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... August 18, 1998 . APM 08279+5255: The Brightest Object Yet Known . ... Explanation: It shines with the brightness of 100 billion Suns. ... The recently discovered quasar labeled APM 08279+5255 has set a new record as being the brightest continuously emitting object yet known. APM 08279+5255 's great distance, though, makes it only appear as bright as magnitude 15.2, an object which can be seen with a moderate sized telescope. ... About APOD > . ...

... 2000 August 30 . The Brown Dwarfs of Orion's Trapezium . ... NICMOS IDT , NASA . ... Explanation: The bright stars above are well known as heart of the Trapezium , an open cluster of stars in the center of the Orion Nebula . ... Although many more brown dwarfs than hot stars have now been found in Orion, their very low masses make them inadequate to compose much of the dark matter expected in galaxies and the Universe . ... About APOD | ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

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... Extended Narrow-line Emission in the Bright Seyfert 1.5 Galaxy HE 2211-3903 Scharw chter, J. , Dopita, M.A., Zuther, J., Fischer, S., Komossa, S., Eckart, A. 2011, AJ, v. 142, Issue 2, August 2011, pp. ... The nearby QSO host I Zw 1: the stellar disk and adjacent objects Scharw chter, J. , Eckart, A., Pfalzner, S., Saviane, I., Zuther, J. 2007, A , v. 469, Issue 3, July III 2007, pp. ... Krips, M., Eckart, A., Neri, R., Zuther, J., Downes, D. Scharw chter, J. 2005, A , v. 439, Issue 1, pp. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... A bright nova has recently been discovered in the constellation of Delphinus (The Dolphin). ... The nova was confirmed late on August 14 at a magnitude of 6.3 (in a dark sky the faintest naked-eye stars are approximately 6.0 magnitudes - the lower the magnitude the brighter a star). ... Nova explosions occur in binary systems composed of a star similar to our Sun but only ~1/10 of its mass, and a star called a white dwarf. ...

... ApJ, 571, 843-855 (2002). ... In: URSI XXVIIth General Assembly, Maastricht, 17-24 August, 2002, p1326.pdf (2002). ... In: URSI XXVIIth General Assembly, Maastricht, 17-24 August, 2002, p2172.pdf (2002). ... In: URSI XXVIIth General Assembly, Maastricht, 17-24 August, 2002, p0115.pdf (2002). ... TINGAY, S.J., PRESTON, R.A., JAUNCEY, D.L. & MURPHY, D.L. "The subparsec-scale structure and evolution of Centaurus A", In: URSI XXVIIth General Assembly, Maastricht, 17-24 August, 2002, p2156.pdf (2002). ...

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... Solar System . ... Milky Way . Stars . ... Blue-white Vega is of course one of the brightest stars in our night sky lying about 25 light years from us in Lyra. ... Also in Lyra is the double star Beta Lyrae (Sheliak). This is in fact a close eclipsing pair of B-class stars about 960 light years from the Sun and was only the second eclipsing binary system to be discovered after Algol. ... Planet of Beta Lyrae (from The New Challenge of the Stars by Patrick Moore & David Hardy 1977) . ...

... 2014: . Suppression of cooling by strong magnetic fields in white dwarf stars . ... 69, 439, 2014. Evidence of supercritical accretion in SS433 . ... We discovered a flat portion (white noise) in the power spectrum of SS433 due to an abrupt increase of the disk thickness in the supercritical region. ... Both the hard X-ray radiation and the visual light are seen reflected from the walls of the funnel that forms in the wind of the supercritical disk of SS433. ... Archive . ...

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 . ...

ARCSAT ID NUMBER: AS03 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Search for Short-Period Planets Orbiting Bright White Dwarfs PI: Brett Morris (UW) OBSERVER(S): Brett Morris (UW) UNCERTIFIED/UNTRAINED OBSERVERS: Two students from the University of Washington's Pre-MAP (Doug Branton + One unknown student) COLLABORATORS: Doug Branton (UW/Pre-MAP) CONTACT INFORMATION: bmmorris@uw.edu, 631-860-5116 TIME REQUESTED: Weeks ...

The form on this Web page allows specifying a celestial position for which the full 4x4 degree NVSS FITS image is desired. ... Other services of the NVSS survey include: . ... NVSS Postage stamp (small FITS or jpeg file) server . direct ftp to NVSS 4x4 deg. FITS image and documentation server . NVSS source catalog and software ftp server - but please note that you will need to schedule an overnight job for a quiet time slot to download the 150Mb CATALOG.FIT file to avoid timeouts etc. ...

The night sky brightness, together with number of clear nights, seeing, transparency, photometric stability and humidity, are some of the most important parameters that qualify a site for front-line ground--based astronomy. ... Night sky at ESO-Paranal (Chile). ... Night sky brightness data . ... UBVRI night sky brightness at ESO-Paranal during sunspot maximum (A 2003, PDF) . ... The Dancing Sky: six years of night sky observations at Cerro Paranal (Starlight 2007 conference proceedings, PDF) . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Have you ever looked at pictures of Saturn's rings and noticed what look like gaps in the rings? ... Gian Domenico Cassini discovered a large gap in Saturn's rings in 1675. Later, an astronomer named Encke discovered a smaller gap near the edge of the rings. ... It was found long ago that an orbit in the Cassini Division, as the large gap is named, has a period almost exactly one-half that of one of Saturn's moons named Mimas. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

Program Number . ... Abstract . ... Gabriela Canalizo, University of California - Riverside . ... An ACS Survey of a Complete Sample of Luminous Infrared Galaxies in the Local Universe . ... The present proposal devotes 204 orbits to new observations of the prime and parallel fields, but with HST inverted; thus, the program will obtain ACS imaging (in F606W, F775W and F750LP) of the parallel fields, and deeper NICM (F110W, F160W) data for part of the original ACS UDF. ... Past weeks: . ...

... ISC Kosmotras . Top Management Founder of ISC Kosmotras - Dr. Vladimir A. Andreev News . ... Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. Cluster Launch of Dnepr LV 22 August 2013 KOMPSAT-5 Launch 21 November 2013. Dnepr Cluster Mission 2013 19 June 2014. ... 20.07.2007 . Latest SS-18 Launch Mission under Dnepr Program . ... The original launch date for the RS-20 (converted SS-18 ICBM, commercially known as Dnepr) cluster launch mission was scheduled for March 27, 2007. ... Mission profile . ...

In this gallery are many images of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies which have recently been discovered and analyzed. ... The central surface brightness of this galaxy is 24.28 . Malin 2 This galaxy is another huge disk galaxy with a scale length of 15 kpc and a redshift of 15000 km/a. The high surface brightness knot in one of its spiral arms actually has the same color, luminosity and H-alpha equivalent width as the entire Large Magellanic Cloud . ... Truly it is a Low Surface Brightness Galaxy. ...

... Karachentsev I.D., Dolphin A., Tully R.B., Sharina M., Makarova L., Makarov D. , Karachentseva V., Sakai S., Shaya E.J. Advanced Camera for Surveys Imaging of 25 Galaxies in Nearby Groups and in the Field . ... Karachentseva V.E., Melnyk O.V., Vavilova I.B., Makarov D.I. Virial and total masses of galaxy triplets in the Local Supercluster . 2005, Astron. ... Karachentsev I.D., Makarov D.I. "The Galaxy Motion Relative to Nearby Galaxies and the Local Velocity Field" . ...

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