... Jay Apt (Ph.D.) . NASA Astronaut (Former) . ... PUBLICATIONS: Dr. Apt shared his images and knowledge in the publication Earth in Orbit : NASA Astronauts Photograph the Earth , written in conjunction with NASA scientists Michael Helfert and Justin Wilkinson and published by the National Geographic Society. ... From 1976 to 1980 he was a staff member of the Center for Earth & Planetary Physics, Harvard University, supporting NASA s Pioneer Venus Mission by making temperature maps of Venus from Mt. ...

... Home Lectures Lecture Series 2015-2016 . ... Lecture Series 2014-2015 . ... Beyond New York City . ... The Amateur Astronomers Association is proud to present an astronomy lecture series from October through May each year for our members and the public. ... Amateur Astronomer Association is pleased to announce we will be offering select, limited reserved seating for current AAA members for the Friday, January 8, 2015 AAA Lecture entitled Robert Nemiroff ?2015 Astronomy Picture of the Day?. ...

Variations of total ozone content and lower ozone stratosphere temperature in Antarctic Region during winter-spring period A.V. Grytsai National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv Astronomy and Space Physics Department assen@univ.kiev.ua Data, used in the work work Total ozone: Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) measurements during 1979 - 2005 and Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) ones for 2006, for http://toms.gsfc.nasa.gov/ftpdata.html. ... A long-term TOC decrease is significant. ...

. Departement of Quantum Astrophysics . Head: Kurt V.G. , Prof. ultraviolet spectroscopy of planetary upper atmospheres and interplanetary/interstellar medium; . observations of gamma-bursts and optical identification of their sources; . long-base optical interferometry. Staff: .

... Star Clusters . ... Stars@ESO . ... Which fundamental processes are responsible for transforming a dark and diffuse interstellar cloud of gas and dust into a much denser, shining object? ... Based on the most detailed study ever made of the internal structure of a small interstellar cloud, three scientists from ESO and the USA [1] have found that it is apparently on the verge of becoming unstable - and thus in the stage immediately preceding a dramatic collapse into a dense and hot, low-mass star. ...

... SUPER RATIO . ... On this page I will present the most important (on my opinion) idea on Intellegence Life in the Universe . ... On the problem of the Super Ratio in astrophysics" . ... As a matter of fact, this is the main problem of the modern natural science. ... Here I shall try to speak about the most important problem of the modern natural science, the problem which is undoubtedly, of more importance than discovery of Blacks Holes, creation of Grand Unification Theory or Artificial...

... The Galactic low-mass X-ray binary GS 2023+338 was discovered during the burst on May 22, 1989 with the Japanise satellite Ginga (aka Galaxy). The flux reached 17 crabs (this unit of flux measurement is an bright X-ray source, Crab Nebula) at 10-35 keV. ... No other radio telescope worldwide carried out multi-frequency measurements. ... Upon 14 days the radio flux fell below the detection level at the RATAN-600 in relation to the decrease of the X-ray flux. ...

Computers become more and more popular nowadays. That means that the amount of people who are able to work with computer programmes and play computer games has increased. In many cases computer games are the only thing that a person is accustomed to. ... As a result of this epidemic "homo playing" may put on the isoreality helmet which makes a person, crazy about games, forget about food, slumber and all other components of real life: "homo playing" becomes isolated from community. ...

The emergence of life based on amino acid and RNA/ DNA on an Earth type planet requiers a quite narrow parameter space of many of the planet's physical parameters, most important are its mass and temperature conditions. ... The period, more or less, is conserved for the giant planets.) ... Thus, the mass of a terrestrial planet suitable for the advent of the LANA should be close to 5*10 27 g. The same value follows from quite a different condition: the planetary atmosphere should be retained. ...

... MASTER Net is 56 square degrees per 1 exposition . ... 06 Dec 2015: GRB 151205B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18665 . ... 18 Nov 2015: GRB 151118A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18613 . ... 12 Nov 2015: GRB 151112A: MASTER-NET optical limit GCN18591 . ... 07 Nov 2015: GRB 151107A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18565 . ... 31 Oct 2015: Five OTs detected by Global Robotic MASTER Net ATel8232 . ... 02 Oct 2015: GRB 151001B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18380 . ...

... In 1969, one more Martian mission project was considered. The Martian vehicle was to be assembled in low Earth orbit using a modified N1 launch vehicle (N1M). The Mars expedition system included an interplanetary orbital vehicle housing the crew and key on-board systems; a martian lander; an Earth return vehicle (to be used by the crew for descent to Earth), propulsion power plant (nuclear reactor) with electrical propulsion engines . ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... библиотека . архив RSN . ... Ru.Space.News: . Апрель 1998 . ... From The Planetary Society Home Page: http://planetary.org/articlearchive/headlines/1998/headln-041698.html Mission Prepares To Collect Pieces of Stardust April 16, 1998 Earth's First Cometary Dust Sample Return Mission Will Fly Planetary Society Member Names to a Comet and Back Scientists and engineers continue to prepare the Stardust spacecraft for its February 1999 launch. ...

... The spectrum of the brightest star, our Sun, shows several dark gaps perpendicular to the flow of it’s colours (figure 1). These so called spectral absorption lines where discovered in 1802 by the English scientist William Wollaston. ... Some stars as Pollux show a spectrum similar to that of our sun with strong Ca II and Fe II lines, others as Sirius or Vega show strong absorption lines of hydrogen, others, as Mira show very complicated spectra due to molecular absorption lines (see figure 5). ...

... Program of the Course of Radio Astronomy . Moscow State University , Physics Department , Astronomy Division , 4 th year, 60 hours in total) . ... Molecular maser emission. ... The emission of the interstellar neutral hydrogen. ... Pacholczyk, A. G. Radio Astrophysics, W. H. Freeman & Co., ... Frontiers of Astrophysics, Avrett, E. H., ed., Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., ... Kaplan, S. A., Pikelner, S. B. The Interstellar Medium, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., ...

... In this case, the main vortex in the Benard cell is decomposed into smaller ones as a result of ten perioddoubling bifurcations. It is shown that the resulting turbulence is coherent and determinate; the fractal character (local selfsimilarity) of its spectrum is found. ... It is shown that the real atmospheric turbulence is the result of mixing of different coherent structures. ... COHERENT STRUCTURE IN A CLOSED ROOM The scheme of measurements in the LSVT spectrograph pavilion is shown in Fig. ...

... A.Tsivilev (Pushchino Radio Astronomy Observatory) "Investigation of Orion A nebula by radio recombination lines". ... T.D.Dorokhova (Astronomical observatory of Odessa national university) «Researches of rapidly oscillating Ap stars». ... N.V.Grabko (Odessa State Ecological University), M.I.Ryabov (Odessa Observatory of IRA NANU) "Space Weather and us: influence of change of a condition of solar and geophysical activity on reaction of various systems of an organism of the person". ...

... RECOMMENDED VALUES OF PHYSICAL CONSTANTS AND CONVERSION FACTORS. ... This reference must be included when these constants are used in a context where their full accuracy is important. ... elementary charge (of proton) . ... gravitational constant . ... unified atomic mass constant . ... of electron . ... of proton . ... Planck constant . ... Rydberg constant, m 0 2 m e e 4 c 3 /8h 3 . ... fine structure constant, m 0 e 2 c/2h . ... Bohr radius, h 2 ( pm 0 c 2 m e e 2 ) . ... Bohr magneton, e h /2m e...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... even the brightest star won't last forever.' ... The pressure and heat are so enormous inside the star's core that hydrogen is fused into helium. ... A star like the Sun has enough hydrogen to keep its fusion fires going for billions of years, but a star like Rigel, a massive star in Orion, burns its hydrogen so fast it may run out in just a few million years. ... The problem is, at this point something bad happens: silicon fuses to iron. ...

... General astronomy . ... PHYSICAL CONSTANTS.. ... Nobel Laureates in Physics 1901-2002 . ... Lectures Astronomy-161 "Solar System" (Also it contains info about History of Astronomy) . ... The History of Science . ... College-Level Astronomy Courses - at American, Australian Universities and Colleges . ... Messier: . ... Science . ... Scientific American . ... JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS . ... Scientific Journals . ... American Physical Society Journals: Physical Review, Review of Modern Physics ...

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