... The department was founded in late sixties by Prof. D.Ya.Martynov, who for many years was also the director of Sternberg Astronomical Institute. At present time, the head of the department is Prof. A.M.Cherepashchuk, a pupil of D.Ya.Martynov and his successor as the director of SAI. Since Prof. Martynov, the scientific activity of the department was primarily related to binary stars. ... The department consists of 15 members most of which have Ph.D. in Astrophysics. ...

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To obtain more information about satellites observing the sky in x-rays and gamma rays, you can contact the archive of the Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics at Goddard Space Flight Center. Some documents in that archive can be linked directly from here: . General Information . ... Small Astronomy Satellite 3, a follow-up mission. HEAO 1 , High Energy Astronomical Observatory 1. ... Exploration" home page (index) Glossary . Official GSFC Home Page .. NASA WWW Home Page . ...

To obtain more information about satellites observing the sky in x-rays and gamma rays, you can contact the archive of the Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics at Goddard Space Flight Center. ... Uhuru, the first small x-ray satellite. Small Astronomy Satellite 3, a follow-up mission. HEAO 1 , High Energy Astronomical Observatory 1. ... Other space missions observing x-rays and gamma-rays from the universe can be reached from the first site of the ones listed above . ...

Educator's Guide to Eclipses . ... In a solar eclipse you observe the Sun (using only safe methods, of course). ... In a lunar eclipse you observe the Moon. ... Because of the geometry described below, you can only view a solar eclipse when the Sun is up, and the Moon is nowhere to be seen. ... Eclipses occur when the Sun, Earth and Moon line up. ... In a solar eclipse the Moon passes directly in front of the Sun. ... In a lunar eclipse the Moon moves into Earth's shadow. ...

Next: Meteors in Planetary Atmospheres Up: A. Christou, Research Astronomer Previous: A. Christou, Research Astronomer . Work was concluded on the Phobos eclipse experiment, which was to have taken place in February 2004 on the Beagle 2 lander. The lander reached Mars on Christmas Day 2003, but subsequent attempts to contact it were not successful. The aim of the experiment was to use the shadow of one of the Martian moons, Phobos, to locate the lander on the surface. ...

... Search . ... Astrophysics Group . Research . ... Research and Instrumentation . ... While this seems an extraordinary endeavour, in light of what we have learnt about Solar System planets, only a handful of key ingredients are required to start characterising an exoplanet. ... The NGTS project is a partnership between the University of Cambridge, Queen?s University Belfast, University of Warwick, University of Leicester, Observatoire de Geneve, DLR (Berlin) and Universidad Catolica de Chile. ...