... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2008 December 17 . The Dumbbells . ... Explanation: These two nebulae are cataloged as M27 (left) and M76, popularly known as The Dumbbell and the Little Dumbbell . ... Distance estimates suggest 1,200 light-years for the Dumbbell compared to 3,000 light-years or more for the Little Dumbell. ... About APOD | ...

... Donate to Support Science Literacy . ... 2016 Annual Awards . The ASP is accepting nominations for the organizationтАЩs national annual awards which recognize special achievements in astronomy research, technology, education, and public outreach. ... Shop the AstroShop . ... The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) is accepting nominations for the organizationтАЩs national annual awards which recognize special achievements in astronomy research, technology, education, and public outreach.. ...

... December 30, 1998 . Supernova 1994D and the Unexpected Universe . Credit: High-Z Supernova Search Team , HST , NASA . Explanation: Far away, long ago, a star exploded. ... Supernova 1994D was not of interest for how different it was, but rather for how similar it was to other supernovae . ... The large number and great distances to supernovae measured in 1998 have been interpreted as indicating that we live in a previously unexpected universe . ... About APOD > . ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

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. My astronomical research interests center on galaxy structure and evolution. Current topics include: . Polar-ring and interacting galaxies (see also new catalogue ) . Galaxy warps: statistics, properties and origin . Spiral galaxies at z~1: radial and vertical structure of stellar disks, statistics of interactions . Surface photometry and kinematics, dynamical modeling . Observational cosmology . Joomla Counter since Sep 1997

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Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 16.12.1995 . ... Credit: NASA , STS-26 Crew Explanation: Aloha! ... Consequently they have also become popular sites for sophisticated ground based telescopes . The peak of Mauna Kea , on the Big Island (upper left), boasts an impressive array of astronomical instruments including the Keck Telescope , the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope , the NASA IRTF , the JCMT and UKIRT , and the Gemini Telescope Project . ... U. Based on Astronomy Picture Of the Day . ...

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... BOOKS . ... Short Bio for Lars Lindberg Christensen . Lars is an award-winning astronomer and science communicator. ... Lars has more than 200 publications to his credit, most of them in popular science communication and in its theory. ... Lars received the Tycho Brahe Medal in 2005 for his achievements in science communication. ... Lars is a science communication specialist heading the ESO education and Public Outreach Department (ePOD) in Munich, Germany. ...

... Words . ... Connections (constellation) . Connections (matrix) . Data Collection and Analysis . AAS 223 . AAS 221 . AAS 219 . AAS 218 . ... The data below shows the most-popular words used in tweets about the 223rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society . A number of common English words have been removed (including terms AAS223 , AAS and RT since they are very popular). ... Here we restrict ourselves to those tweets not flagged by Twitter as being a re-tweet. ...

... The expansion is measured as a number called the Hubble Constant . ... Our value is about 20% lower than the one got with the Hubble Space Telescope in 1994," said Dr Jim Lovell, leader of the team that made the measurement. The Hubble Constant is named after American astronomer Edwin Hubble, who in the 1920s found that other galaxies were moving away from ours. ... The Hubble Constant links the galaxy's distance with its speed." ... A short run-down on the Hubble Constant: . ...

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... His talk is entitled "The Small Bodies of the Outer Solar System" and will describe some of the intruguing objects and mysteries of that region, such as the comets, the Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt Objects, TNOs, Plutinos, etc. It's on WEDNESDAY 2 DECEMBER, at 7.30 p.m., in the Bell Lecture Theatre, Physics Building, Queen's University, Belfast. ... Tuesday, 1 December 2009 16:02 . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

Popularization of astronomical knowledge Michael Passarge Sonnenobservatorium Bad Salzschlirf D- 36364 Bad Salzschlirf , Dr. Martiny Strasse 1 michael.passarge@sonnenobservatorium.de During recent years it was developed a scheme for popularizing scientific astronomy to a broad audience in form of: Monthly Talks Newspaper Articles, Radio and TV Talks Guided Tours Practical instructions The experiences of these ...

. Pulkovo Observatory of Russian Academy of Sciences is situated . near Saint-Petersburg. It was founded in 1839. 196140, Saint-Petersburg, Pulkovskoye chaussee 65/1 . English version . Russian version . This page has been accessed times since May 1, 1999.

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? ...

... Moon . ... What can astronomers tell us about the different colors on the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa? ... We can use the colors of Europa s surface to tell us about the chemical compounds that make up the surface and subsurface of the jovian moon. Even before the first spacecraft made a close visit to Europa, astronomers on Earth used telescopes to study the moon and were able to use a technique called spectroscopy to determine that Europa s surface is composed mostly of water ice. ...

... In recent years, however, magnitude systems have been used less frequently, and the most popular unit for expressing brightnesses, both for point source fluxes and surface brightnesses, is steadily becoming the Jansky. ... The IRAS survey results, which were published in 1986, presented observations made photometrically in four bands in the mid- and far-infrared, and mid-infrared spectra, and all were presented in units of Janskys, rather than defining yet another new magnitude system. ...

... The main goals of the society are to maintain the development of astronomy and to reinforce scientific contacts between astronomers of the former Soviet Union and their colleagues all over the world. Official languges of EAAS - Russian and English. ... IV Russian Olympiad on Astronomy and Cosmic Physics for high-school students (April 7-12, 1997, Troitsk, Moscow region, Russia) . ... In Russian. ... Dr. Nikolai G. Bochkarev , Co-chairman of Euro-Asian Astronomical Society, 21.02.1997. ...