... Spiral galaxies viewed face-on display a grand design, with graceful spiral arms traced by bright star clusters and glowing stellar nurseries. ... Space Station Shows Off New Robot Arm . ... GRO J1655 40: Evidence for a Spinning Black Hole . ... In the center of a swirling whirlpool of hot gas is likely a beast that has never been seen directly: a black hole. ... The Orion Nebula is a nuturing stellar nursery filled with hot young stars and their natal clouds of gas and dust. ...

... 2009 November 30 . Bright Sun and Crescent Earth from the Space Station . Credit: STS-129 Crew , NASA . Explanation: This was just one more breathtaking view from the International Space Station. The Sun, a crescent Earth, and the long arm of a solar panel were all visible outside a window when the Space Shuttle Atlantis visited the orbiting outpost last week. ... The space shuttle landed Friday after a successful 10 day mission to expand and resupply the ISS . ... About APOD | ...

EIGHTH CREW REQUIRED RESOURCES FIFTH RUSSIAN VISITING CREW SERVANTES SSM PROJECT IMAGE VIDEO . ... From May to October 1994 he trained for a 30-day flight to Mir under EC-17 program and Euromir 94 mission within a backup crew together with Russian cosmonauts Yu.P. Gidzenko and S.V. Avdeev. ... From October 2002 to February 2003 he was in training at Yu.A. Gagarin CTC as a flight engineer-1 of the Soyuz TMA TSC of expedition crew-5, visiting crew (VC-5) of the International Space Station. ...

... Armagh Observatory, 24th March 2009: The International Space Station ( ISS ) has recently become the second brightest object in the night sky тАФ even brighter than the planet Venus, and second only to the Moon. Evenings will provide the chance of a spectacular view, if the sky is clear, as for the next few days the orbit of the ISS around the Earth repeatedly takes it over Ireland. ... At its best, it is now the second brightest object in the night sky. ...

... For the XIV IAO the procedure of the informing is the following . ... Place of birth: Province (city/town), state, country . ... Passport data: 8.1.( ... 10.6. (for students) In what previous IAOs or APAOs participated (write years and Diploma, like: IAO-2003, 2nd Diploma) 11. ... D. Please, do not write "as last year" instead of actual data. ... GUVD 611, city Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan . ... Dr. Michael G. Gavrilov, Founding Chairman and Coordinator of the International Astronomy Olympiad (IAO) . ...

... Clayton C. Anderson . ... EDUCATION: Graduated from Ashland-Greenwood High School, Ashland, Nebraska, 1977; graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Hastings College, Nebraska, in 1981; and received a Master of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from Iowa State University in 1983. ... Anderson also served as a space station Capsule Communicator (CAPCOM) and as the Astronaut Office Crew Representative for the space station electrical power system. ... JANUARY 2013 ...

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. ...

... ISC Kosmotras . Top Management Founder of ISC Kosmotras - Dr. Vladimir A. Andreev News . ... Dr. Vladimir A. Andreev, Founder of ISC Kosmotras, Member of the Board . ... Peaceful and rational use of RS-20 ICBMs after their withdrawal from service with the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) has been in the main focus of Dr. Andreev s attention since early 1990s. Dr. Andreev is one of the founders of an international cooperation program and process called the Dnepr Program . ... Dnepr Program . ...

... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Member States . ... United Kingdom . ... ESO Acronyms . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Galaxy Clusters . ... Star Clusters . ... Stars@ESO . ... VLT Unit Telescopes Names . ... ESO 3.6-metre telescope . ... This video pan sequence gives a close-up view of one of the brightest star clusters in the sky. This image from the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESOтАЩs La Silla Observatory in Chile, shows Messier 7, also known as NGC 6475. ...

Program Number . ... Gordon Drukier, Yale University . Shooting Stars: Looking for Direct Evidence of Massive Central Black Holes in Globular Clusters . Abstract . ... Hubble Heritage Observations of Arp 148 . ... The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has proven a powerful tool for identifying new lens candidates, although high angular resolution HST observations are essential for confirming those candidates as genuine gravitational lensing systems (see Program GO 10886). ... Past weeks: . ...

Home: 80-1-346, Kashirskoye shosse, 115569 Moscow Russia . ... Department of Mathematics February 1996 -- present Senior Researcher Institute for System Research Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow , Russia February -- May 1994, Visiting Researcher April -- July 1996 MPIM - Bonn, Germany November 1990 -- January 1996 Leading Researcher Institute of New Technologies Moscow , Russia September 1991 -- present Professor Higher College of Mathematics Independent University ...

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... 1995 Title: Professor , 2002 Education: 1974 - 1977: Postgraduate student, Lomonosov Moscow State University , Faculty of Physics , Division of the Stellar Astronomy and Astrometry Supervisor: Prof. B.V.Kukarkin 1968 - 1974: Graduated from the Lomonosov Moscow State University , Faculty of Physics , Division of the Stellar Astronomy and Astrometry Supervisor: Prof. B.V.Kukarkin Employment: ...

... 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! ...

... Samara State Aerospace University Staff Efimova Ekaterina Andreevna . ... May 2015 - Co-organiser of Regional Student Contest 'Management' (Samara, Samara State Aerospace University); . ... December 2014 - Chair Organizing Committee, Inter-regional Student Contest "Change Management and Organizational Development in the Business" (Samara, Samara State Aerospace University); . April 2014 - Co-organiser of University Student Contest 'Management' (Samara, Samara State Aerospace University); . ...

... STELLAR DYNAMICS: FROM CLASSIC TO MODERN . ... Sobolev Astronomical Institute, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia . ... The proposed meeting is being organized by the St.Petersburg State University, assisted by an international Scientific Organizing Committee, and marks the centennial of Professor K.F.Ogorodnikov's birth. ... The conference will be organized by the Sobolev Astronomical Institute of St.Petersburg State University in the building of the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics. ...

... The space station Mir is the most complex and unique vehicle of the twentieth century. ... It is in proposing to UNESCO the procedure of giving to the space station Mir a status of the object of the World cultural heritage of the mankind as a very valuable unique object of the technical culture of the 20th century, and realization of the special project of its preservation. ... Proactive organization work to get in UNESCO the status of the object of the World cultural heritage for the station Mir; ....

... 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). ...

... Maryeva O.V., Abolmasov P.K. ?Modeling the optical spectrum of Romano's star?, ... Maryeva O.V., Abolmasov P.K. ?Modeling the optical spectrum of Romano's star in Minimum Brigtness?, vol.23 pp.79-83, Odessa Astronomical Publications, (2010) . ... Maryeva Olga ``Spectropolarimetry and modeling of WR156'', Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, IAU Symposium ``New windows on massive stars: asteroseismology, interferometry, and spectropolarimetry'', 307, 387-388, (2015) . ...

... The Pleiades star cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, is a conspicuous object in the night sky with a prominent place in ancient mythology . ... The stars in the Pleiades are thought to have formed together around 100 million years ago, making them 1/50th the age of our sun, and they lie some 130 parsecs (425 light years ) away. ... Data for these stars are listed in a table below. ... Yes . ... WEBDA Pleiades cluster data . ... M45: The Pleiades Star Cluster (2007 November 18) ...