... Sir, Maxim Vadisiavovich Tarasenko, a leading Russian independent space researcher was killed by a hit-and-run driver in May. ... In 1992, he published his ground-breaking book Military Aspects of the Soviet Cosmonautics - the first ever independent Russian study on the Soviet military programmes, which immediately became a best-seller and was sought by Russian-speaking space and weapons experts all round the world. ... US National Air & Space Museum . Volunteer Researcher . ...

Астрономические новости NASA на русском языке. ... Автоматические станции Deep Impact и Stardust уже выполнили свои первоначальные миссии и при этом полностью сохранили работоспособность. ... По пути зонд будет вести наблюдения за несколькими звездами, обладающими собственными планетами или планетными системами. Новое задание получит и корабль Stardust, который в январе прошлого года сбросил на Землю капсулу с частицами, которые он собрал из пылевого облака, окружающего ядро кометы Wild-2. ...

... Space activity at the beginning of XXI-st Century view from inside G.M.Chernyavskiy STC for Earth Space monitoring of FSUE , Russia 1. The systemic approach in astronautics Everyone who has linked his life with astronautics and those who are interested in the future of the inhabitancy medium and its expansion up to cosmic scales, are troubled about the current state and development of space activity in the World and in the Native Land of the first artificial Earth satellite (AES). ...

... 14 июня 2000 . ... Ломтик Вселенной от 2dF . Благодарности: Matthew Colless ( ANU ) et al. , 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey . Пояснение: Что можно увидеть, глядя сразу на 100000 галактик? ... Благодаря их работе теперь можно увидеть распределение галактик во Вселенной на расстояниях до 4 миллиардов световых лет. На приведенной выше 2dF-карте видны огромные кластеры , длинные нити и гигантские пустоты с характерными размерами более 100 миллионов световых лет . ...

The revision of the MASS/DIMM star catalogue N. Shatsky, V. Kornilov March 16, 2008 Abstract The compilation of the (updated) version of the MASS (MASS/DIMM) device target catalogue is described. ... Then the list was cleaned according to following criteria: I. Remove stars too faint for a MASS device. ... Here the color equation of the Sternb erg device was taken: M AS S mag = V mag + 0.45 (B - V ); stars with M AS S mag > 3.2 were removed. ... This was made based on the GCVS4.2 catalogue data. ...

... Вступление . ... Fish in Danger . ... Let's use our imagination and think of the apple as the Earth. Let's cut the apple into quarters. ... Three quarters of the Earth's surface is water and only one quarter is land. If we cut the piece representing land in half you will see that only one-half the land or one/eighth of the Earth's surface is habitable. ... Three quarters of the Earth's surface represent water but only one per cent of Earth's water is fresh and drinkable. ...