HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE DAILY REPORT #1438 PERIOD COVERED: 0000Z (UTC) 07/21/95 - 0000Z (UTC) 07/24/95 Daily Status Report as of 205/0000Z 1.0 ACTIVITIES SCHEDULED AND ACCOMPLISHED: 1.1 Completed GHRS/2 5854 (Cepheid Masses) The High Resolution Spectrograph (Side Two) was used to make observations of the blue, main sequence companion of Cepheid star HD15679 to determine the mass of the system. ... Otherwise, the observations were completed as planned, and no problems were reported. ...

... NGC 6357s Cathedral to Massive Stars . ... Credit Copyright: NASA , ESA and J. M. Apellюniz ( IAA , Spain) Explanation: How massive can a normal star be? Estimates made from distance, brightness and standard solar models had given one star in the open cluster Pismis 24 over 200 times the mass of our Sun, nearly making it the record holder. ... Publications with keywords: massive stars . Publications with words: massive stars . ... A Massive Star in NGC 6357 . ... Massive Stars Of 30 Doradus . ...

You Can Make Stellar Images Brighter . Articles | ... A few months ago I wrote an article titled "You Can’t Make Them Brighter". So why am I now writing that you can make them brighter. ... The image of a focused star is actually a small disk called the Airy disk, named after the 19 th century scientist Sir George Airy. ... For a given aperture, a smaller Airy disk means that the light is focused to a smaller disk and is therefore brighter. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2012 November 18 . NGC 6357: Cathedral to Massive Stars . Image Credit: NASA , ESA and Jes s Ma z Apell niz ( IAA , Spain) . Explanation: How massive can a normal star be? ... Toward the bottom of the image, stars are still forming in the associated emission nebula NGC 6357 . ... About APOD | ... A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC . ...

... Observing . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Problems posed by massive stars . ... These questions were at least part of the motivation when CУЕssio Barbosa of Brazil's University of SУ?o Paulo and Donald Figer of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore surveyed observers and theorists to see what they believed were the most pressing problems concerning massive stars. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

... Crescent Nebula . ... Above the Crescent are the Lynd's Bright Nebulae LBN 215, to the right is the filamentary LBN 208 and below is LBN 193. Hubble Palette, 5 nm Narrowband filters, S-II (Red Channel): H-alpha (Green Channel): O-III (Blue Channel) - 30: 55: 40 minutes, 5 minute subframe, binned 1x1, Total= 125 minutes, Takahashi Epsilon-180, SBIG STL-6303E CCD camera, ATMoB Clubhouse, Westford, MA, 13 August 2010. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

3) Planets and Brown Dwarfs . ... By its nature, this method is most sensitive to massive planets orbiting close to their stars. ... That means that some of the more massive extrasolar planets could actually be brown dwarfs (although the statistics of the finds suggest that most of them are not). ... Another possible difference between brown dwarfs and massive planets is how they are born. ... They would base the fundamental definition on the mode of formation: a planet is built from planetesimals. ...

... Great oppositions. ... Proxima Centauri. ... Scientists proved that the problem of preserving the Earth's climate and the annual change of seasons can be solved by a small star, negligible mass, but similar to a main-sequence star, moving in a circular orbit around the Sun. ... Sombrero Galaxy. The Sombrero Galaxy, M104, is known as a holder of one of supermassive black holes. ... Roughly estimate the approximate mass of the supermassive black hole in the center of M104 (answer in solar masses m). ...

... GSAOI Home . ... Science . ... It is widely accepted that the evolution of the large scale structure of the Universe is driven by dark matter. Understanding this dark matter continues to be one of Astronomy's great unsolved problems. Measuring the bulk motions of galaxies allows us to map the overall mass distribution of the Universe in a way that is independent of the luminous matter in galaxies. ...

... Bojan Nikolic web pages (r. 329) . ... Note however that the radiospec is built in the ?build? sub-directory of the directory you installed it to and is not installed ? ... Build radiospec wget http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/~bn204/soft/radiospec-1.0.tar.gz tar --strip-components = 1 -xzvf radiospec-1.0.tar.gz PATH = $INSTALLDIR/bin:$PATH scons PKG_CONFIG_PATH = $INSTALLDIR/lib/pkgconfig/ . ... You will at least also need the numpy package for Python . ... Download & building of the radiospec package . ...

... Special problems arise with filters intended to measure red leaks in blue and ultraviolet filters. ... The column named REDLEAK contains an 8-character string that specifies the treatment of red leaks in short-wavelength filters. Possible values are 'MEASURED' if the red leak is measured by observations through a filter that isolates the leak; 'BLOCKED' if a copper-sulfate or other blocking filter is used; or 'IGNORED' if the leak is neither measured nor blocked. ...

Next: The Number of Ejectors Up: Ejectors in Massive Binary Previous: Ejectors in Massive Binary . ... In Figure 10 we show possible evolutionary tracks of NS. ... After the mass exchange, only the helium core of the normal star is left (WR star), a separate system is formed (in some systems the NS has spiraled   completely into the center of its companion, and a Thorne-Zytkow object   is formed), and the NS again becomes a propeller   or an ejector. ...

From: TerryMosel aol.com Date: 13 November 2007 01:36:13 Nov 2007 Subject: Lecture, Observing, 'scope wanted, Leonids, Lidl's Meade Hi all, Sorry for lack of normal service - I've been having email problems! ... LECTURE: The next IAA public lecture will be on Wed 14 November, by Prof Stephen Smartt of QUB, entitled: "The Fate of the Most Massive Stars in the Universe". It's at 7.30 p.m. sharp, in the Bell Lecture Theatre, Physics Building, QUB. ... It is an excellent setting with good dark skies. ...

... 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. ...

... The calculator on this page allows you to calculate the H i mass of a gas cloud by specifying either the total H i column density, the total brightness temperature, or the total flux density of the cloud, obtained by summing over all pixels of the map and all spectral channels. ... Warning: The calculator makes use of JavaScript which must be enabled in your webbrowser. ... cm x207B; x00B2; . Sum over all pixels and channels. or . ... Spectral channel width . ... 2016 Tobias Westmeier Contact | ...

Recent evidence suggests that the Universe is filled with something termed "Dark Energy". ... Baryons are normal particles (e.g. protons and neutrons) which make up all of ordinary matter. ... What are some resolutions to this problem and how do "Low Surface Brightness Galaxies" fit in to the problem of missing baryons. ... In this exercise, you will use a computational engine to model two interacting galaxies to see if you can reproduce the observed morphology of two real systems. ...

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... How much brighter is the Sun as viewed from the planet Mercury as compared to Earth ? ... Actually, all of these questions can be answered through a very simple mathematical relationship known as the inverse square law. ... As the distance from the Sun increases the surface area of the sphere grows by the square of the distance. ... Common sense tells us that the Sun will be brighter and the inverse square law tells us how much brighter. ... gr = 0.912 G or 91.2% gravity felt at Earth's surface. ...

... Archives . ... With the LHC coming on line anon, it is appropriate to highlight the Banff Challenge , which was designed as a way to figure out how to place bounds on the mass of the Higgs boson. ... S is the parameter of interest (in this case, the mass of the Higgs boson, but could be the intensity of a source), ? ... It may look like an easy problem, but it isn?t! . Tags: Banff Challenge , EotW , Equation , Equation of the Week , Higgs Boson , LHC . ... Comment ( RSS ) | ... Chandra Blog . ...

... HIPASS results . ... Of the BGC galaxies, 138 have redshifts for the first time. ... We really need ALFA to address that faint end. ... This estimate accounts for the smaller beam size, the number of pixels, and the available solid angle. ... HIPASS (with an integration time of 250 sec per pixel) was complete only for M * galaxies at cz ALFA (with the same intergration time) would be complete to 15,000 km/s . ... The integration time would be only 1 sec per beam for a total time of about 2.6 hours. ...