... 2008 November 11 . The Cosmic Web of the Tarantula Nebula . ... Explanation: First cataloged as a star, 30 Doradus is actually an immense star forming region in nearby galaxy The Large Magellanic Cloud . The region's spidery appearance is responsible for its popular name, the Tarantula nebula , except that this tarantula is about 1,000 light-years across, and 180,000 light-years away in the southern constellation Dorado . ... About APOD | ... NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices . ...

... April 9, 1999 . WR 104: Pinwheel Star . ... Explanation: Like a cosmic lawn sprinkler, dust streaming from a rotating star system creates a pinwheel pattern in this false color infrared image . Astronomers discovered the surprising star dust scenario using a sophisticated interferometer and the 10 meter Keck I telescope to observe the bright Wolf-Rayet star WR 104. ... The problem is, their starlight would also be so intense that any dust flakes should be destroyed! ... About APOD > . ...

Supernova 1987A in LMC . One day in 1987, an astronomer by the name of Ian Shelton was making observations of the Tarantula Nebula in Large Magellanic cloud at Las Campanas Observatory, and he noticed something strange on his image. ... SN 1987A got as bright as 2.7, the only other recent SN even to come close was 1885A in M31 which got up to mag 6. ... Mag 4.5 . ... IAUC 4318 2/25/87 Type II? ... IAUC 7354 2/1/00 New structure in the inner ring . ... IAUC 7360 2/7/00 HST observation of new spot . ...

Космические факторы эволюции биосферы и геосферы . ... Москва, ГАИШ, 21-23 мая 2014 года . ... В настоящее время стала актуальной проблема воздействия космических факторов на процессы на Земле и в биосфере. ... Секция "Космические факторы в эволюции климата" Научного совета РАН по теории климата . ... Гасанов Сафар Алиевич, исполнительный директор Астрономического Общества, ГАИШ МГУ, заместитель председателя оргкомитета . ... Мирошниченко Л.И. (ИЗМИРАН) Космические лучи - фактор эволюции биосферы. ...

... 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. ...

... E.V. Kazarovets, N.N . Samus , O.V. Durlevich, S.V. Antipin, M.S. Frolov, N.N . Kireeva, E.N. Pastukhova Institute of Astronomy of Russian Academy of Sciences and Sternberg State Astronomical Institute of ... the Moscow State University ================================================================================ The 74th Special Name-list of Variable Stars , A.V. Kazarovets, N.N . Samus , O.V. Durlevich, S.V. Antipin, M.S.,Frolov, ... 3323 Samus, N.N., IBVS, 1997, No. ...

... 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. ...