... Resembling a gigantic hubcap in space, a 3,700 light-year-diameter dust disk encircles a 300 million solar-mass black hole in the center of the elliptical galaxy NGC 7052. ... Because the front end of the disk eclipses more stars than the back, it appears darker. ... Despite its size, the disk is 100 times less massive than the black hole. ... The bright spot in the center of the disk is the combined light of stars that have crowded around the black hole due to its strong gravitational pull. ...

... Credit Copyright: Thierry Lombry Explanation: Eris , a dwarf planet currently orbiting the Sun at about twice Pluto's distance, has been measured to have about 27 percent more mass than Pluto. The mass was calculated by timing the orbit of Eris' moon Dysnomia . Images taken with a ground-based Keck telescope , when combined with existing images taken by Hubble Space Telescope , show that Dysnomia has a nearly circular orbit lasting about 16 days. ... Fifth Moon Discovered Orbiting Pluto . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Universe . ... About four centuries ago, a tiny white dwarf star about the same diameter as Earth, but with a mass equivalent to the Sun, swung in a tight orbit about some larger star. The white dwarfтАЩs intense gravity tore material from its more massive companion. ... The quantity of mass in the universe is constant since the universe started its last self-replication, since its last singularity, its last pre-big bang re-birth conception. ...

... Feeding the Monster: Gas Caught in its Death Spiral into a Massive Black Hole . ... Stromlo Professor Mike Dopita have used the Hubble Space Telescope to discover how a massive Black Hole in a nearby galaxy feeds itself. ... Earlier Hubble Telescope data obtained by another team member, Professor Holland Ford of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, had found a disk of gas rushing around the Black Hole at a speed of 500 kilometers a second. ...

... L eda ("LEE duh") is the ninth of Jupiter's known satellites and the smallest: orbit : 11,094,000 km from Jupiter diameter : 16 km mass : 5.68e15 kg L eda was queen of Sparta and the mother, by Zeus in the form of a swan, of Helen and Pollux. D iscovered by Kowal in 1974. ... H imalia ("hih MAL yuh") is the tenth of Jupiter's known satellites: orbit : 11,480,000 km from Jupiter diameter : 186 km mass : 9.56e18 kg H imalia was a nymph who bore three sons of Zeus (Jupiter). ... Jupiter .. ...

... HST . ... Hubble Heritage Project . ... HST Peer Review Process . ... HST Overview . Overview . ... Cycle 24 Announcement . ... Proposal ID = 12237 Principle Investigator = William M. Grundy - Lowell Observatory Title = "Orbits, Masses, Densities, and Colors of Two Transneptunian Binaries" Time = Mar 18, 2012 10:57:30 - 11:54:16 Target = 2005EF298 Instrument = WFC3/UVIS . ... Binaries are the key to learning many crucial bulk properties of transneptunian objects (TNOs) including their masses. ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2014 April 21 . Massive Nearby Spiral Galaxy NGC 2841 . ... A mere 46 million light-years distant, spiral galaxy NGC 2841 can be found in the northern constellation of Ursa Major . ... X-ray images suggest that resulting winds and stellar explosions create plumes of hot gas extending into a halo around NGC 2841 . ... About APOD | ...

Within the Hubble Ultra Deep Field there are approximately 10,000 discrete objects. ... Most of these objects are very small and likely have masses in the range of 10 5 to 10 7 solar masses. Note the mass of the Milky Way galaxy is 10 12 solar masses. ... Finally, for you cosmologists/experts out there this ultra deep field is quite consistent with what was seen in the original Hubble Deep Field 5) don't necessarily have small angular diameters. ...

3) Planets and Brown Dwarfs . ... By its nature, this method is most sensitive to massive planets orbiting close to their stars. ... That means that some of the more massive extrasolar planets could actually be brown dwarfs (although the statistics of the finds suggest that most of them are not). ... Another possible difference between brown dwarfs and massive planets is how they are born. ... They would base the fundamental definition on the mode of formation: a planet is built from planetesimals. ...

... Ciel Espace, le magazine qui vous guide toujours plus loin . ... Accueil PlanУ?te de Fomalhaut : ALMA fait mentir Hubble . ... Le premier rУ?sultat scientifique de l'observatoire ALMA met en doute la dУ?couverte de la planУ?te Fomalhaut b par le tУ?lescope spatial Hubble. ... Т? En combinant les observations faites par ALMA de la forme du disque avec les modУ?les numУ?riques, nous sommes parvenus Уљ dУ?finir trУ?s prУ?cisУ?ment la masse et l'orbite de chacune des planУ?tes ТЛ, a dУ?clarУ? ...

... The relationship of the mass and the observed galactocentric distance R -- (a), and that of the mass and the total dissipation velocity n taken from Gnedin, Ostriker (1997) -- (b). The dotted line in diagram (a) shows the "cone of survival" according to the paper by Surdin and Arkhipova (1998) . ... The solid line is a regression stright line for the main sequence of clusters, and the dotted line parallel to it separates the sequence of clusters of anomalously small mass shown by open triangles. ...

... The European HST Archive has been moved to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre ( ESAC ), Spain, where most of ESA's Space Science Archives are located and operated from. ... The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), jointly operated by ESA and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) was, until the end of 2010, the European HST science facility, supporting the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

In the Table below the masses of some asteroids which were determined during the last years are listed. ... The listed values were determined from observations of many test bodies by the weighted least square fit for one perturbing mass and corrections to the orbit elements of all used test bodies. ... based on the observations of 98 asteroids (including 50278) with the values of standard error of mass determination less than 3.0 10 -11 M Sun . ... Mass . ... 3) Mass 121 : 0.74 x 10 -11 M Sun ; . ...

... Spacecraft . 29b. Satellites looking down . ... 29e. Explorers of distant space . ... The Hubble orbiting telescope. ... The Hubble telescope , in low Earth orbit, overcomes such limitations, in the visible range and in part of the UV. ... So fruitful was this observation that a second "deep field" exposure of such length, near the southern pole of the heavens, was recently conducted. ... Some satellites specialize in observing the Sun, such as the Japanese Yohkoh and NASA's SOHO . ...

... Direct data transmission rate (Mbps) . ... the density of electron fluexs with energies in four bands from 0.04 MeV to 1.7 MeV; . ... sensor (TV, IR) data and heliogeophisical information (HGI) transmission to data receiving and processing centers at a rate of up to 2.56 Mbps; . ... 1.76 GHz - TV- and heliogeophysical information and DCLI's data transmission to data receiving and processing centers; . 7.5 GHz - TV- and heliogeophisical data transmission to data receiving and processing centers; . ...

LUNAR ORBITER . ... Descent module mass, kg . ... thrust, kgf . ... The Lunar Orbiter was designed of a descent module, a habitable module containing a dedicated compartment accommodating an attitude control and berthing engines and a docking system mechanism, instrumentation and propulsion and power compartments where rocket stage I and power system equipment working on oxygen-hydrogen propellants were accommodated. ... SEA LAUNCH . LAND LAUNCH | ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

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Text of these problems is available also in other languages : . ... What can one see in the Moon's sky more often - the Sun or the Earth? ... There are about of 250 millions of stars in the elliptical galaxy M32 (a satellite of Andromeda galaxy). ... The masses of Capella's components. ... You are proposed to estimate the masses of Capella's components, using our observational data. ... A galaxy's mass. ... Estimate the mass of FGC 1908 and compare it to the mass of our galaxy. ...

Next: Core-Mass Radius relations Up: Binary Neutron Stars Previous: Evolution in low mass . ... But buffeting from the quadrupole moments induced by convection, causes a finite eccentricity . ... Figure 47: Solid line -- the predicted median eccentricity for pulsars recycled by stable mass transfer from a Roche-lobe-filling, low-mass red giant. Dotted lines -- 95 per cent of the measured eccentricities for recycled pulsars are expected to lie within these [ 29 , 30 ]. ...

... One of this year's largest mass ejections from the Sun's atmosphere was recorded last Sunday by TESIS telescopes aboard the CORONAS-PHOTON satellite ( video - wmv 4.3 MB ). ... Over the course of a week, two gigantic solar prominences were simultaneously ejected from the surface of the Sun. ... Earth will not feel the Sun's influence either. ... The TESIS observatory ї TESIS: www.tesis.lebedev.ru . ... One of this year's largest mass ejections from the Sun's atmosphere (movie WMV, 4.3 MB) . ...