... Credit Copyright: Hubble Legacy Archive , NASA , ESA - Processing: Jos Jim nez Priego Explanation: Dwarf galaxy NGC 5195 is best known as the smaller companion of spiral M51, the Whirlpool galaxy . Seen together they seem to trace the curve and dot of a cosmic question mark , recorded in Lord Rosse's 19th century drawings as one of the original spiral nebulae. Dwarfed by enormous M51 (aka NGC 5194), NGC 5195 spans about 20,000 light-years. ... NGC 3310: A Starburst Spiral Galaxy . ...

... We can help students grasp the significance of Hubble's extremely keen eye, and learn a bit about angles and math in the process, with the following in-class activity. ... Looking through binoculars or telescopes allows us to magnify a small section of the sky. To measure sizes or distances in that small section, astronomers divide a degree into 60 smaller pieces called arcminutes, and further subdivide minutes into 60 smaller sections called arcseconds. ... 30 feet = . ... 36 seconds . ...

... HST . ... Data . ... Hubble Heritage Project . ... HST Overview . ... Cycle 24 Announcement . ... Retrieving HST Data . ... 03/16/2004 - The ACS-WFC raw data and the associated calibration files for the Hubble Ultra Deep Field are now available. ... Also, a nice Javascript viewer for browsing the UDF field is now available. ... The ACS Ultra Deep Field (UDF) is a survey carried out using the Advanced Camera for Surveys ( ACS ) on HST and taking advantage of the Director's Discretionary time. ...

... The European HST Archive has been moved to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre ( ESAC ), Spain, where most of ESA's Space Science Archives are located and operated from. ... The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), jointly operated by ESA and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) was, until the end of 2010, the European HST science facility, supporting the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

... 2013 August 31 . NGC 5195: The Dot Under the Question Mark . ... Explanation: Dwarf galaxy NGC 5195 is best known as the smaller companion of spiral M51, the Whirlpool galaxy . Seen together they seem to trace the curve and dot of a cosmic question mark , recorded in Lord Rosse's 19th century drawings as one of the original spiral nebulae. Dwarfed by enormous M51 (aka NGC 5194), NGC 5195 spans about 20,000 light-years. ... About APOD | ...

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First Mid Term Date has Changed . Classes on Friday . ... Second Midterm Date is Changed to May 29 . ... Local Astronomy Stuff . ... Excellent Overview of the Early Universe . ... First Midterm Results . First Midterm Answers . Second Midterm Results . Second Midterm Answers . ... Study Guide for the First Midterm . Study Guide for the Second Midterm . ... WEEK 1: ANCIENT COSMOLOGY . ... The Universe in the first 0.01 -0.1 seconds . The Universe in the first 0.1 -1 second . ...

... 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 . ...

... Это первое изображение звезды, отличной от Солнца, полученное космическим телескопом. Звезда, называемая Aльфой Ориона (Бетельгейзе), отмечена крестиком на правом изображении зимнего созвездия Ориона (Охотника). На изображении показана огромная ультрафиолетовая атмосфера звезды с таинственным ярким пятном размером в десять раз большим диаметра Земли и имеющем температуру по-крайней мере на 2000 К больше температуры остальной поверхности звезды. ...

Radio data are displayed in the following format: . After the title with name of cluster under examination and with line about kind of data under one, e.g. Radio data [ optical data ] [ radio source identifications ] [ radio spectra (1.0 or 1.1) ] . ... The first line contains the number of radio sources associated with the cluster (these are just those sources with entries in sections 'Radio galaxy', 'Radio source' and 'Radio spectrum' below). ... Radio sources in cluster: 2 # . ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Publications > Science Announcements > GRAVITY VLTI Instrument Under Integration on Paranal . ... Observing Facilities . ... Paranal Facilities . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... Science Archive Facility . ... The VLTI 2nd generation instrument GRAVITY provides a four way beam combination facility with laser metrology for micro-arcsecond astrometry and high resolution imaging and spectroscopy in the K -band, described in Eisenhauer et al 2011 ...

... NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected a long-sought population of comets dwelling at the icy fringe of the solar system . The observation, which is the astronomical equivalent to finding the proverbial needle-in-a-haystack, bolsters proof for a primordial comet reservoir just beyond Neptune , currently the farthest planet from the Sun . ... The comet-disk lies just beyond Neptune and might stretch 500 times farther from the Sun than Earth . ... Comet Introduction Kuiper Belt Objects . ...

Hubble Family Homes . ... New Albany . ... New Albany High School . ... During the summer Edwin translated Spanish documents for an import company, and that fall he was hired to teach Spanish, physics, and mathematics, and to coach basketball, at New Albany High School. ... Gale E. Christianson has written an authoritative biography -- Edwin Hubble, Mariner of the Nebulae (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, New York, 1995) -- that documents Hubble's career and describes the year he spent in Louisville. ...

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... Star Atlas . ... stars . ... Hubble uncovers surprising evidence for an extrasolar planet under construction . ... Astronomers using NASA s Hubble Space Telescope have found compelling evidence of a planet forming 7.5 billion miles (12.1 billion km) away from its star, a finding that may challenge current theories about planet formation. ... A planet is forming in an Earth-like orbit around a young star . ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...

... A Web browser with Java support and an account to establish a secure Internet HTTP connection to the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), is everything needed in order to use the new Control Center System (CCS). Then full access to the telemetry of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is given (Figure 2). A public version of CCS is also available. ... Rifkin, A. 1997, Reengineering the Hubble Space Telescope Control Center System, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. ...

Multi-Wavelength investigations of the Sun and modern problems of solar activity . SAO RAS . ... Section "Physics of solar plasma" under the Council "Sun – Earth" . ... Bogod V.M., Dr.Sci (SPb Branch of SAO RAS) deputy chairman . ... SAO RAS) - chairman . Bogod V.M. (SPb Branch of SAO RAS) - deputy chairman . Mingaliev M.G. (SAO RAS) - deputy chairman . Kostjuk I.P. (SAO RAS) scientific secretary . ... Vitkovskij V.V. (SAO RAS) . Kaltman T.I. (SPb Branch of SAO RAS) . ... RAS | ...

... If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern." William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell . ... Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." ... After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Our Galaxy . ... Stars . ... Other Galaxies . ... Space Flight . ... A warped yet pretty galaxy (Image credit NASA/ESA) . About 100 000 light years across, Messier 66 is the largest galaxy in the ?Leo Triplet?, three interacting spiral galaxies about 33 million light years from us. This new Hubble Space Telescope image shows that M66 seems to have been through the mangle. ... Why not go out to see if you can find these distant islands of stars? ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Sea Launch . ... S.P. Korolev RSC Energia is the prime manned space flight organization in the Russian rocket and space industry, responsible for the development of the ISS Russian Segment, its integration into the Space Station and its operation, including development and operation of its principal modules (Zvezda, Pirs, Poisk, Rassvet, etc.), manufacturing, launch and operation of Soyuz TMA and Progress M spacecraft. ...