Volcanic eruption of Eldfell, 1973 Heimaey, literally Home Island, is an Icelandic island. At a size of 13.4 kmē, it is the largest island in the Vestmannaeyjar archipelago, and the largest and most populated Icelandic island outside the main island of Iceland. On January the 23 of 1973 at around 1 a...
Bounty Day is a holiday on both Pitcairn Island, destination of the HMS Bounty mutineers, and on Norfolk Island. It is celebrated on January 23 on Pitcairn, and on June 8 on Norfolk Island, the day that the descendants of the mutineers arrived on the island. It is named for the Bounty, although the ship...
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Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
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Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
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UCL Special Collections celebrate inaugural George Orwell Day Materials from The George Orwell Archive at UCL have been used for the launch of the inaugural George Orwell Day. As the home of the George Orwell Archive, UCL Special Collections play an important role in the preservation of Orwell's w...
Title: AFGL 5157 NH_3: A new stellar cluster in the forming Authors: Z. Jiang, Z. Chen, Y.Wang, J. Yang, J. Huang, Q. Zhang, G. Fazio We present the analysis of Spitzer/IRAC and NIR imaging observation of AFGL 5157, an active star forming region. In the IRAC images, this region shows strong PAH emissi...
Title: IGR J19308+0530: Roche lobe overflow on to a compact object from a donor 1.8 times as massive Authors: E. M. Ratti, T. F. J. van Grunsven, M. A. P. Torres, P. G. Jonker, J. C. A. Miller-Jones, J. W. T. Hessels, H. Van Winckel, M. van der Sluys, G. Nelemans We present phase-resolved spectroscopy an...
Dr. Bob Zavala (U.S. Naval Observatory, Flagstaff) has requested AAVSO assistance in obtaining multicolour photometry of the bright triple system b Per in order to prepare for and detect a possible eclipse of the AB components by the C component predicted for 2013 January 23. At 4.5V, b Per, which i...
A new survey by University of Hawaii astronomers has found that, in a tug-of-war of cosmic proportions, our Milky Way galaxy is being pulled toward the largest concentration of matter in the observable Universe.
This finding is being presented today by University of Hawaii graduate student Dal...
Title: Chemical and Physical Conditions in Molecular Cloud Core DC 000.4-19.5 (SL42) in Corona Australis Authors: E.E. Hardegree-Ullman, J. Harju, M. Juvela, O. Sipila, D.C.B. Whittet, S. Hotzel Chemical reactions in starless molecular clouds are heavily dependent on interactions between g...
Title: Information field theory Authors: Torsten Enßlin Non-linear image reconstruction and signal analysis deal with complex inverse problems. To tackle such problems in a systematic way, I present information field theory (IFT) as a means of Bayesian, data based inference on spatially dist...
AFGL (Air Force Geophysics Laboratory) The catalogue (RAFGL) contains the results of extensive verification and photometric studies of AFGL sources performed since the publication of "The AFGL Four Colour Infrared Sky Survey: Catalogue of Observations at 4.2, 11.0, 19.8, and 27.4 micro...