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... The European HST Archive has been moved to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre ( ESAC ), Spain, where most of ESA's Space Science Archives are located and operated from. ... The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), jointly operated by ESA and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) was, until the end of 2010, the European HST science facility, supporting the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

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." ...

... Pre-university education . ... Samara region . ... Weather . ... Samara State Aerospace University Students life What's the Weather Like? Average wintertime temperature is -15 degrees Centigrade. ... On the coldest days, the temperature can drop to as low as -30 - -35 degrees. There s lots of snow in February. ... The snow usually melts by early May, and the first summer days arrive in the second half of May. ... On the hottest summer days, the temperature can rise to as high as +30 degrees. ...

... The Sun has come all of one day away from breaking its record for the longest period of inactivity for the last decade - reaching a mid-summer low and falling into yet another state of "hibernation". Yesterday, on the first day of autumn, new sunspots appeared on the surface of the Sun following an absence of almost 50 days. ... The first low lasted 51 days, from 21 July until 11 September last year. ... Now, almost a year later, it seems the Sun has hit a new low almost as "deep" as the first. ...

Franckly, it is extremly difficult for me to make a list of my favourite books. The problem is: every new book pretends to be the favourite one. Another one: some books, which I liked very much, when I was younger, were not read for years. The last one: I can't explain to myself why I like some books...but I'll try.. ... The book I like to read for years (and I don't know why), when I don't feel well and wanna relax: "Noon. ... My favourite Americane writer: Ernest M. Hemingway . ...

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... The Earth's magnetosphere is not unique. Space probes which have visited the giant planets--Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune--found that all were magnetized, even more intensely than the Earth, and all were surrounded by radiation belts. ... The earliest evidence came from cosmic rays , discovered in 1912 by Victor Hess. ... In the biggest events, a few times each solar cycle, such ions spread throughout interplanetary space, at energies which can reach those of low-energy cosmic rays. ...

Supernova 2002ao in UGC 9299 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2002ao in UGC 9299 Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the updates and links web pages. ... AAVSO has a 2002ao page . ... VSNET 2002ao summary page . ... vsnet-campaign-sn 326] SN 2002ao in UGC 9299 . ... vsnet-campaign-sn 339] Re: SN 2002ao in UGC 9299 . ...

... Yes, Exploding Comet 17P/Holmes is one of the strangest things ever seen by astronomers - professional and amateurs alike. ... We also had some club members who received some Astronomical League awards...and we'd like to congratulate them! ... It is again a potluck, and is being held at the Masonic Temple in Galion ( 1252 State Route 598, Galion , OH 44833) Here's a map: Map of 1252 State Route 598 Galion, OH 44833-9367, US And, along with the party come RAS elections for 2008! ... Comet 17P/Holmes ...

... The MROI makes use of optical interferometry, much like COAST . ... As a major collaborator, the Cambridge Astrophysics Group is currently developing some of the mechanisms below, specifically the delay line and the fast tip-tilt system. ... Fringe tracking is used to control the positions of the delay line trolleys to make sure the light beams from the different telescopes in the MROI arrive at the science camera beam combiners in phase so that an interference pattern can be produced. ...

The small solids. Asteroids or the small planetes . ... The comets. ... Ceneca the Young.Procuring about the nature.63 y. The comet is a celestial body of a great size, but a rare one... transparent. Sometimes there seen a core and the medium forms a kind of a tail, beard or dishevelled looks. ... The core is an ice body - conglomeration of frosted gas and dust. ... The comet state is variable: ones have the con tails, others the dust tails, and the third have both. ... Meteors and meteorites. ...

... Space station broadcasts going high-definition by Kendra Phipps IN THE NEAR FUTURE, space buffs will be able to get a much better look at the International Space Station and its crew: NASA is going high-definition. ... HDTV is one type of digital television. ... The first live HDTV programming from the space station took place Nov. ... STS-116, which is designated as flight 12A.1 in the station assembly sequence, will also include the first station crew rotation by a shuttle mission in four years. ...

... 4.4 Imbedding HTML in a Document . In the following discussion of SPECIAL processing
, I will assume that rtftohtml has not been customized. If it has, the text styles used to create special effects may be different. ... Normally, if your RTF document contained the text "<cite>hello</cite>", the translator would output this as: "&lt;cite&gt;hello&lt;/cite&gt;". ... If, however, you want the <cite></cite> to be interpreted as HTML markup, you must format the tags using Hidden and Shadow. ...

... This document is copyright (c) 1999, 2000 Greg O'Keefe. ... The lastest version of this document lives at From Powerup To Bash Prompt as does its companion ``Building a Minimal Linux System from Source Code''. ... For contributing some ``ramblings'' about the kernel deamons. ... added change history . ... add more exercises, perhaps a whole section on larger exercises, like creating a minimal system file by file from a distro install. add makefile hack to bash build instructions - see easter notes. ...

Next: Bibliography Up: On the metallicities of Previous: Observations and data reduction . The results of chemical abundance determination for the studied galaxies are presented in Table 2 . The comparison of the respective data for UM 133 and UM 382 with the abundance ratios from Izotov & Thuan ([ 1999 ]) shows that they well agree with the derived average values for the sample of low metallicity BCGs. ... The full range of the velocity curve is about 100 km s -1 . ... UM 133 . ... UM 283 . ...

... About meteorites . ... Meteorite Dronino . ... New iron meteorite shower found! Meteorite Encyclopedia . ... About laboratory . ... Dronino iron meteorite . ... Mr. Gus'kov felt that further efforts by Milanovsky were likely to be unsuccessful, so he searched further and found our Meteorites Laboratory. The Laboratory's analysis showed that the Dronino Iron has a meteorite origin. ... Dronino is the 111th meteorite and only the third iron-meteorite shower found in Russia in the last 250 years. ...

... Moon Phase below . ... ARTICLE: Why the moon always shows us the same face . ... Before you continue reading, you should know that this was not always the case, i.e. the Moon once was rotating with respect to the Earth, so that on every night a terrestrial observer (if there was one, because this was long, long before mankind appeared on our planet, and even before any major animals had appeared) saw another face of the Moon. ... Figure 1 (not to scale) shows how we can imagine the system Earth-Moon...

July 19, 1998 . ... An example of the EUV large-scale chain revealed by the modified TRACE EUV images. The TRACE EUV (171 A) image of July 19, 1998 with a number of complicated chains and threads. In particular, an "8"-like structure appear to be present at the central area of the disc restricted by points 1-2-3-4. Some fragments of this structure consist of the two parallel threads. ... Back to the page of the TRACE chains . Back to the parent page . Last update: 9 August 1998 . ...

The temperature of the spindle housing is plotted v. time. ... The spindle housing was initially at room temperature. An exponential equation was fit to the data. The time constant is 3.5 +/- 1.2 hours and the equilibrium temperature is 26 +/- 6 њC above ambient. ... The displacement of the front surface of the spindle housing relative to the table is plotted v. time. ... The time constant is 6.0 +/- 0.6 hours and the equilibrium temperature was assumed to be 20њC, i.e., room temperature. ...