... July 29, 1998 . The High Energy Heart Of The Milky Way . ... Explanation: These high resolution false color pictures of the Galactic center region in high energy X-ray and gamma-ray light result from a very long exposure of roughly 3,000 hours performed from 1990 to 1997 by the French SIGMA telescope onboard the Russian GRANAT spacecraft . ... But according to recent theories , only those binary systems with black holes can radiate above X-ray energies -- in the gamma-ray regime. ...

... November 5, 1997 . The Milky Way's Gamma-Ray Halo . Credit: D. Dixon ( UCR ), D. Hartmann ( Clemson ), E. Kolaczyk ( U. Chicago ), NASA . Explanation: Our Milky Way galaxy appears to be surrounded by a halo of gamma rays . Gamma rays are the most energetic form of electromagnetic radiation , with more than a hundred thousand times the energy of visible light, but known gamma-ray sources don't account for the diffuse distribution of this high-energy glow. ... About APOD > . ...

Supernova 2001X in NGC 5921 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2001X in NGC 5921 Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the updates and links web pages. ... SNWeb has a 2001X page . ... 2001/03/02.386 . ... 15.2 . ... Arne Danielsen image . ... JM Llapasset image . ... vsnet-alert 5763 ] SN 2001X in NGC 5921 . ...

... Positions and Proper Motions of 258,997 Stars for the Epoch and |Equinox of 1950.0", Publ. of the Smithsonian Institution of |Washington, D.C., No. ... 1971-1979, "Lowell Proper Motion Survey" |(red dwarfs), Lowell Obs. ... LHS |Luyten, W. J. 1976, "A Catalog of Stars with Proper Motion |exceeding 0".5 annually", Publ. of Univ. of Minnesota, |Minneapolis, Minnesota; Luyten, W. J., Albers, H. 1979, "An |Atlas of Identification Chart for LHS Stars", Publ. of Univ. of |Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota...

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 . ...

... 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; ...

... 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. ...