... But the discovery of possible signs of life on Mars is an opportunity to merge the two. ... were shown on my color TV [see "Life on Mars...and in Science," p. 24]. ... For that matter, what is life? This is a terrific opportunity to integrate biology into the astronomy curriculum, to show students or let them discover for themselves what constitutes life on Earth. ... By studying the characteristics of life on Earth, students can make more informed judgments about the possibility of life on Mars. ...

... 53, Moscow, 119991 Russia 2 Moscow Physicotechnical Institute, Dolgoprudnyi, Moscow oblast, 141700 Russia Received May 26, 2008 ° Abstract--The relative intensities of Fe XI­Fe XIII lines in the range 176­207 A have been measured for various plasma structures of the solar corona using data from the XUV spectroheliograph of the SPIRIT instrumentation onboard the CORONAS-F satellite with an improved spectral sensitivity calibration. ... 2005, 2007). ... Density measurement based on Fe XIII lines. ...

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Structure of the supersmall satellites . Scientific equipment . Supersmall satellite "Universitetskiy" is manufactured by Production Corporation "Polyot" (Omsk, Russia) in the interests of Lomonosov Moscow State University. Supersmall satellite "Kompas-2" is a pilot project of multi-satellite system which is intended for prediction and motnitoring of natural and technologenical disasters. ... Composition of the scientific equipment of the "Universitetskiy" satellite. ...

THE 75th NAME-LIST OF VARIABLE STARS. ... The 75th Name-List consists of two tables. ... the literature, taken from positional catalogues, including USNO A1.0/A2.0 and GSC, or determined by the authors); the range of variability (sometimes the column Min gives, in parentheses, the amplitude of light variation; the symbol ( means that the star , in minimum light, becomes fainter, than the magnitude indicated); and the system of magnitudes used ( P are photographic ...

The possibility of recovery of the vertical distribution of the magnetic field in umbrae by line width differences S.G. Mozharovsky Ussuriysk Astrophysical Observatory of FEB RAS, Ussuriysk, Russia sw@newmail.ru Abstract. This article studies the possibility of recovery of the vertical distribution of the magnetic field in the photospheric layers of sunspot umbra by the Difference of the Line profile Absolute Widths of neutral zirconium ? ... 2) Line profiles for cold models have extended wings. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Our Galaxy . ... Stars . ... Other Galaxies . ... Light of other eyes, other times: The X-rays and IR radiation making up the image have been travelling for a long time. ... The inspiration here came from a new ESA image of M31, the Andromeda Galaxy, composed from two very different images. ... Our nearest galactic neighbour, the Andromeda Galaxy?s brightness is caused by the hundreds of billions of stars that are contained within. ...

... Printed in the U.S.A. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/691/2/1222 AUTOMATED LASCO CME CATALOG FOR SOLAR CYCLE 23: ARE CMEs SCALE INVARIANT? ... CME RATE DURING CYCLE 23 Figure 2 shows the daily CACTus CME rate for cycle 23 in red, with the International Sunspot Number (e.g., Vanlommel et al. 2004) superimposed in gray as solar cycle reference. ... The CACTus CME speeds Figure 12. ... A comparison of a sample of common events shows that on average the CDAW CME width is wider than the CACTus CME width. ...

ISSN 1063-7737, Astronomy Letters, 2011, Vol. ... 2011. ... 37, No. 9, pp. 643­650. i Lenticular Galaxies with Ultraviolet Rings M. A. Ilyina* and O. K. Sil'chenko Received April 28, 2011 ** Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Universitetskii pr. ... We have analyzed the optical structure of these galaxies using SDSS (Sloan Digital Sky Survey) surface photometry, measured the colors of the rings, and compared the radial localizations of the ring structures in the optical and ultraviolet spectral ranges. ...

QUASI PERIODIC ORBITS IN THE VICINITY OF THE SUN- EARTH L2 POINT AND THEIR IMPLEMENTATION IN SPECTR-RG MILLIMETRON MISSIONS I VA N I L I N , A N D R E W T U C H I ... RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 24th International Symposium on Space Flight Dynamics Laurel, Maryland, 5-9 May, 2014 APPLICATION OF QUASI PERIODIC ORBITS NEAR LIBRATION POINTS ESA space telescope Gaia launched on 19.12.13, direct ... Dynamics and Mission Design near Libration Points - Volume 1. ...

... A Catalog of Variable Stars Based on the New Name List E. V. Kazarovets1 , N. N. Samus'1, 2 * , O. V. Durlevich2 , N. N. Kireeva1 , E. N. Pastukhova1 , and G. Pojmanski3 1 Institute of Astronomy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pyatnitskaya ul. ... THE CATALOG The 79th Name List of Variable Stars [2] contains 1270 stars, which obtained their final names in the GCVS system in 2007­2008. ... CONCLUSIONS We have presented a catalog in the full GCVS format for the just published Name List of Variable Stars...

ABSTRACTS 10-th International Gamow Summer School "Astronomy and beyond: Astrophysics, Cosmology and Gravitation, Cosmomicrophysics, Radio-astronomy and Astrobiology" (Ukraine, Odessa, Chernomorka, 23-28 August, 2010) MEMORIAL SESSION SERGEY ALEKSANDROVICH SNEGOV (1910-1994) ­ OUSTANDING PHYSICIST, COSMOLOGIST, ASTRONOMER AND WRITER ­ VISIONARY TO A 100-ANNIVERSARY FROM BIRTHDAY Pahomov A.G. PFUM, Moscow It is possible to judge a condition of an astronomical science on literary works of time. ...

... Phone: +7(4112) 390-481 . ... characteristics of VLF-emissions responsible for the energetic particle dynamics of the Earth s radiation belts . manifestations of seismic and thunderstorm phenomena in the VLF-emissions . relationship of VLF-emissions to the solar activity and interplanetary space parameters . ... Dr. Vladimir Kozlov . Electronics engineer Artur Ambursky . Electronics engineer Vladimir Sleptsov . Post-graduate Sergey Kondratyev . Post-graduate Aleksey Korsakov . ...

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. The station "Clementina". The station "Clementina", launched in January 1994, belonged to the apparatus of a new generation, made on the base of superlight materials. Besides the Moon's relief shooting this station measured the height of relief and thinkness of the Moon crust, the model of the gravitation field and some other parameters. Back .

... 000, 1­13 (2010) Printed 21 September 2011 A (MN L TEX style file v2.2) A universal ultraviolet-optical colour­colour­magnitude relation of galaxies I1gor V. Chilingarian1,2, and Ivan Yu. ... Received 2011 Sep 15; in original form 2011 Feb 6 ABSTRACT The bimodal galaxy distribution in the optical colour­magnitude diagram (CMD) comprises a narrow "red sequence" populated mostly by early-type galaxies and a broad "blue cloud" dominated by star-forming systems. ...

... Maps of six sources (0420+022, 0420-014, 1308+326, 1345+125, 1803+784, and DA 193) obtained with milliarcsecond resolution are presented and discussed, together with their broadband (1­22 GHz) spectra obtained on the RATAN­600 radio telescope at epochs close to those of the VLBI observations. ... The image (Fig. 5) shows that the source structure at 18 cm is compact, consisting of a VLBI core and two jet components, with the outer component lying 5 mas (30 pc) to the northwest of the core ( = 54 ). ...

... Научная панорама ? arxiv:1103.1443 Частота встречаемости планет, аналогичных Земле, у солнцеподобны . ... arxiv:1103.1443 Частота встречаемости планет, аналогичных Земле, у солнцеподобных звезд (The Occurrence Rate of Earth Analog Planets Orbiting Sunlike Stars) . ... Цитата: Сергей Попов от 09.03.2011 [09:34:52] arxiv:1103.1443 Частота встречаемости планет, аналогичных Земле, у солнцеподобных звезд (The Occurrence Rate of Earth Analog Planets Orbiting Sunlike Stars) . ...

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. ...

MICROSCOPES . ... In the last three to five years, LOMO has developed new lines of products, including new families of biological, fluorescent, and polarizing microscopes, night vision devices, consumer Maksutov telescopes, etc. ... 1939 Company introduces its first student and biological microscopes. as well as its first manual movie camera . ... 1956 LOMO produces its first wide-screen-format movie projector and introduces its first fluorescent microscope for chemical structure analysis. ...