... 2002 February 7 . Coronal Hole . ... Explanation: This ominous, dark shape sprawling across the face of the active Sun is a coronal hole -- a low density region extending above the surface where the solar magnetic field opens freely into interplanetary space . ... During periods of low activity, coronal holes typically cover regions just above the Sun's poles. ... Coronal holes like this one may last for a few solar rotations before the magnetic fields shift and change configurations. ...

... Sun images . ... Active areas . February : 2016 . ... The following regions with sunspots can be now observed on the Sun's surface . Group number . ... Group length (in degrees) . ... Beta . ... Coordinates and other characteristics of active regions are issued for February 09, 2016 00:31 UT The following H-alpha plages without spots can be currently observed on the Sun's surface . ... Coordinates and other characteristics of active regions are issued for February 09, 2016 00:31 UT . ...

... 3.12.2006 . ... Credit Copyright: Solar Optical Telescope, Hinode Satellite , JAXA Explanation: Plumes of hot gas shoot across the surface on even an average day on the Sun. ... Near the horizon, active regions around a sunspot eject hot plasma along the magnetic field lines that connect the sunspot to surrounding regions in the solar atmosphere . ... The above movie in representative color covers a solar region of 8,000 kilometers. ... Publications with keywords: Hinode - Sun - flare . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. June 16, 1998 . An Active Region of the Sun . Credit: A. Title ( Stanford Lockheed Institute ), TRACE , NASA . ... This false-color image depicts an active region near an edge of the Sun . Hot plasma is seen exploding off the Sun's photosphere and traveling along loops defined by the Sun's magnetic field . ... About APOD > . ...

... Towards a Truly Unified Model of AGN . ... The Unified Model holds that the aspect-dependent effects primarily determine the nature of the active galactic nucleus that we observe. ... The full postscript file can be obtained here: . The PASA Latex file can be obtained here: . The postscript file of Fig 1 can be obtained here: . ...

... Pre-university education . ... Samara region . SSAU History . SSAU roadmap . ... Samara State Aerospace University (SSAU) will take an active part in the work of space activities of the United Nations organization (UNO). ... The road map shape on inclusion of Samara University into implementation of the UN Program on Space Applications was outlined at the roundtable discussion with the University teachers and specialists and at the meeting with SSAU Rector Yevgeniy Shakhmatov. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Upflows at the edges of active regions - called AR outflows , are studied using multi-instrument observations. ... The evolution of the photospheric magnetic field associated with the footpoints of the upflow region and the plasma properties of active region upflows are investigated aiming at providing such information for benchmarking data-driven modelling of this solar feature that is presented in Galsgaard et al. ...

Large-scale activity in solar eruptive events of October-November 2003 by SOHO/EIT data . ... We analyze large-scale disturbances associated with extremely powerful flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) occurred during two passages across the solar disk of a grandiose complex of three active regions in October–November 2003 using SOHO/EIT imaging data. ... In events repeating with short time intervals, the main dimmings observed show clear homology by their form and location. ...

Nowadays at the Department the experimental and theoretical investigations, including astronomical and ionospheric observations, active experiments with space vehicles are taking place. ... Solar Corona physics and erruptive phenomenae. ... Stellar astronomy. ... The Department has organized and put into practice more then 50 expeditions for observation of Solar ecllipces, aurorae polaris, comets, meteor streams, controlled space experiments, and also for investigations of geophysical characteristics. ...

Black holes . ... Black holes are objects for which the gravitational attraction is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape from it. ... The material inside a black hole is concentrated into a singularity: a single point of infinitely high density where space and time are infinitely distorted. ... The existence of such black holes has been inferred in cases where the black hole pulls gas of a companion star that orbits around it. ... Gravity's Fatal Atraction: Black Holes in The Universe. ...

... Solar flare activity is produced by the processes of accumulation and release of energy in an active region. ... In the framework of study of solar active regions, producing powerful flares the researchers from the RATAN-600 radio telescope have detected sources with features in the form of a sharp drop in the intensity of polarized radiation in various parts of the recorded frequency range (2-16GHz), sometimes changing the sign of polarization. ...

e-mail: podgorny@inasan.ru . Institute of Astronomy RAS . ... Spectrum of solar flare protons // Journ. ... The active region magnetic flux correlation with flare appearance. ... Podgorny A. I., Podgorny I. M. Solar Flare Numerical Magnetohydrodynamic Simulation and Solar Flare Model. ... Podgorny A. I., Podgorny I. M. MHD simulation of magnetic field configuration above the active region NOAA. ... Podgorny I. М., Podgorny A. I. The active region magnetic field association with solar flares. ...

Active region 1158 let loose with an X2.2 flare late on February 15, the largest flare since Dec. 2006 and the biggest flare so far in Solar Cycle 24. Active Region 1158 is in the southern hemisphere, which has been lagging the north in activity but now leads in big flares. Here is a blowup of the flaring region taken by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory in the extreme ultraviolet wavelength of 193 Angstroms. ... NASA/SDO ...

... Panoramic spectroscopy of galaxies with star-formation regions. a study of SBS 1202 + 583" . Hakopian, S. A.; Balayan, S. K.; Dodonov, S. N.; Moiseev, A. V.; Smirnova, A. A. 2012, Astrophysics, v.55, p.1 . The origin of gas in extended narrow-line regions of nearby Seyfert galaxies - I. NGC 7212" . ... Smirnova, A. A. ; Moiseev, A. V.; Afanasiev, V. L. 2010, MNRAS, v.408, p.400 (astro-ph/1006.5547) . ... Studying of some Seyfert galaxies by means of panoramic spectroscopy." ...

Main Publications Seminars Current measurements Personnel . ... RATAN-600 data for the BL Lacertae objects (multi-frequency catalogue, Version 1.0) . ... During many years the RATAN-600 radio telescope is used for the intensive studies of the active galactic nuclei (AGNs) at frequencies from 1 to 30 GHz. ... RATAN-600 multi-frequency measurements of flaring activity of BL Lacertae, ATel #5002 . RATAN-600 multi-frequency measurements of the gamma-ray blazar BL Lacertae , ATel #4600 . ...

... PhD Thesis Topics offered by ESO Faculty Members > Thesis Topic: Black hole accretion versus star burst episodes: what is the engine of powerful active galaxies? ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... ESO-MIDAS . ... ESO Data . ... ESO HST Image Galleries . ... The aim of this research project is to understand the emission mechanism(s) in these active galaxies: . how much power is ultimately due to accretion onto supermassive black holes and how much is due to star formation processes ? ...

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... Basic Research results General information Main characteristics of the Radio telescope Observing programs General view of the antenna array Main research areas Principle of generation of radio images Radio telescope's beam Receiving systems Main characteristics of the base receiving-recording complex Calibrations Data archive and databases Publication of data Possibilities of observing the structure and dynamics of microwave activity SSRT - Research results . ...

Data Archive . Video-records archive . ... 1997 | ... Time (UT) Counter Remarks _______________________________________________________________________________ 05.01. 10:29:17 2:06:42 scan disk 11:58:23 2:11:19 active regions 06.01. 09:49:51 2:12:17 scan disk 10:56:24 2:19:10 active regions 12.01. 09:39:12 2:19:59 scan disk 10:03:41 2:27:51 active region 10:05:09 2:28:34 filament 10:07:17 2:29:10 ...

... A database on solar active regions has been implemented in IDL (Interactive Data Language). ... Full-disk 17 GHz radio maps produced by the Nobeyama Radioheliograph provide the basis for the database. Researchers of solar activity often need to access solar active region data. ... So far, we have created an IDL-based database on daily active region data from 1992 July 1 to 1994 December 31 (NOAA 7213 thru NOAA 7821) 2 . ... number of active regions visible on the disk; . ... IDL 1 . ...