... 2008 August 18 . Baily's Beads near Solar Eclipse Totality . ... As the Moon moves to completely cover the Sun in a total solar eclipse , beads of bright sunlight stream around the edge of the Moon. ... Pictured above, a series of images recorded Baily's beads at times surrounding the recent total solar eclipse visible from Novosibirsk , Russia . ... At the end of totality, as the Sun again emerges from behind the moon, Baily's beads may again be visible -- but now on the other side of the Moon. ...

... August 7, 1998 . M65 Without Moth . ... Explanation: Messier 65 ( M65 ) is a bright spiral galaxy of stars only 35 million light-years away in the constellation Leo . ... The faint blue smudges along the spiral arms of M65 are large clusters of bright, newly formed stars within the distant galaxy while the bright individual stars are foreground objects in our own Milky Way galaxy . ... About APOD > . ...

Prague, August 16, 2006 . ... Continue the GCVS project for at least 3 -6 more years;  for this period, continue publication of Name-Lists for individual discoveries and for large-survey stars studied also elsewhere;  during this period, start a new GCVS version with improved data and with complete information for Name-List stars; . during this period, work on Steve Kawaler's suggestion;  pay maximum attention to improving software for period determination, automatic classification, etc . ...

Supernova 2000de in NGC 4384 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2000de in NGC 4384 Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the Supernova links web page. Marco Migliardi of CROSS discovered this one. He first sent it out as a "possible" to the ISN group on August 12.8. ... CROSS 2000de page . ... CROSS image . ...

General Catalog of Variable Stars (GCVS database, Version 2013Jun) . Samus N.N., Durlevich O.V., Kazarovets E V., Kireeva N.N., Pastukhova E.N., Zharova A.V., et al. ... General Catalogue of Variable Stars (Samus+ 2007-2012), VizieR On-line Data Catalog: B/gcvs . ... Query forms by files . The values in the input file must be separeted by comas or arranged in columns. ... Enter the file with the GCVS names: . ... Enter the file with the coordinates J2000.0: . ...

... 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; ...

... 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. ...