Picture an Astronomer A Project ASTRO Activity For Grades 4-12 The media and our past experiences have shaped and created our expectations of people in various careers. ... However, astronomy is carried out by men and women in every country and by people young and old. ... Activity Description Before an astronomy unit or the first visit by an astronomer to your classroom, it can be instructive to have the students picture what an astronomer looks like and then discuss their assumptions. ...

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... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... Transit of Venus wows astronomers worldwide . ... Astronomers around the world looked to the sky last night and this morning to observe Venus as it passed across the face of the Sun for the last time this century. ... From ESAт??s Space Astronomy Center (ESAC), Michel Breitfellner and Miguel Perez AyУКcar observed the transit using solar and optical telescopes equipped with cameras. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this...

So how do we find objects on the other side of the Universe? ... The latest instruments enable us to scan large areas of sky. Using Cerro Tololo's Blanco 4m telescope and the Canada-France-Hawaii 3.5 metre telescope , we are able to scan a piece of sky larger than the size of the moon every 5 minutes to a faintness level which allows us to find Type Ia supernovae halfway across the Universe. Type Ia supernovae are very rare - but each image we take contains 50000 galaxies. ...

ASTRONOMICAL YEARBOOK for 2006 (in Russian) . Preface . In the тАЬAstronomical YearbookтАЭ (AY) the ephemerides of the Sun, Moon, major planets and stars computed with the maximum precision in accordance with the resolutions approved by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) are published. ... N.I. Glebova, M.L. Sveshnikov; . ... N.I. Glebova; . ... The data control of the different part of the Yearbook was carried out by N.I. Glebova, N.K. Omelyanchuk, and I.A. Lebedeva. ... N.I. Alehina. ...

... In the 1800s it was already evident that the Earth's magnetic field was involved: auroral rays seemed to follow the Earth's magnetic field lines, and the frequency with which aurora was observed depended on the distance from the magnetic pole, not from the geographic one. ... That is the beginning of the ionosphere , a layer with enough free electrons (and ions) to play an important role in radio communications. ... The simplest atom is the one of hydrogen, with just one electron. ...

JSC Celebrates 40 Years of Human Space Flight . The Triumph of Apollo . JSC Turns 40 Home | ... People all over the world responded to the plight of the three astronauts in the crippled spacecraft. The astronauts moved out of the stricken Command Module and into the cramped quarters of the Lunar Module. The Lunar Module, built for the short trip for two people to land on the moon, would serve as the lifeboat for a four-day journey for three people. ... Lunar Module pilot. ...

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1996/22/text/ Probing the mysterious heart of the Crab Nebula, the tattered remains of a stellar cataclysm witnessed more than 900 years ago, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found that the Crab is even more dynamic than previously understood, based on a cosmic "movie" assembled from a series of Hubble observations. ... Because of this flickering, the neutron star is also called a "pulsar." ...

... Stage A was used as stage I . of launch vehicle N1. ... height across mating interfaces - 11.5 m. The rocket was a package design with suspended, single-unit, spherical fuel tanks and multi-engine propulsion units on stages I, II, and III. Relying on the analysis, it was decided to employ engines sized to 150 tf. ... For this, stages I, II, and III of LV were provided with the Kord engine control system to shut down the engine at its derating. ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

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