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PRESS-RELEASE . ... The mission control and the monitoring of the spacecraft systems status during rendezvous and docking were provided by the Lead Operations Control Team (LOCT), consisting of specialists from S.P.Korolev RSC Energia, Mission Control Center near Moscow, and other organizations in the industry (the Technical Manager is RSC Energia President and General Designer V.A.Lopota, the Flight Director is the First Deputy General Designer of RSC Energia V.A.Soloviev). ...

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... The expansion is measured as a number called the Hubble Constant . ... Our value is about 20% lower than the one got with the Hubble Space Telescope in 1994," said Dr Jim Lovell, leader of the team that made the measurement. The Hubble Constant is named after American astronomer Edwin Hubble, who in the 1920s found that other galaxies were moving away from ours. ... The Hubble Constant links the galaxy's distance with its speed." ... A short run-down on the Hubble Constant: . ...

The Small Magellanic Cloud was imaged with Spitzer using the IRAC and MIPS cameras as part of the SAGE-SMC Legacy Program. ... This image and related work (for examples, see paper , paper , and paper ) was the subject of Spitzer Press Release at the 215th AAS meeting . ... The Spitzer Press Release shows off this stunning combined IRAC/MIPS image. The nearest spiral galaxy to our own is M31 and the MIPS observations and resulting paper were featured in a Spitzer Science Center press release . ...

Below is the sample image and caption given out at the AAS meeting. ... Dark, sinuous clouds of cold hydrogen gas reveal themselves as shadows against the glow of warmer, brighter clouds in the background. ... This image, made with radio telescopes at the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory near Penticton, British Columbia, was presented to the American Astronomical Society meeting in Austin, TX on January 8, 1999. PHOTO CREDIT: Steven Gibson and Russ Taylor of the University of Calgary. ...

NASA TV Video File on 3C 58 (December 2004) . Astronomy Picture of the Day (December 23, 2004) . A Chilling Discovery (December 15, 2004) . Going to Extremes (December 14, 2004) . Deepest Image of Exploded Star (August 23, 2004) . ... Young Pulsar Reveals Clues (September 6, 2001) . Vital Elements from Supernova (December 21, 1999) . New Vision of Cosmic Explosions (September 20, 1999) . Pat Slane's Home Page Pat's SNR Page ...

... Home Links International Sidewalk Astronomy Night . ... Saturday night, April 12, 2008, is the 2nd International Sidewalk Astronomy Night.€а We call on all amateur astronomers to take their telescopes and binoculars out for the public to enjoy the wonders of the night sky.€а A first-quarter Moon will be visible, as will the planets Saturn and Mars.€а More information can be found at http://www.sidewalkastronomynight.com /, where you can register so people will know where to find you. ...

... Press Release Images . Individual Images . ... The right-hand image shows Hubble's close-up view of the galaxy's core, taken in December 1995 by the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. The bluish-purple clumps that form the ring are the clusters of infant stars. Two dark, wispy lanes of dust and a pair of blue spiral arms are just outside the star-forming ring. ... The gas is trapped inside the ring through the stars' gravitational attraction. ... Amazing Space | ...

... On 4 April 2005, INTAS, the International Association for the promotion of cooperation with scientists from the New Independent States(NIS) of the former Soviet Union, launched the first stage of its Open Call for Research Projects Proposals 2005-2006. With an indicative budget of ?12 million, the INTAS Open Call 2005-2006 encompasses basic and applied research with no thematic orgeographical restrictions, but excluding market-oriented technology development. ...

... Galileo Probe . The Galileo spacecraft was designed to study Jupiter's atmosphere, satellites, and surrounding magnetosphere for two years. ... From there, Galileo will spend more than five years traveling to Jupiter, where it will become the first spacecraft to make direct measurements from an instrumented probe within Jupiter's atmosphere. ... This image, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the predicted site at which the Galileo Probe will enter Jupiter's atmosphere on December 7, 1995. ...

home about us > awards . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Awards . 2012 Award Winners . Past Award Recipients . Amateur Award . ... Emmons Award . ... Astronomical Society of the Pacific Names Leo Connolly winner of 2006 Emmons Award for Excellence in College Astronomy Teaching . ... The Emmons Award will be presented to Dr. Connolly at the ASP's 2006 annual meeting and national conference on astronomy education in Baltimore, MD, on September 17. ... education | ...

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Hide Zen home . ... November/December 2004 - The PostgreSQL Global Development group has released version 8.0 of the PostgreSQL object-relational database management system, building on its position as the most advanced open source database in the world. This release includes features previously only available in the most expensive proprietary database systems, and is expected to substantially increase the adoption of PostgreSQL by both users and software vendors. ... New features include: . ...

... This page contains links to delay line Final Design Review documents which have been released by Cavendish Laboratory. ... System Overview . Trolley Mechanical Design Description [to be updated] . ... Trolley Electronics Design Description [updated 2008/01/28] . Limits Design Description [to be updated] . ... Metrology System & VME Hardware Design Description (INT-406-VEN-0113) . ... Printable View of http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/projects/OAS/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/MROIDelayLine/ReleasedFDRDocuments) ...

... Survey processing . ... ESO - Public Surveys . ... 21/12/2009 Release of Science Verification Data . ... 11/12/2009 Press release about VISTA (Text, Images and Videos) . The ESO press release is at www.eso.org/public/outreach/press-rel/pr-2009/pr-49-09.html . ... 10/12/2009 15:00+ Ownerhsip of VISTA accepted by ESO from STFC (UK Goverenment representative) . ... 15/10/2009 Science Verification period started (see 21/12/9 for release) . ... 17/04/2008 Press releases om M1 from ESO , STFC and QMUL . ...

... WISE is achieving 5sigma point source sensitivities better than 0.08, 0.11, 1, and 6 mJy in unconfused regions on the ecliptic in bands centered at wavelengths of 3.4, 4.6, 12, and 22 mum. ... The WISE All-Sky Release Source Catalog is available in compressed (gzip or bzip2) ascii form. ... Users should be aware that the Catalog table is extremely large. ... For complete documentation of the WISE All-Sky Release Source Catalog and the All-Sky Data Release, please see the Explanatory Supplement . ...

... Recent Results . ... last 10 years in ADS) . in SAO press releases . ... observations database) . ... Last update: . ... Measurement of the dark halo shape in polar ring galaxies . Determining the mass of supermassive black hole in galaxy Mrk6 nucleus based on spectropolarimetric observations . The dust jets in the nucleus of comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 . ... New Polar Ring Galaxies . Traces of recent interactions in isolated Seyfert galaxies . ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... Frank Borman . ... A romance with airplanes that began when he was 15 years old, took Frank Borman to the Air Force and then to NASA. ... Frank Borman retired from the air Force in 1970, but is well remembered as a part of this nation's history, a pioneer in the exploration of space and a veteran of both the Gemini 7, 1965 Space Orbital Rendezvous with Gemini 6 and the first manned lunar orbital mission, Apollo 8, in 1968. ...