... August 30, 1996 . Galileo Demonstrates the Telescope . Explanation: Galileo Galilei made a good discovery great. ... Galileo quickly discovered that our Moon had craters , that Jupiter had it's own moons , that the Sun has spots , and that Venus has phases like our Moon . ... Galileo claimed that his observations only made sense if all the planets revolved around the Sun , as championed by Aristarchus and Copernicus , not the Earth , as was commonly believed then. ... About APOD | ...

... October 4, 1995 . The Sun Spews X-rays . Credit: Yohkoh Soft X-ray Telescope , ISAS , Japan . Explanation: Our Sun is really very hot. The Sun's outer atmosphere is so hot that it emits much light in the X-ray band, which was unexpected. X-rays are usually emitted from objects having a temperature in the millions of degrees, not the mere thousands of degrees of the Sun's surface. The above X-ray picture shows the Sun one particularly active day in August of 1992. ...

... It is being organized jointly by the Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory (BAO) and the Armenian Astronomical Society (ArAS). ... LIST OF LECTURERS AND LECTURES : Dr. Vladimir AIRAPETIAN (Goddard Space Flight Center, USA): Physics of Winds from Cool Evolved Stars Dr. Don BARRY (Cornell University ... (observation techniques and theory) Dr. Michel DENNEFELD (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, France): Introduction to spectroscopic observations Dr. Serguei DODONOV (Special Astrophysical ...

Here is an image a supernova in NGC 3075. The image taken at 23.3.1998 22.03 UT, CCD ST-7, 1680 s. Track and Accumulate exposure (42x40), no filter, dark and flat corrected, temp -20c, telescope used was 152/2063 refractor. Image were taken at the center of our city, Jyvaskyla. ... Image was cropped a bit from corners because I couldґn get a good flat. ... Observer Marko Moilanen , Jyvaskyla, Finland. Back to Supernovae in NGC and IC galaxies. ...

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... Sternberg Astronomical Institute , Moscow University . ... Present edition unites two parts of Catalogue of interacting galaxies by B.A.Vorontsov-Velyaminov: the first part (Part 1) containing 355 systems was published in 1959 [1] and the second one (Part 2) with 497 objects - in 1976 [2].Thus two published parts of Catalogue include 852 interacting systems. ... All new of them (1162 by number) were taken from the comments to the galaxies in Morphological catalogue by Vorontsov-Velyaminov et al.[ ...

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