... It does not seem a far-fetched notion.The Soviet Union began the Space Age with an early lead over the Americans.The first satellite in orbit, first man in space, first spacewalk and first probes to the Moon were all achieved by the USSR.In 1967, NASAтАЩs Apollo project appeared to be faltering following the deaths of three astronauts in an accident which had indicated fatal flaws in the spacecraft design. ... The moon project was led by Sergei Korolev, architect of the early Soviet space successes....

... I?ve been joking about the astronomers? fashion in writing Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) . Frequently, MCMC was represented by Monte Carlo Markov Chain in astronomical journals. ... stat.CO:0808.2902] A History of Markov Chain Monte Carlo?Subjective Recollections from Incomplete Data? by C. Robert and G. Casella . Abstract: In this note we attempt to trace the history and development of Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) from its early inception in the late 1940?s through its use today. ...

... Behemoth black hole found in an unlikely place . ... galaxies . ... black holes . ... Biggest black hole blast discovered . This is the first time that a quasar outflow has been measured to have the sort of high energies predicted by theory. ... Quasars are the intensely luminous centers of distant galaxies that are powered by huge black holes. ... The newly discovered outflow lies about a thousand light-years away from the supermassive black hole at the heart of quasar SDSS J1106+1939. ...

... A technique allowing automatic representation by a relatively small number of independent parameters based on the principal component analysis of data sequences is presented. ... In recent years the spectrum of observed astronomical data can be characterized as greatly varied. ... In this instance, the problem of initial description and classification of newly-observed data becomes most urgent, especially if there is a lack of preliminary observational material and theoretical expectations. ...

The AstroGuide . ... AstroGuide | ... News | ... AstroGuide Listing . ... See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . The Carter Observatory is located in the Botanic Gardens of Wellington, the capital city of New Zealand. It was opened in December 1941, and owes its origin to funds left by the business-man, farmer, and politician Charles Rooking Carter. ... New Zealand (Aotearoa) . ... 64 4 472 8167 . ... Web Site . ... dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

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... The spectrum of the brightest star, our Sun, shows several dark gaps perpendicular to the flow of it’s colours (figure 1). These so called spectral absorption lines where discovered in 1802 by the English scientist William Wollaston. ... Some stars as Pollux show a spectrum similar to that of our sun with strong Ca II and Fe II lines, others as Sirius or Vega show strong absorption lines of hydrogen, others, as Mira show very complicated spectra due to molecular absorption lines (see figure 5). ...

... We have imaged with milliarcsecond resolution at 5 GHz 374 strong flat-spectrum radio sources north of declination -44 using the VLBA in June 1996. ... The data were processed with the NRAO AIPS software package and the Caltech Difmap package. ... The VLBApls source sample . ... Click on the J2000 IAU name (in the left column) or the alternative name (mostly B1950 IAU names, in the right column) to get more information on a source, including coordinates, redshift, VLBApls images and model components...

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