... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2012 October 29 . The Red Spider Planetary Nebula . ... The Red Spider Planetary Nebula shows the complex structure that can result when a normal star ejects its outer gases and becomes a white dwarf star. ... The Red Spider Nebula lies toward the constellation of the Archer ( Sagittarius ). ... About APOD | ...

Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the updates and links web pages. Discovered independently by Lick Observatory Supernova Search (USA) and Koichi Itagaki (Japan). ... 2009/10/11.44 . 17.2 . ... Joseph Brimacombe . ...

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... Astronomy: what is our place in the Universe? Wed 14 October . ... Donegal and Blue Stacks Festival 2009: happening right now! ... Astronomy Ireland's Evening Classes begin this Thursday, October 8, and are taking place at 10 locations nationwide. ... For more details of the classes you can see www.astronomy.ie/class . ... Thursday - October 8 - Dundalk - This lecture will take place in Dundalk to launch the October Evening Classes. ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 28.10.2005 . ... Credit Copyright: Chris Cook Explanation: This October, Mars has become a bright, yellowish star in planet Earth's sky as it approaches oppositon , the period when Mars and Earth pass close as they orbit the Sun. ... For example, this series of sharp Mars images follows the development of a dust storm as the planet rotates from right to left. ... Publications with keywords: Mars - dust storm . Publications with words: Mars - dust storm . ...

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE . ... the International Space Station . ... P. Semenov, Technical Manager of the Russian Manned Space Programs, General Designer of S.P. Korolev RSC Energia, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Frederick D. Gregory, NASA Deputy Administrator, N.A. Anfimov, General Director of TsNII of Machine-Building, Academician of RAS, as well as representatives of Roskosmos, NASA, Russian enterprises and organizations participating in the implementation of the ISS program. ...

... Alexey Zaytsev (Kaliningrad) . ... Let A be an abelian variety over a number field L with complex multiplication by the full ring of integers O_K for some CM field K. If A has a good reduction at a prime ideal S in L then A mod S is an abelian variety over a finite field of characteristic p. In this talk, we will study a correspondence between the decomposition of ideal pO_K into prime ideals (unramified case) and decomposition of the first truncated Barsotti-Tate group scheme (A mod S)[p]. ...