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Geotimes -- November 2005 -- Two more moons for "planet" Pluto http://www.geotimes.org/nov05/WebExtra110305.html Web Extra Thursday, November 3, 2005 Two more moons for Pluto When the New Horizons spacecraft finally reaches Pluto in July 2015, researchers will have more objects to study than previously thought. In addition to Pluto's confirmed moon Charon, astronomers have detected two more orbiting celestial bodies, which could help reveal how the planet and moon system formed. ...

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 . ...

... NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected a long-sought population of comets dwelling at the icy fringe of the solar system . The observation, which is the astronomical equivalent to finding the proverbial needle-in-a-haystack, bolsters proof for a primordial comet reservoir just beyond Neptune , currently the farthest planet from the Sun . ... The comet-disk lies just beyond Neptune and might stretch 500 times farther from the Sun than Earth . ... Comet Introduction Kuiper Belt Objects . ...

Институт Космических Исследований . ... Физика планет и малых тел Солнечной системы . ... Федеральное государственное бюджетное учреждение науки Институт космических исследований Российской академии наук (ИКИ РАН) - головной академический институт по исследованию и использованию космического пространства в интересах фундаментальных наук. ... Одиннадцатая ежегодная конференция "Физика плазмы в солнечной системе" . ... ФГБУН Институт космических исследований Российской академии наук (ИКИ РАН) . ...

... Search . ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes | ... A Search for Bright Kuiper Belt Objects . ... Since 1992, 60 large Kuiper belt objects have been detected by ground-based telescopes. ... The detection of brighter objects would improve our ability to determine the Kuiper belt objects' surface composition and provide constraints on the population statistics of different formation mechanisms. ...

... Radiation mechanisms of astrophysical objects: classics today . ... S.A. Balashev, D.A. Varshalovich, A.V. Ivanchik, V.V. Klimenko , Ioffe Institute, Russian Federation . ... D.P. Barsukov, A.I. Tsygan , Ioffe Institute, Russian Federation . ... A.I. Kopylov, F.G. Kopylova , Special Astrophysical Observatory (SAO RAS), Russian Federation . ... F.G. Kopylova, A.I. Kopylov , Special Astrophysical Observatory (SAO RAS), Russian Federation . ... Conference poster . ... Slide shows and posters . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Site Info . ... Public Talks . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Who is this guy who calls himself "The Bad Astronomer?" ... First, yes, I am a real live astronomer (when people ask me what astronomers do, I tell them "They astronom !" ... These are emitted by powerful objects like black holes, exploding stars, and super-dense neutrons stars. ... Finally, am I really a bad astronomer? ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... Астронет | ... Переменные Звезды | ... Микролинзирование . ... На протяжении последних нескольких лет в рамках проекта MACHO проводятся наблюдения микролинзирования звезд Большого Магелланова Облака - спутника нашей Галактики. Эффект микролинзирования заключается в гравитационной фокусировке света звезды массивным объектом, находящимся на луче зрения между звездой и наблюдателем. ... Согласно некоторым гипотезам, линзами могут являться реликтовые черные дыры или "нейтралинные звезды". ...

Next: Data Structures Up: Multi-Object Spectroscopy Previous: Fitting the dispersion . DEFINE/MOS helps you to localize your objects and sky regions and by default works automatically. ... In the averaged frame it tries to detect objects above the threshold ( ) within the search window and fits a gaussian to any detected object. ... SET/MOS def_mode=i . ... It may be advisable to do at least a rough sky subtraction ahead of this command to facilitate the detection of the objects. ...

... 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). ...

... SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Astronomy . ... Hubble Space Telescope Images: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/image_category/ . ... The Chandra x-ray telescope (in orbit around Earth) has been sending back a wide range of images of what deep space objects would look like if seen with "x-ray sensitive" eyes. ... Web Sites for Asking Astronomy Questions . ... Ask an Astronomer for Kids: http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_kids/AskKids/index.shtml...

Architect's Drawing: ARC 3.5-mTelescope This year we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Astrophysical Research Consortium's (ARC) 3.5-m Telescope (1994 - 2014) dedication. ... It was a pioneer telescope in remotely operating the telescope and instruments. ... Four telescopes are currently operated: The Sloan Foundation 2.5-m Telescope, the ARC Small Aperture 0.5-m Telescope, the New Mexico State University 1.0-m Telescope, and the ARC 3.5-m Telescope. ...

... Next: Object Detection Using Up: Object Detection and Previous: Automated Classification of . ... A status report of the The GSC Object Classifier (GOC) project is presented. ... The GSC contains multiple entries for some objects due to plate overlap. It classifies objects as stars, non-stars, galaxies, blends and potential artifacts; the latter three classifications are rare, and only exist in GSC version 1.1, to which they were added manually. ... star, . ... non-star, . ...

BNO is in Baksan Gorge at the Northern Caucasus . ... The Baksan Underground Scintillation Telescope (BUST) of volume 3000 cubic centimeters at a depth of more 300 m. The mountainous plant ANDYRCHI to register wide air showers located over BUST on the area 5*10 4 square metres. The complex of surface plants KOVER including a large muon detector, a scintillation telescope and a neutrino monitor meant for studying the hard component of cosmic rays and wide air showers. ...

To see a Russian version of this page, click here . ... Graduated from Moscow State University (MSU), Faculty of Physics in 1976. Ph.D. degree - 1988, MSU. Main field of scientific activities: photometric investigations of various stars, close binary stellar systems and other astronomical objects, including research with use of fast photoelectric photometry with a high time resolution till 1 millisecond. ... New portable photometer . ... Send your mail to: tem@sai.msu.ru ...

... On the base of laboratory simulations (on rotating shallow water) of the formation of spiral arms in galactic gaseous disks, the existence of giant anticyclones in them was predicted. Numerical simulations shown that the vortex structures arise on a linear stage of spiral arms formation simultaneously with the latter. ... Thus second giants structures, after spiral arms, in spiral galactic disks are discovered. ...

... Academics . Research Innovation . ... University Psychological Counseling . ... Center for International Education . ... Research Institutions . Research Institute of Astronomy . ... About the Department . ... http://www.univer.kharkov.ua/en/departments/physics/chair/astronomy . The Research Institute of Astronomy at V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University was established in January 2002 on the basis of the University Astronomical Observatory founded as far back as 1808. ...

... V.V. Busarev, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, . ... V. V. Busarev1, M. N. Taran2, V. I. Fel’dman3 and V. S. Rusakov41 Lunar and Planetary Department, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University, 119992 Moscow, Universitetskij pr., ... 1 Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Universitetskij pr., ... V. V. BUSAREV, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Russian Federation (RF) (E-mail: busarev@sai.msu.ru); . ...