The nasa.gov site requires that JavaScripts be enabled in your browser. ... Contact NASA . ... The term "astronaut" derives from the Greek words meaning "space sailor," and refers to all who have been launched as crew members aboard NASA spacecraft bound for orbit and beyond. Since the inception of NASA's human space flight program, we have also maintained the term "astronaut" as the title for those selected to join the NASA corps of astronauts who make "space sailing" their career profession. ...

This animation (MPEG 4.8 Mb) shows the motions of stars caught in the gravitational field of a three-million solar mass black hole in the core of the nearby galaxy M32 . Stars swarm around the black hole like angry bees around a hive. The animation is based on computer simulations and new Hubble Space Telescope observations of M32 . ... In 1992, Hubble observations measured a bright peak, or `cusp' of starlight that independently suggested that the stars were concentrated around a black hole. ...

... A: Because they have an event horizon . ... X-ray astronomers using the space-based Chandra Observatory now believe they have direct for event horizons - therefore black holes - in binary star systems which can be detected in x-ray light. ... But if it is indeed a black hole with a defining event horizon, then the x-ray hot material approaches the speed of light as it swirls past the surface of no return and is lost from view. ... Publications with keywords: black hole - x-ray binary - neutron star ...

... May 16, 1997 . Signed, "A Black Hole" . Credit: B. Woodgate ( GSFC ), G. Bower( NOAO ), STIS Instrument Definition Team, NASA . Explanation: This artistic image is actually the signature of a supermassive black hole in the center of distant galaxy M84 - based on data recently recorded by Hubble's new Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph ( STIS ). ... These extreme velocity increases provide a "signature" of the black hole's presence. ... About APOD > . ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

... Feeding the Monster: Gas Caught in its Death Spiral into a Massive Black Hole . ... Stromlo Professor Mike Dopita have used the Hubble Space Telescope to discover how a massive Black Hole in a nearby galaxy feeds itself. ... Earlier Hubble Telescope data obtained by another team member, Professor Holland Ford of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, had found a disk of gas rushing around the Black Hole at a speed of 500 kilometers a second. ...

... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Star Clusters . ... FLAMES . ... 100 Hours of Astronomy . ... IMAX€о 3D Film Hidden Universe . ... This image, the first to be released publicly from VISTA, the worldтАЩs largest survey telescope, shows the spectacular star-forming region known as the Flame Nebula, or NGC 2024, in the constellation of Orion (the Hunter) and its surroundings. ...

Please enter the lightcurve file name and period search parameters: . Lightcurve file: . ... Apply the Heliocentric correction and convert all dates to Terrestrial Time (TT)? ... Also, the Heliocentric correction cannot be applied to such lightcurves. ... This period search service is also available at the mirror sites: Mirror 1 , Mirror 2 , Mirror 3 , Mirror 4 . You may download the latest source code distribution and install the period search service at your own web server. ...

... Recent Results . ... last 10 years in ADS) . in SAO press releases . ... observations database) . ... Last update: . ... Measurement of the dark halo shape in polar ring galaxies . Determining the mass of supermassive black hole in galaxy Mrk6 nucleus based on spectropolarimetric observations . The dust jets in the nucleus of comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 . ... New Polar Ring Galaxies . Traces of recent interactions in isolated Seyfert galaxies . ...

... Our Sun is part of a huge wheel-shaped collection of stars. ... Astronomers have long suspected it was a very massive black hole, and that every galaxy had such a central mass, created early in the history of the universe. ... However, unless that object happens to be headed directly at the black hole (a relatively small target) it will just swing around and fly away again, like a comet making a pass at the Sun. The velocity acquired in falling towards the black hole also helps it escape. ...

... NASA's Hubble Space Telescope offers a stunning unprecedented close-up view of a turbulent firestorm of starbirth along a nearly edge-on dust disk girdling Centaurus A, the nearest active galaxy to Earth. A ground-based telescopic view (upper left insert) shows that the dust lane girdles the entire elliptical galaxy. This lane has long been considered the dust remnant of a smaller spiral galaxy that merged with the large elliptical galaxy. ...

... Based on the measurements of the Stokes parameters in the continuum and in the broad 0.6563 nm hydrogen emission line obtained with the 6-m telescope for the Seyfert galaxy Mkn 6, secular variability of the hydrogen line profile polarization was discovered; a time lag of less than 2 days between the continuum flux and the polarized continuum emission was determined which corresponds to the size of the region where the polarization of the continuum occurs, less than 0.001 pc. ...

We investigate the relative importance of starbursts and active galactic nuclei (AGN) in nuclear activities of ultraluminous infrared galaxies (ULIRGs) based on chemodynamical simulations combined with spectrophotometric synthesis codes. We numerically investigate both the gas accretion rates (ARs; m acc ) on to supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and the star formation rates (SFRs; m sf ) in ULIRGs formed by gas-rich galaxy mergers and thereby discuss what powers ULIRGs. ...

... Although many of the images are used for teacher-driven activities, students do have the opportunity to work with scientists on original research projects. ... The primary goal is to have teachers experience astronomy research and then to bring the research data into their classrooms via the internet. ... They also learn how to process their data, build a solar telescope to take home to their classrooms, and learn background information from astronomers in each of the three research areas. ...

... Black holes are found at the centres of galaxies which are similar in size to our own Milky Way Galaxy or larger. When black holes collide and merge they form supermassive black holes which are events among the most powerful in the universe. ... 55, No. 1, pages 1-5, 'Observational Effects of Strong Gravity in Vicinity of Supermassive Black Holes' . ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

Databases (NSDC) of the Natural Planetary Satellites. ... NSDC: Database of astrometric observations of Natural Planetary Satellites . ... They are thoroughly looking for observations in different sources, creating their owndatabases which are then mostly inaccessible to other researchers. ... In the file "content" with explications, the reference is given to the data source as well as the bibliographic reference. ... Data sources. ... Why a specific bibliographic database for Natural satellites? ...

... Why does X-ray astronomy require satellite telescopes? ... That is why scientists use space based satellites to record and observe data from X-ray sources. ... It primarily observes X-ray sources and has a moderate imaging capabilities. ... X-rays (because of their short wavelengths) , as opposed to visual light, can penetrate through otherwise opaque objects e.g. bones X-rays can observe celestial objects that emit shorter wavelengths such as galaxies , quasars, and black holes. ... X-ray image . ...

Electron-Bombarded, Back-Illuminated CCD Sensors . For Low-Light-Level Imaging Applications . ... A voltage potential accelerates the amplified electron signal from the MCP output onto a phosphor screen where the image is converted back to light. A glass fiberoptic element couples the phosphor screen image out of the tube. ... An Electron Bombarded CCD (EBCCD) eliminates the complicated image transfer chain by inserting a thinned back-illuminated CCD into the image intensifier tube. ...

... Based on the accurate radio position, GT 0236+610 was identified with LSI+61 303 (Gregory et al. , 1979[ 59 ]), a B0 star at a distance of 2 kpc (Frail and Hjellming, 1991[ 52 ]) with unusually broad, double-peaked, and variable and emission lines. ... The star wind velocity is estimated as  km s (Howarth, 1983[ 67 ]). ... The radio emission from LSI+61 303 exhibits non-thermal periodic outbursts of variable amplitude with a period of days (Taylor and Gregory, 1982, 1984[ 188 , 189 ]; Coe et al. ...

... Laboratory for Spectroscopy of Molecular Structures . ... Optics and spectroscopy of molecular and liquid crystals, fullerenes, superthin molecular films. Optical studies of structure, phase transitions, pretransitional phenomena, structural modifications in external field and under high pressure. ... Methods developed in the laboratory enable to determine in free standing films of different types liquid crystals values of polarization, two-dimensional constants of orientational elasticity. ...

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