... 2003 February 12 . WMAP Resolves the Universe . Credit: WMAP Science Team , NASA . ... Specifically, present analyses of above WMAP all-sky image indicate that the universe is 13.7 billion years old (accurate to 1 percent), composed of 73 percent dark energy , 23 percent cold dark matter , and only 4 percent atoms , is currently expanding at the rate of 71 km/sec/ Mpc (accurate to 5 percent), underwent episodes of rapid expansion called inflation , and will expand forever . ... About APOD | ...

... 12.02.2003 . ... Credit: WMAP Science Team , NASA Explanation: Analyses of a new high-resolution map of microwave light emitted only 380,000 years after the Big Bang appear to define our universe more precisely than ever before. The eagerly awaited results from the orbiting Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe resolve several long-standing disagreements in cosmology rooted in less precise data. ... February 2003 . ... 2003 2004 . ... Publications with keywords: WMAP - CMB - cosmology . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. February 9, 1999 . A Supernova Star-Field . Credit: Hubble Heritage Team ( AURA / STScI / NASA ) . Explanation: Bright stars don't last forever. ... The above picture is a composite of recent images taken over several years. The explosion originated from a bright massive star that ran out of nuclear fuel . ... About APOD > . ...

... Fall 2005 . Fall 2004 . Winter 2005 . Spring 2005 . Summer 2005 . Fall 2003 . Winter 2004 . Spring 2004 . Summer 2004 . Fall 2002 . Winter 2003 . Spring 2003 . Summer 2003 . ... The Swift gamma-ray burst explorer was launched on Nov. 20, 2004 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. ... A number of models describing exotic forms of matter, generically referred to as dark energy (not to be confused with dark matter), have been proposed to explain this acceleration. ...

ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder . Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . Mopra radio telescope . ... Australia Telescope Online Archive (ATOA) . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . Visiting Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Our Galaxy . ... Universe . ... Cosmology . ... Space Flight . ... Posted on March 25, 2013 | ... Continue Reading.. ... Posted on October 20, 2011 | ... 2 Comments A long, long time ago when the first stars and galaxies were forming, the Universe was filled with electrically neutral hydrogen. ... Posted on September 29, 2011 | ... Posted on May 27, 2011 | ... No Comments Galaxies, distant from us in space and time, have been in the news recently. ...

home publications > mercury . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... ASP Conference Series . Monograph Publications . IAU Publications . ... Publications of the ASP (PASP) . ... Mercury Magazine . ... Order Mercury Issues . ... Astronomy Beat . ... Mercury Magazine Contents and Select Excerpts . ... January/February 2006 . ... Deadly Cosmic Storms, Jennifer Birriel and Ignacio Birriel . ... Sky Events, Richard Talcott . January Sky Map | February Sky Map | ...

... ESO is building what will be the World's largest optical telescope array, The Very Large Telescope (VLT). The VLT Project organisation is responsible for the design and construction of the Unit Telescopes, including enclosures, optics, adapter-rotators and coating unit. ... Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ...

... Data . ... Dr. Laura Watkins . ... 2015, ApJ, 812, 149 . Online data at CDS: Distance and M/L results; compilation of literature dispersion profiles . ... Online data at CDS: Proper-motion dispersion and anisotropy profiles as a function of radius . ... Online data at CDS: HSTPROMO GC catalogues overview; catalogue for NGC7078 (M15) . ... 2009, MNRAS, 398, 1757 . Online data at CDS: Variables and RR Lyraes in Stripe 82 . ... Online data at CDS: Light-Motion Curve Catalogue for Stripe 82 . ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : "We're light years more advanced than our competition!" ... Even the closest astronomical object, the Moon, is 400,000 kilometers away! ... A beam of light will travel 9,500,000,000,000 kilometers in one year. This distance is defined as a light year ; the distance light travels in a year. ... This is another example of Bad Astronomy; like a light year, a parsec is a unit of distance, not time (to be specific, it equals 3.26 light years) . ...

... Observing . ... Solar Observing . ... April 3 (SUN) - Solar Observing, Central Park , Manhattan . ... APRIL'S SKY . ... Lecture Series at the American Museum of Natural History The Amateur Astronomers Association is proud to present an astronomy lecture series from October through May each year for our members and the .. ... The€аAmateur Astronomers Association of New York€аwas organized in 1927 to promote the study of Astronomy, emphasizing its cultural and inspirational value. ...

... 2011 . ... 2007 . ... Results of solar observations by the CORONAS-F payload Advances in Space Research, V. 47, P. 1538-1543, 2011 . Download in format .pdf, 845 867 B . ... Download in format .pdf, 925 828 B . ... S.V.Shestov , A.M.Urnov , S.V.Kuzin , I.A.Zhitnik , S.A.Bogachev , . Electron Density Diagnostics for Various Plasma Structures of the Solar Corona Based on Fe XI - Fe XIII Lines in the Range 176-207 A Measured in the SPIRIT/CORONAS-F Experiment Astronomy Letters, V. 35, No. 1, pp. ...

... Even future mission archives tend to concentrate more on what can be extracted out of a proposal or a Guaranteed Time Observation log than the actual extracted science out of the data itself. ... A year later the data is then publicly available. An archive researcher has then to go through a mass of data to find what may be useful without any indication as to what the actual observer's results were while using the data except the proposal, which in most cases is very general. ...

Find Similar Abstracts . ... Structure and evolution of the universe . ... ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY, GALACTIC STRUCTURE, PARTICLE THEORY, RELATIVITY, UNIVERSE, ASTRONOMICAL MODELS, GRAVITATION THEORY, NEUTRINOS, RED SHIFT, THEORETICAL PHYSICS . ... Use: Authors Title Abstract Text Text Query with Keywords Return: Query Results Query Form Database: Astronomy Instrumentation Physics and Geophysics ABSTRACT QUERY USER FEEDBACK HELP ...

... Gallery . ... Between Light and Dark Matters, 24 Feb 2005 . Sidebar Left . Sidebar Top . No Sidebar . Sidebar Bottom . Sidebar Right . Title: Between Light and Dark Matters, 24 Feb 2005 . Description: An ephemeral exhibition of an artwork by ANU student Ruth Watson, using the data set of the 2dFGRS. Art Exhibition in the Yale-Columbia, February 2005 . ... Owner: Gallery Administrator . ... Views: 1670 . By: Gallery Administrator . ... Views: 1562 . ... Views: 1550 . ...

... GBT results . ... OOF Holography Home Page Quick Links: . ... This page contains the more recent measurements with our new OOF Holography system. ... The latest Out-Of-Focus data were taken with SCUBA on 11th February 2003. ... Aperture . ... Residuals . ... The results are summarised in the following plots: ~~available soon - see previous results page for now~~ . We have recently obtained some OOF data from the Green Bank Telescope operated by the NRAO in the US. the results are shown here. ...

On February 11-13 1998 at Kiljavanranta near Helsinki an Interball project meeting was organized by the Finnish Meteorological Institute and Russian Space Research Institute (IKI) . ... Main attention was devoted to mechanisms and manifestations of magnetospheric substorms, as observed from space and from ground observations. Four time intervals were selected for a coordinated data analysis. ... Magnetospheric storm on October 22, 1996 ( The LLBL-Driven Substorm? ... Programme of the Workshop. ...

... Spectrosc., 90 , 574-579. [ abstract (in English; ASCII file); paper (in Russian; PS file)] . ... Astronomy Letters, 26 , N 10, 679-690. [ abstract (ASCII file); paper (PDF file)] . ... 2001) . ... 72 , N 5, 607-612. [ abstract (ASCII file); paper (PS file)] . ... Scattering and polarization properties of the non-spherical particles. in: Smith W.L., Timofeyev Y.M. (eds.) IRS 2000: Current Problems in Atmospheric Radiation, A.Deepak Publ. (in press) [ abstract (ASCII file); paper (PS file)] . ...

... APT Activities and Science Results 3. ... APT Secretary Philip Edwards (ISAS) reviewed the aims of the APT (http://www.vsop.isas.ac.jp/apt/DefinitionAndAims.html). ... The Australia Telescope Compact Array, and Ceduna, Hartebeesthoek, Kashima, Mopra, Parkes, and Shanghai telescopes of the Asia-Pacific Telescope participated in these observations. ... In the absence of Tetsuo Sasao, Philip Edwards briefly described results of the APT 22 GHz observations conducted from October 1st to 5th, 1997. ...

. English . Russian KOI8 . Current server sed.sao.ru . Dissertation of Doctor of Sciences degree ( close to German Habilitation ) . A time to cast away stones, . and a time to gather stones together . Ecclesiastes, Ch. 3 ; 5 . Full gzipped PostScript version (in Russian) is here (2005), autoreferat (short thesis in Russian) is here . Main results of dissertation work . Continue...