Astronomy Picture of the Day . Stars and Globules in the Running Chicken Nebula . ... 19.01.2016 . ... Credit Copyright: Martin Pugh Explanation: The eggs from this gigantic chicken may form into stars. The featured emission nebula, shown in scientifically assigned colors, is cataloged as IC 2944 but known as the Running Chicken Nebula for the shape of its greater appearance. ... Globules in the Running Chicken Nebula . IC 2948: The Running Chicken Nebula . ... Dark Bok Globules in IC 2944 ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2014 March 5 . Globules in the Running Chicken Nebula . ... Explanation: The eggs from this chicken may form into stars. The above pictured emission nebula, cataloged as IC 2944 , is called the Running Chicken Nebula for the shape of its greater appearance. ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply . ...

... December 13, 1997 . The Coma Cluster of Galaxies . ... The Coma Cluster of Galaxies pictured is one of the densest clusters known - it contains thousands of galaxies . Each of these galaxies house billions of stars - just as our own Milky Way Galaxy does. ... In fact, the Coma Cluster is so big it takes light millions of years just to go from one side to the other! Most galaxies in Coma and other clusters are ellipticals , while most galaxies outside of clusters are spirals . ...

... Satellites of the planets are assigned a provisional designation (indicating year of discovery) by the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams ( CBAT ) upon satisfactory demonstration of the existence of a new object. ... In the past, Comets were first given a provisional designation, consisting of the year and a lowercase letter indicating the order of discovery in the year (e.g., 1994a was the first comet discovered or recovered in 1994, 1994b the second, etc.) ... Names .. ...

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Mopra radio telescope . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ... Although galaxy mergers are thought to play an important role in forming elliptical galaxies, mergers in galaxy clusters have drawn less attention compared to mergers in field environments due to high peculiar velocities of cluster galaxies. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Sky this Month . ... Star Atlas . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... galaxies . ... Globular cluster NGC 2808, elliptical galaxy NGC 2986, and the Sextans Dwarf . ... Open cluster NGC 2818, spiral galaxy NGC 2964, and spiral galaxy NGC 2976 . ... Local Group . ... How can astronomers tell the difference between a group or cluster of stars and an actual galaxy? ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

The File System . Accounts consume disk space as files are created, copied, edited and mail is sent and received. Disk space is a limited resource and various methods are used to manage it. ... If quotas are used on your cluster, use the SHOW QUOTA command to display information about how much space you have used and how much is available to you. ... If free space on the scratch disk falls below 25%, then all files that are more than 4 business days old will be deleted. ...

. F IGURE . 4. Kinematic diagrams for (a) all Galactic GCs, (b) thick-disk clusters, and (c) halo clusters. The dot sizes are proportional to the weights assigned. The straight lines are rms regression fits and their slopes yield the rotational velocity of the corresponding subsystem, V rot . discussion in the text | previous figure | next figure .

... Главная . ... Новости . ... Проекты . Любителям астрономии . Проект ISON . ... Подробнее . ... Категория: Новости проекта ISON . ... Метки: Космический мусор ,љ Астероиды ,љ Гамма-всплески ,љ Любителям астрономии ,љ Кометы љ . ... Метки: Космический мусор ,љ Астероиды ,љ Любителям астрономии љ . ... Новости обсерваторий проекта] - Обсерватория Кубанского государственного университета от Иванов А - 09.04.2016 11:08:49 . ... 1999-2013 Copyright "Астрономия и Телескопостроение" . ...

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... The choice of which type of electricity is called "positive" and which "negative" was made around 1750 by Ben Franklin, early American scientist and man of many talents (the stamp on the left commemorates his role as first US postmaster--and colonial postmaster before that). ... Franklin knew of two types of electric charge, depending on the material one rubbed. ... Later, when electric batteries were discovered, scientists naturally assigned the direction of the flow of current to be from (+) to (-...

... Timothy J. (TJ) Creamer (COLONEL, U.S. ARMY, RET.) ... ORGANIZATIONS: Alpha Sigma Nu; Phi Kappa Phi; Sigma Pi Sigma; Army Aviation Association of America; Association of the United States Army and the British-American Project. ... Beginning in November 2000, Creamer became the crew support astronaut for the Expedition 3 crew, which was on orbit from August 2001 through December 2001. ... Two days later, he docked with the International Space Station and joined the Expedition 22 crew. ... JULY 2014 ...

... Archives . ... Another deduced conclusion from reading preprints listed in arxiv/astro-ph is that astronomers tend to confuse classification and clustering and to mix up methodologies. They tend to think any algorithms from classification or clustering analysis serve their purpose since both analysis algorithms, no matter what, look like a black box . ... Category: Algorithms , arXiv , Astro , Bad AstroStat , Cross-Cultural , Data Processing , Frequentist , Jargon , Methods , Stat | ...

Stellar Clusters are very useful laboratories for empirically studying stellar evolution. ... All cluster stars are at the same distance . All cluster stars have the same physical age . ... CM diagram Young Cluster In this case we see the Main Sequence fully represented. The blue dots represent massive stars with short main sequence lifetimes. ... Thus, identifying the most massive star which is still on the main sequence is an effective means of determining the age of a stellar cluster. ...

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... Subject: G.08 How are stars named? Can I name/buy one? ... The Supernova of 1987 (Supernova 1987A), one of the major astronomical events of this century, was identified with the star named SK -69 202 in the very specialized catalog, the _Deep Objective Prism Survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud_, published by the Warner and Swasey Observatory. These procedures and catalogs accepted by the International Astronomical Union are the only means by which stars receive long-lasting names. ...

... These so called Out-of-Time (OoT) events gets a wrong RAWY value assigned, and thus eventually a wrong energy correction. ... generate an image from the OoT event list evselect table=PiiiiiijjkkPNblllOOEVLInmmm.FIT imagebinning=binSize imageset=PN_OoT_image.fits withimageset=yes \ xcolumn=X ycolumn=Y ximagebinsize=80 yimagebinsize=80 . ... change the name of the COUNTS column in the OoT event spectrum to CTS_OOT . ... copy the CTS_OOT column of the OoT event spectrum into the source spectrum . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Comets and Asteroids . ... Image credit:ESO/J.Emerson/VISTA. ... However others are less pessimistic and it has even been claimed that the mysterious ?Wow! signal? received in 1977 originated from the direction M55.б  Sadly, this still unexplained pulse of radio energy originated from a location rather to the northwest of M55 so I doubt if the source was this cluster (if indeed the signal was genuinely of extraterrestrial origin). ... Mysterious Wow! ...

... Automatic classification of large catalogs may be carried out for survey objectives, or to elucidate the catalog's contents in a minimally-restricted way. ... 1992; Murtagh & Hern?ndez-Pajares 1994; Hern?ndez-Pajares et al. 1994): each item in a multidimensional input data set is assigned to a cluster center; the cluster centers are themselves ordered by their proximities; and the cluster centers are arranged in some specific output representational structure, often a regularly-spaced grid. ... 1994...

home publications > mercury . ... Big Clusters, Tiny Galaxies . ... Astronomers struggle to understand why giant star clusters form in the tiniest of galaxies . ... These clusters are probably young versions of globular clusters, but they are commonly called super star clusters. Seven dwarf galaxies within 16 million light-years have formed super star clusters, with one of these galaxies, NGC 1569, possessing two young clusters. ... Super star clusters have a lot to tell us about star formation. ...