... 2006 April 1 . Hubble Resolves Expiration Date For Green Cheese Moon . ... Explanation: Using the new camera on the Hubble Space Telescope , astronomers have been able to confirm that the Moon is made of green cheese . ... Controversy still exists, however, over whether the date resolved is truly an expiration date or just a "sell by" date. ... Happy April Fool's Day from the folks at APOD . ... The popular Moon is made of Green Cheese myth can be traced back almost 500 years. ... About APOD | ...
... February 22, 1999 . NGC 1316: After Galaxies Collide . ... WFPC2 , HST , NASA . ... A preliminary inspection indicates that NGC 1316 is an enormous elliptical galaxy that started devouring a smaller spiral galaxy neighbor about 100 million years ago. ... Most elliptical galaxies have more and brighter globular clusters than evident in NGC 1316 . ... One hypothesis therefore holds that these globulars survive from an even earlier galaxy that was subsumed into NGC 1316. ... About APOD > . ...
Supernova Gallery The purpose of the Bright Supernovae web pages is to provide a place where people can find reference images of Supernovae. ... This is an RGB color image of Supernova 2003gs in NGC 936 Credit: Pablo Canadia . Used by permission. (click on image for full resolution) . ... This is an LRGB color image of Supernova 2003cg in NGC 3169 Credit: Pollux observatory . ... Credit: Nick Suntzeff Used by permission. (click on image for full resolution) . ... Credit: AURA/NOAO Image Library . ...
. Первая Бюраканская Международная Летняя Школа для молодых астрономов "НАБЛЮДАТЕЛЬНАЯ АСТРОФИЗИКА". КАЛЕНДАРЬ КОНФЕРЕНЦИЙ 2006 ГОДА . FIRST BYURAKAN INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL FOR YOUNG ASTRONOMERS "OBSERVATIONAL ASTROPHYSICS". "ТЕСНЫЕ ДВОЙНЫЕ ЗВЕЗДЫ В СОВРЕМЕННОЙ АСТРОФИЗИКЕ", приурочена к 100-летию известного исследователя двойных звезд, проф. Д.Я.Мартынова. «ЗВЕЗДНЫЕ СИСТЕМЫ», посвященная 100-летию со дня рождения П.П.Паренаго . "АСТРОНОМИЯ 2006: ТРАДИЦИИ, НАСТОЯЩЕЕ И БУДУЩЕЕ" .
... Отмеченная наградами АстроТоп-а . ... 1) К участию в конкурсе допускаются все российские сайты на тему астрономии и космонавтики, и все русскоязычные сайты за пределами России. ... II) Сайт года . ... Победитель: Астронет - http://www.astronet.ru/ : подано голосов экспертов - 109 (всего - 129) . ... 3-е место разделили: Астрономия и Телескопостроение - http://www.astronomer.ru/ и Лента новостей космонавтики от Железнякова - http://www.cosmoworld.ru/spaceencyclopedia/hotnews/ : подано по 37 голосов; ...
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) . ...
... 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. ...
Shades of Deep Purple (USA: Tetragrammaton 1968 ; Europe: EMI Parlaphone 1968 ; Japan: Polydor 1968) (CD) . Deep Purple's debut album, recorded very hastily. ... Tracks: . ... Wring That Neck (Blackmore/Lord/Simper/Paice) . ... All tracks written by Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice . ... Painted Horse (Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice) . ... Child in Time (Live, 690924) (Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice) . ... Bonus tracks on Japanese CD: Lazy (edited) (Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice) . ...