... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Risks Comparable to NEOs . ... The Increasing Rate of Discovery of Asteroids . ... Comet and Asteroid Collision Probabilities . ... Extreme albedo comets and the impact hazard (PDF Format) . ... Asteroid Impact Animations . ... Workshop on Scientific Requirements for Mitigation of Hazardous Comets and Asteroids - 2002 . ... The Spaceguard Survey Report, 1992 (PDF) . Tsunami from Asteroid/Comet Impacts . ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 28.02.1996 . ... Credit: J. Schoemer ( NASM ) Explanation: Tremendous explosions near the center of our Galaxy were discovered just this past December and are being announced today by a paper in Nature and a press conference at NASA . Bursts like these have never been seen before, and so the exact cause is unknown and will likely be the source of astronomical speculations and observations for years to come. ... Publications with keywords: Galactic Center . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2000 October 17 . Gemini North Images Bow Shock Near Galactic Center . Credit: International Gemini Project , AURA , NSF . ... The 8-meter Gemini North telescope in Hawaii in its first scientific observation has just imaged the Galactic Center and revealed a star only three light years out colliding with gas and dust . ... About APOD | ...

... We have developed an integrated system that performs astronomical observations in Near Infrared bands operating two-dimensional instruments at the Italian National Infrared Facility's ARNICA and LONGSP . ... The user interface is organized as widget-based X11 client. ... 1993; Di Giacomo et al. 1993). ... Moreover, if the interprocess communication interface includes support for networking, the software immediately becomes network distributed software. ... DESQview/X User Guide 1993, Quarterdeck . ...

... 2000 December 20 . Sgr A*: Fast Stars Near the Galactic Center . ... Explanation: Why are these stars moving so fast? Shown above is a time-lapse movie in infrared light detailing how stars in the central light-year of our Galaxy have moved over the past eight years. ... If these fast stars are held to the Galactic Center by gravity, then the central object exerting this gravity must be both compact and massive. ... About APOD | ...

... Flux density at 1 GHz (/Jy): 56 . ... Notes: This is the remnant of the Tycho's SN of AD 1572. Radio: Shell, brightest to the NE. ... 1982, MNRAS, 200, 473. ... 1982, ApJ, 257, 145. ... Radio at 2.7 GHz (4'') from 1980 and 1983, and One-Mile Telescope at 1.4 GHz (23'') from 1965 and 1980, for expansion. ... VLA H I absorption observations towards central radio source. ... WSRT and Effelsberg 100-m at 1.4 GHz (50''), and VLA at 1.4 GHz (13''), for neutral hydrogen studies. ... 2010, ApJ, 715, L146. ...

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. ...

NMW survey overview . Access image archive . ... The New Milky Way survey aims to detect bright (V<13.5) optical transients near the Galactic plane using an automated wide-field (8x6 deg.) system capable of surveying the whole Milky Way area visible from the observing site in one night. ... All images obtained during the transient search survey are available online (please use the image archive access form ). ... Images per field: . ... Images per night: . ... Milky Way imaging time: . ...

The Wind spacecraft. ... It was designed to observe the solar wind approaching Earth, from a position near the Lagrangian point L1, and it is part of the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) Initiative . ... The original plan called for "Wind" to approach its final station over two years, undergoing two close encounters with the Moon to boost its speed. ... For additional details and updates, see the home page of the "Wind" mission. Exploration" home page (index) Glossary . ...

... Summary of reduced ISAAC fields . ... This data release includes eight fully reduced VLT/ISAAC fields in J,H,K s bands covering 50 arcmin 2 of the GOODS region in the Chandra Deep Field South (CDFS). ... 8 ISAAC fields) . ... The 8 ISAAC fields which are part of this data release are superimposed onto a SOFI image (J+K) (part of a previous EIS data release). ... In one case (GOODS field 11/J-band), for which not enough standard stars were available, the ZP was boostrapped from previous SOFI/EIS data...

... preliminary . 0235+164 . AO 0235+16 . ... 0420?014 . PKS 0420?01 . ... 0528+134 . PKS 0528+134 . ... 0716+714 . S5 0716+71 . ... PKS 0735+17 . ... PKS 1510?08 . ...

... Full details of the observations, data reduction and calibration of this survey, and the production of the 7C(G) compact source list, are described in Vessey & Green (1998, MNRAS, in press). ... The Galactic longitude and latitude of the beam fitted position of the source. ... For multiple sources each peak has a separate entry in the source list, with its own beam fitted flux density and position, although the integrated flux and the centroid position are the same for each. ...

... Explanations of the Observation codes and GRT codes are available. ... V codes are for AO1 experiments W codes are for AO2 experiments VS experiment codes are VSOP Survey Observations VT Test/Calibration Observations EXPNO SOURCE FRQ Corr DOY DY: DATE UT RANGE #TEL TELESCOPES W071n J0745+10 L Mitk 6 We:Jan-06 10:00 - 17:00 6 UD SH KA AT MP HO W059e J0811+01 C Socr 7 Th:Jan-07 04:00 - 14:00 10 VLBA VS10a J0842+18 C Pent 8 Fr:Jan-08 13:00 - 18:00 6 CD HO UD SH KA MP VS11r J0909+01 C ...

... S-6.The X-ray Sun . S-7.The Sun's Energy . S-7A. The Black Hole at . our Galactic Center . ... Our Sun is part of a huge wheel-shaped collection of stars. ... However, unless that object happens to be headed directly at the black hole (a relatively small target) it will just swing around and fly away again, like a comet making a pass at the Sun. ... Far from being a voracious devourer of stars and of interstellar gas, "our own" black hole is rather benign. ... What holds galaxies together? ...

T he Siding Spring Survey (SSS) is a Near-Earth Object search program that utilises the 0.5-m Uppsala Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, N.S.W., Australia. ... The mission of the Siding Spring Survey is to contribute to the inventory of near-earth objects (NEOs), or more specifically, the potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) and comets (PHOs) that may pose a threat of impact and thus harm to civilization. ... Based on the CSS Mission page . ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

Lab . Main page News People . ASA . Master . Master net Homepage . ... Lomonosov Moscow State University Sternberg Astronomical Institute . ... MASTER . ... Lomonosov (ShOK) . ... About Space Monitoring Laboratory, scientific directions, instruments, contacts . People, who work in lab . Latest news and news archive . ... All news ...

... LABORATORY OF RADIO ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS . Radio sources identification is one of the most important tasks of the current radio astrophysics. ... Optical idetification. ... Optical identifications of subsample of steep spectra radio sources from RC catalog using 6m SAO telescope of SAO RAS: optical observations. ... Astronomy Reports. ... Identification of radio sources with data of various radio catalogs allows one to construct continual spectrum of the object and its radio structure. ...

Ground Support of RadioAstron . Control and Tracking Stations . RadioAstron satellite control (command transmission, telemetry, orbit measurements) will be conducted from Evpatoria and Bear Lake control stations. ... Coarse orbit measurements will be carried out from control stations. Each measurement takes ten minutes. ... Orbit measurements at tracking stations give only radial component of spacecraft velocity but the measurements are going continuously during observing sessions. ...

... GRB060712 ( GCN5303 ) The first R image was at 2006-07-12 21:10:32 UT, 72 s after notice time and 212 s after the GRB time. ... HETE Alert 4006 ( GCN 4549 ) - MASTER promt optical limit time . ... GCN 4173 | ... GRB050410 ( GCN 3221 5 h after Swift GRB trigger time . ... GRB05017 ( GCN 2954 19m at between 2h and 4h after Swift GRB trigger time (first Swift GRB with X-ray promt observation) . GRB05017 ( GCN 2953 17m at 2h after Swift GRB trigger time (first Swift GRB with X-ray promt observation) . ...

... Editor's note: Since other stars are so far away, much of the progress we are making in understanding stars in general comes from studying our own "hometown'' star, the Sun. ... We must begin with an important warning: Never look directly at the Sun, especially when using binoculars or a telescope. ... Any specks on the image of the Sun which do not jiggle along with the image when you do this are specks in the binoculars or telescope (or smudges on the screen), and not spots on the Sun itself. ...