1. XWare > APOD
... John Glenn: Discovery Launch . ... At left, the Space Shuttle Discovery waits in darkness on Kennedy Space Center's launch pad 39B. At right, on Thursday October 29, Discovery blasts through a bright afternoon sky returning Senator John Glenn to space over 36 years after he became the first American in orbit. ... Rehearsing for his historic flight on February 20, 1962, Mercury program astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. works in a cramped training capsule preparing for a few hours' voyage through space. ...
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2. Web Site Updates 2008
... Updated 2008 December 22nd . ... Updated 2008 December 18th . ... Updated 2008 December 17th . ... Updated 2008 December 16th . ... Updated 2008 December 15th . ... Updated 2008 December 10th . ... Updated 2008 December 2nd . ... Some Videos on our Web Sites . ... Cool October . ... Updated 2008 October 31st . ... Updated 2008 October 15th . ... Updated 2008 October 10th . ... Updated 2008 October 9th . ... Updated 2008 October 8th . ... Updated 2008 October 7th . ... Updated 2008 October 2nd . ...
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http://star.arm.ac.uk/latest-2008.html -- 28.1 -- 01.02.2011
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3. Christmas is cancelled for Shuttle Discovery | Astronotes
Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Space Flight . Human Exploration . Robot Exploration . ... Originally Discovery had been set to launch on 1 November, but this was delayed when fatigue cracks were found in the structure of its External Tank. ... A little bit of trivia is that Discovery has actually made the only shuttle-era Christmas time flight to date, this was STS-103 , a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope in 1999. ...
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4. APOD: 2000 October 22 - Wild Duck Open Cluster M11
... 2000 October 22 . Wild Duck Open Cluster M11 . ... Explanation: Many stars like our Sun were formed in open clusters . The above open cluster, M11 , contains thousands of stars and is just over three thousand light years distant. ... Open clusters , also called galactic clusters, contain fewer and younger stars than globular clusters . Also unlike globular clusters, open clusters are generally confined to the plane of our Galaxy . ... About APOD | ...
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http://www.sai.msu.su/apod/ap001022.html -- 4.2 -- 01.10.2012
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5. INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
... STEPS OF ISS ASSEMBLY . ... STEPS OF THE ISS ASSEMBLY All flights 09/30/2009 - up to now 11/15/2008 - 09/30/2009 10/23/2007 - 10/24/2008 12/10/2006 - 10/21/2007 02/28/2005 - 10/26/2006 02/28/2005 - 09/08/2005 04/19/2004 - 02/27/2005 04/26/2003 - 05/24/2004 09/25/2002 - 02/04/2003 04/25/2002 - 09/24/2002 11/26/2001 - 04/15/2002 06/12/2001 - 10/31/2001 02/26/2001 - 05/23/2001 10/12/2000 - 02/20/2001 08/06/2000 - 09/20/2000 07/12/2000 - 07/26/2000 11/20/1998 - 05/29/2000 . ... Station element . ...
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http://www.energia.ru/eng/iss/iss-develop-04.shtml -- 25.8 -- 01.10.2012
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6. Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston
... January . February . March . April . ... November . December . ... April ((April Fools)) . ... April (Star Party Reports) . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...
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http://www.atmob.org/library/clubnewsletters.php -- 28.4 -- 09.04.2016
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7. Astronaut Bio: Bruce McCandless II
National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... Bruce McCandless II (Captain, USN, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (former) . ... He was a member of the astronaut support crew for the Apollo 14 mission and was backup pilot for the first manned Skylab mission (SL-1/SL-2). ... A veteran of two space flights, McCandless has logged over 312 hours in space, including 4 hours of MMU flight time. ... With the completion of this flight McCandless logged 191 hours in space (including 4 hours of MMU flight time). ...
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http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/mccandless-b.html -- 9.2 -- 07.07.2015
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8. GRB follow-up team
... Team . ... V.V.Sokolov "The gamma-ray bursts, core-collapse supernovae and global star forming rate at large redshifts" . ... I.V.Sokolov, A.S.Moskvitin, Eda Sonbas, O.V.Verkhodanov, O.P.Zhelenkova "A galaxy cluster in the GRB 021004 field" . ... The monitoring of GRB afterglows and the study of their host galaxies with the SAO RAS 6-m telescope from 1997". ... A.S.Moskvitin, T.A.Fatkhullin, V.V.Sokolov and V.N.Komarova, "Spectral and photometric monitoring of CCSNe at SAO RAS" . ...
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http://mavr.sao.ru/hq/grb/conf/conf.html -- 16.2 -- 09.04.2016
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http://www.sao.ru/hq/grb/conf/conf.html -- 16.2 -- 10.04.2016
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http://jet.sao.ru/hq/grb/conf/conf.html -- 16.2 -- 09.04.2016
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9. Space Research Institute (IKI) Seminar
... Future seminars . ... The p roject " Venus Express " : scientific goals , structure and mission scenario " . ... Talks of IKI collaborators, first place winners in the institute competition of scientific publications: . ... Prof. G.S. Bisnovaty-Kogan (IKI) . ... Dr. Christoph Winkler (Astrophysics Mission Division Research & Scientific Support Department ESA , Netherlands) . ... Prof. Fumiaki Nagase (Center for Planning and Information System, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan) . ...
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http://www.iki.rssi.ru/galeev/english/past2002.htm -- 41.4 -- 09.01.2008
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http://www.cosmos.ru/galeev/english/past2002.htm -- 41.4 -- 09.01.2008
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10. Do globular clusters form in a galaxy's halo or migrate in from outside? If the
... Globular cluster NGC 2808, elliptical galaxy NGC 2986, and the Sextans Dwarf . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Astronomy 101 . ... Astronomy Foundation . ... Do globular clusters form in a galaxy's halo or migrate in from outside? If the latter, how? ... The Milky Way Galaxy has a system of roughly 150 globular clusters, which are all older than 9 billion years. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... If you are already registered on Astronomy.com, please log in below. ...
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http://www.astronomy.com/magazine/ask-astro/2012/12/globular-clusters -- 63.5 -- 10.04.2016
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11. http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/seminars/abstracts/20150220-1400.html
Many intermediate-age star clusters in the Magellanic Clouds exhibit very unusual features in their colour-magnitude diagrams that suggest they may have formed their stars over periods spanning hundreds of millions of years per cluster. ... Nonetheless, this interpretation is enticing in the context of the formation of ancient globular clusters, which almost always exhibit puzzling abundance patterns that apparently require multiple episodes of star formation to explain. ...
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http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/seminars/abstracts/20150220-1400.html -- 4.5 -- 10.04.2016
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12. HST previous weeks
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 . ...
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http://www.stsci.edu/~inr/thisweek1/previous16.html -- 12.0 -- 20.05.2009
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13. http://www.naic.edu/alfa/ealfa/meeting2/handouts/NAIC_guidelines.pdf
NAIC Guidelines for ALFA Consortia Proposals (Draft May 7, 2004) R. L. Brown At the May 6, 2004 teleconference of the ALFA System Advisory and Planning (ASAP) committee several issues were identified as being critical to informing the process by which guidelines are developed by NAIC for handling the ALFA consortia proposals. ... Planning for shared-risk precursor observations, a primary purpose of which is to demonstrate the readiness of the survey teams to conduct their planned survey observations. ...
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http://www.naic.edu/alfa/ealfa/meeting2/handouts/NAIC_guidelines.pdf -- 96.7 -- 12.05.2006
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14. Astrophysics Group Admissions Procedures
... The submission of a formal application to the Board of Graduate Studies for admission as a graduate student in the University of Cambridge in Physics. ... Your application must be completed and submitted to the Board of Graduate Studies as soon as possible; students who are applying for admission in October 2016 should make sure it arrives sufficiently early that we can assess it at the same time as we receive our internal Astrophysics Group application form (i.e. by March 2016, see below). ...
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15. Pulsar group | Main / Visitors
... About ATNF overview . ... Governance overview . Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Visitor list . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes | ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ... What is a pulsar? ... Group . ... Parkes Pulsar Observing Wiki . ... Pulsar Groups . ... Main / . ... Nov 1, 2010 - Jan 31, 2011 . ... Dec 8 - 17, 2009 . ... Dec 13 - 23, 2006 . ... Dec 3, 2006 - Jan 5, 2007 . ... Aug 10 - Dec 7, 2006 . ... Dec 31, 2005 - Feb 1, 2006 . ...
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16. Chronology of early astronomy,mechanics and spaceflight
... 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. ...
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http://www.iki.rssi.ru/magbase/REFMAN/STARGAZE/Stimelin.htm -- 9.9 -- 21.12.2007
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17. AdelePlunkettAstro
... PhD Yale University, Astronomy, 2015 . ... MS, MPhil Yale University, Astronomy, 2011 . ... Plunkett, Adele L. ; Arce, Hctor G.; Corder, Stuartt A.; Dunham, Michael M.; Mardones, Diego; Garay, Guido 2014, ApJ, 803, 22, Assessing molecular outflows and turbulence in the protostellar cluster Serpens South . ... Department of Astronomy Seminar, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile April 2013 . ... Yale-University of Chile Meeting, New Haven, CT December 2011 . ...
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http://www.eso.org/~aplunket/cv.html -- 10.7 -- 15.01.2016
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18. University of Oregon Center for High Energy Physics - Public Lectures
The Higgs Boson: Window on the Big Bang, UO, Eugene, Oregon , October 29, 2012 . Physics Slam, UO, Eugene, Oregon , March 22, 2011 . University of New Mexico , October 1, 2009 . Columbia Hall, UO, Eugene, Oregon , September 12, 2008 . ... Eugene Rotary, Eugene, Oregon , February 5, 2008 . ... University of Oregon , May 19, 2005 . ... Particles, Energy, and Cosmology , Jim Brau . ... Annual Star Party - Public Lecture . ... Public Lecture Celebrating the World Year of Physics 2005, . ...
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http://zebu.uoregon.edu/~uochep/publectures/publectures.html -- 9.3 -- 31.10.2012
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19. RadioAstron main page, english version
... Main . ... April 2016 . ... December 2015 . November 2015 . October 2015 . September 2015 . August 2015 . July 2015 . June 2015 . May 2015 . April 2015 . March 2015 . February 2015 . January 2015 . December 2014 . November 2014 . October 2014 . September 2014 . August 2014 . July 2014 . June 2014 . May 2014 . April 2014 . March 2014 . ... December 2013 . ... April 2013 . ... December 2012 . ... April 2012 . ...
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http://www.asc.rssi.ru/RadioAstron/schedule/sched.html -- 12.1 -- 25.03.2016
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20. Lecture Series 2015-2016 ? Amateur Astronomers Association of New York
... Home Lectures Lecture Series 2015-2016 . ... Lecture Series 2014-2015 . ... Beyond New York City . ... The Amateur Astronomers Association is proud to present an astronomy lecture series from October through May each year for our members and the public. ... Amateur Astronomer Association is pleased to announce we will be offering select, limited reserved seating for current AAA members for the Friday, January 8, 2015 AAA Lecture entitled Robert Nemiroff ?2015 Astronomy Picture of the Day?. ...
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http://www.aaa.org/lectures/lecture-series-2015-2016/ -- 98.0 -- 10.04.2016
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