Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... Some 13.7 billion years ago, a mere millionth of a second after the Big Bang, the first hydrogen and helium nuclei condensed out of a hot, dense soup of quarks and gluons. ... In the very last few kilometres some of the light was scattered by a myriad of water droplets (containing hydrogen nuclei which had existed almost since the Big Bang) slowly descending through the air following a rainshower. ...

... Research Institutions . ... Research Institute of Biology . ... The Research Institute of Biology at Kharkiv National University was founded in 1944 by O. Nahornyi, Corresponding Member of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences, a prominent researcher in gerontology. In 1953-1989, the Institute was headed by V.M. Nikitin, Academician of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences. ... The Institute comprises 6 departments: Molecular Biology and Ontogenesis Department (Head of the Department ? ...

... Asteroid . ... In case you didn't hear about it, which you probably didn't: On Jan. 7, an asteroid 1,000 feet across -- nearly three times the current diameter of Marlon Brando -- barely missed the Earth, which is most likely your planet of residence. ... What if this asteroid had hit the Earth? ... As it happens, the American Astronomical Society was holding a conference in Washington AT THE VERY SAME TIME as the asteroid nearly hit the Earth. ...

... Next Routine] [List of Routines] NAME: ADD_HEADER PURPOSE: addition information from FITS-headers MPFS-frames DESCRIPTION: The function computes the total exposure, mean value zenit distance and modified FITS header CALLING SEQUENCE: Result =ADD_HEADER( headers ) CATEGORY: reduction MPFS-data INPUTS: Headers = String array FITS-headers from the MPFS data OUTPUTS: Header = String array containing the header from the FITS file. ... OPTIONAL INPUT KEYWORD PARAMETERS: BEFORE = Keyword string name. ...

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... Research . ... Laboratory . ... The software developed in the laboratory allows to carry out the whole cycle of the satellite information processing: the initial treatment of the data, coordinate relation, topside ionogram deduction, Ne(h) profiles calculation, global mapping the ionospheric parameters, ionospheric modeling and investigations of the mechanisms of the ionospheric parameters variations with local time, season, magnetic activity level, longitude, latitude, and altitude. ...

... 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 . ...

... Born: September 14, 1961, Moscow, Russia . ... Phone: (7-495) 951-7993 . ... Astronomical data bases, catalogues, large data sets, virtual observatories, scientific data mining. Binary stars, fundamental stellar parameters, history of star formation, stellar evolution. Galaxy structure, classification of stars, interstellar extinction, calibration of astrophysical quantities. ... Binary stars and the IMF . ... International Astronomical Union since 1994 . ... Binary star database . ...

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... ISC Kosmotras . ... Dnepr Cluster Mission 2013 19 June 2014. ... Mission profile SHM configuration Reliability Dnepr LV Performance Launch Sites . ... Depending on requirements of a specific launch mission, ISC Kosmotras offers several configurations of the Dnepr Space Head Module (SHM), where customer s payload will be accommodated. ... The SHM configuration is selected based on the type of the launch mission: dedicated, cluster (multiple small satellite) or shared (primary payload and a piggyback)...

... In accordance with assignment she was sent to Nikolaev branch of the Pulkovo observatory. At the Nikolaev Observatory Eugene Khrutskaya worked with the meridian circle, she made a lot for automatization of observational process, and in 1973 she created the catalog of right ascensions obtained for more than 6000 stars, and she defended her thesis. ... From 2004 to the present, Evgenia Khrutskaya was Head of the Laboratory of astrometry and stellar astronomy. ... Pulkovo observatory . ...

. Other Relevant Plots . Several new Radio-loud BAL QSOs . A unique Q+A QSO . | Front page | . | << - Close pairs | Talk summary - >> | . Robert J. Smith, ">rsmith@mso.anu.edu.au Last modified: Fri Sep 24 11:39:02 EST 1999 .

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... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... As the comet approaches the Sun, that ice melts and even vaporizes. It boils off the comet head and the moving comet leaves it behind. ... Plus, there must be a large pocket of gas just under the surface of the comet. ... Finally, the tail is streaming off the comet head, but appears to be off to one side since the comet's motion around the Sun makes it leave behind that material. ...

Head of the project: . ... Deputy head on the scientific program: . ... Head of the "Space Laboratory Work" . ... Postal address: Leninskie Gory, SINP MSU, Moscow, 119992, Russia, project "MSU-250" . ...

... ionospheric plasma . Physics of galaxies and stars . Space plasma physics . Radio physics research of irregular media . Theory of wave propagation at irregular plasma . New methods of the ionospheric plasma probing . Ionospheric radio propagation . ... Physics of spiral galaxies . Star formation in galaxies . Self-ordering of the matter in galaxies . ... Kinematics and chemical composition of Galaxy . ... Satellite methods of the ionosphere research . ...

... Molecular beam epitaxy . Surface analysis . ... Molecular beam epitaxy and fundamental studies of semiconductor heterostructures (with quantum wells, quantum dots and superlattices) based on: . narrow gap III-V compounds for optoelectronic and electronic applications; . wide gap II-VI compounds, as well as ZnO, for visible range and UV optoelectronics and basic studies in the field of spintronics; . ...