... A pair of galaxies has grabbed the attention of astronomers when they were literally thrown into the spotlight. The galaxies were lit up by one of the brightest explosions in the Universe: a Gamma-Ray Burst . Astronomers think that the explosions of massive young stars power these bursts of light. ... By studying the light after it has passed through the galaxies, for example, astronomers can work out what types of atoms they contain, such as oxygen and copper. ...

... Mass . ... Following several successful moon landings,NASA decided to use its last Saturn V not to fly to the moon but to place in low Earth orbit a large space station, named Skylab. ... It was followed that year by three manned flights using the smaller Saturn IB, each carrying 3 astronauts for a prolonged stay aboard Skylab. ... Mass measurements aboard Skylab were part of the medical experiments conducted there. ... Measuring body mass in the M172 chair (see illustration) was not a simple matter...

... A new bright LBV (Luminous Blue Variable) star was detected in M33 galaxy. LBV stars are the most massive stars in the final stages of evolution before exploding in of supernovae. ... The new LBV star (Fig.1) is the seventh in M33. ... It is one of the brightest LBV stars of the M33 galaxy. ... The brightest object is the core of the galaxy, - a compact star cluster comprising a supermassive black hole. The new LBV star N93351 is located down and to the left from the core. ...

... Today this year's largest group of sunspots will cross the Sun's central meridian. ... The next day, the number of spots in the group reached five, and the day after, on June 2nd, it was possible to count thirteen sunspots on solar disk, which had been clear prior to this. ... This year's two most powerful active areas, which passed across the solar disk at the beginning of May, 2009, are set to appear in the Sun's eastern sector in two days, on June 6th. ...

The Sun is our nearest star and the source of energy for life on Earth. ... For centuries astronomers wondered whether they were clouds floating in the Sun's atmosphere, but we now know that they really are huge regions of magnetic field, about as intense as the field at the poles of an iron magnet. ... Such abrupt events were named solar flares , and what made them especially interesting was that occasionally, after a prominent flare, a magnetic storm would erupt on Earth. ...

In order to measure the density of the Universe, it is necessary to sample a region that is larger than the scale on which the Universe becomes approximately homogeneous. ... When applied to clusters of galaxies we find a mass to luminosity ratio that implies a density of the Universe that is about 0.3 times the critical density. ... Thus the mass-to-muinosity ratio appears to vary with the size of the region measured, from 3 in the solar neighborhood to 30 in galaxies to 300 in clusters of galaxies. ...

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. ...

Crater Gassendi . ... I made this drawing was made on the 26th of november 2001. If you compare this one with the previous drawing of Gassendi (below) the differences are clear. ... This drawing was made on the 28th of september 2001. After nearly a full month without observations I had a one hour gap between the thicker clouds. ... This drawing was made on the 29th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 27th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 25th of august 2001. ...

Results from 6m telescope observations of globular clusters in dwarf galaxies Sharina M. We consider properties of globular clusters in dwarf galaxies observed with the multi-slit unit of the SCORPIO spectrograph at the SAO 6m telescope. ... Studying GCs in dwarf galaxies at the faintest end of the galaxy luminosity function provides valuable information for a better understanding of galaxy evolution and evolutionary connection between globular clusters and nuclei of galaxies. ...

... 2014 Irkutsk-Listvyanka, Russia G r o u p language English Theoretical round General note. ... Footstep of babr. Babr is a local representative of the biological family of cats (felidae) depicted on the coat of arms of Irkutsk, and the emblem of the X APAO (with a telescope in his mouth). ... Orion's Belt. The Babr decided to join company of astronomy animals-observers and came to Listvyanka to the X APAO to take photos of stars of Orion's Belt near the horizon. ... ISS in Zenith. ...

The Earth. ... The middle raiding of the Earth is 6371,032 km, the pole 6356,777 km equatorial - 6378,160 km. The Earth surface area is 510,2 mln km^2, 70,8% of which is the World ocean. ... According to the modern cosmogonical views the Earth was formed 4,6 - 4,7 billions years ago from the protoplanet cloud captured by the Sun. ... The Earth is conditionally divided into 3 parts: a bark a cloak and a core (in the centre). The external layer - the bark is 35 km thick. ... Above the Earth. ...

... Moon Phase below . ... ARTICLE: Why the moon always shows us the same face . ... Before you continue reading, you should know that this was not always the case, i.e. the Moon once was rotating with respect to the Earth, so that on every night a terrestrial observer (if there was one, because this was long, long before mankind appeared on our planet, and even before any major animals had appeared) saw another face of the Moon. ... Figure 1 (not to scale) shows how we can imagine the system Earth-Moon...

Twilight observations with MASS/DIMM B. Safonov Sternberg Astronomical Institute Moscow State University Comprehensive Characterization of Astronomical Sites, 2010 B. Safonov (Moscow State University) Twilight observations with MASS/DIMM SITE 2010 1 / 17 Why observe in twilight with MASS/DIMM? ... ASM includes 3 devices sensitive to background: guider, DIMM and MASS. B. Safonov (Moscow State University) Twilight observations with MASS/DIMM SITE 2010 2 / 17 Background in guider. ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... History . ... ISS Russian Segment . ... News . ... The Russian manned transportation spacecraft Soyuz TMA-22 has docked with the International Space Station (ISS). ... Mission control for the ISS Russian Segment and the spacecraft is provided from MCC-M by the Lead Operations Control Team (LOCT) under the direction of the first deputy general designer of RSC Energia V.A. Soloviev. ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia"...

... We have examined the diversity of planets and planetary systems that arise from oligarchic growth and gas accretion onto massive cores, by means of N-body simulations combined with a sophisticated disc model. ... Slow planetary growth resulted from the relatively low mass of solids in the disc, and one consequence of this is that planets underwent limited orbital migration during the lifetime of the gas disc. ... Figure 1 shows an example of this migration behaviour in a single-planetin-a-disc run. ...

... The RAS Meteorite Collection: State on the 1 st of June, 1999 . ... About the laboratory . ... Chondrite . ... Fall 05 March 1960. 16 masses, the largest is 2.5 kg . ... Find 1991. One mass of about 9 kg . ... One mass of 532 g . ... Find 1889. 8 masse totaling 124.877 kg . ... Find 1915 and 1940. 2 masses, 736.6 kg and 24.1 kg . ... One mass of 122 kg . ... One mass of 3624 g . ... One mass of 1169.5 kg . ... One mass of 3.568 kg . ... One mass of 9.3 kg . ... One mass of 51,642 kg . ...

... Basically, this level is a lot of fun. ... Play Information * ==================== Episode and Level # : E1M2 Single Player : Yes Cooperative 2-4 Player : Yes Deathmatch 2-4 Player : Yes Difficulty Settings : Yes New Sounds : No New Graphics : No Demos Replaced : None * Construction * ================ Base : New level from scratch Build Time in Hours : Way Too Many Editor(s) used : DEU 5.0 / BSP 1.1 Known Bugs : An occasional flash of gray when crossing certain sector lines. ...

... Events . ... The Event Horizon Telescope: Observing Black Holes with Schwarzschild-Radius Resolution . ... Galaxy lies a super massive black hole - 4 million times more massive . ... Universe to spatially resolve and image a black hole Event Horizon. ... For the much more massive (6 billion solar mass) black hole . ... for assembling a submm-VLBI Event Horizon Telescope. ... emission near the event horizon of super massive black holes. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

THE ARGUMENT AGAINST LONG EXTRAGALACTIC DISTANCE SCALE Gaseous discs of S0 -- Sd galaxies appears to be gravitationally stable or close to stability. Dependence of the gravitational stability parameter of gaseous disc $M_g/M_c$ upon the color index $(B-V)^0_T$ which reflects a relative number of young stars, is found. Here $M_g$ is total mass of gas in a galaxy, $M_c$ - mass of gas which corresponds to marginal stability of gaseous disc at distances from center. ...

... Todays crew: Connie, Shu-i, Lrry, Mark, Dave, Jon Brinkmann and helpful instrument hints from Jim Gunn . The back end of the echelle is prepared to lift to the observing level. ... The crew begins to lower the back end down into the hold area and to the rear of the echelle. ... Getting ready to remove the plexiglass cover on the tank and the plate across the back end. ... The back end meets the tank and Connie and Shu-i tighten the mounting bolts. ...