... Adrastea and Metis lie within Jupiter's main ring and may be the source of material for the ring. ... Galileo Image of Adrastea . ... The longest dimension of Adrastea is approximately 20 kilometers (12 miles) across. ... These images, taken by Galileo's solid state imaging system between November 1996 and June 1997, provide the first ever "family portrait" of the four small, irregularly shaped moons that orbit Jupiter in the zone between the planet's ring and the larger Galilean satellites. ...

... 2.3 Establishing the Extragalactic Distance Scale . ... 2.3.2 The Second Rung: Distances to stellar clusters . ... 2.3.4 Distances to Local Group Galaxies . ... The Luminosity Function of Planetary Nebulae . ... 3.2.2 Clusters of Galaxies . ... 4.2 Evidence for Dark Matter as a Function of Scale Size . ... 4.3 Other Dark Matter Indicators for Galaxies . ... What is the nature of the large-scale distribution of matter in the universe as traced by the three-dimensional galaxy distribution? ...

Adrastea . Jupiter XV - 1979J1 . Adrastea [a-DRAS-tee-uh] is the second innermost known satellite of Jupiter. Adrastea was the daughter of Jupiter and Ananke and the distributor of rewards and punishments. Adrastea and Metis lie within Jupiter's main ring and may be the source of material for the ring. ... Date of discovery . ... Orbital period (days) . ... Discovery Image . This is the discovery image (FDS 20630.53) of Adrastea. ... Credit: Calvin J. Hamilton) . ...

... Hypervelocity Stars Ejected from the Galactic Center . ... In his talk, Hypervelocity Stars Ejected from the Galactic Center, Dr. Brown will discuss how the observed velocity and spatial distributions are linked to the ejection mechanism. The hypervelocity stars place quantitative constraints on the types of stars orbiting near the central black hole and the history of stellar interactions with the black hole. ... Apr . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... There are preliminary series of photometric and radio spectral observations of the above-mentioned stars, archival data on the light curves of the stars, results of the search for OH and H 2 O maser emission in IRAS point sources that possess the IR parameters similar to Miras. ... The aim is a detailed study of the maser emission variability. ... In 1996-1997, astronomical observations of Mira Ceti-type stars (miras) were carried out in three spectral ranges: optical, infrared, and radio. ...

... Curriculum Vitae Observations and theory of star cluster formation 22) A.K.Dambis and Yu.N.Efremov Journal for History of Astronomy, 31, 115-134, 2000 Dating Ptolemy's star catalogue through proper motions: the Hypparchan epoch 23) B.G.Elmegreen, Yu.N.Efremov, S.Larsen Astrophys. J., 535, 748 - , 2000 A young globular cluster in the galaxy NGC 6946 24) Yu.N.Efremov. ... 28) Yu.N.Efremov. ... The location of star complexes in the Galaxy was studied in papers with E.Alfaro, L.Berdnikov and T.Sitnik. ...

... This is one of the results from the Arecibo Methanol Maser Galactic Plane Survey that is being presented by graduate student Jagadheep D. Pandian of Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, Dr. Paul F. Goldsmith of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California and Dr. Avinash A. Deshpande of Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India to the American Astronomical Society meeting in Washington DC. ... Methanol masers at 6.7 GHz are beacons of massive star formation in our Galaxy. ...

... 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 . ...

Class 1 Introduction, Background History of Modern Astronomy The Night Sky, Eclipses and the Seasons Kepler's Laws Newtonian Gravity General Relativity Matter and Light Telescopes Class 2 Solar System Characteristics Formation Exosolar Planets Class 3 Stars The Sun Stellar Evolution of Low and High Mass Stars Deaths of Stars Exotic Stars Class 4 Galaxies Galaxy Classification Formation of Galaxies Galactic Evolution ... So far, one planet has been studied by this method. ...

... The Impact of HST on European Astronomy . ... These range from the study of nearby planets, the processes of star and planet formation, the stellar and interstellar components of galaxies, the discovery that most, if not all, galactic nuclei harbor a massive black hole that profoundly affects their evolution, to the realisation that the universe as a whole is undergoing acceleration as a result of a yet unknown form of dark energy . ... Formation, structure and evolution of galaxies . ...

... Dept. for Physics of Stars&Galaxies . ... Using a database view Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), containing almost a million spectra created 15,000 sample galaxies with active star formation, which is used for various studies and physical state of evolution of galaxies. ... Star clusters of the Galaxy . The project MWSC (Milky Way Star Clusters) directory using 2MASS, which includes nearly 500 million vision to the limit Ks = 15.3, analyzed more than 4,000 cluster-like objects in the galaxy. ...

... В теме В разделе По форуму . ... Темы, интересные всем ? ... Научная панорама ? arxiv:0705.4195 VSOP: The Variable Star One-shot Project . предыдущая тема следующая тема . ... 0 Пользователей и 1 Гость просматривают эту тему. ... arxiv:0705.4195 VSOP: The Variable Star One-shot Project I. Описание проекта и первый релиз данных (VSOP: The Variable Star One-shot Project I. Project presentation and first data release) . ... VSOP - The Variable Star One-shot Project ( http://vsop.sc.eso.org/ ). ...

... Posts tagged ?massive data? ... Tags: bimodality , chi-square minimization , Classification , CMD , Estimation , machine learning , massive data , model based , PCA , spectral analysis , spectroscopic , survey , VO . ... Algorithms arXiv Astro Bad AstroStat Bayesian CHASC Cross-Cultural Data Processing Fitting Frequentist Galaxies gamma-ray High-Energy Imaging Jargon Job Languages MC MCMC Meta Methods Misc News Nuggets Objects Optical Physics Quotes Spectral Stars Stat Timing Uncertainty X-ray . ...

... We present a pro ject of an Information system on binary stars (ISBS). ... Stars from the following catalogues will be included in the first version of ISBS: Catalog of orbital elements , masses and luminosities of close double stars ( Svechnikov Bessonova 1984); The catalogue of approximate photometric and absolute elements of eclipsing variable stars ( Svechnikov Kuznetsova 1990); The catalogue of orbital elements , masses and luminosities of detached main-sequence ...

... Team . ... GRB mini-workshop 2006 . ... On April 8, 2005, an optical afterglow of the GRB 050408 was discovered with the SAO's telescopes (the 1-meter telescope Zeiss and 6-meter telescope BTA) within the framework of a joint BTA request (SAO RAS + IAA CSIC, Granada, Spain) on optical identification of gamma-ray bursts. We first detected a variable object only by our own data in the localization error-box reported by the space observatory HETE and then it was confirmed by our observations in SAO. ...

... Telescopes . LX850 Series . ... Superb optical performance coupled with time proven computerized pointing and tracking has made the LX200 ACF series a best-seller in the high-performance telescope class. ... The Meade 07348 Variable Projection Tele-Extender for LX Models requires the Meade 07182 eyepiece holder and offers different focal ratios while creating eyepiece-projection photography. ... The Meade 07348 Variable Projection Tele-Extender for LX Models comes with a 1-year limited warranty. ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... ClassљList . ClassљIndex . ClassљHierarchy . ClassљMembers . ... Variables . ... aggregatedLog : StelQGLGLSLShader . ... altitude : StelLocation . ... defautAngleForGravityText : StelProjector::StelProjectorParams . ... epoch : varstar . ... info : Planet::SharedPlanetGraphics , StelModuleMgr::PluginDescriptor . ... locked : StelQGLInterleavedArrayVertexBufferBackend , StelQGLArrayVertexBufferBackend . ... state : StelQGLGLSLShader , StelLocation . ...

... About meteorites . ... Meteoritic data . Impact Crater Smerdyachee . ... Based on Smerdyachee's depth, near circularity, and its mounded wall, and analysis by N.A. Fillin of nearby Roshal, Russia, the Estonian scientists Yu.V. Krestlane and K.H. Mella proposed in 1987 that Smerdyachee Lake is a meteorite crater. ... In 2002, the Laboratory of Meteoritics of the Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences explored this mysterious lake. ...

... 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) . ...

ARCSAT ID NUMBER: AS07 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Confirming Galactic, M31, and M33 Candidate LBVs Through Photometric Variability PI: Guy Stringfellow OBSERVER(S): Guy Stringfellow plus 5 CU undergraduate students UNCERTIFIED/UNTRAINED OBSERVERS: Guy Stringfellow and the 5 CU undergraduate students Natalie Bremer CU APS undergraduate Sara Grandone CU APS undergraduate Kat Shanahan CU APS undergraduate Jacob Wilson CU APS ... 2013, ApJ, 779, 8) and SN 2009ip (Pastorello et al. ...