... Events . ... The orbit of the Moon is too small to be seen on this scale, but the 2008 December 1st alignment was especially interesting because additionally Venus was occulted by the Moon (this occultation was visible from Europe and NW Africa). Some more photos of the 1 December events received from Jonathan Bingham . ... Venus coming out from behind the Moon; photograph by Jonathan Bingham . ISS; photograph by Jonathan Bingham . ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... 2008 December 4 . Venus in the Moon . ... Explanation: On December 1, bright planets Venus and Jupiter gathered near the young crescent Moon, an inspiring celestial scene in early evening skies around the world . But from some locations the Moon actually passed in front of Venus, interrupting the tight grouping with a lunar occultation. ... In the inset, recorded later in darkened skies over Breil-sur-Roya in southeastern France, a dazzling Venus has reappeared below the bright lunar crescent. ...

... It also featured the remarkable conjunction of the crescent Moon, Venus, and Jupiter forming a twilight smiley face. ... On December 1, bright planets Venus and Jupiter gathered near the young crescent Moon, an inspiring celestial scene in early evening skies around the world. ... Astronaut.. Massive Stars Resolved in the Carina Nebula . ... An Apollo 15 Panorama: Astronaut Exploring . ... Night skies over Chilean mountain top observatories can be dark and clear, with glorious cosmic vistas. ...

August 26, 2006, . ... The 2 nd Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad to be held in Vladivostok and Ussurijsk (Far East of Russian Federation). Preliminary dates for the 2 nd Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad are December 4-11 (a couple weeks later than the 11 th IAO in Bombay ). ... For the teams which ask for Russian visa - together with the personal data for visas (or before). E-mails for sending the applications . ... The Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad 2006 - last information . ...

... English (Ireland) . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Star Clusters . ... 2005 . ... Stars@ESO . ... ESO 3.6-metre telescope . ... Catch a Star 2005 . ... Using the NACO adaptive optics instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope and its ability to obtain images as sharp as if taken from space, astronomers looked at a bipolar shell ejected by a "vampire star", which underwent an outburst after gulping down part of its companionтАЩs matter. ... V445 Puppis . ...

... 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. ...

... 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. ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... History . Brief History of Rocket and Space Technology . ... ISS Russian Segment . ... Experiments and Researches from 2013 . ... Support of the Station functionality; . ... Onboard photographic and video recording of the ISS RS flight history and implementation of symbolic activities program. ... Support of the Space Station functionality; . ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

... The school and the conference will be held at the Poncelet Laboratory for all days except from December 7 . ... The nearest metro station is СМОЛЕНСКАЯ (Smolenskaya), line 3 , 5 minutes by walk. ... How to reach Poncelet Laboratory from these metro stations. ... It is located within 15 minutes by feet from АКАДЕМИЧЕСКАЯ (Akademicheskaya) metro station, line 6 . ... There are a lot of exchange offices where you can exchange euro or US dollars to rubles. ...

... Steven L. Smith . NASA International Space Station Program Liaison to the European Space Agency . ... SPECIAL HONORS: NASA Distinguished Service Medals (two), NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal, NASA Space Flight Medal, NASA Exceptional Service Medal, IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award and IBM Outstanding Community Service Award. ... NASA EXPERIENCE: Smith is a veteran of four space flights covering 16 million miles and seven space walks totaling 49 hours and 25 minutes. ... DECEMBER 2013 ...

... More on 51 Peg: . The discovery of a Jupiter--mass planet in orbit around the solar--type star 51Peg has been reported by Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz (Geneva Observatory) on October 6th at the 9th Cambridge workshop on "cool stars, stellar systems, and the sun" held at Florence (Italy). ... Recall that the measurements of radial velocity only yield v sin i which in turn gives us M sin i. For most values of i, sin i will be greater than 0.5 and this gives a mass estimate of 0.5 Jupiter masses. ...

... Please find below the final programme of the workshop. Each regular talk will be 20 minutes long plus another 10 minutes for questions and discussion at the end. On Friday there will be a pizza lunch combined with an informal discussion session kindly facilitated by John Dickey and Felix J. Lockman. ... Coffee . ... Magnetic Fields in the Thick Disk of the Milky Way . ... Highly Ionized Plasma in High-Velocity Clouds . ... Limits on the Hot Diffuse Galactic Halo . ... John Dickey . ...

... Space Flight . ... Earth Satellites . ... On Christmas day the crew of Apollo 8 had a surprise when they opened their food containers and found a meal of real turkey and stuffing and three miniature bottles of brandy alongside presents from their wives. ... This venture placed the third and final crew onto the Skylab space station . ... Spending Christmas in space continues today with astronauts and cosmonauts having this holiday period onboard the International Space Station (ISS). ...

... U.S. statements regarding today's United Nations 62nd General Assembly declaration of 2009 as the International Year of Astronomy . J. Craig Wheeler, president of the American Astronomical Society, said, "I am thrilled that we have received official United Nations designation for the International Year of Astronomy 2009. The American Astronomical Society has been a vigorous and leading supporter of this initiative. ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : The Moon only shows one face to us because it is not rotating. Better astronomy : The Moon only shows one face because it is rotating, once every time it revolves around the Earth. ... Place the Moon model on the table about 30 centimeters (one foot) away with the X facing the Earth model. ... You'll see that to keep the X facing the Earth model, you have to rotate the Moon model as it goes around the Earth model . ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... Observing . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Jupiter brightens the December sky . ... The largest planet in the solar system, Jupiter, reaches maximum brightness the night of December 2. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email...

... The Pleiades star cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, is a conspicuous object in the night sky with a prominent place in ancient mythology . ... The stars in the Pleiades are thought to have formed together around 100 million years ago, making them 1/50th the age of our sun, and they lie some 130 parsecs (425 light years ) away. ... Data for these stars are listed in a table below. ... Yes . ... WEBDA Pleiades cluster data . ... M45: The Pleiades Star Cluster (2007 November 18) ...

... This is my nostalgic Web Site on the Nineteenth International Logic Programming Conference (Mumbai, India, December 9-13, 2003). ... The gallery: My first impressions of Mumbai. The gallery: New friends. ... Our research group started the work on the next logic programming language about 15 years ago. ... The gallery: Mumbai in the night. ... The gallery: The Mumbai town. ... I am grateful to the Association of Logic Programming ( ALP ) that supported my visit to ICLP'03 . ...

... It was designed to observe the solar wind approaching Earth, from a position near the Lagrangian point L1, and it is part of the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) Initiative . ... The original plan called for "Wind" to approach its final station over two years, undergoing two close encounters with the Moon to boost its speed. ... If however the object is moving , the encounter is not symmetric, and in the end the spacecraft may have gained or lost speed, depending on its trajectory. ...

... December 20-24, 2004, . Space Research Institute (IKI),Moscow, Russia. ... The conference will commemorate his contribution to astronomy by concentrating on recent progress in cosmology and high energy astrophysics, the areas where his ideas laid basis for revolutionary advances. The conference will be held at the Space Research Institute (IKI) in Moscow, Russia, on December 20-24, 2004. ... Cosmology . ... High Energy Astrophysics Department at IKI , 2004. ...