... 2015 August 19 . Central Cygnus Skyscape . Image Credit Copyright: Paul C. Swift . ... Bright supergiant star Gamma Cygni (Sadr) to the upper left of the image center lies in the foreground of the complex gas and dust clouds and crowded star field s. Left of Gamma Cygni , shaped like two luminous wings divided by a long dark dust lane is IC 1318, whose popular name is understandably the Butterfly Nebula . ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply . ...

... August 7, 1998 . M65 Without Moth . ... Explanation: Messier 65 ( M65 ) is a bright spiral galaxy of stars only 35 million light-years away in the constellation Leo . ... The faint blue smudges along the spiral arms of M65 are large clusters of bright, newly formed stars within the distant galaxy while the bright individual stars are foreground objects in our own Milky Way galaxy . ... About APOD > . ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 26.08.2012 . ... Credit Copyright: J. P. Harrington ( U. Maryland ) K. J. Borkowski ( NCSU ) HST , NASA Explanation: Three thousand light-years away, a dying star throws off shells of glowing gas. This image from the Hubble Space Telescope reveals the Cat's Eye Nebula to be one of the most complex planetary nebulae known. ... Publications with keywords: Cat's Eye Nebula - planetary nebula . Publications with words: Cat's Eye Nebula - planetary nebula . ...

Astronomy Articles . Articles | ... Moon | ... Astronomy Binoculars - The Skies The Limit - by Scott Gray, September 2006 . ... Astronomy Terms - To Help You Study The Universe - by Scott Gray, October 2006 . ... Himalia is the only moon other than Europa, Ganymeade, Callisto and IO visible with small telescopes. ... The Harvest Moon refers to the Full Moon that comes closest to the autumnal equinox, or the first day of autumn. ... Think the study of stars is best left to professional astronomers? ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Stars . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... Posted on January 30, 2012 | 1 Comment If you look towards the west just after sunset this February you will see a very bright star in the darkening sky. ... Continue Reading.. ... Posted on December 5, 2011 | 4 Comments Which is the brightest star in the sky (apart from the Sun)? ... Posted on November 10, 2011 | 19 Comments What was the Star of Bethlehem? ... Posted on October 10, 2011 | ...

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... Director of the RAS ISR . RAS Academician . ... Astrophysics module Kvant of the orbital complex Mir launched in 1987 contains the largest on the station complex of the scientific equipment named the orbital observatory Roentgen. Observatory Roentgen consists of 4 X-ray telescopes, jointly exceeding the range of energies from 2 to 800 keV. ... Among the most significant results that were received in the observatory Roentgen are: . ... measurement of the periods of 9 X-ray pulsars; . ...

... Observing . ... Solar Observing . ... April 3 (SUN) - Solar Observing, Central Park , Manhattan . ... APRIL'S SKY . ... Lecture Series at the American Museum of Natural History The Amateur Astronomers Association is proud to present an astronomy lecture series from October through May each year for our members and the .. ... The€аAmateur Astronomers Association of New York€аwas organized in 1927 to promote the study of Astronomy, emphasizing its cultural and inspirational value. ...

Armagh Observatory, 11 August 2000: . ... The International Workshop will celebrate the 400th anniversary of the discovery of the star "P Cygni" by the Dutch mathematician and cartographer Willem Jansz Blaeu on 18 August 1600. ... The anniversary conference has been organised by Dr Mart de Groot , a world expert in hot, luminous stars, whose studies of P Cygni over 35 years have contributed significantly to our present knowledge about the star. ... P Cygni 2000 Workshop . ...

In this gallery are many images of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies which have recently been discovered and analyzed. ... The central surface brightness of this galaxy is 24.28 . Malin 2 This galaxy is another huge disk galaxy with a scale length of 15 kpc and a redshift of 15000 km/a. The high surface brightness knot in one of its spiral arms actually has the same color, luminosity and H-alpha equivalent width as the entire Large Magellanic Cloud . ... Truly it is a Low Surface Brightness Galaxy. ...

... This spectacular new photograph of space contains so many bright shining stars it looks like someone spilt a pot of glitter over it! ... On the left is a very bright star cluster called NGC 3603. This cluster is famous within our Galaxy for having the highest concentration of massive stars of any star cluster! ... While Wolf-Rayet stars are thought to be fairly common across the Universe, they live such short lives we rarely stumble across them. ...

... The Pleiades star cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, is a conspicuous object in the night sky with a prominent place in ancient mythology . ... The stars in the Pleiades are thought to have formed together around 100 million years ago, making them 1/50th the age of our sun, and they lie some 130 parsecs (425 light years ) away. ... Data for these stars are listed in a table below. ... Yes . ... WEBDA Pleiades cluster data . ... M45: The Pleiades Star Cluster (2007 November 18) ...

... This Announcement contains detailed information on organizational items, scientific and cultural program of Odessa session GMIC-99. ... 8.00- 23.00 Registration of participants in the hall of Tour-complex "Odessa"(Arcadia region, GAGARIN plateau, 5). ... 8.00- 13.00 Registration of participants in the hall of Tour-complex "Odessa". 10.00-12.00 Program Committee session and press conference dedicated to GMIC-99 (Odessa Scientists' House). ... 9.00- 11.00 Plenary session. ... 13.00- 14.00 Lunch. ...

In autumn 1994, two groups of astronomers announced that they had discovered Cepheid variable stars in a distant cluster of galaxies. ... As the term suggests, variable stars change in brightness over time. ... Variable stars are an ideal way to get high-school students doing real science, with real data, from the real sky. ... a sky chart to find the stars . ... Students can use the nearby stars to estimate the magnitude of Delta. ... Locate the star Delta in Cepheus and estimate its brightness . ...

... If I need to observe a field containing bright stars, do I risk damage to the NICMOS detector by saturating it? ... NICMOS . ... Detectors . ... Observing Strategies . ... A.: The NICMOS Instrument Science Reports Number 24 and Number 23 present results of the analysis of persistence from On-Orbit data and Thermal Vacuum data. ...

... A bright flare-up of emission (>1000 Jy) was found in OH-maser source during tests of 18cm receiver in observations with Kalyazin 64-m radio telescope (August 2004). ... Appendix (The list of used acronyms) ASC Cold Plate DC Astro Space Center of Lebedev Physical Instutute cooled LNAs and antenna feed hermetic device container (part of payload ); it contains Formatter, Rb oscillators, synthesizer, control unit and is placed under dish DM Device Module = DC + H-maser EGSE ...

XMM-Newton observation of the core of the massive cluster Cyg OB2 located in the constellation Cygnus, 4,700 light-years from Earth. The cluster contains massive O-type stars that shine brightly in X-rays. Cyg OB2 #9 is seen as the bright star just below the central star, and in 2008 was determined to be a binary system. ... Hundreds of lower mass stars also fill the field of view, which spans nearly 22 x 16 arcminutes. ...

August 3, 1998 . ... An example of the EUV large-scale chains revealed by the modified TRACE EUV images. (a) - The original TRACE EUV (171 A) mosaic image of August 3, 1998. Some thin chains and threads are seen inside the active complexes A and B in the north-west and south-west sectors of the disk. Large-scale structures outside the complexes are hardy visible. (b) - The same TRACE image, but after a modification. ... Back to the page of the TRACE chains . ... Last update: 9 August 1998 . ...

The form on this Web page allows specifying a celestial position for which the full 4x4 degree NVSS FITS image is desired. ... Other services of the NVSS survey include: . ... NVSS Postage stamp (small FITS or jpeg file) server . direct ftp to NVSS 4x4 deg. FITS image and documentation server . NVSS source catalog and software ftp server - but please note that you will need to schedule an overnight job for a quiet time slot to download the 150Mb CATALOG.FIT file to avoid timeouts etc. ...

... 1b. Pole Star . ... Two bright constellations occupy opposite sides of the pole star--the Big Dipper and Cassiopeia . ... The Big Dipper consists of 7 bright stars, forming a dipper, a small pot with a long handle. ... It shows the 7 stars of the Big Dipper and Polaris, the north star. ... Ursa Minor , the "Small Bear" or "Little Dipper" is a constellation somewhat resembling the Big Dipper, and Polaris is the last star in its tail. ... Questions from Users: About the stars of the Big Dipper . ...