... 2003 September 25 . Logarithmic Spirals Isabel and M51 . Credit: Comparison and M51 image copyright Brian Lula ; Hurricane Isabel, courtesy GHCC , NASA . ... But they do look amazingly alike, both exhibiting the shape of a simple and beautiful mathematical curve known as a logarithmic spiral , a spiral whose separation grows in a geometric way with increasing distance from the center. ... About APOD | ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...

... April 2, 1999 . Stars of NGC 206 . ... Explanation: Nestled within the dusty arms of the large spiral galaxy Andromeda (M31), the star cluster NGC 206 is one of the largest star forming regions known in our local group of galaxies. The beautiful bright blue stars of NGC 206 betray its youth - but close, systematic studies of variable stars in and around NGC 206 will also accurately reveal its distance. ... About APOD > . ...

Supernova 1987A in LMC . One day in 1987, an astronomer by the name of Ian Shelton was making observations of the Tarantula Nebula in Large Magellanic cloud at Las Campanas Observatory, and he noticed something strange on his image. ... SN 1987A got as bright as 2.7, the only other recent SN even to come close was 1885A in M31 which got up to mag 6. ... Mag 4.5 . ... IAUC 4318 2/25/87 Type II? ... IAUC 7354 2/1/00 New structure in the inner ring . ... IAUC 7360 2/7/00 HST observation of new spot . ...

New GCVS Versions for Three Southern Constellations Peremennye Zvezdy (Variable Stars) 27, No. ... We are currently working on a version of the General Catalogue of Variable Stars (GCVS) revised taking into account the new data accumulated since the 4th GCVS edition. ... It will contain all stars of the 4th GCVS edition plus a complete catalogue of the stars added to the GCVS in the Name Lists of Variable Stars Nos. ...

Moscow Astronomical Plate Archives: . Contents, Digitization, Current and Possible Applications . ... We describe the astronomical plate archives in Moscow and Zvenigorod and the existing digitization projects. ... 2 The Plate Archive of the Sternberg Institute . The contents of the most important Moscow astronomical plate archive, that of the Sternberg Astronomical Institute, was briefly presented in Shugarov et al. [1] in 1999. ... THE MOSCOW PLATE COLLECTION (STERNBERG INSTITUTE) . ...

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... 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. ...