... Comet Meets Ring Nebula: Part I . ... Credit: Stefan Seip and Steffen Bruckner Explanation: As dawn approached on May 8, astronomer Stefan Seip carefully watched Fragment C of broken comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 approach M57 - the Ring Nebula, and faint spiral galaxy IC 1296 . ... At a distance of 200 million light-years, IC 1296 (between comet and ring) is beyond even the Milky Way's boundaries. ... Publications with keywords: comet - M57 . ... Comet Holmes Over Hungary . ...

... 2006 May 11 . Comet Meets Ring Nebula: Part I . ... Explanation: As dawn approached on May 8, astronomer Stefan Seip carefully watched Fragment C of broken comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 approach M57 - the Ring Nebula, and faint spiral galaxy IC 1296 . ... At a distance of 200 million light-years, IC 1296 (between comet and ring) is beyond even the Milky Way's boundaries. ... Tomorrow's picture: part II . ... About APOD | ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ...

... 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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... SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . Annual Meeting . ... Registration . ... Online pre-registration for Astronomical Society of the Pacific Annual Meeting is closed. Those wishing to attend the conference proper on Sep. 13-16 can register on-site at the Westin SFO, the conference hotel, at the ASP conference registration table. ... Registration for the meeting includes automatic general membership (at the $55 rate) with the ASP and the new ASP Conference Series publication. ...

... Planets . ... Earth Satellites . ... Looking in the direction of the constellation Cygnus the Swan and launched by NASA in 2009 is the Kepler Space Observatory.Many previous missions searching for exoplanets mainly detected large giant planets, like large hot Jupiters (it is easier to detect larger planets).However KeplerтАЩs main objective is to search for much smaller planets located in a habitable zone which is not too close nor too far from their star; planets which may be just like our Earth. ...

M1 image More About M1 Nice Color Picture . ... M16 image More About M16 HST image . ... M31 image More About M31 Nice Color Picture . ... M42 image ; M43 image More About M42/43 Nice Color CCD Picture . M51 image More About M51 Color Image of M51 M51 Supernova . M57 image More About M57 Nice Color CCD Picture Very Deep M57 Image . ... M81 image More About M81 M81 Supernova Ultraviolet Image of M81 More about Ultraviolet Imaging . M82 image More About M82 M82 False Color M82 True Color . ...

SMOV STATUS PLANNING MEETING - 11 APR. ... The spacecraft entered "zero-gyro" safemode at 099/1717z (9Apr97, 1:17 pm EDT), about 85 minutes after the apparent failure of gyro 4. ... SSR diagnostics were run and all remaining science data recovered from the recorder. ... WFPC2 Status - Proceeding nominally with Cycle 6 science and remaining SMOV monitors. ... It was noted that the FOM is not used much at all in the rest of SMOV, but will be used heavily with the onset of NICMOS science. ...

Intricately structured filaments of gas and dust compose the reflection nebula seen around the Pleiades star cluster. These multiwavelength images were presented to the American Astronomical Society meeting in San Antonio, TX on January 16, 1996. Click here for the press release text . ... The Schmidt data were processed further after this photo release; better versions are now available.] Get image: 512x512 (56k) / 1024x1024 (204k) . Pleiades Far-Infrared Heated Dust Emission . ...

... ESO Acronyms . ... Quasars and Black Holes . ... Black Hole at the Centre of our Galaxy . ... This view shows a simulation of how a gas cloud that has been observed approaching the supermassive black hole at the centre of the galaxy may break apart over the next few years. This is the first time ever that the approach of such a doomed cloud to a supermassive black hole has been observed and it is expected to break up completely during 2013. ... Milky Way : Galaxy : Component : Central Black Hole . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Bright planets meet at dusk . ... Astronomy magazine subscribers can read the full article for free. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter....

... The package includes a new ``hybrid'' symplectic integrator capable of handling close encounters, described at the conference: The Impact of Modern Dynamics in Astronomy , Namur, Belgium (Chambers 1998). ... NRC Research Associate, NASA/Ames Research Center , Moffett Field CA, USA, planetary accretion, formation of the asteroid belt and extra-solar planets. ... G.Laughlin and J.E.Chambers (2002) Astronomical Journal, , in press. ... American Astron. ... Home page of planet hunters Marcy and Butler ....

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... Main . ... The RadioAstron is an international space VLBI project led by the Astro Space Center of Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow, Russia. ... List of organizations which were taken part in developing of the project and now support the RadioAstron mission is presented here . The RadioAstron Newsletter # 29 , July 18, 2015. RadioAstron Announcement of Opportunity - 4 for observations from July 2016 to June 2017 inclusive. ... 2.7, December 17, 2015 : English version. ... Main ASC . ...

Список публикаций за 1998 год . ... Trushkin S.A. Multifrequency monitoring X-ray galactic sources. ... 1998. ... S.A. Trushkin. The RATAN radio continuum survey of the Galactic plane . ... at 0.96, 3.9 and 11.2 GHz in: New Horizons . ... Verkhodanov O., Andernach H., Verkhodanova N.V., Loiseau N. 1998. ... Joint European and National Astronomical Meeting, . JENAM'98. 7th European and 65th Annual Czech Astronomical Conference, . ... 1998, P.303. O.V. Verkhodanov, S.A. Trushkin. ...

pn Filter Wheel Closed Data . ... XMM-Newton SOC Home Page Conferences & Meetings . ... Data Analysis SAS News What is SAS? ... The following links contain pages to the merged Filter Wheel Closed event lists corresponding to the different EPIC-pn modes. ... Fast Modes . ... Burst Mode (BU) Below you can find relevant reports and proceedings about EPIC-pn Filter Wheel Closed exposures, such as spatial, temporal, and spectral properties of the internal background. ... EPIC-pn: background calibration . ...

The basic problems of the Laboratory are connected with researches of dynamics of minor planets and comets. ... THE ORBIT IMPROVEMENT of minor planets from optical and radar observations, . the utilization of minor planet observations for THE DETERMINATION OF ORIENTATION OF STAR CATALOGUES and DETERMINATION OF MASSES OF MINOR PLANETS BY DYNAMICAL METHOD, . THE ESTIMATION OF COLLISION PROBABILITY of minor planets with other bodies and with each other, . ...

... IC5146 The Cocoon Nebula and it's Dusty Tail . The Cocoon Nebula is made up of the open cluster IC5146 The cluster is made up of mostly 12th magnitude stars and surrounded by nebulosity of mostly Hydrogen gas. Not photographed often, is the long dark nebule B168 that appears to trail this from nebula like a comet's tail. This long area of dust and dark matter obscures the star light emitting from stars further away . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... STScI-PRC96-25 HUBBLE'S 100,000TH EXPOSURE CAPTURES IMAGE OF DISTANT QUASAR The Hubble Space Telescope achieved its 100,000th exposure June 22 with a snapshot of a quasar that is about 9 billion light-years from Earth. ... The fainter object just above it is an elliptical galaxy. ... The quasar and star are separated by billions of light-years. ... Image files in GIF and JPEG format and captions may be accessed on Internet via anonymous ftp from ftp.stsci.edu in /pubinfo. ...