... Astrophysics Group . ... Stars ? Birth and Death . ... Stars - Birth and Death . MRAO Telescopes . ... Radio telescopes allow us to observe the very earliest and latest stages of a star?s life: these observations help us understand how the Sun, Earth and planets formed, and how they will die. ... In the picture on the right there are faint twin jets of molecular gas moving away from the young star; on the scale of this picture this star, marked by the white cross, is no larger than a pinhead. ...

... 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. ...

Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XIII ASP Conference Series, Vol. ... Despite being inspired by the "cradle to grave" systems of other observatories, the ALMA software system does have some novel and complex challenges: · We intend to implement a single tool - the ALMA Observing Tool (OT) - to support the users' preparation of both proposals and observing, and also to support the review process 85 c Copyright 2004 Astronomical Society of the Pacific. ...

... ST-ECF . ABOUT ST-ECF . ... After an initial agreement between NASA and ESA in 1977 and following Hubble's more than twenty years in space and 110,000 orbits of the Earth, the aim of this conference is to celebrate the huge contributions made by the Hubble observatory to our knowledge and understanding of the Universe. ... David Southwood . ... Robert O'Connell . ... Robert O'Dell . ... Questions and information: HST3@stecf.org . ... Maintained by HST 3 Webmaster <HST3@stecf.org> . ...

... Recent Topics . ... MAO main . ... Fw: ASTRONET: Task 5.4 - observing schools . ... Subject: Re: ASTRONET: Task 5.4 - observing schools . ... with the organization and carrying out observing schools. ... second half of September, and which will be funded by the training and . ... intended for master and starting PhD students. ... actions on observing schools, providing access for students, Master . ... observing schools for master students. ... in form of observing schools for pre-PhD students. ...

... Classical nova V458 Vul (N Vul 2007 No.1) was detected as a supersoft X-ray source (SSS) by the Swift XRT several times in the time range between 2007 October 18 and 2008 June 18 (J. Drake et al., ... Our V photometry shows the plateau in the light curve continued since January till June 2008. ... The light decay by 0.05 mag/day suggests that plateau has finished in the middle of June. ... The light curve of V458 Vul folded with the period of 0.58946 day (top). ... View UBVRc light curves of V458...

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. The original pictures are taken at: . Biosphere-2, Tucson, Arizona - "Pray" . USS "Little Rock", Buffalo, New York - "The door" . Castelet, Copenhagen - "Mr. Hyde in October" (Oct '94) .

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... Karl G. Henize (Ph.D.) . NASA Astronaut (Deceased) . ... From 1974 to 1978 Dr. Henize chaired the NASA Facility Definition Team for STARLAB, a proposed 1-meter UV telescope for Spacelab. ... He was a member of the astronaut support crew for the Apollo 15 mission and for the Skylab 2, 3, and 4 missions. ... Dr. Henize was a mission specialist on the Spacelab-2 mission (STS 51-F) which launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on July 29, 1985. ...

The Stone Age Observatory. It is well known that a lot of ancient constructions are oriented according to the cardinal points but not long ago scientists turned upon archeological monuments. ... The ancient monuments studied by archeoastronomy had been used for observing the sun and the moon. ... They are called megalits (from Greek "megas" - "great"; "litos" - "stone"). ... The Great Stonehang. ... Orby called it a Heel Stone because he had seen a small hole in it looked like a heel trace. ...

Statistics of sunspot activity . The sunspot indices . ... NGDC's observations . The solar regions . ... Average annual indices . ... October . ... October, 2013 . Visual indices of solar activity by National Geophysical Data Center . ... Average . ...

The Official Publication of the Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton Director Bill Murray ( 609 ) 298-1179 strgazr@comcast.net Assistant Director John Church ( 609 ) 799-0723 j.church@mindspring.com Treasurer Program Chairman Michael Mitrano OPEN ( 609 )-737-6518 michael.mitrano@worldnet.att.net Secretary Editors Larry Kane Bryan Hubbard and Ira Polans ( 609 ) 273-1456 (908) 859-1670 and ( ... In the month of October, normally the clearest of the year, it has rained almost every weekend. ...

... LINKS . ... SPECIAL TOPIC . CONTACT . ... ARTICLE: Venus Transit 2004 . ... AAL's Transit Observation Results . ... Divx video from the AAL observation site. ... a) Visual observation : Only with special eclipse shades ( do not use those ones you still have from the 1999's solar eclipse because it does no more protect you properly ) . ... 1. contact ( transit begins ) : 07:19 53 s with a solar altitude of 15.5 degrees . ... Venus Transit Links: . ... Venus Transit 2004: A Tremendous Success . ...

... Edward L. (Ned) Wright received his AB and PhD degrees from Harvard University, and was a Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows. ... Prof. Wright is interested in infrared astronomy and cosmology. ... He has been working on the COsmic Background Explorer ( COBE ) since 1978. ... Wright, E. L. 2000, ApJ submitted, "DIRBE Minus 2MASS: Confirming the Cosmic Infrared Background at 2.2 Microns" . ... The COBE Diffuse Infrared Background Experiment Search for the Cosmic Infrared Background: II. ...

... This year's eclipse is unique in duration. ... Although, at the present time, there are 6 solar observatories belonging to leading space agencies in orbit around the Earth, the eclipse of 22 July, 2009, will only be seen by two of them: the Russian CORONAS-PHOTON satellite equipped with TESIS telescopes and Japan's HINODE satellite fitted with an XRT space telescope. ... TESIS will be the first of the two devices (and the very first on Earth) to witness the solar eclipse. ...

... 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; . ...

Contents. planet: 5 - Jupiter satellites: 1 - S/1975 J 1 = S/2000 J 1 = Themisto J-18 :10 total number: 10 type: absolute dates: 1975-2000 observatory: 675 - Palomar Mountain 695 - Steward Observatory, Kitt Peak Station 568 - Mauna Kea Reference. ... Number of observer (see informations above) --------------------------------------------------------- Year alpha delta Observatory month day with Telescope decimals h m s deg ' '' Observer --------------------------------------------------------- ...

... APT Activities and Science Results 3. ... APT Secretary Philip Edwards (ISAS) reviewed the aims of the APT (http://www.vsop.isas.ac.jp/apt/DefinitionAndAims.html). ... The Australia Telescope Compact Array, and Ceduna, Hartebeesthoek, Kashima, Mopra, Parkes, and Shanghai telescopes of the Asia-Pacific Telescope participated in these observations. ... In the absence of Tetsuo Sasao, Philip Edwards briefly described results of the APT 22 GHz observations conducted from October 1st to 5th, 1997. ...

... American Astronomical Society . AstroWeb: Astronomy/Astrophysics on the Internet . ... NASA Astrophysics Data System: Abstract Service . ... Astronomy Astrophysics: Preprints Abstracts . ... Local archive of IAU Circulars. ... Germany, list of all Astronomical Institutes . ... Poland, Warsaw University Astronomical Observatory . Russia, Sternberg Astronomical Institute . ... Russia, Institute of Astronomy, Russian Academy of Sciences . ... USA, Astronomy and Space Science Group at GMU . ...