky and fall into the taiga. ... But scientists learned of the heavenly visitor only on October 3, when a fax arrived at the Institute of Sun And Earth Physics from Bodaibo. ... The first thing we did was to interview residents of villages located along the meteor's flight path. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Have you ever looked at pictures of Saturn's rings and noticed what look like gaps in the rings? ... Gian Domenico Cassini discovered a large gap in Saturn's rings in 1675. Later, an astronomer named Encke discovered a smaller gap near the edge of the rings. ... It was found long ago that an orbit in the Cassini Division, as the large gap is named, has a period almost exactly one-half that of one of Saturn's moons named Mimas. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... The event, a Type II supernova explosion, would have briefly dominated the night sky on Earth. ... Popularly known as the Veil Nebula, NGC 6960, NGC 6992, and NGC 6995 together constitute the corpse of a single supergiant star that perished in that supernova explosion. ... Such stars age about 1,000 times faster than does our Sun. ... Each nuclear-fusion stage releases energy and helps the star fight the ever-present pull of gravity. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... A tussle in the distant Universe. This Hubble Space Telescope image shows evidence for a merger between a quasar and a companion galaxy. The quasar is the bright object just beneath the image center, and the wisps of material around it are remains of a galaxy disrupted by the interaction between it and the quasar. ... Galactic Nuclei: Old Quasars? Quasars as Probes of the Distant Universe . ... Quasars. ... The name quasar is made up with parts of the words "quasi-stellar radio." ...

... We have measured radio flux densities of BL Lacertae ( B2200+420 ) with the RATAN-600 radio telescope at 4.8, 7.9, 11.2 and 21.7 GHz during 6 October - 20 November, 2012 to study the detected ( ATel #4557, #4565, and #4568 ) flare. ... On 12 November flux density had notably risen to 8.30 +/- 0.19 Jy at 7.7 GHz, to 9.86 +/- 0.09 Jy at 11.2 GHz and to 11.70 +/- 0.3 Jy at 21.7 GHz. ... The spectral index changed from -0.08 +/- 0.02 to +0.23 +/- 0.02 at 11.2-21.7 GHz for October to November flux points...

Home: 80-1-346, Kashirskoye shosse, 115569 Moscow Russia . ... Department of Mathematics February 1996 -- present Senior Researcher Institute for System Research Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow , Russia February -- May 1994, Visiting Researcher April -- July 1996 MPIM - Bonn, Germany November 1990 -- January 1996 Leading Researcher Institute of New Technologies Moscow , Russia September 1991 -- present Professor Higher College of Mathematics Independent University ...

... Telescopes . ... Fig. ... Theoretical optical resolving power of the MSS, depending on the phases of the moon under typical weather conditions. ... The optical resolving power of the telescope with the MSS allows to observe stars of up to the 12 magnitude. ... Currently, more than 90% of observational time with the MSS spectrograph is used in the spectropolarimeter mode with a diffraction grating 24.7њ. ... wide spectral region with a reciprocal linear dispersion of 9 ?/mm (0.1215 ?/pix) at a time. ...

... Melted remains of Cassegrain spectrograph areтАж . Sidebar Left . Sidebar Top . No Sidebar . Sidebar Bottom . ... Title: Melted remains of Cassegrain spectrograph are on the remains of the observing carriage . Description: Newtonian platform has collapsed, gears for platform rest on the dome track . ... Melted remains of Cassegrain spectrograph are on the remains of the observing carriage Newtonian platform has collapsed, gears for platform rest on the dome track . ...

... I have been involved into the La Sagra asteroids team since the beginning of the La Sagra Observatory (OLS) in Andalusia, Spain in 2006. ... In the following years I contributed to the continuous improvements of the search methods and data reduction pipelines. ... There I got introduced to a study to examine the effect of host galaxy dust extinction on the observed properties of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). ... GRBs host galaxies photometry . ... Copyright 2012 Aleksandar Cikota. ...

Bizyaev D., "The Argument Against Long Extragagalactic Distance Scale", Astron. ... Soviet Astronomy) 1997. ... Zasov A., Bizyaev D., "An Estimate of the Hubble Constant using a Criterion for Gravitational Stability of Gaseous Discs", Pis'ma v Astron. ... 1996. ... D.Bizyaev, "Types of galaxies", 1996, Zvezdochet, No 11, p.22 (in Russian) . D.Bizyaev, "The Hubble Constant", 1996, Zvezdochet, No 2, p.20 (in Russian) . D.Bizyaev, "Magellanic Clouds", 1995, Zvezdochet, No 6, p.12. (in Russian) . ...

... Comments, Opinions Publications Dnepr Program . Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. Cluster Launch of Dnepr LV 22 August 2013 KOMPSAT-5 Launch 21 November 2013. Dnepr Cluster Mission 2013 19 June 2014. ... Mission profile SHM configuration Reliability Dnepr LV Performance Launch Sites . ... Description and main specifications . Dnepr launch vehicle (LV) is based on the SS-18 liquid-fuelled ICBM and has a three-stage plus Space Head Module (SHM) in-line configuration. ... Dnepr LV . ...

RADIOASTROPHYSICAL DEPARTMENT • INSTITUTE OF SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS RAS SB . ... SSRT - Possibilities of observing . ... Investigations of the SSRT 5.7 GHz radio maps in conjunction with images obtained in other emission ranges, suggested the following conclsions: . ... Solar images obtained in line H a ;(on the left, 16:11 UT, Big Bear observatory) and in the microwave emission (on the right, 04:04 UT, SSRT) 4 march 1997 . ...

... The Olympiad participants are not supposed to study at any institutions of higher education (university or school which can be considered technical colleges). Students who finished their school examination in the year of the Olympiad cannot be members of a team even if they did not start university studies. ... National Astronomy Olympic Committees and interested organizations are welcome to ask more about the 14 th International Astronomy Olympiad. Updated 26.01.2009. ...

... Team . ... GRB mini-workshop 2006 . GRB workshop 2009 . ... GRB host galaxies are not peculiar objects. ... At present, long GRBs are identified with explosions of (probably) usual massive stars at the end of their evolution, i.e. massive (core-collapse) supernovae (CC-SNe). Thus, now GRBs are identified with 1) regions of the forming of massive stars (with massive star-forming) in host galaxies and 2) with explosions of short-living massive stars in the same galaxies - CC-SN/GRBs. ...

JSC Celebrates 40 Years of Human Space Flight . The Triumph of Apollo . ... The Apollo 11 Lunar Module (LM), in a lunar landing configuration, is photographed in lunar orbit from the Command and Service Modules (CSM). Inside the LM were astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, commander, and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot. ... Those who flew in the Lunar Module, unlike those who flew in the Mercury, Gemini or Apollo Command Module, could not return directly to Earth in their craft. ...

Next: Post main sequence stars Up: Principal Evolutionary States of Previous: Principal Evolutionary States of . ... The duration of the first stage is set equal to the hydrogen burning time, , which is a known function of the stellar mass only (Iben and Tutukov, 1987[ 75 ]): . The radius of the ZAMS star   is . ... A MS-star that accretes matter during the first mass transfer is considered to be a rapidly rotating Be-star that is distinguished by its different stellar wind rate (see below). ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Brief History of Rocket and Space Technology . ... Experiments and Researches from 2013 . Experiments and Researches (2000-2013) . Rocket Space Complexes . ... Images . ... Automatic Space Systems . Universal Space Platform . ... Crew 43/44 . ... Experiments Program . ISS-43 Images . ... Eighteenth Crew . ... Support of the Space Station functionality; . ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...