... It is dark. ... Even without the structures' intense glare, your eyes take a moment to adjust to the vast scatterings of stars dazzling as diamonds on a sea of black velvet. ... A waiter you hadn't noticed puts a menu on the table. ... Oui," the waiter responds, "It is the stellar wind. ... You should be able to see them all in another moment -- the big one first and then the others. ... A second later a gap appears and, just as the waiter predicted, you see a brilliant blue white star. ...

... ESO is building what will be the World's largest optical telescope array, The Very Large Telescope (VLT). The VLT Project organisation is responsible for the design and construction of the Unit Telescopes, including enclosures, optics, adapter-rotators and coating unit. ... Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ...

Welcome to the Starburst and Galaxy Evolution website.

... Stellar Evolution is driven entirely by the never ending battle between Pressure and Gravity . As imbalances are reached, the star is driven to find a new Energy source. ... Pressure and gravitational forces are equal, the star is stable and its core is sufficiently hot to fuse Hydrogen into Helium More about main sequence stars . ... The luminosity generated by the core fusion of Helium into Carbon is far greater than the shell luminosity associated with the fusion of Hydrogen into Helium. ...

... Ignacio Ugarte Urra's PhD thesis topic is the investigation of coronal bright points. In his first paper (in collaboration with Gerry Doyle and Maria Madjarska) he investigated the formation, evolution and decay of a coronal bright point via a spectroscopic analysis of its transition region counterpart and the evolution of the underlying magnetic bipole during 3 days of almost continuous observations. ... In general the bright point has a radiance 4 times higher than that of the network. ...

... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Late Stages of Stellar Evolution . Welcome to the home page of the Late Stages of Stellar Evolution" We are a research group which operates within the Astrophysics Group of the Australia Telescope National Facility. ... To investigate the late stages of stellar evolution and in particular the role of stellar mass-loss in the evolution of asymptotic giant branch stars, proto-planetary nebulae and extremely massive stars. ...

by I.M. Chertok, V.V. Fomichev, A.A. Gnezdilov, R.V. Gorgutsa, V.V. Grechnev, A.K. Markeev, R.W. Nightingale, and D.E. Sobolev . Fig. 2. Inverted TRACE images at 195 illustrating development of the EUV post-eruption arcade with the well-organized loop, two-ribbon, and spine structures. Note that the exposures have been rescaled to the same peak intensity to show the evolution of the bright elements. The field of view is 220.5 by 182 Mm. Back to paper .

... 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 project of the informational system creation on the problem of evolution of radio galaxies, as a part of the "Big Trio" project aimed on studing of distant radio galaxies, is designed. This system allows a user to operate with simulated curves of spectral energy distributions (SED) to estimate ages and redshifts by photometry data. Authors use SEDs of several models for different types of galaxies. ... The HTTP and e-mail access is organized to this system. ...

... Figure: Massive binary evolutionary track. ... A short glance to this track is sufficient to understand that there are a lot of evolutionary scenario parameters, which affect different stages of the binary evolution. Fortunately, a very limited number of parameters has effect on the compact binary merging rate. ... The most important (and practically unique) parameter changing the galactic binary NS merging rate is the distribution of an additional (kick) velocity imparted to NS at birth. ...

... 5.01.2008 . ... Recorded from that high and dry locale, the spectacular fish-eye image features the myriad stars and sprawling dust clouds of our Milky Way Galaxy. Geminids in 2007 . ... APOD: 2008 January 2- A Galaxy is not a Comet . ... APOD: 2008 January 1- Rays from an Unexpected Aurora . ... Two spectacular comets graced Earth's skies during 2007. ... Early in 2007, Comet McNaught grew brighter than any comet in 40 years, displaying a beautiful dust tail that flowed across the sky. ...

... File format . ... The p12mProg is the AO control program for the 12 meter telescope. ... the time from the tick, till when we complete the status read from the device. ... P12M_STAT_BLK struct (read from controller via group read at tick) . ... azimuth master 32bit status word . ... dbl . ... azimuth error read from controller. ... azimuth velocity read back from controller deg/sec . ... elevation position read back from controller. stBlk.elErr_D . ... elevation velocity read back from controller . ...