... Our Sun is part of a huge wheel-shaped collection of stars. ... Astronomers have long suspected it was a very massive black hole, and that every galaxy had such a central mass, created early in the history of the universe. ... However, unless that object happens to be headed directly at the black hole (a relatively small target) it will just swing around and fly away again, like a comet making a pass at the Sun. The velocity acquired in falling towards the black hole also helps it escape. ...

... ISC Kosmotras . Top Management Founder of ISC Kosmotras - Dr. Vladimir A. Andreev News . ... Dr. Vladimir A. Andreev, Founder of ISC Kosmotras, Member of the Board . ... Peaceful and rational use of RS-20 ICBMs after their withdrawal from service with the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) has been in the main focus of Dr. Andreev s attention since early 1990s. Dr. Andreev is one of the founders of an international cooperation program and process called the Dnepr Program . ... Dnepr Program . ...

... Visible Distribution of Galaxies. ... Features of Elliptical, Lens-Shaped, Spiral and Irregular Galaxies. Galaxies with Bar. ... Distribution of Surface Brightness of Surface and Spiral Galaxies. ... Color Characteristics of Galaxies. ... Methods of Galaxies' Mass Determination. ... Hidden Mass of Spiral Galaxies. ... Features of Dark Matter Distribution in E and SO Galaxies. ... The Whole Number of Galaxies and Their Density by the Results of Observation on the 'Hubble' Space Telescope. ...

Next: Stealth Comets Up: W.M. Napier Previous: W.M. Napier Contents . ... If material ejected from the Earth contains microorganisms and spores, the question arises whether life may be carried from planet to planet within the solar system. ... However, the solar system is tiny on the scale of the Galaxy, and it has generally been thought that the transfer of life between stars is impossible -- the microorganisms would be destroyed by cosmic rays, ultraviolet light and so on. ...

... Submitted by Al Takeda on 12/24/2012 23:40:10 . Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) . The larger of the 2 Magellanic Clouds, this dwarf galaxy spans an area of 650-minutes x 550-minutes (10-degrees) and is 160,000 light years away on the border of the constellations of Dorado and Mensa. ... The LMC was the host galaxy to supernova 1987A. 7 images x 27-second subframes, Total= 3 minutes 9-seconds. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

Find Similar Abstracts . ... The 'black' regions of the Universe . ... The significance of regions devoid of galaxies (black regions) for the bunching and fragmentation theories of the evolution of the Universe is discussed. ... Using the theory, a lower limit on the average density of the gas remaining in the black regions can be set, based on the finding that eight percent of gas elements are expanding in all three dimensions at the first stage of fragmentation. ...

... The main goals of the society are to maintain the development of astronomy and to reinforce scientific contacts between astronomers of the former Soviet Union and their colleagues all over the world. Official languges of EAAS - Russian and English. ... IV Russian Olympiad on Astronomy and Cosmic Physics for high-school students (April 7-12, 1997, Troitsk, Moscow region, Russia) . ... In Russian. ... Dr. Nikolai G. Bochkarev , Co-chairman of Euro-Asian Astronomical Society, 21.02.1997. ...

... We report on our ongoing project ``Infrared Study of HII Regions Associated with Small Clouds.' ... These IR data, combined with optical imaging (which will be obtained from the IAC-80 telescope), IRAS survey maps, and existing CO observations of the associated clouds, will allow us to undertake a detailed investigation of the gas-to-dust mass ratio, initial mass function and the star-formation efficiency in these complexes. ... CHECKPSF: check the PSF (Point Spread Function) model, . ...

NMW survey overview . Access image archive . ... The New Milky Way survey aims to detect bright (V<13.5) optical transients near the Galactic plane using an automated wide-field (8x6 deg.) system capable of surveying the whole Milky Way area visible from the observing site in one night. ... All images obtained during the transient search survey are available online (please use the image archive access form ). ... Images per field: . ... Images per night: . ... Milky Way imaging time: . ...

... For the past years I have been working on the problem of synthesis of light curves of close binary systems, consisting of a normal star and a compact object (point object with fixed X-ray luminosity). ... Possible existence of a bright spot on the disk's lateral surface is taken into account. ... The last of then will be published in Gordon and Breach Publishers ( Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ... Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Bad Astro Store . ... The Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph is one of the new instruments put on board the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) in February of 1997. ... Imagine my surprise when I added the images together and saw that smudge turn into a beautiful spiral galaxy! ... Just from the picture it is hard to know how far away that galaxy is, but I guess that it is about one billion (1,000,000,000) light years away. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... News . Science news . ... Russian logistics spacecraft Progress M-10M, after two days in free flight, docked with the International Space Station (ISS). ... All dynamic operations were performed under the supervision of the Technical Management (The Technical Manager is the President and Designer General of the S.P. Korolev RSC Energia V.A. Lopota). ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...