... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2012 March 16 . Bright Planets at McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope . ... Wisconsin-Madison ), Ron Oliversen ( NASA-GSFC ) . Explanation: Bright planets Venus and Jupiter are framed by the National Solar Observatory's McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope in this very astronomical scene. ... About APOD | ... A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC . ...

... October 16, 1995 . Starburst Galaxy M94 . Credit: NASA , Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope . Explanation: The spiral galaxy M94 is somewhat unusual in that it shows a great ring of bright young stars particularly apparent when observed in ultraviolet light , as shown above. Such a high abundance of these young blue stars may cause a galaxy to be designated a starburst galaxy. ... Tomorrow's picture: Galaxy Dwingeloo 1 Emerges . ... About APOD | ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

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 one CCD image of the SN. ST7 image format. Dark and flat corrected, Mar 19,1998 at.01.11 UT, yellow filter, temp -20c, 600s track and accumulate exposure (20x30s). The telescope used is 150/2063mm refractor. ... The next image was taken at 29.3.1998 01.27 UT, CCD ST-7, 600 s. Track and Accumulate exposure (15x40s.), no filter, dark and flat corrected, temp -20c, telescope used 2063/152 refractor. ... Back to Supernovae in NGC and IC galaxies . Back to Supernova 1998S images . ...

Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:15:45 +0200 (MEST) From: Alessandro Marconi <marconi@arcetri.astro.it> To: boch@sai.msu.ru Subject: Summer school on AGNs and VLTI Dear Colleague, here is the first announcement and call for applications for a VLTI summer school on "Active Galactic Nuclei at the highest angular resolution: theory and   observations". ... It is supported by 15 EU member states, including new member states, and thus integrates the entire European optical interferometry community. ...

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