... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2013 March 25 . Planck Maps the Microwave Background . ... Visible in all directions, this cosmic microwave background is a complex tapestry that could only show the hot and cold patterns observed were the universe to be composed of specific types of energy that evolved in specific ways. ... About APOD | ... A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC . ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . Hale-Bopp in Stereo . ... 4.04.1997 . ... Credit: Jack H. Modjallal and Mack H. Frost Explanation: This stereo pair of Hale-Bopp images combines two pictures from slightly different viewing angles. Simulating stereo vision , the difference was generated by the comet's apparent motion as it cruised through the inner Solar System . ... April . ... Publications with keywords: Comet Hale-Bopp - stereo . Publications with words: Comet Hale-Bopp - stereo . ...

... Главная . ... Новости . ... Проекты . Любителям астрономии . Проект ISON . ... Подробнее . ... Категория: Новости проекта ISON . ... Метки: Космический мусор ,љ Астероиды ,љ Гамма-всплески ,љ Любителям астрономии ,љ Кометы љ . ... Метки: Космический мусор ,љ Астероиды ,љ Любителям астрономии љ . ... Новости обсерваторий проекта] - Обсерватория Кубанского государственного университета от Иванов А - 09.04.2016 11:08:49 . ... 1999-2013 Copyright "Астрономия и Телескопостроение" . ...

... 12c. Venus transit (1) . 12d. Venus transit (2) . 12e. Venus transit (3) . ... 1 The 2004 Venus transit . ... Kepler's third law allows one to evaluate the dimensions of the solar system in relative units, e.g. in " astronomical units " (AUs), where 1 AU is the mean Sun-Earth distance. ... Edmond Halley suggested using the transit of Venus across the Sun's disk, when it appears as a dark round spot --or to quote one observer of the 2004 transit, "like a blueberry in front of an orange." ...

Next: J.G. Doyle, Research Astronomer Up: Research Previous: C.J. Butler, Research Astronomer Contents . ... Research Highlights . ... John Chambers has refined and expanded an alternative scenario for the formation of the asteroid belt in collaboration with George Wetherill, Carnegie Institution of Washington, USA. Using numerical simulations on computers, they have shown how planets may have formed in the asteroid belt. ...

... 20 th -23 rd April 2015 . ... In 2015 the 8th busy week takes place in Firenze, in Galileo GalileiтАЩs villa тАЬil GioielloтАЭ, located in the gorgeous hills in the southern side of the city. ... is pleased to host the 8th CALIFA Busy Week . in Firenze, at Galileo GalileiтАЩs Villa тАЬil GioielloтАЭ . After the second public data release on the 1st October 2014 ( DR2 , Garc†нa-Benito et al. 2014 ) and with more than 500 galaxies observed to-date, CALIFA has entered its maturity. ...

... The Hubble Space Telescope is jointly run as a partnership between the European Space Agency and NASA. ... For more information on the European contribution to the Hubble Space Telescope go to: http://hubble.esa.int and for more on the VLT go to: http://www.eso.org . ... A Taste of Real Astronomy ? The ESA/ESO Astronomy Exercises . ... The "ESA/ESO Astronomy Exercise Series" has just been published, on the web and in print. ... The language for the ESA/ESO Astronomy Exercise Series is English. ...

. The universe, summed up in a squiggly line . This graph shows the temperature differences in the oldest light in the universe, called the cosmic microwave background, detected by Planck at different distances apart on the sky. ESA and the Planck Collaboration

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Site Info . ... Public Talks . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Who is this guy who calls himself "The Bad Astronomer?" ... First, yes, I am a real live astronomer (when people ask me what astronomers do, I tell them "They astronom !" ... These are emitted by powerful objects like black holes, exploding stars, and super-dense neutrons stars. ... Finally, am I really a bad astronomer? ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

http :// hea-www.harvard.edu / AstroStat / slog /2008/ google - sky / Weaving together Astronomy+Statistics+Computer Science+Engineering+Intrumentation, far beyond the growing borders Fri, 01 Jun 2012 18:47:52 +0000 hourly 1 http ://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 http :// hea-www.harvard.edu / AstroStat / slog /2008/ google - sky /comment-page-1/#comment-192 vlk Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:23:30 +0000 http :// hea-www.harvard.edu / ... The readers of this slog are very much recommended to explore the Google sky. ...

... Alessandro Melchiorri, Laura Mersini, Carolina J. Odman , Mark Trodden 2002 The State of the Dark Energy Equation of State ( astro-ph/0211522 ) . ... Carolina J. Odman, Alessandro Melchiorri, Michael P. Hobson, Anthony N. Lasenby 2002 Constraining the shape of the CMB: a Peak-by-Peak analysis PRD, submitted ( astro-ph/0207286 ) . Antony Lewis, Sarah Bridle. ... Elgaroy, O., Lahav, O. , Percival, W.J., Peacock, J.A., Madgwick, D.S., Bridle, S.L. , and the 2dF team. ...

... News | ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Facilities . ... Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Australia Telescope Online Archive (ATOA) . ... ASKAP Home . ... CSIRO has been working with representatives of the NRC ( National Research Council , Canada) and ASTRON (Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy) to undertake a collaborative measurement program using three different receiver element designs as part of SKA pre-construction work. ...

... Previous: Teaching Astronomy via the Internet . ... Astronomy On-Line brought together about 5000 students from all over Europe and other continents. ... During Astronomy On-Line, a large number of school students and their teachers from all over Europe and other continents as well, together with professional and amateur astronomers and others interested in astronomy, participated in a unique experience that made intensive use of the vast possibilities of the World-Wide-Web (WWW). ...

... self-absorption - the absorption of light shining on an object by a process similar to that which produced the light originally; if a cloud emits less light than it absorbs from other clouds behind it, this net loss of light, termed self-absorption , causes the foreground cloud to appear darker than the background field (the term is from spectroscopy, where small absorption dips sometimes occur in larger emission lines, making the latter look as if it is absorbing part of itself) . ... HISA Main ...

Crater Gassendi . ... I made this drawing was made on the 26th of november 2001. If you compare this one with the previous drawing of Gassendi (below) the differences are clear. ... This drawing was made on the 28th of september 2001. After nearly a full month without observations I had a one hour gap between the thicker clouds. ... This drawing was made on the 29th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 27th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 25th of august 2001. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Concept Spacecraft . ... By admin September 24, 2010 Posted in: Concept Spacecraft . One of the most grandiose of the vehicles suggested by Cole was the Aldebaran concept, a gigantic nuclear-powered launch vehicle he proposed in 1959. ... Scott Lowther has recently added fascinating scale drawings of this and other nuclear space propulsion concepts at his blog (the Unwanted Blog). ... The Amazing Aldebaran Spacecraft | ...

... 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. ...

SAI VO . ... SAI CAS . ... Access . ... We present the results of the development of Sternberg Astronomical Institute Catalog Access Services (SAI CAS) project - the first and the only project in Russia, which provides online access to the major astronomical catalogues and different services on top of them. ... SAI CAS is an open-source implementation of the general Catalogue access service (influenced by SDSS CAS CASjobs project), based on original algorithms and open-source software. ... SAI MSU | ...

... Dept. for Astrometry & Space Geodynamics . ... Dept. for Physics of Stars&Galaxies . Dept. for Space Plasma Physics . Dept. for Physics of Minor Celestial Bodies . Dept. for Physics of Planetary Systems . Dept. for Solar Physics . ... 2016,MNRAS, 2016MNRAS.tmp.. ... WASP- 22, WASP-41, WASP- 42 and WASP- 55. ... in the visible range - land 10th Keck (USA), 2 x 8.4-m LBT (USA), 8.0-m Gemini (USA), 6.5-m MMT (USA), 4th KPNO (USA), 3.5-m APO (USA), 8.2-m VLT (ESO), 3.5-m NTT (Chile); . ...

... Activities | ... Collaborations | ... The main objective of laboratory #235 is development of imaging array detectors for different applications (including radio-astronomy, safety and security systems). We develop ultra-sensitive detectors (bolometers) and detector arrays, planar antennas and tuning circuits, refractive and reflective quasi-optical systems focusing millimeter and sub-millimeter wave irradiation on the detectors. ...