... 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). ...

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• Press Releases
• Marina Rejkuba's Web Site
• Surprise Discovery of Highly Developed Structure in the Young Universe | ESO

... The highest redshift X-ray jet discovered . by Chandra in GB 1428+4217 at z = 4.72 . X-ray jet discovered by Chandra . ... Science Papers on ADS . ... Chandra Press Release . The paper describing the details nas been published in ApJ and it is available also on astro-ph Feb. ... The jet paper published in ApJ Letters is available on astro-ph Oct. ... ApJ Letters paper available on astro-ph: Paper 2003 Feb. ... ApJ papers available on astro-ph: Paper 1, 2002 and Paper 2, 2007 . ...

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• Garcia, Michael R. - Smithsonian High Energy Division - Home Page

Several tiny moons have been discovered recently, most from ground based imagery! With these discoveries, Uranus joins the jovian planets in having a number of small moons in irregular orbits. ... Two new moons of Uranus , provisionally known as Uranus XVI (S/1997 U 1) and Uranus XVII (S/1997 U 2), have been discovered. ... Caliban was discovered by Brett Gladman , Phil Nicholson, Joseph Burns, and JJ Kavelaars using the 200 inch Hale telescope ; the first images were taken 1997 Sept 6 and 7. ...

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• APOD: 2001 July 9 - Air Pollution Earth
• APOD: 2014 January 6 - Three CubeSats Released
• APOD: November 29, 1995 - Releasing Compton

... 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. ...

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• WISE All-Sky Release Catalog

Image credit: Michael Nolan, Arecibo Observatory. These radar images of near-Earth asteroid 2001 SN263 were obtained on 2008 Feb 12 and 13. ... Image from Feb 12 . ... First near-Earth triple asteroid discovered by Arecibo Observatory . ... was discovered this week by astronomers at the sensitive radar telescope at Cornell University?s Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. ... For example, Arecibo has discovered more than half of the near-Earth binary asteroid systems discovered since 1999. ...

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• ALFAZOA Data Release
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• Astronomy at AO

A team of U.S. and German astrophysicists have made the first ever detection of X-rays coming from a comet. ... Following the initial detection, the team reported repeated X-ray emissions from the comet over the next 24 hours. ... One preliminary theory is that X-ray emission from the Sun was absorbed by a cloud of gaseous water molecules surrounding the nucleus of the comet, and then were re-emitted by the molecules in a process physicists call "fluorescence." ... Comets . ...

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• Chain of Impact Craters Suggested by Spaceborne Radar Images
• Titan Press Release
• Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9

... These Frontier Fields will combine the power of HST with the natural gravitational telescopes of high-magnification clusters of galaxies. ... We are soliciting gravitational lensing maps for the last four Hubble Frontier Fields clusters (MACSJ0717.5+3745, MACSJ1149.5+2223, AbellS1063, and Abell 370) based upon the exceptionally deep HST FF imaging and other new ancillary data. ... For the full set of proposal instructions and requirements, see the FY16 Frontier Fields Lensing Map Call for Proposals....

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• GRB 990123Page
• M51 Release
• Andy Fruchter's Homepage

... There is also an edge-on view of the asteroid belt here . This video was created by Scott Manley. ... View of the solar system showing the locations of all the asteroids starting in 1980. ... Notice how the pattern of discovery follows the Earth around its orbit. ... At the beginning of 2010 a new discovery pattern becomes evident, with discovery zones in a line perpendicular to the Sun-Earth vector. ... An edge-on view of the asteroids . ... Other asteroid and comet animations by Scott Manley . ...

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• Another Irish Asteroid Discovery | International Year of Astronomy in Ireland |
• Armagh Observatory Press Release
• Small Asteroid might Hit Earth on 7 October 2008 | International Year of

... Jupiter's big moon Ganymede is not only the size of a planet -- it sounds like one too, as heard in audio recordings made from data returned by NASA's Galileo spacecraft released today. ... Characterized by a soaring whistle and hissing static, Ganymede's song reveals that the Solar System's largest moon is also the only one known to possess a planet-like, self-generated magnetic cocoon called a magnetosphere , which shields the moon from the magnetic influence of its giant parent body, Jupiter. ...

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• Chain of Impact Craters Suggested by Spaceborne Radar Images
• Titan Press Release
• VLT Unit Telescopes Named at Paranal Inauguration (ESO Press Release 06/99)

Astronomy Picture of the Day . Topographical Mars . 28.05.1999 . ... Just released, the data were gathered in 1998 and 1999 by the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) onboard the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft. NGC 4603 and the Expanding Universe . ... Its distance has been accurately measured by astronomers using one of the fundamental yardsticks of the extragalactic distance scale - pulsating variable stars known as Cepheids. ... NGC 6872: A Stretched Spiral . ... The Keyhole Nebula . ...

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A team using CSIRO 's Parkes radio telescope has just found the thousandth pulsar known to science. ... This is thanks to the power of a new instrument on the telescope, the multibeam system , which has slashed the time it takes to scan the sky," said co-leader of the pulsar team, CSIRO's Dr Dick Manchester . ... There are many different types of pulsar, and we have only a few examples of some types," said Dr Manchester. ... E-mail: rmanches@atnf.csiro.au . ... e-mail: hsim@atnf.csiro.au . ...

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• Release of 28 April 2000.
• Other Media Releases and Astronomy Highlights
• PM Survey Press Releases

... The effect is strongest in the most evolved, high-latitude supergiant V5112 Sgr=IRAS19500-1709, which has an extended structured envelope (Figs.1 and 2). In the optical spectrum of this object, the BaII ion lines are split into three components (Figs.3 and 4). ... Thus, we discovered for the first time the enrichment of the stellar envelope with heavy metals produced at the AGB stage. ... Detection of heavy-metal lines in the spectrum of the circumstellar envelope of a post-AGB star. ...

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• IRAS01005+7910
• Discovery of an isolated dwarf spheroidal galaxy neighboring the Local Group
• SAO RAS home page

Astronomical Society of the Pacific Announces 2007 Award Winners in Astronomy Research and Education . The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) announced today the eight winners of its 2007 awards for excellence in astronomy research and education. The ASP's most prestigious award, the Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal for lifetime achievement in astronomy has been awarded to Martin Harwit, Professor Emeritus of Astronomy, Cornell University. ...

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• Astronomical Society
• ASP: Mercury Spring 2011
• ASP: 2010 Award Winners Press Release

... Recent Topics . ... MAO main . ... New Release: Perspectives on String Phenomenology . ... Отправлено: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 11:07:08 +0200 (EET) Тема: New Release: Perspectives on String Phenomenology To ensure email delivery to your inbox, please add us to your address book or your safe list. [url=http://www.worldscientific.com" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://www.worldscientific.com] . ... String Phenomenology . String Phenomenology 2003 . ... Perspectives on String Phenomenology . ...

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Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the updates and links web pages. Discovered independently by Lick Observatory Supernova Search (USA) and Koichi Itagaki (Japan). ... 2009/10/11.44 . 17.2 . ... Joseph Brimacombe . ...

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• Bright Supernova pages - Statistics
• Bright Supernova pages - Statistics for 2000
• Bright Supernova pages - Statistics for 2002

... This page contains pictures and text to accompany the press release entitled "some black holes are pink", which was presented as part of the Fresh Science event, ScienceNow! ... I first show colour pictures of the pink black holes (and of some blue and yellow ones for comparison. ... If you are having this trouble, I've included pictures below with stretched colour maps, to emphasise the colours: these should print better. (jpeg image, 29kb) . ... Quasar (black hole) PKS 1133-172. ...

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• ASTR1002 Assignments 4-6: Planet Ziggy
• Siding Spring Survey Follow-up Obs
• The High-Z SN Search Description

... RSDC . ... Press Releases (rus) || in Russian RSDC Quick Jump 9-year Galactic survey Catalog of sources 7-year Galactic Bulge Map Cleaning IBIS/ISGRI sky images IBIS/ISGRI Sensitivity vs. ... The INTEGRAL view of the Galaxy . ... May 2012: 9-year Galactic plane survey . ... They are ISGRI (higher plane detector of the IBIS telescope), JMX1 and JMX2 - two detectors of the JEM-X telescope. ... RSDC is actively participating in the all-sky survey carrying out with INTEGRAL observatory. ... 2016 IKI RAN...

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• High Energy Astrophysics Today and Tomorrow
• Zeldovich-100 / International Conference / Moscow, Russia

... Right: cold gas traced by [CII] emission (red) accreting onto a primeval galaxy (green) at z=7.1 ( Maiolino et al. 2015 ) (image credit: ALMA Press Release ) . ... 2010 , Cicone, Maiolino et al. ... 2012 , Cicone, Maiolino et al. ... Right: observed distribution of the average stellar metallicities of passive and star forming galaxies in the local universe, supporting starvation/strangulation as primary quenching mechanism in low/intermediate mass galaxies ( Peng, Maiolino, Cochrane 2015 ). ...

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• OptInt PmWiki : Tech Meet 2 | History
• Astrophysics Group VLSS
• OptInt PmWiki : Tech Meet 2

Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife Electronic News Service ****************************************** Date: Wednesday, February 7, 1996 Hatcheries Facing Massive Flows ------------------------------- One Million Coho Released Early in Alsea , Trout Brood Threatened ------------------------------- One million small coho salmon faced certain death due to high river flows at Fall Creek Hatchery near ... We have three hatcheries facing imminent danger of losing water supplies. ...

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• U of O High Energy Physics Seminars
• Low Surface Brightness Galaxy Gallery
• ESO Press Release 06/96, 16 February 1996