Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 2.02.2016 . ... Credit Copyright: ESA , Rosetta , NAVCAM Explanation: Spacecraft Rosetta continues to circle and map Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Crossing the inner Solar System for ten years to reach the vicinity of the comet in 2014, the robotic spacecraft continues to image the unusual double-lobed comet nucleus . ... February 2016 . ... 2013 2014 . ... Publications with keywords: comet - comet nucleus . Publications with words: comet - comet nucleus . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Moon . Planets . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... February . ... The ringed planet will be quite bright, but unlike Jupiter it will not be the brightest point of light in the sky, this accolade will return to Sirius which is the brightest star in our night sky in the constellation of Canis Major. ... Seven days later on February 18, the Moon will be in its full Moon phase. ... Tweets that mention Wonders of the February Night Sky | ... Astronotes . ...

... Press Releases . ... Press & Web Coverage . A note from Tolis (Dr A. Christou, Armagh Observatory): "In the early evening of 23 February, 6th mag comet C/2007 N3 (Lulin) will be 2-3 degrees away from Saturn." Comet Lulin passing just north of the bright star Alpha2 Librae ( Zubenelgenubi) on 6 February 2009. ... Monday, 23 February 2009 00:27 . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... September 9, 1999 . Comet Hale-Bopp Over the Superstition Mountains . ... Explanation: Four years ago, Comet Hale-Bopp was discovered out near Jupiter falling toward the inner Solar System . ... Above, Comet Hale-Bopp was photographed in 1997 behind the Superstition Mountains in Arizona . Clearly visible are the comets white dust tail that shines by reflected sunlight, and the blue ion tail that shines by glowing gas. ... About APOD > . ...

GRANAT is the Russian x-ray sattelite launched to the high apogee orbit (200,000 km) and operated almost for 10 years (1989 -1999) , carrying out four major instruments: French SIGMA coded-mask hard x-ray telescope (30-1000 keV), Soviet ART-P coded-mask telescope (2??-60?? keV), all-sky monitor WATCH (6-150 keV), and a gamma-burst detector PHEBUS . ... Since September 1994, GRANAT is in the survey mode. ... Explore pages devoted to individual GRANAT instruments (including main scientific results): . ...

Lectures . ... 100 Years of Cosmology: From Spiral Nebulae to the Cosmic Microwave Background.тАЭ ? ... Michael Way, astronomer/computer scientist at NASAтАЩs Ames Research Center and its Goddard Institute of Space Studies, will give the first lecture of the AAAтАЩs 2009-10 lecture series Friday, October 2 when he discusses тАЬ100 Years of Cosmology: From Spiral Nebulae to the Cosmic Microwave Background.тАЭ The free public lecture is at 6:15 p. m. at the Kaufmann Theater of the AMNH. by . ...

КОСМИЧЕСКИЙ КАЛЕНДАРЬ ЯНВАРЯ 2000 ГОДА . ... Jan 01 - Year 2000 . Jan ?? ... Jan 01 - Asteroid 1996 AX1 Closest Approach To Earth (0.702 AU) . ... Jan 03 - Asteroid 3745 Petaev Closest Approach To Earth (1.862 AU) . ... Jan 05 - Asteroid 1999 VO11 Near-Earth Flyby (0.218 AU) . ... Jan 08 - Comet P/1998 VS24 (LINEAR) Closest Approach To Earth (2.915 AU) . ... Jan 12 -[Image][Dec 02] Asteroid 1999 WA2 Closest Approach To Earth (1.100 AU) . ... Jan 14 - Mercury Occults 53 Sgr (6.9 Magnitude Star) . ...

... Authors: Spyros Basilakos (Imperial College London) . ... Title: Populating a cluster of galaxies - I. Results at z=0 . ... Title: The Merger Rate to Redshift One from Kinematic Pairs: Caltech Faint Galaxy Redshift Survey XI . ... Title: Multi-wavelength observations of an evolved galaxy group: An endpoint of galaxy merging? ... 23 matches for the search pattern galaxy merging . The URL for this page is: http://xxx.itep.ru/find/astro-ph/1/galaxy+merging/0/1/0/past,all/0/0 www-admin@xxx.lanl.gov ...

... For the past years I have been working on the problem of synthesis of light curves of close binary systems, consisting of a normal star and a compact object (point object with fixed X-ray luminosity). ... Possible existence of a bright spot on the disk's lateral surface is taken into account. ... The last of then will be published in Gordon and Breach Publishers ( Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ... Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ...

... 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 . ...

... LP-Moon.pdf - 26KB . ... A. A. Berezhnoy1,2, N. Hasebe1, M. Kobayashi1, G. Michael3 and N. Yamashita1 1Advanced Research Institute for Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan 2Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow, Russia 3German Aerospace Center, Institute for planetary research, Berlin, Germany . Brown University - Vernadsky Institute Microsymposium 40, 2004, Moscow, Russia . ... 3Now at: Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Moscow, Russia . ...

Comets as the Object of Investigation. ... Stratification of Comets Atmospheres and Their Chemical Structure. ... Formation and Change of Surface Dust Layer of Periodical Comets' Nucleas and Their Evolution in Solar Radiation Field. ... Dynamics of Matter in Near-Nuclear Region of Comet Atmosphere in Adiabatic Approximation. ... Kinetic Theory of Gas Stream in Region of Transition between Condition of Continuum to Free-Moleculte Stream. ... Free-Moleculte Stream of Neutral Gas in Comet Atmosphere. ...

... Centaurus A : 15,000,000 light years away, in the constellation Centaurus, the closest AG to Earth . ... Astronomers think that the reason for the unusual shape of this galaxy is because hundreds of millions of years ago two galaxies, one dusty spiral and one bright ellipictal, collided causing a massive black hole in the middle and bright emmision of light. ... Andromeda galaxy: 2.8 million light years away, closest spiral galaxy to earth, farthest object one can see without a telescope. ...

... Р?С?С?С?Р?Р?Р?Р?РеС?Р?С?Р?РеР? ... Launched on February 17, 1996, the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission is to be the first of NASA's Discovery missions, a series of small-scale spacecraft designed to proceed from development to flight in under three years for a cost of less than $150 million. ... The ultimate goal of the mission is to rendezvous with and achieve orbit around the near Earth asteroid 433 Eros in February, 1999, and study the asteroid for approximately one year. ...