... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Star Atlas . ... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... The planet has extreme temperature swings and perhaps active lava flows. ... A digital supplement to Astronomy magazine. ... Join TravelQuest International with Astronomy and Discover magazines on one of three great tour options surrounding this celestial spectacle . ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

Halley's Comet . Spacecraft that have visited Halley's Comet . ... Then in 1984 and 1985, five spacecraft from the USSR, Japan and Europe were launched to make a rendezvous with Halley's Comet in 1986. ... This image is a mosaic of 8 images taken by the Giotto spacecraft during the Halley encounter on March 13, 1986. ... Courtesy NASA/JPL) . ... Halley's Comets in 1986 . This image of Halley's Comets was taken during its 1986 appearance. ... Cylindrical Map of the Nucleus of Comet Halley . ...

A team of U.S. and German astrophysicists have made the first ever detection of X-rays coming from a comet. ... Following the initial detection, the team reported repeated X-ray emissions from the comet over the next 24 hours. ... One preliminary theory is that X-ray emission from the Sun was absorbed by a cloud of gaseous water molecules surrounding the nucleus of the comet, and then were re-emitted by the molecules in a process physicists call "fluorescence." ... Comets . ...

... LP-Moon.pdf - 26KB . ... A. A. Berezhnoy1,2, N. Hasebe1, M. Kobayashi1, G. Michael3 and N. Yamashita1 1Advanced Research Institute for Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan 2Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow, Russia 3German Aerospace Center, Institute for planetary research, Berlin, Germany . Brown University - Vernadsky Institute Microsymposium 40, 2004, Moscow, Russia . ... 3Now at: Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Moscow, Russia . ...

... For the first time I was in the Observatory (Crimea) . ... The University - my dream! ... 1995 October. ... Soros's fellowship for post-grads for the first time . ... 1998 April. ... I am included into the first list of ten prominent russian young scientists by the magazine "What is new in science and technology". ... Prize for young scientists of the Moscow State University. ... 2015 Short-listed for the national prize "For fidelity to science" as the best science popularizer (the 2nd at the end) ....

... Exoplanet Atmosphere and TTV Science , K. Collins at NASA Goddard, August 2011 . ... MAGPI , April 14, 2011 . The Southern Skies Digital Science Partnership , B. Carter, C. Brown, R. Hart, D. Foster, J. Kielkopf, and R. Moore (Astronomical Society of Australia, July 2007) . ... Kent Observatory , B. Carter, C. Brown, R. Duncan, D. Foster, R. Hart, J. Kielkopf, P. Martin, M. Mengel, R. Moore, S. Sinclair, K. Treschman, and I. Waite (Astronomical Society of Australia, July 2006) . ...

... 2015 - 2016 . ... Eugene Higgins Professor of Astrophysics, Princeton University . ... December 8, 2015 . ... November 10, 2015 . ... University of the Sciences in Philadelphia author . ... Amateur Astronomer . ... 2014 - 2015 . ... June 9, 2015 . ... Digital Planetarium and the 2012 Transit of Venus from Hawaii . 2013 - 2014 . ... International Occultation Timing Association . ... 2012 - 2013 . ... 2011 - 2012 . ... Princeton University . ... Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton, Inc., ...

Chandra X-Ray Observatory CXC 1. ... E0102: Joint Fits with ACIS S3, MOS1/2 & pn Paul Plucinsky, Joseph DePasquale, & Steve Snowden Paul Plucinsky 1 EPIC Cal April 2007 Chandra X-Ray Observatory 1. ... E0102: Gratuitous Pretty Pictures of E0102 S3 Summed Data ~100 ks CXC RGS Spectrum (Pollock 2006) Objective: develop a spectral model which can be used by RGS, HETG, EPIC & ACIS, etc. ...

RADIOASTROPHYSICAL DEPARTMENT • INSTITUTE OF SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS RAS SB . ... SSRT - Possibilities of observing . ... Investigations of the SSRT 5.7 GHz radio maps in conjunction with images obtained in other emission ranges, suggested the following conclsions: . ... Solar images obtained in line H a ;(on the left, 16:11 UT, Big Bear observatory) and in the microwave emission (on the right, 04:04 UT, SSRT) 4 march 1997 . ...

... Laboratory for Spectroscopy of Molecular Structures . ... News . ... A new article entitled Description of optical properties of cholesteric photonic liquid crystals based on Maxwell equations and Kramers-Kronig relations has appeared in Physical Review E. Congratulations to Grigoriy Ksyonz on his first publication! . 25 th February 2013 . ... 22 nd November 2012 . ... 22 nd February 2012 . 4 th Workshop on Liquid Crystals for Photonics 2012 will take place in Hong Kong December 9-11, 2012. ...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... 2/3-m Telescope . ... Winer . Papers . ... Mutel, R.L. and Fix, J.D., 2000, An Optical Search for Small Comets , Journal Geophys. ... Mutel, R.L., Gayley, K.G., and Fix, J.D., 2001, Reply to Frank Sigwarth , Journal Geophys. ... Mutel, R.L. and Fix, J.D., 2003, Comment on 'Detection of Small Comets with a Ground Based Telescope' by Frank and Sigwarth , Journal Geophys. ... Arizona 85637-0797 . ... 2013 Winer Observatory. ...

ESO PR 06/96; 16 February 1996 . ... In the early morning of January 31, 1996, Japanese amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake made his second comet discovery within five weeks. ... Information about some earlier comet encounters may be found in the Appendix at the end of this Press Release. ... By a straightforward extrapolation of the current brightness, it would appear that Comet Hyakutake will reach magnitude 1 on March 25, 1996, at the time of the closest approach to the Earth. ...

... Jay Apt (Ph.D.) . NASA Astronaut (Former) . ... PUBLICATIONS: Dr. Apt shared his images and knowledge in the publication Earth in Orbit : NASA Astronauts Photograph the Earth , written in conjunction with NASA scientists Michael Helfert and Justin Wilkinson and published by the National Geographic Society. ... From 1976 to 1980 he was a staff member of the Center for Earth & Planetary Physics, Harvard University, supporting NASA s Pioneer Venus Mission by making temperature maps of Venus from Mt. ...

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Follow-up astrometry and recoveries are made with the ANU 40 inch (1.0-m) f/8 reflector at Siding Spring Observatory (IAU code 413). ... A routine follow-up of 2003 WY153 on 2003 Dec 15 became much more than routine when a faint object with unusual motion vector was found close to the target asteroid. ... During routine astrometry with the 1.0-m to improve the orbit of the Apollo asteroid 2004 CB, the asteroid was found on March 30 to have a short tail! ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

Independent University of Moscow . Institute for Problems in Mechanics (RAS) . Algorithmic problems in low-dimensional topology, knot theory, analysis on manifolds with singularities. February 11, 2003 "Undecidable problems in low-dimensional topology" (M.M. Postnikov seminar) Moscow. March 28, 2003 "Viro-Turaev invariants folloroing Matveev" (Natanzon-Sheinman-Schwartzman seminar), Moscow. ... Moscow, 1997 (in Russian, jointly with V.Prasolov), 352 pages. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bad Astronomy : Comets whiz across the sky in a few seconds. Good astronomy : Comets appear to move very slowly, usually taking days to noticeably move. ... The orbital periods of comets are measured in years; the most famous comet of all, Comet Halley (usually--- and incorrectly-- called ``Halley's Comet''), takes about 76 years to orbit the Sun just once. ... Now, when a comet gets near the Earth, it tends to be moving pretty quickly. ... Want to know more about comets? ...

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 . ...

... Elena Seifina and Lev Titarchuk "On the nature of the compact object in SS433: observational evidence of X-ray photon index saturation" 2010, Astrophysical. ... A.M. Cherepashchuk, R.A. Sunyaev, E.V. Seifina, E.A. Antokhina, D.I. Kosenko, S.V. Molkov, N.I. Shakura, K.A. Postnov, A.N. Timokhin, I.E. Panchenko "INTEGRAL Observations of SS433: Analysis of Precessional and Orbital X-ray Periodicities" 2007, 6th INTEGRAL Workshop, Eds. S. Grebenev, R.A. Sunyaev, p.411 (astro-ph/0610235) . ...

... Future seminars . ... Abstract . ... A. Dyachenko (ITP RAS) . ... Professor S.I. Popel (Institute for Dynamics of Geospheres RAS) . ... Leonid Ksanfomaliti (IKI) . ... Prof. Sir Ian Axford (Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Katlenburg-Lindau) . ... Professor Wang Chi ( China Academy of Sciences Center of Space Research ) . ... April, 21 (Thursday) . ... A.V. Gordeev (Russian Research Center “Kurchatov Institute”), T.V. Losseva (Institute of Geospheres Dynamics RAS) . ...