... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. August 3, 1997 . The Cygnus Loop . Credit: J. Hester ( ASU ), NASA . ... The collision of this fast moving wall of gas with a stationary cloud has heated it causing it to glow in visible as well as high energy radiation , producing the nebula known as the Cygnus Loop (NGC 6960/95). ... About APOD > . ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

... August 28, 1998 . Hydrogen Trifid . ... Explanation: Clouds of glowing hydrogen gas mingle with dark dust lanes in the Trifid Nebula , a star forming region in the constellation Sagittarius. In this and other similar emission nebulae , energetic ultraviolet light from an embedded hot young star strips electrons from the surrounding hydrogen atoms . ... It shows those regions with substantial emission from atomic hydrogen . ... Tomorrow's picture: Star Colors . ... About APOD > . ...

Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . 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 updates and links web pages. Discovered independently by Lick Observatory Supernova Search (USA) and Koichi Itagaki (Japan). ... 2009/10/11.44 . 17.2 . ... Joseph Brimacombe . ...

XXVIII General Assembly of the IAU, SPS15 Beijing, August 31, 2012 . N.N. Samus, S.V. Antipin "Variable Stars and Data-Intensive Astronomy" . During the 26th IAU General Assembly in Prague, the IAU Division V (Commissions 27 and 42) considered the future of variable-star catalogues. ... To discuss these problems and to look for their solutions, the IAU Commission 27, on behalf of the IAU Division V, created an informal working group, chaired by the GCVS editor, Dr. Nikolai Samus. ...

... 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; ...

. Moscow Astronomical Plate Archives: Contents, Digitization, Current and Possible Applications. Light Curves of New Variable Stars Discovered on Scans of Moscow Collection Plates, Field 66 Oph (MDV). MDV catalog - CDS access. Moscow plate collection (Sternberg Astronomical Institute), S.Yu. Shugarov's interactive page. Send questions and comments to N. Samus and S. Antipin .

... 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. ...