By the end of the 19th century at least some disturbances of the Earth's magnetic field could be traced to the Sun. ... Then in 1930 a different idea was proposed by Sidney Chapman in England and by his younger associate Vincent Ferraro : that the Sun sent out huge clouds of electrically neutral plasma, and that magnetic storms arose when those clouds enveloped the Earth. ... Explorer 12. The magnetopause itself was first observed in 1961 by NASA's Explorer 12. ...

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... Baffled, you turn to the waiter. ... The waiter smiles. ... Some prefer small stars while others insist that the larger they are the better they are. ... Of course," he adds, sensing your concern, "you are the guest of Chez Stella. ... Immediately you hear the "tock... tock... tock" of the stopwatch, and you gaze deep into the distant star. ... You hadn't noticed before, but it is giving off vast symmetric clouds of what looks like smoke or dust hanging in the space around the beautiful star. ...

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After some period of quiet Sun the exciting Sun-Earth connections event as the big magnetic storm was observed at January 10-11, 1997 by various satellites and ground-based instruments. Scientist meet this challenge with unprecedented activity and a few data bases was created in relation with solar event/magnetic storm on a few WEB-sites. ... According the Moscow observatory data the sudden storm commencement (SSC) take place at 01:08 Universal Time of January 10, 1997. ...

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... At 22:42:27 UT 26/07/09, the Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) on board of the SWIFT multi-wavelength space observatory triggered and located GRB 090726 gamma-ray burst event. ... About half an hour after the BAT trigger, the first images were obtained with the SAO RAS Zeiss-1000 telescope in four BVRI filters (see Fig.1). ... The spectrum of the optical transient was obtained with the SAO RAS 6-m BTA telescope 1.54 hours after the burst, using the SCORPIO instrument in the spectroscopic mode (Fig.2). ...

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... Mark C. Lee (Colonel, USAF, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (former) . ... EDUCATION: Graduated from Viroqua High School, Viroqua, Wisconsin, in 1970; received a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1974, and a master of science degree in mechanical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980. ... NASA EXPERIENCE: Lee was selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in May 1984. ... Lee retired from NASA and the Air Force effective July 1, 2001. ...

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• Astronaut Bio: Michael Lopez-Alegria (11/2014)
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... The First (Experimental) International Astronomy Olympiad . The following olympic problems were proposed for the participants on the theoretical part: Grades 8-10 . ... Why is it sometimes better to use a small telescope in orbit around the Earth than it is to use a large telescope on a mountain top? ... What will an observer looking to the Moon through the telescope see? ... Paper with a drown circle and table of maximal elongations of Mercury and Venus had been done for participants. ...

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... PROGRESS M1-11 CARGO VEHICLE . ... The Russian cargo transport vehicle Progress M1-11 docked to the International Space Station (ISS) following a free flight, rendezvous maneuvers, station fly-around, station-keeping and berthing. ... At 14 hours 58 minutes 8 seconds Moscow Time the Soyuz-U/Progress M1-11 Rocket-Space Complex was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome under the International Space Station (ISS) Mission Program and the Russian Side's commitments under the ISS Project. ...

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... What is an intelligence or an intelligent life? ... Various particular cases, new regimes, original approaches etc. being attractive as they could, all this is a pale shade of a real process of cognition. ... May an infinitely complicated object be indeed so simple? ... An intelligence could not arise in an infinitely complicated universe! ... There are two possibilities: whether our imagination of infinitely complicated object is incorrect or the surrounding world is not infinitely complicated. ...

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Next: Unusual Emission near a Up: NICMOS Science Previous: The Stellar Population in . ... Three examples are presented of how ISOCAM 1 sees the process of stellar evolution. i) Standard staring and coronographic observations with ISOCAM towards BD+31 643 are presented. ... Position 4 is closest to the star; Position 6 coincides roughly with the minimum of emission seen in the images; position 7 with the ring. ... I presented three examples of the evolution of stars as seen with ISOCAM. ...

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• Space Telescope-European Coordinating Facility
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Next: Reducing the observations Up: PEPSYS general photometry Previous: Influencing the plan . ... If the telescope and instrumentation are unfamiliar to you, you may have trouble keeping to the schedule for the first night or two, so try to work with a previous observer on the equipment for a night or two of training before your observing run. If you fall behind, try to keep as many low-altitude observations of extinction stars as you can, and drop some circumzenithal ones if necessary. ...

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• Procedures to Follow
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... Precisely one month ago, on 11 July 2009, the last active area of the new solar cycle disappeared from the surface of the Sun. Over the 30 days following this, neither observers on Earth nor devices in space have been able to detect the emergence of any sunspots. ... Therefore, it seems that our star has once again returned to a state of deep solar "winter", following several sparks of activity in May-June 2009. ... To date, this period has lasted 30 days. ...

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• The Russian TESIS Observatory will observe two solar eclipses from space
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Please find below methods for getting to Cambridge by air , rail , Eurostar or coach . ... London Stansted Airport: This is the closest major airport, about 25 miles from Cambridge (40 minutes by car). ... The times of trains between Stansted Airport and Cambridge can be found on the National Rail website. ... A fast train service, the Heathrow Express , connects the airport with London Paddington station. ... A direct train service connects the airport with Kings Cross station. ...

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• Samantha Thompson - Research
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Monday, October 8 . The first day of the conference, Monday October 8th, may be entitled "The mathematics of Sossinsky's friends", and will be consist of five one-hour talks by prominent mathematicians on their research results, not necessarily the latest ones, but results that they feel are appropriate for the occasion. The conference program for October 8th is the following: . ... The second day of the conference, Tuesday October 9th, may be called "Sossinsky's mathematics". ...

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• Conference "Flows on surfaces, symbolic dynamics and dynamics in moduli spaces"
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... Next, the screen displays "Press 0 to align or Mode for Menu." Press "0" if you wish to begin Automatic alignment (or Easy Align, depending on your telescope model), or press Mode if you wish to choose a manual alignment method ("Automatic Alignment" displays, and you can press MODE to go through the menu to find other alignments). ... Note: If you press the "?" key while "Ctr Brightest Star" displays, the alignment star that AutoStar has chosen will display. ... Alignment successful" displays. ...

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• NG70-SM Altazimuth Refractor

... Гидродинамическое моделирование ветра из газо-пылевого тора в активных ядрах галактик // Kallman T., Proga D. We report on time-dependent axisymmetric simulations of an X-ray excited flow from a parsec-scale, rotating, cold torus around an active galactic nucleus. Our simulations account for radiative heating and cooling and radiation pressure force. ... We computed synthetic spectra predicted by our simulations. ...

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• Second Spectrum-RG/eROSITA Conference

... It was done. ... Agenda of the RadioAstron teleconference August 25, 2010 Corrections to the Agenda 1 2 3 N. Kardashev N. Kardashev N. Babakin Project status Present status of tests of science payload in LA Brief review of Pushchino TS verifications with Venus Express: current status and outlook Current status and activities related to TS in South Africa and in New Zealand Action items L.Gurvits S.Likhachev S.Gulyaev M.Popov 4 5 Chairman: N.Kardashev List of ...

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... The FIG element is used for figures. ... It also allows graphical hypertext links to be specified in the markup and interpreted by the user agent rather than the server. The anchor elements in the figure description text play a dual role: Non-graphical user agents show conventional hypertext links, while for graphical user agents, the same anchor elements specify graphical hypertext links, with the SHAPE attribute designating the hotzones. ... CLEAR . ... Specifies the figure's graphical content. ...

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• Ordered Lists
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... WHERE DO DREAMS LEAD? ... Jane stayed in London with her grandparents during the summer holidays. ... She could permit herself everything she wanted. But she had only one dream: to find herself in the far future. If there was the TIME МЛС1IINK that time. ... James Thompson, in her class. ... James. ... Jane? ... His look was happy and full of love and good. ... Jane and James wanted to save him But they forgot that they were from the past, which meant they didn't lose values: love and good. ...

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• Mariner Venus
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... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... It's semi-common knowledge that stars twinkle and planets don't. By semi-common, I mean that a lot of folks know that, but I also mean it isn't strictly true. Stars twinkle because we see them from the bottom of a sea of air. ... These small bundles of air act like little lenses, bending light as it passes through them. ... What we see is the light from the star flickering. ...

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• Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions
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METAR Wishlist Following is a list of items that I'd like to add to METAR or that others have requested. ... It'd be nice to have a lot of METARs which encompass various weather condition which we can test against. ... Sites around the world use similar (but slightly different) formats for their METARs. There is always a METAR format the parser will fail on. Calculate Heat Index and/or Wind Chill Both would be fairly easy to do, provided you get the formulas correct. ...

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