... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... This shows the Sun, Moon and Earth (not to scale) together with the . ... They have tested the technique on the Earthshine, the light reflected from the Earth by the Moon, and showed that it can reveal the presence of life in our planet. ... This technique uses the fact that the light reflected from the planet is polarised, whereas that emitted by the star is not. ... Polarised light can tell us about the reflecting surface...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . News . Observing . ... Magazine . ... Press Room . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Press Releases . ... Astronomy magazine editors are here to help enrich media and blogger coverage of meteor showers, space missions, and night-sky events. ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

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... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Site Info . ... This page is basically a list of links to websites that either support or refute the claim that NASA never sent men to the Moon. I have my own detailed rebuttal of the Fox television program ``Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land On The Moon?'' in my Bad TV section . ... I plan on having a thorough debunking of this on this site eventually. ... Below are listed pages by both the conspiracy theorists and the debunkers. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science and Technical Meetings > Conferences 2012 > Real Time Control for Adaptive Optics Workshop . ... ESO Data . ... The 3 rd Edition of the Real Time Control for Adaptive Optics Workshop is scheduled for spring 2014. The real-time control system (RTCS) is a crucial component for any astronomical adaptive optics (AO) system. ... As such, the workshop is aimed at real-time control specialists, instrument scientists and adaptive optics engineers. ...

... Gliese 229B: A Really Cool Brown Dwarf . ... Missions . ... Research . ... Last year we have identified a common proper motion companion to the nearby star Gliese 229. ... We report broad-band photometry of the object from 0.7 micron to 10 microns. ... We conclude that this is a brown dwarf with an effective temperature of 900 K. Strong bands of refractory oxides and hydrides (TiO, VO, FeH) are conspicuously missing from the Keck optical spectrum - similar to the situation in Jupiter. ...

Local Weather information(Mirror) . ... UofI - The Daily Planet . Real time weather . PLANET EARTH HOME PAGE . Weather Information . ... Current weather maps/movies . Weather movies . ... TIME Daily news . ... International press (Links of the editorial office 'Der Spiegel') . International press (Links of Gerben Vos) . ... White House Press Release . ...

... Ganymede: A Really Groovy Moon . ... Credit: Galileo Mission Team , Galileo Spacecraft , NASA Explanation: Ganymede's surface is a wrinkled mess. As large ice-sheets shift on the moon's surface , parts of the surface buckle causing high ridges, deep furrows, and parallel grooves. ... The Galileo spacecraft has also just discovered that Ganymede has a region of orbiting charged particles called a magnetosphere - a first for any moon. ... APOD's Archive of Galileo at Ganymede . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Alien Life . ... Space Flight . ... NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, Expedition 40/41 flight engineer, participates in an Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuit fit check at NASA?s Johnson Space Center. Image credit: NASA) . Step up the next astronaut who really took on the task of showing us earthlings the wonders of being an astronaut on the International Space Station (ISS) Reid Wiseman . ...

... Re : Need easy way to download whole KHG . ... For now, you can use web mirroring packages to create your own local mirror and read from there. Several such packages are available, and since I don't use any of them, I don't have details like names: can someone else who knows please post details? For the future, it would be nice if someone is interested enough in mirroring to write scripts for the KHG that allow you to read it off-line, but also allow you to respond. ...

Arecibo is joining 16 other telescopes around the world to form a 'global telescope' to celebrate the start of the International Year of Astronomy. The observations, coordinated from the Netherlands, will follow three quasars for a 24-hour period. Arecibo will join the observations on January 15 between 11 am and 1:15 pm and between 5 and 8 pm (Puerto Rican time). ... Information on activities in Puerto Rico during the International Year of Astronomy can be found at Astronomy2009pr.org . ...

... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Facilities . ... CSIRO ATNF Data Archives . ... In preparation for the start of the ASKAP Early Science Program , the first ASKAP Community Busy Week was held this week at the Sydney Institute for Astronomy (SIfA) . ... Like the science produced from BETA before it, commissioning data produced with ASKAP-12 will focus on demonstrating ASKAP's unique capabilities while being used to prepare for the fit-out of the full telescope. ...

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE . ... the International Space Station . The Russian Soyuz TMA-4 manned transport spacecraft docked to the International Space Station (ISS) Orbital Complex. ... P. Semenov, Technical Director of Russian Manned Space Programs, General Designer of S.P. Korolev RSC Energia, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences), as well as representatives of the Russian enterprises and organizations participating in the implementation of the ISS program. ...

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... Space flight . ... Space camp . ... And now it's a high time for everyone not only to take use of the satellite communication, but also to fly into the real space without being a professional cosmonaut. ... My flight into space is not a walk, it is fulfillment of my life-long dream", - said Dennis Tito prior to take-off. ... ATLAS aerospace company is privileged to offer you a real flight into space - the most unbelievable and challenging adventure. ... Services / Space flight: General description ....

ALBUM: X-Factor Bonus Tracks (Japanese release) @SONG: JUSTICE OF THE PEACE (Murray, Harris) Have you heard on the news Another let off madman Another screw on the loose Is it the judge or the badman What's the matter these days No one has the courage to put them away Nobody has any faith 'Cause there's a breakdown of justice and order *Watiting for justice , waiting for justice of the peace Waiting for justice , waiting for ...

... July 11, 1996 . Ganymede: A Really Groovy Moon . Credit: Galileo Mission Team , Galileo Spacecraft , NASA . ... As large ice-sheets shift on the moon's surface , parts of the surface buckle causing high ridges, deep furrows, and parallel grooves. ... The Galileo spacecraft has also just discovered that Ganymede has a region of orbiting charged particles called a magnetosphere - a first for any moon. ... APOD's Archive of Galileo at Ganymede . ... About APOD | ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

Next: Mission Operations Data Transfer . ... VLBI Tape Management . VLBI Tapes . ... When: As soon as the correlator is satisfied with the correlator output. back to top . ... What: Each correlator will maintain a data base including the status of all VLBI tapes under its control. ... The correlators will distribute tapes to mission elements based on the Observation Summary File produced by the RSOG ( Observation Summary File ) to ensure each element has enough tapes to support SVLBI observations. ...

... AAS 221 . AAS 219 . AAS 218 . AAS215 . ... Can we divine anything from the Twitter stream of the 215th meeting of the AAS ? The results presented here unfortunately do not reflect all the tweets from the meeting, but only those available via the Twitter Search API . ... For the period January 1, 2010 to January 8, 2010, I found there were 352 tweets that contained the #aas215 hash tag, and 895 that used the #aas hash tag. ... Here's the word cloud from the 1247 tweets: . ...

... 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 . ...