... The Great Nebula in Carina . ... Eta Carinae , the most energetic star in the nebula, was one of the brightest stars in the sky in the 1830s, but then faded dramatically. Eta Carinae is the brightest star near the image center, just left of the Keyhole Nebula . While Eta Carinae itself maybe on the verge of a supernova explosion, X-ray images indicate that much of the Great Carina Nebula has been a veritable supernova factory . Tomorrow's picture: open space . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. March 15, 1998 . Unusual M82: The Cigar Galaxy . ... M82 is a nearby galaxy in the group of galaxies dominated by itself, M81 , and NGC 3077 . ... M82 is a starburst galaxy with a very active center containing star clusters far brighter than any in our own Milky Way Galaxy . ... About APOD > . ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . 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. Discovered independently by Lick Observatory Supernova Search (USA) and Koichi Itagaki (Japan). ... 2009/10/11.44 . 17.2 . ... Joseph Brimacombe . ...

The Nine Planets is best viewed on-line via a graphical WWW browser which displays the pictures in color and supports hypertext link traversal. ... To view the movies and hear the sounds, you'll need additional helper programs. ... I recommend that you use Netscape as your browser. Netscape can display gif and jpeg images directly without need of any additional helper apps. You do need additional helper apps for movies and sounds, however. ... Yahoo's Helper Applications .. ... Tech Help .. ...

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... Регистрация пользователей . ... ЗАРЯ-2004 . ... Итоги конкурса "Звезды АстроРунета и Я - 2004" (ЗАРЯ-2004). ... Правила конкурса ЗАРЯ-2004 . Ход конкурса ЗАРЯ-2004, его основные результаты и итоги . Первый пресс-релиз конкурса ЗАРЯ-2004 . Второй пресс-релиз конкурса ЗАРЯ-2004 . ... Это - и обычные любители астрономии, и астрономы-профессионалы , и работники ракетно-космической отрасли России; студенты и профессора, кандидаты и доктора наук, журналисты и даже - авторы учебников!. ...

... The distance scales of the objects are matched both by comparing the first derivatives of the angular velocity determined separately from radial velocities and proper motions and by the statistical-parallax method. ... Good agreement between the inferred 0 and our calculations based on space velocities suggests that the Lindblad relation holds throughout the entire sample volume. ... Brandt and Blitz (1993) published the distances and radial velocities for a total of 206 H II-regions. ... Astron. ...