... M19 appears to be a typical globular cluster of stars - except for its shape. ... First deployed in 1965, the rocket stands typically 40 meters tall, can carry unusually heavy payloads into space, and maintains a high record of reliability. ... As the Earth spins on its axis, the stars seem to rotate around us. ... LP 944-20: A Failed Star Flares . ... The tiny spot circled on the right actually represents a big astronomical discovery -- the first detected flare from a failed star. ...

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... 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. ...

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... From the data taken during Cycle 1, surface brightness profiles have been obtained for 13 globular clusters in M31 (Fusi Pecci et al. 1993), leading also to the detection of a central cusp in a candidate post-core-collapse cluster (Bendinelli et al. ... Surface brightness profiles obtained with VISTA. ... PSF 512 512, data matrix smaller and smaller (256 256, 128 128, 64 64), sky = 0, RMG (Fig. 3b): the derived profiles remain unaffected a part from the reduction in radial extension. ...

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... Today this year's largest group of sunspots will cross the Sun's central meridian. ... The next day, the number of spots in the group reached five, and the day after, on June 2nd, it was possible to count thirteen sunspots on solar disk, which had been clear prior to this. ... This year's two most powerful active areas, which passed across the solar disk at the beginning of May, 2009, are set to appear in the Sun's eastern sector in two days, on June 6th. ...

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... 2000 July 19 . Globular Cluster M19 . ... Explanation: M19 appears to be a typical globular cluster of stars - except for its shape. ... In fact, M19 is the most aspherical globular cluster of the approximately 160 known orbiting the center of our Milky Way Galaxy . M19 lies about 27,000 light-years away, measures about 60 light-years across, and is home to over 100,000 stars. The cluster can be found with binoculars towards the constellation of Ophiuchus . ... About APOD | ...

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Ariel . ... Ariel [AIR-ee-al] is a relatively small satellite and is the brightest moon of Uranus. ... This image of Ariel shows a world pock-marked with craters. ... This image is a mercator map of Ariel. ... This image is a polar stereographic map of the southern hemisphere of Ariel. ... This image is an orthographic view of Ariel centered at -66 degrees latitude and 316 degrees longitude. ... This image of Ariel is at the same geometry of the highest resolution mosaic of Ariel taken by Voyager. ...

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... In summer 1994, the biggest news in astronomy was the collision of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter. During this school year, Jupiter will charge back into the limelight with the arrival of the Galileo spacecraft (see figure 8 ). On Dec. 7, following a tortuous six-year ramble through the solar system, Galileo will begin its two-year mission studying Jupiter and its gaggle of moons. ... Besides the camera, Galileo will carry instruments capable of identifying minerals on Jupiter's moons. ...

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... 1st Announcement IAU Symposium 312 Star Clusters and Black Holes Across Cosmic Time, Beijing, China, Aug. 25-29, 2014 . ... SUBJECT: 1st Announcement IAU Symposium 312 Star Clusters and Black Holes Across Cosmic Time, Beijing, China, Aug. 25-29, 2014 . ... which will be held in Beijing, P.R. China, from August 25-29, 2014, hosted by Chinese Academy of Sciences . ... China), . ... 1st Announcement IAU Symposium 312 Star Clusters and Black Holes Across Cosmic Time, Beijing, China, Aug. ...

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Stellar Clusters are very useful laboratories for empirically studying stellar evolution. ... All cluster stars are at the same distance . All cluster stars have the same physical age . ... CM diagram Young Cluster In this case we see the Main Sequence fully represented. The blue dots represent massive stars with short main sequence lifetimes. ... Thus, identifying the most massive star which is still on the main sequence is an effective means of determining the age of a stellar cluster. ...

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Astronomy Discussion Forums . ... Atm ћ Astrophotography ћ Blackholes ћ Blackholes2 ћ CCD ћ Celestron ћ Domes ћ Education . ... New Model: How Do The Sun And Moon Appear To Move Across The Sky . ... Post Message | ... focused on the Sun and the Moon as they appear from the given location of the Earth surface: . ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

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... Astronomers experienced the same thing, only this time they photographed a dwarf galaxy , and a globular cluster blocked the view. ... A globular cluster is a collection of old stars that orbits a galaxy. ... This particular globular cluster is orbiting the Milky Way our home galaxy. ... Light travels faster than anything in the world, so you could say that this cluster is enormous! ... Astronomers are lucky that the globular cluster insisted on being on camera, as they can now study it in detail. ...

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... Star Atlas . ... stars . ... Globular cluster NGC 2808, elliptical galaxy NGC 2986, and the Sextans Dwarf . ... Proxima Centauri is a red dwarf star, so would it appear red from the surface of an Earth-like planet in that star's habitable zone? ... Astronomers haven t found planets around our Sun s nearest neighbor, the red dwarf Proxima Centauri. ... Most exoplanets orbit red dwarfs the most common and longest-lived type of star. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

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Results from 6m telescope observations of globular clusters in dwarf galaxies Sharina M. We consider properties of globular clusters in dwarf galaxies observed with the multi-slit unit of the SCORPIO spectrograph at the SAO 6m telescope. ... Studying GCs in dwarf galaxies at the faintest end of the galaxy luminosity function provides valuable information for a better understanding of galaxy evolution and evolutionary connection between globular clusters and nuclei of galaxies. ...

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Title: A Dark-Matter Spike at the Galactic Center? Authors: Piero Ullio , HongSheng Zhao , Marc Kamionkowski . ... Title: The Galaxy Environment of Quasars in the Clowes-Campusano Large Quasar Group at z~1.3 . ... Title: The Galaxy Environment of a Quasar at z=1.226: A Possible Cluster Merger . ... 16 matches for the search pattern galaxy environment . The URL for this page is: http://xxx.itep.ru/find/astro-ph/1/galaxy+environment/0/1/0/past,all/0/0 www-admin@xxx.lanl.gov ...

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Phobos . Mars I . Phobos [FOH-bohs] (fear) is a moon of Mars and was named after an attendant of the Roman war god Mars. ... Phobos shows striated patterns which are probably cracks caused by the impact event of the largest crater on the moon. ... The striking feature in this image is the giant Stickney crater. ... Courtesy NASA) . ... Because Phobos is only 28 by 20 kilometers (17 by 12 miles), the moon must have been nearly shattered from the force of the impact that caused the giant crater. ...

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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Moon . ... Space Flight . ... Earth Satellites . ... February . ... By admin February 16, 2012 Posted in: Moon . A roll?n?rock can be seen in this image from NASA?s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. ... This rolling stone gathered no moss but left its track in the regolith until the slope levelled off and it slowed to a halt. ... Then the Moon shone down on an Earth that€а looked superficially familiar to that of today but was oddly different. ...

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... The Pleiades star cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, is a conspicuous object in the night sky with a prominent place in ancient mythology . ... The stars in the Pleiades are thought to have formed together around 100 million years ago, making them 1/50th the age of our sun, and they lie some 130 parsecs (425 light years ) away. ... Data for these stars are listed in a table below. ... Yes . ... WEBDA Pleiades cluster data . ... M45: The Pleiades Star Cluster (2007 November 18) ...

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Hot subdwarfs are hots stars with masses somewhat less than that of the Sun. ... They are known as sdB stars because their spectra are dominated by hydrogen lines. ... Normally, a red giant will switch on core helium burning without losingthe layers of hydrogen around the helium core. sdOB stars are related to sdB stars, possibly being the sdB stars which have completed core helium burning and are evolving to become white dwarfs. ... Such stars are known as PG1159 stars and DO white dwarfs. ...

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... Listed below are questions submitted by users of "The Great Magnet, the Earth" and the answers given to them. ... In "The Exploration of the Earth's magnetosphere" on the magnetic environment of the Earth in space (a few Q duplicated here) . ... 11) Magnetic Shielding . ... 51) Can electricity be generated from the Earth's magnetic field? ... 9) Measuring Earth's magnetic field . ... 6) Reversals of the Earth's field (4 queries) . ... 42) Could generated electricity affect Earth's magnetic field? ...

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