... In fact, 18th century cosmic tourist Charles Messier cataloged two of them; M8, the nebula below and right of center, and colorful M20 at the upper right. Driving Toward a Sun Halo . ... In the above case, however, there are actually millions of lenses: ice crystals. ... Edge On Galaxy NGC 5866 . ... Many disk galaxies are actually just as thin as NGC 5866, pictured above, but are not seen edge-on from our vantage point. ... Infrared Andromeda . ... Enceladus Ice Volcanos . ...

... 2001 December 17 . Leaving the International Space Station . Credit: Rosaviakosmos , CNES , NASA . ... The lifeboat was actually the new Soyuz capsule they arrived in -- they returned home in an older Soyuz capsule that had been left six months ago. ... Pictured above on October 31 , their Soyuz spacecraft undocks from the ISS while dark space and a blue Earth hover in the background . Tomorrow's picture: Nebula in Pink and Blue . ... About APOD | ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

... 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 . ...

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... December 29, 1997 . The Milky Way in Infrared . Credit: The COBE Project , DIRBE , NASA . ... Until the invention of the telescope , nobody really knew what the "Milky Way" was. About 300 years ago telescopes caused a startling revelation: the Milky Way was made of stars . Only 70 years ago, more powerful telescopes brought the further revelation that the Milky Way is only one galaxy among many. Now telescopes in space allow yet deeper understanding. ... About APOD > . ...

... Steven L. Smith . NASA International Space Station Program Liaison to the European Space Agency . ... SPECIAL HONORS: NASA Distinguished Service Medals (two), NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal, NASA Space Flight Medal, NASA Exceptional Service Medal, IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award and IBM Outstanding Community Service Award. ... NASA EXPERIENCE: Smith is a veteran of four space flights covering 16 million miles and seven space walks totaling 49 hours and 25 minutes. ... DECEMBER 2013 ...

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... В четверг, 14 апреля 2016 г., состоится семинар кафедры астрофизики. Повестка дня . ... Начало в 11 час.15 мин. Ауд. ... В четверг, 31 марта 2016 г., состоится семинар кафедры астрофизики . ... В четверг, 24 марта 2016 г. , состоится семинар кафедры. ... В четверг, 17 марта 2016 г. , состоится заседание кафедры. ... ОСП НИИ ПММ Национального исследовательского Томского государственного университета) . ... Copyright 2016 Астрономия в Санкт-Петербургском университете . ...

While it makes sense for a 3-station array to only record data when all three stations are tracking the fringe (and this is why this mode was used with NPOI's 3-station configuration), NPOI 6-station data from the hybrid beam combiner are recorded even if up to three stations are in fringe search mode. ... Use Util|Edit (located in plot selection widget) to place three rectangular boxes around the bad data points and flag them. ... This step further eliminates bad tracking data. ... Data loaded. ...

The nearby spiral galaxy NGC 7331 was spectrally mapped from 5 to 38 ЮМm using all modules of Spitzer's Infrared Spectrograph (IRS). ...

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... Space Flight . ... Earth Satellites . ... On Christmas day the crew of Apollo 8 had a surprise when they opened their food containers and found a meal of real turkey and stuffing and three miniature bottles of brandy alongside presents from their wives. ... This venture placed the third and final crew onto the Skylab space station . ... Spending Christmas in space continues today with astronauts and cosmonauts having this holiday period onboard the International Space Station (ISS). ...

... Ж.Ф. Родионова, А.А.Карлов, Т.П. Скобелева и др. ... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, 119899, Moscow, Russia; jeanna@sai.msu ru. ... Moscow State University, Vorobjovy Gory, 119899, Moscow, Russia. Brown University - Vernadsky Institute Microsymposium 34, October 8-9, 2001, Moscow, Russia . ... Rodionova J1., ... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, jeanna@sai.msu.ru . ... 1 Sternberg State Astronomical Institute Lomonosov Moscow University, Russia; marss8@mail.ru . ...

... STATION gives the names of the stations for which this group of setup parameters applies. ... If no stations are specified, the program goes through the schedule and finds all stations that are in scans that request that setup file and that have not been specified in other groups within the setup file. ... Note that you cannot specify no stations for one setup group and some specific ones for another within the same file and expect anything reasonable to happen. ... VLBA' will match any VLBA station...

The Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) is a new generation radio telescope which will observe the low frequency sky with unprecedented resolution and sensitivity. ... Due to its polarisation features and its resolution and large collecting area which provides unmatched sensitivities in the low radio waveband, LOFAR will be an extremely powerful instrument to study the Magnetic Universe. ... Astrophysical magnetic field science is one of the LOFAR Key Science projects. ...

... Last decades alongside with realisation of six International (all-the-world) Science Olympiads ( http://olympiads.win.tue.nl/ ) on some continents were founded and began to be conducted regional international olympiads, in particular: . ... Asian-Pacific Mathematics Olympiad - since 1989. ... Last years a few organisers of the National Astronomy Olympiads in Asian countries and team leaders coming to the International Astronomy Olympiad (IAO) , stated wishes to strengthen a role of Asia. ...

home publications > mercury . ... A Titan-ic Mission . ... Saturn's moon Titan seems like the stuff of science fiction, but it really exists, out there in the distant reaches of our own Solar System. ... Ringed Saturn, heavily veiled by the thick atmosphere of this small world, hangs low and huge in the sky. ... But under that heavy atmosphere, planetary scientists believe an exotic world awaits our discovery [see "Saturn and Titan on the Eve of Cassini-Huygens," September/October, p. 10]. ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : The Moon only shows one face to us because it is not rotating. Better astronomy : The Moon only shows one face because it is rotating, once every time it revolves around the Earth. ... Place the Moon model on the table about 30 centimeters (one foot) away with the X facing the Earth model. ... You'll see that to keep the X facing the Earth model, you have to rotate the Moon model as it goes around the Earth model . ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...