... Tonight's Sky . ... Sky this Month . ... space flight . ... space physics . ... The Sky This Week: April 1 - 10 . ... Sky this Week . ... Massive computer simulation detects cause of high-speed electronics in space . ... A mysterious phenomenon detected by space probes has finally been explained thanks to a massive computer simulation that was able to precisely align with details of the spacecraft observations. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...

. Pulkovo Observatory of Russian Academy of Sciences is situated . near Saint-Petersburg. It was founded in 1839. 196140, Saint-Petersburg, Pulkovskoye chaussee 65/1 . English version . Russian version . This page has been accessed times since May 1, 1999.

... Since January 2000 our English translation (Astronomy Letters) is available on-line !!! . see Note on printing of the on-line papers) . Scanned copies of Astronomy Letters for 1975-2000 can be found on-line in free access in ADS . ... 1995 , 1996 - the Grand prize (full story) , 1997 (full story) , 1998 (full story) , . 1999 , 2001 (full story) , 2003 , 2004 (full story) , and 2005 . ... LANL / ITEPh astrophysics preprints . ... E-mail: pazh@hea.iki.rssi.ru . ...

... Sunday , October 6, 2013 Standard quasar-like AGN Standard AGN have: · · · · · Luminous accretion disk (with X-ray corona) Bright line emission (ionised by disk) Dusty obscuring torus (emits in IR/sub-mm) Orientation-dependent observed properties Sometimes, extended radio jets Sunday , October 6, 2013 Another class of AGN Other AGN , exemplified by weak radio ... Sunday, October 6, 2013 Summary · · · · · · Not all AGN follow the "standard" accretion disk picture. ...

The LCDM paradigm: successes and challenges on scales of galaxies Anatoly Klypin (NMSU) LCDM · · · · DM profiles, concentrations, .. Clustering of galaxies: P(k) and correlation functions Satellites: abundance, number-density profiles Galaxies and Dark Matter: abundances Dwarfs. ... Springel et al 2008. ... Klypin et al 2010. ... Observations - LCDM: just enough Magellanic Clouds Observations LCDM Vmax > 50 km/s Busha et al 2010 Dark matter profiles: standard LCDM Aquarius simulation. ...

Next: A candidate young galaxy? Up: Results and discussion Previous: Current star formation rate . The integrated H I line flux, the characteristic widths of 21 cm line profile W 50 and W 20 (for a Hanning smoothing of 10.6 km s -1 ), and the derived H I mass for HS 0822+3542 are presented in Table 1 . The small H I mass 2.4 of this galaxy is consistent with its low optical luminosity. ... A rough estimation can be made also on the dynamical mass of HS 0822+3542. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... City: Braintree State/Province: Mass. ... If one of the stars goes supernova, and the other has a higher density. ... When most people think of a supernova (SN), they picture a single massive star exploding. ... The way the physics works, if the supernova expels more than half the total mass of both stars combined, the two stars will fly apart. For example, let's say the star that blows up masses 10 times the Sun's mass, and the companion masses twice the Sun. ...

... Telescopes ћ Binoculars ћ Microscopes . Meade Ultra-High Transmission coatings (UHTC ) Group . ... Meade Standard Coatings: The optical surfaces of all Meade telescopes include high-grade optical coatings fully consistent in quality with the precision of the optical surfaces themselves. ... These specialized, and extremely advantageous, coatings are offered here as the Meade Ultra-High Transmission Coatings (UHTC) group, a coatings group available optionally on many Meade telescope models. ...

To appear in "Fourth Workshop on Robotic Autonomous Observatories (2015)"RevMexAA(SC) MASSIVE PHOTOMETRY OF LOW-ALTITUDE ARTIFICIAL SATELLITES ON MINI-MEGATORTORA S. Karpov, 1, 3 E. Katkova,2 G. Beskin, 1, 3 A. Biryukov3,4 S. Bondar,2 E. Davydov5 E. Ivanov,2 A. Perkov,2 V. Sasyuk3 RESUMEN Favor de prop orcionar un resumen en espanol. ... The nine-channel Mini-MegaTORTORA (MMT-9) optical widefield monitoring system with high temporal resolution system is in operation since June 2014. ...

ARCSAT ID NUMBER: AS07 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Confirming Galactic, M31, and M33 Candidate LBVs Through Photometric Variability PI: Guy Stringfellow OBSERVER(S): Guy Stringfellow plus 5 CU undergraduate students UNCERTIFIED/UNTRAINED OBSERVERS: Guy Stringfellow and the 5 CU undergraduate students Natalie Bremer CU APS undergraduate Sara Grandone CU APS undergraduate Kat Shanahan CU APS undergraduate Jacob Wilson CU APS ... 2013, ApJ, 779, 8) and SN 2009ip (Pastorello et al. ...

... Dept. for Physics of Stars&Galaxies . ... Using a database view Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), containing almost a million spectra created 15,000 sample galaxies with active star formation, which is used for various studies and physical state of evolution of galaxies. ... Star clusters of the Galaxy . The project MWSC (Milky Way Star Clusters) directory using 2MASS, which includes nearly 500 million vision to the limit Ks = 15.3, analyzed more than 4,000 cluster-like objects in the galaxy. ...

The black hole. ... The black holes are generated in the result of a collapse of giant stars with the mass more than three Sun's masses. ... And moreover the gas near the neutron star or the black hole will get hot and will become a source of high energetic electromagnetic radiation in X-rays and gamma range. ... In the majority of double systems, being the sources of X-rays radiation, the invisible component mass does not exceed the two solar masses, so it is a neutron star. ...

Blackholes Forum Message . Forums: . ... Black Holes And RedShift . ... Perhaps black holes really are the reproductive means of the universe.Could the black hole of a Quasar red-shift the electromagnetic energy trying to escape it? ... Perhaps black holes treat electromagnetic energy the same way. ... No one really knows enough about Quasars and black holes to say for sure but ask yourself this: Why would all the Quasars in the universe be moving away from the Milky Way? ... www.astronomy.net . ...

FEATURES OF RSC ENERGIA'S MARTIAN MISSION CONCEPT . ... for the interplanetary . ... Then, using propulsion units, this vehicle is injected into the interplanetary trajectory, and over the next few months the vehicle transits to Mars. ... A special lander separates from the main section of the vehicle to take to the Martian surface the mission crew or a part of the crew. ... Key data on the interplanetary vehicle of the RSC Energia concept . ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

... Up: Science Data Pipelines . ... The current generation of gravitational microlensing and all-sky surveys have, on an ad-hoc basis, developed data processing software which currently meets their needs. ... As part of the Japanese/New Zealand microlensing collaboration, MOA (Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics), a software pipeline has been developed with the intention of being highly scalable, automated, portable, flexible, and robust. ... Bond, I. 2000, "Microlensing 2000", ASP Conf. ...

... Looking down on a storm (image credit: Robert Johnston) . Spearheaded by the Project Lead Robert Johnston of Cookstown High school, along with the support of Gerard McStocker from Holy Trinity College and the тАШhighlyтАЩ experienced High Altitude Balloonist Philip Heron , this leading edge school project has left us gazing into the sky! ... The Sun from the stratosphere just north east of Dublin (Image credit: Robert Johnston) . ... The limb of the Earth (Image credit: Robert Johnston) . ...

... Pre-university education . ... Samara region . SSAU History . SSAU roadmap . ... Samara State Aerospace University improved its position in the third annual ranking of higher education institutions in Russia. ... Besides Samara State Aerospace University entered the top twenty of the national higher education institutions, as their graduates are in demand by employers. ... Samara State Medical University also rose from the 57th to the 49th place in the ranking of higher education institutions. ...

arxiv:1208.5489 Kepler-47: транзитная многопланетная система вокруг двойной (Kepler-47: A Transiting Circumbinary Multi-Planet System) . Authors: Jerome A. Orosz et al. arxiv:1208.2962 Мощная вспышка звездообразования, вызванная потоком охлаждения и скоплении галактик большой светимости (A Massive, Cooling-Flow-Induced Starburst in the Core of a Highly Luminous Galaxy Cluster) . ... обзор arxiv:1208.2997 Индикаторы темпа звездообразования (Star Formation Rate Indicators) . ...

... The NATO "Science for Peace" Program , Project number SfP 973559 . ... Receiver devices based on superconducting Josephson junction dynamics provide easy and extremely sensitive way for measurements of contents of these molecules. ... Fast development of SQUIDs resulted in fabrication of number of devices for supersensitive physical experiments and production of sophisticated multichannel measurement systems used in medicine for magnetocardiography and neural investigations. ...

... Colorful Glimpses of Alien Worlds -- detecting exoplanets with precision radial velocity spectroscopy . Gabor Furesz . Thursday, Nov 10, 2011 at 8:00 PM . ... exoplanet candidates through the transit method. ... In my talk I will give a short summary about the current state of . ... about the design challenges an instrument builder faces when trying to . ... the near future, the era of the Giant Magellan Telescope for what the CfA . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...