... It's the International Space Station (ISS) docked with the Space Shuttle Discovery on mission STS-114. ... Shuttle flights had been suspended for over two years previously following the tragic loss of the Space Shuttle Columbia crew on 2003 February 1. Hyperion: Sponge Moon of Saturn . ... Unusual Gas Filaments Surround Galaxy NGC 1275 . ... Galaxy NGC 1275 is the central dominant galaxy of the Perseus Cluster of Galaxies, a cluster with many member galaxies visible in the above image. ...

... 2007 February 8 . Galaxies Away . Credit: NASA , ESA , Hubble Heritage Team ( STScI / AURA ) . ... Dominated by the cluster's large central elliptical galaxy (ESO 325-G004), this sharp Hubble view takes in a remarkable assortment of galaxy shapes and sizes with only a few spiky foreground stars scattered through the field. The giant elliptical galaxy spans over 100,000 light years and contains about 100 billion stars, comparable in size to our own spiral Milky Way . ... About APOD | ...

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... US state, Canadian province, or country . ... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... space flight . ... space physics . ... Why doesn't the International Space Station rotate to create artificial gravity like stations in the movies? ... RELATED TOPICS: INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION . The International Space Station is a one-of-a-kind lab-oratory for a specific reason: microgravity. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

... February 22, 1999 . NGC 1316: After Galaxies Collide . ... WFPC2 , HST , NASA . ... A preliminary inspection indicates that NGC 1316 is an enormous elliptical galaxy that started devouring a smaller spiral galaxy neighbor about 100 million years ago. ... Most elliptical galaxies have more and brighter globular clusters than evident in NGC 1316 . ... One hypothesis therefore holds that these globulars survive from an even earlier galaxy that was subsumed into NGC 1316. ... About APOD > . ...

... Korolev, Moscow area. On February 28, 2006 RSC Energia hosted the training sessions of Brazilian citizen Marcos Pontes under the training program for the participant in space flight to the International space station (ISS) within 10th Visiting Crew. ... President of RSC Energia after S.P. Korolev, General Designer N.N. Sevastiyanov congratulated M. Pontes on his birthday during the joint training sessions presenting wrist-watch and memorable gold medal of the Corporation. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Planets . ... Space Flight . ... Posted on March 26, 2013 | 4 Comments Many of us may recall captivating images of an enormous glass and steel superstructure making the headlines in the 90тАЩs, along with the tale of eight human test subjects who [ ] . Continue Reading.. ... Posted on May 1, 2012 | ... Posted on February 24, 2012 | ... 10 Comments Where does space begin? ... Posted on January 17, 2012 | ... Part of [ ] . ...

... Our recent observations with the Hubble Space Telescope (August 29, 2014) led to revealing a highly isolated dwarf spheroidal galaxy KKs 3 situated at a distance of 2.12 0.07 Mpc from the Milky Way. The dSph galaxy locates on the southern sky (RA=02 h 24 m 44.4 s , Dec.= ... Over the last decade, about 30 dSph galaxies have been discovered inside the Local Group through systematic search in the vicinity of M31 and more that a dozen dSphs were discovered in the nearby group around M81. ...

... International Year of Astronomy in Ireland . ... Christmas Moon", painting by Miruna Popescu, Armagh Observatory, featured as " Lunar photo of the Day " and " Astronomy Sketch of the Day " on 25 December 2009. ... To mark the 400th anniversary of GalileoтАЩs first use of the telescope to observe the sky, 2009 has been celebrated worldwide as the International Year of Astronomy. Moon over Armagh - link to Astronomy Sketch of the Day on 25 December 2009 . ... Monday, 11 May 2009 23:54 . ...

... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... ESO's Governing Bodies . ... Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... ESO Acronyms . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Galaxies . Galaxy Clusters . ... View shopping cart . ... This distant cluster of galaxies was discovered by the XXL survey. ... The distances to individual galaxies were found using ESO and other telescopes, to allow a three-dimensional view of the distribution of galaxy clusters to be determined. ... Early Universe : Galaxy : Grouping : Cluster . ...

... Rick Mastracchio . ... Mastracchio has worked technical issues for the Astronaut Office Computer Support Branch, Space Station Operations, the EVA Branch and as a Capsule Communicator (CAPCOM). ... As of 2014, Mastracchio now has logged 228 days in space spanning four missions, including nine spacewalks totaling 53 hours. SPACE FLIGHT EXPERIENCE: €аDuring the 12-day STS-106 Atlantis mission, the crew successfully prepared the International Space Station for the arrival of the first permanent crew. ...

... Archive for February 2008 . Feb 28th, 2008| 10:46 pm | ... As Douglas Applegate puts it: Continue reading ?The GREAT08 Challenge? ... Category: Algorithms , Astro , Data Processing , Galaxies , Imaging , News , Optical | ... Feb 24th, 2008| 09:56 pm | ... Continue reading ?[ ... Continue reading ?Scientific Programmer for the Kepler Mission? ... From page 103 of Bayesian Model Selection and Model Averaging by L. Wasserman (2000) Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 44, pp.92-107 Continue reading ?[ ...

... A Survey for for Supernovae in Massive High-Redshift Clusters . ... An ACS Treasury Survey of the Coma cluster of galaxies . ... This proposal aims to address that question through observations of galaxy clusters with redshifts in the range 0.5 . ... The Sloan sky survey provides a powerful tool for identifying candidate galaxy-galaxy lenses; this program is using HST-ACS imaging to verify the nature of those candidates, and provide the angular resolution necessary to model the mass distribution. ...

... The study of the Large-scale structure of the Universe and measurements of the Dark Energy equation of state; The exploration of the growth and cosmological evolution of supermassive Black holes in the Universe. ... In course of the all sky survey SRG will discover about 100 000 galaxy clusters and 3 million AGNs. Galaxy clusters are the largest gravitationally bounded objects in the Universe and are best explored through the study of X-ray emission from the hot intergalactic gas. ... 2016 IKI RAN ...

Nowadays at the Department the experimental and theoretical investigations, including astronomical and ionospheric observations, active experiments with space vehicles are taking place. ... Solar Corona physics and erruptive phenomenae. ... Stellar astronomy. ... The Department has organized and put into practice more then 50 expeditions for observation of Solar ecllipces, aurorae polaris, comets, meteor streams, controlled space experiments, and also for investigations of geophysical characteristics. ...

... SCIENCE AND BUSINESS . Such a trifle as a starry night sky of largest observatories turned out to be a small change coin in commercial bargains for exclusive communal services in Russia, and for a few elite flats in penthouses in Ukraine. SCIENCE AND BUREAUCRATISM . ... Till in Russian) . ... Clericalization of science and education (Till in Russian). ... Researcher of the Sternberg Astronomical Institute, The Moscow University. ... SAI home page . ... October, 2008) . ... November, 2007) . ...

... Curriculum Vitae Observations and theory of star cluster formation 22) A.K.Dambis and Yu.N.Efremov Journal for History of Astronomy, 31, 115-134, 2000 Dating Ptolemy's star catalogue through proper motions: the Hypparchan epoch 23) B.G.Elmegreen, Yu.N.Efremov, S.Larsen Astrophys. J., 535, 748 - , 2000 A young globular cluster in the galaxy NGC 6946 24) Yu.N.Efremov. ... 28) Yu.N.Efremov. ... The location of star complexes in the Galaxy was studied in papers with E.Alfaro, L.Berdnikov and T.Sitnik. ...

A team of U.S. and German astrophysicists have made the first ever detection of X-rays coming from a comet. ... Following the initial detection, the team reported repeated X-ray emissions from the comet over the next 24 hours. ... One preliminary theory is that X-ray emission from the Sun was absorbed by a cloud of gaseous water molecules surrounding the nucleus of the comet, and then were re-emitted by the molecules in a process physicists call "fluorescence." ... Comets . ...

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder . Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Parkes | ... I work mainly as a radio astronomer, using powerful telescopes such as the Australia Telescope Compact Array, the Very Large Array, the Greenbank Telescope, and the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope array. ... E-Mail: shea.brown@csiro.au . ...

Dept. of Mathematical Logic and Theory of Algorithms, Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, Moscow State University, Moscow, 119899 Russia. ... Computational complexity, Kolmogorov complexity . Program committee member of 18th IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity, 2003, Aarhus (Denmark) and of . 18th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science, 2001, Dresden (Germany). 2004 . ... Conference on Logical Foundations of Computer Science. ... Elements of Set Theory. ...