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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Posted on January 13, 2012 | No Comments The aurora is a stunning celestial event associated with EarthтАЩs polar regions. ... Continue Reading.. Posted on October 20, 2011 | ... Posted on September 26, 2011 | ... Posted on July 19, 2011 | ... Posted on May 27, 2011 | ... Time was originally defined and quantified through astronomy, and today astronomers are used to glibly talking of vast stretches of time. ...

... 2006 May 11 . Comet Meets Ring Nebula: Part I . ... Explanation: As dawn approached on May 8, astronomer Stefan Seip carefully watched Fragment C of broken comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 approach M57 - the Ring Nebula, and faint spiral galaxy IC 1296 . ... At a distance of 200 million light-years, IC 1296 (between comet and ring) is beyond even the Milky Way's boundaries. ... Tomorrow's picture: part II . ... About APOD | ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ...

Orbital intersection . ... Structure of Taurid stream . ... Meteoroid swarm and Taurid fireballs . ... The following four diagrams schematically show four different Taurid orbits and the orbits of Earth and Jupiter. ... The Taurid stream contains particles (small, solid grains) at different stages of their precession cycles. ... The study of when a meteor stream can produce a meteor shower is the study of when precession brings orbits to intersection with Earth, or e.g. with Mars . ...

. Album : asv-album :: Travels to distant places and countries :: 1997/08 Kyoto, Nara (Japan) :: 23/08 Ryoanji Temple and around . Up . << Prev . Kyoto city, as viewed from the hill. Central part of the panorama. Next >> . Created with the tool photo album generator a MarginalHack by David Madison on Tue Jun 23 14:46:19 2015 .

... December 29, 1997 . The Milky Way in Infrared . Credit: The COBE Project , DIRBE , NASA . ... Until the invention of the telescope , nobody really knew what the "Milky Way" was. About 300 years ago telescopes caused a startling revelation: the Milky Way was made of stars . Only 70 years ago, more powerful telescopes brought the further revelation that the Milky Way is only one galaxy among many. Now telescopes in space allow yet deeper understanding. ... About APOD > . ...

... The task first computes a background image in order to identify pixels that may be part of a source. The task uses two different algorithms for detecting ``point'' and ``extended'' sources. ... If a likely source is found its position and shape parameters are computed by moments and the pixels assigned to the source are set equal to the source number. ... The source is again classified as either ``point'' or ``extended'' from a comparison of its with to that of the PSF width. ...

We present Spitzer observations of the nearby dwarf starburst galaxy NGC 1705 obtained as part of the Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey. ... The nebular metallicity of NGC 1705 falls at the transition level of ~0.35 Zsolar found by Engelbracht and collaborators, below which PAH emission is difficult to detect; the fact that a system at this metallicity shows spatially variable PAH emission demonstrates the complexity of interpreting diffuse 8 О?m emission in galaxies. ...

... 25.09.2009 . ... Credit: St phane Guisard Explanation: From Sagittarius to Scorpius , the central Milky Way is a truly beautiful part of planet Earth's night sky. ... Part of ESO's Gigagalaxy Zoom Project , the images were collected over 29 nights with a small telescope under the exceptionally clear, dark skies of the ESO Paranal Observatory in Chile. ... Publications with keywords: Milky Way - Galactic Center . Publications with words: Milky Way - Galactic Center . ... Microwave Milky Way . ...

... To provide a detailed comparison between the performances of the MOPRA and SEST telescopes at frequencies of 85-113 GHz we have repeated part of the spectral survey of molecular absorption lines which was carried out by Greaves Nyman (1996) with the SEST 15-m telescope using SgrB2 as background source. ... 1-6 June and 15-19 August 1997, BW = 128 MHz, 256 channels, position switching . ... SEST Spectra . ... C 3 H 2 (2-1) . ... on-off . ... HCN(1-0) . ... USB . ... June 1, 1997: gtp_log , tsys_log ....

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... Archives . ... Poisson vs Gaussian . ... Probability density functions are another way of summarizing the consequences of assuming a Gaussian error distribution when the true distribution is Poisson. We can compute the posterior probability of the intensity of a source , when some number of counts are observed in a source region, and the background is estimated using counts observed in a different region. ... Tags: background , gaussian , PDF , Poisson . ... Chandra Blog . ...

... SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... ASP Conference Series . ... Accidental Astrophysics: The Devil's In the Magnitudes, Part II . ... The star second to the Sun in brilliance is Sirius. ... Recall the magnitude system, passed down to us through a hundred generations of sky watchers, as a means of quantifying stellar brightness ("Accidental Astrophysics," May/June, p. 9). ... Yes, it is a magnitude difference, but that difference is due to the distance between us and the star. ...

The project of the informational system creation on the problem of evolution of radio galaxies, as a part of the "Big Trio" project aimed on studing of distant radio galaxies, is designed. This system allows a user to operate with simulated curves of spectral energy distributions (SED) to estimate ages and redshifts by photometry data. Authors use SEDs of several models for different types of galaxies. ... The HTTP and e-mail access is organized to this system. ...

... According to the most popular cosmological paradigm, the greater part of the galaxy mass is accumulated in the dark matter halo. ... The polar ring galaxies (PRGs) reveal external rings or disks of gas, dust and stars rotating in a plane roughly perpendicular to the disk of the central galaxy. ... The shape of the dark halo in the model was chosen so as to achieve the best fit to the observed rotation of both galaxies themselves and their polar rings. ... The SPRC-7 galaxy. ...

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GALAXIES cenA .tiff 40 Bright Radio Galaxy M31.tiff Nikon Andromeda Galaxy (note HII regions in spiral arms) ngc6744.tiff 40 NGC 6744 a face-on spiral clouds_20d.tiff H'blad The Magellanic Clouds our nearest neighbours Lmc_7.tiff Nikon The Large Magellanic Clouds Lmc_zoom.tiff Nikon Detail of previous image smc_7.tiff Nikon The Small Magellanic Clouds smc-zoom.tiff Nikon Detail of previous image 30dor_40_BVR.tiff 40 The 30 Dor ... B [OIII] Halpha trifid.tiff 40" The Trifid Nebula. ...

... Our Sun is part of a huge wheel-shaped collection of stars. ... Astronomers have long suspected it was a very massive black hole, and that every galaxy had such a central mass, created early in the history of the universe. ... However, unless that object happens to be headed directly at the black hole (a relatively small target) it will just swing around and fly away again, like a comet making a pass at the Sun. The velocity acquired in falling towards the black hole also helps it escape. ...

. Pulkovo Observatory of Russian Academy of Sciences is situated . near Saint-Petersburg. It was founded in 1839. 196140, Saint-Petersburg, Pulkovskoye chaussee 65/1 . English version . Russian version . This page has been accessed times since May 1, 1999.

... Ancient Greeks understood it quite well, and they considered astronomy not only as science, but also as art, with its Muse - Urania. ... Pushkin . ... Vulcano Island . ... Vulcano Workshop . ... Jim Beall Tree, Washington . ... Julia Tree, Pushkin . ... Tyumen, St.Peter and Pavel church . ... Binary Star . Binary System of X-ray Pulsar . Disk Accretion onto Magnetized Neutron Star . ... Discovery of X-ray stars . ... X-ray stages of binary evolution and Non X-ray stages of binary evolution . ...