... The TRACE images may be used without restrictions in publications of any kind. ... These two images, taken on 18 November 2000 at 15:54UT and 16:11UT, respectively, show such an event: the red circle in the image to the left shows a region where many loops are cooling, with bright loop tops (the intensity scales with the square root of the image to reduce the dynamic range). ... See also a collection of images related to the Sun, other cool stars, and solar-terrestrial effects . ... Images | ...

... 227Wink This paper containes an investigation of 91 sources which appear to be point sources when observed with the angular resolution of the 100-m telescope at 4.9 GHz, teta_a = 2.6', and which we expected to be HII regions. The basic search list was prepared from the 4.9 GHz survey of the galactic plane by Altenhoff et al. ... In the present paper we list 4.9 GHz flux densities only for sources for sources for which we present new observations. ... source structure indicated . ...

... This program was created for correlating chosen regions in the series of fts images. ... Chosen regions' . ... In this section the program counts the integral for each region of the grid for each image. ... As a matter of fact, the integral is total brightness of the region and it is counted by 'int_tabulated' IDL function. ... In addition, the program will show the count of the regions which correlate with the corresponding region (the brighter region means the bigger count) and its contour. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... Ten thousand years ago, before the dawn of recorded human history, a new light must suddenly have appeared in the night sky and faded after a few weeks. Today we know this light was an exploding star and record the colorful expanding cloud as the Veil Nebula. ... Seen in this Hubble Space Telescope image, the island universe of stars, gas, and dust cataloged as POX 186 is a mere 68 million light-years distant toward an uncrowded region in the constellation Virgo. ...

... Authors: Noah Brosch 1,2 , Ana Heller 3 , Elchanan Almoznino 3 The location of HII regions, which indicates the locus of present star formation in galaxies, is analyzed for a large collection of 110 irregular galaxies (Irr) imaged in H and nearby continuum. ... Appeared in: MNRAS, 300:1091-1097, 1998 . ... 2 ) On sabbatical leave from the Wise Observatory and the School of Physics and Astronomy, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel . ...

... select cursor and ellipse . ... The three mouse buttons have been redefined as: . ... i.e. , the axial ratio and orientation of the ellipse are fixed, only adding (or removing) ellipses of different area is possible. obtain different annuli by placing the mouse at some distance from the ellipse and clicking on the MIDDLE button to produce equally spaced, concentric ellipses towards the mouse position. ... Note: &! means ``and not''; i.e., an elliptical annulus rather than a solid ellipse. ...

... 2002 July 18 . Sunspot Region 30 . Credit: MDI , SOHO , ESA , NASA . Explanation: The solar active region designated number 10030 (or simply region 30) is now appearing on the visible hemisphere of the closest star . ... The panels above were recorded July 15, 16, and 17 (top to bottom) by the MDI instrument on the space-based SOHO Observatory as the solar rotation slowly carried the large, dynamic sunspot group across the Sun's nearside . ... About APOD | ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... The dayside auroral precipitation consist of magnetosheath related boundary layer precipitation, and plasma sheet related BPS/CPS precipitation (extensions of the nightside precipitation regions). ... For example, the much lower fluxes from the LLBL region when compared to the cusp are compensated by the bidirectional electron beams found in the LLBL: the precipitating energy fluxes in the LLBL and the cusp are not that different. ... directly through the cusp and plasma mantle . ...

... High-resolution Halpha observations reveal the existence of an unusual bar in the disk of NGC 1808 at a position angle of 155 degr, about 20 degr offset from the major axis. ... A remarkably similar bar has been found in the galaxy NGC 7479. The outer parts of the HII region chain in NGC 1808 coincide with maxima in the HI gas distribution and further out connect to the outer spiral arms. The streaming of gas along the bar is clearly seen in the HI velocity field. ...

... region (region-7.9) [xmmsas_20070708_1801-7.1.0] . ... The basic source region shape is a circle. There are three ways to assign the radius, specified via the parameter radiusstyle : . radiusstyle =`userfixed'. ... In this choice, the task uses for the source region radius that value which encloses energyfraction of the total flux under the Point Spread Function (PSF). ... At present the effect of this reprojection on the source region contours is ignored and circles are retained. ...

... Here some data observed on the 6m telescope with IFP installed in the OLD focal reducer are presented. ... Mkn 3: velocity field . ... NGC 5252: [OIII] image . ... NGC 5252 was observed 23 Feb. 1998 in the [OIII]5007 emission line with CCD TK1024 as detector. ... We observed the ionized gas velocity fields of the spiral galaxies with two purpose. ... Restored velocity field of NGC 157 in the reference frame rotating with the pattern speed overlaid on the Ha image of the galaxy . ... NGC 4100 . ...

I-GALFA View of a Galactic Tangent Region . ... Image featured in NAIC Newsletter #46 . I-GALFA image of hydrogen gas in a tangent region outside the Sagittarius arm. ... Because we are viewing this gas in a direction closely aligned with (tangent to) its orbital motion, it appears to be moving away from us (we are orbiting the Galactic center with a similar speed, but our own motion in a different direction). ... The gas near 60 degrees longitude is being viewed tangent to its orbital motion. ...

. From Earth, the starburst galaxy NGC 6810 appears nearly edge-on and pointed vertically. This false-color image is a composite of visible starlight (blue), light from hot hydrogen gas (red), and X rays (green). The starburst region, site of intense star formation, appears white. The green areas coincide with the galactic superwind streaming from the starburst region. ESA/David K. Strickland

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... Transitions between these levels gives line at 1.25 cm. ... 1.0 L/M=0.998 0.8 1.0 i=30 0.8 o Flux (arbitrary) 0.6 Flux (arbitrary) 0.6 0.4 0.4 0.2 0.2 D E 0.6 F 0.8 / 1.0 1.2 1.4 1.6 0.0 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 / 1.0 1.1 1.2 0.0 0.2 0.4 (a) Two wings 1.5 1.0 L/M=0.998 0.8 1.0 (b) Var ying rotation Flux (arbitrary) 0.6 Flux (arbitrary) C B 1.0 / 1.2 1.4 A 1.6 0.4 0.6 0.8 0.5 0.4 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.2 -0.5 0.4 0.6 0.8 / 1.0 1.2 (c) Var ying inclination (d) Data Figure 1: Fe line from accretion disk round black hole...

... Educational programs (Russian) . ... Pre-university education . ... Samara State Aerospace University About us Samara region . ... Samara . Samara (Сама?ра), called Kuybyshev (Ку?йбышев) from 1935 to 1990, is one of the largest cities in Russia. ... The 20th -century Russian writer Alexey Tolstoy lived in Samara, and there is a museum dedicated to his life and literary work. ... Among them is Samara State Aerospace University (SSAU), one of Russia s leading engineering and technical institutions. ...

Solar Large-Scale Chains: Some Events . ... The chains appear to light up separators or quasi-separatrix layers between different interacting large-scale magnetic flux systems in the global solar magnetosphere and, in particular, to outline large-scale coronal structures involved in the CME process. ... Some features of the chains and their relations to CMEs are illustrated for a number of halo CME-associated events. 23 events of 1997-2000 . ... Halo-CME-associated events of November 1997 . ...

In 2001, Westerbork observations of the disturbed galaxy named VV-29 (alias Arp-188, UGC-10214) showed that there is second smaller galaxy (named VV-29c) that appears behind the western side of the main body of the distorted galaxy. ... The galaxy was featured as the May 2, 2002 Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... When VV-29 had its 15 minutes of fame in May 2002, it appeared under the name "The Tadpole Galaxy," but based on the images above, we will always think of it as "The CHAINSAW"! ...

Galaxies are diffuse objects which are imaged against a background of finite brightness and noise. Galaxies which have the maximum contrast with respect to this background are the ones that are first discovered. ... These galaxies have been missed to date but active surveys for them are underway. ... In this page we present several examples of these newly discovered Low Surface Brightness galaxies as well as examples of high surface brightness galaxies. ...