... Note: Click here a longer, much more comprehensive overview of the polar aurora . ... Magnetic Field . ... Aurora . ... 3b. Fritz Aurora . ... Electrons . ... Typical aurora (Dick Hutchinson ї) . In Alaska, Canada, Norway, Finland or northern Russia, on a clear night, a greenish glow is often seen in the sky, known as the "Northern Lights." ... Auroral light is produced at a height of about 100 km (60 miles) when fast electrons, arriving from space, slam into atoms and molecules of the atmosphere. ...

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... Comet Tutorial . ... On July 1, 1993 an image was taken with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) that clearly shows at least 15 individual fragments in one image frame of the train. ... This made an accurate orbit (or orbits) difficult to determine; however, after numerous observations of the comet, astronmers determined that the comet had passed within 96,000 kilometers (60,000 miles) of the center of Jupiter or 25,000 kilometers (16,000 miles) from the cloud tops during the July 8, 1992, approach. ...

... SAI CAS . ... Catalog Access Services . ... This site is about the Virtual Observatory project at the Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University ( SAI MSU ). We provide a public access to the growing set of astronomical services developed by the SAI RVO development team in accordance with the Virtual Observatory standards. ... We provide access (programmatic and interactive) to the all major and biggest astronomical catalogs (about 4 billions objects total) as well as other web-services. ...

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marked with yelow asterisk are sites that have links to the VSM . Russian/Soviet Cosmonautics History . interesting site (Russian language only) and ABSOLUTELY STUNNING photos! Russian mirror of Mars Pathfinder site . Space Technology Images . big collection of photos and drawings including some rare and exotic . ... excellent site of spaceflight history . ... Astronomy 105 . ... Some interesting things plus a brilliant collection of astronomy and space links. Space Frontier . ...

. To see a Russian version of this page click here . (Senior Researcher. Graduated from Moscow State University (MSU) in 1982, Ph.D. 1986, MSU) . A member of EAS and IAU. Fields of interest: hot massive stars, close binary systems: optical photometric and spectral observations, X-ray observations; ill-posed problems, X-ray astrophysics. My publications (ADS link) . Linux on CLEVO 8750 (old stuff) . Phones/addresses of my university mates graduated in 1982. E-mail: igor@sai.msu.ru .

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