... Supernovae physics (from Wikipedia ): A supernova is a stellar explosion that creates an extremely luminous object that is initially made of plasma ionized form of matter. ... The explosion expels much or all of a star's material at a velocity of up to a tenth the speed of light, driving a shock wave into the surrounding interstellar gas. ... Working on a time series of images in the Large Magellanic Cloud he detected a flaring star, possibly a supernova located in a distant galaxy behind the LMC. ...

... About the Sky Map Online, professional edition . The professional version of the Sky Map Online was reflected as the tool for amateure astronomers and for professional astronomers It provides the creation of maps with the magnitude limit for stars up to 21-st magnitude (limit of the First POSS) and field size from several arcmins to 80 by 60 degrees, what makes possible to use it for the following goals: . ... Guiding stars selection. ... Such objects are not recommended to use as guiding stars. ...

The Russian Parliament will soon consider a bill that would restructure the Russian space program, 35 years after the launch оf Sputnik. ... But the legislation's most striking and controversial feature is a provision that would ban testing and deployment оf space weapons ? including anti-satellite weapons and space-based missile interceptors. ... A draft bill was written by a group of experts within the Moscow Space Club, several of whom now work on space issues with the Russian Parliament. ...

Exhibition of the creative work of the participants of the international project " Beautiful places - open hearts" 2001-2002 . We kindly invite you to admire creative work of pupils from all over the world, to assess their creativity, to read their verses, to look at their drawings and their visiting cards, and write to them letters! We invite you to take part in the international educational projects of the Centre of Education in 2002/2003. Zelenogorsk, Russia . ... Washington, USA . ...

... After passing degree work in MAO of NAS of of USSR Sosonkin has received the recommendation for receipt in post-graduate course of M??. ... Subjects of his scientific work were use of new receivers of radiation, in particular of electron-optical converters at observant astronomy. ... On industrial base FTI Sosonkin has created installation on base EOC UM - 92 for Cassegrain focus of a telescope ?ZT-2 and similar to it and installation with the same type EOC for focus of Newton. ...

... Version 1.13.1 - 2001-07-25 (UL) -------------- + fixed problem of SPR 2130: Fails to compile with NAG F95 4.1 + consistent use of namespace std in C++ sources + added layout file Version 1.13 - 2001-03-29 (GV) ------------ + (src/rgsoffsetcalc_mod.f90::storeFit) remove call to OAL_releasememory, as the pointer TIME belongs to the DAL and should not be released by the OAL. ... Version 1.11 - 2000-06-29 (GV) ------------ + (test/*) updated the test datasets as these must now have a BLANK attribute. ...

... Space flight . ... Space Hotel . ... Small orbital stations (SOS) are intended for the arrangement of flexible manned programs on commercial basis with the possibility of using the traditional Russian manned , cargo spacecrafts, their modifications and new modules oriented for the minimum costs and terms of orbital objects development . оThe principle of SOS building is as follows: it is developed not as a separate self-sufficient project of an ... It means a possibility of: . ...

Drawing and Part Configuration Management and Release Procedures: . ... Context: This procedure is intended for use by APO Telescope Drafting and Engineering personnel for the development, release and maintenance of telescope related models, drawings, and other controlled documents to facilitate the sharing of information between the various institutions and personnel that have need of technical information and engineering files regarding APO telescope design and development. ... Release Procedure: . ...

Astronomical Society of the Pacific Announces 2007 Award Winners in Astronomy Research and Education . The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) announced today the eight winners of its 2007 awards for excellence in astronomy research and education. The ASP's most prestigious award, the Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal for lifetime achievement in astronomy has been awarded to Martin Harwit, Professor Emeritus of Astronomy, Cornell University. ...

RUSSIAN-AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH SCHOOL MICRO-SATELLITE "KOLIBRI-2000": BASIC RULES of DEVELOPMENT . A characteristic feature of the project "Kolibri-2000" is the solution of the task of using micro-satellites in the interests of improving school education and involving schoolchildren in space technologies. ... A radioline in the radio amateur frequency range is employed on Kolibri-2000 to dump scientific payload data to the participants in the Project. ...

... I attend school 1413 11A grade. This is my first attempt to create such kind of project, so please don't take to serious all my mistakes - they are made because of unexpirience. ... Some materials of this site were taken partly from English textbooks ("Enterprise", "First Certificate Star", "Fast Track to FCE"), partly from newspapers, magazines and Vredno.ru , and other facts are written after stories and emotions of experienced friends . ... Designed by Kat , 2002 gora-ru@mail.ru ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . MainљPage . ... Classes . ... Stellarium Developers Documentation . ... This documentation is targetted at developers of scripts, plugins and the core program. ... Those classes have a single instance created at startup by the ::main() function. ... Because many Stellarium components derive from the StelModule class, the main loop is able to treat them generically by calling their standard methods such StelModule::update() and StelModule::draw() at each program iteration. ...

SAI VO . ... SAI CAS . ... Web Services . Catalog Access Services . ... SAI CAS Wiki . SAI Web Services . ... Development . arXiv.org Search . ... Astronomical Thesaurus . ... We are working on the following projects, which we consider as of BETA quality: . ... PLASTIC interface to SAI CAS . ... We created a simple PLASTIC-ized interface to SAI CAS for communication between ConeSearch and any other plasticized VO tools , such as locally-running TOPCAT , The Aladin Sky Atlas. ... SAI MSU | ...

The first persistent Web agent that we have created on Actor Prolog is a program that collects information about research groups that develop Prolog and projects in the field of logic programming. The agent looks through a given list of Web sites and calculates some attributes of the sites: the date of recent modification, total size, the number of figures, the number of outside links, the number of error links, the number of given keywords, etc. ... http://www.cplire.ru/Lab144/space/prolog.html . ...

. Photo 6. After all in the working room 2130 of the St.Petersburg University Campus on August 12th, 2001. From left to right -- Andrei Sobolev (a guest), Pavel Litvinov, Sergei Beletsky, Victor Tishkovets. Created on 08/01/02 by V.I.

It is a great honour and pleasure for me to talk from this tribune. ... This year I was lucky to present a Soros lecture on the reginal conference in Tyumen in the frame of the programm "Professional contacts". ... When people want to make something new it is a great thing to colloborate, to communicate with other people. ... The ideas of free creation live in Russia, and I hope we can try to build an Open society, the society without ksenophobia, without fear of new ideas, without fear of the future. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Solar System . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... By admin January 21, 2011 Posted in: Robot Exploration . A UFO hovers in the Martian sky (Image credit:NASA/JPL) . The car-sized Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity is too heavy to slam into the rocky plains of Mars encased in airbags like its predecessors, so this imaginative and complex system was devised instead. ... Is there a video anywhere on the internet of a test of the ?sky crane? rockets? ...

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. ...

The picture above was made with this demo POV file and this curtain rod object POV file . This is a macro for creating a shower curtain rod of any specified length, with base plates for mounting both ends to parallel walls. The rod shown in the top portion of the image was made with shower_curtain_rod(6) and is six units long, base plate to base plate. ... This web page, the associated image(s), and POV files are all copyright 2004 by Thomas A. Fine (that's me!) ...

In Memory of Vsevolod Gantmakher . ... Having received his Ph.D. in 1964, V. Gantmakher continued work at the Institute of Solid State Physics (ISSP) of the USSR Academy of Sciences, which had been founded a year before. For the next three years, he worked on his D.Sc. thesis at IPP. ... For many years, as an outstanding personality and highest scientific authority, V.Gantmakher made a remarkable contribution to creating a friendly atmosphere and a creative approach to the research work at ISSP. ...