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... A Quasar Portrait Gallery . ... 25.11.1996 . ... Wales ), NASA Explanation: QUASARs (QUASi-stellAR objects) lie near the edge of the observable Universe . Discovered in 1963 , astronomers were astounded - to be visible at such extreme distances of billions of light-years they must emit prodigious amounts of energy. ... Many believe the quasar's central engine is a giant black hole fueled by tremendous amounts of infalling gas, dust, and stars. ... Publications with keywords: quasar . ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Risks Comparable to NEOs . ... The Increasing Rate of Discovery of Asteroids . ... Comet and Asteroid Collision Probabilities . ... Extreme albedo comets and the impact hazard (PDF Format) . ... Asteroid Impact Animations . ... Workshop on Scientific Requirements for Mitigation of Hazardous Comets and Asteroids - 2002 . ... The Spaceguard Survey Report, 1992 (PDF) . Tsunami from Asteroid/Comet Impacts . ...

... November 25, 1996 . A Quasar Portrait Gallery . ... Wales ), NASA . ... Discovered in 1963 , astronomers were astounded - to be visible at such extreme distances of billions of light-years they must emit prodigious amounts of energy. ... This recently released gallery of quasar portraits from the Hubble Space Telescope offers a look at their local neighborhoods: the quasars themselves appear as the bright star-like objects with diffraction spikes. ... About APOD . ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

... This chapter documents all the JavaScript objects, along with their methods and properties. ... Full entries for each object appear in alphabetical order; properties and functions not associated with any object appear in Chapter 2, "Top-Level Properties and Functions." ... Tables included in the description of each object summarize the object's methods and properties. Full entries for an object's methods and properties appear in alphabetical order after the object's entry. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE DAILY REPORT #1278 PERIOD COVERED: 0000Z Daily Status Report as of 339/0000Z 1.0 ACTIVITIES SCHEDULED AND ACCOMPLISHED: 1.1 Completed WF/PC-2 5235 (Structures of Quasars and Related Objects (WC10): Cycle 4) The WF/PC-2 was used to make long exposure observations of quasar B21425+267. ... 1.10 Completed WF/PC-2 5416 (Young Globular Clusters in Merger Remnants: Cycle 4 Medium) The WF/PC-2 was used to make images of the galaxy NGC-3610 looking for young globular clusters. ...

... Search . ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes | ... A Search for Bright Kuiper Belt Objects . ... Since 1992, 60 large Kuiper belt objects have been detected by ground-based telescopes. ... The detection of brighter objects would improve our ability to determine the Kuiper belt objects' surface composition and provide constraints on the population statistics of different formation mechanisms. ...

... ISC Kosmotras . ... Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. ... On 9 September 2009, a contract was signed between ISC Kosmotras and SSTL for the launch of Nigeria-2 and NigeriaSat- у satellites on Dnepr rocket as part of 2010 cluster launch from Yasny Launch Base. According to information provided by SSTL the NigeriaSat-2 satellite is being built for the Nigerian government (NASRDA) as a follow-on to the NigeriaSat-1 satellite that was launched in 2003. ... E-mail: info@kosmotras.ru . ...

... Public . Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Publications > Science Announcements . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... ESO-MIDAS . ... Data Handling and Products . ... Science Data Products Forum . ... ESO Data . ... Science Announcements . ... Published: 17 Sep 2014 . An extended set of FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) on data reduction is available . ... Published: 28 Aug 2014 . ... This feature is available for all ALMA programmes, except for science verification data. ...

... SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Astronomy . ... Hubble Space Telescope Images: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/image_category/ . ... The Chandra x-ray telescope (in orbit around Earth) has been sending back a wide range of images of what deep space objects would look like if seen with "x-ray sensitive" eyes. ... Web Sites for Asking Astronomy Questions . ... Ask an Astronomer for Kids: http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_kids/AskKids/index.shtml...

... The 209 candidates were selected from our first and second priority samples introduced in Paper IV. Of 169 first priority candidates, 141 objects appeared in our list as new ones. 28 objects were listed in the NED as galaxies or objects from various catalogs with known redshifts and some of them already had information on emission lines in earlier publications. ... The ``random selected sample'' was created to access the fraction of BCGs in the second priority list and contains 43 objects. ...

... 2004: . ... An increase in star brightness is followed by a decrease in asphericity and wind velocity to the point where stationary and even accreting fraction of the wind appears in extremely bright objects together with a flowing out fraction. ... Based on an analysis of observations obtained with BTA and on the published data it was found that degree of abnormality of energy distribution in continuum of magnetic chemically peculiar stars increases with an increase of their rotation period. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... Sky this Month . ... 50 Weirdest Objects . ... Star Atlas . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Easy-to-find Objects in the 2015 Winter Sky . ... Five of the sky s ten brightest stars appear conspicuous on winter evenings, and two meteor showers add shooting stars to the mix. ... If you are already registered on Astronomy.com, please log in...

... NAIC Director . ... The Arecibo planetary radar is a unique facility whose achievements are well-known to planetary scientists and the public. ... The NSF Astronomy Senior Review report includes only a single, brief, reference to the Arecibo planetary radar. ... Therefore, the SR recommendation that the funding for NAIC be decreased to $8M, together with the SR recommendation that the NAIC astronomy program focus on survey programs, is a recommendation to terminate the Arecibo planetary radar...

Marc White . ... Turbulent entrainment processes may play an important role in the outflows from young stellar objects at all stages of their evolution. In particular, lateral entrainment of ambient material by high-velocity, well-collimated protostellar jets may be the cause of the multiple emission-line velocity components observed in the microjet-scale outflows driven by classical T Tauri stars. ... University of Amsterdam; STARPLAN, Copenhagen, Jul 2013 . ... E marc.white@anu.edu.au . ...

... A rough estimation is that in the United States there is one planetarium per 100,000 population, ranging in size from the Hayden Planetarium's 20-meter dome seating 430 people, to three-meter inflatable portable domes where children sit on the floor. ... Together dblo associates make a huge impact in the architecture, interior design and development arena in London. ... With the holidays around the corner what better way to spoil your family than with your very own private home cinema. ...

Blackholes Forum Message . Forums: . ... Black Holes And RedShift . ... Perhaps black holes really are the reproductive means of the universe.Could the black hole of a Quasar red-shift the electromagnetic energy trying to escape it? ... Perhaps black holes treat electromagnetic energy the same way. ... No one really knows enough about Quasars and black holes to say for sure but ask yourself this: Why would all the Quasars in the universe be moving away from the Milky Way? ... www.astronomy.net . ...

... Radiation mechanisms of astrophysical objects: classics today . ... we invite you to submit papers based on your plenary, review or contributed talks or posters presented at the conference "Radiation mechanisms of astrophysical objects: classics today" to its Proceedings to be published by Armenian Academy of Science in 2016. Please note that participants who prepare the regular papers for the special issue of JQSRT on radiative transfer, etc. are also invited to submit papers to the Proceedings. ...

... The search for distant objects which can be both galaxies and quasars is one of the most important problems of observational astrphysics, because it allows one to determine cosmological parameters connected with the time of appearence and evolution of stellar systems, large scale structure of the Universe. ... Radio galaxies are important objects to be studied because they are sources of infrared-optical-ultraviolet continuum, emission lines and continual radio emission. ...