Asteroid 2055 YU55 passes close by Earth; how close did it get? ... As Elizabeth Flock reported: An asteroid the size of an aircraft carrier missed Earth by only 200,000 miles as it flew by Tuesday night the closest an asteroid has been to Earth in 200 years Asteroid 2005 YU55, as it has been dubbed, streaked by at about 30,000 mph, but some scientists and lucky amateur astronomers caught a glimpse in their telescopes, where they saw strange structures on the asteroid\u2019s dark-colored surface. ...

... AUTO SELECT TEXT "Introduction" "This tour is designed to give you an idea of" "the vast distances in space. ... Using current technology, it would take thousands of" "years to travel to our closest stellar neighbor, which is only 4.2 light years" "away. ... AUTO SELECT USER 05:16:41 45d59m53s "Step 3-A Star" "Capella is a bright binary" "star system that is 45 light years distant. ... AUTO SELECT USER 00:53:00 -72d50m "Step 5-Galaxy" "The Small Magellanic Cloud" "is 190,000 light years away from us...

... Галактическое кольцо NGC 6782 . ... Пояснение: Одинаково ли выглядят спиральные галактики в разных цветах? ... В видимом свете NGC 6782 выглядит как обычная спиральная галактика с проходящей через центр яркой перемычкой . Однако в ультрафиолетовом диапазоне выявляется поразительно сложная структура в ее центральной области, с характерным кольцом, окружающим ядро. ... Свет NGC 6782 , который мы видим сегодня, был испущен около 180 миллионов лет назад, в то время, когда на Земле еще жили динозавры . ...

... Students Life . ... Academics . ... University history . ... V.љN. Karazin . ... February 24, 2014 . Meeting of the University Academic Board . The University Academic Board held a regular meeting opened with a minute of silence to pay tribute to the victims killed in the clashes in Kyiv on February 19-20, 2014 and made a statement as to the situation in Ukraine . ... Statement of the Academic Board of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University as to Situation in Ukraine . ...

... Forthcoming Occultations of Astrometric Radio Sources by Planets , IVS 2010 General Meeting Proceedings, p.320­324 http://ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov/publications/gm2010/lvov.pdf Forthcoming Occultations of Astrometric Radio Sources by Planets Victor L'vov, Zinovy Malkin, Svetlana Tsekmeister Central Astronomical Observatory at Pulkovo of Russian Academy of Sciences Contact ... Occultations of Astrometric Radio Sources by Planets Table 1. ...

... Российские ученые и конструкторы . Космонавты Советского Союза и России . ... Была открыта 5 сентября 1784 года астрономом Уильямом Гершелем. Ранее астрономы считали, что этот огромный и относительно тусклый остаток сверхновой, которая вспыхнула примерно 5000-8000 лет назад, находится на расстоянии около 2500 световых лет от Земли, однако исследования, которые выполнили космический телескоп 'Хаббл', показали, что туманность находится гораздо ближе - на расстоянии всего 1470 световых лет. ...

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GCVS Research Group: . Recent publications . Kazarovets E.V., Samus N.N., Durlevich O.V., Kireeva N.N., Pastukhova E.N., The 81st Name-List of Variable Stars. ... Kazarovets E.V., Samus N.N., Durlevich O.V., Kireeva N.N., Pastukhova E.N., The 80th Name-List of Variable Stars. ... Samus N.N., Kazarovets E.V., Kireeva N.N., Pastukhova E.N., Durlevich O.V. General Catalogue of Variable Stars: Current status and new Name-lists Odessa Astronomical Publications, 2010, V. 23, p. 102-105. ...

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Maxim Tarasenko , a leading Russian space history scholar and a member of Space Policy?s editorial board, who contributed greatly to the elucidation of the Russian space programme in the journal and elsewhere, died in 1999. In order to commemorate his pioneering work in space policy, Elsevier Science has decided to hold an annual competition, open to all law school students and graduate students of space policy, to find the best essay. ...

... IONOSPHERIC DATA IN THE INTERACTIVE SPIDR SYSTEM . ... The Ionosphere The ionosphere is that part of the upper atmosphere where free electrons occur in sufficient density to have an appreciable influence on the propagation of radio frequency electromagnetic waves. ... These regions may be further divided into several regularly occurring layers, such as F1 or F2. ... E Region: The region between about 95 and 150km above the Earth that marks the height of the regular daytime E layer. ...

. The nucliar region of galaxy NGC 1068. Back .

... Regional planning meeting for the Balkan and Black Sea | ... Proposals for a web site of the Regional Network - Information on regional and global activities - Proceedings of this Meeting - Space Weather Alerts for the public - Form for submitting research and observational proposals - Database of scientific data publicly available - Greece provides solar telescope data - Romania provides data on active regions studied with helioseismis holography - Armenia provides access to...

... VaST is a software tool for finding variable objects on a series of astronomical images. ... VaST performs object detection and aperture photometry using SExtractor on each image, cross-matches lists of detected stars, performs magnitude calibration with respect to the first (reference) image and constructs a lightcurve for each object. ... VaST FITS image viewer ./pgfv . ... Part I" PZP, vol. ... K. V. Sokolovsky, S. A. Korotkiy; "New Variable Stars Discovered by the NMW Survey" PZP, vol. ...