The nasa.gov site requires that JavaScripts be enabled in your browser. ... Contact NASA . ... The term "astronaut" derives from the Greek words meaning "space sailor," and refers to all who have been launched as crew members aboard NASA spacecraft bound for orbit and beyond. Since the inception of NASA's human space flight program, we have also maintained the term "astronaut" as the title for those selected to join the NASA corps of astronauts who make "space sailing" their career profession. ...

... Over the first 4 years, its X-ray telescopes eROSITA and ART-XC will survey the whole sky with a record sensitivity in the 0.5-10 keV energy band. ... The goal of the second international Spectrum-RG conference is to discuss the different scientific topics addressed by the mission, synergies with surveys at other wavelengths, and requirements to follow-up observations.Contributed talks and poster presentations are invited on the topics related to the SRG science goals. ... Active galactic nuclei . ...

... Thomson's multiple window method of spectral estimationthomson provides a very good estimate of the power spectrum by measuring the energy contained within a collection of rectangular shaped frequency intervals. ... Often, much of the fine structure of a spectral estimate is due to noise. It should be stressed that while other methods of spectral estimation (such as the Welchoppenheim method) exist, the Thomson method is particularly noteworthy for its precisely defined rectangular frequency bins. ...

... 7 EPSC2012-52 2012 European Planetary Science Congress 2012 c Author(s) 2012 E P SC European Planetary Science Congress Properties of the impact-produced lunar exosphere during Perseid 2009 meteor shower A.A. Berezhnoy (1), O.R. Baransky (2), K.I. Churyumov (2), T.K. Churyumova (2), V.V. Kleshchenok (2), E.A. Kozlova (1), V. Mangano (3), V.O. Ponomarenko (2), Yu.V. Pakhomov (4), V.V. Shevchenko (1), Yu.I. Velikodsky (5) (1) Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Universitetskij pr., ... 12/13, 2009. ...

... GCR and SCR are primary cosmic rays. 10-15 years after the discovery of cosmic radiation (1919) there emerged two main avenues of investigation in the physics of cosmic rays (CR): 1) nuclear - elucidation of the origin of elementary particles and nuclear interactions; and 2) astrophysical (space physics) - solution of the problem related to the origin and variations (changes in intensity) of CR. ... Besides, the CR flux in interplanetary space is, strictly speaking, not isotropic. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... galaxies . ... Astronomers discover quasars acting as gravitational lenses . Gravitational lensing candidates are invaluable for estimating the mass of a quasarт??s host galaxy. ... Astronomers using NASAт??s Hubble Space Telescope have found several examples of galaxies containing quasars, which act as gravitational lenses, amplifying and distorting images of galaxies aligned behind them. ...

Global VLBI data processing results . ... In this paper we briefly describe the QUASAR software for VLBI data processing created in IAA RAS. The estimation parameters and results of global solution obtained with QUASAR software are shown. The first results of involving QUASAR software into IAA EOP service for EOP and station positions calculation are discussed. ... VLBI, data processing, global parameter, EOP. ...

... arXiv.org . astro-ph . ... We fit the near-infrared to radio spectral energy distributions of 30 luminous and ultra-luminous infrared galaxies with pure starburst models or models that include both starburst and AGN components to determine important physical parameters for this population of objects. In particular we constrain the optical depth towards the luminosity source, the star formation rate, the star formation efficiency and the AGN fraction. ...

... Ciel Espace, le magazine qui vous guide toujours plus loin . ... Ciel Espace, nouvelle formule, c'est . des actualit†йs . des reportages . ... des pages consacr†йes †а la publication de vos photos Mais c'est aussi une vraie communaut†й avec laquelle partager votre passion et nourrir votre curiosit†й. Accueil D†йcouverte de trois quasars qui fabriquent des mirages . ... 06/04/2016 - Le journal de bord de Thomas Pesquet (21) . ... 24/03/2016 - D†йcouverte de lacs et de rivi†иres sur Pluton . ...

The laboratory has developed a fabrication technology of boron/aluminium structural elements that does not involve high-temperature/high-pressure equipment which is usualle very expensive. ... For example, to produce boron/aluminum tubes with longitudinal reinforcement, see Fig.1 for examples, which are characterized in Table 1, we have constructed a simple equipment (Fig.2) based on a commercially available furnace. ... Maximum tube length is 1500 mm, maximum diameter is 75 mm. ... Diameter . ...

... All rights reserved. doi:10.3847/2041-8205/820/1/L9 RADIOASTRON OBSERVATIONS OF THE QUASAR 3C273: A CHALLENGE TO THE BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE LIMIT Y. Y. Kovalev1,2, N. S. Kardashev1, K. I. Kellermann3, A. P. Lobanov2,4, M. D. Johnson5, L. I. Gurvits6,7, P. A. Voitsik1, J. A. Zensus2, J. M. Anderson2,8, U. Bach2, D. L. Jauncey9,10, F. Ghigo11, T. Ghosh12, A. Kraus2, Yu. ... Therefore, our 18 cm RadioAstron observations probe the highest values of the brightness temperature. ...

... With this adjustment, the largest three-month range occurs in February-April and is 71 њF. The range for all year, still removing the January 1962 record low, is 88 њF. The expansion coefficient for aluminum alloy 6061 is 24.3 microns/m-њC while that for borosilicate glass E6 is 2.8 microns/m-њC. The expansion coefficient difference is 21.5 microns/m-њC. Combining this number with the scale factor equation from the previous section gives a coefficient of 0.207 mm/њC for primary motion. ...

December 2006 Astronotes 1 Hubble sees Red! ... Hubble did the maths and discovered that M31 was very distant indeed (2.2 million light years away is the accepted figure today), so far in fact that it must be a galaxy in its own right. ... M31 Andromeda Galaxy A Hubble Space Telescope view of the galaxy's core is now called Hubble's Law, and it made his name. ... If you measure the redshift of a galaxy, you will know its velocity, and by Hubble's Law, you will automatically know its distance away. ...

The project of the informational system creation on the problem of evolution of radio galaxies, as a part of the "Big Trio" project aimed on studing of distant radio galaxies, is designed. This system allows a user to operate with simulated curves of spectral energy distributions (SED) to estimate ages and redshifts by photometry data. Authors use SEDs of several models for different types of galaxies. ... The HTTP and e-mail access is organized to this system. ...

C C C C C C lass lass lass lass lass lass 1 2 3 4 5 6 Introduction, Background Solar System Stars Galaxies Cosmology Special Topics Class 1 Introduction, Background History of Modern Astronomy The Night Sky, Eclipses and the Seasons Kepler's Laws Newtonian Gravity General Relativity Matter and Light T lescopes e 1. ... Kirchoff's Laws trum Emission Line Spectrum 2. A low-density, hot gas emits light whose spectrum consists of a series of bright emission lines. ... Absorption Spectrum 3. ...

We have designed the laboratory model of static Fourier spectrometer for onboard usage for spectral study of atmosphere and ionosphere. The gain of model is to simulate onboard FS which will not have any moving elements (all its optical elements will be mounted at fused quartz monolithic construction), to compare experimental results with theoretical estimations and to measure MTF of CCD array. ... This fact connected with low frequency response of CCD array due to small format of it. ...

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... Galaxies 99 Cosmic background with model of cloudy interstellar medium Yu. ... Figure 1: Averaged spectrum of the cosmic background I f in frequency range 0.25 200 MHz for the Galactic poles. ... First interpretation of the cosmic noise background spectrum at broad band frequency range 0.25 200 MHz with a model of the cloudy interstellar medium ISM is presented here. ... Synthesized background spectra I f for regions of the Galactic poles at the frequency range 0.25 200 MHz is presented in Fig. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... On Thursday, February 15th 2001 (and replayed on March 19), the Fox TV network aired a program called ``Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?'', hosted by X-Files actor Mitch Pileggi. ... Dust around the lander . ... However, it appeals to our common sense: when the sky is black here on Earth, we see stars. ... Bad: The program claims that when the top half of the lander took off from the Moon to bring the astronauts back into orbit, there was no flame from the rocket. ...

... Future seminars . P a s t seminars . Seminar council . Heating of interstellar medium by X-ray radiation from quasars, . statistical properties of active galactic nuclei based on hard X-ray surveys " . based on doctor's thesis) . ... Sazonov (IKI) . ... Based on the second half of the thesis, the following questions will be addressed: . ... A catalog of active galactic nuclei (AGN) selected by flux in the X-ray range 3-20 keV is created. ...