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? ...

... These Frontier Fields will combine the power of HST with the natural gravitational telescopes of high-magnification clusters of galaxies. ... We are soliciting gravitational lensing maps for the last four Hubble Frontier Fields clusters (MACSJ0717.5+3745, MACSJ1149.5+2223, AbellS1063, and Abell 370) based upon the exceptionally deep HST FF imaging and other new ancillary data. ... For the full set of proposal instructions and requirements, see the FY16 Frontier Fields Lensing Map Call for Proposals....

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. September 5, 1996 . Watch Galaxies Form . ... Although peculiar by present standards of galaxies , these blobs may have been normal in the distant past, many billions of years ago. This adds evidence that galaxies formed from the conglomeration of smaller objects instead of the fragmentation of larger objects . ... About APOD | ...

A press release on the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey was associated with this poster. ... Below are maps of HI emission, HISA, and 12 CO emission in the eastern 25% of the survey, given as projections along the velocity ( Figure 1 ) and latitude ( Figure 2 ) axes. ... 2000, A. J. , submitted . ... GIF | ... We are developing automated methods of locating HISA in velocity cubes by removing large-scale emission in space and velocity and flagging small-scale dark residuals. ...

... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... ESO's Governing Bodies . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . Travel to Vitacura Office . Travel to Guesthouse . ... Survey Telescopes . ... 2010 . ... Video News Releases . ... ESO 3.6-metre telescope . ... MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope . ... ESO 1-metre Schmidt telescope . ... ESO Call for Proposals for Period 87 released. Deadline is 30 September 2010. More information: http://www.eso.org/sci/observing/proposals/ . ...

Next: Release of 14 Jan. Up: Old Releases Previous: Release of 1 Aug. ... Fix a concatenation problem (Linux only?) in envir.f - related to the use of environment variables. RCW 15 Jan 1997. Moved to standard release (14 Jan version). Add some variables to SAVEs. ... 21 Jan 1997. ... Update Sla/dat.f for July 1, 1997 leap second. 27jan97 RCW. Add comment to crd files giving tape start times. 3feb97 RCW. ... Debugging and porting over next few days. 3feb97 RCW. ... 7Feb97 RCW. ...

... 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) . ...

M1 image More About M1 Nice Color Picture . ... M16 image More About M16 HST image . ... M31 image More About M31 Nice Color Picture . ... M42 image ; M43 image More About M42/43 Nice Color CCD Picture . M51 image More About M51 Color Image of M51 M51 Supernova . M57 image More About M57 Nice Color CCD Picture Very Deep M57 Image . ... M81 image More About M81 M81 Supernova Ultraviolet Image of M81 More about Ultraviolet Imaging . M82 image More About M82 M82 False Color M82 True Color . ...

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... Elliptical Galaxy NGC 4881 in Coma . ... Elliptical galaxies are unlike spiral galaxies and hence unlike our own Milky Way Galaxy. ... The Coma Cluster of Galaxies . ... Almost every object in the above photograph is a galaxy. ... Spiral Galaxy NGC 253 Almost Sideways . ... NGC 253 is a normal spiral galaxy seen here almost sideways. ... Spiral Galaxy NGC 3628 Edge On . ... The Barren Moon . ... Grand Design Spiral Galaxy NGC 2997 . ... NGC 2997 is a grand design spiral galaxy. ...

... 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 . ...

PRESS-RELEASE . about the return of the ISS-13 and VC-11 crews to the Earth . The Soyuz TMA-8 descent module returned to ground the Expedition 13 crew of the International Space Station (ISS-13) consisting of Pavel Vinogradov (commander, S.P.Korolev RSC Energia test cosmonaut), and Jeffry Williams (flight engineer, NASA astronaut). ... The spacecraft descent was carried out in the nominal automatic control mode. ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

... This story was presented at a press conference at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, at 10am on 7th January 2004, US Eastern Time (2am 8th January AEST). ... The animation uses data from the Anglo-Australian Telescope (at Siding Spring Observatory) and the Blanco Telescope (at Cerro Tololo Observatory), and should be credited to NASA. NASA Website: The galaxy filament was first identified using the Blanco Telescope at Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory: . ...

... August Solar Eclipse Report: Thursday 11 September 2008 . ... Dr Fosbury is head of the section in the European Space Agency (ESA) as part of ESA's collaboration with NASA on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) project at ST-ECF . ... The lecture is entitled "Astronomy today and the role played by the Hubble Space Telescope". ... Tuesday, 16 September 2008 00:44 . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... News . Observing . ... Sky this Month . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... NASA releases new imagery of asteroid mission . ... NASA released on August 22 new photos and video animations depicting the agency s planned mission to find, capture, redirect, and study a near-Earth asteroid. ... 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 newsletter. ...

... While "First Light" was achieved at the second 8.2-m VLT Unit Telescope (UT2) ahead of schedule, UT1 produced its sharpest image so far. ... It had long been ESO's intention to provide "real" names to the four VLT Unit Telescopes, to replace the current, somewhat dry and technical designations as UT1 to UT4. ... The participants were left with the impression of mounting expectations, just four weeks before the first VLT Unit Telescope, Antu (UT1), will receive the first visiting astronomers. ...

Title (Once Again) : Fieldhouse (Beta Version) Release Date : 01-26-96 File List : FELDHAUS.WAD NEWWAD.WAD FELDHAUS.TXT FELDHAUS.BAT Disk Space Required : Author : Stephen J. Speck Posting From : speck@sju.edu Email Address : speck@sju.edu Misc. ... Other WADs By Author : None released. ... Cool Stuff : + Replaces E1M1 in (Ultimate) Doom1 + Adds a chainlink fence graphic. ... Deathmatch 2-4 Player : Hell yeah! ... You MAY distribute this WAD, provided you include this file, with no modifications. ...

Astronomical Society of the Pacific Announces 2009 Award Winners in Astronomy Research and Education . The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) today announced the winners of its 2009 awards for excellence in astronomy research and education. ... The Thomas J. Brennan Award for excellence in the teaching of astronomy in grades 9-12, has gone to Ardis Herrold , astronomy and Earth sciences educator at Grosse Pointe North High School in Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan. ...

... Meta Index / Home Page / F90 DAL API / API Overview A column can be accessed and released again with the procedures . ... The following example illustrates how to change the values in a column. program modifyColumn use dal type(DataSetT) :: set type(TableT) :: tab type(ColumnT) :: col integer(kind=int32), dimension(:), pointer :: x set = dataSet("test.dat",Modify) tab = table(set,"test") col = column(tab,"x",0,0,Modify) x => int32Data(col) x = 124 call release(col) call release(set) end program . ...

OptInt PmWiki . Pm Wiki / . Edit Page | ... Security . ... Use Cookbook:DeleteAction and password protect the page deletion action by adding $DefaultPasswords['delete'] = '*'; to config.php or password protect the action with $HandleAuth ['delete'] = 'edit'; . ... Require admin password to edit RecentChanges (etc.) pages. if ($action=='edit' && preg_match('/\\.( ... Require admin password to edit RecentChanges (etc.) pages. if ($action=='edit' && preg_match('(Search|Group(Header|Footer)|( ...