... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2009 February 23 . An Etruscan Vase Moon Rising . ... Visible in particular was a curiously inverted image section pinched off near the horizon , an effect dubbed the Etruscan vase by the pioneering science fiction writer Jules Verne for its familiar shape. ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. February 5, 1996 . COBE Dipole: Speeding Through the Universe . Credit: NASA , COBE , DMR , Four-Year Sky Map . ... The Milky Way Galaxy orbits in the Local Group . ... The map indicates that the Local Group moves at about 600 kilometers per second relative to this primordial radiation . ... About APOD | ...

Supernova 2004dj in NGC 2403 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2004dj in NGC 2403 . ... Thus, if you have any images of NGC 2403 taken in late July of 2004, they might be worth a second look. ... Icon generated from Bright supernova observing group's 2004dj image . ... JM Llapasset image . ... vsnet-campaign-sn 929] SN 2004dj (mag 11!) . vsnet-campaign-sn 930] SN 2004dj in NGC 2403 - visual magn. estimate . vsnet-campaign-sn 931] very bright SN 2004dj in NGC 2403 . ...

... http://www.aras.am/JENAM-2007/index.htm . ... JENAM 2007 in Armenia, First Announcement available                            J E N A M - 2 0 0 7                         "Our non-stable Universe"                    20-25 August 2007, Yerevan, Armenia JENAM-2007 (Joint European and National Astronomy Meeting) will take place in Yerevan (Armenia) and will be the 15th Annual Meeting of the European Astronomical Society (EAS) and the 6th Annual Meeting of the Armenian Astronomical Society (ArAS). ...

... 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; ...

... E.V. Kazarovets, N.N . Samus , O.V. Durlevich, S.V. Antipin, M.S. Frolov, N.N . Kireeva, E.N. Pastukhova Institute of Astronomy of Russian Academy of Sciences and Sternberg State Astronomical Institute of ... the Moscow State University ================================================================================ The 74th Special Name-list of Variable Stars , A.V. Kazarovets, N.N . Samus , O.V. Durlevich, S.V. Antipin, M.S.,Frolov, ... 3323 Samus, N.N., IBVS, 1997, No. ...

... Here is a brief outline of the current theory of the events in the early history of the solar system: . A cloud of interstellar gas and/or dust (the "solar nebula") is disturbed and collapses under its own gravity. ... The gas cools off enough for the metal, rock and (far enough from the forming star) ice to condense out into tiny particles. (i.e. some of the gas turns back into dust). ... Once the larger of these particles get big enough to have a nontrivial gravity, their growth accelerates. ...