... Comet ISON Being Destroyed by the Sun . ... Credit Copyright: NASA , ESA , SOHO Explanation: Most comets don't survive a close encounter with the Sun. ... It is now assumed that no large fragments of Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) survived. Besides the comet, the active Sun is seen to eject puffs of plasma known as coronal mass ejections. Launched in 1995, sun-orbiting SOHO has become a historic device in the discovery and tracking of comets known as sungrazers . ... Close Comet and the Milky Way . ...

... 2015 November 2 . Comet ISON Being Destroyed by the Sun . Video Credit: NASA , ESA , SOHO . Explanation: Most comets don't survive a close encounter with the Sun. Two years ago this month, though, Comet ISON was thought by some to be big enough to withstand its perilous sungrazing dive. ... Launched in 1995, sun-orbiting SOHO has become a historic device in the discovery and tracking of comets known as sungrazers . ... About APOD | ... NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Solar System . Sun . ... Stars . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... Among the wonders of the sky they shared may have been something we do not have today, a neighbouring star roaming through the outer edge of the Solar System. ... Today Scholzт??s Star is about 20 light years from the Sun in the constellation of Monoceros. ... Seen from our Solar System, Scholzт??s Star barely moves across the across the sky. ... Astronotes . ... Subscribe to Astronotes . ...

Armagh Observatory press release, 1999 April 21st. Research by David Asher and Mark Bailey , of Armagh Observatory, and Vacheslav Emel'yanenko , of South Ural University, Chelyabinsk, Russia, has explained the unexpected, spectacular shower of bright meteors seen in the small hours of 17 November last year. ... The observed meteors are produced by the collision with the Earth's atmosphere of small dust particles ejected from the parent comet, Tempel-Tuttle . ...

... ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Governance overview . Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Our people overview . ... Publications overview . ... Careers overview . ... ATNF facilities . ... MRO Support Facility . Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . Mopra radio telescope . ... Current telescope status . ... Astrophysics overview . ... Final agenda (v. 05/11/2007) . ... Meetings . ...

... 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. ...

... Close What Happened to Comet Holmes? November 15, 2007 by J. Kelly Beatty Click here to get a sky chart and simple instructions for finding Comet Holmes in the sky. ... The tiny black square indicates the area around the nucleus imaged three days later by the Hubble Space Telescope. ... Acquired on November 4, 2007, this Hubble Space Telescope view of Comet Holmes's nucleus is 10 wide, about 7,500 miles at the comet's distance. Even HST's powerful camera cannot resolve the 2-mile-wide nucleus. ...

. To see a Russian version of this page click here . (Senior Researcher. Graduated from Moscow State University (MSU) in 1982, Ph.D. 1986, MSU) . A member of EAS and IAU. Fields of interest: hot massive stars, close binary systems: optical photometric and spectral observations, X-ray observations; ill-posed problems, X-ray astrophysics. My publications (ADS link) . Linux on CLEVO 8750 (old stuff) . Phones/addresses of my university mates graduated in 1982. E-mail: igor@sai.msu.ru .

... The RAS Meteorite Collection: State on the 1 st of June, 1999 . ... About the laboratory . ... Chondrite . ... Fall 05 March 1960. 16 masses, the largest is 2.5 kg . ... Find 1991. One mass of about 9 kg . ... One mass of 532 g . ... Find 1889. 8 masse totaling 124.877 kg . ... Find 1915 and 1940. 2 masses, 736.6 kg and 24.1 kg . ... One mass of 122 kg . ... One mass of 3624 g . ... One mass of 1169.5 kg . ... One mass of 3.568 kg . ... One mass of 9.3 kg . ... One mass of 51,642 kg . ...

... no comet has been observed with an orbit that indicates that it came from interstellar space, . ... From this he proposed that comets reside in a vast cloud at the outer reaches of the solar system. ... Unfortunately, since the individual comets are so small and at such large distances, we have no direct evidence about the Oort Cloud. ... T he Kuiper Belt is a disk-shaped region past the orbit of Neptune roughly 30 to 100 AU from the Sun containing many small icy bodies. ... Small Bodies .. ...

... Its perihelion would occur on April 1, 1997, at which point the comet would be only 0.92 astronomical units from the Sun, just within the orbit of Earth. ... Taken in April 1993, the photo showed the comet over 13 astronomical units from the Sun, well beyond the orbit of Saturn. ... Hale, as in Comet Hale-Bopp, has written a book, Everybody's Comet (available through the ASP Catalog) and coordinated an Internet project, "Hale-Bopp: Live in the American Classroom." ... Anatomy of a comet. ...

The galactic center hosts a supermassive black hole in the region known as Sagittarius A*, or Sgr A*, with a mass of about 4 million times that of our Sun. A dense torus of molecular gas and dust surrounds the galactic center and occupies the innermost 15 light-years of our galaxy. ... Part of this gas is being heated by the strong ultraviolet radiation from massive stars that closely orbit the central black hole. ...

... These two images of the Jovian moon Thebe were taken by Galileo's solid state imaging system in November 1996 and June 1997, respectively. ... Thebe, whose longest dimension is approximately 116 kilometers (72 miles) across, is tidally locked so that the same side of the satellite always points towards Jupiter, similar to how the near side of our own Moon always points toward Earth. ... The image on the right emphasizes the side of Thebe that faces away from Jupiter (the "anti-Jupiter" side). ...

The basic problems of the Laboratory are connected with researches of dynamics of minor planets and comets. ... THE ORBIT IMPROVEMENT of minor planets from optical and radar observations, . the utilization of minor planet observations for THE DETERMINATION OF ORIENTATION OF STAR CATALOGUES and DETERMINATION OF MASSES OF MINOR PLANETS BY DYNAMICAL METHOD, . THE ESTIMATION OF COLLISION PROBABILITY of minor planets with other bodies and with each other, . ...

... Archive of publications: . ... 2004 . 2003 . ... I.M.Chertok , V.V.Grechnev , V.A.Slemzin , S.V.Kuzin , O.I.Bugaenko , I.A.Zhitnik , A.P.Ignat'ev , A.A.Pertsov , J.-P.Delaboudiniere , . ... CORONAS-F/SPIRIT EUV observations of October-November 2003 solar eruptive events in combination with SOHO/EIT data ". ... Coronas-F/Spirit Observations Of Solar Eruptive Events On 23 October v 4 November 2003 Solar Extreme Events of 2003: Fundamental Science and Applied Aspects. ...

... CI Cam is known to be a B[e] star and X-ray transient source. ... Figure 1. The light curve of CI Cam in residuals relative to the mean level of the slow variability (top) . The radial velocity curve of the HeII emission (middle) . ... The V light curve is shown in Figure 1 (top). ... Comparison of two CI Cam spectra in the region of HeII line. ... The radial velocity curve of HeII in CI Cam has a saw-tooth shape that may be an evidence of an elliptical orbit. ...

... Contacts . 2010: . ... As a result of spectroscopy of stars with circular nebulae from the Spitzer survey (24 microns) on the BTA a new luminous blue variable star (LBV) was discovered in our Galaxy (MN112). ... Speckle interferometry of magnetic stars . We have carried out interferometric observations of a sample 160 chemically peculiar Ap/Bp stars with proven global magnetic fields. ... Radial gradient of magnetic field in the atmospheres of chemically peculiar stars . ... Archive . ...

... Abubekerov M.K., Lipunov V.M. "The Lower Temperature Limits Of Accretors" Astronomy Reports, 2003, Vol. 47, Issue 8, pp.679-684. ... Abubekerov M.K., Antokhina E.A., Cherepashchuk A.M. "The Masses of X-ray Pulsars in Binary systems with OB Supergiants" Astronomy Reports, 2004, Vol. ... Abubekerov M.K., Antokhina E.A., Cherepashchuk A.M., Shimanskii V.V. "The Mass of the Compact Object in the Low-Mass X-ray Binary 2S 0921-630" Astronomy Reports Astronomy Reports, 2006, Vol.50, Issue 7, pp.544-552. ...

Proposal Identification No.: ... Proposal Type: General Category: Sub-Category: Observation Category: Total Time Requested: Minimum Useful Time: Prop osal Title: ABSTRACT: Regular Astronomy Spectroscopy Extragalactic 6 Hours 1 hour The HI mass of a gamma ray burst host galaxy at z=0.0334 We propose to use the Arecibo L-wide receiver to carry out a deep search for HI-21cm emission from the second closest known GRB host galaxy at z=0.0334, in order to measure its HI mass. ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Publications > Science Announcements . ... ALMA . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... Published: 27 Nov 2014 . ... The ESO ALMA Regional Centre ( ARC ) will organise another Community Days workshop at ESO Headquarters in order to optimally prepare the European astronomical community for ALMA Cycle 3. ... Meanwhile, the ALMA Science Archive is being populated with observations from the first three Cycles, with more data released daily. ...