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An Ancient Universe: How Astronomers Know the Vast Scale of Cosmic Time . ... INTRODUCTION . ... Based on their personal beliefs, they find fault not only with biological evolution, but also with modern astronomical ideas about the age, expansion, and evolution of the universe. ... An Ancient Universe - Table of Contents . ... The Ancient Universe - The Age of the Expanding Universe - The Age of the Oldest Stars - The Age of Light From Distant Galaxies - The Age of the Chemical Elements | ...

... Our Galaxy . ... Space Flight . ... No Comments Dim and isolated, the dwarf irregular galaxy WolfтАУLundmarkтАУMelotte (WLM) could be described as an astronomical тАЬliving fossilтАЭ as it seems to have developed since it formed billions of years ago [ ] . Continue Reading.. ... Posted on November 24, 2011 | ... 3 Comments The astronomy community is excited by the discovery of an exploding star, a supernova, in a galaxy 21 million light years away in the constellation Ursa Major. ...

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... For moving objects such as asteroids, comets, or planets, it is useful to include ephemeris information, both to provide predicted coordinates for planning observations, and to allow accurate airmass calculations in the reductions. ... These times can be given either as Modified Julian Dates ( ), or as ordinary date strings like 1995 Jan 23.0 . To allow good interpolation, include two ephemeris entries before and two after the interval of observations. ... UT date --- column label: DATE . ...

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HST Call for Proposals and HST Primer for Cycle 24 . ... Hubble Space Telescope Call for Proposals for Cycle 24 > Chapter 8: Filling Out the APT Proposal Form > 8.8 Scientific Category . ... Scientific Category . ... STELLAR POPULATIONS: This includes resolved stellar populations in globular clusters, open clusters or associations, and the general field of the Milky Way and other nearby galaxies. ... This category also includes studies of gas distribution and dynamics in distant galaxies. ...

... Bringing news from across the Universe to children all around the world . ... It contains billions of awesome objects including planets, dust clouds, galaxies and star clusters like the one in this photograph. ... Charles Messier s life dream was to become famous. To do this, he needed to discover a comet. ... So he decided to save himself some time and each time he found an object that didn t move across the sky (as comets do), he noted it down. ...

... Cassini Images The Moon . ... On August 18, the Cassini spacecraft flew by the Earth and Moon, then continued on its way to the outer solar system. ... Four years ago, Comet Hale-Bopp was discovered out near Jupiter falling toward the inner Solar System. ... In astronomical parlance, an interior planet is at superior conjunction when it is located on the opposite side of the Sun from Earth. ... Water Found in Space Rock . ... It's only Planet Earth, of course ... as seen on the Water Vapor Channel. ...

Chiaki Kobayashi, Ralph Sutherland How galaxies did form and evolution? - to answer this unsolved problem, we are simulating the formation and evolutionary history of galaxies in the Universe, including star formation, supernovae feedback, and chemical enrichment. Comparing the spacial distribution of elements within galaxies with observations, we will examine fundamental physical processes that drive galaxy formation. ... COALA : Universe Galaxy AGN Star Planet ...

The Future of Single Dish Radio Astronomy Robert L. Brown N AI C Robert L. Brown 2005 NAIC/NR AO Astronomy Single Dish Summer School 1 "FUTURE" Year 2001 Vision* 1. ... Astronomy and Astrophysics in the New Millennium, Astronomy and Astrophysics Survey Committee, Board on Robert L. Brown 2005 NAIC/NR AO Astronomy Single Dish Summer School 2 1 "Future" Year 2003 Vision* 1. ... Robert L. Brown "Future" Year 2003 Vision* 7. ... Robert L. Brown A Science-Driven Future of Single Dish Radio Astronomy 4. ...

... Cross-shaped galaxy ZGC 2315+03 (Fig.1) has been described by Zwicky (1971) as ``post-eruptive or the result of the crossing of a compact galaxy through an edge-on spiral'' . This object was included in the Polar-Ring Catalog (C-71) by Whitmore et al. (1990) as a possible candidate for Polar-Ring Galaxies (PRG). ... One of them is galaxy 'disk' and the other is 'polar-ring'. ... The facts against the polar-ring nature of ZGC 2315+03 can be summarized as follows: . ...

... While there is a little information to help you appreciate the images this is not a tutorial on the astronomy of nebulae. ... The main body of this document consists of two pages for each of about 25 objects. The first page consists almost entirely of a large image of the object. The second page gives some basic information about the object and a list of references to other pictures of the object available on the Net. ... The Web Nebulae has been optimized for Netscape 1.1. ... Images . ...

... no comet has been observed with an orbit that indicates that it came from interstellar space, . ... From this he proposed that comets reside in a vast cloud at the outer reaches of the solar system. ... Unfortunately, since the individual comets are so small and at such large distances, we have no direct evidence about the Oort Cloud. ... T he Kuiper Belt is a disk-shaped region past the orbit of Neptune roughly 30 to 100 AU from the Sun containing many small icy bodies. ... Small Bodies .. ...

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... Sternberg Astronomical Institute , Moscow University . ... Present edition unites two parts of Catalogue of interacting galaxies by B.A.Vorontsov-Velyaminov: the first part (Part 1) containing 355 systems was published in 1959 [1] and the second one (Part 2) with 497 objects - in 1976 [2].Thus two published parts of Catalogue include 852 interacting systems. ... All new of them (1162 by number) were taken from the comments to the galaxies in Morphological catalogue by Vorontsov-Velyaminov et al.[ ...

... We suggest simple method of the selection of distant galaxies based on their radio properties. ... RC0015+0503a , RC0015+0503b , RC0015+0501 , RC0034+0513 , RC0038+0449 , RC0042+0504 . ... RC0105+0501 , RC0110+0500 , RC0117+0503 , RC0126+0502 , RC0133+0459 , RC0135+0450 , RC0137+0539 , RC0143+0505 , RC0152+0453 , RC0154+0459 , RC0159+0448 . ... RC0209+0501b , RC0213+0516 , RC0226+0512 , RC0250+0512 . ... RC0302+0456 , RC0308+0454 , RC0311+0507 , RC0318+0456 , RC0355+0449 . ...

... Galaxies are not isolated objects in space, but are distributed in a great underlying cosmic web of gas filaments spreading throughout the universe. ... The main goal of the NUGA (NUclei of GAlaxies) project is to understand the feeding and evolution of a galaxy s central region and Super-Massive Black Hole (SMBH). ... For more information on NUGA and its latest results feel free to visit the NUGA project homepage . ... NGC 5257 (Overview of the HI-NUGA survey Haan et al. ...