Arecibo Radio Telescope - National Science Foundation - Budget Cuts - New York Times 11/20/2007 07:25 AM November 20, 2007 A Hazy Future for a `Jewel' of Space Instruments By KENNETH CHANG The next time an unexpected comet shows up in the inner solar system, Amy J. Lovell may not get time at the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico to observe it before it swings back out. ... Something else may also weigh in Arecibo's favor: it may be much cheaper to keep it open. ...

... The awsome spectacle of a brilliant comet, with its long ghostly tail streaming behind it, is a rare event. ... Only one other comet, Comet Halley, was seen so far from the Sun, giving scientists an opportunity to watch it as it slowly warmed up and sprouted a tail. ... Comets are the Rip Van Winkles of the solar system -- mini-worlds that have changed little during their 4.5-billion-year nap far from the Sun. ... Observing Comets . ... Once, comets inhabited the entire solar system. ...

... Centaurus A : 15,000,000 light years away, in the constellation Centaurus, the closest AG to Earth . ... Astronomers think that the reason for the unusual shape of this galaxy is because hundreds of millions of years ago two galaxies, one dusty spiral and one bright ellipictal, collided causing a massive black hole in the middle and bright emmision of light. ... Andromeda galaxy: 2.8 million light years away, closest spiral galaxy to earth, farthest object one can see without a telescope. ...

... Astronomy news . ... NASA's Spitzer Images Out-of-This-World Galaxy . ... It is spiral-shaped like our Milky Way, with long, spindly arms of stars. The "eye" at the center of the galaxy is actually a monstrous black hole surrounded by a ring of stars. In this color-coded infrared view from Spitzer, the area around the invisible black hole is blue and the ring of stars, white. ... The ring around the black hole is bursting with new star formation. ...

Whoever looked up at the sky at dusk on Monday, 1st December was fortunate enough to see one of the most beautiful night-sky views of the year тАУ a massing of planetary bodies in the south-west. The gas giant planet, Jupiter, was nearly in conjunction with bright, тАШevening starтАЩ, Venus, and the Moon. ... The images show, respectively, the telescope and Venus emerging from behind the Moon, after the end of the occultation, while Jupiter is above and to the right. ...

Le soleil est notre plus proche toile et la source d' nergie de la vie sur terre. ... Quand Galil e observa le premier le Soleil en d tail, il vit des taches noires sa surface, emport es par la rotation du soleil. Pendant des si cles, les astronomes se demand rent si ces taches taient des nuages flottant dans l'atmosphere du soleil, mais nous savons que ce sont en r alit de grandes r gions de champ magn tique, peu pr s aussi intense que le champ magn tique aux p les d'un aimant de fer. ...

Many foreigners say "England" and "English" when they mean "Britain", or "the UK", and "British". ... In Northwest England, there are many beautiful lakes with green, wooden or grassy shores and gray mountains all around. The Lake District is the central mountainous area of Cumbria in the Northwest and has some of England's most beautiful scenery. ... Nearly one quarter of the Lake District National Park is owned by the National Trust . ...

... Steven L. Smith . NASA International Space Station Program Liaison to the European Space Agency . ... SPECIAL HONORS: NASA Distinguished Service Medals (two), NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal, NASA Space Flight Medal, NASA Exceptional Service Medal, IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award and IBM Outstanding Community Service Award. ... NASA EXPERIENCE: Smith is a veteran of four space flights covering 16 million miles and seven space walks totaling 49 hours and 25 minutes. ... DECEMBER 2013 ...

... Like many other Western industrialized cities, London has experienced an absolute population decline in the central city, with people moving out to the suburbs. ... In 1988, for example, nearly 1 in 8 people were unemployed throughout London and the situation in the inner city was worst. ... More successful has been the government's attempt to encourage grwoth outside London without allowing the city to sprawl into umanageable suburban growth. ...

... SITe Selected to Provide CCDs for $20 Million Telescope. Sloan Digital Sky Survey Program to Provide Map of Universe on CD-ROM . ... October 30, 1995- Scientific Imaging Technologies, Inc. ... Known formally as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Program, this telescope will be used to complete the first survey of the Northern Hemisphere since the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey in the late 1930's. "The CCD technology SITe has developed delivers a tremendous boost to space research. ...

. This is a new popup window - close it when you are done . Submitted by Mario Motta M.D. on 02/05/2013 20:06:25 . NGC 3178 . An Arp galaxy, distorted by nearby galaxy (out of field), about 42 Million LY away, and just below, a Hickman group of interacting galaxies 400 million LY away . Logon to post a follow-up comment or review comments from others . Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. About Us Contact Us

Space debris is a serious and growing threat to operating spacecraft. Potential debris collisions with satellites are becoming increasingly likely and can cause economic loss of between $25 million and $500 million per event. ... National and international partners include EOS Space Systems, Lockheed Martin Space Systems (US), Optus Satellite Systems, the Australian National University, RMIT University and the National Institute of Information and Communication s Technology (Japan) . ...

This section of library contains information about "classic" Star Catalogs. ... For a Henry Draper Catalog 272149 stars have received a total of 531,211 identifications in 7 сatalogs: . 270456 - in Astrographic Catalogue ( "Carte du Ciel", 4M), . 251943 - in Guide Stars Catalog (GSC), . ... A file with information on the components of 1788 of multiple systems in catalog HDEC (3681 component, or a combination thereof, with 4054 recording). ... A file with information about 21971 variable stars. ...

... A radio galaxy is a galaxy that emits an unusually big amount of energy at radio wavelengths. ... Inside of each galaxy with an active nucleus (radio galaxies are among them) there must be a system of a "central machine" responsible for the colossal amount of the emitted energy from radio to gamma ranges. ... Sometimes a radio source in an active galaxy may flare again if the needed conditions appear (a new portion of matter would fall into the furnace of the "central machine"). ...

... Новости . ... 07-10-2004 10:40 Astronet . Европейская Комиссия объявляет три конкурса по программе Марии Кюри. стипендия Марии Кюри для ученых, находящихся в начале карьеры. ... 2 декабря 2004 года . Подробная информация о конкурсах опубликована на сайте Шестой Рамочной программы Европейского Союза: . http://fp6.cordis.lu/fp6/call_details.cfm?CALL_ID=154 . ... 2004? ... Все новости за 7 октября 2004 года . Все новости за 41 неделю 2004 года . Все новости за октябрь 2004 года . ...

... These trajectories have an initial flight from the Earth to a large distance (of about 1.5 million km), the following passive flight to the Moon's orbit, an approach to the Moon with a decrease of an energy of a particle (spacecraft) selenocentric motion to a negative value and the temporary capture in an elliptic orbit of the Moon's satellite. ... Several trajectories of this type are determined. ... Ivashkin V. V. On optimal trajectories of space flight to the Moon in the Earth--Moon--Sun system. ...

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