Karl Henize , the man who took the beautiful photograph of the Large Magellanic Cloud , was a NASA astronaut. Henize received his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan in 1954. In 1967 he left a full professorship at Northwestern University to join the Apollo astronaut corps. ... In 1994, when nearly 70 years old, he succumbed to hypoxia on a climb of Mount Everest and was buried on the mountain at 22,000 ft. ...

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Facilities . ... Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Very Long Baseline Interferometry . ... Ray Norris is an astrophysicist at the CSIRO Australia Telescope National Facility. ... In 1983, Ray and his family fled from the cold and murky Manchester weather to the sunnier climes of Sydney, to help with the design of the Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF). ...

... M111 Jan 2008 . ... New Members . ... Any time you have something you'd like to offer - be it a story of how you first got started in astronomy, a star party you just attended, a telescope you just bought, or your favorite constellation, just drop me a line with the story included and I'll be sure to get it posted! ... The flight computer onboard the Lunar Excursion Module, which landed on the Moon during the Apollo program, had a whopping 4 kilobytes of RAM and a 74-kilobyte ?hard drive.? ...

Asteroid 2055 YU55 passes close by Earth; how close did it get? ... As Elizabeth Flock reported: An asteroid the size of an aircraft carrier missed Earth by only 200,000 miles as it flew by Tuesday night the closest an asteroid has been to Earth in 200 years Asteroid 2005 YU55, as it has been dubbed, streaked by at about 30,000 mph, but some scientists and lucky amateur astronomers caught a glimpse in their telescopes, where they saw strange structures on the asteroid\u2019s dark-colored surface. ...