... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2001 August 6 . The Orbiting Hubble Space Telscope . Credit: STS-103 , STScI , ESA , NASA . Explanation: The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is the largest orbiting public optical telescope in history. ... A larger Next Generation Space Telescope (NGST) may be launched as early as 2007. ... About APOD | ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

... January 6, 1996 . Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy M32 . ... Explanation: Being the largest galaxy around can sometimes make you popular. ... M31 , the Andromeda galaxy, is the largest galaxy in our Local Group of galaxies - even our tremendous Milky Way Galaxy is smaller. ... M32 is a dwarf elliptical galaxy . Elliptical galaxies have little or no measurable gas or dust - they are composed completely of stars and typically appear more red than spiral galaxies . ... About APOD | ...

... Date : the picture was taken on December 14th 1998 . Location : Courroux / Ju (Switzerland) . Equipement : telescope Celestron Ultima 8 operating at F/D=6.3 camera CCD ST7 operating at high resolution autoguided mode . Exposures : 6 exposures of 10 minutes each . Pictures treatment : logarithmic . Software : Prism98 version 3.0 for acquisition and treatment of the pictures . ... 2822 Courroux . ... David Bishop Last modified: Wed Dec 16 13:55:05 EST 1998 ...

... It is being organized jointly by the Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory (BAO) and the Armenian Astronomical Society (ArAS). ... LIST OF LECTURERS AND LECTURES : Dr. Vladimir AIRAPETIAN (Goddard Space Flight Center, USA): Physics of Winds from Cool Evolved Stars Dr. Don BARRY (Cornell University ... (observation techniques and theory) Dr. Michel DENNEFELD (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, France): Introduction to spectroscopic observations Dr. Serguei DODONOV (Special Astrophysical ...

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) . ...

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... 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. ...