... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Risks Comparable to NEOs . ... The Increasing Rate of Discovery of Asteroids . ... Comet and Asteroid Collision Probabilities . ... Extreme albedo comets and the impact hazard (PDF Format) . ... Asteroid Impact Animations . ... Workshop on Scientific Requirements for Mitigation of Hazardous Comets and Asteroids - 2002 . ... The Spaceguard Survey Report, 1992 (PDF) . Tsunami from Asteroid/Comet Impacts . ...

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... Home . ... Data . ... WFPC2 Home . ... Instrument . Instrument Home . ... An integrated Bright Object Tool (BOT) has replaced the old VTT-based RObust Bright Object Tool. ... The tool will check each exposure in a program for field (and prime) objects that are either health-and-safety concerns, or may impact the scientific value of the data. ... The new tool utilizes information in the proposal file, and also uses the APT and Aladin interfaces for its tabular and graphical display, respectively. ...

... We present the first edition of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Quasar Catalog. The catalog consists of the 3814 objects (3000 discovered by the SDSS) in the initial SDSS public data release that have at least one emission line with a full width at half-maximum larger than 1000 km s-1, luminosities brighter than Mi*=-23, and highly reliable redshifts. ... Based on observations obtained with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which is owned and operated by the Astrophysical Research Consortium. ...

... The remote planet Pluto and its moon Charon orbit the Sun at a mean distance of almost 6,000 million kilometres, or nearly fourty times farther out than the Earth. During a recent investigation by an international group of astronomers [1], the best picture ever of Pluto and Charon [2] was secured with the European Space Agency's Faint Object Camera at the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). ... The new HST image was taken when Charon was near its maximum elongation from Pluto (0.9 arcseconds). ...

... JavaScript version 1.3 provides the following new features and enhancements: . ... See the Client-Side JavaScript Guide for details. ... Changes to the Array object. ... The push method returns the new length of the array rather than the last element added to the array. ... Changes to the Date object. ... Added a day parameter to the setMonth method. ... Added the apply method, which allows you to apply a method of another object in the context of a different object (the calling object). ...

... Abell 2218: A Galaxy Cluster Lens . ... Hen 1357: New Born Nebula . ... This Hubble Space Telescope snapshot shows Hen-1357, the youngest known planetary nebula. ... But if our Sun were found within a star cluster, thousands of stars might occupy a similar space. ... A Global Dust Storm on Mars . ... IC 418: The Spirograph Nebula . ... Dubbed the Spirograph Nebula for its resemblance to drawings from a cyclical drawing tool, planetary nebula IC 418 shows patterns that are not well understood. ...

... Archives . ... Mar 5th, 2008| 02:13 pm | ... There have been strong collaborations among statisticians, mathematicians, computer scientists, and astronomers (cosmologists) under WMAP (Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe) mission. Today, the 5th year data was released (The news is found here ). ... The Legacy Archive for Microwave Background Data Analysis (LAMBDA) website . ... Tags: 5th year , Data Release , WMAP . ... Comment ( RSS ) | ... Chandra Blog . ... Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS) . ...

... 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 . ...

... The expansion is measured as a number called the Hubble Constant . ... Our value is about 20% lower than the one got with the Hubble Space Telescope in 1994," said Dr Jim Lovell, leader of the team that made the measurement. The Hubble Constant is named after American astronomer Edwin Hubble, who in the 1920s found that other galaxies were moving away from ours. ... The Hubble Constant links the galaxy's distance with its speed." ... A short run-down on the Hubble Constant: . ...

PRESS-RELEASE . about the launch of Progress M-62 logistics spacecraft . ... S.P.Korolev RSC Energia is the prime manned space flight organization in the Russian rocket and space industry, responsible for the development of the ISS Russian Segment, its integration into the Space Station and its operation, including development and operation of principal Russian modules (Zvezda, Pirs, etc.), manufacturing, launch and operation of Soyuz TMA and Progress M spacecraft. ...

... Comet Animation . ... Comet structures are diverse and very dynamic, but they all develop a surrounding cloud of diffuse material, called a coma, that usually grows in size and brightness as the comet approaches the Sun. ... As comets approach the Sun they develop enormous tails of luminous material that extend for millions of kilometers from the head, away from the Sun. ... The evaporated molecules boil off and carry small solid particles with them, forming the comet's coma of gas and dust. ...

... The Galactic low-mass X-ray binary GS 2023+338 was discovered during the burst on May 22, 1989 with the Japanise satellite Ginga (aka Galaxy). The flux reached 17 crabs (this unit of flux measurement is an bright X-ray source, Crab Nebula) at 10-35 keV. ... No other radio telescope worldwide carried out multi-frequency measurements. ... Upon 14 days the radio flux fell below the detection level at the RATAN-600 in relation to the decrease of the X-ray flux. ...

... It provides long range planning information to the scheduling team; it provides bright object, timing, and orientation information to the observation planning team; and it provides graphical description of the observations and their constraints. ... The GUI graphically displays the constraints that are computed by Spike and stored in the description files and in the database. ... BOAS processes all bright objects that have entered the database since the last time BOAS was run. ...

... August 18, 1998 . APM 08279+5255: The Brightest Object Yet Known . ... Explanation: It shines with the brightness of 100 billion Suns. ... The recently discovered quasar labeled APM 08279+5255 has set a new record as being the brightest continuously emitting object yet known. APM 08279+5255 's great distance, though, makes it only appear as bright as magnitude 15.2, an object which can be seen with a moderate sized telescope. ... About APOD > . ...

... Latest Supernovae . ... Sorted by Name For the years covered, 7501 supernovae and 114 extragalactic novae were reported. 376 of these supernovae were named by CBAT, 1714 were given possible supernova designations, and 5411 were not reported to CBAT. 219 supernovae were found in NGC/IC galaxies, 874 were found in named galaxies 341 objects were discovered by amateurs 4 were brighter than 13th Magnitude 208 were brighter than 16th Magnitude 1079 were brighter than 18th Magnitude 1349 ...

After a couple of visits by Steve Larson and Ed Beshore in late 2003 and early March 2004 to deal with various hardware issues and to install the new survey code, regular surveying commenced in mid-March 2004. ... However, the initial results are most satisfying and new objects have been found from the very first night. ... UA Media Release . ... Fellow Uppsala observer Rob McNaught was observing NEOs with the 1.0-m at Siding Spring as part of our regular program of follow-up observations. ...

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. ...

... This is one of the results from the Arecibo Methanol Maser Galactic Plane Survey that is being presented by graduate student Jagadheep D. Pandian of Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, Dr. Paul F. Goldsmith of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California and Dr. Avinash A. Deshpande of Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India to the American Astronomical Society meeting in Washington DC. ... Methanol masers at 6.7 GHz are beacons of massive star formation in our Galaxy. ...

... Behemoth black hole found in an unlikely place . ... Spectacularly bright object in Andromeda caused by "normal" black hole . ... A spectacularly bright object recently spotted in one of the Milky Wayт??s neighboring galaxies is the result of a т??normalт?? stellar black hole, astronomers have found. ... Other scientists say ULXs are caused by material being dragged in by an intermediate-sized black hole formed from the merger of many stellar-mass black holes т?? about 1,000 times bigger than the...