Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . 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. Discovered independently by Lick Observatory Supernova Search (USA) and Koichi Itagaki (Japan). ... 2009/10/11.44 . 17.2 . ... Joseph Brimacombe . ...

... Credit: Rob van Gent , Tiemen Cocquyt , and Carl Koppeschaar Explanation: In 1655, three hundred fifty years ago on this date, Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens discovered Luna Saturni - now known as Saturn's moon Titan. To celebrate, consider this intriguing picture of his telescope lens, all that remains of the instrument he used , designed and constructed in collaboration with his brother, Constantijn Huygens. ... Huygens used the verse as part of an anagram announcing his discovery. ...

... The CLASS survey is a collaboration between Jodrell Bank, Caltech (USA) and Leiden/Dwingeloo (Netherlands) which aims to find new cases of gravitational lensing. ... Variability is a prerequisite for determining time delays between the components of the lens system and thus estimating the Hubble constant. Good progress towards measurement of the Hubble constant is being made with observations of one JVAS object, 0218+357; a time delay of about 12 days has been determined. ...

... Contacts . 2008: . New dwarf galaxy discovered in the Local Group . ... New observations of radio galaxy RCJ0311+0507 (z=4.51) . ... The black hole mass was refined to be about ~10 9 M (the mass close to the limiting in radio galaxies). ... High radio luminosity of the components, given a small linear size of this radio galaxy requires the presence of non-standard methods of their formation, accounting for various merger scenarios, including the variants with dual black holes. ... Archive . ...

... Scientists from G. I. Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics- Syberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk State Technical University, Samara State Aerospace University (SSAU) and Image Processing Systems Institute (IPSI) of the Russian Academy of Science, became the first people in the world obtained terahertz non-diffractive twisted Bessel beams and used them for the first time the formation of surface electromagnetic waves on the metal surface. ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. June 3, 1999 . Methane Dwarf . ... Explanation: While hunting through Sloan Sky Survey data in search of distant quasars , Princeton astronomers Xiaohui Fan and Michael Strauss came upon an undiscovered type of object very nearby - now dubbed a methane dwarf . ... About APOD > . ... NASA Technical Rep.: ... A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC . ...

... Exoplanets . ... Artists impression of the blue exoplanet. ... This exoplanet is located in the constellation of Vulpecula, the fox, a faint pattern inside the Summer Triangle.ТљТљ This planet is a not too distant 63 light years away so has been studied by space-based telescopes.Тљ Data collected from Hubbleт??s Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) when this planet moved behind its star showed that in the shadow of the star the light reflected from HD 189733b reduced into the blue part of the spectrum. ...

A team of U.S. and German astrophysicists have made the first ever detection of X-rays coming from a comet. ... Following the initial detection, the team reported repeated X-ray emissions from the comet over the next 24 hours. ... One preliminary theory is that X-ray emission from the Sun was absorbed by a cloud of gaseous water molecules surrounding the nucleus of the comet, and then were re-emitted by the molecules in a process physicists call "fluorescence." ... Comets . ...

Armagh Observatory, 23rd August 2001. Armagh astronomers have joined colleagues in Armenia, France and Russia in a new effort to understand the stars. ... We will be investigating the properties of these exotic environments, where the simplest molecules are formed and destroyed and where planets and stars are created" , states astronomer Dr Michael Smith of Armagh Observatory, who is coordinating the project. ... Michael Smith; Armagh Observatory , N. Ireland . ... email: mds@star.arm.ac.uk ) . ...

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder . Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Parkes | ... I work mainly as a radio astronomer, using powerful telescopes such as the Australia Telescope Compact Array, the Very Large Array, the Greenbank Telescope, and the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope array. ... E-Mail: shea.brown@csiro.au . ...

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