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CSIRO Ref 98/194 . Astronomers using CSIRO 's Parkes radio telescope have made a picture that shows our Galaxy ripping apart its nearest neighbours. ... The two nearest neighbouring galaxies, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (left), are less than a tenth of our Galaxy in size. ... One was a process called ram-pressure stripping - gas being swept out of the Magellanic Clouds as the Clouds travelled through our Galaxy's outskirts." ... Email: hsim@atnf.csiro.au . ...

I-GALFA Survey Status . Survey observations began on May 3, 2008 and concluded on September 12, 2009, with ZOA (A2144) and GALFACTS (A2390) as commensal partners throughout. ... Individual night sky tracks can be viewed on the position plots page; other details are on the observing schedule . ... 2008 Apr - May . ... field A observed . 2008 Jun - Aug . ... 2008 Aug - Oct . ... 2009 May - Aug . ... I-GALFA Data Release . ... Full public release of all data products is anticipated shortly. ...

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 . ...

XMM-Newton CCF Release Note XMM-CCF-REL-133 EPIC MOS gain M. Kirsch December 12, 2002 1 CCF components Name of CCF VALDATE EVALDATE List of Blocks CAL XSCS (start of val. period) (end of validity period) changed VERS. ag EMOS1 ADUCONV 0019 2002-11-07T05:00:01 OFFSET GAIN NO EMOS2 ADUCONV 0019 2002-11-07T05:00:01 OFFSET GAIN NO 2 Changes A new ADUCONV CCF has been generated from the values derived by Leicester after the cooling of the cameras. ...

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). ...

... Feeding the Monster: Gas C