... 2000 December 7 . Earth's San Andreas Fault . Credit: SRTM , JPL , NASA . ... Pictured above is San Andreas Fault in California , one of the longest and most active faults . Visible as the linear feature to the right of the mountains, San Andreas Fault reaches 15 kilometers deep and is about 20 million years old. ... Along San Andreas Fault , the titanic Pacific Plate is shifting relative to the huge North American Plate by an average of a few centimeters per year. ... About APOD | ...

... Each day we feature a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. December 27, 1995 . Nova Cygni 1992 . Credit: NASA , ESA , HST , F. Paresce, R. Jedrzejewski ( STScI ) . ... Dubbed Nova Cygni 1992, this event most probably occurred in an accretion disk binary system . ... Nova Cygni 1992 was the brightest nova in recent history - at its brightest it could be seen without a telescope. ... About APOD | ...

... At present, he is a Leading researcher at the Department of Non-Stationary Stars and Stellar Spectroscopy, heading the group of the General Catalogue of Variable Stars, and a Leading researcher at the Department of Variable Stars and Galactic Astronomy of the Sternberg Astronomical Institute, heading the group of Variable Stars. ... P.P. Parenago, B.V. Kukarkin, P.N. Kholopov leaded the team of variable star catalogue compilers at Astronomical Council/INASAN and at Sternberg Institute through years....

Supernova 1999gs in NGC 4725 . This is a prediscovery image of 1999gs in NGC 4725 taken by Marco Migliardi on December 23.21 1999, during the CROSS Program with the Col DrusciХ 20" "Helmut Ullrich" telescope. This image was taken 5 days before the "discovery" image of 1999gs which was taken by LOSS this image shows a significantly brighter SN than the discovery image shows. ... Back to Bright Supernovae . Back to Bright Supernovae - 1999 . ...

... Отмеченная наградами АстроТоп-а . ... 1) К участию в конкурсе допускаются все российские сайты на тему астрономии и космонавтики, и все русскоязычные сайты за пределами России. ... II) Сайт года . ... Победитель: Астронет - http://www.astronet.ru/ : подано голосов экспертов - 109 (всего - 129) . ... 3-е место разделили: Астрономия и Телескопостроение - http://www.astronomer.ru/ и Лента новостей космонавтики от Железнякова - http://www.cosmoworld.ru/spaceencyclopedia/hotnews/ : подано по 37 голосов; ...

... Here is a brief outline of the current theory of the events in the early history of the solar system: . A cloud of interstellar gas and/or dust (the "solar nebula") is disturbed and collapses under its own gravity. ... The gas cools off enough for the metal, rock and (far enough from the forming star) ice to condense out into tiny particles. (i.e. some of the gas turns back into dust). ... Once the larger of these particles get big enough to have a nontrivial gravity, their growth accelerates. ...