The direct detection of gravitational waves is one of those events long-expected by physicists that are nevertheless a significant occurrence which excites the world scientific community as if something unexpected has happened. ... Many rumors leaked ahead of the conference, and the fact that something (that is, a signal corresponding to gravitational waves) was discovered by LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) was discussed on the sidelines. ... arXiv:1602.03868 . ...

... Even though the DoD would ultimately select senior Air Force officials, US Navy oceanographers and Air Weather Service officers as shuttle payload specialists, MSEs would be the first personnel from an American military programme to go into space. ... One Air Force officer, Maj. ... Jacobson was concerned about shuttle launch delays and wanted the MSEs to understand that his mission, i.e., the launch of national security payloads, dwarfed their mission, flights in space by Air Force personnel. ...

The new view on the population of Galactic open clusters A.E.Piskunov1, N.V.Kharchenko2, S.RЖser3, E.Schilbach3, R.-D.Scholz4 1 2 3 4 Institute of Astronomy, Moscow, Russia Main Astronomical ... Observatory, Kiev, Ukraine Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, Heidelberg, Germany Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam, Germany What are open clusters and what do they teach us Groups of Population I ... Cluster complexes: OCC-1 = Gould's Belt cluster complex? ...

... В теме В разделе По форуму . ... Научная панорама ? Пятый релиз Слоановского обзора . ... 24.07.2007 [10:04:54] ? данные arxiv:0707.3380 Пятый релиз Слоановского Цифрового обзора неба (The Fifth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey) . ... Over the course of five years, SDSS-I imaged more than 8,000 square degrees of the sky in five bandpasses, detecting nearly 200 million celestial objects, and it measured spectra of more than 675,000 galaxies, 90,000 quasars, and 185,000 stars. ...

... 2006 . ... Comparison of total ozone distribution in the high latitudes of both hemispheres SCAR XXIX Open Science Conference, 2006, 12-14 July, Hobart, Australia - Abstract Volume. ... Analyses of spectra, stability and eigenmode transverse small-scale oscillations in the inner Earth magnetosphere. 6th Open Conference of Space Projects Evpatoriya, September 2006, Abstracts . ... Ps6 pulsations in the Earth magnetosphere. 5th Open Conference of Space Projects Evpatoriya, September 2005, Abstracts . ...