... 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. ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... библиотека . архив RSN . ... Ru.Space.News: . Январь 1999 . ... NASA Gives AXAF Observatory New Name NASA's Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF), now scheduled for launch in April of 1999, will be named after a famed astronomer, the space agency announced Monday, December 21. ... The space agency selected three investigations by American scientists for the Solar-B spacecraft, scheduled for launch in 2004. ... Of the 1990s? Of the Space Age? ...

... SITE SAFETY PLAN . ... Prepared by: Ben Harris, Site Safety Officer . ... INTRODUCTION . SECTION I . APO SAFETY POLICY . ... RESPONSIBILITIES . ... 2.2 Site Safety Officer . ... REPORTING SAFETY CONCERNS . ... 4.3 General Requirements . 4.4 General Responsibilities . ... Figure 1 - Notice of Incident-State of New Mexico . ... 5.3 National Fire Protection Association Codes (NFPA) . ... 6.1 Background . ... OFFICE SAFETY . ... Figure 9 - Back Safety Tips . ... PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT . ...

O ptimal transport : T heory and A pplications . ... Supported by the Lewiner Institute for Theoretical Physics, Technion , the Embassy of France in Israel , the French National Research Agency (project ANR 07 BLAN 0235 OTARIE ), the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project 07 01 92217 CNRSL-a ), CEREMADE , the Observatoire de la C te d'Azur (Nice, France) and Laboratoire J.-V. Poncelet (Moscow, Russia) . At the interface of dynamical and statistical cosmology and transport optimization . ...

... Mission . ... August 18, 2009 Roscosmos (Russia) and DLR (Germany) signed an Agreement "On cooperation in the framework of Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma orbital astrophysical project" . ... It will allow detection of about 100 thousand clusters of galaxies and discovery large scale Universe structure. ... Then it is planned to observe dedicated sky regions with high sensitivity and thereafter to perform follow-up pointed observations of selected sources. ... High Energy Dept. 2016 IKI RAN ...

SDTP-2007 starts on June 30, 2007. ... The SDTP-2007 program was renewed. ... Our forums . Unofficial SDTP forum . Official YSC and SDTP forum. This forum means for news, dialogues and questions related to all YSCs' programs. (by Yaskevich Nikita). http://spacedtp.proboards61.com . Our galleries . SDTP-2006 Gallery . This's the gallery of most interesting photos from the annual international students' workshop SDTP. (by Elena Chernetsova) . ... Presented by Nikita Yaskevich.) ...

... Capability of space means for the solution of problems of military character . ... Classification and functions of space systems of military purpose(assignment) . ... Ground complex of maintenance of launch and control of space vehicles . ... Capability of space systems of optical reconnaissance . ... Complexes topographical and earthresource shooting on base of "Zenit" space vehicle . ... Space vehicle for optical-electronic reconnaissance . ... System with space vehicle on low-altitude orbits . ...

... RADIO SIGNALS TO EXTRATERRESTRIALS . ... Also, in order They will be able easier to conceive our spectral information, the better if it will represent the single-valued function of time. The second argument for such function is a fact of transmitter's energy concentration inside one band, which will lighten to aliens to solve their SETI Problem. ... You see the second type is an adequate to a process of implementation of continuous radio signals. ...

. Computer Ephemeris. Mean places of fundamental stars. Explanations. Table presented contains mean places at the middle of the year of all FK5 stars with -80

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... The incoherent scatter method gives an opportunity to weasure and diagnose, in a most comprehensive fasion, ionospheric plasma parameters using ground-based instruments. This method uses powerful USW or SHF radars to provide information about the ionospheric vertical structure and dynamics. ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

... We are from Siberia, city Krasnoyarsk. ... We don't know the meaning of the word "Siberia" in our time. ... But we believe that this word comes from the tatarian language and means "sleeping . ... One of the streets is named after voivode Andrey Dubenski who put ashore a detachment of 300 cossaks in spring of 1628 right where the little but rough Kacha river falls into the Yenisei. ... This word of Tungus origin "ionessi" means "high water".Some windows of our school face at the Yenisei. ...

... 248, 2007 W. J. Jin, I. Platais & M. A. C. Perryman, eds. c 2008 Intern atio nal A stro nom ical U nion doi:10.1017/S1743921308018838 A compiled catalogue of reference stars around the selected ERS in the northern sky V. P. Ryl'kov1 , N. Narizhna ja1 , A. Dement'eva1 , N. Maigurova2 , G. I. Pinigin2 and Y. I. Protsyuk2 1 Main Astronomical Observatory of RuAS, MAO RuAS, Russia email: vryl@gao.spb.ru; 2 Nikolaev Astronomical Observatory, NAO, Ukraine email: pinigin@mao.nikolaev.ua Abstract. ... Pul...

... About meteorites . ... Meteorite Encyclopedia . ... About laboratory . ... On the night of September 24-25, in the north of Irkutsk Oblast, local residents saw a brightly glowing space object draw a line across the sky and fall into the taiga. ... But scientists learned of the heavenly visitor only on October 3, when a fax arrived at the Institute of Sun And Earth Physics from Bodaibo. ... The first thing we did was to interview residents of villages located along the meteor's flight path. ...

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 . ...

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TOOLS OF TEST GENERATION FOR SATELLITES CONTROL PROGRAMS Andrey Tyugashev, Ekaterina Myasnikova, Elena Sopchenko S.P. Korolyov Samara State Aerospace University (National Reseach University) The paper presents a research in the field of test automation for testing spacecraft control programs. ... Programmers or designers of spacecraft systems write tests manually. ... Tests are carried out by issuing the control actions on the spacecraft and condition monitoring systems parameters of the spacecraft. ...

. Here it seems you see only diffuse top clouds. But actually i'd like to show you the optical effect known as "Glory". It consists in formation of colored circles around the shadow of the plane . hovering under the clouds.

... For the past years I have been working on the problem of synthesis of light curves of close binary systems, consisting of a normal star and a compact object (point object with fixed X-ray luminosity). ... Possible existence of a bright spot on the disk's lateral surface is taken into account. ... The last of then will be published in Gordon and Breach Publishers ( Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ... Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ...

. Dedicated to 40th anniversary of the . first artificial Earth satellite launch . Russian (Win) .