... Tonight's Sky . ... Imaging Basics . ... Latest Rosetta image reveals terrific detail of comet's surface . ... RELATED TOPICS: ROSETTA | ... The latest narrow angle camera (NAC) view from the European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosetta mission continues to reveal more details regarding Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko's surface. ... For regular image updates from Rosetta, visit its ESA image page and the Rosetta blog . ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...

... STELLAR DYNAMICS: FROM CLASSIC TO MODERN . ... Sobolev Astronomical Institute, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia . ... The proposed meeting is being organized by the St.Petersburg State University, assisted by an international Scientific Organizing Committee, and marks the centennial of Professor K.F.Ogorodnikov's birth. ... The conference will be organized by the Sobolev Astronomical Institute of St.Petersburg State University in the building of the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics. ...

... The idea of an ALFA Virgo Survey is very excited. We should go for full coverage of the Virgo cluster, that is 800 square degrees. ... To interpret and understand the results of such a survey will require a lot of complimentary data. In Milano, we have developed the Galaxy On Line Database Milano Network or GOLDMiNe . ... This site provides on line selection of multiwavelength data for galaxies in both the Virgo cluster and the Coma supercluster. ...

Maidanak Laboratory is a part of Sternberg Astronomical Institute of Moscow State University. ... Observations are conducted with 1.5 meter RC telescope AZT-22 of Maidanak Observatory (Uzbekistan). rus . ... maidanak lab home page . ... at Sternberg Astronomical Institute . ... 2000). ... Because of technical reasons, we had to use three different CCD cameras in our observations, Pictor-416 camera in 1995, Pictor-416 and TI 800 x 800 cameras in 1997 and 1998, and ST-7 camera in 1999 and 2000. ...

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... V.V.Makarov, V.P.Reshetnikov, V.A.Yakovleva . Photometric study of the peculiar galaxy NGC 2685" . ... eds.), Tallinn, 1989, p.19 . ... Press, 1994, p.272-273 . ... A.A.Mullari, V.V.Orlov, St.Petersburg Univ. ... conference, St.Petersburg, 1997, p.168-169 . ... All-Russian Astronomical Conference, Book of Abstracts, . ... in "Astronomy: traditions, present, future", V.V.Orlov, V.P.Reshetnikov, N.Ya.Sotnikova (eds.), St.Petersburg University Press, 2007, p.92-115 (in Russian) . ...

... This Announcement contains detailed information on organizational items, scientific and cultural program of Odessa session GMIC-99. ... 8.00- 23.00 Registration of participants in the hall of Tour-complex "Odessa"(Arcadia region, GAGARIN plateau, 5). ... 8.00- 13.00 Registration of participants in the hall of Tour-complex "Odessa". 10.00-12.00 Program Committee session and press conference dedicated to GMIC-99 (Odessa Scientists' House). ... 9.00- 11.00 Plenary session. ... 13.00- 14.00 Lunch. ...

... Using the obtained above dependence of compact binary merging rates in the elliptical galaxy on time (Fig. ) and assuming the cosmological origin of GRB as products of binary NS/BH coalescences, we can compute the theoretical - curve. ... Figure: (Right panel) The 2-nd BATSE catalog (solid points) is fitted by the cosmological GRB model (from Lipunov et al. ... Note that the total GRB rate in the Universe is per year, 3 orders of magnitude smaller than the total binary NS merging rate. ...

... Data Analysis SAS News What is SAS? ... Calibration & Background Calibration Background Analysis . SOC Info XMM-Newton Contact Details How to get to ESAC ESA Research Fellowships ESAC Trainee Projects ESA Young Graduate Trainees . ... Other Links Project Related Links Research Projects Other X-ray Missions Space Weather Links . The Science Operations and Data Systems Division of ESA's Research and Scientific Support Department develops and runs astronomy projects in space. ...

... A bibliographic database will be constructed with the purpose to be a general tool for searching references for galaxy clusters. ... Clusters of galaxies are the largest gravitationally bound systems in the Universe. ... It is reasonable to test the basic concepts which will be incorporated in the database using A/ACO clusters of galaxies (Abell 1958; Abell, Corwin, & Olowin 1989). ... The first catalog of clusters of galaxies was published by Abell (1958) for and extended by Abell et al. (1989) for...

... The study of the Large-scale structure of the Universe and measurements of the Dark Energy equation of state; The exploration of the growth and cosmological evolution of supermassive Black holes in the Universe. ... In course of the all sky survey SRG will discover about 100 000 galaxy clusters and 3 million AGNs. Galaxy clusters are the largest gravitationally bounded objects in the Universe and are best explored through the study of X-ray emission from the hot intergalactic gas. ... 2016 IKI RAN ...

... Searching for the Universe, from an Iron Mine . ... On large scales, its gravitational effects dominate that of the ordinary matter. ... This allows us to set up detectors here on earth and search for dark matter signals. ... Steve Leman presently works on the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) and Micro-X Microcalorimeter X-ray Telescope experiments at the Experimental Cosmology and Astrophysics Laboratory at MIT. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... Compact Binaries . ... Unlike the Sun, most stars in our Galaxy orbit another star: these systems are called binary stars. Generally it takes many years for the two stars to orbit around each other. ... These binaries are interesting for many reasons. One is that they are predicted to emit lots of gravitational waves. ... Over time as gravitational waves are emitted, the time taken for the two stars to orbit one another changes by a small but measurable amount. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... The last step encompassed them all with galaxies , and how we discovered that the Milky Way was not the entire Universe. ... And just like those star clusters, there are different kinds of galaxy clusters. ... There are vast clusters of clusters, called superclusters, which contains hundreds of thousands or even millions of galaxies. ... Our own Galaxy has 400 billion stars in it, yet there are clusters out there with millions of galaxies like our own. ...

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) . ...

... Structure of Data . ... Catalog . ... In SAI OCL Catalog, we introduce our work on investigation of the Milky Way system of open star clusters. The main goal of our study is a search for new clusters using huge surveys. 168 new clusters have been already discovered by us using J,H,Ks data from 2MASS point source catalog. ... For 141 new clusters, we found their physical parameters using J,H,Ks data from 2MASS catalog and, for a number of clusters, our UBVRI CCD observational magnitudes. ...

... F,L,IRREGULARSHAPE,R=F Dec 19 2006 31 Dec 19 2006 31 Nov 22 2006 8 IC 2163 17mmT4 11mmT6 R,PL, OVAL ,NND,R=F VF,VS,EL,NND,AV,R=F Galaxy SB(rs)c pec Dec 19 2006 31 Feb 10 2005 8 IC 2165 17mmT4 Planetary Neb 3b VB,PS,R=G, NO CENTRAL STAR Dec 19 2006 31 IC 2171 17mmT4 PF,CS, OVAL ,NND,R=F Galaxy IB(s)m: Dec 19 2006 31 NGC 2204 ... OIII FILTER PB,EL,PATCH,R=E,HINT-NEBULOSITY,NO FILTER NGC 2360 19mmW 12x50 25mmPL H12-7 Open Cluster 10.4 I 3 r CL,VL,RI,PC,ST9.. ...

... The conference will be also partially hosted by the Steklov Mathematical Institute, Gubkin 8, 119991, Moscow . The nearest metro stations are: Akademicheskaya (orange line) from which there is a 15-minute walk or Leninsky Prospekt (orange line) and Universitet (red line) from which one may take a tram No. 3 or 39 to the stop ?ulica Gubkina?. ... The location of the conference room at the building of the Steklov Institute will be announced later. ... Location of the Steklov Mathematical Institute . ...

... Subject and Problems of Stellar Astronomy. ... Plane of Galaxy, Methods of Its Location Determination. ... Stars Distances. ... Other Methods of Stars Distances Determination. ... Tangential Velocities, Their Determination by Self-Motions. ... Determination of Solar Apex and Spatial Velocity by Radial and Spatial Velocities of Stars. ... Features of Orientation and Parameters of Peculiar Stellar Velocities Ellipsoid. ... General and Selective Light Absorption in Galaxy. ... Darc Clouds in Galaxy. ...

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