... September 15, 1995 . Space Station Mir Over Earth . Credit: NASA , Russian Space Research Institute . Explanation: This picture of the Russian space station Mir over the Pacific Ocean was recorded by the Space Shuttle Discovery in February 1995. ... Many scientific experiments and astronomical observations were completed jointly by the American astronauts and the Russian cosmonauts. ... Some cosmonauts have spent more than a year on board Mir, the longest anyone has ever lived in space. ...

... September 25, 1997 . T Pyxidis: Recurrent Nova . ... Explanation: What happens when a thermonuclear blast occurs on the surface of a white dwarf star? ... Like other binary star systems which produce nova outbursts , T Pyx is composed of a dense white dwarf and a close companion star. An outburst occurs when the temperature and density of the sea of matter dumped from the companion onto the surface of the white dwarf reach the nuclear flash point for hydrogen . ... About APOD > . ...

My name is Steve Foulkes, I have had the good luck to find SN 2000C in NGC2415. This is part of my discovery image which shows NGC2415 and the SN. ... Steve Foulkes . Image Data: . ... Object NGC 2415 recorded on 2000 Jan 8.789UT with a 0.26-m LX200 telescope on an image secured for the UK Nova/Supernova Patrol. ... The software is also used to analyse an image, and can to a limited degree, also indicate changes in the image. ... Back to Supernova 2000C in NGC 2415 . ...

... General Catalog of Variable Stars (GCVS database, Version 2012 Feb.) ... The cross-identification tables of the General Catalogue of Variable Stars (GCVS) contain all GCVS (including extragalactic variables from vol.V), NSV (New catalogue of Suspected Variable stars) and Supplement to the NSV stars as well as stars from the name-lists of variable stars nos. 67 - 80; it also makes it possible to find out identifications between the GCVS and the NSV catalogue. ... I-III) names are included. ...

... E.V. Kazarovets, N.N . Samus , O.V. Durlevich, S.V. Antipin, M.S. Frolov, N.N . Kireeva, E.N. Pastukhova Institute of Astronomy of Russian Academy of Sciences and Sternberg State Astronomical Institute of ... the Moscow State University ================================================================================ The 74th Special Name-list of Variable Stars , A.V. Kazarovets, N.N . Samus , O.V. Durlevich, S.V. Antipin, M.S.,Frolov, ... 3323 Samus, N.N., IBVS, 1997, No. ...

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... 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. ...