... 2006 February 2 . Thor's Helmet in H-Alpha . ... Explanation: Near picture center, the helmet-shaped structure with wing-like appendages is popularly called Thor's Helmet . ... The helmet is actually more like a cosmic bubble , blown as the wind from the bright, massive star near the bubble's center sweeps through the surrounding molecular cloud. ... About APOD | ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . NASA Official: Jay Norris. ... A service of: EUD at NASA / GSFC . ...
... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2000 February 28 . The Sombrero Galaxy from VLT . ... FORS1 , VLT ANTU , ESO . ... Reasons include the Sombrero 's unusually large and extended central bulge of stars, and dark prominent dust lanes that appear in a disk that we see nearly edge-on. Billions of old stars cause the diffuse glow of the extended central bulge. ... About APOD | ...
European Astronomical Society(EAS): NEWS Dear Colleagues, Please find enclosed some information of interest. ... We would also like to remind you that the time is appropriate to renew your membership for 2006 (see our Web page for procedures). ... And do'nt forget that, in between messages, the latest news can always be found on our Web page: http://www.iap.fr/eas/index.html With kind regards, Michel Dennefeld ************************************************************ Content 1. ...
Supernova Gallery The purpose of the Bright Supernovae web pages is to provide a place where people can find reference images of Supernovae. ... This is an RGB color image of Supernova 2003gs in NGC 936 Credit: Pablo Canadia . Used by permission. (click on image for full resolution) . ... This is an LRGB color image of Supernova 2003cg in NGC 3169 Credit: Pollux observatory . ... Credit: Nick Suntzeff Used by permission. (click on image for full resolution) . ... Credit: AURA/NOAO Image Library . ...
... The distance scales of the objects are matched both by comparing the first derivatives of the angular velocity determined separately from radial velocities and proper motions and by the statistical-parallax method. ... Good agreement between the inferred 0 and our calculations based on space velocities suggests that the Lindblad relation holds throughout the entire sample volume. ... Brandt and Blitz (1993) published the distances and radial velocities for a total of 206 H II-regions. ... Astron. ...
... Отмеченная наградами АстроТоп-а . ... 1) К участию в конкурсе допускаются все российские сайты на тему астрономии и космонавтики, и все русскоязычные сайты за пределами России. ... II) Сайт года . ... Победитель: Астронет - http://www.astronet.ru/ : подано голосов экспертов - 109 (всего - 129) . ... 3-е место разделили: Астрономия и Телескопостроение - http://www.astronomer.ru/ и Лента новостей космонавтики от Железнякова - http://www.cosmoworld.ru/spaceencyclopedia/hotnews/ : подано по 37 голосов; ...
ABSOLUTE PROPER MOTIONS OF 331 OPEN CLUSTERS . ... The proper motions of stars in the fields of 331 open clusters were taken from Four-Million Star Catalog (4M-catalog) of positions and proper motions (Volchkov et al. ... The absolute proper motions for 21 young open clusters have been derived by comparison of precise relative proper motions of individual stars and their corresponding absolute proper motions. ... Sign of proper motions in RA . ... 0.0001 arcsec/yr . ... rms error in RA proper motion . ...
Shades of Deep Purple (USA: Tetragrammaton 1968 ; Europe: EMI Parlaphone 1968 ; Japan: Polydor 1968) (CD) . Deep Purple's debut album, recorded very hastily. ... Tracks: . ... Wring That Neck (Blackmore/Lord/Simper/Paice) . ... All tracks written by Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice . ... Painted Horse (Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice) . ... Child in Time (Live, 690924) (Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice) . ... Bonus tracks on Japanese CD: Lazy (edited) (Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice) . ...