... Hale-Bopp: Climbing Into Southern Skies . ... Fighting the glow of the setting sun and the city lights of Cape Town, South Africa, comet Hale-Bopp is just visible near the center of this panoramic view - photographed on May 3rd. ... Lightning on Jupiter . ... Spacecraft in our Solar System have detected radio signals consistent with lightning on other planets, including Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. ... Apollo 15's Home on the Moon . ... The forecast for Venus is cloudy, cloudy,...

... August 27, 1996 . Galileo Zooms in on Jupiter's Red Spot . Credit: The Galileo Project , JPL , NASA . Explanation: What does the largest storm system ever recorded look like close-up? This storm system is Jupiter 's Great Red Spot and it was captured recently in detail by the robot spacecraft Galileo now in orbit around Jupiter . ... But don't get too close - remember that Jupiter's Great Red Spot is a cold, high pressure area more than twice as wide as planet Earth . ... About APOD | ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... News Feed . ... 2009 December 15th . ... Second Wettest November Since 1838 . ... 2009 November 26th . ... 2009 November 24th . ... 2009 November 23rd . ... 2009 November 20th . ... 2009 November 17th . ... 2009 November 13th . ... 2009 November 9th . ... 2009 November 4th . ... 2009 November 2nd . ... Pleasant September . ... Humid August . ... June Sunnier and Warmer than Average . ... March Drier and Milder Than Average ...

BaBar Collaboration Meeting , December 6-10, 2004 . ... APS April Meeting 2004 , May 1-4, 2004 . ... Workshops in Particle Physics , February 29 - March 6, 2004 . ... Aspen 2004 Winter Conference on Particle Physics , February 1-7, 2004 . ... Exp Talks - Prior Years . ... Energy Spectrometer Designs and Beam Tests , Eric Torrence . ... Recent Results from the LIGO Experiment, Isabel Leonor . ... Experimental Introduction , Ray Frey . ... CCD R at Oregon University , Nick Sinev, Olya Igonkina . ...

... Space Flight . ... January . ... Posted on January 9, 2013 | No Comments January sees the beginning of a New Year with everyoneтАЩs New YearтАЩs resolutions to be healthier, to be happier and many people deciding to take up or return to a [ ] . Continue Reading.. ... Posted on December 10, 2012 | ... 1 Comment At the beginning of March look west just after sunset to see three of the тАШwandering starsтАЩ.€а Mercury will be close to the horizon, with Venus and Jupiter shining brightly [ ] . ...

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... Site . ... Main.Group . ... March 12, 2015, at 11:42 AM by ?: ... November 16, 2011, at 01:43 PM by ankur ? ... February 06, 2011, at 04:21 PM by JKhoo ? Changed to in the awk command. ... December 16, 2010, at 10:40 AM by ankur ? ... October 13, 2010, at 11:45 AM by ankur ? ... August 24, 2010, at 06:02 PM by ankur ? ... July 26, 2010, at 03:58 PM by ankur ? ... November 26, 2009, at 11:54 AM by ankur ? ... March 17, 2009, at 06:01 PM by jkhoo ? ... Pulsar Surveys . ... Pulsar Groups . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... solar system . ... Solar eclipse travelogue: Sulawesi delivers a spectacular eclipse . ... Observe the Solar System . ... Get to Know the Night Sky . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Get ready for the 2017 total solar eclipse! The next total solar eclipse visible from the continental United States occurs August 21, 2017. ... This will be the first total solar eclipse to cross our country in 38 years. ... November 25, 2014 . ...

The following is a list of recent hikes I've been on, mostly in the Canadian Rockies near Calgary, Alberta. Some include links to scanned photos. Home

... ISC Kosmotras . ... Comments, Opinions Publications Dnepr Program . Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. ... Baikonur Cosmodrome Yasny launch base Downloads . ... Over the years of its successful business operations , ISC Kosmotras has performed 22 Dnepr orbital flights with a total of 128 payloads inserted into their orbits. ... Below is the list of payloads lofted into their target orbits on Dnepr launch missions put together by ISC Kosmotras: . ... MEGSAT-1 (Italy) . ... LATINSAT-A, -B (USA) . ...

... Cambridge . ... Bojan Nikolic web pages home . ... Welcome to the web-log (AKA, blog) about my astronomical research. ... Some of the articles are simply commentary or pointers on others people work in astronomy and contain no original research . ... Simple smoothing of astronomical images in FITS format (April 29, 2012) . ... Talk at the University of Cambridge (November 3, 2010) . ... Introductory talk at the Kavli Institute for Cosmology, Cambridge (March 22, 2010) . ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center . ... SHANNON W. LUCID (Ph.D.) . nasa astronaut (former) . ... She is qualified for assignment as a mission specialist on Space Shuttle flight crews. ... A veteran of five space flights, Dr. Lucid has logged 5,354 hours (223 days) in space. ... Dr. Lucid retired from NASA in January 2012. ... In completing this flight, Dr. Lucid logged 838 hours and 54 minutes in space. ... FEBRUARY 2012 ...

... NEWS . This is a list of new entries to the ESO Web Site within the last two months, August 2005 and September 2005. Subscribers to What's New in the ESO Web Notifier get an automated message of recent changes in the ESO Web . An archive of what's new entries is available. ... Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/observing/proposals/ . ... ESO 33/06 - Science Release: Astronomers, using ESO's Very Large Telescope, have for the first time made the link between an X-ray flash and a supernova. ...

... Spacecraft . ... To space by cannon? Finally, the deep space explorers --spacecraft which break away from the Earth's gravity . ... The "Luna" series of the USSR conducted 7 soft landing of unmanned probes, two of them with wheeled robotic "Lunokhods," and two of those missions returned samples to Earth. Others spacecraft have visited the major planets of the Solar system. ... The Mariner series have explored Venus and Mars--and Mariner 10 even reached Mercury, for three separate encounters! ...

Finally, the deep space explorers --spacecraft which break away from the Earth's gravity . ... The "Luna" series of the USSR conducted 7 soft landing of unmanned probes, two of them with wheeled robotic "Lunokhods," and two of those missions returned samples to Earth. Others spacecraft have visited the major planets of the Solar system. ... The Mariner series have explored Venus and Mars--and Mariner 10 even reached Mercury, for three separate encounters! ... Sojourner" on Mars, its top . ...

... Outreach . ... I'm a PhD student at the Australian National University's Mt Stromlo observatory and am part of the Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF) graduate program. I study the properties on nearby galaxies and investigate the evolution of the local universe. ... I run the RSAA Student Outreach Group which invites school children to participate in free astronomy outreach evenings. ... Copyright 2007 Emma Kirby. ... All Photos were taken by Emma Kirby unless otherwise stated. ...

Past weeks: . June 25 - July 1, 2007 . July 2 - July 8, 2007 . ... July 30 - August 5, 2007 . ... November 26 - December 2, 2007 . December 3 - December 9, 2007 . ... December 3, 2007 - January 6, 2008 . ... February 25 - March 2, 2008 . March 3 - March 9, 2008 . ... March 31 - April 6, 2008 . April 7 - April 13, 2008 . ... May 5 - May 11, 2008 . ... July 7 - July 13, 2008 . ... December 1 - December 7, 2008 . ... December 29, 2008 - January 4, 2009 . ... March 30 - April 5, 2009 . ...

Last modified on November 18, 1998 by A. Richichi . An occultation of the carbon star IRC +10216 (aka CW Leo) was recorded from the ESO/La Silla observatory on November 11, 1998. This is the brightest and best studied carbon star, but also a very peculiar one with the central star being embedded in a thick dust envelope. ... The occultation series of IRC +10216 is continuing, and the next opportunity will be from Europe on February 28, 1999. ...

... Maintenance and Work Completed on M1: September 10, 1999 . Whiffles Installed on M2: September 10, 1999 . M1 Support System Maintenance: September 10, 1999 . M1 Temperature Sensor Work and Repair: September 10, 1999 . M1 Hex-cell Deterioration: September 14, 1999 . ... M1 Whiffle Mount and M1 Back, September 21, 1999 . ... Views of Secondary Mirror (Back): April 13, 2000 . ... Front Portals: June 8, 2001 . ... M2 and M3 Baffle Work: June 8, 2005 . ... M3 Work: November 7, 2007 . ...

MAIN PAGE . ... Nova Cygni August 1975! ... 1975/76: Comet West! ... Dr. Richard West (4th from left) & AAL members visiting SES Betzdorf on occasion of our club's 25th anniversary - October 1996 . Comet West Information . ... It was the brightest comet visible from Earth since Comet West in 1976. ... 1997: Comet Hale-Bopp! ... Thus Comet Hale-Bopp never got closer to Earth than Earth gets to the Sun. ... Comet Hale-Bopp JPL Page . ... 1999: Total solar eclipse over Luxembourg! ...