... In the three intervening decades there have been many observations of this diffuse emission over a wide range of x-ray energies. ... During the 1970's researchers at the University of Wisconsin, lead by Dr. William Kraushaar, used a series of sounding rocket flights to map the diffuse x-ray emission from the sky in several bands. ... University of Wisconsin Sky Survey map of the B-band (0.13-0.188 keV) x-ray intensity. ... University of Wisconsin Sky Survey map of the 2-6 keV band x-ray intensity. ...

... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... ESO Acronyms . ... Survey Telescopes . ... ESO Supernova . ... Star Clusters . ... Stars@ESO . ... This video sequence shows the rapid brightening and slower fading of a supernova explosion in the galaxy NGC 1365. The supernova, which has been named SN 2012fr, was discovered by French astronomer Alain Klotz on 27 October 2012. The images compiled to create this sequence were captured by the TAROT telescope at ESOтАЩs La Silla Observatory in Chile. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Hey, it's either this or one of those really irritating PayPal donation buttons here. ... I have always loved supernovae, stars that explode. ... Late in the evening of February 23 rd /24 th * , 1987, an astronomer named Ian Shelton was taking images of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. ... Shortly thereafter, Ian Shelton developed the plates he had been taking of the LMC and immediately saw the new star. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... As example you have only to look at the recent discovery of a supernova by Irish astronomer David Grennan . ... The last confirmed supernova in the Milky Way to be observed was in 1604 (known to history as Kepler ?s Star; it was bright enough to be seen in the daytime sky). €а Ever since then all supernovae examined by astronomers have been denizens of other galaxies. ... Tweets that mention Supernova spotted by Irish astronomer -- Topsy.com . ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... Pulsars . ... Stars ? ... The array was designed to detect compact radio sources such as these by virtue of the fact that they would scintillate (twinkle) when observed from the Earth through the interplanetary medium ? ... One of Antony Hewish?s research students, Jocelyn Bell, was set the task of operating the telescope and inspecting the daily charts for the kind deflections in the trace which occurred when a scintillating source passed over the array. ...

... We have compiled the Catalogue of extragalactic supernovae using the GCVS card catalogue. ... Doubtful (?), or rejected (-) SN 8 A1 --- RemFlag [*] The '*' indicates a remark in sn_rem.dat 10- 19 A10 --- Gal Parent galaxy designation 21- 22 I2 h RAh Right Ascension 1950 of Parent galaxy 23- 24 I2 min RAm Right Ascension 1950 (minutes) 25- 28 F4.1 s RAs Right Ascension 1950 (seconds) 29 A1 --- DE- Declination 1950 (sign) 30- 31 I2 deg DEd Declination 1950 of Parent ...

Check out the new images (Jan 18-25) and (Jan 26-Feb 05) of the comet by Rob McNaught. ... Every few years a comet becomes bright enough to be easily seen with the naked eye but only every decade or so are these comparable with comets like Halley. ... Before Jan 13, the comet is not visible in the Australian sky after sunset. ... SOHO images . ... On Jan 12 at approximately 09:00 UT (8pm NSW time), comet C/2006 P1 McNaught appears at the 11 o'clock position in the images. ... STEREO images . ...

... Комментариев нет 22 августа 2010, 13:58 Blogger , English , Астрономия . ... Neptune will finally complete its first full orbit of the sun since it was discovered in 1846a approximately one year from now, according to NASA estimates. ... Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-21 . ...

... A tussle in the distant Universe. This Hubble Space Telescope image shows evidence for a merger between a quasar and a companion galaxy. The quasar is the bright object just beneath the image center, and the wisps of material around it are remains of a galaxy disrupted by the interaction between it and the quasar. ... Galactic Nuclei: Old Quasars? Quasars as Probes of the Distant Universe . ... Quasars. ... The name quasar is made up with parts of the words "quasi-stellar radio." ...

... at 14 00 on Friday, May 20 , 2005 . 110-th seminar) . ... I.E.Panchenko, V.M.Lipunov , K.A.Postnov, M.E.Prokhorov . ... 30 min . ... News . Discovery SN type Ia on telescope MASTER" (V.M.Lipunov) . ... The secretary of the seminar - M.E.Prokhorov . Access free (code 2197) . Abstracts and INTERNET Subscribe possible at . ...

... Telegrams || ... Revnivtsev, M., Lutovinov, A., Ebisawa, K., ''IGR J16358-4726 in archival data of ASCA and BeppoSAX'' , Astronomer's Telegram, 2003, 131 . ... Lutovinov, A., Kretschmar, P., Budtz-Joergensen, C., Domingo, A., Schoenfelder, V., Palumbo, G., Winkler, C. ``INTEGRAL observation of SLX1746-331'' , Astronomer's Telegram, 2003, 145 . ... Grebenev, S.A., Sunyaev, R.A. ``High actvity of XTE J1743-363 detected with INTEGRAL'' , Astronomer's Telegram, 2004, 332 . ... 2016 IKI RAN ...

CONSTRAINING LONG-TERM AND SPATIAL VARIABILITY OF THE PN LOW ENERGY RESPONSE WITH RXJ1856 (IUSS Pavia; INAF, IASF-Milano) In collaboration with: N. Sartore, S. Mereghetti, A. De Luca, R. Turolla, F. Haberl Andrea Tiengo RX J1856.5-3754 (RXJ1856) Brightest of the "Magnificent Seven", or X-ray Dim Isolated Neutron Stars (XDINSs) (e.g. Turolla 2009 f or a review) The closest known neutron star: d ~120 pc