... A nasty dispute between the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO) and the space-science community was narrowly averted early this year when SDI officials backed down on a planned launch of a satellite with a Russian-built nuclear reactor on board. ... Early Soviet space reactors orbited for two to three months, and two Soviet Topaz 1 experiments, one for six and one 12 months, created radiation belts that disrupted the operation of scientific satellites. ...

... I am fond of astronomy from school time. When I was eleven years old, I built my first telescope. ... I had renewed my hobby when I was 33 and when I already had a family and two sons. The 110-mm Newtonian is my first serious self made instrument and I built it during five years. ... In the Russian version of this site there are some articles, wich I wrote and the bibliography of the astronomy and ATM literature. ... Alexander Zencovich. ...

MAIN PAGE . ... LINKS . ... AAL Members Sites . ... Amateur Astronomy . ... Mars Missions . Observatories Telescopes . ... astronomylinks.com. - astronomy and space links, shortcuts, favorites and bookmarks . ... Mel Bartels' Homepage about Amateur Telescope Making and a lot of interesting links (thx to Hugues Laroche for the link!) ... STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) consists of two space-based observatories - one ahead of Earth in its orbit, the other trailing behind . ...

... As then we removed from the Earth, we dived into a sky deeper and deeper. ... We saw immense red-hot spheres, liked suns, in illuminator of our spaceship. ... We saw our Earth, Mars, Mercury, and planets-giants, such as Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and other. ... Also we saw a comet. ... The planet Upsilon was on our way. ... If we could speak the language of these two peoples, we could explain them what the war did on our home planet "the Earth", how many people were killed because of war conflicts. ...

... Printed in U.S.A. NATURE OF NUCLEAR RINGS IN UNBARRED GALAXIES : NGC 7742 AND NGC 7217 O. K. Sil'chenko and A. V. Moiseev Special Astrophysical Observatory, Nizhnij Arkhyz 369167, Russia; moisav@sao.ru Received 2005 ... Isaac Newton Institute of Chile, Moscow Branch, Moscow 119992, Russia; olga@sai.msu.su ABSTRACT We have studied an unbarred Sb galaxy with a nuclear star-forming ring, NGC ... 1 7217, Pos. ... Left: Stellar velocity dispersion map for NGC 7217 according to the SAURON...

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