... The AAAP had a busy booth at this year's Super Science Weekend, hosted by the New Jersey State Museum in Trenton. ... AAAP astronomers received a steady stream of curious "customers" who looked at our nearest star, and were wowed by photos, magazines and other astronomy information on the table. ... To get you in the contemplative mood, I've added one of Bill Murray's first astro images produced at his new home observatory. ... The next new moon Friday is June 6th which is too soon to plan. ...

... Сегодня: 10 апреля 2016 г. [ESA] Испанские астрономы, работавшие на европейском инфракрасном космическом телескопе ISO (Infrared Space Observatory), впервые обнаружили в межзвездном пространстве молекулы бензола. ... Молекула бензола состоит из шести атомов углерода, соединенных в виде кольца, и шести атомов водорода (по одному на каждый атом углерода). ... Астрономы и раньше предполагали, что в космосе может находиться бензол, так как ранее там были обнаружены длинные цепочки атомов углерода. ...

... Even though the DoD would ultimately select senior Air Force officials, US Navy oceanographers and Air Weather Service officers as shuttle payload specialists, MSEs would be the first personnel from an American military programme to go into space. ... One Air Force officer, Maj. ... Jacobson was concerned about shuttle launch delays and wanted the MSEs to understand that his mission, i.e., the launch of national security payloads, dwarfed their mission, flights in space by Air Force personnel. ...

The new view on the population of Galactic open clusters A.E.Piskunov1, N.V.Kharchenko2, S.RЖser3, E.Schilbach3, R.-D.Scholz4 1 2 3 4 Institute of Astronomy, Moscow, Russia Main Astronomical ... Observatory, Kiev, Ukraine Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, Heidelberg, Germany Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam, Germany What are open clusters and what do they teach us Groups of Population I ... Cluster complexes: OCC-1 = Gould's Belt cluster complex? ...

... Maps of six sources (0420+022, 0420-014, 1308+326, 1345+125, 1803+784, and DA 193) obtained with milliarcsecond resolution are presented and discussed, together with their broadband (1­22 GHz) spectra obtained on the RATAN­600 radio telescope at epochs close to those of the VLBI observations. ... The image (Fig. 5) shows that the source structure at 18 cm is compact, consisting of a VLBI core and two jet components, with the outer component lying 5 mas (30 pc) to the northwest of the core ( = 54 ). ...