... ESO is building what will be the World's largest optical telescope array, The Very Large Telescope (VLT). The VLT Project organisation is responsible for the design and construction of the Unit Telescopes, including enclosures, optics, adapter-rotators and coating unit. ... Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ...

... In addition, a range of second and third-level students were supervised under the Observatory's continuing work-experience and summer student training programmes, including the Nuffield-Sentinus scheme. In total, more than 100 days of school work-experience took place, the individuals involved including Adam Moss (Mercy Secondary School, Tralee, Co. ... Monaghan), Louise Jeffery (The Royal School, Armagh), and Cathal Hughes (St. Brigid's School, Armagh). ...

... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... This section contains information on MNRF 1996 (ATNF mm Upgrade). ... In November 1995 the Federal Government announced that seven Major National Research Facilities would be funded in a major boost to Australian scientific research infrastructure. The Australia Telescope Upgrade was one of the projects selected for funding with the aim of maintaining Australia's leading position in Southern Hemisphere radio astronomy. ...

... Applying the Lessons Learned from HST Operations to New Missions" , presented at SPIE's International Symposium Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation . ... Portable Astronomical Scheduling Tools" presented at the ADASS V Conference . A System for Long-Term Scheduling of Ground-Based Observatories" ( html , postscript ) presented at the Conference on New Observing Modes My technical papers, as well as those by STScI colleagues are available on-line. ... Spike planning and scheduling system . ...

... Pre-university education . ... On August 24, the Tenth International Summer Space School Future Space Technologies and Experiments in Space will be opened in Samara State Aerospace University. Its participants will be 40 students and young scientists from universities and scientific and research centres in Sweden, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Great Britain, France, Peru, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia. ... It is expected that participants of SSAU Summer Space School 2014 will be the students from: . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Many of the topics studied will have a local perspective, helping learners become better equipped to meet the needs of Northern IrelandтАЩs economy in an international context. ... Learners in the Space Science Technology qualification will build upon their existing skills in science, maths, engineering and ICT, and will use their new-found knowledge to solve real-life problems. ... Northern IrelandтАЩs New Space Science Technology Course | ...

... The Hubble Space Telescope is jointly run as a partnership between the European Space Agency and NASA. ... For more information on the European contribution to the Hubble Space Telescope go to: http://hubble.esa.int and for more on the VLT go to: http://www.eso.org . ... A Taste of Real Astronomy ? The ESA/ESO Astronomy Exercises . ... The "ESA/ESO Astronomy Exercise Series" has just been published, on the web and in print. ... The language for the ESA/ESO Astronomy Exercise Series is English. ...

... at the ISSP RAS. ... MSU student Kostretsova N.B. successfully defended her thesis entitled "Investigation of Thermal and Chemial Expansivity of Ceria-Based Solid Solutions". ... V.A. Kolotygin successfully defended his PhD thesis "Perovskite-Like Oxide and Composite Anode Materials for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells: Functional Properties and Electrochemical Behavior in Contact with Gallate- and Silicate-Based Solid Electrolytes" and was awarded PhD degree in the area of Materials Science and Engineering ....

Call for applications / PhD stipends for successful applicants *** Boost your career and do your PhD in one of the largest centers for Astronomy and Astrophysics in Europe! ... The International Max Planck Research School on Astrophysics (IMPRS) is soliciting applications for its PhD program. ... Applications for the PhD-program are open to students from all countries. ... This means "Concentrate on your research -- we do the rest!" ...

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... Smithsonian Lead Scientist, SAO/Southampton Masters Program . ... Chandra Uncovers New Evidence For Event Horizons Surrounding Black Holes . ... XTE J1118+480: Chandra Pinpoints Edge Of Accretion Disk Around Black Hole . ... Astronomers Closing in on Black Holes . ... A Black Hole Greater Than 6 Msolar in the X-Ray Nova XTE J1118+480 . Complete and Simultaneous Spectral Observations of the Black Hole X-Ray Nova XTE J1118+480 . Aql X-1: Garcia etal 99, . ... Home" Home Page . ...

reu-program@naic.edu . ... The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico invites applications for its undergraduate summer research progrm. Students selected for the program will work with staff scientists on projects related to ongoing research or instrumentation development. ... Applications for the REU program should be made via the online form. ... After email verification, we will send you a link to upload your supporting documents. ... Online Application Open . ... Online Application Deadline . ...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... Outreach . Projects . ... Science . ... Participating in Project ASTRO, a national program to assist teachers in grades 4 through 12 in teaching astronomy . ... June, 1990: National Optical Astronomy Observatory, Friday Science Lunch Talks: "Engineering Big Science Projects" . ... May 4, 2007: National Optical Astronomy Observatory, Friday Science Lunch Talks: "The Ohio State University KELT Telescope -- Early Results" . ...

University Satellites and . Space Science Education . ... Use of microsatellite technology in aerospace education by the example of BAUMANETS microsatellite project . ... Launch is scheduled for March 2006. ... Over 20 students graduated from BMSTU and found work in leading Russia s and international aerospace companies. ... Meanwhile, modern labor market in aerospace shows increasing requirements towards quality of university education. ...

Brad Carter, Carolyn Brown, Rhodes Hart Drew Foster, John Kielkopf, Ron Moore University of Southern Queensland, Australia University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA OVERVIEW Mt Kent Observatory is now providing live remote observations of southern skies as part of a collaborative project between USQ, the University of Louisville, and Northern Kentucky University. ... This enables observers to make daytime use of a remote telescope during its local night-time, and image otherwise inaccessible skies. ...

... On 26 October 2009 in Moscow, in the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) a meeting was held of the leading Russian scientists and statesmen with the Director General of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Tim de Zeeuw and the Head of International Relations Rowena Sirey. ... Director General of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Tim de Zeeuw. ... Balega, the Head of International Relations Rowena Sirey, Director General of the ESO Tim de Zeeuw, deputy director of the SAO RAS V.V.Vlasuyk . ...

Follow-up observations with the University of Washington 0.76 m telescope at Manastash Ridge Observatory (MRO) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) cataclysmic variable (CV) SDSS J170053+400358 are presented. ... They estimate that the dimming amounted to about 0.028 mag (using two comparison stars that were each about 4 mag fainter than HD 209458). only UW affiliated authors have been listed, student researchers are marked with an ``*'' . ... XTE J1859+226" UW affiliated authors: *Kevin Krisciunas. ...

Commemorating the 100th anniversary . ... academician Sergei Pavlovich Korolev . ... KOROLEV . ... of rocket and space technology, . ... RSC Energia after S.P. Korolev) . ... 3, the city of Moscow. ... Monuments to Sergei Pavlovich Korolev were set up in the following cities: Zhitomir, Moscow, Baikonur, Korolev, on the premises of RSC Energia. Memorial museums were opened in Zhitomir, Moscow and at Baikonur Cosmodrome, while in RSC Energia’s museum was created S.P. Korolev’s memorial flat-study. ...

... Students Life . ... Schools . University history . ... V.љN. Karazin . ... February 17, 2014 . International Winter School of High Energy Physics: Wrap-Up . An International Winter School of High Energy Physics was held at Karazin University on February 12-14, 2014. ... One of the lectures was delivered to senior pupils of Kharkiv Lyceum of Physics and Mathematics No. 27 that the University actively cooperates with. ... Scientists of the University Present the Red Book of Kharkiv Region . ...

... Stars and Planets ? A project in Astronomy . ... During the first few months of 2001 year, students at our teacher training institutes (six in St. Petersburg, ten in Amsterdam, three in Stockholm and one student in Vietnam) have been working together in an international project in Astronomy. ... In this paper, we report on the project. ... While studying their topics, students in each country had regular contact with their tutor (at least once a week during the ten-week period of the project). ...