Dear group members, Does any body know what the supposed mass of the universe is and if so how it was worked out. I ask because I seem to recall that...

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I am no mathmetician but perhaps someone could help answer a question from an old fool but here is a question about mapping the galaxy using self-replicating...

Hello guys. I'm trying to make a simple query to the SDSS database where I return the number of spectra with magnitude in the g-band between say 19 and...

Hi I have a little problem First of all I'm doing a little galaxy simulator. Of course I don't try to simulate all 200 * 1000 * mil stars, but it's a...

For a copy of this document select this: http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.0132 IMO the most interesting part are the following sentences: In the final part of the...

A subclass of superbright type 1A SN at magnitudes 0.5 greater than the norm has previously be identified, but the more I have played with this data the more...

On seeing the Hubble pictures of the "Red Rectangle", e.g. at url: http://www.esa.int/export/esaCP/SEMHBNGHZTD_FeatureWeek_0.html, it occurred to me that...

Alternate theories of gravity attract huge attention in the field of gravitational research, if you are referring to quantizations of general relativity, i e...

Mainly based on the results of the Huygens probe and the radar sensing by Cassini, an image of the physical world of Titan has been developed. Often analogies...

Present your poster at the AAAS Annual Meeting in Washington DC, February 17 - 21, 2005. The AAAS Poster Session provides the opportunity for individuals...

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We had an interesting discussion on publications not long ago. Here is a recent article by our AAS President with some information on the state of AAS...

Hi All, I'm trying to have aastex switch to abbreviated citation after the first occurance. Let me elaborate: The first citation, for...

Sorry to post this on so many places, but I have to get the serious atention on both proffesional and amateur astronomers. There is a debate to add a new...

Gerald Kelleher's nonsense about "Isolating the direction of the Earth's orbital motion" quotes this wonderful piece of Newton's writings. "Absolute time, in...

I would like some feedback on what readers here perceive as the best format for an abstract. Basically, there are 5 things in an "abstract": the abstract...

hi there, I was reading a paper and I got a doubt. In such a paper, they report stellar abundances. For a certain star, ex: Na 0.52 Si 0.37 Ca ...

About half a century ago the expansion of the universe was widely accepted and there were only small islands of disbelief e.g. around Sir Fred Hoyle. It was...

There are now new observations independent from the Ia-supernovae luminosities supporting the concept of an accelerated expamsion of our universe. Wouldn't...