... 2010 August 10 . The Sand Dunes of Titan . Credit: Cassini Radar Mapper , JPL , JSC , ESA , NASA . Explanation: Why do some sand dunes on Titan appear backwards? Central Titan , it turns out, is covered by sand , some of which appears strange. Images from the Cassini spacecraft currently orbiting Saturn have uncovered long rows of huge sand dunes near Titan's equator that rise as high as 300 meters. ... Why central Titan is even covered by so much sand is still being investigated. ...

... October 4, 1995 . The Sun Spews X-rays . Credit: Yohkoh Soft X-ray Telescope , ISAS , Japan . Explanation: Our Sun is really very hot. The Sun's outer atmosphere is so hot that it emits much light in the X-ray band, which was unexpected. X-rays are usually emitted from objects having a temperature in the millions of degrees, not the mere thousands of degrees of the Sun's surface. The above X-ray picture shows the Sun one particularly active day in August of 1992. ...

. Секция «Солнце» . Предварительная повестка дня . Пятница,   29 мая . 14:00–14:15 А. И. Подгорный, И.М. Подгорный.   Солнечная вспышки – модель и сравнение с наблюдениями. 14:15–14:30   Ю .В. Думин , Б.В. Сомов. Топологическое инициирование быстрого магнитного пересоединения . 14:30–14:45 П.А.   Грицык ,   Б.В. Сомов. Модель толстой мишени с обратным током и современные наблюдения солнечных вспышек. 14:45–15:00 Н.П.   Колесников, С.И. Безродных, Б.В. Сомов. Расчет течений плазмы в приближении сильного

This file is an archive of all of the changes which have been made to the Bright Supernovae pages in 1998 (which is when I started logging them). ... Added images from this page to the 1997cw and 1997cx entries. ... Added several images to the 1996 SN , 1997 SN , 1998 SN , 1998S , and 1998eg pages from "The Astronomer" mag Variables, Novae and Supernovae Images page. ... Added images to the 1998aq , 1998S , 1998bu , and 1998es web pages from a list of images on Laszlo Kiss's Latest images web page. ...

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) . ...

... Here is a brief outline of the current theory of the events in the early history of the solar system: . A cloud of interstellar gas and/or dust (the "solar nebula") is disturbed and collapses under its own gravity. ... The gas cools off enough for the metal, rock and (far enough from the forming star) ice to condense out into tiny particles. (i.e. some of the gas turns back into dust). ... Once the larger of these particles get big enough to have a nontrivial gravity, their growth accelerates. ...

Local Weather information(Mirror) . ... UofI - The Daily Planet . Real time weather . PLANET EARTH HOME PAGE . Weather Information . ... Current weather maps/movies . Weather movies . ... TIME Daily news . ... International press (Links of the editorial office 'Der Spiegel') . International press (Links of Gerben Vos) . ... White House Press Release . ...

... 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; ...

... 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. ...