... CBET now has an M31 novae page , M33 novae page , and an M81 novae page . ... Also, see W. Pietsch's M31 (apparent) optical nova catalogue , M33 novae catalog , and M81 novae catalog Please note that I do not keep track of galactic novae . Nova M81 2016-04a? (= PNV J09560598+6900401 ), ATEL 8904 discovered 2016/04/02.876 by Kamil Hornoch and H. Kucakova . ... Nova M31 2016-03a? (= PNV J00421695+4059098 ), CBAT TOCP discovered 2016/03/01.721 by unknown . ... other extragalactic Novae from 2016 . ...

... This is a partial list of the Extragalactic Novae discovered in 2002. Current Novae can be found on the main page . Nova NGC 2403 2002 , ATEL 1638 , discovered 2002/12/30.124 by K. Hornoch . Found in NGC 2403 at R.A. = 07h37m38s.36, Decl. ... Nova M31 2002 6 , IAUC 7970 discovered 2002/08/04.13 by K. Hornoch . ... Nova M31 2002 5 , IAUC 7937 discovered 2002/07/22.5 by LOTOSS . ... Nova M31 2002 4 , IAUC 7937 discovered 2002/07/20.5 by LOTOSS ; Observatory G. Colombo . ...

... Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun , and the second largest in the solar system . Saturn's most distinctive feature is its ring system . ... Saturn has an internal magnetic field with a dipole aligned with the rotation axis (Ness et al., ... The solar wind and Saturn's rings and satellites supply the particles that are trapped in the radiation belts. ... Between the inner and outer satellites orbits Titan, Saturn's largest moon (larger than the planet Mercury ). ... Res., ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Have you ever looked at pictures of Saturn's rings and noticed what look like gaps in the rings? ... Gian Domenico Cassini discovered a large gap in Saturn's rings in 1675. Later, an astronomer named Encke discovered a smaller gap near the edge of the rings. ... It was found long ago that an orbit in the Cassini Division, as the large gap is named, has a period almost exactly one-half that of one of Saturn's moons named Mimas. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... These two images of the Jovian moon Thebe were taken by Galileo's solid state imaging system in November 1996 and June 1997, respectively. ... Thebe, whose longest dimension is approximately 116 kilometers (72 miles) across, is tidally locked so that the same side of the satellite always points towards Jupiter, similar to how the near side of our own Moon always points toward Earth. ... The image on the right emphasizes the side of Thebe that faces away from Jupiter (the "anti-Jupiter" side). ...

... Reference Data for Calibration and Tools . ... If you would like to receive an e-mail every time a new COS reference file is delivered and the database is updated, you can subscribe to the cos_reffiles_upd mailing list. ... Burst Parameters Table . ... The high voltage reference table gives the times when the FUV high voltage was changed More... hv . ... The walk corection reference table gives parameters for correcting the pixel coordinates XCORR and YCORR of FUV TIME-TAG data More... walk . ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... FileљStructure . ... Landscape Class Reference abstract . ... More... #include < Landscape.hpp > . ... Landscape (float _radius=2.f) . ... load (const QSettings &landscapeIni, const QString &landscapeId)=0 . ... setBrightness (const float b) . ... floatљ . ... const QStringљ . getTexturePath (const QString &basename, const QString &landscapeId) . ... const floatљ . ... Definition at line 42 of file Landscape.hpp . ... const QString Landscape::getTexturePath . ...

... Classes . ... FittingProxy::FitType . ... Definition at line 116 of file FittingProxy.h . ... Definition at line 145 of file FittingProxy.h . ... Definition at line 147 of file FittingProxy.h . ... Definition at line 139 of file FittingProxy.h . ... Definition at line 137 of file FittingProxy.h . ... Definition at line 141 of file FittingProxy.h . ... Definition at line 151 of file FittingProxy.h . ... Definition at line 143 of file FittingProxy.h . ... Definition at line 172 of file FittingProxy.h ...

... 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. ...

... BLoCXS is a Bayesian code that uses Markov-Chain Monte Carlo and Data Augmentation techniques to analyze CCD-resolution X-ray spectra in the Poisson regime. BLoCXS can be used to . fit common emission models to low-counts spectra . identify narrow emission lines in low-resolution spectra . identify Gaussian emission lines (with fixed/unknown location and width) . compute profile posterior distributions, . simulate data from posterior predictive distributions, . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Solar System . ... Planets . ... Space Flight . ... Neptune, which is not visible with the naked eye, was discovered by mathematical prediction in 1846 before being observed through a telescope. ... Tidal interactions between Neptune and Triton mean that in 100 million years these two bodies may come too close to one another causing Triton to be torn apart leaving Neptune with a ring system more spectacular than SaturnтАЩs. ...

... Observing . ... Tune into the Asteroid Day press conference . ... Tail discovered on long-known asteroid . ... ASTEROIDS . ... Sheppard and Trujillo discovered an unexpected tail on 62412, an object which had been known as a typical asteroid for over a decade. ... In the past, asteroids were thought to be mostly unchanging objects, but an improved ability to observe them has allowed scientists to discover tails and comas, which are the thin envelopes of an atmosphere that surrounds a comet s nucleus...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . The Decade that Defined Star System . ... As the 1990s began, the only planetary star system known was our own Solar System. The first extra-solar star system was discovered orbiting a pulsar in 1991. ... X-ray astronomy in particular will likely flourish in coming . Solar Moss . ... The Apollo 8 astronauts spent the 1968 Christmas Season orbiting the Moon, returning with striking images of both Moon and Earth from space - pictures which inspired the world. ...

... J5: Radio and Radar Studies of the Solar System. ... Analogously, the key idea of the USSR (United Solar System Radar) concept would be the thousandfold increase in sensitivity over existing radar astronomy facilities, and besides, only the tenfold increase in transmitting power and collecting areas of transmitting and receiving antennas is necessary for this purpose. ... So, let us try to imagine the scientific impact, which would provide this United Solar System Radar. ... 3)  Asteroid's moons; . ...

... 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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Next: References Up: No Title Previous: Scientifically discovered God . What does it mean, God being discovered scientifically, or Superintelligence? And what is the future science dealing with an endlessly complicated world? ... But a human lexicon has also so important words as ``to understand'' and ``to believe''. ... And how the scientifically discovered God which has been inevitably reached by the modern simple science correlates with the religious God? ...

... 8, ``Celestial Mechanics'', 2002 Precession and free core nutation of neutron stars A. Gusev, I. Kitiashvili Kazan University, Russia In 1992 Wolszczan and Frail discovered a planetary system around the pulsar PSR 1257+12 [1]. ... Third case: the most likely possibility is the free precession of the pulsar with a rigid 81 neutron star. ... It is known that rotation of the terrestrial planets having rigid mantle and elliptical liquid core is characterized by Free Core Nutation (FCN). ...

... The SDSS 2.5-m primary mirror is supported in a manner similar to the Apache Point Observatory 3.5-m telescope primary. ... The axial support is provided by 48 air pistons. The pistons have the same diameter thereby applying equal forces with the same air pressure. ... Each group supports a 120њ sector of the mirror. ... Figure 1: CAD drawing showing the 2.5-m primary mirror and the locations of actuators (green circles) These actuators apply forces (10*cos2 N) to correct astigmatism. ...

... ImgCutout is a Web application that enables professional astronomers and the general public to interactively visualize and explore large, complex astronomical data sets. The application consists of a Web interface that calls a Web service, which accesses SkyServer, a 1 TB SQL Server database containing catalog data for 100 million objects, spectra and images from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. ... The database provides images and object data to an image cutout service in response to SQL queries. ...