. NASA's Kepler spacecraft, launched in March 2009, is designed to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars. In the process it is capturing large quantities of data on the target stars which is used not only to search for planets but also to study stars in general. The results from NASA's Kepler spacecraft provide us with new information on a number of specific phenomena related to our fundamental knowledge of stars, their internal properties and evolution in time. NASA

... Protoplanetary Disks and the Hunt for the Youngest Exoplanets . ... Thursday, Apr 14, 2011 at 8:00 PM . ... But associating the current exoplanet properties with their formation epoch can be problematic, since the formation process is intimately associated with the physical conditions associated with their birthplaces: the disks of gas and dust that orbit young stars. ... Apr . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

Hide Zen home . ... sncat2sntab.pl - convert old catalog to table sn . ... CREATE TABLE cats ( id integer PRIMARY KEY, name text ); -- a list of properties of galaxy CREATE TABLE properties ( id integer PRIMARY KEY, name text ); CREATE TABLE galaxy ( id integer PRIMARY KEY, name text ); CREATE TABLE galaxy _property ( gid integer REFERENCES galaxy (id), pid integer REFERENCES properties(id), value float, UNIQUE( gid ,pid) ); CREATE t=# select * from galaxy; id | ...

... The SCORPIO-2 project: . ... Moiseev A.V. 2015, Astrophysical Bulletin, 70, 494; Russian PDF ; arXiv:1511.03886 ; . ... 2015, Astronomy Letters, 41, 646; ADS link . ... 2015, MNRAS, 454, 2486; arXiv:1508.05274 ; ADS link . ... Ivanova O., Neslusan L., Krisandova Z. S., Svoren J., Korsun P., Afanasiev V., Reshetnyk V., Andreev M. 2015, Icarus, 258, 28; arXiv:1508.05207 ; ADS link . ... Afanasiev V. L., Popovic L. C. 2015, ApJ, 800L, 35; arXiv ; ADS link . ... 2015, AJ, 149, 155; arXiv ; ADS link . ...

... at the ISSP RAS. ... MSU student Kostretsova N.B. successfully defended her thesis entitled "Investigation of Thermal and Chemial Expansivity of Ceria-Based Solid Solutions". ... V.A. Kolotygin successfully defended his PhD thesis "Perovskite-Like Oxide and Composite Anode Materials for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells: Functional Properties and Electrochemical Behavior in Contact with Gallate- and Silicate-Based Solid Electrolytes" and was awarded PhD degree in the area of Materials Science and Engineering ....

... The study of the Large-scale structure of the Universe and measurements of the Dark Energy equation of state; The exploration of the growth and cosmological evolution of supermassive Black holes in the Universe. ... In course of the all sky survey SRG will discover about 100 000 galaxy clusters and 3 million AGNs. Galaxy clusters are the largest gravitationally bounded objects in the Universe and are best explored through the study of X-ray emission from the hot intergalactic gas. ... 2016 IKI RAN ...

... The main topics of the Conference were: 1. ... Asteroid-comet hazard (origin and dynamic evolution of objects approaching the Earth, observations, physical properties, cataloguing, data bases, estimation of collision probability with the Earth and other bodies). ... 5) In this connection the problem of concluding the international political agreement within the frames of UN about common active counteractions to the bodies on the orbits leading to collisions with the Earth is urgent. ...

... Recent studies indicate that stars are most likely forming within the binary and multiple systems. ... During several years we are conducting the observations of such multiple stellar systems at the BTA telescope in order to find their companions and study the properties therein. ... This star is interesting in that it may be a dynamically unstable multiple star, meaning that over time, such systems will split into individual stars. ... A bright component is a very tight spectroscopic binary star. ...

... News . ... Pre-university education . ... Samara region . SSAU History . SSAU roadmap . ... Scientists of Samara University (joined SSAU and of SSU) have designed new materials for accumulator batteries, that will allow us to refuse from the use of a relatively scarce and expensive lithium in favour of a more widespread and cheap metals. ... Calculations of properties for the future substances are made with the use of a software system ToposPro, developed by the scientists of ICTMS. ...

USSR Venus Orbiters . ... Venera 15 and Venera 16 were a two-spacecraft mission designed to use 8-centimeter (3-inch) band, side-looking radar mappers to study the surface properties of Venus . ... Each spacecraft consisted of a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and a radio altimeter. ... The Venera 15 and 16 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems were identical, and were used to map the surface of Venus at a resolution of 1 to 2 kilometers (.6 to 1.2 miles) over a period of 8 months. ...

Class 1 Introduction, Background History of Modern Astronomy The Night Sky, Eclipses and the Seasons Kepler's Laws Newtonian Gravity General Relativity Matter and Light Telescopes Class 2 Solar System Characteristics Formation Exosolar Planets Class 3 Stars The S un Stellar Evolution of Low and High Mass Stars Deaths of Stars Exotic Stars Class 4 Galaxies Galaxy Classification Formation of Galaxies Galactic ... Low mass stars live and die differently than high mass stars. ...