... 2005 November 1 . A Soyuz Spacecraft Approaches the Space Station . Credit : ISS Expedition 11 Crew, NASA . Explanation: Last month, a Soyuz TMA-7 spacecraft docked with the International Space Station. ... Pictured above , the approaching Soyuz spacecraft carried the new Expedition 12 crew to the Earth-orbiting International Space Station (ISS), as well as fee-paying spaceflight participant . ... About APOD | ...

... November 30, 1999 . Henize 70: A SuperBubble In The LMC . ... Explanation: Massive stars -- upwards of tens of times the mass of the Sun - profoundly affect their galactic environment. ... It is actually a luminous "superbubble" of interstellar gas about 300 light-years in diameter, blown by winds from hot, massive stars and supernova explosions , its interior filled with tenuous hot expanding gas. ... About APOD > . ...

... Since GCVS IV, there was no new GCVS edition. ... Main reasons for the automatic-survey new variables remaining outside the GCVS for a long time:  different level of detail of the classification systems, no perfect software for automatic classification available;  individual approach to each star that was always used in the GCVS cannot be applied any longer, but the experience of automatically- updated catalogs evidences for the number of errors ...

Supernova 1987A in LMC . One day in 1987, an astronomer by the name of Ian Shelton was making observations of the Tarantula Nebula in Large Magellanic cloud at Las Campanas Observatory, and he noticed something strange on his image. ... SN 1987A got as bright as 2.7, the only other recent SN even to come close was 1885A in M31 which got up to mag 6. ... Mag 4.5 . ... IAUC 4318 2/25/87 Type II? ... IAUC 7354 2/1/00 New structure in the inner ring . ... IAUC 7360 2/7/00 HST observation of new spot . ...

Moscow Astronomical Plate Archives: . Contents, Digitization, Current and Possible Applications . ... We describe the astronomical plate archives in Moscow and Zvenigorod and the existing digitization projects. ... 2 The Plate Archive of the Sternberg Institute . The contents of the most important Moscow astronomical plate archive, that of the Sternberg Astronomical Institute, was briefly presented in Shugarov et al. [1] in 1999. ... THE MOSCOW PLATE COLLECTION (STERNBERG INSTITUTE) . ...

... Отмеченная наградами АстроТоп-а . ... 1) К участию в конкурсе допускаются все российские сайты на тему астрономии и космонавтики, и все русскоязычные сайты за пределами России. ... II) Сайт года . ... Победитель: Астронет - http://www.astronet.ru/ : подано голосов экспертов - 109 (всего - 129) . ... 3-е место разделили: Астрономия и Телескопостроение - http://www.astronomer.ru/ и Лента новостей космонавтики от Железнякова - http://www.cosmoworld.ru/spaceencyclopedia/hotnews/ : подано по 37 голосов; ...

... The distance scales of the objects are matched both by comparing the first derivatives of the angular velocity determined separately from radial velocities and proper motions and by the statistical-parallax method. ... Good agreement between the inferred 0 and our calculations based on space velocities suggests that the Lindblad relation holds throughout the entire sample volume. ... Brandt and Blitz (1993) published the distances and radial velocities for a total of 206 H II-regions. ... Astron. ...