... NASA , NOAO Explanation: A planet , a white dwarf , and a neutron star orbit each other in the giant globular star cluster M4 , some 5,600 light-years away. ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ... Publications with keywords: pulsar - white dwarf - extrasolar planet - neutron star - globular cluster . Publications with words: pulsar - white dwarf - extrasolar planet - neutron star - globular cluster . ... M13: The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules . ... Globular Star Cluster M3 . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. December 7, 1997 . A Distant Cluster of Galaxies . ... Explanation: In this 1994 Hubble Space Telescope photograph , every bright object is a galaxy . ... Photos like this indicate that clusters in the past contained a higher fraction of spirals than do nearby clusters which are usually dominated by elliptical galaxies . ... About APOD > . ...

... These Frontier Fields will combine the power of HST with the natural gravitational telescopes of high-magnification clusters of galaxies. ... We are soliciting gravitational lensing maps for the last four Hubble Frontier Fields clusters (MACSJ0717.5+3745, MACSJ1149.5+2223, AbellS1063, and Abell 370) based upon the exceptionally deep HST FF imaging and other new ancillary data. ... For the full set of proposal instructions and requirements, see the FY16 Frontier Fields Lensing Map Call for Proposals....

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... Nearly 16 000 light years from Earth, Omega Centauri is a vast globular cluster of several million stars. ... Recent research using observations by the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) in the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) agrees with this simile.€а The stars in central region of the cluster were imaged with the WFC3 in 200s and then again in 2006. ... Tweets that mention Hubble Space Telescope sees into Omega Centauri's future | ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Star Atlas . ... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... The planet has extreme temperature swings and perhaps active lava flows. ... A digital supplement to Astronomy magazine. ... Join TravelQuest International with Astronomy and Discover magazines on one of three great tour options surrounding this celestial spectacle . ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

... J. Brand, M. Felli, R. Cesaroni, C. Codella, G. Comoretto, S. Di Franco, F. Massi, L. Moscadelli, R. Nesti, L. Olmi, F. Palagi, F. Palla, D. Panella, R. Valdettaro . 2007, IAU Symposium 242, p. 223 . ... 2007, ApJ, in press . ... Murphy, G. C., Lery, T., O'Sullivan, S., Spicer, D., Bacciotti, F., Rosen, A. 2007, A , in press . ... Rubini, F., Lorusso, S., Del Zanna, L., Bacciotti, F. 2007, A , in press . ... Coffey, D., Bacciotti, F., Ray, T.P., Eisloeffel, J., Woitas, J. 2007, ApJ, in press . ...

... Indeed, one alteration of orbits can be the outright ejection of a planet. When several big planets are orbiting a star under each other's influence, the system is inherently unstable. ... We know of no good reason why the smallest objects with fusion should have the same mass as the smallest objects that can form by themselves. ... 6) Mission Definition . ... I don't think this mission is impossible, and will suggest a definition in a future article in Mercury. ... Good luck! . ...

... Bringing news from across the Universe to children all around the world . ... It contains billions of awesome objects including planets, dust clouds, galaxies and star clusters like the one in this photograph. ... Charles Messier s life dream was to become famous. To do this, he needed to discover a comet. ... So he decided to save himself some time and each time he found an object that didn t move across the sky (as comets do), he noted it down. ...

... The expansion is measured as a number called the Hubble Constant . ... Our value is about 20% lower than the one got with the Hubble Space Telescope in 1994," said Dr Jim Lovell, leader of the team that made the measurement. The Hubble Constant is named after American astronomer Edwin Hubble, who in the 1920s found that other galaxies were moving away from ours. ... The Hubble Constant links the galaxy's distance with its speed." ... A short run-down on the Hubble Constant: . ...

... Image courtesy of Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute . ... There are already 29 multi-planet extrasolar planetary systems discovered (including this last one), so what makes this particular system unique? ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... The European HST Archive has been moved to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre ( ESAC ), Spain, where most of ESA's Space Science Archives are located and operated from. ... The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), jointly operated by ESA and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) was, until the end of 2010, the European HST science facility, supporting the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

... Satellites of the planets are assigned a provisional designation (indicating year of discovery) by the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams ( CBAT ) upon satisfactory demonstration of the existence of a new object. ... In the past, Comets were first given a provisional designation, consisting of the year and a lowercase letter indicating the order of discovery in the year (e.g., 1994a was the first comet discovered or recovered in 1994, 1994b the second, etc.) ... Names .. ...

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... The Pleiades star cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, is a conspicuous object in the night sky with a prominent place in ancient mythology . ... The stars in the Pleiades are thought to have formed together around 100 million years ago, making them 1/50th the age of our sun, and they lie some 130 parsecs (425 light years ) away. ... Data for these stars are listed in a table below. ... Yes . ... WEBDA Pleiades cluster data . ... M45: The Pleiades Star Cluster (2007 November 18) ...

Общая Астрономическая Конференция > Практика > Астрономические наблюдения > Новые веяния в МРС . ... Просмотр полной версии : Новые веяния в МРС . ... 30 (MPC 43801-43802), . ... While the naming of minor planets has great popular appeal, it is clear . ... Returning to the matter of MPC funding, one MPML contributor remarked that . the MPC should make a competitive proposal for funding at a national level in . ... funding should be used to pay for the services the MPC supplies to amateur . ...

... Contacts . 2012: . ... We refined the fundamental parameters of the components, the orbital periods, and the conditions of photospheric heating of the secondary component by the ultraviolet radiation of the hot component. ... The observations of the star clusters associated with ultra-luminous x-ray sources (ULXs) in four galaxies on the 6-meter and VLT telescopes have shown that all the ULXs are located within 200pc of very young star clusters (younger than 5 million years). ... Archive . ...

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PhD Thesis (PDF) . ... The evolution of stars and gas in galaxies. Observing the atomic neutral hydrogen (HI) 21 cm emission and radio continuum emission of galaxies. ... The goal of research is to quantify the neutral atomic hydrogen (HI) gas content galaxies as they evolve with time. ... Neutral atomic hydrogen gas produces a radio signal that can be used to directly measure the amount of gas present. ... USyd Summer Research Scholarship Report (PDF) . ... Research Topic Write Up (PDF) . ...

... Classifying or clustering (or semi supervised learning) spectra is a very challenging problem from collecting statistical-analysis-ready data to reducing the dimensionality without sacrificing complex information in each spectrum. ... Continue reading ?[ ... Category: Algorithms , arXiv , Cross-Cultural , Data Processing , Jargon , Methods , Spectral , Stat | ... Category: Algorithms , arXiv , Astro , Bad AstroStat , Cross-Cultural , Data Processing , Frequentist , Jargon , Methods , Stat | ... ADS ...