... Opportunityт??s devilish view from on high . ... Pulsar with widest orbit ever detected, discovered by high school research team . ... PULSARS | ... Discovered by a team of high school students, this pulsar has the widest orbit ever observed around another neutron star. ... A team of highly determined high school students discovered a never-before-seen pulsar by painstakingly analyzing data from the National Science Foundation s (NSF) Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT). ... Discover | ...

... As we have seen, evolutionary considerations based on our current understanding of massive binary systems lead to the conclusion that BH+PSR binaries must constitute a rather numerous subclass of all binary PSR ( 1 per 1000 isolated pulsars; Lipunov et al. , 1994b[ 124 ]). It seemed a priori that the binary radio pulsar PSR B0042-73   in the SMC (Kaspi et al., 1994[ 81 ]) could belong to one of these two classes. ... This means that such binary pulsars should be discovered in the near future. ...

... INSTRUMENT: SurveyCam FILTERS: Stromgren uvby, 2" square COMMENTS: remote observations are expected BRIEF SCIENCE JUSTIFICATION: Last decade numerous faint structures at the periphery of regular galaxies, as arcs, tails, or streams, have been discovered (see e.g. Martinez-Delgado et al., ... The broad-band photometry is used for observing the faint structures, but it does not allow to break the age-metallicity degeneracy efficiently. ... The standard Stromgren set is available at APO. ... 2014). ...

... 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 . ...

This is a copy of a Press Release from E.S.O. This photo shows the faint image (circled) of a new transneptunian object, discovered with the ESO 3.5-metre New Technology Telescope in October 1994. ... Six accurate positions were measured and allowed to determine an approximate distance of about 42 AU, that is 6300 million kilometres from the Sun. ... It has in the meantime been given the designation "1994 TG2" by the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union. ... ESO/La Silla | ...

... Observing . ... Solar Observing . ... April 3 (SUN) - Solar Observing, Central Park , Manhattan . ... APRIL'S SKY . ... Lecture Series at the American Museum of Natural History The Amateur Astronomers Association is proud to present an astronomy lecture series from October through May each year for our members and the .. ... The€аAmateur Astronomers Association of New York€аwas organized in 1927 to promote the study of Astronomy, emphasizing its cultural and inspirational value. ...

... Correia, S., Carbillet, M., Fini, L., Bertero, M., Boccacci, P., Vallenari, A., Richichi, A., & Barbati, M. 2001, in ASP Conf. ... AIRY is a modular software package designed to simulate optical and near-infrared interferometric observations and/or to perform subsequent image restoration/deconvolution. ... Bertero, M., Boccacci, P., Correia, S., & Richichi, A. 2000, in Interferometry in Optical Astronomy , ed. P. J Lena & A. Quirrenbach, SPIE 4006, 514 . ...

Next: Amorphous magnesium silicate Up: Examples of data contained Previous: Examples of data contained . ... We have used the infrared optical constants of forsterite contained in the database for calculating the absorption cross sections of spherical and non-spherical particles in the Rayleigh limit (see Fig. The spectra are obtained by averaging the cross sections calculated for the three different crystallographic directions. ...

... Where we have just a single image we assume a probabilistic mode of source detection such that, at a given image pixel, if the probability that the observed value at that pixel could have arisen through statistical fluctuation of the background at that pixel lies below a certain limiting probability , the pixel is considered to contain a source. In XMM practice it is likelihood rather than itself which is employed; in this case the detection criterion is for to exceed the cutoff . ...

... Under certain conditions, like those in the nucleus of a QSO, all atoms can be made to emit light at particular wavelengths. ... If that source is approaching the observer, the wave is squashed up onto itself making the wavelength shorter. ... This is redshift. ... You can see how the section of the QSO spectrum which we observe changes with redshift. ... We then see how far we had to slide the observed spectrum along the scale to make it match and that is the objects redshift. ... The 2QZ team . ...

... We publish 16 Doppler imaging temperature maps for the years 1994-2002 of the active RS CVn star II Peg. ... Through Doppler imaging we want to study the spot evolution of the star and in particular compare this with previous results showing a cyclic spot behaviour and persistent active longitudes. ... The derived temperature maps are quite similar to the ones obtained earlier with a different methods, the main differences occurring in the spot latitudes and relative strength of the spot structures....

... A star was observed at different zenith distances during one night at the Engelgardt's Astronomical Observatory in the program of atmospheric extinction study at blue. ... The determination of the star's brightness was performed with the method of photon counting. ... Variable star. ... The brightness of the variable star was measured occasionally during the other nights, and moments of maximal values of brightness (15.59m) were received on nights 2­5, the 2nd table. ... JD 2452805. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Sometimes whole galaxies can be hidden away from us, yet so close we could practically stub our toes on them. ... Now look around: you can clearly see people a few meters away, fuzzily see them 10 meters away, and only barely see them 50 meters away. ... We have detectors that can see colors of light our eyes cannot, like ultraviolet, infrared (also known as IR) and radio waves. ...

The small solids. Asteroids or the small planetes . ... The comets. ... Ceneca the Young.Procuring about the nature.63 y. The comet is a celestial body of a great size, but a rare one... transparent. Sometimes there seen a core and the medium forms a kind of a tail, beard or dishevelled looks. ... The core is an ice body - conglomeration of frosted gas and dust. ... The comet state is variable: ones have the con tails, others the dust tails, and the third have both. ... Meteors and meteorites. ...

Next: The Stellar Population in Up: NICMOS Science Previous: NICMOS Coronagraphic Surveys-Preliminary Results . ... Searching around young stars . ... We are using NICMOS to search for very low-mass stellar and sub-stellar companions around nearby, young, main-sequence stars. ... NICMOS, coronagraph, young stars, brown dwarfs . ... We present images of a possible companion, probably a low-mass M star, to the star HD102982 which demonstrates our ability to detect substellar objects. ...

... Using the CFBDSIR wide field survey for brown dwarfs, we identified CFBDSIRJ214947.2-040308.9, a late T dwarf with atypically red J-Ks colour. ... SN 2009ip in NGC 7259 Electronic Telegram No. ... 7.09, [19.0; 2009 Aug. ... Accepted for publication in MNRAS Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) The jet opening angle theta_jet and the bulk Lorentz factor Gamma_0 are crucial parameters for the computation of the energetics of Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs). ...

ASTRONOMICHESKII TSIRKULYAR No.1573, 2010 April 12 1995 2009 . A Comparison of the Latitudinal Variations of the Methane Absorption Bands on Saturn's Disk at Equinoxes 1995 and 2009 Abstract. The observations of Saturn at last equinox 2009 have detected significant differences of the latitudinal variations of the methane absorption from observed at 1995 equinox . ... 1995 . 2008- 2009 , ­ . ... 4 ( 580-880 ) , (.1) , 2008-2009 . ... 2 , 4 725 1995 2009 . ... 1995 2009 15 , 1980 1995 . ...

... The SMS program is a critical endeavor to investigate whether the predictions of standard cold dark matter cosmology are consistent with the observed matter distribution in the Milky Way halo. It is the deepest, most extended search for optically elusive dwarf satellite galaxies and tidal streams to date, covering the entire Southern hemisphere. ... However only a few dwarf satellites have been found around the Milky Way to date - 22 dwarfs compared to 500-10,000 predicted by theory (Klypin et al. ...

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. ...

... Scientists from G. I. Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics- Syberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk State Technical University, Samara State Aerospace University (SSAU) and Image Processing Systems Institute (IPSI) of the Russian Academy of Science, became the first people in the world obtained terahertz non-diffractive twisted Bessel beams and used them for the first time the formation of surface electromagnetic waves on the metal surface. ...