http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1996/22/text/ Probing the mysterious heart of the Crab Nebula, the tattered remains of a stellar cataclysm witnessed more than 900 years ago, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found that the Crab is even more dynamic than previously understood, based on a cosmic "movie" assembled from a series of Hubble observations. ... Because of this flickering, the neutron star is also called a "pulsar." ...

... Paul Bennie pbe@star.le.ac.uk Friday, 16 February 2001 XMM EPIC MOS MOS-2 pixels. ... Paul Bennie pbe@star.le.ac.uk Friday, 16 February 2001 The defect seem to be most quick CCDs 1, 2 XMM EPIC MOS MOS-1 pixels. ... Paul Bennie pbe@star.le.ac.uk Friday, 16 February 2001 XMM EPIC MOS New Defects in rev. 108 flare. XMM EPIC MOS Paul Bennie pbe@star.le.ac.uk Friday, 16 February 2001 New Defects in rev. 169 flare. ... Paul Bennie pbe@star.le.ac.uk Friday, 16 February 2001 XMM EPIC MOS ...

... Pluto's orbit is also highly inclined -- tilted 17 degrees to the orbital plane of the other planets. ... Ground-based observations indicate that Pluto's surface is covered with methane ice and that there is a thin atmosphere that might freeze and fall to the surface as the planet moves away from the Sun. ... This is the first image-based surface map of the solar system's most remote planet, Pluto. ... This is the first surface map of Charon, the moon of the solar system's most remote planet, Pluto....

... Director of the RAS ISR . RAS Academician . ... Astrophysics module Kvant of the orbital complex Mir launched in 1987 contains the largest on the station complex of the scientific equipment named the orbital observatory Roentgen. Observatory Roentgen consists of 4 X-ray telescopes, jointly exceeding the range of energies from 2 to 800 keV. ... Among the most significant results that were received in the observatory Roentgen are: . ... measurement of the periods of 9 X-ray pulsars; . ...

... ADC_Keywords: Galaxy catalogs ; Nonstellar objects Description: NGC 2000.0 is a modern compilation of the New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars (NGC), the Index Catalogue (IC), and the Second Index Catalogue compiled by J. L. E. Dreyer (1888, 1895, 1908). ... The order of the new catalog is strictly by right ascension, the NGC and IC objects being merged into one machine-readable file. ... The book also contains a table of right ascensions for NGC and IC objects. ...

To see a Russian version of this page, click here . ... Bochkarev Nikolai Gennadievich . astrophysics researcher: . born: Moscow, May 19, 1947; . ... Jr. researcher Sternberg Astronomical Inst., ... Soviet (Russian) Working Group on Interstellar Matter, Moscow , 1979-; . ... Madison, 1991. ... ALocal Interstellar Matter, 1990, . Basic Physics of the Interstellar Matter, 1992; co-author: . ... Physics of Interstellar Matter, 1979; . ... All-Union Astronom. Geodesical Soc., ... Astronom. ...

... Our Sun is part of a huge wheel-shaped collection of stars. ... Astronomers have long suspected it was a very massive black hole, and that every galaxy had such a central mass, created early in the history of the universe. ... However, unless that object happens to be headed directly at the black hole (a relatively small target) it will just swing around and fly away again, like a comet making a pass at the Sun. The velocity acquired in falling towards the black hole also helps it escape. ...