... Explanation: New Horizons has survived its close encounter with Pluto and has resumed sending back images and data. ... Featured here is the highest resolution image of Pluto taken before closest approach, an image that really brings Pluto into a satisfying focus. ... As more images and data pour in today, during the coming week, and over the next year, humanity's understanding of Pluto and its moons will likely become revolutionized. Pluto flyby updates: #PlutoFlyby, Twitter, Facebook, Web . ...

... Numerical Modeling of RadioAstron SRT Temperature Deformations M. Yu. Arkhipov, I. S. Vinogradov, S. B. Novikov, and S. D. Fedorchuk Astro Space Center, Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia e mail: rusengineer@mail.ru Received December 16, 2013 Abstract--The results of modeling the thermal deformations of a space radio telescope's reflecting surface are presented in the paper. ...

... 9) Oknyanskij V.L. 1994, "Optical-radio time delays in Q0957+561", Odessa Astronomical Publ., ... 11) Oknyanskij V.L. 1994, "Connection between X-ray and optical variability in NGC4151", in Proceedings of Int. Conf. ... 1994. 12) Oknyanskij V.L. 1994, "Connection between X-ray and optical variability in NGC4151", Astrophys. and Space Science, 222, p.157. ... 14) Oknyanskij V.L., van Groningen E., 1997, "Optical spectral variability of NGC4151 in 1990", Astronomical and Astrophys. ...

... JSC Oral History . NASA History . ... NASA Oral History Project: Earth System Science at 20 . This NASA Oral History Project features recollections from those who significantly contributed to the launch and evolution of Earth System Science. These interviews were gathered as part of the 20th anniversary of the Earth System Science Program. ... NASA Headquarters, Washington D.C. Program Manager , Stratospheric Theory and Data Analysis, Earth Science and Applications Division . ...

... Space flight . Crew training . ... A task of selection and preflight training is to form up and to train a crew for a space mission. ... Training in crews on the "Soyuz" transport space vehicle and on the "Earth-Moon-Earth" interplanetary flight program, . ... Basic space training of a lunar crew provides for acquiring a fundamental knowledge on the origin, structure and evolution of the Universe, studying methods and means of space flights performance, use of space for the benefit of mankind. ...

... the radiative transfer equation (RTE) for the randomly-irregular magnetized plasma has been derived on the base of general grounds of the multiple scattering theory . ... Solutions of several absolute tasks of the scattering theory have been obtained (on the optical depth of the ionospheric plasma layer, on the value of radio wave anomalous attenuation, on anomalous refraction, on the backscattered signal intensity for the source being placed within a plasma layer). ...

A methodical and didactical complex "Sign Language" . ... ABSTRACT The process of communication of the deaf includes the wide use of the sign language. ... The aim of this work is to develop a tool that should facilitate process of sign language teaching and also give to the trainee a means for independent study of various normative variants of sign language - for example, Russian, English, International and so on. ... The process of dialogue of the deaf people includes wide use of sign languages. ...

... What's New? Bad Astronomy . ... News . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Scientific Research and Prejudicial Beliefs . ... John Stossel, a journalist for ABC news, was doing an hour long report on the differences between the sexes titled "Boys and Girls Are Different: Men Women and the Sex Difference". ... One researcher found that seven out of eight brain structures she studied were actually different in men and women. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

Main News Phones Research area Brief history Institute Structure Experimental Base Observational data English/Russian . research on the site(Google) . ... 7(4112)390400 . Fax: . 7(4112)390450 . ... Fax: +7(4112) 39-04-50 . Field of investigations: . ... study of global geomagnetic response to sharp variations of parameters of solar wind and interplanetary magnetic field; study of the relation among auroral electrojets, field-aligned currents and a ring current . ...

21.10 news 887 MH 19/10/04 2:15 pm Page 887 news Russians fear privatization of state labs Bryon MacWilliams, Moscow Senior officials in Moscow are attempting to reassure Russian scientists about details of a planned reform, under which many hundreds of the country's state research institutes could lose their government funding. ... We agree that Russian science does need reform," says Boris Stern, a particle physicist at the academy's Institute for Nuclear Research in Moscow. ...

Next: The STScI NICMOS Calibration Up: No Title Previous: CONICA: The high resolution . The STScI NICMOS Calibration Pipeline . Introduction . ... Dark Current Subtraction . ... Input Data . ... Scalar Background Subtraction . 2-D Background Subtraction . ... Status and Goals of the NICMOS Calibration Plan . ... Photometry . ... Photometric Performance of NICMOS . ... NICMOS Photometry. ... ST-ECF Grism Spectrum Software for NICMOS Grism Data . ... Analysis . ... STScI NICMOS Software . ...

... Stellar Evolution is driven entirely by the never ending battle between Pressure and Gravity . As imbalances are reached, the star is driven to find a new Energy source. ... Pressure and gravitational forces are equal, the star is stable and its core is sufficiently hot to fuse Hydrogen into Helium More about main sequence stars . ... The luminosity generated by the core fusion of Helium into Carbon is far greater than the shell luminosity associated with the fusion of Hydrogen into Helium. ...

Sun and Geosphere, 2011; 6(1): - 33-35 ISSN 1819-0839 White light corona at different phases of the solar cycle P. V. Stoeva1, A. D. Stoev1, S. V. Kuzin2 1 Space and Solar-Terrestrial Research Institute, BAS, Stara Zagora Department, Bulgaria 2 Lebedev Physical Institute, RAS, Moskow, Russia E-mail: penm@abv.bg, stoev52@abv.bg, kuzin@sci.lebedev.ru Accepted: 12 October 2011 Abstract. ... 33 V. Stoeva, A. D. Stoev, S. V. Kuzin, White light corona at different phases of the solar cycle Fig.1. ...

The First International Symposium on Space Education "UNIVERSAT-2006" was held in Moscow on June 26-30, 2006. ... The scientific program of UNIVERSAT-2006 covered a wide area of topics centered around the theme "Space Education and University Satellites". ... Space Researches in University Education - Heliobiology, Ecology, Atmosphere Sciences, Remote Sensing. ... Basic Space Sciences in High-School and Cooperation in Space Education Projects. ... They have presented over 70 oral and poster reports. ...

August, 2011, Odessa, Ukraine EVENTS: Monday, 22.08.2011 Arrival 09.00 ­ 22.00 Registration of participants 20.00 ­ 22.00 Evening session : , ( -), ( - «») Tuesday, 23.08.2011 06.05 09.00 09.00 11.00 13.00 13.15 14.30 15.50 16.20 18.00 19.00 19.55 21.00 06.06 09.00 11.00 11.30 13.00 14.30 16.30 18.30 19.53 ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ 13.00 11.00 13.00 13.15 14.30 15.50 16.20 ... Discussion 6 SECTION SESSIONS Section 1. ... 15.50 - 16.20 Coffee break 16.20 - 18.00 Section sessions .. ...

It is a great honour and pleasure for me to talk from this tribune. ... This year I was lucky to present a Soros lecture on the reginal conference in Tyumen in the frame of the programm "Professional contacts". ... When people want to make something new it is a great thing to colloborate, to communicate with other people. ... The ideas of free creation live in Russia, and I hope we can try to build an Open society, the society without ksenophobia, without fear of new ideas, without fear of the future. ...

... Under certain conditions, like those in the nucleus of a QSO, all atoms can be made to emit light at particular wavelengths. ... If that source is approaching the observer, the wave is squashed up onto itself making the wavelength shorter. ... This is redshift. ... You can see how the section of the QSO spectrum which we observe changes with redshift. ... We then see how far we had to slide the observed spectrum along the scale to make it match and that is the objects redshift. ... The 2QZ team . ...

... In LABORATORY OF RADIO ASTROPHYSICS OF SPECIAL ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY OF RAS . ... History . ... Current problems of the group research interests: . study for cosmic microwave background, . study of radio galaxies (identification, evolution, statistical investigation of population), . investigation of the RATAN-600 antenna, . observations in the survey mode with RATAN-600 and their analysis, . creation of the software for data analysis. vo @ sao.ru ( Oleg Verkhodanov ) ...

Please enter the lightcurve file name and period search parameters: . Lightcurve file: . ... Apply the Heliocentric correction and convert all dates to Terrestrial Time (TT)? ... Also, the Heliocentric correction cannot be applied to such lightcurves. ... This period search service is also available at the mirror sites: Mirror 1 , Mirror 2 , Mirror 3 , Mirror 4 . You may download the latest source code distribution and install the period search service at your own web server. ...

To the Deputy Head of the Administration of Russian Federation President Mr. A.V.Ogarev . ... First the international space station (ISS) Alpha, which is under construction now, will compare to the OS Mir on the amount of information only in 5-7 years. ... Thirdly, the participation of Russian Federation in the international space projects, including work on the international space station (ISS) Alpha, is to be aimed first of all at the providing of Russian interests. ...