Next: Star Formation and Stellar Up: Stellar Astrophysics Previous: The Chemical Evolution of . Amir Ahmad and Simon Jeffery have been studying some rare stars known, loosely, as helium-rich subdwarfs. ... Further study showed that PG1544+488 is in fact a double star with both stars having extremely helium-rich surfaces -- the first case known. ... Next: Star Formation and Stellar Up: Stellar Astrophysics Previous: The Chemical Evolution of M.E. Bailey . ...

This is the homepage of Andrew Fruchter, an astronomer on the staff of the Space Telescope Science Institute . ... Here you can look at an HST images of the optical counterparts of gamma-ray bursts and their host galaxies. ... Therefore, substantial information on the fine scale structure of objects can be obtained by offsetting the pointing of the telescope between exposures and then combining these "dithered" exposures into a single image. ...

... 2012 April 19 . Discovery Departs . ... Explanation: Climbing into cloudy skies, the Space Shuttle Orbiter Discovery (OV-103) took off from Kennedy Space Center Tuesday at 7 am local time. ... Discovery retires as NASA's most traveled shuttle orbiter , covering more than 148 million miles in 39 missions that included the delivery of the Hubble Space Telescope to orbit. Operational from 1984 through 2011, Discovery spent a total of one year in space. ... About APOD | ...

The process of determining the number and characteristics of sources in astronomical images is so fundamental to a large range of astronomical problems that it is perhaps surprising that no standard procedure has ever been defined that has well understood properties with a high degree of statistical rigour on completeness and reliability. ... In this analysis we present results from testing such algorithms as implemented in the SExtractor, Selavy (Duchamp), and sfind tools on simulated data. ...

Databases (NSDC) of the Natural Planetary Satellites. ... NSDC: Database of astrometric observations of Natural Planetary Satellites . ... They are thoroughly looking for observations in different sources, creating their owndatabases which are then mostly inaccessible to other researchers. ... In the file "content" with explications, the reference is given to the data source as well as the bibliographic reference. ... Data sources. ... Why a specific bibliographic database for Natural satellites? ...

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During routine astrometry with the 1.0-m to improve the orbit of the Apollo asteroid 2004 CB, the 'asteroid' was found on March 30 to have a short tail! ... it was renamed periodic comet P/2004 CB (LINEAR). ... Back to Previous News . Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ... Follow-up Astrometry with the 1.0-m at SSO . Previous News Items . Anglo-Australian Near Earth Asteroid Survey 1990-96 . ...

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... A Teacher's Introduction to the Earth's Magnetosphere . ... Exploration" as a Classroom Resource . A basic chronology of key dates in the exploration of the magnetosphere. ... Radiation Belts. The Sun and the Solar Wind. ... Close-Up of the Aurora. ... The Polar Aurora . ... 10H. History: 1910--Einstein introduces "adiabatic invariants". 10a. Particle Drift in Space (optional) . ... 25H. History: 1903--Birkeland observes the electric currents of the polar aurora. 25a. The Triad Spacecraft . ...

An Ancient Universe: How Astronomers Know the Vast Scale of Cosmic Time . THE CHANGING UNIVERSE: EVOLUTION HAPPENS! . b) Changes in Stars . One of the great discoveries of modern science is that stars (like people) live only a measurable life-time and then die. Although the lives of the stars are enormously longer than the span of a human life, we can learn about the life story of the stars by studying them at many different stages in their life cycle, from birth to death. ...

. Next: Introduction . December 2, 1998 . S.A. Pustilnik - A.Yu. Kniazev - A.V. Ugryumov . November 30, 1998 . љ . Introduction . Observations and reduction . Results and Discussion . Conclusions . Bibliography . About this document ... Daemon user for apache . 1999-02-23

... Astrophysics Group . ... Pulsars . ... Stars ? ... The array was designed to detect compact radio sources such as these by virtue of the fact that they would scintillate (twinkle) when observed from the Earth through the interplanetary medium ? ... One of Antony Hewish?s research students, Jocelyn Bell, was set the task of operating the telescope and inspecting the daily charts for the kind deflections in the trace which occurred when a scintillating source passed over the array. ...

... Southern . ... Science Activities > PhD Thesis Topics offered by ESO Faculty Members > Thesis Topic: Discovery and characterisation of Pre Main Sequence stars in southern star forming regions . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... ESO-MIDAS . ... Using a robust method to identify Pre-Main Sequence (PMS) stars through their photometric excess in the Hн± band, we have recently studied the star formation history in several star burst clusters in the Galaxy, Small and Large Magellanic Clouds. ...

Next: Principles of organization Up: Further advance in the Previous: Further advance in the . ... An ability of using different catalogs makes this problem considerably simpler. Lately Different attempts have been made for combining many astronomical catalogs in unified databases NED, SIMBAD, ESIS, ADS, etc.(see reviews by Andernach et al.1994; Andernach 1995). ... We propose a new solution to this problem with a ``CATalogs supporting System'' (CATS) at Special Astrophysical Observatory (SAO). ...

... Binary orbits in the acceleration/period plane . Circular Orbits . ... We first present the equations for the period and acceleration of a pulsar in an eccentric binary system as a function of its position in the orbit. ... In Freire, Kramer & Lyne (2001) (from where most of this text and following equations are taken), we describe in more detail how circular binary orbits can be determined from the observed periods and accelerations of the pulsar. ... where is the orbital period of the binary. ...

... A detector map is used to provide a grid of positions over which to calculate and flux weight the ARF. The default detector map is 'flat' which has a weighting of 1.0 for each detector map pixel and is rectangular having sides which just encompass the region specified in the DSS. Only detector map pixels falling within the source region are included in the ARF calculation, e.g. for a circular source box, the pixels in the corners of the detector map will be ignored. ... flat : . ...

Next: The Sociology of Astronomical Publication Using ADS and ADAMS . ... The approach followed in designing the ADS system is offered as a paradigm for building flexible networked information and discovery systems. ... The design behind the Astrophysics Data System (ADS) bibliographic databases was mainly dictated by the desire for a powerful and discipline-oriented system featuring sophisticated search capabilities. ...

The Discovery of the Galilean Satellites . ... Probably the most significent contribution that Galileo Galilei made to science was the discovery of the four satellites around Jupiter that are now named in his honor. Galileo first observed the moons of Jupiter on January 7, 1610 through a homemade telescope. He originally thought he saw three stars near Jupiter, strung out in a line through the planet. ... Galileo's Observations of Jupiter's Moons . ... Jupiter . ...

... Plasma Phenomena in the Solar System: Discoveries of Prof. K.I. Gringauz - a view from the XXI century . ... The conference is devoted to the 90-th anniversary of Professor Konstantin I. Gringauz - a pioneer of in-situ plasma measurements in space, who discovered solar wind, plasmapause, and cometopause. ... 1.Physical processes on the Sun and solar wind formation. ... 3.Solar plasma interaction with the Earth and planets; physical processes in magnetospheres. ...

Supernova 2006E in NGC 5338 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2006E in NGC 5338 . Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the updates and links web pages. ... We have a DSS Photometry reference image made by Odd Trondal. ... 2006/01/02.835 . ... Discovery, mirror . ... Joel Nicolas image . ... JM Llapasset image . ...