Album : asv-album ::Travels to distant places and countries . ... 2004/08 Penza (Russia) . 2005/07 Penza (Russia) . ... 2008/07 Penza (Russia) . ... 2009/06 Rome (Italy) . ... 2009/08 Ryazan (Russia) . 2009/10 Penza (Russia) . ... 2010/08 Penza (Russia) . ... 2012/09 Penza (Russia) . ... 2013/02 Bordeaux (France) . ... 2013/07 St.Petersburg (Russia) . ... 2015/05 Muranovo, Moscow Region (Russia) . ... 2015/08 Sergiev Posad (Russia) . 2015/08 Tarkhany, Penza region (Russia) . ...

... It s caused by sunlight reflecting off dark cosmic dust in the Solar System. ... By combining the power of four very large telescopes into one super-telescope, astronomers have given themselves the ability to peer closely at almost 100 distant stars. And they discovered ghostly zodiacal light glowing around nine of them exactly as we see it in our own Solar System! ... In fact, out of almost 2000 planets that have been discovered around distant stars, only around 20 have been photographed! ...

An Ancient Universe: How Astronomers Know the Vast Scale of Cosmic Time . THE ANCIENT UNIVERSE . c) The Age of Light from the Most Distant Galaxies: The "Time Machine" Effect . ... Thus we are actually seeing these galaxies not as they are today, but as they were billions of years ago. ... The Universe: An Overview | ... The Ancient Universe - The Age of the Expanding Universe - The Age of the Oldest Stars - The Age of Light From Distant Galaxies - The Age of the Chemical Elements | ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... galaxies . ... space flight . exoplanets . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Why can the Hubble Space Telescope see distant galaxies but not exoplanets? ... D espite Hubble's marvelous ability to image distant galaxies, the telescope isn't able to image extrasolar planets. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

Blackholes2 Forum Message . ... Distant Galaxy Red Shift Caused By Time Passage Variation. ... If I were falling toward a neutron star or a black hole, a distant galaxy would seem to be accelerating toward me? ... And apparent receding distant galaxies with a red shift. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | Advertise on Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... The search for distant objects which can be both galaxies and quasars is one of the most important problems of observational astrphysics, because it allows one to determine cosmological parameters connected with the time of appearence and evolution of stellar systems, large scale structure of the Universe. ... Radio galaxies are important objects to be studied because they are sources of infrared-optical-ultraviolet continuum, emission lines and continual radio emission. ...

... Space flight . Crew training . ... Order . Space camp . Space Hotel . ... Extra-Vehicular Activity(Hydro-Space) . ... Specify here, if you wish to get a certificate - PADI specialization on Space Suit Diver program. ... Space Vehicle Injection into the Near-Earth Orbit . ... Space Vehicle Descent . ... Services / Order: Order . ...

... If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern." William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell . ... Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." ... After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. ...

... Pluto Not Yet Explored . ... Cold, distant, Pluto is the only planet in our Solar System which has not been visited by a spacecraft from Earth. ... The First Explorer . ... What's happening in the eye-like center of this planetary nebula? ... Hyakutake: The Great Comet of 1996? ... If You Could Stand on Mars . ... COBE Hotspots: The Oldest Structures Known . ... Above are two microwave images of the sky, looking north and south of our galaxy's equator, based on data from NASA's COBE satellite. ...

... JWST . ... Science Blog . ... JWST Overview . ... This table shows all the SODRM Distant Galaxies and Cosmology Science programs. The columns list the current SODRM program number, the estimated total time (exposure and direct overheads), the title, the instruments used, the program lead, the previous SODRM number (if applicable), and the SRD science "program." ... JWST Ultra-wide NIRCam and MIRI Mosaic of the Extended Groth Strip . ... JWST NIRCam and MIRI Mosaic of the Chandra Deep Field South . ...

... Members . ... Thursday, Nov 12, 2009 at 8:00 PM . In October, ATMoB members Gary Jacobson, Bernie Volz, John Briggs, Paul Valleli and Bruce Berger traveled to different parts of the globe in hopes of being part of the first team to capture the occultation of a distant star by a Kuiper Belt Object. ... Please join us for a pre-meeting dinner discussion at Changsho, 1712 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA at 6:00pm before the meeting. ... Nov . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

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In this presentation I will recap what we know about the dwarf planet Pluto its companion moons, including some recent results from the Division of Planetary Sciences October 2014 meeting (Tucson, AZ). Next I will describe NASA s New Horizons mission, launched in January 2006, who has been traveling across the solar system and will reach the Pluto system in July 2015. ... I will end the presentation with the latest news from the New Horizons mission and its plans after the July 2015 Plutoflyby. ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. January 14, 1998 . A Distant Destiny . ... As recently reported , the apparent brightness and expansion velocities associated with these and other distant supernovae are beginning to suggest that the expansion rate of the Universe has not slowed but increased over time and that the expansion of the Universe is destined to continue. ...

... Spacecraft . ... To space by cannon? Finally, the deep space explorers --spacecraft which break away from the Earth's gravity . ... The "Luna" series of the USSR conducted 7 soft landing of unmanned probes, two of them with wheeled robotic "Lunokhods," and two of those missions returned samples to Earth. Others spacecraft have visited the major planets of the Solar system. ... The Mariner series have explored Venus and Mars--and Mariner 10 even reached Mercury, for three separate encounters! ...

Finally, the deep space explorers --spacecraft which break away from the Earth's gravity . ... The "Luna" series of the USSR conducted 7 soft landing of unmanned probes, two of them with wheeled robotic "Lunokhods," and two of those missions returned samples to Earth. Others spacecraft have visited the major planets of the Solar system. ... The Mariner series have explored Venus and Mars--and Mariner 10 even reached Mercury, for three separate encounters! ... Sojourner" on Mars, its top . ...

... Archaeo-Astronomy talk by Betty Jo Harper in Navan Sun 8 Nov . ... Professor Robinson is one of EuropeтАЩs leading figures in observational cosmology but as well as providing new insights into the cosmological evolution of distant and dusty galaxies, Professor Rowan-Robinson has been an effective communicator of modern science, writing many popular books for a wide audience. ... Monday, 19 October 2009 20:16 . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

General Information . ... Local Information . ... The city represents great cultural value because in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Kislovodsk as a fashionable spa attracted many musicians, artists, and members of the Russian aristocracy. ... Double room with full pension (breakfast, lunch, dinner) - 2620 rubles per person per night. solnechniy . ... Citizens of most countries need visa to enter the Russian Federation. ... Victor Kornilov, Sternberg Astronomical Institute (chair) . ...

Having studied the solar corona and its radio emissions sunspot cycles ago, I was keen to verify its existence optically during the total solar eclipse of Wednesday, 4 December 2002, the first on Australian soil since 1976. The moon's shadow was to travel from the south-Atlantic west of The Congo, across southern Africa, the Indian Ocean and into the Great Australian Bight, finally making Australian landfall at Ceduna, South Australia (SA). ... The favoured site to observe the eclipse was Ceduna. ...

Radar Meteor Workshop . Logistics . ... Passport and visa: . ... Please contact us as soon as possible. In any case, do bring your passport as immigration controls are common at the San Juan airport. ... The observatory will provide a shuttle service to transport people from the airport to their accommodation and the observatory. ... For information about hotel near the observatory please contact Diego Janches at djanches@naic.edu or Eva Robles at erobles@naic.edu . ...