... Near-IR broad-band imaging of V1318 Cygni reveals the presence of two distinct stellar components oriented north-south, a result recently reported by Aspin et al. ... The distribution of the high density molecular gas traced by the CS J emission is highly concentrated around V1318 and V1686 Cygni, while the total column density of gas traced by the J shows a ridge morphology centered on these sources. ... A molecular outflow has been detected in CO J . ...

... 8, ``Celestial Mechanics'', 2002 Formation and migration of trans -- Neptunian objects S. I. Ipatov 1;2 1 Institute of Applied Mathematics, Moscow, Russia 2 NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, USA We support the Eneev's idea [1] that the largest (with diameter d?100 km) trans ­ Neptunian objects ( TNOs ) moving now in not very eccentric orbits ... The total amount of water delivered to the Earth during the formation of the giant planets was about the mass of water in the Earth's oceans. ...

T he Sun is an ordinary G2 star, one of more than 100 billion stars in our galaxy. diameter : 1,390,000 km . mass : 1.989e30 kg temperature : 5800 K (surface) 15,600,000 K (core) T he Sun is by far the largest object in the solar system. ... C onditions at the Sun's core are extreme. ... I n addition to heat and light, the Sun also emits a low density stream of charged particles (mostly electrons and protons) known as the solar wind which propagates throughout the solar system at about 450 km/sec. ...

T his page contains synthetic Hertzsprung-Russell Diagrams (HRDs) for a simulated Star Forming Region, assuming different scenarios and timescales for the history of star formation. ... In the paper we only presented the best fits to the HRD of the CMa R1 Star Forming Region. ... Download movie (1.90 MB) . Scenario II: Constant rate of star formation during a time interval delta t . delta t = 0.1 Myr . ... Scenario IV: Linearly decreasing rate of star formation during a time interval delta t . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Solar System . Sun . ... March . ... The extent of the solar eclipse of 3 November€а 2013 at 13:22 UTC as seen from Accra, Ghana. We will see a similar sight.€а (Image credit: Kwabena under Creative Commons Licence) . ... Your viewing location is not important as long as it offers an unobstructed view of the south eastern sky.. ... You can use ?eclipse glasses? to view the Sun, these are made from aluminized Mylar filter material. ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... VLSS . ... To facilitate access for UK and European users, MRAO is providing a UK Mirror of the VLA Low-frequency Sky Survey (VLSS), which is being produced in the US jointly by NRAO and the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). ... A catalog of discrete sources on these images created by fitting a elliptical Guassians to all sources detected at the 5 sigma level or higher. ... This survey contains publicly available images and catalog information on over 1.8 million radio...

... Properties of Dust Grains in Planetary Nebulae - I. The Ionized Region of NGC 6445 . ... Based on this model, we show from depletions in the gas phase elements that little grain destruction can have occurred in the ionized region of NGC 6445. ... The most likely conclusion is that grains are residing inside the ionized region of NGC 6445 and that the low temperature and flux of the grain emission are caused by the low luminosity of the central star and the low optical depth of the grains. ...

... Thermogravimetric and differential thermal analysis . ... TOF-SIMS analysis . Total conductivity, Seebeck coefficient and ion transference number measurements in controlled atmos . ... Processing of ceramic materials, electrode systems and electrochemical cells . ... SIMS analysis is based on exposure of the sample surface with primary ions possessing some definite energy, which is partially consumed by the sample and induces emission of sН-called secondary ions. ... Spatial resolution: 60 nm . ...

... The total mass of the scientific payload is about 2500 kg, of which the unfolding parabolic 10-m radio astronomy antenna's mass is about 1500 kg, and scientific package holding the receivers, power supply, synthesizers, control units, frequency standards and data transmission radio system - near 900 kg. ... The jet system is a hydrazine thrusters system: it will be used during the creation of the base system of spacecraft orientation, for unloading of the powered gyros, and for orbit corrections. ...

... On the morning of Thursday, 26 February, amid the Gal pagos Islands, the Sun will fade from view. Not the culmination of ancient prophecy, but none less mystical, Earth's small Moon will be executing a slow slide past the enormous Sun. ... And anyone living in southern North America, Central America, northern South America, or on islands and cruise ships in the Caribbean Sea will, weather permitting, have the opportunity to experience the wonder of a solar eclipse. ...

... Space Research Institute . ... INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOPS FOR LUNA-GLOB LANDING SITE SELECTION . Luna-Glob" and "Luna-Resurs" missions are devoted to investigation of polar regions of the Moon. ... The Second international workshop for landing site selection for the "Luna-Glob" Russian Lander will be held May 31 - June 2 by the Space Research Institute (IKI), Moscow. ... The 1st international workshop for landing site selection for Russian Moon Lander "Luna-Glob" . ...

A presentation of the flight model of the Mini Research Module (MRM1) and equipment to be delivered in it was held at S.P.Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia the day before their shipment to the USA for processing before the launch to the International space Station in the Space Shuttle payload bay in May 2010. ... Grapple fixtures are available on MRM1 to ensure the module unloading from the Space Shuttle and mating to Zarya module after the Space Shuttle undocking from the ISS. ...

... One of this year's largest mass ejections from the Sun's atmosphere was recorded last Sunday by TESIS telescopes aboard the CORONAS-PHOTON satellite ( video - wmv 4.3 MB ). ... Over the course of a week, two gigantic solar prominences were simultaneously ejected from the surface of the Sun. ... Earth will not feel the Sun's influence either. ... The TESIS observatory ї TESIS: www.tesis.lebedev.ru . ... One of this year's largest mass ejections from the Sun's atmosphere (movie WMV, 4.3 MB) . ...

Publication list . Structure and long-term change in the zonal asymmetry in Antarctic total ozone during spring A. V. Grytsai, O. M. Evtushevsky, O. V. Agapitov, A. R. Klekociuk, and G. P. Milinevsky // Ann. ... Ballooning perturbations in the inner magnetosphere of the Earth: spectrum, stability and eigenmode analysis A. V. Agapitov, O. K. Cheremnykh, and A. S. Parnowski (approved for print in Advances in Space Science) . ... Space Res., ...

HI envelopes around HII regions . ... We have investigated 32 HII regions and around 17 of them we have found the clumped HI envelopes with radial motions. The example of the envelope around HII regions M16 is shown on figure 1. ... The thickness of envelopes is rather great - 0.44 radius, mass are about 6E+4 mass of the Sun, kinetic energies - 10E+50 ergs. ... The model of formation of HI envelope was advanced as outcome of an operation of a summarized stellar wind of stars, exciting HII region. ...

... We consider the astrophysical evolution of the Galaxy over large time scales, from early stages (an age of ~10 8 yrs) to the end of traditional stellar evolution (~10 11 yrs). ... In the model considered, the basic stages of Galactic evolution are as follows. ... Essentially all other basic parameters of the Galaxy vary little. ... The final "stellar epoch" in the life of the Galaxy is completed ~10 13 yrs after its formation, when the evolution of the least massive stars comes to an end. ...

... initial_mass -- star mass at start of run (Msun units) ! ... mixing regions ! ... the first column for a region gives int(sign(val)*log10(max(1,abs(val)))) ! ... in Msun units) !mass_ext_to_max_eps_nuc ! ... mass coordinate at location of max burn (Msun units) !max_eps_h_xm ! mass exterior to location of max burn (Msun units) !max_eps_h_lgP ! ... mass coordinate at location of max burn (Msun units) !max_eps_nuc_xm ! mass exterior to location of max burn (Msun units) !max_eps_nuc_lgP ! ...

Blackholes2 Forum Message . ... Holostars: Black Holes Without Event Horizons . ... Its name derives from the fact tht information is preserved in such a black hole, and must be a contraction of hologram and star. ... The exterior metrics and fields of the charged holostar are equal to the Reissner-Nordstroem black hole solution. ... www.astronomy.net . ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... This program was created for correlating chosen regions in the series of fts images. ... Chosen regions' . ... In this section the program counts the integral for each region of the grid for each image. ... As a matter of fact, the integral is total brightness of the region and it is counted by 'int_tabulated' IDL function. ... In addition, the program will show the count of the regions which correlate with the corresponding region (the brighter region means the bigger count) and its contour. ...

... Submitted by Al Takeda on 11/17/2010 13:41:41 . Sadr region in Cygnus . ... Even though the transparency was poor, I initiated a short imaging run of the Gamma Cygni area. Hydrogen-alpha filter (5nm) Total= 18 minutes, 6 minute unbinned sub frames. Takahashi E-180, SBIG STL6303E CCD camera, ATMoB Clubhouse.11 September 2010. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...