... 2011 December 30 . The Diner at the Center of the Galaxy . ... Explanation: The monster at the center of our Galaxy is about to get fed . Recent observations by the Very Large Telescopes indicate that a cloud of gas will venture too close to the supermassive black hole at the Galactic center. The gas cloud is being disrupted, stretched out, heated up, and some of it is expected to fall into the black hole over the next two years. ... NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply . ...
... 2000 December 20 . Sgr A*: Fast Stars Near the Galactic Center . ... Explanation: Why are these stars moving so fast? Shown above is a time-lapse movie in infrared light detailing how stars in the central light-year of our Galaxy have moved over the past eight years. ... If these fast stars are held to the Galactic Center by gravity, then the central object exerting this gravity must be both compact and massive. ... About APOD | ...
Nova 1998 2 in M31 this image of the second Nova in M31 in 1998, was made from 38 exposures of 45 seconds integration time. It was made at September 21, 22h 20m UT. Telescope was a CG11 at f/6.3, no filters were used. The long list of processing steps caused the artefacts at the overexposed center of the galaxy and in many of the brighter stars. During the exposures thin clouds covered the sky but the CCD cuts through them, allowing me to obtain this result. ...
... 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. ...
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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... Отмеченная наградами АстроТоп-а . ... Анатолий Анатольевич Волчков . ... кто-то из великих) Я долго подбирал название для этой мемориальной статьи об Анатолии Анатольевиче Волчкове. ... Какие только названия не приходили ко мне в голову - "Легенда об Анатолии", "Исполнить миссию", "Человеко-форум", "Камертон Астрорунета".. ... P.P.S. 31 декабря 2003 г. решением команды проекта Астротоп принято решение - "признать Анатолия Волчкова Человеком года " в традиционных конкурсах Звезды АстроРунета-2003 . ...
... 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) . ...