Astronomy Picture of the Day . Signals of a Strange Universe . ... Credit Copyright: High-Z Supernova Search Team , HST , NASA Explanation: Eleven years ago results were first presented indicating that most of the energy in our universe is not in stars or galaxies but is tied to space itself. ... Suggestions of a cosmological constant (lambda) were not new -- they have existed since the advent of modern relativistic cosmology . ... 2009 2010 . ... Publications with keywords: universe - cosmology . ...

... 2013 May 14 . Galaxy Collisions: Simulation vs Observations . Images Credit: NASA , ESA ; Visualization: Frank Summers ( STScI ); Simulation: Chris Mihos ( CWRU ) Lars Hernquist ( Harvard ). Explanation: What happens when two galaxies collide? Although it may take over a billion years, such titanic clashes are quite common. ... Pictured above is a computer simulation of two large spiral galaxies colliding , interspersed with real still images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope . ...

... An international facility to store, catalogue and digitise photographic plates is under development at the Royal Observatory of Belgium in Uccle-Brussels. ... The international workshop "A European Plate Centre" took place in March 2000 at the Royal Observatory of Belgium in Uccle (ROB), one year after the international workshop "Treasure Hunting in Astronomical Plate Archives" , held at Sonneberg Observatory, Germany (Kroll, la Dous, & Br?uer 1999; la Dous 1999). ...

... Recent Topics . ... Forum . MAO main . ... Fw: Actions directed to stop Russian aggression against Ukraine . ... Subject: Re: Actions directed to stop Russian aggression against Ukraine . ... Actions directed to stop Russian aggression against Ukraine" and I hope . ... around Ukraine is very dangerous indeed and who thinks that together we . ... Board Categories MAO main - Info - MAO - news - Flame Technical - Technical Support(Forum)(Техподдержка(Форум)) . ... Powered by Kunena Forum . ...

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Mercury Summer 2011 Table of Contents . ... A Hubble Space Telescope view of a segment of the Coma Cluster of galaxies, one of the densest known galaxy collections in the universe. ... In 1998, competing teams of astronomers were forced to come to grips with increasingly convincing observations that the expansion of the universe was accelerating , rather than decelerating (as they expected). ... Its discovery resulted directly from measurements of the distances to remote galaxies. ...

... MASTER Net is 56 square degrees per 1 exposition . ... 06 Dec 2015: GRB 151205B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18665 . ... 18 Nov 2015: GRB 151118A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18613 . ... 12 Nov 2015: GRB 151112A: MASTER-NET optical limit GCN18591 . ... 07 Nov 2015: GRB 151107A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18565 . ... 31 Oct 2015: Five OTs detected by Global Robotic MASTER Net ATel8232 . ... 02 Oct 2015: GRB 151001B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18380 . ...

... ,E_=v_B_z,B_z0 Light cylinder at RL U = electric voltage created by rotating BH I = large scale current I U LK Centrifugal acceleration in BH magnetosphere Assume `reasonable' B and E fields, from current I : Bz = 0 = v/v 1 Motion of a test particle P ( ) Light cylinder Pz() P() z() Here = 0.01 and = rc,i/RL = 0.01 Growth of particle Lorentz factor ( ) log k At light cylinder : = Here with initial value is the absolute maximal reachable by this process (ie no ...

The potential of plasma By Lisa Tidwell Astronaut Franklin Chang-Diaz, Director of the Advanced Space Propulsion Laboratory, works on the VASIMR engine. jsc2003e49523 Photo by James Blair Scott Winter, from Safety, Reliability & Quality Assurance, makes adjustments on the VASIMR. jsc2003e49525 Photo by James Blair A T A GLANCE HOW THE V ASIMR ENGINE WORKS The VASIMR engine works through a set of three linked magnetic cells. ... This plasma is what drives the rocket engine. ...

Solar System Research, Vol. ... The Dynamics of High-Temperature Plasma in the Solar Corona according to SPIRIT Observations in Mg XII 8.42 е Line S. A. Bogachev1, S. V. Kuzin1, I. A. Zhitnik1, A. M. Urnov1, and V. V. Grechnev2 1Lebedev Institute of Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskii pr. ... Our analyses of the time variations in emission during a flare suggest that hot plasma is heated by fluxes of accelerated electrons. ... 39 No. 6 2005 the Mg XII SPIRIT images. ...

Crater Gassendi . ... I made this drawing was made on the 26th of november 2001. If you compare this one with the previous drawing of Gassendi (below) the differences are clear. ... This drawing was made on the 28th of september 2001. After nearly a full month without observations I had a one hour gap between the thicker clouds. ... This drawing was made on the 29th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 27th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 25th of august 2001. ...

Russian Space Science Internet (RSSI) is a successful result of RSSI Project. ... space oriented organizations; . ... RSSI offers for its members : . ... videoconferences via MBONE Internet protocol (there are 2 tunnels available now through the general IP network: one to NASA Internet, and another to Moscow State University); . ... It is designed so that all organizations connected to the RSSI gain access to the resources of Russian computer networks as well as world wide Internet. ... nic@rssi.ru ...

. To see a Russian version of this page click here . (Senior Researcher. Graduated from Moscow State University (MSU) in 1982, Ph.D. 1986, MSU) . A member of EAS and IAU. Fields of interest: hot massive stars, close binary systems: optical photometric and spectral observations, X-ray observations; ill-posed problems, X-ray astrophysics. My publications (ADS link) . Linux on CLEVO 8750 (old stuff) . Phones/addresses of my university mates graduated in 1982. E-mail: igor@sai.msu.ru .

It is a matter of common knowledge that in processes of genesis and evolution of many solar phenomena participate magnetic fields of sunspots. ... As a basis for formation of the database we take data on magnetic fields, collected by set of observatories during many years of observations. ... Section "Magnetic field data" contains data of magnetic field observation for separate sunspots, presented in standard text format (ASCII). ... Description of structure of these files is presented here . ...

... Contacting and discussing with people sharing your interests, participating in night sky observations with telescopes as well as a large choice of astronomical books, magazines and video-tapes out of our club library. ... A reasonable compromise for observing both planets and brightest deep sky objects ( nebulae, galaxies) are either a 4 to 8 inch mirror telescope ( Newton, Schmidt-Cassegrain ) or a 3 to 4 inch refracting ( lens) telescope. ... Where can I buy a telescope in Luxembourg ? ...

... Rapoport, and A.N.Slavin "Direct Observation of Two-Dimensional Self-Focusing of Spin Waves in Magnetic Films" // Phys. Rev. B. Brief Reports. 1997. ... Grimalsky V., Rapoport Yu., Slavin A.N. "Numerical difraction of magnetostatic waves in ferrite films" // Journal de Physique. ... Милиневский Г.П. "Научные исследования на украинской антарктической станции Академик Вернадский" // Радиофизика и радиоастрономия. ... технолог?я. 1997. ... Ки?в. 1997. вип. ...

Atmospheric influence on the different radio-engineering system functioning . ESTIMATION OF ATMOSPHERIC OPTICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND REMOTELY SANSED IMAGE CORRECTION . ... Direct transmittance estimation results for 12 channels of the spectrometer CHRIS. ... We have managed to develop a direct method of estimating the discrete Normalized Atmospheric Point Spread Function (NAPSF) from available images alone, not using any external sources of information about the atmosphere. ... IRE RAS 1996-20 11 ...

Preliminary 1999 SOHO LASCO Coronal Mass Ejection List (Revised 01-Apr-1999 -- SPP) N.B. This is a working version of a catalogue of probable coronal mass ejections detected in white light observations of the LASCO coronagraphs. ... 28-Mar-1999 16:30 N Faint arcade-like ejection. ... 29-Mar-1999 16:30 N Faint loops over pole. ... 30-Mar-1999 09:30 W Loop front with cavity and core. ... 31-Mar-1999 14:30 W Loop front with narrow feature to S. Two separate events? 01-Apr-1999 11:54 NE Faint loop. ...

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