... Observing . ... Solar Observing . ... April 3 (SUN) - Solar Observing, Central Park , Manhattan . ... APRIL'S SKY . ... Lecture Series at the American Museum of Natural History The Amateur Astronomers Association is proud to present an astronomy lecture series from October through May each year for our members and the .. ... The€аAmateur Astronomers Association of New York€аwas organized in 1927 to promote the study of Astronomy, emphasizing its cultural and inspirational value. ...

... 2006 January 1 . The Largest Rock in the Solar System . Credit: Voyager 1, NASA . Explanation: There, that faint dot in the center - that's the largest rock known in our Solar System . ... It used to be the largest rock of any type known until earlier last year. The Voyager 1 spacecraft took the above picture of the giant space rock in 1990 from the outer Solar System. ... Happy Gregorian Calendar New Year to all the human inhabitants of this rock we call Earth . ... About APOD | ...

... 2000 January 12 . NGC 6791: An Old, Large Open Cluster . ... Explanation: NGC 6791 is one of the oldest and largest open clusters of stars known. ... Open star cluster NGC 6791 , however, contains thousands of stars recently measured to be about 8 billion years old. ... This enigma makes NGC 6791, pictured above , one of the most studied open clusters and a possible example of how stars might evolve in the centers of galaxies. ... About APOD | ...

... ESO is building what will be the World's largest optical telescope array, The Very Large Telescope (VLT). The VLT Project organisation is responsible for the design and construction of the Unit Telescopes, including enclosures, optics, adapter-rotators and coating unit. ... Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ...

... NASA , NSF Explanation: Is our Earth unique? In continuing efforts to answer this question, astronomers have now discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a distant normal star. ... Slight, fast, but regular wobbles of nearby small M - dwarf star Gliese 876 showed evidence for a planet with a likely mass slightly higher than a minimum six times the mass of Earth. ... Publications with keywords: planets - Earth - Gliese 876 . Publications with words: planets - Earth - Gliese 876 . ...

... A team of Japanese scientists including Armagh astronomer Dr David Asher have announced the discovery of the second largest known Earth-crossing asteroid. The group is based at the new Japanese Spaceguard Centre at Bisei, west of Osaka. ... The subsequent tracking and orbit determination was assisted by Armagh asteroid expert David Asher, who is currently visiting Japan to help in the setting up of the new Spaceguard Centre funded by the Japanese government. ...

In this gallery are many images of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies which have recently been discovered and analyzed. ... The central surface brightness of this galaxy is 24.28 . Malin 2 This galaxy is another huge disk galaxy with a scale length of 15 kpc and a redshift of 15000 km/a. The high surface brightness knot in one of its spiral arms actually has the same color, luminosity and H-alpha equivalent width as the entire Large Magellanic Cloud . ... Truly it is a Low Surface Brightness Galaxy. ...

... НЕПРЕРЫВНОГО МАТЕМАТИЧЕСКОГО ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ . ... Кружок ?Олимпиады и математика? ... Московская математическая олимпиада . Заочный математический конкурс . ... Устные математические олимпиады . Олимпиады по программированию . Математический праздник . Математические регаты . ... Математические бои . Олимпиада по геометрии им. И.Ф.Шарыгина . ... Программа ?Math in Moscow? Научные конкурсы . Творческий конкурс . ... График олимпиад . ... XXVII Математический праздник . ...

... Next: Colophon Up: Data Modeling and Previous: Robust Estimation and . ... In considering future software needs, I present five projects to enhance the astronomer's research effectiveness, and note that large telescope projects and information databases will also challenge software developers. ... The ADASS conferences are intended to foster discussions between astronomers and software developers so that the computational needs of researchers are understood and met. ...

... HST . ... ATLAST Mission Concept Study . ... Left: 8-meter monolithic mirror telescope (credit: MSFC Advanced Concepts Office) . ... The Advanced Technology Large Aperture Space Telescope (ATLAST) is a NASA strategic mission concept study for the next generation of UVOIR space observatory. ... ATLAST will have an angular resolution that is 5 - 10 times better than the James Webb Space Telescope ( JWST ) and a sensitivity limit that is up to 2000 times better than the Hubble Space Telescope ( HST ). ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Planets . ... Our Galaxy . ... Weird and Fun . ... It came from another galaxy: This artistтАЩs impression shows HIP 13044 b, an exoplanet orbiting a star that entered our galaxy from beyond. ... HIP 13044 is one of tens of millions of stars in the тАЬHelmi streamтАЭ, stars that belonged to a dwarf galaxy consumed by our own Milky Way galaxy, some six to nine billion years ago. ... Tweets that mention ESO finds weird doomed planet from another galaxy | ...

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Tips on holding a viewing night . ... Multi-Wavelength View of the Interstellar Medium in the Large Magellanic Cloud . ... The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) has been surveyed in optical emission lines, X-rays, radio continuum, H I , and CO lines. ... Keywords: Magellanic Clouds - galaxies: ISM - ISM: general - ISM: structure - ISM: bubbles - supernova remnants . ... Structures of the Interstellar Medium in the LMC ...

... By understanding how life formed on Earth, astrobiologists hope to find clues on how to find life elsewhere. ... As these stars die, they spew organic molecules out into the interstellar medium where new stars form. The formation of a new star may include a planetary system with Earth-like planets that in turn will contain organic molecules right from the start. ... This new discipline has tremendous potential for revolutionizing science education. ... We need to "hook" students. ...

God Science Forum Message . Forums: . ... God and Science ћ SETI ћ Software ћ UFO ћ XEphem . ... God and Science | ... Discover The Science Behind The "Wormwood Star Prophecy" . ... Scientific Scenario Of A Comet's Impact And The "Wormwood Star" Prophecy . ... The Wormwood prophecy cites a "great star, blazing like a torch". ... www.astronomy.net . ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

Image credit: Michael Nolan, Arecibo Observatory. These radar images of near-Earth asteroid 2001 SN263 were obtained on 2008 Feb 12 and 13. ... Image from Feb 12 . ... First near-Earth triple asteroid discovered by Arecibo Observatory . ... was discovered this week by astronomers at the sensitive radar telescope at Cornell University?s Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. ... For example, Arecibo has discovered more than half of the near-Earth binary asteroid systems discovered since 1999. ...

... 2011: . ... The measurements of the apparent diameter of a long-period variable star R Leo, a cold pulsating giant in the last stage of evolution, the scales of which are hundreds of times larger than the Sun were conducted at the 6-m BTA telescope. ... The discovered effect explains the observed anomalously large values of the pulsar slowdown indices, as well as the known differences in the estimates of their ages with the ages of the corresponding supernova remnants. ... Archive . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Site Info . ... Public Talks . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Who is this guy who calls himself "The Bad Astronomer?" ... First, yes, I am a real live astronomer (when people ask me what astronomers do, I tell them "They astronom !" ... These are emitted by powerful objects like black holes, exploding stars, and super-dense neutrons stars. ... Finally, am I really a bad astronomer? ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... PUBLIC LECTURE - APRIL 12, 2016 . New Discoveries in the Outer Solar System: Ceres, Pluto and Planet X . ... Dr. Green will talk about "New Discoveries in the Outer Solar System: Ceres, Pluto, and Planet X". ... Beginning in 1992 planetary astronomers began to find Pluto like objects beyond the orbit of Neptune showing us that Pluto was a member of an entirely new family of objects we now call the Kuiper Belt. ... Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton, Inc., ...

The small solids. Asteroids or the small planetes . ... The comets. ... Ceneca the Young.Procuring about the nature.63 y. The comet is a celestial body of a great size, but a rare one... transparent. Sometimes there seen a core and the medium forms a kind of a tail, beard or dishevelled looks. ... The core is an ice body - conglomeration of frosted gas and dust. ... The comet state is variable: ones have the con tails, others the dust tails, and the third have both. ... Meteors and meteorites. ...

... Samara region . SSAU History . ... An alignment meeting on data mining, storage and processing of very large data amounts on the basis of hardware and software complex Big Data took place in Samara State Aerospace University. ... The laboratory for processing of very large data amounts on the basis of the hardware and software complex was made in the University and the necessary equipment was purchased. ... Data processing requires powerful processors and advanced computer programs. ... Big Data. ...