Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, . Moscow, Russia . Supernovae make us brighter .. Search russian astronomical resources . Mirror of International Supernovae Network ( Original site ) . Catalogue of Supernovae Stars . HTTP access to SAI Catalogue of Supernovae Stars . SAI SN Light Curves Online . ... Sternberg Astronomical Institute ( in Russian ) . ... Astronet - Russian Astronomical Network . ... Russian Foundation for Basic Research . ...

Welcome to the ATNF Daily Astronomy Picture , brought to you by staff and users of the Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF) . Our aim is to present science and engineering results, research highlights from recent publications, technical updates, telescope pictures, conference summaries, etc. Our site is inspired by the fabulous Astronomy Picture of the Day - @APOD and the ASTRON/Jive Daily Image - @dailyimage . ... We welcome all ATNF users to submit an image ( here . ...

... The NAIC requests that any publication based on results from Arecibo Observatory contain the following acknowledgement: . ... NAIC budget permitting, for U.S.-based scientists able to show conditions of demonstrable hardship , NAIC can contribute towards publication costs for papers reporting original observations made with the Arecibo telescope. ... List of publications (PDF) . ... July 1, 2008 - June 30, 2009 . ... July 1, 1994 - June 30, 1995 . July 1, 1993 - June 30, 1994 . ...

Most of these images were obtained by Mike Bessell, Michelle Buxton, Hwankyung Sung, Ralph Sutherland and Bob Watson at SSO using a 2Kx2K Site CCD behind a Nikon or Hasselblad lens or directly on the 1m telescope. A few images are from the Hubble Space Telescope. Some of the M42 images were obtained with the KPNO 1m and ESO NTT telescope. One image is a mosaic of IRAS images. ... Details of the CCD imaging program at MSSSO. ... antenna.jpg (53KB) . ... ngc6744.jpg (59KB) . ...

... An Extrasolar Planet? ... NASA Explanation: This infrared Hubble Space Telescope view may contain the first ever direct image of a planet outside our own solar system. The picture shows a very young double star located about 450 light-years away toward the constellation of Taurus . Cataloged as TMR-1 (Taurus Molecular Ring star 1), the binary system is still embedded in the dust cloud that formed it. ... Publications with keywords: extrasolar planet - planet formation . ...

... Universe At Your Fingertips Activities TOC . ... Why do we have stereotypes about what an astronomer looks like? ... A reading list on 20th century astronomers and their work is included in the Resources Bibliographies section of the Universe at Your Fingertips. ... Be sure the students do the activity before the astronomer comes. ... After the visit, give students an opportunity to talk about how the astronomer was similar or different from the mental picture they had before the visit. ...

... Research . ... Most of my work has concentrated on nearby galaxies; their structure, stellar and dust content, and the distribution of mass within them, and putting these measurements in the context hierarchical galaxy formation models. I am currently leading the GHOSTS Survey , a large HST survey of the resolved stelllar populations of bulges, thick disks, and halos of nearby, massive disk galaxies. ... What regulates star formation in disk galaxies? ... OSU Bright Galaxy Survey . ...

... I moved with my family to different places in France, to finally end up in Paris. ... Since then, I have been hopping from Paris to Lyon (France), to Leiden (The Netherlands) and Munich (Germany). ... I became full Astronomer in 2006, and since returned to ESO Garching as Head of the Office for Science. ... Head of the Office for Science, ESO Garching ("d?tach?" from CRAL) . ... Astronomer at CRAL - Lyon Observatory . ... Member of 2 recruiting committees at the Ecole Normale de Lyon/Lyon University...

... 2010 . ... The following images are mosaics obtained on 03 August 2010 at the National Solar Observatory/Dunn Solar Telescope with the Interferometric Bidimensional Spectrometer (IBIS). ... The final images are approximately 238 x 242 arcseconds, or 4 x 4 arcminutes, with a pixel scale of 0.0976 arcseconds per pixel. ... The images show a broad range of typical chromospheric structures, including sunspots, superpenumbra, plage, filaments, and quiet internetwork. ...

... Edward L. (Ned) Wright received his AB and PhD degrees from Harvard University, and was a Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows. ... Prof. Wright is interested in infrared astronomy and cosmology. ... He has been working on the COsmic Background Explorer ( COBE ) since 1978. ... Wright, E. L. 2000, ApJ submitted, "DIRBE Minus 2MASS: Confirming the Cosmic Infrared Background at 2.2 Microns" . ... The COBE Diffuse Infrared Background Experiment Search for the Cosmic Infrared Background: II. ...

... Next: An IRAF-Independent Interface Up: Software Systems Previous: A New PROS . ... We present a high-level representation of the packages and tasks within IRAF/PROS. ... We have produced a high-level overview of PROS. ... The incremental stages were the short-term goals: a project overview diagram (i.e., an organizational diagram of software modules); high-level diagram (i.e., a bubble diagram of each module in the system); and unifying element tables (i.e., tables of task vs. software attributes)....

Next: Public Understanding of Science, Up: Technical Research Summaries Previous: New Approaches to Risk . ... Michael Smith has been analysing new infrared data collected from 11 PPN and PN by Chris Davis (Joint Astronomy Centre, Hawaii) to search for clues as to how the objects evolve. ... Georgi Pavlovski studied the properties of supersonic turbulence in molecular clouds and its effect on the molecular cloud properties and their chemical evolution. ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... I have a fun video on how to stand an egg on end on my blog at Discover Magazine . ... At the end of the show, one of the characters looks up the words "egg" and "equinox" on the web... and says it sent him to "thingsthatarewrong.com". ... Bad Astronomy : Only on the day of the Vernal (spring) Equinox, can you stand a raw egg on its end. Good astronomy : If you can stand a raw egg on end, it has nothing to do with the Equinox. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... Maryeva O.V., Abolmasov P.K. ?Modeling the optical spectrum of Romano's star?, ... Maryeva O.V., Abolmasov P.K. ?Modeling the optical spectrum of Romano's star in Minimum Brigtness?, vol.23 pp.79-83, Odessa Astronomical Publications, (2010) . ... Maryeva Olga ``Spectropolarimetry and modeling of WR156'', Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, IAU Symposium ``New windows on massive stars: asteroseismology, interferometry, and spectropolarimetry'', 307, 387-388, (2015) . ...

... Field of research: Extragalactic astronomy. ... NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) Abstract Service . ... CADC Home Page . ... CCD Images of Galaxies . ... RUSSIAN LINKS . ... UA Astronomy Personal Home Page - Bill Keel . ... The Shape of the Rotation Curves of Edge-on Galaxies, by A.V.Zasov and A.V.Khoperskov, 2003. ... A Thickness of Stellar Discs, by A.V.Zasov, and D.V.Bizyaev, 2003 . Minimum Velocity Dispersion in Stable Stellar Disks, by A.V.Khoperskov, A.V.Zasov, and N.V.Tyurina, 2003 . ...

... Files in red?history) . ... Field Lines . ... EM Waves . ... Magnetic field lines similarly describe the structure of magnetic fields in three dimensions.They are defined as follows. ... Maxwell Most scientists nowadays view field lines as intangible abstractions, useful only for describing magnetic fields. ... Maxwell also showed (perhaps his greatest achievement) that an "electromagnetic wave" was possible, a rapid interplay of electric and magnetic fields spreading with the velocity of light. ...

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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 . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Star Atlas . ... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... The planet has extreme temperature swings and perhaps active lava flows. ... A digital supplement to Astronomy magazine. ... Join TravelQuest International with Astronomy and Discover magazines on one of three great tour options surrounding this celestial spectacle . ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

... Shevchenko Vladislav Vladimirovich . ... Position: Head of Department of Lunar and Planetary Research, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics. ... L. Johnson Space Center - Lunar and Planetary Institute. ... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Universitetsky 13, Moscow, 119899 , Russia, . ... V.I.Chikmachev, S.G.Pugacheva and V.V.Shevchenko, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Moscow, chik@sai.msu.ru ...