Today's APOD | ... Editor's choices for the most educational Astronomy Pictures of the Day about dark nebulae: . APOD: 2006 April 9 - Molecular Cloud Barnard 68 . Explanation: Where did all the stars go? What used to be considered a hole in the sky is now known to astronomers as a dark molecular cloud . ... APOD: 2003 July 13 - The Horsehead Nebula . Explanation: One of the most identifiable nebulae in the sky, the Horsehead Nebula in Orion , is part of a large, dark, molecular cloud . ...

... September 5, 1998 . The Pulsar Powered Crab . Credit: J. Hester and P. Scowen ( ASU ), NASA . ... Using a stunning series of visible light images taken with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) , astronomers have discovered spectacular pulsar powered motions within the Crab nebula. Highlights of this HST Crab "movie" show wisps of material moving away from the pulsar at half the speed of light, a scintillating halo, and an intense knot of emission dancing, sprite-like, above the pulsar's pole. ...

Here is an image a supernova in UGC3683. 11.4.1998. 0.08 UT, CCD ST-7, 520s. Track and Accumulate exposure (13x40s), no filter, dark and flat corrected, temp -20c, telescope used 152/2063 refractor. The image have been taken at the center of our city, Jyvaskyla. The weather was horrible (a full moon was shining and there was clouds on the sky during exposure), so I had stopped imaging in that night. ... Iґll wait for a next clear night and send a better image then. ...

... ИНФОРМАЦИЯ О МЕРОПРИЯТИЯХ МЕЖДУНАРОДНОГО ГОДА АСТРОНОМИИ. КОНФЕРЕНЦИИ И ШКОЛЫ 2009 года. Резолюция Всероссийской конференции «Астрономия и общество», посвященной Международному году астрономии(Москва, МГУ им. М.В.Ломоносова, 25–27 марта 2009 г.). Международная конференция: “ASTRONOMY AND WORLD HERITAGE: ACROSS TIME AND CONTINENTS” («Астрономия и всемирное наследие: через время и континенты») 19 – 24 августа 2009 года Россия, Казань . ...

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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) . ...

... 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. ...