So how do we find objects on the other side of the Universe? ... The latest instruments enable us to scan large areas of sky. Using Cerro Tololo's Blanco 4m telescope and the Canada-France-Hawaii 3.5 metre telescope , we are able to scan a piece of sky larger than the size of the moon every 5 minutes to a faintness level which allows us to find Type Ia supernovae halfway across the Universe. Type Ia supernovae are very rare - but each image we take contains 50000 galaxies. ...

... The search for distant objects which can be both galaxies and quasars is one of the most important problems of observational astrphysics, because it allows one to determine cosmological parameters connected with the time of appearence and evolution of stellar systems, large scale structure of the Universe. ... Radio galaxies are important objects to be studied because they are sources of infrared-optical-ultraviolet continuum, emission lines and continual radio emission. ...

Two groups are measuring distant supernovae with the goal of determining whether the Universe is open or closed by measuring the curvature in the Hubble diagram. The figure below shows both data sets: Perlmutter et al. (1997) and (1998) in black and Garnavich et al. (1997) in orange. The curves show a closed Universe (Omega = 2) in red, the critical density Universe (Omega = 1) in black, the empty Universe (Omega = 0) in green, and the steady state model in blue. ... Tutorial : Part 1 | ...

... This gives us another handle on how distant the stars are. ... Stars differ not only in distance, but also in apparent brightness. ... Ranking stars by brightness . ... The brightness of the star decreases as the square of the distance. ... At what distance would a 100-watt light bulb have the same brightness as the brighter stars? ... So if the distance of the 100-watt light bulb was 5 kilometers, the distance of the brighter stars would be 10,000,000,000,000 kilometers, or about a light-year. ...

... Todays crew: Connie, Shu-i, Lrry, Mark, Dave, Jon Brinkmann and helpful instrument hints from Jim Gunn . The back end of the echelle is prepared to lift to the observing level. ... The crew begins to lower the back end down into the hold area and to the rear of the echelle. ... Getting ready to remove the plexiglass cover on the tank and the plate across the back end. ... The back end meets the tank and Connie and Shu-i tighten the mounting bolts. ...

Physicists have been honored by having their picture on currency in many countries around the world. ... Marie and Pierre Curie (Marie: 1867-1934, Pierre: 1859-1906) appear on the French 500 franc note. ... The greatest physicist of this century, Einstein not only invented the theories of special relativity (behavior of rapidly moving object) and general relativity (theory of gravitation), but made fundamental contributions to the beginnings of quantum theory. ... For a bio, click here . ... 100 K) . ...

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... Comments: 4 pages, 1 figures, appears in "Neutron Stars in Supernova Remnants" (ASP Conference Proceedings), eds P. O. Slane and B. M. Gaensler, 200 . Дается короткий обзор наблюдений остатков сверхновых на спутнике ROSAT. ... astro-ph/0208498 . ... Открытие разрешенного остатка сверхновой в M31 с борта Chandra (The Discovery of a Spatially-Resolved Supernova Remnant in M31 with Chandra) . ... Нейтронные звезды в остатках сверхновых и снаружи (Neutron Stars in Supernova Remnants and Beyond) . ...

... Spherical aberration, coma, and astigmatism are also easily observed using the star test. ... Off-axis images are complex. ... Fig. ... Diffraction by a circular aperture as a function of defocus for no aberration Airy Disk 1 wave defocus Less than 1 wave defocus Fig. ... Diffraction by a circular aperture as a function of defocus for third-order spherical aberration Paraxial Focus Small distance inside paraxial focus Moderate distance from marginal focus Immediate neighborhood of marginal focus Fig...

Solar Large-Scale Chains: Some Events . ... The chains appear to light up separators or quasi-separatrix layers between different interacting large-scale magnetic flux systems in the global solar magnetosphere and, in particular, to outline large-scale coronal structures involved in the CME process. ... Some features of the chains and their relations to CMEs are illustrated for a number of halo CME-associated events. 23 events of 1997-2000 . ... Halo-CME-associated events of November 1997 . ...

ECLIPSES, TRANSITS OF MERCURY AND VENUS . Year 1999 . Year 2000 . Year 2001 . Year 2002 . Year 2003 . Year 2004 . Year 2005 . ... Total solar eclipse . ... Transit of Mercury across the solar disk . ... Total lunar eclipse . ... Partial solar eclipse . ... Partial lunar eclipse . ... Annular solar eclipse . ... Penumbral lunar eclipse . ... big map . ... Transit of Venus across the solar disk . ... Annular-total solar eclipse . ... Non-central annular solar eclipse . ...

[an error occurred while processing this directive] . Home . Watchouts . Software requirements . Installation . Download . Documentation . Calibration . Help . Yes, you are probably right, although they are often also nicely self-explaining. Maybe, your SAS-ual life can be eased, if you type on the command line: . task -d . A GUI parameter dialog window will appear. Pages maintained by SAS librarian . Any question about SAS should be addressed to the XMM-Newton help desk . Updated on: November 18, 2006

THE ARGUMENT AGAINST LONG EXTRAGALACTIC DISTANCE SCALE Gaseous discs of S0 -- Sd galaxies appears to be gravitationally stable or close to stability. Dependence of the gravitational stability parameter of gaseous disc $M_g/M_c$ upon the color index $(B-V)^0_T$ which reflects a relative number of young stars, is found. Here $M_g$ is total mass of gas in a galaxy, $M_c$ - mass of gas which corresponds to marginal stability of gaseous disc at distances from center. ...

... 295, 2003 H. E. Payne, R. I. Jedrzejewski, and R. N. Hook, eds. Desmearing Solar System Ob jects in Chandra Data R. Hain, J. McDowell, A. Rots, K. Glotfelty, S. Wolk Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138 Abstract. Observations by the Chandra X-Ray Observatory are made in a coordinate frame that is essentially fixed. ... An effect of this processing is that non-solar system ob ject X-ray sources are also displayed in the new, moving coordinate system. ...

To Do List ========== November 10, 2007 =============== Progress in base code not yet on this site will appear in the next beta version released here. ... Features in development for the next stable release include TDI with absolute timing Binning and subarea readout Autoguiding with the tracking control and adaptive optics features XML based server/client for remote use Command line version Browser version Connection to XmTel and XEphem for coordinate information in FITS headers ...

... The event, a Type II supernova explosion, would have briefly dominated the night sky on Earth. ... Popularly known as the Veil Nebula, NGC 6960, NGC 6992, and NGC 6995 together constitute the corpse of a single supergiant star that perished in that supernova explosion. ... Such stars age about 1,000 times faster than does our Sun. ... Each nuclear-fusion stage releases energy and helps the star fight the ever-present pull of gravity. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... 13, Moscow 119992, Russian Federation, e-mail: busarev@sai.msu.ru; 2 Research Institute Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, p/o Nauchnyi, Crimea 334413, Ukraine, e-mail: prok@crao.crimea.ua Summary: We propose a combined method of astronomical investigations of small or distant planets incorporating registration of a set of integral spectra of an object and their frequency analysis. ... An application of the method is shown on example of asteroid 21 Lutetia. ... 6] Busarev V. V. (2002), Solar Sys. ...

Title: A New Model of the Gravitational Lens 0957+561 and a Limit on the Hubble Constant . Authors: Norman A. Grogin , Ramesh Narayan (Harvard Univ.) ... Title: ROSAT/PSPC observation of the distant cluster CL0939+472 . ... Title: Interaction in the Bimodal Galaxy Cluster A3528 . ... Title: Cosmological Implications of Galaxy Cluster Evolution . ... Title: Galaxy Cluster Virial Masses and Omega . ... Matches 201 to 222 from a total of 222 matches for the search pattern galaxy cluster . ...

NASA Johnson Space Center Oral History Project . Photos provided by NASA JSC Image Repository and Terry Slezak . ... from the primary NASA humidity-controlled cold storage vault built for the permanent preservation of spaceflight films. ... the other vault, situated in a remote corner of the NASA property, is used to store a complete duplicate set of the films, . ... at 0 F (-18 C) and 20% RH, houses a second duplicate set of backup copies and documentation of the spaceflight films. ...

... Series 4000 filters thread into the barrels of virtually all 1.25" eyepiece brands. Meade Series 4000 filters are a large 26mm in clear aperture and are manufactured from the purest crown optical glass, dyed-in-the-mass ( not "color coated"); there are no finer filters available for telescopic applications. ... For visual applications Series 4000 filters thread into the barrels of all Meade 1.25" eyepieces, and into the barrels of virtually all other 1.25" eyepiece brands as well. ... Meade 4M | ...