... 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...

... HST . CALSTIS v2.15c Release Notes . ... Data . ... HST Overview . ... STIS . ... Note that this version includes a few of the changes announced in CALSTIS v2.16 (which was released on STSDAS only). ... The following OPRs are implemented in the release of CALSTIS 2.15c: . ... The STIS daily mama additive images and the lifetime cumulative images for STIS data taken on or after 2003-Jun-15 appear to be in error. ... OPR 50488: STIS time-dependent sensitivity (TDS) tables for imaging data STIS. ...

Titan . ... Hubble Space Telescope Images of Titan's surface . ... Later that year, it will release the European-built Huygens probe for a descent through Titan's atmosphere. ... This artist's rendering shows the European Space Agency's Huygens probe descending into the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan after being released by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. ... This artist's rendering shows the Huygens probe on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan after being released by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. ...

Next: Release of 18 Nov. ... Convert to 4 digit years in VLBA control files. ... Fix bug found by Norbert Bartel where a postpass warning goes out even on VLBA sites using 1 drive. 5dec97 RCW. ... Add some more variables to SAVE parameters that were missed before. ... 20 Jan 1998 RCW. ... 10 Feb 98. ... 17 Feb 98 RCW. ... Restructuring some of tape handling code to separate automatic tape handling from other types and to completely separate S2. ... RCW. ... Do not allow ``!'' in cover information. ...

... 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). ...

... UA SCIENTIST & TEAM DISCOVER SURFACE FEATURES COVER TITAN (Science contacts: Peter H. Smith, (602) 621-2725; Mark Lemmon, (602) 621-1485; UA Lunar and Planetary Laboratory) . Scientists for the first time have made images of the surface of Saturn 's giant, haze-shrouded moon, Titan. ... About three weeks before Cassini's first flyby of Titan, the spacecraft is to release the European Space Agency's Huygens Probe to parachute to Titan's surface. ... Upper left: hemisphere facing Saturn. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... Assignments 4, 5 and 6 all involve the imaginary world of Ziggy. ... Each week, you should write a short executive briefing to Captain Howard, explaining to her what you have learned from that week's data. ... A 500 word limit applies to each briefing you submit. You will submit three briefing papers (due dates below): one for each data release. ... First briefing due (Assignment 4). 2nd data set released. ... Second briefing due (Assignment 5). 3rd and final data set released. ...

NASA Press Release Text - June 24, 1996 GALILEO READY FOR CLOSE FLYBY OF JUPITER'S BIGGEST MOON Now residing in orbit around Jupiter, NASA's Galileo spacecraft is primed for its first close flyby of Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede, at 2:29 a.m. EDT on June 27, 1996. ... In the days just before and after the Ganymede flyby, Galileo's other studies will include a search for auroral activity on Jupiter's nightside and observations of other Jovian moons: Io, Europa and Callisto. ...

... Get out your red/blue glasses and gaze down on this weathered mesa on Mars. ... It certainly looks like it at first glance, with a dark, cratered Moon standing off from planet Earth's lovely blue disk surrounded by a nurturing atmosphere. ... NGC 5139: Omega Centauri . ... The Milky Way flows through this celestial expanse whose wonders also include the closest star system to the Sun, Alpha Centauri, and the largest globular star cluster in our galaxy, Omega Centauri (aka NGC 5139). ...

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. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Solar System . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... By admin January 21, 2011 Posted in: Robot Exploration . A UFO hovers in the Martian sky (Image credit:NASA/JPL) . The car-sized Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity is too heavy to slam into the rocky plains of Mars encased in airbags like its predecessors, so this imaginative and complex system was devised instead. ... Is there a video anywhere on the internet of a test of the ?sky crane? rockets? ...

... Posts tagged ?Data Release? Mar 5th, 2008| 02:13 pm | ... Today, the 5th year data was released (The news is found here ). ... Tags: 5th year , Data Release , WMAP . ... vlk on [MADS] Parallel Coordinates . ... Algorithms arXiv Astro Bad AstroStat Bayesian CHASC Cross-Cultural Data Processing Fitting Frequentist Galaxies gamma-ray High-Energy Imaging Jargon Job Languages MC MCMC Meta Methods Misc News Nuggets Objects Optical Physics Quotes Spectral Stars Stat Timing Uncertainty X-ray . ...

... 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 . ...

... SciSim release covered by this note . ... Data-Analysis-with-SAS in a simple and standardised way, and should allow calibration experts to re-assess the reliability of the different elements of XMM-Newton simulations. ... Also, a release of all calibration files to be used in the reduction, through the SAS, of SciSim generated data, is coordinated with this release. ... Furthermore, two SAS tasks (odffix and epicproc) had to be updated to make possible a proper SAS data reduction of simulated data. ...

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE . ... The VC-4 flight tasks were successfully completed. The manned transfer vehicle Soyuz TM-34, been a part of ISS orbital complex since April 27, 2002, as a rescue vehicle and been the earlier manned space vehicle modification of Soyuz type, was replaced by Soyuz TMA-1, the new modification, designed by the S.P. Korolev RSC Energia specialists in cooperation with its subcontractors from Russian rocket and space industry. ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

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 | ...

... Main . ... Software . ... The Fakerat is a software package to help planning of observations with the RadioAstron mission. This version of the software has been designed to match the technical information that appears . in the RadioAstron User's Handbook . Fakerat, version 16, Linux distribution; release on December 27, 2013: . ... fakerat file . fakerat_lib file . readme file . install file . ... package src . Software complex ASL , Windows and Linux distributions. ...

... Roger Ritenour Title : Earth Filename : Earth.wad Author : Roger Ritenour Emale Address : ritenour@mail.comet.net Description : Ten level episode replacement for first episode of Hell on Earth. ... Play Information * Episode and Level # : Map01-Map10 of Doom II Single Player : Yes Cooperative Player : Yes (untested) Deathmatch : Yes (untested) Difficulty Settings : Yes, full range, all settings are slightly more difficult than standard Doom settings. ...

... 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) ...