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... News from the IAU Working Group on Libraries . The IAU WG Libraries will hold a session during the General Assembly XXVIII , to be held August 23 & 24, 2012 in Beijing, China. ... In July 2008, two contributions in the context of the IAU WG Libraries appeared in the IAU Information Bulletin: Terry Mahoney from IAC Tenerife initiated the so-called " Manifesto ", a declaration that reflects concerns regarding the increasing invisibility of research libraries and librarians in the digital era. ...

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... The damage to NIFS has freed up the RSAA instrumentation team to concentrate on the timely delivery of the Gemini South Adaptic Optics Imager (GSAOI). ... GSAOI is the second instrument that ANU is building for Gemini. ... GSAOI Website: http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/gsaoi/ NIFS Website: http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/nifs/ RSAA Website: http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/ Australian Gemini Project Office Website: http://www.ausgo.unsw.edu.au/ Gemini Public Information Website: http://www.gemini.anu.edu.au/public/ . ...

... Armagh Planetarium . ... Universe . ... Posted on December 16, 2013 | ... Continue Reading.. ... If the count was to include all Earth satellites including broken parts and discarded pieces, [ ] . ... Posted on November 29, 2013 | ... 1 Comment November 9 is Carl Sagan Day when enthusiasts of astronomy and science remember and celebrate the life and works of Carl Sagan. ... Newer Entries . Hello, IтАЩm Colin, welcoming you to Astronotes, the PlanetariumтАЩs official blog. ...

Next: M.E. Bailey, Director Up: Research Previous: C.S. Jeffery, Research Astronomer Contents . ... How do Stars Form? ... Other Work and Activities . ... The interaction of young stars with their surroundings are accentuated within Herbig-Haro Objects, where streams and `bullets' of ejected gas impact on the ambient molecular clouds. ... The astrophysical jets are spectacular. ... Michael Smith and collaborators have searched for, and found, the first evidence of rotation within the jets. ...

... NGC 1316: After Galaxies Collide . ... A preliminary inspection indicates that NGC 1316 is an enormous elliptical galaxy that started devouring a smaller spiral galaxy neighbor about 100 million years ago. ... In the Center of 30 Doradus . ... In the center of 30 Doradus lies a huge cluster of the largest, hottest, most massive stars known. ... A group of galaxies is a system containing more than two galaxies but less than the tens or hundreds typically found in a cluster of galaxies. ...

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... August 15, 1998 . The Perseus Cluster of Galaxies . ... Each of the fuzzy blobs in the above picture is a galaxy, together making up the Perseus Cluster, one of the closest clusters of galaxies . We view the cluster through the foreground of faint stars in our own Milky Way Galaxy . ... The Perseus Cluster of Galaxies is part of the Pisces-Perseus supercluster of galaxies , which spans over 15 degrees and contains over 1000 galaxies. ... About APOD > . ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

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The SCUBA Local Universe Galaxy Survey Dust along the Hubble sequence Catherine Vlahakis University of Bonn Collaborators: Steve Eales (Cardiff University) Loretta Dunne (University of Nottingham) Overview What is SLUGS? Results from the survey Recent work using SLUGS results ­ the FIR-radio relation Introduction: SLUGS SLUGS ­ a submm survey of galaxies in the local Universe ­ at 850m and 450m Survey of ~200 nearby galaxies: 104 60m-selected ("IRS") (Dunne et al. ...

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Next: The sample description Up: Spectral survey of Case Previous: Spectral survey of Case . Several large objective-prism surveys have been done during last two decades. ... Other surveys, such as Tololo (Smith et al. ... 1993 ], [ 1994 ]; Thuan et al. ... Thus we carried out the follow-up spectroscopy for those Case candidates, which left behind the scope of the previous slit-spectroscopy studies, in order to combine all available data and produce the BCG sample in the zone of Case survey. ...

... The main task of this Working Group has been to review the state-of-theart knowledge of the Milky Way galaxy, to identify the future challenges, and to propose which tools (in terms of facilities, infrastructures, instruments, science policies) would be needed to successfully tackle and solve the remaining open questions. ... This Working Group has made recommendations that would allow dissecting our backyard laboratory, the Galaxy, even further. ...

... A radio galaxy is a galaxy that emits an unusually big amount of energy at radio wavelengths. ... Inside of each galaxy with an active nucleus (radio galaxies are among them) there must be a system of a "central machine" responsible for the colossal amount of the emitted energy from radio to gamma ranges. ... Sometimes a radio source in an active galaxy may flare again if the needed conditions appear (a new portion of matter would fall into the furnace of the "central machine"). ...

... Galaxy Evolution home . ... Regulating the ISM and star formation . Cosmological evolution of star-forming galaxies . ... Local Information . ... In order to investigate the cosmological evolution of star-forming galaxies it is essential that we understand the physics which controls the evolution and regulation of star formation in the ISM. ... We use a combined observational and numerical approach to study interacting and merging galaxies in the local Universe. ...

... Maintenance and Work Completed on M1: September 10, 1999 . Whiffles Installed on M2: September 10, 1999 . M1 Support System Maintenance: September 10, 1999 . M1 Temperature Sensor Work and Repair: September 10, 1999 . M1 Hex-cell Deterioration: September 14, 1999 . ... M1 Whiffle Mount and M1 Back, September 21, 1999 . ... Views of Secondary Mirror (Back): April 13, 2000 . ... Front Portals: June 8, 2001 . ... M2 and M3 Baffle Work: June 8, 2005 . ... M3 Work: November 7, 2007 . ...

. RUS ENG . Serafim S. Kaisin . Laboratory of Extragalactic Astrophysics and Cosmology . Senior Researcher, PhD . Address: . SAO . Nizhnij Arkhyz . Zelenchuk district . Karachai-Circassia republic . Russia , 369167 . E-mail: . Phones: . +7-87822-93-413 (work) . Area of interest . Image processing, star formation in galaxies, photometry, irregular galaxies, Linux . My Ph D. thesis "Halha survey of galaxies and groups of galaxies in the Local Volume" ( on russian ) . § Publications . аа ааа . 27 August 2009 .

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