. A tree for site navigation will open here if you enable JavaScript in your browser. HOME . ABOUT ST-ECF . CONTACT . The Instrument Science Reoprts written by ST-ECF members for the various Hubble instruments (STIS, ACS, WFC3) and for JWST are available at the STScI. The links below point to the location of all ISR's for the corresponding instrument or telescope. Maintained by Britt Sjoeberg <bsjoeber@eso.org> .

... Epistemology is a part of the study of Philosophy dealing with how we use our senses to know something about the world. ... Yet we know that we can be deceived by our senses. ... If we cannot always trust our senses, how can we ever know anything for certain about the world? ... A branch of epistemology that has come into vogue in the last 10-15 years is the problem of consciousness. ... What relationship is there between our conscious experience and the true nature of the physical world? ...

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... Shevchenko Vladislav Vladimirovich . ... Position: Head of Department of Lunar and Planetary Research, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics. ... L. Johnson Space Center - Lunar and Planetary Institute. ... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Universitetsky 13, Moscow, 119899 , Russia, . ... V.I.Chikmachev, S.G.Pugacheva and V.V.Shevchenko, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Moscow, chik@sai.msu.ru ...

A very important stage in a story of formation of any new science is the shift from discussion of situation which are possible but do not occur in practice due to some reason to recognition of real phenomena of interest. ... We suggest to consider computer viruses as this new specific form of life which is coming in the contact with our form of life. ... Computer life has been created by human being, the role of independent evolution of computer viruses seems to be still negligible. ...

... If you hope that aliens could be somewhere then meet with first Children's Message to Extraterrestrial! ... Message to . ... An idea of contact with unknown life forms unite different specialist like: astronomers, physicists, cyberneticians, radio technicians, linguists, philosophers, and historians. Take a look at page prepared by the SETI Science and Culture Center of the Tsiolkovsky Academy of Cosmonautics and by the SETI Section of the Radio Astronomy Council, Russian Academy of Sciences. ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... Meetings . Past meetings . THE@INT Science Discussion Meeting: 6th October 2014, RAS, London . ... We will be holding an afternoon (2pm start) meeting on 6th€аOctober 2014€аto present and discuss the prospects of a new high resolution spectrograph installed on the Isaac Newton Telescope.€а This meeting is in light of the recent call for new instrument ideas ( http://www.ing.iac.es/about-ING/int2014.html ) put forward by the ING group in La Palma. ...

Instruments and Methods 125 Long time tracking of the Sun with RATAN-600 in Radio Schmidt mode V.B. Khaikin, E.K. Ma jorova, I.G. E mov, O.A. Victorov, V.M. Bogod, and S.Kh. ... Cosmic source tracking with unmovable main mirror in a form of cylinder requires a special secondary mirror of double curvature 12 m size or a phased array in the focal plane of an ordinary secondary mirror Ka jdanovskij, 1980. ... Fig. 4 shows the Sun tracking with new drive in speed control mode starting from meridian. ...

... Here I shall try to speak about the most important problem of the modern natural science, the problem which is undoubtedly, of more importance than the discovery of Blacks Holes, creation of Grand Unification Theory or Artificial Intelligence. Moreover, this problem seems to be not only more profound and complicated but also much more urgent (see also Lipunov ). ... Naturally, this fact has been discovered and realized previously. ... Lipunov V.M. Sun May 3 16:35:20 MSD 1998 ...

. Periodic orbits in photogravitational three-body problem . A. S. Zimovschikov 1 , N. N. Titova 2 , V. N. Tkhai 1 . 1 Moscow State Academy of Instrument Making and Computer Science, Moscow, Russia . 2 A. A. Dorodnitsyn Computing Center of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia Abstract: . No abstract Key words: . Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI), celestial mechanics, photogravitational three-body problem, periodic orbits.

What follows is a list of resources that excel in astronomy education. ... We believe the list is topologically complete in that there are no publicly advertised astronomy resources on the WWW that cannot be found by following the internal links of these resources. ... How Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) is being used as a learning tool by teachers and students. ... Bad Astronomy Blog . ... Dr. Jeff's Blog on the Universe . ... Detailed pictures and explanations of Hubble Space Telescope results. ...

... Years of foundation of the Institute: . ... Cosmic ray station of the Yakut Scientific Research Base of the USSR Academy of Sciences . ... Institute of Cosmophysical Research and Aeronomy of the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences . ... Institute of Cosmophysical Research and Aeronomy of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. ... Yu.G.Shafer Institute of Cosmophysical Research and Aeronomy of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences . ...