... The 32nd shuttle mission to the International Space Station, STS-130, left planet Earth on February 8. 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. Teide Sky Trails . ... Easy to appreciate in small telescopes, it lies some 1,800 light-years away in the constellation Perseus. ... Night Launch of the Space Shuttle Endeavour . ... Sometimes, the space shuttle launches at night. ...

... 2010 February 13 . Waterway to Orbit . ... Explanation: The 32nd shuttle mission to the International Space Station, STS-130 , left planet Earth on February 8. 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. ... In the celestial background a waning crescent Moon and stars left their own short trails against the still dark sky. ... About APOD | ... NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices . ...

... ISC Kosmotras . ... Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. Cluster Launch of Dnepr LV 22 August 2013 KOMPSAT-5 Launch 21 November 2013. ... Baikonur Cosmodrome Yasny launch base Downloads . ... Swedish Space Corporation s (SSC) PRISMA and French Space Agency s (CNES) PICARD satellites have been delivered to the Yasny launch base. ... Concurrently with the preparation of the launch from the Yasny launch base, ISC Kosmotras carries out TanDEM-X launch campaign at Baikonur cosmodrome. ... Dnepr LV . ...

... First Display of the IYA2009-Ireland Travelling Astronomical Exhibition . ... Galway Astronomy Festival: 30 to 31 January 2009 . Blackrock Castle Observatory is delighted to welcome you to celebrate the launch their programme for the International Year of Astronomy on Friday 6 February 2009, 5.50 pm. The programme opens with an international exhibition of astronomical drawings: "In the Footsteps of Galileo" organised by Deirdre Kelleghan, president of the Irish Astronomical Society. ...

... PROGRESS M-66 CARGO VEHICLE . ... Baikonur branch office of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia, Baikonur launch site. At 08 hours 49 minutes 46 seconds Moscow Time transport cargo vehicle Progress M-66 was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome as per Mission Program and the commitments undertaken by the Russian side under the International Space Station Project. ... At Baikonur launch site the preparations continue for the launch of Progress M-66 cargo vehicle under the International Space Station program. ...

... Students Life . ... February 24, 2014 . Conference in Foreign Languages: Wrap-Up . On February 22, 2014, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University held a regional student scientific conference Foreign Languages in the World Economic and Legal Environment organized by the Department of Business Foreign Language and Translation (School of Foreign Languages), the School of International Economic Relations and Travel Business, and the School of Economics and engaging 77 participants. ... Language. ...

NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER ORAL HISTORY PROJECT BIOGRAPHICAL DATA SHEET NAME: John M. Fabian O RAL H ISTORY: 10 February 2006 EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, 1962 M.S. in Aerospace Engineering, Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT), Dayton, Ohio, 1964 Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington ...

... These Frontier Fields will combine the power of HST with the natural gravitational telescopes of high-magnification clusters of galaxies. ... We are soliciting gravitational lensing maps for the last four Hubble Frontier Fields clusters (MACSJ0717.5+3745, MACSJ1149.5+2223, AbellS1063, and Abell 370) based upon the exceptionally deep HST FF imaging and other new ancillary data. ... For the full set of proposal instructions and requirements, see the FY16 Frontier Fields Lensing Map Call for Proposals....

... International workshop “The Europa Lander: science goals and experiments” is organized by the Space Research Institute (IKI) of Russian Academy of Sciences, on February 9-13, 2009, in Moscow, Russia. The workshop will last 5 days including the days of arrival/departure and some sightseeing events, and focus on the scientific goals and technical aspects of the project, key issues of Europa science with the special emphasis on astrobiology and requirements to scientific instruments. ...

... Leonid CHEKHOV (Steklov Institute and Poncelet lab, Moscow) . ... Ivan DYNNIKOV (MSU, Moscow) . ... Oleg KARPENKOV (Poncelet lab, Moscow) . ... Gleb KOSHEVOY (CEMI and Poncelet lab, Moscow) . Serguei LANDO (Poncelet lab, Moscow) . ... 16:00-16:50 S. Natanzon: Klein topological field theories . ... 16:00-16:50 G. Duchamp: On some interactions between Combinatorics, Computer Science and Physics . ... evening Conference dinner . ... 14:45-15:30 O. Karpenkov: Energies of knots and of certain graphs . ...

... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Travel to Guesthouse . ... Travel to E-ELT Armazones . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Star Clusters . ... 1990 . ... Stars@ESO . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... ESO 3.6-metre telescope . ... MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope . ... ESO 1-metre Schmidt telescope . ... The Comet€аMcNaught€а2007 . ... ESO Science Outreach Network . ... Comet Halley in February 1990. ... Comet Halley . ...

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. ...

... February 21, 1996 . Millions of Stars in Omega Centauri . ... Explanation: Pictured above is the largest ball of stars in our Galaxy. About 10 million stars orbit the center of this globular cluster - named Omega Centauri - as this giant globular cluster orbits the center of our Galaxy . Recent evidence indicates that Omega Centauri is by far the most massive of the about 160 globular clusters in the Milky Way . ... About APOD | ...

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 | ...

... MAO main . ... The DRAGON globular cluster simulations: a million stars, black holes and gravitational waves . ... simulations of globular clusters with a million stars on the high-performance . ... of stars in globular clusters at unprecedented detail but also shed light into . the dark world of black holes. ... clusters of single and binary black holes. ... of a globular cluster. www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/328833/hl201603 . ... MAO/NASU, 27 Akademika Zabolotnoho St. 03680 Kyiv, Ukraine . ...

... Home Links International Sidewalk Astronomy Night . ... Saturday night, April 12, 2008, is the 2nd International Sidewalk Astronomy Night.€а We call on all amateur astronomers to take their telescopes and binoculars out for the public to enjoy the wonders of the night sky.€а A first-quarter Moon will be visible, as will the planets Saturn and Mars.€а More information can be found at http://www.sidewalkastronomynight.com /, where you can register so people will know where to find you. ...

Main Program Travel Where to go in Moscow Information . ... The 2014 year marks the 100th anniversary of Yakov Zeldovich . ... John Carlstrom (University of Chicago) . ... Lyman Page (Princeton University) . ... The conference will be held at the Space Research Institute (IKI) in Moscow, Russia, on June 16-20, 2014 . ... International Conference: Cosmology and High Energy Astrophysics (Zeldovich-90) 20-24 Dec 2004, Moscow, Russia . ... 2014 Space Research Institute, Moscow Русская версия ...

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. ...

... Dr. Denis Bulaev . ... Posters . Spin qubits in graphene quantum dots. B. Trauzettel , Denis V. Bulaev, Daniel Loss , Guido Burkard , . ... Denis V. Bulaev, Daniel Loss , . International seminar and workshop "Dynamics and Relaxation in Complex Quantum and Classical Systems and Nanostructures" , Dresden, Germany, July 24 - October 06, 2006. pdf-file (3.3 MB) . ... Spin Relaxation and Anticrossing in Quantum Dots: Rashba versus Dresselhaus Spin-Orbit Coupling . ... D. Bulaev, . ...

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