... The European HST Archive has been moved to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre ( ESAC ), Spain, where most of ESA's Space Science Archives are located and operated from. ... The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), jointly operated by ESA and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) was, until the end of 2010, the European HST science facility, supporting the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

... Star Cluster R136 Bursts Out . ... Aurora Shimmer, Meteor Flash . ... Southern Geminids . ... Dust particles strung out along the orbit of extinct comet Phaethon vaporize when they plow through planet Earth's atmosphere causing the impressive display. ... In 1996, an unexpectedly bright comet passed by planet Earth. ... Created as planet Earth sweeps through dusty debris from extinct comet Phaethon, the annual Geminid meteor shower is predicted to peak on December 14th, around 0510 UT (12:10am EST)....

... Research objects and scientific purposes . Space scientific program includes development and launch of two supersmall spacecrafts "Universitetskiy" and "Kompas-2" intended for monitoring of radiation conditions near the Earth. ... All the studies conducted in the near-Earth space are characterised by strong radiation fields. ... The circular polar orbits, which cover all the near-Earth space, are the most favorable for comprehensive studies of the radiation conditions near the Earth. ...

... A total of 462 were detected, about half of these for the first time. ... Ojects not Detected ----------------------------------------- l b BRMS mK Notes ----------------------------------------- 6.490 + 0.084 5.1 W28 SNR 6.648 + 0.084 4.2 W28 SNR 8.989 +35.502 3.5 S33 B 11.531 +36.350 3.1 S36 A 13.456 + 0.156 3.5 SNR 16.732 + 0.079 3.5 SNR 19.961 - 0.175 3.5 SNR 21.347 - 0.628 3.8 Extragalactic 25.253 - 0.150 5.7 Extragalactic 25.520 0.215 5.2 28.600 - 0.126 4.0 SNR+HII+? ...

... In addition, IZMIRAN comprises the St.Petersburg branch and magnetic ionospheric observatory in Kaliningrad. The history of IZMIRAN is largely that of investigating magnetic storms and sub-storms on the Earth surface, in circum-terrestrial and interplanetary space, initially by means of a network of ground stations of the Soviet Union (1930s - 1940s) and the nonmagnetic skunner "Zarja", then through the extensive use of magnetic measurements on artificial Earth satellites and automatic stations. ...

NEWS FEDERATION rus ENCYCLOPEDIA rus HISTORY rus MIR STATION RUSSIAN . ... Cosmonauts. ... Launches . Launch Vehicles. ... Launch Sites . ... Heroes Of Space Remember . Ariane 4 Launched Fifth SPOT Bearing Two Picosats . ... A Launch Spanning For Five Years: DirecTV-5 In Flight . ... China Launched Two Scientific Satellites . ... Another Parus for naval navigation and communications was launched May 28 from Plesetsk, as Anatoliy Perminov of Russian Space Forces officially acknowledged. ...

... Data Analysis SAS News What is SAS? ... Back to Calibration Homepage The most recent Canned Response Matrices can be downloaded here (please refer to Update 2014-11-24 ) and can be used to estimate EPIC count rates in AO15. ... PN response files . ... MOS response files . Since SAS 6.5 the full set of ready-made MOS response files is not provided (see "Update 2005-12-15" ). ... Note: MOS response files before SAS 6.5 had a different nomenclature as the one listed above (see "Update 2005-12-15" ). ...

RUSSIAN PEREPLET . Culture, Science, and Education Portal . Science Space Culture General Discussion Scientific Discussion Seminars . News: The best of Russian Science and Technology . ... MASTER Team Science Release: Discovery of the Black Hole Ergosphere? ... The International Conference "The International Conference" . ... MASTER is the first russian asteroid factory . ... New Russian "Volga" . ... MASTER - is the first russian robotic telescope for observations Gamma-Ray Bursts . ...

News & Views There seems to be something very healthy about astronomical research when, under the same cover, an event which took place in 1333 AD (Leonid bursts as a resonance meteoroid component from Comet Temple/Tuttle) is discussed followed by a paper on how we might more effectively search for extraterrestrial intelligence (in the optical). In this issue we also have a further paper on young clusters (Praesepe) and the low end of the stellar mass function (see IAJ , 1999, 26(1), 17). ...

... Space Research Institute LAN Workshops and seminars Homepage . Space Research Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences is a leader in networking and communications in Russia through its networking projects and cooperations. ... Space Research Institute Interconnect Network Operation Centre staff monitors and maintains SPACENet. ... Space Research Institute Interconnect Network Operation Centre staff assists European Space Agency (ESA) technical and operation staff in supporting ESAnet connections. ...

... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Travel to Guesthouse . ... Survey Telescopes . ... This video fades back and forth between views of the stellar nursery Monoceros R2 in visible and infrared light. The visible-light view was created from digitised photographs through red and blue filters forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2 (DSS) and the new infrared view comes from the VISTA telescope at Paranal. ...

The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey (2QZ) . ... Before jumping into all the finer details of teh survey, a brief non-astronomer's guide to redshift surveys is available. ... The primary scientific aims of the QSO survey are: (1) to obtain the primordial fluctuation power spectrum out to COBE scales, (2) to determine the rate of QSO clustering evolution in the non-linear and linear regimes and hence obtain new limits on the value of and the bias parameter, (3) to apply a powerful geometric method to measure . ...