... 2001 December 1 . Neptune's Great Dark Spot: Gone But Not Forgotten . Credit: Voyager Project, JPL , NASA . Explanation: When NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by distant Neptune in August of 1989, astronomers were shocked. ... One of the most spectacular discoveries was of the Great Dark Spot , shown here in close-up. ... The Voyager data also revealed that the Great Dark Spot varied significantly in size during the brief flyby. ... About APOD | ...

... This year SSAU provides 1429 state-funded places for admission in all kinds and directions of educational programs. ... In addition, SSAU Admission Committee notes the substantial increase in interest from the foreign applicants this year. The number of applications from foreign countries has already surpassed last year's totals - 76 applications. Based on the experience of admission campaigns of previous years, SSAU expects summer 2014 to enrol about 150 foreign students in the university. ...

... Andres Guzman F. Universidad de Chile HCHIIR workshop Sydney, 8 Sept 2010 Ionized jets and HCHIIR Both are related to very earl y stages of high mass star formation They share similar characteristics when observed in cm radio continuum They will be confused in some degree depending on which criteria we used to identify young stellar objects Ionized jets and HCHIIR 1) First criterion for identifying early stages: Less radio continuum than expected for a optically thin HIIR Sewilo et al. ...

... A star party is a gathering of amateur astronomers who set up their telescopes and observe the dynamic night sky. ... Star parties are best scheduled during first quarter and waxing gibbous Moon. During full moon, the moon is so bright it obscures a view of other celestial objects and even the Moon is best viewed when NOT full. ... We will consult local weather forecasters and make a decision by 2:00p on the day of the star party. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... We compare our results with the GRANAT X-ray observations of the Galactic center (Churazov et al. ... It is instructive to compare our results for the Galactic center starburst with what might be expected for a continuous star formation, with the average rate characteristic for the whole Galaxy. For this continuous star formation model, we would expect to observe in the region of around the Galactic center about 10% of the total number of X-ray sources in the Galaxy. ...

... the time of observation . ... Observing the Changing Position of the Sun To Establish Cardinal Directions . ... Observations of the Sun's apparent movement across the sky and its pattern of rising and setting in the east and west horizon helped to establish the cardinal directions. ... The final stage of the Sun's return was marked by the observation that the Sun had reached its highest altitude when the full width of your mitted hand could fill the gap between the Sun and the horizon. ...

... Now and then it experiences a magnetic storm , a disturbance of the magnetic field observable all around the globe, lasting a few days and adding appreciably to the Earth's trapped plasma. The storm is accompanied by large bright auroral displays, often extending well beyond the auroral zone, a rare spectacle for those not used to it. ... After analyzing them with a network of four stations, he concluded that they came from large electric currents flowing along the auroral arcs. ...

Next: CAL_getBoresightMatrix Up: Routines of the Calibration Previous: List of CCF Components Contents . ... The CAL functions CAL_getBadPixelList & CAL_getBadPixelMap use the CAL state variable temperature only to check that the current operating temperature is consistent with the CCF constituent BadPix . ... Used CAL State Variables . List of CCF Components used . ... Next: CAL_getBoresightMatrix Up: Routines of the Calibration Previous: List of CCF Components Contents Michael Smith 2011-09-20 ...

Mal Ruderman (KIPAC, Stanford) . What do we see when we look at the surface of a neutron star from a great distance? ... The new point that is made is a consequence of near-relativistic electron-positron flows expected in the near-magnetosphere's of "young" (not older than about a million years) neutron stars. Because of cyclotron resonance scattering by these pair-flows on surface X-ray and UV emission, we do not see unprocessed suface emission. ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... Investigations of the ionospheric response to strong magnetics storms which are usual for our latitudes, are of great interest. ... In the figure, we present ionospheric parameter dynamics during three perturbed days in July 2000. ...

The direct detection of gravitational waves is one of those events long-expected by physicists that are nevertheless a significant occurrence which excites the world scientific community as if something unexpected has happened. ... Many rumors leaked ahead of the conference, and the fact that something (that is, a signal corresponding to gravitational waves) was discovered by LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) was discussed on the sidelines. ... arXiv:1602.03868 . ...

Report of the RadioAstron International Science Council meeting of June 18-20, 2012 The RISC congratulated Nicolai Kardashev and the entire Astro Space Center team for their leadership and determination over more than 30 years resulting in the successful launch of RadioAstron and the magnificent early interferometer results in all four frequency bands. ... Recommendations The RISC advised the ASC to develop an Open Skies phase of RadioAstron research beginning mid 2013. ...

... Starting from a grid of theoretical population synthesis models we constructed a set of model galaxies with a distribution of ages, metallicities and intrinsic reddening. ... We propose an optimization technique that combines active learning with an instance-based machine learning algorithm. ... In order to solve the problem more efficiently, we pose it as a learning problem, where a learning algorithm learns the reddening parameters , and with a forward model we compute . ... Let be the test set. ...

Central Astronomical Observatory at Pulkovo of Russian Academy of Sciences PUL Analysis Center Pulkovo IVS Analysis Center (PUL) 2009 Annual Rep ort Zinovy Malkin, Natalia Miller, Elena Popova Abstract This report briefly presents the PUL IVS Analysis Center activities during 2009 and plans for the coming year. The main topics of the investigations of PUL staff in that period were ICRF related studies, computation and analysis of EOP series, and VLBI2010 related issues. ...

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... Over the first 4 years, its X-ray telescopes eROSITA and ART-XC will survey the whole sky with a record sensitivity in the 0.5-10 keV energy band. ... The goal of the second international Spectrum-RG conference is to discuss the different scientific topics addressed by the mission, synergies with surveys at other wavelengths, and requirements to follow-up observations.Contributed talks and poster presentations are invited on the topics related to the SRG science goals. ... Active galactic nuclei . ...

... The experience of determination of the link between radio sources and dynamical reference frames is presented. To obtain this connection we used a series of very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations of the spacecraft Phobos-2 and angularly nearby quasars. ... The dynamical reference frame is determined by equator and equinox of these ephemerides. ... References . ... The relative orientation of the radio and dynamical reference frames can be described by a sequence of three rotations . ...

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... SAO RAS . ... In 2016, a leading center of the Russian ground-based observational astronomy, Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences, is celebrating its 50th anniversary. The Observatory organizes an international conference "Multi-spin galaxies 2016", as a part of the festivities. ... Afanasiev Victor (SAO RAS, Russia) . ... Mapelli Michela (INAF - Padova, Italy) . Moiseev Alexei (SAO RAS, Russia) - chair . ... Karachentsev Igor (SAO RAS, Russia) . ... Russia), . ...

... Moscow Centre for Continuous Mathematical Education . ... In Arbat street you can find many places to eat and to buy presents for your relatives and friends. ... Moscow underground, or metro, is arguably the most reliable and easy public transport in the city. There are two metro stations closest to the Independent University, namely metro Kropotkinskaya and metro Smolenskaya , see them again on this map and now on this map , also showing connections to the airports and hotel NICEVT. ... Metro . ...