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... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Risks Comparable to NEOs . ... The Increasing Rate of Discovery of Asteroids . ... Comet and Asteroid Collision Probabilities . ... Extreme albedo comets and the impact hazard (PDF Format) . ... Asteroid Impact Animations . ... Workshop on Scientific Requirements for Mitigation of Hazardous Comets and Asteroids - 2002 . ... The Spaceguard Survey Report, 1992 (PDF) . Tsunami from Asteroid/Comet Impacts . ...

... The remote planet Pluto and its moon Charon orbit the Sun at a mean distance of almost 6,000 million kilometres, or nearly fourty times farther out than the Earth. During a recent investigation by an international group of astronomers [1], the best picture ever of Pluto and Charon [2] was secured with the European Space Agency's Faint Object Camera at the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). ... The new HST image was taken when Charon was near its maximum elongation from Pluto (0.9 arcseconds). ...

... STScI-PRC96-25 HUBBLE'S 100,000TH EXPOSURE CAPTURES IMAGE OF DISTANT QUASAR The Hubble Space Telescope achieved its 100,000th exposure June 22 with a snapshot of a quasar that is about 9 billion light-years from Earth. ... The fainter object just above it is an elliptical galaxy. ... The quasar and star are separated by billions of light-years. ... Image files in GIF and JPEG format and captions may be accessed on Internet via anonymous ftp from ftp.stsci.edu in /pubinfo. ...

STScI . HST . ... Missions . ... Data . ... Hubble Heritage Project . ... Research . ... HST Overview . Overview . ... The Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS) was one of the 4 original axial instruments aboard the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). ... Consequently, FOS observations can no longer be requested, and only Archival Research programs to make use of FOS data may be submitted. ... All FOS data have been recalibrated by ST-ECF and were ingested into the STScI HST Archive in the summer of 2004. ...

... We present the first edition of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Quasar Catalog. The catalog consists of the 3814 objects (3000 discovered by the SDSS) in the initial SDSS public data release that have at least one emission line with a full width at half-maximum larger than 1000 km s-1, luminosities brighter than Mi*=-23, and highly reliable redshifts. ... Based on observations obtained with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which is owned and operated by the Astrophysical Research Consortium. ...

... Archives . ... Mar 5th, 2008| 02:13 pm | ... There have been strong collaborations among statisticians, mathematicians, computer scientists, and astronomers (cosmologists) under WMAP (Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe) mission. Today, the 5th year data was released (The news is found here ). ... The Legacy Archive for Microwave Background Data Analysis (LAMBDA) website . ... Tags: 5th year , Data Release , WMAP . ... Comment ( RSS ) | ... Chandra Blog . ... Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS) . ...

... SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Astronomy . ... Hubble Space Telescope Images: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/image_category/ . ... The Chandra x-ray telescope (in orbit around Earth) has been sending back a wide range of images of what deep space objects would look like if seen with "x-ray sensitive" eyes. ... Web Sites for Asking Astronomy Questions . ... Ask an Astronomer for Kids: http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_kids/AskKids/index.shtml...

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Image credit: Michael Nolan, Arecibo Observatory. These radar images of near-Earth asteroid 2001 SN263 were obtained on 2008 Feb 12 and 13. ... Image from Feb 12 . ... First near-Earth triple asteroid discovered by Arecibo Observatory . ... was discovered this week by astronomers at the sensitive radar telescope at Cornell University?s Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. ... For example, Arecibo has discovered more than half of the near-Earth binary asteroid systems discovered since 1999. ...

... 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 . ...

... Behind CL1358+62: A New Farthest Object . ... Credit: M. Franx ( U. Groningen ) G. Illingworth ( UCSC ), WFPC2 , HST , NASA Explanation: What if we could see back to the beginning of the universe? At one tenth the universe's present age , we might see galaxies forming . ... Публикации с ключевыми словами: далекие галактики - гравитационная линза - Скопление галактик . Публикации со словами: далекие галактики - гравитационная линза - Скопление галактик . ... Скопление галактик в Геркулесе . ...

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE . ... The Progress M1-11 vehicle prelaunch processing was conducted under the direction of Yu.P. Semenov, Technical Manager of the Russian Manned Flight Programs, General Designer of S.P. Korolev RSC Energia, the RAS academician. ... It is the 11th space vehicle of the range of transport cargo vehicles-tankers developed and manufactured by S.P. Korolev RSC Energia in cooperation with the Russian rocket-space industry enterprises and agencies. ...

After a couple of visits by Steve Larson and Ed Beshore in late 2003 and early March 2004 to deal with various hardware issues and to install the new survey code, regular surveying commenced in mid-March 2004. ... However, the initial results are most satisfying and new objects have been found from the very first night. ... UA Media Release . ... Fellow Uppsala observer Rob McNaught was observing NEOs with the 1.0-m at Siding Spring as part of our regular program of follow-up observations. ...

SAS 6.1 AND OM GRISM DATA PROCESSING ------------------------------------ Processing of OM grism data has changed substantially in this SAS 6.1 release. ... The results are written into the files: - p*SPCREG*.ASC a region type file depicting the positions of the zero and the extracted first order - p*SPECLI*.FIT the fits file corresponding to the extracted spectrum - p*SPECTR*.FIT contains the extracted spectrum: wavelength, net count rate, background, flux and corresponding errors. ...

... December 14, 1998 . The Hubble Deep Field South . Credit: R. Williams ( STScI ), HDF-S Team , NASA . ... Part of this field is shown above. Numerous astronomers are currently poring over this field, trying to find clues about young galaxies , cosmological curvature , and dark matter . Clearly, visible among galaxies as dim as magnitude 30 in this long-duration exposure (and in the original Hubble Deep Field North ) are many peculiar looking galaxies . ... About APOD > . ...

... We have developed a web site using HTML, Php, Python, and MySQL that extracts, processes, and displays data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the Two-Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS). The goal is to locate brown dwarf candidates in the SDSS database by looking at color cuts; however, this site could also be useful for targeted searches of other databases as well. MySQL databases are created from broad searches of SDSS and 2MASS data. ... 2002). ... 2002, AJ, 123, 3409 . ...

... 08.May.95 verify.tar.Z # MIDAS verification procedures (optional) calib.tar.Z # All calibration data already installed (optional) demo.tar.Z # All demo data already installed (optional) 97NOVpl2.0.tar.gz # MIDAS 97NOV patch level 2.0 already installed and # without sources, for Linux 2.0.28 (Slackware # distribution but also verified to run on RedHat 4.2) [00-13].97NOVpl2.0.tar.gz # The previous file in 1.44 MB chunks. ... Select NAME to DELETE: - Optional: Calibration and Demo data already...

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