... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : "We're light years more advanced than our competition!" ... Even the closest astronomical object, the Moon, is 400,000 kilometers away! ... A beam of light will travel 9,500,000,000,000 kilometers in one year. This distance is defined as a light year ; the distance light travels in a year. ... This is another example of Bad Astronomy; like a light year, a parsec is a unit of distance, not time (to be specific, it equals 3.26 light years) . ...

... Donate to Support Science Literacy . ... 2016 Annual Awards . The ASP is accepting nominations for the organizationтАЩs national annual awards which recognize special achievements in astronomy research, technology, education, and public outreach. ... Shop the AstroShop . ... The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) is accepting nominations for the organizationтАЩs national annual awards which recognize special achievements in astronomy research, technology, education, and public outreach.. ...

... Phase light curves of binary model that consists of a primary component with mass M 1 and a secondary component with mass M 2 . ... The input parameters of the problem are the accretion rate onto the binary components ( ), the component mass ratio q = M 2 /M 1 , the orbital inclination to the line of sight , the eccentricity e, the rotation angle of the apsidal line relative to the observer , and the parameter c characterizing viscosity. ...

astronomy . Astro Courses . ... IYA 2009 . ... Armagh Planetarium is proud to be associated with the International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009) . IYA 2009 is a global year of events celebrating all things associated with the absorbing science that is astronomy. ... IYA 2009 Autumn/Winter events . ... Here at Armagh Planetarium one of our most important objectives is to promote formal and informal science education and there will be activities celebrating IYA 2009 throughout the year. ...

... Donegal and Blue Stacks Festival 2009: happening right now! ... People who came to see the Equinox Sunrise from Loughcrew Sunday 20 September had a wonderful morning - and saw a beautiful sunrise! ... Monday 21 and Tuesday 22 September, 7.30 am . ... Monday, 21 September 2009 01:31 . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... For the past years I have been working on the problem of synthesis of light curves of close binary systems, consisting of a normal star and a compact object (point object with fixed X-ray luminosity). ... Possible existence of a bright spot on the disk's lateral surface is taken into account. ... The last of then will be published in Gordon and Breach Publishers ( Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ... Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ...

... Most people that are interested in supernovae use whatever telescopes they can get access to, but researchers at certain colleges and universities are able to access specialized telescopes like NASA?s Chandra X-ray Observatory . It?s a telescope that orbits the Earth and that has a specialized purpose of being able to observe X-ray emissions from supernovae, clustered galaxies and the materials around black holes. ... super@supernovae.net . ... Copyright x000A9; 2016 Supernovae.net ...

... Sky Lights in the New Year . ... 2.01.2016 . ... Credit Copyright: Gill Fry Explanation: Triggered by the impact of a coronal mass ejection on New Year's eve, a moderate geomagnetic storm brought a celebration of sky lights to planet Earth's high latitudes yesterday. In this New Year's nightscape, the shimmering reddish curtains of aurora australis along a southern horizon are captured over Morgiana, SW Victoria, Australia. ... January 2016 . ... Publications with keywords: aurora . ...

... Posts tagged ?light curve? ... Posted by hlee . ... Tags: book , Brieman , cigar , Clinton , data mining , Friedman , Hastie , KDD , light curve , machine learning , SCMA , shaking hands , SN , statistical learning , Supernova , Tibshirani . Category: Algorithms , Cross-Cultural , High-Energy , Jargon , Methods , Quotes , Stat , Uncertainty | Comment . ... Click for what was appeared in arXiv this week. ... Category: arXiv , Data Processing , gamma-ray , Objects , Spectral , Timing , X-ray | ...

... Feeding the Monster: Gas Caught in its Death Spiral into a Massive Black Hole . ... Stromlo Professor Mike Dopita have used the Hubble Space Telescope to discover how a massive Black Hole in a nearby galaxy feeds itself. ... Earlier Hubble Telescope data obtained by another team member, Professor Holland Ford of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, had found a disk of gas rushing around the Black Hole at a speed of 500 kilometers a second. ...

... 50 Weirdest Objects . ... Get to Know the Night Sky . ... Picture of the Day . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... How can the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) take pictures of objects light-years away but not get a good picture of Pluto? ... At its distance, it subtends a smaller angle on the sky than does a galaxy at a distance of billions of light-years. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Get full access to StarDome PLUS . ...

... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Such a model can reproduce much of the observed late-time evolution of the radio flux density and spectral index (though recent results for SNб 1993J (van Dyk et al. 1994) show that the Chevalier model does not adequately describe the early behaviour of radio light curves for this supernova, perhaps due to variations in the mass-loss rate and clumping in the stellar wind, which are not yet accounted for in the model). ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Brief History of Rocket and Space Technology . ... S.P. Korolev Rocket Space Corporation Energia delegation led by the Corporation President, General Designer V.A. Lopota on November 21, 2010 took part in work of the VIII-th Chinese International Airshow China 2010, Dzhuhai, Chinese People's Republic. ... Contribution of RSC Energia to the Russian Rocket-Space Technology . ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

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Home: 80-1-346, Kashirskoye shosse, 115569 Moscow Russia . ... Department of Mathematics February 1996 -- present Senior Researcher Institute for System Research Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow , Russia February -- May 1994, Visiting Researcher April -- July 1996 MPIM - Bonn, Germany November 1990 -- January 1996 Leading Researcher Institute of New Technologies Moscow , Russia September 1991 -- present Professor Higher College of Mathematics Independent University ...

... Resembling a gigantic hubcap in space, a 3,700 light-year-diameter dust disk encircles a 300 million solar-mass black hole in the center of the elliptical galaxy NGC 7052. ... Because the front end of the disk eclipses more stars than the back, it appears darker. ... Despite its size, the disk is 100 times less massive than the black hole. ... The bright spot in the center of the disk is the combined light of stars that have crowded around the black hole due to its strong gravitational pull. ...

... Hubble Detects Faster-Than-Light Motion in Galaxy M87 . ... Click on image for larger version. (100kB GIF) Sequence of Hubble images showing apparent motion at six times the speed of light in the galaxy M87. ... The slanting lines track the moving features, and the speeds are given in units of the velocity of light ``c." The images were made between 1994 and 1998 with the Faint Object Camera on the Hubble Space Telescope. ... PHOTO CREDIT: John Biretta, Space Telescope Science Institute. ...

JSC Celebrates 40 Years of Human Space Flight . ... Scheduled for completion about 2006, the completed International Space Station will have a mass of about 1,040,000 pounds. ... The assembled space station will provide the first laboratory complex where gravity, a fundamental force on Earth, can be controlled for extended periods. ... Hospitals, business parks and solar electric power stations that beam clean, inexpensive energy back to Earth are likely to dot the "space-scape" 40 years from now. ...

Participant 3 (P3) ================== Prof. N.V . Voshchinnikov - Astronomy Department and Sobolev Astronomical Institute, St. Petersburg University, RU Dr. V.B. Il'in - Sobolev Astronomical Institute, St. Petersburg University, RU M.S. Prokop'eva - 24 years old; Astronomy Department, St. Petersburg University, RU D.A. Semenov - 22 years old; Astronomy Department, St. Petersburg University, RU The head of the team, Prof ... Astrophys. ... Transfer, v. 63, 205, 1999). ...

... Future seminars . P a s t seminars . ... 25 Years after Relict-1 - the First Attempt to Detect a Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy. Criticism of the Relict-1 Results in Light of COBE and WMAP Data ." Skulachev, Dmitri P. (Space Research Institute of RAS (IKI)) . ... Up to date, except of Relict-1, two space CMB experiments: COBE and WMAP were performed. ... So, WMAP data may be considered as a rather exact model of the signal, have been measured by Relict-1, 25 years ago. ...