... Kepler is a mission designed to detect and characterize Earth-sized planets around solar-like stars. The sizes of the planets are determined from the decrease in light from a star that occurs during planetary transits, and the orbital period is determined from the repeatability of the transits. ... These goals are accomplished by continuously and simultaneously monitoring a single field of 140,000 stars for evidence of brightness changes caused by transits of Earth-sized or larger planets. ...

... Search . ... Astrophysics Group . Research . ... Research and Instrumentation . ... While this seems an extraordinary endeavour, in light of what we have learnt about Solar System planets, only a handful of key ingredients are required to start characterising an exoplanet. ... The NGTS project is a partnership between the University of Cambridge, Queen?s University Belfast, University of Warwick, University of Leicester, Observatoire de Geneve, DLR (Berlin) and Universidad Catolica de Chile. ...

... 2005 May 16 . Deep Impact Spacecraft Hurtles Toward Comet . ... JPL , NASA . ... This coming July 4, the Deep Impact spaceship will reach its target - Comet Tempel 1 -- and release an impactor over five times the mass of a person toward its surface. ... The remaining crater may tell how Tempel 1 is constructed. If, for example, Comet Tempel 1 is an extremely loose pile of debris, the impactor may leave little or no discernable crater. ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...

The Wind spacecraft. ... It was designed to observe the solar wind approaching Earth, from a position near the Lagrangian point L1, and it is part of the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) Initiative . ... The original plan called for "Wind" to approach its final station over two years, undergoing two close encounters with the Moon to boost its speed. ... For additional details and updates, see the home page of the "Wind" mission. Exploration" home page (index) Glossary . ...

. The TV System for Navigation and Observation (TSNN) has been designed for solving navigation and scientific tasks of the "Phobos-Grunt" mission. Wide-angle . TV camera . TSNN includes four TV two narrow-angle and two wide-angle cameras. Every camera has built-in processor for real-time data processing. Each pair of TV cameras provides for stereoimaging. Narrow-angle . TV camera . Characteristics . Ground tests results . Publications

Mariners 6 & 7 to Mars . ... Mariners 6 and 7 were designed to fly over the equator and southern hemisphere of the planet Mars . ... One hundred million kilometers (62 million miles) later, Mariner 6 encountered Mars on July 31, 1969; Mariner 7 reached the planet four days later on August 4, 1969. ... Mariner 6 & 7 . ... View of Mars from Mariner 6 . This cratered surface of Mars was photographed by Mariner 6's wide angle TV camera on July 30, 1969 at a range of 3,459 kilometers (2,150 miles). ...

. Russion version . Last updated on May, 2008 . RadioAstron Mission .

... Triton: Neptunes Largest Moon . 3.03.2007 . ... Lunar Transit from STEREO . ... So, looking toward the Sun, extreme ultraviolet cameras onboard STEREO B were able to record a stunning movie of a lunar transit (aka solar eclipse), as the Moon tracked across the solar disk. Solar Eclipse from the Moon . ... Stars, Dust and Nebula in NGC 2170 . ... When stars form, pandemonium reigns. ... APOD: 2007 February 24- X rays and the Eagle Nebula . ... APOD: 2007 February 23- Dust and the Helix Nebula . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Planets . ... Exoplanets . ... Space Flight . ... Science Fiction . ... August . ... By admin August 18, 2011 Posted in: August . Artist's impressions of Kepler and the light curve of transiting planet (Image credit: NASA) . ... In 1995 we knew of only nine planets (including Pluto, how times change), but in that year the first of the extra-solar planets or exoplanets was confirmed. ... Another is one of the most Earth-like worlds yet discovered . ...

GRANAT is the Russian x-ray sattelite launched to the high apogee orbit (200,000 km) and operated almost for 10 years (1989 -1999) , carrying out four major instruments: French SIGMA coded-mask hard x-ray telescope (30-1000 keV), Soviet ART-P coded-mask telescope (2??-60?? keV), all-sky monitor WATCH (6-150 keV), and a gamma-burst detector PHEBUS . ... Since September 1994, GRANAT is in the survey mode. ... Explore pages devoted to individual GRANAT instruments (including main scientific results): . ...

YAMAL-200 COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE . Spacecraft Yamal-100, Yamal-200 were developed by the Corporation based on the S.P.Korolev RSC Energia-designed Multi-purpose Satellite Bus under a contract with Gascom within the framework of the Russian Federal SpaceProgram. ... Yamal-200 satellites were launched on November 24, 2003 at 9 hours 22 minutes, Moscow Time. Proton-K launch vehicle put the orbital module into its reference orbit. ... Orbit . ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

1,2 - Modifyted Richter-Slefogt Camera (355mm, 200 mm) The system was designed by V.Yu.Terebizh in 2001 (terebizh@crao.crimea.ua), and then has been made by Gennadiy Borisov . ... Very Wide Field Camera near Kislovodsk: MASTER WFC-Kislovodsk . Up to 1200 square degrees up to 13 m. Very Wide Field Camera near Moscow (40 x 60 square degree) (CCD 1392 x 1040 pix, Sony). ... This system can discover and measure satellites and space refuse parameters to within 0.1 ang.sec. precision. ...

Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the updates and links web pages. Discovered independently by Lick Observatory Supernova Search (USA) and Koichi Itagaki (Japan). ... 2009/10/11.44 . 17.2 . ... Joseph Brimacombe . ...

Digital CCD Camera Series : C4880 Series . ... A digital CCD camera is a video camera designed to drastically decrease background noise by cooling the CCD, thereby providing high quality images over long-term exposure. Recently, cooled CCD camera are being increasingly used in a variety of applications in place of conventional standard scan cameras. The C4880 series is designed for scientific measurements and offers a widerange of cameras consisting of the CCD, cooling system and functions. ...

... Up: Archives and Information Services . ... It is performing astronomical observations at wavelengths from 2.4-240 microns with four instruments; a camera (2.5-18 microns), a photometer (2.5-240 microns), a short-wavelength spectrometer (2.4-45.2 microns) and a long-wavelength spectrometer (43-197 microns). ... The ISO post-mission archive (PMA) is being designed to fully exploit this legacy by providing access to the data across the Internet. ... For each observation the user specifies: . ...

... Description . ... The SCORPIO-2 project: . ... The multi-mode spectrograph SCORPIO-2 was developed using the experience of observations at the 6-m telescope BTA with the SCORPIO focal reducer . ... The focal reducer consists of several units ('floors') mounted in the common case in the following order (from the telescope focal plane): . ... The focal reducer is connected with the platform-adapter which used for guiding by offset stars and for illumination the spectrograph by calibration lamps. ...

. NASA's Kepler spacecraft, launched in March 2009, is designed to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars. In the process it is capturing large quantities of data on the target stars which is used not only to search for planets but also to study stars in general. The results from NASA's Kepler spacecraft provide us with new information on a number of specific phenomena related to our fundamental knowledge of stars, their internal properties and evolution in time. NASA

... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... VLT/Paranal . ... Survey Telescopes . ... The VLT Survey Telescope (VST) is the latest telescope to be added to ESOтАЩs Paranal Observatory in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. ... It is the largest telescope in the world dedicated to sky surveys in visible light. The VST was designed and built by the INAFтАУOsservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy as part of a joint venture between INAF and ESO. €а . ... VLT Survey Telescope . ...

... SSAU History . SSAU roadmap . ... Equipment testing began on January 4. ... The magnetometer Shtil-M No. 2 is equipped with six sensors that measure the magnetic field in different compartments of the device, fix electrical discharges and the impact of the space environment on the equipment functionality. ... The magnetometer Shtil-M No. 2 is the third unit of the series, which was created in SSAU Institute of Space Device Engineering led by Professor Nicholay Syomkin. ... e-mail: ssau@ssau.ru . ...

... The Search for Planets Around Other Stars . ... NASA s Kepler Mission is underway to detect Earth-size extrasolar planets that could support life. ... Kepler is poised to find small planets, 30 to 600 times less massive than Jupiter. ... Credit: NASA Kepler Mission /Wendy Stenzel . ... If Kepler finds other Earths, future space missions will seek evidence of substances in the planets’ atmospheres that indicate life. ... Kepler is a key step toward finding life beyond our solar system. ...