Greene, Robert H. Bodies like Bright Stars: Saints and Relics in Orthodox Russia

Saints Into Soviets: Russian Orthodox Symbolism and Soviet Political Posters

Visual archetypes from Russian Orthodox iconography shaped a widely understood visual vocabulary with politically important cultural meaning. Icons derived their symbolic authority from their status in Orthodox doctrine as divinely revealed sacred truth. Although the Bolsheviks who seized power in 1917 officially denounced organized religion, revolutionary artists nonetheless recycled iconic ar...

The H α behavior in bright giant stars ?

Wereport high resolution spectroscopic observations of the Hα line profile for a sample of 32 bright giant stars with spectral type between F3 II and G5 II. By studying the link between the Hα behavior and the stellar rotation in such class of luminosity we have found no clear evidence that the rotational discontinuity established around F9 II is related with the Hα profiles. No emission featur...

Religious Intolerance among Orthodox Christians and Muslims in Russia

The earliest stars and their relics in the Milky Way

We have implemented a simple model to identify the likely sites of the first stars and galaxies in the high-resolution simulations of the formation of galactic dark matter halos of the Aquarius Project. The first star in a galaxy like the Milky Way formed around redshift z = 35; by z = 10, the young galaxy contained up to ∼ 3 × 10 dark matter haloes capable of forming stars by molecular hydroge...

Note on the Difference in Velocity between Absolutely Bright and Faint Stars by J. H. Oort