... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Risks Comparable to NEOs . ... The Increasing Rate of Discovery of Asteroids . ... Comet and Asteroid Collision Probabilities . ... Extreme albedo comets and the impact hazard (PDF Format) . ... Asteroid Impact Animations . ... Workshop on Scientific Requirements for Mitigation of Hazardous Comets and Asteroids - 2002 . ... The Spaceguard Survey Report, 1992 (PDF) . Tsunami from Asteroid/Comet Impacts . ...

M1 image More About M1 Nice Color Picture . ... M16 image More About M16 HST image . ... M31 image More About M31 Nice Color Picture . ... M42 image ; M43 image More About M42/43 Nice Color CCD Picture . M51 image More About M51 Color Image of M51 M51 Supernova . M57 image More About M57 Nice Color CCD Picture Very Deep M57 Image . ... M81 image More About M81 M81 Supernova Ultraviolet Image of M81 More about Ultraviolet Imaging . M82 image More About M82 M82 False Color M82 True Color . ...

... Kuiper belt objects are icy bodies in the outer solar system. ... Views of Kuiper Belt Objects . Object 1993 SC . This image shows a small part of the discovery frames of 1993 SC, one of the brightest Kuiper-Belt objects so far discovered. ... Assuming that Object 1993 SC reflects light much like other primitive asteroids and comets in the out solar system, the diameter is around 300 kilometers (186 miles), or just a quarter the size of Pluto's moon Charon. ... Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Impact . ...

... We can help students grasp the significance of Hubble's extremely keen eye, and learn a bit about angles and math in the process, with the following in-class activity. ... Looking through binoculars or telescopes allows us to magnify a small section of the sky. To measure sizes or distances in that small section, astronomers divide a degree into 60 smaller pieces called arcminutes, and further subdivide minutes into 60 smaller sections called arcseconds. ... 30 feet = . ... 36 seconds . ...

... 50 Weirdest Objects . ... Get to Know the Night Sky . ... Picture of the Day . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... How can the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) take pictures of objects light-years away but not get a good picture of Pluto? ... At its distance, it subtends a smaller angle on the sky than does a galaxy at a distance of billions of light-years. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Get full access to StarDome PLUS . ...

STScI . HST . ... Missions . ... Data . ... Hubble Heritage Project . ... Research . ... HST Overview . Overview . ... The Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS) was one of the 4 original axial instruments aboard the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). ... Consequently, FOS observations can no longer be requested, and only Archival Research programs to make use of FOS data may be submitted. ... All FOS data have been recalibrated by ST-ECF and were ingested into the STScI HST Archive in the summer of 2004. ...

The Doppler shift is the effect of sound increasing or decreasing in pitch as an object moves towards or away from you. ... Light works the same way, except light is shifted to redder colours when an object is moving away, and to blue colours when an object is travelling towards us. ... Almost every object he observed had its light stretched to redder colours, indicating essentially everything in the Universe was moving away from us. ... So the Hubble constant tells us how old the Universe is. ...

... The remote planet Pluto and its moon Charon orbit the Sun at a mean distance of almost 6,000 million kilometres, or nearly fourty times farther out than the Earth. During a recent investigation by an international group of astronomers [1], the best picture ever of Pluto and Charon [2] was secured with the European Space Agency's Faint Object Camera at the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). ... The new HST image was taken when Charon was near its maximum elongation from Pluto (0.9 arcseconds). ...

The high-redshift radio-loud quasar PKS 2126-158 is found to have a large number of red galaxies in close apparent proximity.We use the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS) on Gemini South to obtain optical spectra for a large fraction of these sources. We show that there is a group of galaxies at z 0.66, coincident with a metal-line absorption system seen in the quasar s optical spectrum. ... All confirmed members exhibit early-type galaxy spectra, a rare situation for a MgII absorbing system. ...

Our publications in 1998 year Ugryumov, A. V.; Pustilnik, S. A.; Lipovetsky, V. A.; Izotov, Yu. ... Lipovetsky, V.; Engels, D.; Ugryumov, A.; Hopp, U.; Richter, C.; Izotov, Y.; Kniazev, A.; Popescu, C. New Horizons from Multi-Wavelength Sky Surveys, Proceedings of the 179th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, held in Baltimore, USA August 26-30, 1996, Kluwer Academic Publishers, edited by Brian J. McLean, Daniel A. Golombek, Jeffrey J. E. Hayes, and Harry E. Payne, p. 299. ...

... Астронет | ... Переменные Звезды | ... Микролинзирование . ... На протяжении последних нескольких лет в рамках проекта MACHO проводятся наблюдения микролинзирования звезд Большого Магелланова Облака - спутника нашей Галактики. Эффект микролинзирования заключается в гравитационной фокусировке света звезды массивным объектом, находящимся на луче зрения между звездой и наблюдателем. ... Согласно некоторым гипотезам, линзами могут являться реликтовые черные дыры или "нейтралинные звезды". ...

... Management of the satellite remote sensing data in environment monitoring systems. ... Systems for collection, processing, archiving and dissemination of satellite data in data centers of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Meteorological Agency, Russian Space Agency, Federal Agency of geodesy and cartography. Monitoring system of Russian Fishing Agency. ... Agricultural territory satellite monitoring system for Russian Ministry of Agriculture. ...

... 2013 July 28 . Hoag's Object: A Strange Ring Galaxy . ... This question came to light in 1950 when astronomer Art Hoag chanced upon this unusual extragalactic object . ... How Hoag's Object formed remains unknown, although similar objects have now been identified and collectively labeled as a form of ring galaxy . ... Hoag's Object spans about 100,000 light years and lies about 600 million light years away toward the constellation of the Snake ( Serpens ). ... About APOD | ...

... We have developed a web site using HTML, Php, Python, and MySQL that extracts, processes, and displays data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the Two-Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS). The goal is to locate brown dwarf candidates in the SDSS database by looking at color cuts; however, this site could also be useful for targeted searches of other databases as well. MySQL databases are created from broad searches of SDSS and 2MASS data. ... 2002). ... 2002, AJ, 123, 3409 . ...

... On the base of laboratory simulations (on rotating shallow water) of the formation of spiral arms in galactic gaseous disks, the existence of giant anticyclones in them was predicted. Numerical simulations shown that the vortex structures arise on a linear stage of spiral arms formation simultaneously with the latter. ... Thus second giants structures, after spiral arms, in spiral galactic disks are discovered. ...

... A Typical Visit . ... Special Needs . ... Talk to a member of our education team when booking to find out how you can make the most of your visit to Armagh Planetarium. ... At Armagh Planetarium, our building is user friendly for those with mobility or other difficulties, and we have a number of other arrangments and facilities in place to welcome anyone with special needs to the Planetarium. тАв Disabled parking available in close proximity to thebuilding . ... Teacher checklist for a school trip ....

... Courtesy of NASA/ESA Observation data (J2000 epoch) Constellation Right ascension Declination Redshift Distance Type Serpens Caput 15h 17m 14.4s[] +21° 35 08[] 12,740±50 km/s[][1] 600±30 Mly (183±8 Mpc)[1] SA0(r) [citation needed ] [a] Apparent dimensions (V) 0.28 в 0.28[] Apparent magnitude (V) 16.0[] Notable features Ring galaxy Other designations PGC 54559,[] PRC D-51[] See also: Galaxy, List of galaxies Hoag's Object is a non-typical galaxy of the type known as a ring galaxy. ...

... Radiation mechanisms of astrophysical objects: classics today . ... we invite you to submit papers based on your plenary, review or contributed talks or posters presented at the conference "Radiation mechanisms of astrophysical objects: classics today" to its Proceedings to be published by Armenian Academy of Science in 2016. Please note that participants who prepare the regular papers for the special issue of JQSRT on radiative transfer, etc. are also invited to submit papers to the Proceedings. ...

... Nova Archive for 2000 . ... covered, 42 supernovae and 577 extragalactic novae were reported. 0 of these supernovae were named by CBAT, 0 were given possible supernova designations, and 42 were not reported to CBAT. 39 supernovae were found in NGC/IC galaxies, 40 were found in named galaxies 587 objects were discovered by amateurs 0 were brighter than 13th Magnitude 3 were brighter than 16th Magnitude 14 were brighter than 18th Magnitude 0 Type I supernovae were found 0 Type Ia 0 ...

... Our recent observations with the Hubble Space Telescope (August 29, 2014) led to revealing a highly isolated dwarf spheroidal galaxy KKs 3 situated at a distance of 2.12 0.07 Mpc from the Milky Way. The dSph galaxy locates on the southern sky (RA=02 h 24 m 44.4 s , Dec.= ... Over the last decade, about 30 dSph galaxies have been discovered inside the Local Group through systematic search in the vicinity of M31 and more that a dozen dSphs were discovered in the nearby group around M81. ...