... 2002 June 20 . Bright Galaxy M81 . ... Explanation: Big and beautiful spiral galaxy M81 , in the northern constellation Ursa Major , is one of the brightest galaxies visible in the skies of planet Earth. This superbly detailed view reveals its bright nucleus, grand spiral arms and sweeping cosmic dust lanes with a scale comparable to the Milky Way . ... The errant dust lane may be the lingering result of a close encounter between M81 and its smaller companion galaxy, M82 . ... About APOD | ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . APOD is 20 Years Old Today . ... Credit Copyright: Apologies to: Vermeer's Astronomer and Geographer ; Image Pixelation: Rob Stevenson Explanation: Welcome to the vicennial year of the Astronomy Picture of the Day! ... Can you find any notable APOD images?) ... 20th Anniversary Interview: An oral history of Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ... U. Based on Astronomy Picture Of the Day . ... APOD Heatmap . ...

... 2000 June 13 . The Carina Nebula in Infrared . ... Explanation: About three million years ago, the stars in the Keyhole Nebula began to form. The above picture of the Keyhole Nebula , also known as the Carina Nebula or NGC 3372, shows in infrared light many facets of this dramatic stellar nursery which lies only 9,000 light-years away. ... The bright star near Trumpler 14 is called Eta Carinae and is one of the most unusual stars known. ... About APOD | ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : "We're light years more advanced than our competition!" ... Even the closest astronomical object, the Moon, is 400,000 kilometers away! ... A beam of light will travel 9,500,000,000,000 kilometers in one year. This distance is defined as a light year ; the distance light travels in a year. ... This is another example of Bad Astronomy; like a light year, a parsec is a unit of distance, not time (to be specific, it equals 3.26 light years) . ...

... A song written by Padi Boyd and performed by The Chromatics, specifically for the International Year of Astronomy. ... 16 December 2008, NUI Galway: Dr. Martin Mansergh TD, Minister of State at the Department of Finance with special responsibility for the Office of Public Works today announced broadcast details of this yearтАЩs Winter Solstice at Newgrange, County Meath. ... The International Year of Astronomy 2009 is an initiative of the International Astronomical Union and UNESCO. ...

. 29th of June 2015 . Rainbow-colored Jet d'Eau in Geneva . by B rbel Koribalski (CASS) . This photo was taken nearly exactly one year ago during a late afternoon walk along lake Geneva after a busy EWASS 2014 conference session. This year's EWASS 2015 meeting was held at La Laguna on Tenerife last week. RSS feed generated by Page2RSS . | archive | about | today * ATNF | Parkes | ATCA | Mopra | VLBI | ASKAP | .

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... Donate to Support Science Literacy . ... 2016 Annual Awards . The ASP is accepting nominations for the organizationтАЩs national annual awards which recognize special achievements in astronomy research, technology, education, and public outreach. ... Shop the AstroShop . ... The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) is accepting nominations for the organizationтАЩs national annual awards which recognize special achievements in astronomy research, technology, education, and public outreach.. ...

JSC Celebrates 40 Years of Human Space Flight . Space Shuttle . ... Maneuvering through space and circling the Earth 36 times, astronauts John Young, commander, and Robert Crippen, pilot, tested its systems, then landed like an airplane on schedule two days, six hours, 20 minutes and 52 seconds later. ... While the shuttle system was something new and different, development could now draw upon a reservoir of aerospace technology, which was virtually nonexistent a decade earlier. ...

... Events . ... Samara region . ... The plenary session of the Conference was opened by the Rector E.V. Shakhmatov: Our conference is held at a significant time this year there is the 120th anniversary of the birth of Sergei Vladimirovich Ilyushin. Design Bureau and Ilyushin himself worked successfully for the benefit of future. Today, due to the adoption of the SSAU road map , we also look to the future and put high hopes on the youth able to promote the national science. ...

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... RSDC . ... Press Releases (rus) || in Russian RSDC Quick Jump 9-year Galactic survey Catalog of sources 7-year Galactic Bulge Map Cleaning IBIS/ISGRI sky images IBIS/ISGRI Sensitivity vs. ... The INTEGRAL view of the Galaxy . ... May 2012: 9-year Galactic plane survey . ... They are ISGRI (higher plane detector of the IBIS telescope), JMX1 and JMX2 - two detectors of the JEM-X telescope. ... RSDC is actively participating in the all-sky survey carrying out with INTEGRAL observatory. ... 2016 IKI RAN...

... Authors: Spyros Basilakos (Imperial College London) . ... Title: Populating a cluster of galaxies - I. Results at z=0 . ... Title: The Merger Rate to Redshift One from Kinematic Pairs: Caltech Faint Galaxy Redshift Survey XI . ... Title: Multi-wavelength observations of an evolved galaxy group: An endpoint of galaxy merging? ... 23 matches for the search pattern galaxy merging . The URL for this page is: http://xxx.itep.ru/find/astro-ph/1/galaxy+merging/0/1/0/past,all/0/0 www-admin@xxx.lanl.gov ...

... 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. ...

Most of these images were obtained by Mike Bessell, Michelle Buxton, Hwankyung Sung, Ralph Sutherland and Bob Watson at SSO using a 2Kx2K Site CCD behind a Nikon or Hasselblad lens or directly on the 1m telescope. A few images are from the Hubble Space Telescope. Some of the M42 images were obtained with the KPNO 1m and ESO NTT telescope. One image is a mosaic of IRAS images. ... Details of the CCD imaging program at MSSSO. ... antenna.jpg (53KB) . ... ngc6744.jpg (59KB) . ...

Our publications in 2001 year Kniazev, A. Y.; Engels, D.; Pustilnik, S. A.; Ugryumov, A. V.; Kniazeva, T. F.; Pramsky, A. G.; Brosch, N.; Hagen, H.-J.; Hopp, U.; Izotov, Y. I.; Lipovetsky, V. A.; Masegosa, J.; Marquez, I.; Martin, J.-M. Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.366, p.771-787 (02/2001) . ... Pustilnik, S.; Kniazev, A.; Lipovetsky, V.; Ugryumov, A. Astronomische Gesellschaft Abstract Series, Vol. ... N.; Soboleva, N. S.; Temirova, A. V. Astronomische Gesellschaft Abstract Series, Vol. ...

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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Space Flight . ... By admin November 24, 2015 Posted in: Armagh Planetarium . Please note that these items are not currently available to buy online from Armagh Planetarium . ... Image Credit: Martina Glass/Armagh Planetarium) . ... Not to just limit space gifts for the older members of the family. ... Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

Publications by members of the optical interferometry team relevant to the theory and practice of Adaptive Optics (AO) are listed below. ... SPIE require us to publish the following statement: . ... In D. Bonaccini Calia, B. L. Ellerbroek, and R. Ragazzoni, editors, Advancements in Adaptive Optics , volume 5490 of Proc. SPIE , pages 1315+. ... In D. Bonaccini Calia, B. L. Ellerbroek, and R. Ragazzoni, editors, Advancements in Adaptive Optics , volume 5490 of Proc. SPIE , pages 966+. ...