... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

Authors: T.V. Borkova , V.A. Marsakov , . ... It is found that dispersions of spatial and kinematics characteristics of field stars change abruptly when the metallicity crosses the boundary [Fe/H] -0.95 . ... По опубликованным прецизионным наземным и спутниковым измерениям собственных движений, компилятивным лучевым скоростям и фотометрическим расстояниям вычислены компоненты пространственных скоростей и элементы галактических орбит для 174 переменных звезд типа ab RR Лиры околосолнечной окрестности. ...

... Head of the Department of Emission-line Stars and Galaxies of SAI MSU . ... Structure and kinematics of galaxies . ... Strasburg Database . Hubble Telescope Archive . ... CFHT Archive . ... Chinese evolutionary synthesis Yunnan . Korean evolutionary synthesis Yonsei . Evolutionary synthesis database BaSTI . ... Electronic Journal "New Astronomy" . Electronic Astrophysical Journal . Electronic Astronomical Journal . ... Questions and comments send to Olga Sil'chenko olga@sai.msu.su ...

... 3 ­ Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow, :jeanna@sai.msu.ru The graphic method of the analysis of an arrangement of linear structural elements on geographical and geological maps of continents (A.V.Dolitsky, [1]) has allowed to find out global stress fields of the past and among them one which directions (the main normal and maximal tangents) describe more than 80 % of all linear elements of a relief. ... The found poles share program way on density of an arrangement on 3-4 groups. ...

... Numerical Modeling of RadioAstron SRT Temperature Deformations M. Yu. Arkhipov, I. S. Vinogradov, S. B. Novikov, and S. D. Fedorchuk Astro Space Center, Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia e mail: rusengineer@mail.ru Received December 16, 2013 Abstract--The results of modeling the thermal deformations of a space radio telescope's reflecting surface are presented in the paper. ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... Brief History of Rocket and Space Technology . ... Flights Chronology . ... ISS Russian Segment . ... The received information on the metabolism state makes possible assessment of the cosmonauts' physical state throughout long-duration space flights and will be used as the basis for development and improvement of diagnostic and prophylaxis tools. ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... библиотека . архив RSN . ... Ru.Space.News: . Май 1998 . ... Дата: 14 мая 1998 (1998-05-14) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: JSC Becomes First ISO 9001 Certified NASA Field Center Привет всем! ... From the mountain's extreme environment, health data will travel from the base camp to the NASA-Yale telemedicine project. ... NASA has been a pioneer in telemedicine since the beginning of human space flight. ...

The project of the informational system creation on the problem of evolution of radio galaxies, as a part of the "Big Trio" project aimed on studing of distant radio galaxies, is designed. This system allows a user to operate with simulated curves of spectral energy distributions (SED) to estimate ages and redshifts by photometry data. Authors use SEDs of several models for different types of galaxies. ... The HTTP and e-mail access is organized to this system. ...

... Space Res., 12, 265, 1992 planetary magnetic dipole: Mizutani, H., et al., ... Astrobiology, 7, 167, 2007 CME induced H+ ion pick-up loss at 0.05 AU for ` Hot Jupiters ' HD209458 b Mass loss ~1011 g/s even for weak CMEs Mmax strong magn. protection in reality Exoplanet magnetospheres - importance of magnetodisk Relatively large amount of observed Hot Jupiters (27%): survival of close-in giants indicates their efficient protection against of extreme plasma and radiation conditions ...

Educational program of the project is intended for training of specialists in different fields of space physics, astronomy and the Earth sciences. ... Special space-physics lab exercises are intended for the students of the senior courses of the Institutions, specialized in the field of space engineering and space physics. Its main task is to teach them some methods of satellites scientific and engineering data processing. ...

ABSOLUTE PROPER MOTIONS OF 331 OPEN CLUSTERS . ... The proper motions of stars in the fields of 331 open clusters were taken from Four-Million Star Catalog (4M-catalog) of positions and proper motions (Volchkov et al. ... The absolute proper motions for 21 young open clusters have been derived by comparison of precise relative proper motions of individual stars and their corresponding absolute proper motions. ... Sign of proper motions in RA . ... 0.0001 arcsec/yr . ... rms error in RA proper motion . ...

... Contact A Problem of an estimation of accuracy of the asteroid CCD observations . The Minor Planet Center supported by the Interntional Astronomical Union is the main office for keeping observational data of the small Solar System bodies and their investigations. ... At Pulkovo Observatory we are estimating an accuracy of the CCD asteroid observations obtained by amateurs and professional astronomers all over the World using the MPC database. ...

Main . ... About meteorites . Collections . Museum . is the only scientific Laboratory in Russia which investigates extraterrestrial material on a regular basis. ... Meteorite collection . ... The Laboratory's main fields of research are meteorites, lunar material, cosmic dust, and impact processes. The laboratory manages the Russian national collection of lunar samples and the meteorite collection of the Russian Academy of Sciences . ... How to get Vernadsky Institute . ...

... The Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescop e (KELT) pro ject is a wide field, small-ap erture survey for such transits, based on a theoretical optimization of all-sky transit searches (Pepp er, Gould, & DePoy 2003). It is similar to the other small-telescop e transit surveys with wide fields (Alonso et al. ... Figure 1 shows a sample image of a survey field. ... Among transit surveys, KELT has the largest field of view for which image subtraction has b een successfully employed. ... fields of view. ...

. VLBI Laboratory . VLBI topics: . AGN . Quasars . polarisation mapping . maser sources (OH, H 2 O, SiO) . interstellar scattering . radio supernova remnants in extragalaxies . intraday variability . space VLBI . Other fields: . methods and equipment of VLBI . interferometry observations . Pushchino VLBI station : . coordinates: . telescope RT-22(in Russian) . technical data . site of RT22(in Russian) . Webmaster Subaev I.A. Last update 23.Jule.2002.

I/199 Lick Northern Proper Motion Program: NPM1 Catalog (Klemola+ 1987) =============================================================================== = Lick Northern Proper Motion Program: NPM1 Catalog Klemola A.R., Hanson R.B., Jones B.F. <Astron. ... Positions are given for equinox B1950 and computed epoch 1950. ... Other data given for each star are: the original mean epoch, a stellar class code, the number of NPM fields measured, and discrepancy flags for position, proper motion, and photometry. ...

9th European and 5-th Euro-Asian Astronomical Society Meeting . 29 May - 3 June 2000, Moscow, Russia . EUROPEAN ASTRONOMY AT THE TURN OF THE MILLENIUM . The 9th Meeting of the European Astronomical Society (EAS) will be held in Moscow, Russia, jointly with the 5th Conference of the Euro-Asian Astronomical Society (EAAS). ... Invited reviews of outstanding problems of modern astronomy are expected to be given at plenary sessions. ... December 20, 1999: Pre-registration form deadline . ...

M obile A stronomical Sy stem of TE lescope- R obots MASTER-II Kislovodsk Lomonosov Moscow State University, Sternberg Astronomical Institute , Moscow Union "Optic" , Kislovodsk Solar Station Latitude = 43 o љ44'.767љN; Longitude = 42 o љ31'.417љE; Altitude = 2067љm MASTERљIIљ(8љsquareљdegress) + MASTERљVWF(VeryљWideљFieldљCameras (FOV=800 square degrees, Timeљresolutionљupљtoљ150љms, with unfiltered m_lim=14m on 5 sec. exposure, and ~10.5m with 0.15 sec) . ... 11h 38m 38.0s , -09d 59m 59s) . ...