... Fifteen years ago, on February 20, 1986 the launching of the Core Block marked the beginning of the Mir Orbital Station construction. Currently the Mir Station consists of 6 modules. ... The Mir Station total mass is near 130 tons. ... For sinking unburned Mir Station fragments after reentering atmosphere a Southern Pacific Ocean area limited by the following point coordinates: 53 њ S, 175 њ W; 23 њ S, 175 њ W; 23 њ S, 132 њ W; 30 њ S, 127 њ W; 30 њ S, 90 њ W; 53 њ S, 90 њ W is choosen. ...

... In particular, members of the project regularly organize events dedicated to various interesting astronomical phenomena and events - solar and lunar eclipses, transit of Venus, etc. A total lunar eclipse will occur on April 15th, 2014, the first in two and half years. ... GLORIA will travel to Peru to broadcast the event live. ... Lunar eclipse . Lunar eclipses occur when the Moon passes into the Earth's shadow. ... A partial eclipse will be visible from the Canary Islands. The broadcast . ...

... 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. ...

... Однако были и предложения о посылке наших сигналов в надежде, что они будут обнаружены внеземной цивилизацией и нам будет послан ответ. ... А полученная в результате контакта информация могла бы иметь важнейшее значение для нашей науки и нашей культуры. 10 лет назад SETI комитет Международной Академии Астронавтики начал обсуждение вопроса - что должно делать Человечество после обнаружения сигнала от другой цивилизации? ... И только один рассматривает вопрос о посылке сообщения в ответ. ...

Captain of a crew of the space station is sure that 13 years for it is not an age. On Saturday an international expedition consisting of Russian Viktor Afanasiev, French Jean-Pierre Eniere and Slovak Ivan Bella set off from launching pad Baikonur to the space station Mir. ... The station is set in order. ... As a captain of maybe the last crew of the station Mir, what do you think about the planned sinking of the station? ... The International Space Station (ISS) will begin working not very soon. ...

... Master . Master net Homepage . ... Ten years ago it was realized that robotic observatories boost the capabilities of astronomical observations of non-stationary and short-lived phenomena in the Universe. ... The first Russian robot-telescope MASTER was developed in 2002 and installed nearby Moscow. ... OAO MO "Optica" has mastered the production of such systems. The workshop is devoted to the results achieved by MASTER-net, that recently stretch over the globe from Blagoveshensk to Argentina. ...

... the historical dates of the Ukrainian space industry; . ... EXPOSITIONS OF UKRAINIAN SPACE INDUSTRY ENTERPRISES AND PARTNERS ON THE SUBJECT OF . ... Ukrainian Space Industry Investment Potential Exposition: . Investment opportunities in Ukrainian space industry; . ... Investment projects with participation of Ukrainian space industry enterprises; . ... Ukrainian space industry enterprises' securities; . ... Expositions of the Ukrainian Space Industry Leading Enterprises and Partners . ...

... You have to get this fractious bunch of ego-maniacs to come to a consensus on which new facilities should be funded, to advance our knowledge of galaxy formation and evolution. ... They will also have some particular science questions that appeal to them, and some special expertise in particular areas of high redshift research. ... You could let people vote at the end, but not for their own project. You might try and force the different groups to join in consortia to propose particular shortlists. ...

... Two high school students from Texas and Louisiana are the winners of the 2012 Priscilla and Bart Bok Awards for their astronomy projects presented at the Intel Science and Engineering Fair in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in May. The awards were presented on May 18 by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) in partnership with the American Astronomical Society (AAS), supported by funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF). ... The Bok prize is named for Bart and Priscilla Bok. ...

reu-program@naic.edu . ... The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico invites applications for its undergraduate summer research progrm. Students selected for the program will work with staff scientists on projects related to ongoing research or instrumentation development. ... Applications for the REU program should be made via the online form. ... After email verification, we will send you a link to upload your supporting documents. ... Online Application Open . ... Online Application Deadline . ...

... Bojan Nikolic web pages (r. 329) . ... The PGPLOT package can produce high quality postscript output. ... I?ve found that the following sequence of post-processing operations produces identical output and often much smaller files: . ... eps2eps infile.eps interfile1 . ... Above infile.eps is the postcript figure as produced by PGPLOT, interfile1 and interfile2 are intermediate files and finalfile.eps is the final compressed encapsulated postscript figure. ...

RADIOASTROPHYSICAL DEPARTMENT  INSTITUTE OF SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS RAS SB . ... Radioastrophysical Department , Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Siberian Division, Russian Academy of Science. ... Head of Laboratory dr. Gubin A.V. LABORATORY of INFORMATION SUPPLY and METHODOLOGY of RESEARCH . ... Head of Observatory Kitsanov S.V. SIBERIAN SOLAR RADIO TELESCOPE . Siberian solar radio telescope data at 5.7 GHz in I SOHO EIT 171 SOHO EIT 195 SOHO EIT 304 MDI Continuum MDI Magnetogram . ...

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