... The study of extra solar planets will be one of the most important areas of research in astronomy in this century. ... The first planets outside the solar system were found in 1992 around the millisecond pulsar PSR B1257+12 by Alex Wolszczan at the Arecibo Observatory . ... Three space missions based on this principle (MOST, COROT and Kepler ) have already been launched or approved, and have the last one at least has the potential to find Earth-sized planets. ... SIM ( NASA ) is one of such missions...

The 4 th Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad (November-December 2008) : . ... Only students did not participated at the IAO-2008 may participate in the APAO-2008 (that is a student may participate in the 13 th IAO or in the 4 th APAO but not in both of these Olympiads). For the 4 th APAO the (age) group of participants to be analogous to IAO groups, rules 4.5.2-4. to be used, i.e.: . ... Dr. Michael G. Gavrilov, Founding Chairman and Coordinator of the Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad (APAO) . ...

... Department of Physics and Astronomy . Gheens Science Hall and Rauch Planetarium . ... Classes and Public Lectures . Astronomy classes . Schedule of university classes . William Marshall Bullitt Memorial Lecture Series on Astrophysics . ... Foucault Pendulum in Grawemeyer Hall . Natural Science Building solar telescope . Natural Science Building student telescope . ... NASA Educator Resources . ... ORIGINS Educator Resources . Explorations in Education . ... Resources . ...

... Peter J.K. "Jeff" Wisoff (Ph.D) . NASA Astronaut (former) . ... A veteran of four space flights, STS-57 in 1993, STS-68 in 1994, STS-81 in 1997 and STS-92 in 2000, Dr. Wisoff has logged a total of 42 days, 56 hours, 1 minute and 48 seconds in space, including , 19 hours and 53 minutes of EVA time in three space walks. ... Following 183 orbits of the Earth in 269 hours and 46 minutes, the eleven-day mission ended with Space Shuttle Endeavour landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California. ...

... History of the SAO RAS (in Russian) . ... The Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SAO RAS) was founded in 1966. ... The main instruments of the Observatory are the Big Telescope Alt-azimuthal (BTA) , an optical reflector with the primary mirror 6 metres in diameter and the radio telescope RATAN-600 (abbreviated from the RAdio Telescope of the Academy of Sciences) with a 600 metre multielement ring antenna. ... The Astrophysical Bulletin journal in Russian and...

The apparent path of the Sun across the sky. ... The path of the Sun across the celestial sphere is very close to that of the planets and the moon. ... In one year, as the Earth completes a full circuit around the Sun (drawing above), the Earth-Sun line and its continuation past Earth sweep the entire plane. ... Since the Sun and Earth are in the plane of the ecliptic, the line is automatically in that plane too; if the moon is also on the same line, it must be in the plane of the ecliptic as well. ...

... Pre-university education . ... Samara region . SSAU History . SSAU roadmap . ... Samara State Aerospace University improved its position in the third annual ranking of higher education institutions in Russia. ... Besides Samara State Aerospace University entered the top twenty of the national higher education institutions, as their graduates are in demand by employers. ... Samara State Medical University also rose from the 57th to the 49th place in the ranking of higher education institutions. ...

Next: A Japan-U.S. Educational Collaboration: Using the Telescopes in Education (TIE) Program via Intelsat . Up: Education & Public Outreach . ... The TAROT telescope has for primary goal the search for the prompt optical counterpart of cosmic Gamma-Ray Bursts. ... In addition to its un-manned modes, we added recently the possibility to control the telescope remotely, as a request of the ``Hands-On Universe'' (HOU) program of using automatic telescopes for education and public outreach. ...

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