... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... Mystery flare , from Terry Moseley: . While observing a pass of the ISS tonight (now last night, July 10!) ... It was in the general region of Gamma Ophiuchi, although the sky was too bright, with too few stars visible, for me to get an accurate position. AHA, you'll say - an Iridium Flare! ... BUT - they usually appear in roughly the same quadrant of the sky as the predicted flares, since the Sun-Earth-Satellite angle is similar. ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

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... The optical phenomenon called Fata Morgana can make strange shapes or a false wall of water appear above a watery horizon. ... Yuri s Planet . ... On another April 12th, in 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alexseyevich Gagarin became the first human to see planet Earth from space. Commenting on his view from orbit he reported, "The sky is very dark; the Earth is bluish. ... Stars in the sky will typically appear to rise and set as the Earth turns. ... Blue Straggler Stars in Globular Cluster M53 . ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... History . Brief History of Rocket and Space Technology . ... Flights Chronology . ... Project History . ISS Russian Segment . Steps of ISS Assembly . Spaceflights Chronology . Chronology of Extravehicular Activity . ISS 45/46 . ... Rocket Space Complexes . ... Launches Chronology . ... Automatic Space Systems . ... HISTORY . ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Travel to E-ELT Armazones . ... ESO . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Galaxies . ... Star Clusters . ... Stars@ESO . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... These two optical images from the Anglo-Australian Telescope in Australia show the Circinus galaxy before (February 1995) and after (March 1996) the supernova explosion of SN 1996cr was visible. ... Circinus Galaxy , SN 1996cr . ...

... 2012 April 11 . Geostationary Satellites Beyond the Alps . ... Stars in the sky will typically appear to rise and set as the Earth turns. ... Called geostationary satellites , they don't fall down because they do orbit the Earth -- they just orbit at exactly the same speed that the Earth rotates . ... The satellites also all appear on a single line -- actually the projection of the Earth's equator onto the sky. ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply . ...

Weekly Bulletin on Solar and Geomagnetic Activity Highlights on 03 - 09.08.2015, Forecast on 10 - 17.08.2015, Carrington Rotation 2166, 2167 (14,84.07; 07,30.09.2015) SUNSPOT-FORMING ACTIVITY OF THE SUN WAS AT THE AVERAGE LEVEL. ... Therefore all energy of the emerging magnetic fluxes was realized in fla- res of class C and S (36 for three days). ... ACCORDING TO THE DATA FROM SOHO AND STEREO CORONOGRAPHS, >35 CMEs ONE WAS "PARTIAL HALO II" TYPE (angular width 90 - 180 deg.) HAVE BEEN OBSERVED. ...

... Email: chaos@mail.cplire.ru . ... We investigate phenomena on the edge of spatially homogeneous chaotic mode and spatiotemporal chaos in a lattice of chaotic 1-D maps with local connections. We show that spatially homogeneous chaotic mode cannot exist in a lattice with local connections if the Lyapunov exponent of the isolated chaotic map is greater than some critical positive value. We propose a few schemes that make spatial synchronization possible in large lattices. ...

Publication List Vladimir Podolskii 1. ... Preliminary version of this paper appeared in Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Computer Science in Russia, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4649, pp. ... Preliminary version of this paper appeared in Proceedings, Third International Symposium on Computer Science in Russia, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5010, pp. ... In Proceedings of Computability in Europe Conference (CiE), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7318, pp. ...

Chapter 2: Header Keyword Definitions . At the end of the header file, certain keywords and phrases will appear as a warning of an anomalous situation or to flag or emphasize a particular condition (e.g., slewing). ... Target acquisition failure) . ... All observations following the failure and preceding the next baseline guide star acquisition will contain this keyword. ... Each observation until the next baseline guide star acquisition will have this keyword appended to the header file. ...

... This method is based on putting space modules, vehicles and EVA-suit donned cosmonauts in the swimming pool under conditions of neutral buoyancy, indifferent equilibrium and unsupported state. ... You can also dive into the swimming pool with the SCUBA equipment in order to examine the mock-ups of space stations and vehicles and pass a course of rehabilitation in a hyperbaric oxygenation complex. ... Services / Hydrospace: General description Technical description "Orlan" suit Photo gallery Price . ...

... Volodymyr Kuzkov, Sergii Kuzkov, Zoran Sodnik - Direct measurements of laser light aberration from the ARTEMIS geostationary satellite through thin clouds // arXiv.org - New resalts to paper at Conference ICSOS-2014, Kobe, Japan, May 7-9 (2014), S4-4, [view pdf file] . ... Kuz'kov V., Volovyk D., Kuzkov S., Sodnik Z., Pukha S. - Realization of Laser Experiments with ESA'S Geostationary Satellite ARTEMIS. ... Preparation to Optical Communication Experiments With ARTEMIS Satellite. ... V.P. Kuz`kov. ...

... Today this year's largest group of sunspots will cross the Sun's central meridian. ... The next day, the number of spots in the group reached five, and the day after, on June 2nd, it was possible to count thirteen sunspots on solar disk, which had been clear prior to this. ... This year's two most powerful active areas, which passed across the solar disk at the beginning of May, 2009, are set to appear in the Sun's eastern sector in two days, on June 6th. ...

PAGE IN RUSSIAN . ... Theoretical round . Practical round . Observational . round . ... In Russian . In English . ... rounds . ... Problems' conditions . ... Observational round . ... Picture for Problem #7 . Dr. Michael G. Gavrilov, Founding Chairman of the International Astronomy Olympiad, . ...

... LOFAR - the Low Frequency Array, operating at low frequencies between 10 - 220 MHz. ... The final date for siting proposals is September 2002; . ... Square Kilometre Array - the frequency range of coverage is assumed to be approximately 150 - 1500 MHz for Mid-SKA, and 1 - 23 GHz for High-SKA, with a proposal for siting required by 2005. ... Australia has a number of suitable areas, which could accommodate the SKA and also LOFAR (if requested by the LOFAR consortium). ... SKA Site Engineer . ...

... In 1999, there comes a year before an end of the XXth Century, when modern Cosmology and Relativistic Astrophysics appeared, evolved and formed. ... Cosmology, particle physics, relativistic astrophysics and cosmoparticle physics are widely discussed at the now being traditional International Conferences on CosmoParticle Physics "Cosmion-94", "Cosmion-96" and "Cosmion-97" held in Moscow. ... The main topics of the 4 International Conference "Cosmology.Relativistic Astrophysics. ...

University Satellites and . Space Science Education . ... 14 Bissat, an International Student Experience . ... On August 2003 an accident with the Brazilian Launcher, VLS, destroyed the UNOSAT (www.space.unopar.br) that was the first Brazilian University Undergraduate Student nano satellite. ... The name of 14 Bissat is to commemorate the 100 year of the flight of the first airplane by the Brazilian Santos Dumont in Paris and is an acronym of Brazilian International Student Satellite. ...

astronomy . Astro Courses . ... IYA 2009 . ... Armagh Planetarium is proud to be associated with the International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009) . IYA 2009 is a global year of events celebrating all things associated with the absorbing science that is astronomy. ... IYA 2009 Autumn/Winter events . ... Here at Armagh Planetarium one of our most important objectives is to promote formal and informal science education and there will be activities celebrating IYA 2009 throughout the year. ...

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