... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2016 February 15 . White Rock Fingers on Mars . Image Credit: THEMIS , Mars Odyssey Team, ASU , JPL , NASA . Explanation: What caused this unusual light rock formation on Mars? ... The stark contrast between the rocks and the surrounding sand is compounded by the unusual darkness of the sand. ... About APOD | ...

This home page belongs to small group of scientists working at . Sternberg Astronomical Institute which is a part of Moscow State University . ... Электронная библиотека научно-технической и художественной литературы (доступна только из ГАИШ) . ... Local staff . Dr. Edward Kononovich (konon -at- sai.msu.ru), Associate Professor . ... Dr. Sergey Ayukov (asv -at- sai.msu.ru), Research Fellow, Webmaster of the group . ... Joint seminar of Solar Studies Structure Group and Solar Photometry Group . ...

... Archives . ... ArXiv] A Lecture Note, June 17, 2007 . ArXiv] Solar Cycle, June 18, 2007 . Jun 18th, 2007| 05:08 pm | ... One of arxiv/astro-ph preprints, arxiv/0706.1703v1 discusses correlation between galactic HI and the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and reports no statistically significant correlation. ... Are these correlation studies truly statistical science? ... Therefore, I have been doubting what is so important about correlation in astronomy. ... Chandra Blog . ...

The Special Astrophysical Observatory of Russian Academy of Sciences is one of the leading center of stellar magnetism study. ... Our observatory every 3-5 years holds an International Conference "Magnetic Stars" during past 30 years. ... The conference proceedings were published in book "Stellar Magnetism", Editors-in-chief Yu.V. Glagolevskij and I.I. Romanyuk (Saint Petersburg, Nauka, 1992), 270 pages. ... Conferences . History . ... Laboratory for the Stellar Magnetism Study of SAO of the RAS . ...

One of my on-going research interests concerns the dust shells of proto-planetary nebulae or PPNs (also called pre-planetary nebulae, transition objects, and post-AGB objects in the literature; the latter term also applies to a wider selection of objects such as RV Tauri stars), especially the carbon-rich ones that show the unidentified "21 micron' emission feature. ... I am working to find a complete sample of proto-planetary nebulae in these satellite galaxies from the millions of detected stars. ...

... 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 | ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Comets and Asteroids . ... Space Flight . ... Earth Satellites . ... By admin February 19, 2011 Posted in: Comets and Asteroids . ... Since it was launched in 1999, the Stardust spacecraft has travelled about 5.7 billion km (3.5 billion miles) on its odyssey from Earth to comet Wild 2, back to Earth then on to comet Tempel 1. ... Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

... NGC 253: The Sculptor Galaxy . ... Apollo 12: Self-Portrait . ... In November of 1969, Apollo 12 astronaut-photographer Charles "Pete" Conrad recorded this masterpiece while documenting colleague Alan Bean's lunar soil collection activities on the Oceanus Procellarum. ... WIRO at Jupiter . ... The false-color picture is a composite.. ... Since the Moon is rotation locked to always point the same side toward Earth, humanity has only glimpsed the lunar farside recently -- last century. ... 253 | ...

Astronomy Terms - To Help You Study The Universe . Articles | ... Learning about the universe, or the study of astronomy, can be fun for the individual or for the whole family. ... Learning a few simple terms will help you with this fascinating study. ... You will use a telescope or binoculars for your observation of the sky at night. ... Celestial Terms . ... Meteor or a shooting star – the light caused when a meteoroid burns up in Earth's . ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ...

. Although this design reduces the vignetting seen at the NA2 guider. We do not have a good feeling yet what the effect might be on scattered light at the focal plane.

... Science Activities > PhD Thesis Topics offered by ESO Faculty Members > Thesis Topic: Interferometric studies of the mass-loss process from cool evolved stars . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... Cool evolved stars of different inital masses and thus luminosities loose considerable amounts of processed material and dust into the interstellar medium. ... However, the detailed mass-loss process is surprisingly little understood for most of these sources. ... Return to list of thesis topics . ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . This image shows the relative size of the three newly discovered . planets around Kepler 37. Image Courtesy of NASA). ... Dr Tom Barclay who studied at Armagh Observatory for three years as a post-graduate student funded by the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council, has led a team of astronomers who have detected the smallest extra-solar planet, or exoplanet, yet found around a star like our Sun. ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... Variability studies . ... The variability of radio sources at 151 MHz has been studied in detail using the CLFST , as part of the 7C survey. ... The 7C survey of radio sources at 151 MHz ? ... McGilchrist & Riley 1990 MNRAS, 246, 123 ; . ... From Green & Riley (1995), the 51P and 52P source lists at 408 MHz, plus the 53P and 54P source lists at 1420 MHz. From Riley & Green (1998), the 67P and 68P source lists at 408 MHz, plus the 69P and 70P source lists at 1420 MHz. ...

... Astronomy for Kids . ... May 2016: Gravitational waves breakthrough . ... Gravitational constant appears universally constant, pulsar study suggests . The fact that scientists can see gravity perform the same in our solar system as it does in a distant star system helps confirm that the gravitational constant truly is universal. ... Gravity, one of the four fundamental forces of nature, appears reassuringly constant across the universe, according to a decades-long study of a distant pulsar. ...

... Rosalie Gascoigne (left) and Proscilla Bok elтАж . Sidebar Left . ... Title: Rosalie Gascoigne (left) and Proscilla Bok elped catalogue studies of the Southern Skies in Mt. Stromlo's library . ... Rosalie Gascoigne (left) and Proscilla Bok elped catalogue studies of the Southern Skies in Mt. ...

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... Observing . ... Home Education Workshops at Adorama Astronomy Workshop: Observing Variable Stars from the City ? February 15, 2015 . ... Beyond New York City . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... Presented by€а Adorama €аFor the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

... In LABORATORY OF RADIO ASTROPHYSICS OF SPECIAL ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY OF RAS . ... History . ... Current problems of the group research interests: . study for cosmic microwave background, . study of radio galaxies (identification, evolution, statistical investigation of population), . investigation of the RATAN-600 antenna, . observations in the survey mode with RATAN-600 and their analysis, . creation of the software for data analysis. vo @ sao.ru ( Oleg Verkhodanov ) ...

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex . ... Parkes | ... STaRS : Space science Teaching and Resource Site . ... The second section of STaRS , What's New in Astronomy, Astrophysics and Space Sciences? provides hyperlinks to New Zealand and international astronomy and space science information. Current information on topical studies (eg. ...

Serguei LANDO (Poncelet laboratory, Moscow): Cohomology of Hurwitz spaces . The problem of studying the intersection theory on Hurwitz spaces naturally arises in connection with the Hurwitz problem. ... The study of the intersection theory on Hurwitz spaces has been initiated in [1,4]. We discuss a new approach to the intersection theory on Hurwitz spaces. ... 3] M. E. Kazarian, S. K. Lando, {\it On intersection theory on Hurwitz spaces}, Izv. ...