... Astronauts on board the International Space Station first saw it far in the distance. ... Its early morning launch to orbit from Kennedy Space Center's pad 39A followed the long, graceful, eastward arc seen in this 2 minute time exposure. ... Night Launch of the Space Shuttle Endeavour . ... Pictured above, the space shuttle Endeavour lifted off in yesterday's early morning hours from Launch Pad 39A in Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA, bound for the International Space Station (ISS). ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. February 23, 1999 . Construction of International Space Station Begins . Credit: STS-88 Shuttle Crew , NASA . Explanation: Move over Mir , here comes the International Space Station . ... The International Space Station 's low 250-mile Earth orbit causes it to experience one complete day/night cycle in about 90 minutes. ...

... December 13, 1997 . The Coma Cluster of Galaxies . ... The Coma Cluster of Galaxies pictured is one of the densest clusters known - it contains thousands of galaxies . Each of these galaxies house billions of stars - just as our own Milky Way Galaxy does. ... In fact, the Coma Cluster is so big it takes light millions of years just to go from one side to the other! Most galaxies in Coma and other clusters are ellipticals , while most galaxies outside of clusters are spirals . ...

8th of February 2015 . International Year of Light 2015 . High resolution radio emission from RCW 49 . ... Benaglia et al. (2013) analyse Molonglo 843 MHz and ATCA 5.5 / 9 GHz radio continuum data. They find two radio shells closely matching the Spitzer infrared emission, showing pillars, filaments and a bright bridge. The image shows the ATCA 9 GHz radio continuum emission in red , the Spitzer 3.6 micron emission in blue and the Spitzer 8 micron emission in green . ... today * ATNF | ...

... A song written by Padi Boyd and performed by The Chromatics, specifically for the International Year of Astronomy. ... Some links from press coverage and other websites referencing IYA2009-Ireland. ... I n the last day of the International Year of Astronomy ( early evening of 31 December 2009), the Moon had the smallest partial eclipse that we have seen in Ireland and the UK for 40 years: the Moon was 8% covered by the Earth's shadow. ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Travel to E-ELT Armazones . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Galaxy Clusters . ... Star Clusters . ... Stars@ESO . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... Catch a Star 2013 . Catch a Star 2011 . ... The star cluster, known as NGC 3293, would have been just a cloud of gas and dust itself about ten million years ago, but as stars began to form it became the bright group we see here. ...

Most of these images were obtained by Mike Bessell, Michelle Buxton, Hwankyung Sung, Ralph Sutherland and Bob Watson at SSO using a 2Kx2K Site CCD behind a Nikon or Hasselblad lens or directly on the 1m telescope. A few images are from the Hubble Space Telescope. Some of the M42 images were obtained with the KPNO 1m and ESO NTT telescope. One image is a mosaic of IRAS images. ... Details of the CCD imaging program at MSSSO. ... antenna.jpg (53KB) . ... ngc6744.jpg (59KB) . ...

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... PRIME CREW . ... From December 1987 to June 1989 he passed a course of general space training. ... In January - June 1993 he passed training under EC-14 program on the Mir Station as a commander of the backup (third) crew. ... From October 1998 to September 2000 at JSC (NASA) he passed training for a space flight by the Shuttle Orbiter under the ISS assembly program (flight 2A, 2A/2B). ... He passed training within the ISS-14 backup crew as the ISS flight engineer and the Soyuz TMA TSC commander. ...

. The new arrival, a few hours old, greeting his big sister. A week later. He's sleeping, so it must be daytime. The whole family at the zoo in New Orleans. If we had managed to send them, this would have been our Christmas card picture. But we didn't. Jasper at 2 months old. Still fits in the Christmas suit but just barely. He may not sleep, but he sure does eat. Jasper and Thisbe getting acquainted. Ellen Howell <ehowell@naic.edu> Last modified: Fri Dec 26 2002

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... n For illustration, examine a coarsened (256 в 256) set of images, with 3 clusters Clustering AIA data Clusters in log Y space Clusters in Y /n space Distribution of pixels in each cluster Distribution of pixels in each cluster Simulated Data Simulated Temperature Distributions 4 5 6 logT 7 8 9 Simulated Data Simulated Data Simulated Data Simulated Data Simulated Data: Results Simulated Data: Results Simulated Data: Results Simulated Data: Results How to make images of results more meaningful? ...

... For a timeline of the exploration of the magnetic environment of the Earth, Sun and Planets, see here . ... Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) builds the first astronomical telescope and observes for the first time craters on the Moon, satellites around Jupiter, and the way Venus goes through phases like the Moon (crescent, etc.) ... 17 December--First successful flight by the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. ... 16 March--Goddard launches his first liquid-fuel rocket. ...

Astrophotography Discussion Forum . ... Discussion Forums | ... iMerge processing Moon craters pictures - lupuvictor - November 30, 2010 - 15:26 UTC . my way on astrophotography with 8 inch telescope - lupuvictor - November 10, 2010 - 09:43 UTC . ... Astronomy and Pictures - interstellar - October 22, 2008 - 13:29 UTC . ... Astrophotography, How to??? - skintooth4 - October 10, 2005 - 18:38 UTC . ... Photographing Occultations - voijarisa - December 4, 2004 - 01:46 UTC . ... www.astronomy.net . ...

NGC 5986, a little-studied southern-hemisphere globular cluster, is remarkable in containing two very luminous A-F type stars, discovered by me in the 1970's. These objects are probably in their final evolution off the asymptotic giant branch. ... Determining the distance to NGC 5986 will help calibrate the absolute brightnesses of post-AGB A-F stars. ... NGC 5986: last updated 2001 December 20 . Mike Siegel and I have found a post-AGB star in the globular cluster M79 (NGC 1904). ...

... Armagh Planetarium . ... Universe . ... 25 Comments Space is something that fascinates many.€а Every day there are technological advances, new research being carried out and even historical space related anniversaries.€а Where would we be without those valuable [ ] . ... No Comments A new image from the European southern ObservatoryтАЩs Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy €а(VISTA) telescope reveals the glowing clouds of gas and filaments of dust surrounding hot young [ ] . ...

Stellar Clusters are very useful laboratories for empirically studying stellar evolution. ... All cluster stars are at the same distance . All cluster stars have the same physical age . ... CM diagram Young Cluster In this case we see the Main Sequence fully represented. The blue dots represent massive stars with short main sequence lifetimes. ... Thus, identifying the most massive star which is still on the main sequence is an effective means of determining the age of a stellar cluster. ...

... This is my nostalgic Web Site on the Nineteenth International Logic Programming Conference (Mumbai, India, December 9-13, 2003). ... The gallery: My first impressions of Mumbai. The gallery: New friends. ... Our research group started the work on the next logic programming language about 15 years ago. ... The gallery: Mumbai in the night. ... The gallery: The Mumbai town. ... I am grateful to the Association of Logic Programming ( ALP ) that supported my visit to ICLP'03 . ...

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