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... About INTEGRAL . INTEGRAL is a European (ESA) Gamma-Ray Observatory Satellite Mission for the study of cosmic gamma-ray sources in the keV to MeV energy range. ... The PROTON launcher injected the satellite into a transfer orbit and INTEGRAL's own propulsion system brought the satellite into its 72 hours eccentric operational orbit with an apogee of 153600 km and an inclination of 52.5 degrees. More details on ESA website dedicated to INTEGRAL mission. 2016 IKI RAN ...

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... This offset corrects for low level noisy columns, by artificially suppressessing their threshold values. ... 5 CCF components Name of CCF VALDATE List of Blocks changed CAL VERSION XSCS flag EPN ADUCONV 0017 2000 ­06­11T03:00:00 OFFSET GAIN NO EPN ADUCONV 0018 2000 ­06­29T02:49:00 OFFSET GAIN NO EPN ADUCONV 0019 2000 ­07­01T08:07:00 OFFSET GAIN NO EPN ADUCONV 0020 2000 ­07­03T12:00:00 OFFSET GAIN NO EPN ADUCONV 0021 2000 ­07­03T22:16:00 ...

Discover the cosmos! ... 2016 February 18 . Hitomi Launches . Image Credit Copyright : F. Scott Porter ( NASA , Goddard Space Flight Center ) . ... Onboard was the ASTRO-H X-ray astronomy satellite, now in orbit. ... Following a tradition of renaming satellites after their successful launch, ASTRO-H has been newly dubbed "Hitomi", inspired by an ancient legend of dragons . Hitomi means "the pupil of the eye". Tomorrow's picture: ancient camel-leopard . ... About APOD | ...

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... HST . ... HST Overview . ... Move of COS FUV Spectra to Lifetime Position 3 and Revisions to CalCOS to Support Spectral Extraction at the New Position -------------------------------------------------------------- Move of COS FUV Spectra to Lifetime Position 3 and Revisions to CalCOS to Support Spectral Extraction at the New Position On February 9th, 2015 the COS FUV spectra were successfully moved to Lifetime Position 3 (LP3) (except for G130M/1055 and G130M/1096 which remain at Lifetime Position 2...

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... The commissioning of the FORS2 multi-mode astronomical instrument at KUEYEN , the second FOcal Reducer/low dispersion Spectrograph at the ESO Very Large Telescope, was successfully finished today. ... FORS2 is now ready to be handed over to the astronomers on April 1, 2000. ... Additional information about the VLT Data Flow System is available in ESO PR 10/99 . ... ESO Press Photo 05a/00 . Preview; JPEG: 400 x 452; 52k] . ... This is the caption to ESO PR Photos 05a-c/00 . ...

January 11, 2012 (Wednesday) Tom Schwarz, Fermilab SEMINAR CANCELLED . ... Noon, 472 Willamette Hall . return to top . ... Recent results and an outlook for dedicated stop and sbottom searches will be discussed. 4:00pm, 472 Willamette Hall . ... I will review the measurements done with the inclusive W (and Z) samples, focusing on the W charge asymmetry and the W transverse momentum measurements and their connection with the broader ATLAS physics program. 4:00pm, 472 Willamette Hall . ...

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... Sun images . ... February : 2016 . ... Image of Sun's photosphere obtained 09.02.2016 at 23:40 UT with HMI instrument on board SDO spacecraft . ... Image of Sun's magnetic field obtained 09.02.2016 at 23:52 UT with HMI instrument on board SDO spacecraft . ... Image of Sun's transition region obtained 09.02.2016 at 23:39 UT with AIA instrument on board SDO spacecraft . Image of Sun's corona . Image of Sun's corona obtained 09.02.2016 at 23:39 UT with AIA instrument on board SDO spacecraft . ...

... International workshop “The Europa Lander: science goals and experiments” is organized by the Space Research Institute (IKI) of Russian Academy of Sciences, on February 9-13, 2009, in Moscow, Russia. The workshop will last 5 days including the days of arrival/departure and some sightseeing events, and focus on the scientific goals and technical aspects of the project, key issues of Europa science with the special emphasis on astrobiology and requirements to scientific instruments. ...

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... Galaxy And Gamma Ray Burst . ... This image is part of the first color panoramic view from Venus. ... Likely a satellite companion of the Local Group's dominant player, the large spiral Andromeda (M31), the Pegasus dwarf galaxy is almost hidden in the glare of relatively bright foreground stars in our own Milkyway. Spiral Galaxy NGC 253 . ... NGC 1818: A Young Globular Cluster . ... Back in the old days, back when our Galaxy first formed, perhaps thousands of globular clusters roamed our Galaxy. ...