... 2010 July 4 . Companion of a Young, Sun-like Star Confirmed . ... Explanation: The first direct image of an extrasolar planet orbiting a star similar to our Sun has been confirmed. ... This sharp infrared image shows the young star's planetary companion positioned above and left of center. ... The discovery image, shown above , was taken in 2008 but confirmed only recently by noting that the planet stayed with its parent star as background stars slightly shifted over time. ... About APOD | ...

... Companion of a Young, Sun-like Star Confirmed . ... Toronto ) Explanation: The first direct image of an extrasolar planet orbiting a star similar to our Sun has been confirmed. ... This sharp infrared image shows the young star's planetary companion positioned above and left of center. ... The discovery image, shown above , was taken in 2008 but confirmed only recently by noting that the planet stayed with its parent star as background stars slightly shifted over time. ... NASA Official: Jay Norris....

... Title . Speaker . Moderator . Theories for the First Stars and First Clusters . ... Detectability of the First Stars and Massive Star Clusters . ... Evolution of the Early IGM . ... The Evolution of Galaxies . ... Star Formation . ... Astro-Chemistry in Dense Protostellar Environments . ... Star Formation Initial Mass Functions I : In "Normal" Galactic Environments . ... Star Formation Initial Mass Functions II: In Extreme Environments . ... Planetary System Formation and Evolution . ...

... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... Observatory . ... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Publications > Science Announcements > Portugal Confirms Participation in E-ELT . ... Observing Facilities . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... Data Handling and Products . ... Science Data Products Forum . ... Portugal confirmed that it will join the list of participants in the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) programme. Thirteen ESO Member States have now confirmed their full participation in the project. ...

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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Planets . ... Earth Satellites . ... A Scorched World: too distant to image, Kepler-10b is depicted here by a NASA artist (Image credit: NASA/Kepler Mission/Dana Berry) . The Kepler satellite looks for planets passing between their parent star and Earth. ... Placed beside our homeworld, Kepler-10b would be about 40% wider than Earth. ... Possibly only occasional jagged islands of metal and rock break the monotony of its glowing lava oceans. ...

... Confirm Dark Galaxy Existence . ... New evidence from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope in the Netherlands has been used to rule out all but one of the ideas put forward to explain the existence of VIRGOHI 21, an intergalactic gas cloud 50 million light-years from the Earth. ... Are there more such dark galaxies out there? ... Credit: R. Minchin / Arecibo Observatory / Cardiff University / Isaac Newton Telescope / Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... News . Observing . ... galaxies . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Einstein equation confirmed . ... When comparing data, the NIST/MIT collaboration experimentally confirmed Einstein's equation is correct. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

The last few years have seen a transformation in our understanding of the formation and evolution of galaxies. ... In the years ahead, new facilities like the JWST, CCAT, the LMT, ALMA, the JVLA, LOFAR and the SKA will shed further light on how galaxies form by providing huge increases in sensitivity over five decades in wavelength: from the near-infrared to long radio-wavelengths. ... AGN and Galaxy Evolution . Gas in Galaxies . The High-redshift Universe and the First Galaxies . ...

... Dmitri Beliaev (Oxford, UK Chebyshev Laboratory, St.Petersburg, Russia) . Andrei Bytsko (Steklov Institute Chebyshev Laboratory, St Petersburg, Russia) . Dmitry Chelkak (Steklov Institute Chebyshev Laboratory, St Petersburg, Russia) . Bertrand Duplantier (CEA, Saclay, France) . Bertrand Eynard (CEA, Saclay, France) . Alexandre Gorsky (ITEP, Moscow, Russia) . Konstantin Izyurov (University of Geneva, Switzerland and Chebyshev Laboratory, St Petersburg, Russia) . ...

New polar ring galaxies catalogue. ... A host galaxy like S0 or E, the polar component is like spirals or irregular galaxies ( gas -rich and bluer) Not only narrow annuli, but also extended disc-like rings Warped and inclined rings Only 20 large-scale polar rings + 6 inner rings were kinematically confirmed from the Whitmore et al. list: - HI maps (Cox et al; Sparke et al. ) - optical-long slit spectroscopy (Reshetnikov et al) - optical ...

... S/ 1981 S 15 174000 S/ 1981 S 16 220000 S/ 1981 S 17 231000 S/ 1981 S 18 185000 S/ 1981 S 19 186000 S/ 1995 S 1 137450 S/ 1995 S 2 139700 S/ 1995 S 3 141050 S/ 1995 S 4 146450 S/ 1995 S 5 140060 S/ 1995 S 6 139910 S/ 1995 S 7 139440 The first two groups are derived from analysis of Voyager 2 data reported in IAUC 6162 ; the third group is from HST observations during the May 1995 ring ... S/1995 S 3 orbits just outside the F ring and is apparently a shepherd moon . ... New Moons ....

... Welcome to the Boneyard. ... AA17666-11 sites several supernova mistakes from this period. 1998di (= KL Dra), IAUC 6982 discovered 1998/08/02 by Mike Schwartz . Found in MCG +10-27-12 NED01 at R.A. = 19h24m38s.19, Decl. ... Located 0".6 east and 3".8 north of the nucleus of MCG +10-27-12 NED01 ( Discovery image ( local mirror )) ( VSnet 98di web page ) . Mag 16.8, Type CV NOTE: This has now been confirmed to be not a supernova, but a cataclysmic variable (dwarf nova) of the CR Boo class. ...

ARCSAT ID NUMBER: AS07 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Confirming Galactic, M31, and M33 Candidate LBVs Through Photometric Variability PI: Guy Stringfellow OBSERVER(S): Guy Stringfellow plus 5 CU undergraduate students UNCERTIFIED/UNTRAINED OBSERVERS: Guy Stringfellow and the 5 CU undergraduate students Natalie Bremer CU APS undergraduate Sara Grandone CU APS undergraduate Kat Shanahan CU APS undergraduate Jacob Wilson CU APS ... 2013, ApJ, 779, 8) and SN 2009ip (Pastorello et al. ...

An Ancient Universe: How Astronomers Know the Vast Scale of Cosmic Time . ... d) The Age of the Chemical Elements . ... Some isotopes (forms of the element with different numbers of neutrons in the nucleus) of these elements are radioactive; they change into other isotopes at a rate that can be measured accurately in the laboratory. ... The Ancient Universe - The Age of the Expanding Universe - The Age of the Oldest Stars - The Age of Light From Distant Galaxies - The Age of the Chemical Elements | ...

Семинар по гравитации и космологии имени Абрама Леонидовича Зельманова . ... Очередной семинар (? 283 ) состоится в ПОНЕДЕЛЬНИК, 24 февраля 2016 . ... Consequences of the LIGO direct detection of gravitational waves for relativistic astrophysics and gravity theory . ... Direct detection of gravitational waves by the LIGO collaboration has confirmed many theoretical predictions of general theory of relativity and relativistic astrophysics including the theory of black holes. ...

... 773Veron-Cetty Veron . Quasars (brighter than absolute magnitude -23) 85221 . ... Active galaxies (fainter than -23) 21737 . VII/248 Quasars and Active Galactic Nuclei (12th Ed.) (Veron+ 2006) ================================================================================ Quasars and Active Galactic Nuclei (12th Ed.) Veron-Cetty M.P., Veron P. =2006A .. ... 374, 92 (Catalogue ) (11) Veron-Cetty M.P., Veron P., 2003, Astron. ...

Investigation of linear and nonlinear mode conversions in inhomogeneous plasma and finding of new effects of the principal importance including the following: . ... the higher harmonics generation under the electromagnetic wave interactions with the inhomogeneous plasma in the plasma resonance layers presence (together with V.E.Zakharov, N.S.Erokhin); this effect was confirmed experimentally and it is important, in particular, for a plasma diagnostics; . ...