... 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) . ...

... The Boomerang Nebula in Polarized Light . ... The symmetric cloud dubbed the Boomerang appears to have been created by a high-speed wind of gas and dust blowing from an aging central star at speeds of nearly 600,000 kilometers per hour. ... Shining with light from the central star reflected by dust, the frigid Boomerang Nebula is believed to be a star or stellar system evolving toward the planetary nebula phase. ... Publications with keywords: nebula . Publications with words: nebula . ...

... 2005 September 14 . The Boomerang Nebula in Polarized Light . ... STScI/ AURA ), ESA , NASA . ... The symmetric cloud dubbed the Boomerang appears to have been created by a high-speed wind of gas and dust blowing from an aging central star at speeds of nearly 600,000 kilometers per hour. ... Shining with light from the central star reflected by dust, the frigid Boomerang Nebula is believed to be a star or stellar system evolving toward the planetary nebula phase. ... About APOD | ...

Home: 80-1-346, Kashirskoye shosse, 115569 Moscow Russia . ... Department of Mathematics February 1996 -- present Senior Researcher Institute for System Research Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow , Russia February -- May 1994, Visiting Researcher April -- July 1996 MPIM - Bonn, Germany November 1990 -- January 1996 Leading Researcher Institute of New Technologies Moscow , Russia September 1991 -- present Professor Higher College of Mathematics Independent University ...

EMBARGOED UNTIL: 9:20 AM CST, January 6, 1999 CONTACT: John Biretta Space Telecsope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD (Phone: (410) 338-4917; Internet: biretta@stsci.edu) HUBBLE DETECTS FASTER-THAN-LIGHT MOTION IN GALAXY M87 Astronomers reported today discovering clouds which appear to move many times faster than the speed of light, shooting out from the region of a black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy. ... It's an illusion created by the finite speed of light and rapid motion," Biretta said. ...

Our publications in 1997 year Izotov, Yu. I.; Thuan, T. X.; Lipovetsky, V. A. Dwarf Galaxies: Probes for Galaxy Formation and Evolution, Joint Discussion 2, 21 August 1997, Kyoto, Japan. Izotov, Yuri I.; Thuan, Trinh X.; Lipovetsky, Valentin A. Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 01 1997, v.108, p.1 . ... Pustil'nik, S. A.; Lipovetsky, V. A.; Izotov, Y. I.; Brinks, E.; Thuan, T. X.; Knyazev, A. Y.; Neizvestnyi, S. I.; Ugryumov, A. V. Pis'ma Astron. ... 74, August 1997, p. 536 . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... Earth Satellites . ... Portrait of M8: This is the region of the nebula nicknamed the the т??Southern Cliffт?? and beyond it we can see the darkness of interstellar space interrupted by stars. Image credit: Julia I. Arias and Rodolfo H. BarbУЕ Departamento de FУ-sica, Universidad de La Serena (Chile), and ICATE-CONICET (Argentina)) . ... Astronotes . ... Subscribe to Astronotes . ...

... John Mason lecture in Belfast: Wednesday 3 September . ... Astronomy Ireland Public lecture: Monday 8 September 2008 at 8 pm. The lecture is entitled "Light Pollution in Ireland" and will be given by Albert White of the Irish Light Pollution Awareness Campaign (ILPAC). Albert will tell us about the financial, environmental and astronomical cost of badly designed public lighting. More information at www.astronomy.ie . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... 2000 September 6 . Emerging Planetary Nebula CRL 618 . ... ESAIC , HST , ESA , NASA . Explanation: CRL 618 may look to some like an Olympian declaring victory. ... Since then it has run out of core material to fuse and so has started to become a planetary nebula . In its current proto-planetary nebula phase, CRL 618 is evolving quickly, expelling hot gasses in complex jets and rings moving outwards faster than 700,000 kilometers per hour. ... About APOD | ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

... As a new Puerto Rican resident, you have a complicated tax status. The short answer for US citizens coming from the US is that you file 1040 claiming all your income for the year you moved, but with form(s) 1116 (credit for foreign tax paid) to reclaim the portion of your Federal tax attributable to income earned (and tax paid) in Puerto Rico. ... Form 1040 and Instructions. ... Publication 514 ``Foreign Tax Credit'', which contains the real instructions for form 1116. ...

... Telescopes . ... The time requests are accepted in an electronic version with on-line form in Russian or English. ... Unregistered request will be disregarded by the Large Telescopes Programm Committee. In exclusive cases the secreatry of the Committee is entitled to accept an observational time request given permission of the Chairman of the Committee or the director of the SAO RAS. The Program Committee considers generally one time request submitted by the principal applicant. ...

... Phase light curves of binary model that consists of a primary component with mass M 1 and a secondary component with mass M 2 . ... The input parameters of the problem are the accretion rate onto the binary components ( ), the component mass ratio q = M 2 /M 1 , the orbital inclination to the line of sight , the eccentricity e, the rotation angle of the apsidal line relative to the observer , and the parameter c characterizing viscosity. ...

... As an obligatory preparing for the application a short report of National Olympiad of the current year has to be presented by the applicating team (see the necessary actual points of the report, its form and examples in the Supplementary Instructions N 10 ). ... For the countries, starting their activity at the International Astronomy Olympiad (see the Supplementary Instructions N 3 ), the requirements for the short report are not strong. ... The (age) groups are defined by rules 4.5.2-4., i.e.: . ...

home publications > mercury . ... Astronomy Beat . ... Celebrating 30 Years of Mercury . ... In January 1972, a new voice of astronomy appeared on the scene: the premier issue of Mercury magazine. ... After rejecting the name Astronomy , he proposed Mercury , after the messenger of the heavens in Roman mythology who appears on the Society's logo. ASP President Harold F. Weaver wrote in part: "Publication of this first issue of the new Journal of our Society is an important event in our history. ...

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1996/22/text/ Probing the mysterious heart of the Crab Nebula, the tattered remains of a stellar cataclysm witnessed more than 900 years ago, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found that the Crab is even more dynamic than previously understood, based on a cosmic "movie" assembled from a series of Hubble observations. ... Because of this flickering, the neutron star is also called a "pulsar." ...

... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... ESO Acronyms . ... VLT/Paranal . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Images . ... Star Clusters . ... Usage of ESO Images and Videos . ... Usage of ESO Videos and Images . ... Stars@ESO . ... VLT Unit Telescopes Names . ... ESO 3.6-metre telescope . ... These highlights are part of a broader view of the Carina Nebula, a region of massive star formation in the southern skies, which was taken in infrared light using the HAWK-I camera on ESOтАЩs Very Large Telescope...

The Astronomical Society of Australia has been asked by STANDARDS AUSTRALIA to compile a list of "designated" optical observatories that are valuable resources for (i) research, (ii) education and (iii) community use. The ASA is the final arbiter of whether any particular observatory is so designated. ... Upon receipt of your application form, your observatory will be entered on a list of "Pending Designated Observatories" on the ASA Home Page. ... It will be emailed for you. ... Email . ...

... Today this year's largest group of sunspots will cross the Sun's central meridian. ... The next day, the number of spots in the group reached five, and the day after, on June 2nd, it was possible to count thirteen sunspots on solar disk, which had been clear prior to this. ... This year's two most powerful active areas, which passed across the solar disk at the beginning of May, 2009, are set to appear in the Sun's eastern sector in two days, on June 6th. ...

Bigbang Forum Message . Forums: . ... Discussion Forums | ... THE UNIVERSE NOW-LITERALLY . ... The light actually left the object well before that time (has to be less than 13.7 billion years) and then it got stretched due to the expansion of space and reached us only today. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | Advertise on Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... 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: . ...