Next: Public Understanding of Science Up: Astronomy in Armagh Previous: Mission Statement Contents . The principal research interests of Observatory staff now include . ... The astronomical research facilities at Armagh Observatory, including those for computing and data reduction, are mostly excellent, and include a local Starlink node funded in part by the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC) and partly by the DENI/DCAL, and (from March 2000) an Origin2000 supercomputer. ...

... Galaxy Evolution home . ... Regulating the ISM and star formation . Cosmological evolution of star-forming galaxies . The origin and evolution of radio sources . Radio sources and their environments . ... Observations of the local Universe clearly demonstrate that very active star formation phases (starbursts) are often associated with interacting and merging galaxies and that in these systems much of the short wavelength emission is absorbed by dust and re-emitted in the IR. ...

... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Late Stages of Stellar Evolution . Welcome to the home page of the Late Stages of Stellar Evolution" We are a research group which operates within the Astrophysics Group of the Australia Telescope National Facility. ... To investigate the late stages of stellar evolution and in particular the role of stellar mass-loss in the evolution of asymptotic giant branch stars, proto-planetary nebulae and extremely massive stars. ...

Main Program Travel Where to go in Moscow Information . ... The 2014 year marks the 100th anniversary of Yakov Zeldovich . ... John Carlstrom (University of Chicago) . ... Lyman Page (Princeton University) . ... The conference will be held at the Space Research Institute (IKI) in Moscow, Russia, on June 16-20, 2014 . ... International Conference: Cosmology and High Energy Astrophysics (Zeldovich-90) 20-24 Dec 2004, Moscow, Russia . ... 2014 Space Research Institute, Moscow Русская версия ...

. My astronomical research interests center on galaxy structure and evolution. Current topics include: . Polar-ring and interacting galaxies (see also new catalogue ) . Galaxy warps: statistics, properties and origin . Spiral galaxies at z~1: radial and vertical structure of stellar disks, statistics of interactions . Surface photometry and kinematics, dynamical modeling . Observational cosmology . Joomla Counter since Sep 1997

... Viewing the Universe with Infrared Eyes: The Spitzer Space Telescope . Dr Giovanni Fazio . ... He then lead the development of large balloon-borne telescopes for far-infrared astronomical observations above the atmosphere, as Principal Investigator for the 1-Meter Balloon-Borne Far-Infrared Telescope and also the first infrared astronomical telescope to fly on the Spacelab II flight of the Space Shuttle. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

Family ASTRO was initially developed to expand the ASP?s flagship program Project ASTRO?, which has partnered thousands of volunteer amateur and professional astronomers around the country with classroom teachers and students in their communities. ... Since then, we?ve trained not only many Project ASTRO partners, but also hundreds of other educators across the country to use our series of Leader Kits and Take-Home Activities to lead fun, hands-on Astronomy Events in their communities. ...

... The main topics of the Conference were: 1. ... Asteroid-comet hazard (origin and dynamic evolution of objects approaching the Earth, observations, physical properties, cataloguing, data bases, estimation of collision probability with the Earth and other bodies). ... 5) In this connection the problem of concluding the international political agreement within the frames of UN about common active counteractions to the bodies on the orbits leading to collisions with the Earth is urgent. ...

... Space Research Institute . ... Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences . ... Short history of IKI with respect to it's directors and main missions . ... Main results . ... Venue: Space Research Institute and Russian Academy of Sciences . ... The interview with the director of Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences Academician Lev M. Zelenyi . ... Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKI), 84/32 Profsoyuznaya Str, Moscow, Russia, 117997...

... Southern . ... Science Activities > PhD Thesis Topics offered by ESO Faculty Members > Thesis Topic: Discovery and characterisation of Pre Main Sequence stars in southern star forming regions . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... ESO-MIDAS . ... Using a robust method to identify Pre-Main Sequence (PMS) stars through their photometric excess in the Hн± band, we have recently studied the star formation history in several star burst clusters in the Galaxy, Small and Large Magellanic Clouds. ...

... NASA , NSF Explanation: Is our Earth unique? In continuing efforts to answer this question, astronomers have now discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a distant normal star. ... Slight, fast, but regular wobbles of nearby small M - dwarf star Gliese 876 showed evidence for a planet with a likely mass slightly higher than a minimum six times the mass of Earth. ... Publications with keywords: planets - Earth - Gliese 876 . Publications with words: planets - Earth - Gliese 876 . ...

... About meteorites . ... Meteoritic data . Impact Crater Smerdyachee . ... Based on Smerdyachee's depth, near circularity, and its mounded wall, and analysis by N.A. Fillin of nearby Roshal, Russia, the Estonian scientists Yu.V. Krestlane and K.H. Mella proposed in 1987 that Smerdyachee Lake is a meteorite crater. ... In 2002, the Laboratory of Meteoritics of the Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences explored this mysterious lake. ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... Bruce McCandless II (Captain, USN, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (former) . ... He was a member of the astronaut support crew for the Apollo 14 mission and was backup pilot for the first manned Skylab mission (SL-1/SL-2). ... A veteran of two space flights, McCandless has logged over 312 hours in space, including 4 hours of MMU flight time. ... With the completion of this flight McCandless logged 191 hours in space (including 4 hours of MMU flight time). ...

... Massive stars, having 10-150 masses of the Sun, with metallicities Z tens to hundreds times less than that of the Sun (Zo), are the main regulators of the galaxy formation and evolution processes in the early Universe. ... In this galaxy, using the 6 m BTA telescope, a new massive blue variable star with high luminosity (>=10 5 Sun's luminocities in visible light) was found. As far as its properties are concerned, this star falls into an LBV (Luminous Blue Variable) class of stars. ...

... I am also a senior researcher at the High Energy Astrophysics department of the Space Research Institute in Moscow, Russia . ... My main research area is X-ray studies of galaxy clusters and their applications for cosmology and physics of the intergalactic medium. ... 2003: Doctor of Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences: "Observational cosmology and studies of physics of the intracluster medium using X-ray observations of clusters of galaxies" ( thesis in Russian ) . ...

... A model for the chemical evolution of a disk galaxy is presented. The model reproduces all the basic . ... investigations of the star formation history. ... the galaxyЫand incorporating a delay in the onset of star formation make it possible to model different scenar- . ios for the evolution of a galaxy's luminosity. ... evolution of massive galaxies. ... of reconstructing the star-formation history and galactic luminosity from observations of galaxies at different . ...

... Plasma Phenomena in the Solar System: Discoveries of Prof. K.I. Gringauz - a view from the XXI century . ... The conference is devoted to the 90-th anniversary of Professor Konstantin I. Gringauz - a pioneer of in-situ plasma measurements in space, who discovered solar wind, plasmapause, and cometopause. ... 1.Physical processes on the Sun and solar wind formation. ... 3.Solar plasma interaction with the Earth and planets; physical processes in magnetospheres. ...

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... It is shown that this approach allows one to qualify and visualize some major trends characterizing the current astronomical literature: multi-author collaborative work, the impact of observational projects and thematic maps of publishing authors. ... 1997). The latter functionalities (called data mining functionalities) result from data analysis, data evolution analysis and data correlation principles and allow one to discover a priori unknown knowledge or information (Shapiro et al. ...

... ANU Home | Search ANU | ... Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics . Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories . ... It is envisaged that a number of people will be interested in attending both this meeting and the Texas Symposium , which will be held in Melbourne during the following week (11 -15 December). ... Disks . ... Small scale jets and winds . ... John Hawley - General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations of Black Hole Accretion Disks and Jets . ... Contact ANU . ...