... These questions, among the most important and baffling to astronomers since the beginning of the modern astronomical era, might well be answered by a new space satellite mission. The Rotating Jets of Comet Hyakutake . ... The Compton Observatory Turns Five . ... Earlier this April, NASA's Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, completed its fifth successful year in orbit, exploring the gamma ray sky. ... Unexpected X-rays from Comet Hyakutake . ... Uranus's Moon Oberon: Impact World . ... April . ...

... Sometimes, asking questions that sound very simple to answer can help scientists to understand important things about how the Universe works. For example, why is the sky dark at night? ... However, they also thought the Universe went on forever that it was infinitely big. But if the Universe were infinite, then there would be stars covering every patch of the night sky and it would be very bright! ... However, astronomers now know that the Universe isn t infinitely big after all. ...

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... STScI-PRC99-16 RING AROUND A GALAXY Space Telescope Science Institute astronomers are giving the public chances to decide where to aim NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Guided by 8,000 Internet voters, Hubble has already been used to take a close-up, multi-color picture of the most popular object from a list of candidates, the extraordinary "polar-ring" galaxy NGC 4650A. Located about 130 million light-years away, NGC 4650A is one of only 100 known polar-ring galaxies. ...

... ROTATION CURVE: When studying spiral galaxies it is invariably found that the stellar rotational velocity in the disk remains constant, or "flat", with increasing distance away from the galactic center. ... The rotation speed of the stars in galaxies is found NOT to decrease with increasing distance from the galactic center (see emission lines in the spectrum), implying that the overall mass distribution of the galaxy is different from the light distribution. ...

The Sun is our nearest star and the source of energy for life on Earth. ... For centuries astronomers wondered whether they were clouds floating in the Sun's atmosphere, but we now know that they really are huge regions of magnetic field, about as intense as the field at the poles of an iron magnet. ... Such abrupt events were named solar flares , and what made them especially interesting was that occasionally, after a prominent flare, a magnetic storm would erupt on Earth. ...

... Confirmation that a mysterious cloud of hydrogen in the Virgo Cluster is a dark galaxy has been published by a team of astronomers . New evidence from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope in the Netherlands has been used to rule out all but one of the ideas put forward to explain the existence of VIRGOHI 21, an intergalactic gas cloud 50 million light-years from the Earth. ... Only Dark Matter can account for the existence of such a system. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... The Sun has an activity cycle of around 11 years; at the peak of this cycle many solar storms occur, each one ejecting mass into the solar system greater than that of Earth's Mount Everest. ... It might seem strange, but astronomers think that most of the matter in our Galaxy does not emit light as our Sun does but instead comprises so-called "dark matter". ...

... Research . Projects . ... The name of the project APEX is a reduction from words " Active Plasma Experiments " . The core of the project are active experiments with injection of electron and (or) plasma beams from a board of the satellite with simultaneous registration of the phenomena, produced by interaction of injected beam with background plasma. ... Active experiments utilise modulated electron beam accelerator and source of modulated xenon plasma beam on the main spacecraft APEX. ...

Gerhardt Meurer (Johns Hopkins University) . The accompanying picture shows NGC 2915, which Australian, Canadian, and American astronomers have shown to be the darkest known disk galaxy. ... The team of astronomers, lead by Gerhardt Meurer at Johns Hopkins University, analyzed the rotation of the galaxy and showed that NGC 2915 is composed mostly of "dark matter". Dark matter is extremely difficult to detect since it does not emit any radiation. ... Gerhardt R. Meurer . ...

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So the evidence for Dark Matter is fairly overwhelming. ... Theory: if the Universe is closed then all the luminous matter seen in galaxies contributes only 0.5% of the mass required to eventually halt the expansion . ... This means that galaxies are surrounded by dark matter halos which trapped baryonic gas (e.g. hydrogen) and turned it into stars. ... WIMPS - weakly interacting massive particles created in the extremely early universe . ... Theory 99% of the Universe is Dark Matter . ...

Альтернативный форум . Scientific.ru Все форумы . ... Re: Astronomers Create 3D Map of Dark Matter Space.com 07 January 2007 01:37 pm ET . x203a; x203a; x203a; в ответ на: Astronomers Create 3D Map of Dark Matter Space.com 07 January 2007 01:37 pm ET Abramyan G.L. : An alternative theory . ... Astronomers Create 3D Map of Dark Matter Space.com 07 January 2007 01:37 pm ET Abramyan G.L., 10.01.2007 01:10 . ... Re: Прочел и привожу текст, меня вомутивший. Анатолий Рыков, 11.01.2007 08:53 . ...