When an NEA is detected it is submitted to the IAU's Minor Planet Center ( located at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics ) for cataloging.

He is Emeritus Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz where he also served as Dean of Natural Sciences ( 1984 – 88 ).

Sandra Moore Faber ( born 1944 ) is a University Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and works at the Lick Observatory.

Sandra Faber is co-Editor of the Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics.

The Jodrell Bank Observatory ( originally the Jodrell Bank Experimental Station, then the Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories from 1966 to 1999 ; ) is a British observatory that hosts a number of radio telescopes, and is part of the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics at the University of Manchester.

The Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, of which the Observatory is a part, is one of the largest astrophysics research groups in the UK.

it is a joint project of these members: the Italian astronomical community ( represented by the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, INAF ); the University of Arizona ; University of Minnesota, University of Notre Dame, University of Virginia, the LBT Beteiligungsgesellschaft in Germany ( Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Landessternwarte in Heidelberg, Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam ( AIP ), Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Munich and Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn ); The Ohio State University ; Research Corporation in Tucson.

Another hypothesis is that some ball lightning is the passage of microscopic primordial black holes through the Earth's atmosphere as proposed by Mario Rabinowitz in Astrophysics and Space Science journal in 1999.

The Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics is named for him.

The Norman Lockyer Chair in Astrophysics at the University of Exeter is currently held by Professor Tim Naylor, who is the member of the Astrophysics group there which studies star formation and extrasolar planets.

The Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics ( RSAA ) is located away from the main campus in Acton, at the Mount Stromlo Observatory, near Weston Creek in south Canberra.

The Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics ( JINA ) is a collaboration between Michigan State University, the University of Notre Dame, and the University of Chicago to address a broad range of experimental, theoretical, and observational questions in nuclear astrophysics.

The High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center ( HEASARC ) is NASA's designated center for the archiving and dissemination of high energy astronomy data and information.

Astrophysics ( Greek: Astro-meaning " star ", and Greek: physis – φύσις-meaning " nature ") is the branch of astronomy that deals with the physics of the universe, including the physical properties of celestial objects, as well as their interactions and behavior.

He is a former member ( 1990 ) and chairman ( 2000 ) of the NASA Astronomy and Astrophysics Survey Committee ( the " decade review ") and former Director of the Space Sciences Laboratory ( SSL ) at UCB.

In the United States, one may indicate one's major field in parentheses ( e. g., PhD ( Astrophysics )), but this is rarely seen except on resumes or applications for employment.

Logo of the ADSThe Astrophysics Data System ( usually referred to as ADS ), developed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ), is an online database of over eight million astronomy and physics papers from both peer reviewed and non-peer reviewed sources.

The students used data from the " Russian ephemeris " ( Ephemyeredi Mahlikh Planyet ) to find asteroids to photograph, measured the positions, and submitted the data to the Minor Planet Center at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

This advisory is reported to describe a series of attacks from Russia that reached computers in the X-ray Astrophysics Section ( i. e. ROSAT's ) at Goddard, and took control of computers used for the control of satellites, not just a passive " snooping " attack.

The modern meeting and accommodation facilities of the observatory are often used for national and international meetings, workshops and classes for up to 40 participants on related subjects such as: Kodaikanal Summer School in Physics, the Kodai-Trieste workshop on Plasma Astrophysics and the Solar Physics Winter School

NASA's Astrophysics Division plans to continue base funding for the LISA study team through FY11, assuming not-larger-than-anticipated cuts from the U. S. Congress.

From the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s it took in Unidentified Flying Object reports from across the country on behalf of the National Research Council of Canada, relaying the reports to a study at the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, British Columbia.

Astrophysicist Takahiro Sumi of Osaka University in Japan and colleagues, who form the Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics ( MOA ) and the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment ( OGLE ) collaborations, carried out a study of microlensing which they published in 2011.

From 1989 to 1992 he was involved in scientific research at ESO, from 1988 until 1991 he worked on the study of galactic structure with the International Astronomical Union, and from 1990 until 1993 he was president of the Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy.

College was looming ahead, when much to his parents dismay, he put off a college scholarship to study Astrophysics in Socorro, New Mexico, quit bike racing and jumped into music with both feet.

The Indian Institute of Astrophysics ( IIA ), with its headquarters in Bangalore ( Karnataka state ), India, is a premier national institute of India for the study of and research into topics pertaining to astronomy, astrophysics and related subjects.

The Indian Institute of Astrophysics offers graduate and doctoral programs of study and research.

The main ADS server is located at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is a dual 64-bit X86 Intel server with two quad-core 3. 0 GHz CPUs and 32 GB of RAM, running the CentOS 5. 4 Linux distribution.

The 1. 2 meter Millimeter-Wave Telescope at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and its twin instrument at CTIO in Chile have been studying the distribution and properties of molecular clouds in our Galaxy and its nearest neighbours for over 20 years.

Astrophysics is the branch of astronomy that deals with the physics of the universe, including the physical properties ( luminosity, density, temperature, chemical composition ) of astronomical objects such as stars, galaxies, and the interstellar medium, as well as their interactions.

* In 2012, a new Division was formed the Laboratory Astrophysics Division ( LAD ) to advance our understanding of the Universe through the promotion of fundamental theoretical and experimental research into the underlying processes that drive the Universe.

Finer was " Artist in Residence " at the Astrophysics Sub-department of the University of Oxford between October 2003 and June 2005, making a number of works including two sculptural observatories, Landscope and The Centre of the Universe.

* The Cavendish Astrophysics Group, concentrating on radio and submillimetre observations and instrumentation, observational cosmology and all aspects of astronomical interferometry, and operating the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory.

As an extreme example of the nature of light-slowing in matter, two independent teams of physicists were able to bring light to a " complete standstill " by passing it through a Bose-Einstein Condensate of the element rubidium, one team at Harvard University and the Rowland Institute for Science in Cambridge, Mass., and the other at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, also in Cambridge.

With the success of HEAO-2, MSFC was given responsibility for the design, development, and construction of what was then known as the Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility ( AXAF ).

Before 1998, it was known as AXAF, the Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility.

* Advanced Telescope for High Energy Astrophysics, previously the International X-ray Observatory, a planned space telescope by ESA

The primary objective of the STS-93 mission was to deploy the Chandra X-ray Observatory ( formerly the Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility ) with its Inertial Upper Stage booster.

Several organizations, such as the American Association of Variable Star Observers and Center for Backyard Astrophysics, exist to help coordinate these contributions.

Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics ( LHEA ) NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

Division of Astronomy & Astrophysics, UCLA.

New additions to the campus include the Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics and the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Center for Information Science and Technology, which opened in 2009, and the Warren and Katherine Schlinger Laboratory for Chemistry and Chemical Engineering followed in March 2010.

The equation was devised in 1961 by Frank Drake, Emeritus Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

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* 2004 – The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announces the discovery of the universe's largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093.

Other critiques of the current peer review process from concerned scholars has stemmed from recent controversial studies published by the Harvard – Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and NASA.

These are mainly research and experimental departments for Biology, Astrophysics and Sports.

* Astrophysics – An asteroid ( 2002 MN ), the size of a soccer field, barely misses hitting the Earth.

From 1974 to 1990 he was head of the Department of Relativistic Astrophysics at the Russian Space Research Institute in Moscow.

Before 1991 he was head of the Department of Theoretical Astrophysics at the Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow and has been professor at Moscow State University.

Since 1994 he has been director of the Theoretical Astrophysics Center ( TAC ) of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

* Astrophysics & Astrochemistry at Astrochemistry. eu

Astrophysics and space science library, v. 246.

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