... Hale-Bopp: Climbing Into Southern Skies . ... Fighting the glow of the setting sun and the city lights of Cape Town, South Africa, comet Hale-Bopp is just visible near the center of this panoramic view - photographed on May 3rd. ... Lightning on Jupiter . ... Spacecraft in our Solar System have detected radio signals consistent with lightning on other planets, including Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. ... Apollo 15's Home on the Moon . ... The forecast for Venus is cloudy, cloudy,...

... August 27, 1996 . Galileo Zooms in on Jupiter's Red Spot . Credit: The Galileo Project , JPL , NASA . Explanation: What does the largest storm system ever recorded look like close-up? This storm system is Jupiter 's Great Red Spot and it was captured recently in detail by the robot spacecraft Galileo now in orbit around Jupiter . ... But don't get too close - remember that Jupiter's Great Red Spot is a cold, high pressure area more than twice as wide as planet Earth . ... About APOD | ...

... Armagh Observatory, 5 January 2016: Armagh Observatory reports that December 2015 was much wetter than average, the wettest December on record at Armagh, that is, since records of daily precipitation began at Armagh in 1838. ... The month was slightly duller than average, with 15 of the 31 days having no recorded strong sunshine at all. ... The long-term (1838-2010) average December precipitation at Armagh is 77.44 mm and the most recent 30-year (1981-2010) average precipitation is 77.23 mm. ...

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Third Extended ECFA/DESY Study Workshop , November 15-18, 2002 . ... 5th ACFA workshop on Physics and Detectors at a Linear Collider , July 10-12, 2002 . ... Lane Community College, Physics Club, , June 11, 2002 . ... Babar Collaboration Meeting , May 6-9, 2002 . Oregon State University, Physics Colloquium , May 6, 2002 . ... International Conference on Calorimetry in High Energy Physics , March 25-29, 2002 . ... University of Oregon, Physics Colloquium , February 21, 2002 . ... Talks 2003 . ...

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... ISC Kosmotras . ... Comments, Opinions Publications Dnepr Program . Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. ... Baikonur Cosmodrome Yasny launch base Downloads . ... Over the years of its successful business operations , ISC Kosmotras has performed 22 Dnepr orbital flights with a total of 128 payloads inserted into their orbits. ... Below is the list of payloads lofted into their target orbits on Dnepr launch missions put together by ISC Kosmotras: . ... MEGSAT-1 (Italy) . ... LATINSAT-A, -B (USA) . ...

... Space Flight . ... January . ... Posted on January 9, 2013 | No Comments January sees the beginning of a New Year with everyoneтАЩs New YearтАЩs resolutions to be healthier, to be happier and many people deciding to take up or return to a [ ] . Continue Reading.. ... Posted on December 10, 2012 | ... 1 Comment At the beginning of March look west just after sunset to see three of the тАШwandering starsтАЩ.€а Mercury will be close to the horizon, with Venus and Jupiter shining brightly [ ] . ...

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... Spacecraft . ... To space by cannon? Finally, the deep space explorers --spacecraft which break away from the Earth's gravity . ... The "Luna" series of the USSR conducted 7 soft landing of unmanned probes, two of them with wheeled robotic "Lunokhods," and two of those missions returned samples to Earth. Others spacecraft have visited the major planets of the Solar system. ... The Mariner series have explored Venus and Mars--and Mariner 10 even reached Mercury, for three separate encounters! ...

Finally, the deep space explorers --spacecraft which break away from the Earth's gravity . ... The "Luna" series of the USSR conducted 7 soft landing of unmanned probes, two of them with wheeled robotic "Lunokhods," and two of those missions returned samples to Earth. Others spacecraft have visited the major planets of the Solar system. ... The Mariner series have explored Venus and Mars--and Mariner 10 even reached Mercury, for three separate encounters! ... Sojourner" on Mars, its top . ...

... Outreach . ... I'm a PhD student at the Australian National University's Mt Stromlo observatory and am part of the Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF) graduate program. I study the properties on nearby galaxies and investigate the evolution of the local universe. ... I run the RSAA Student Outreach Group which invites school children to participate in free astronomy outreach evenings. ... Copyright 2007 Emma Kirby. ... All Photos were taken by Emma Kirby unless otherwise stated. ...

Last modified on November 18, 1998 by A. Richichi . An occultation of the carbon star IRC +10216 (aka CW Leo) was recorded from the ESO/La Silla observatory on November 11, 1998. This is the brightest and best studied carbon star, but also a very peculiar one with the central star being embedded in a thick dust envelope. ... The occultation series of IRC +10216 is continuing, and the next opportunity will be from Europe on February 28, 1999. ...

MAIN PAGE . ... Nova Cygni August 1975! ... 1975/76: Comet West! ... Dr. Richard West (4th from left) & AAL members visiting SES Betzdorf on occasion of our club's 25th anniversary - October 1996 . Comet West Information . ... It was the brightest comet visible from Earth since Comet West in 1976. ... 1997: Comet Hale-Bopp! ... Thus Comet Hale-Bopp never got closer to Earth than Earth gets to the Sun. ... Comet Hale-Bopp JPL Page . ... 1999: Total solar eclipse over Luxembourg! ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center . ... SHANNON W. LUCID (Ph.D.) . nasa astronaut (former) . ... She is qualified for assignment as a mission specialist on Space Shuttle flight crews. ... A veteran of five space flights, Dr. Lucid has logged 5,354 hours (223 days) in space. ... Dr. Lucid retired from NASA in January 2012. ... In completing this flight, Dr. Lucid logged 838 hours and 54 minutes in space. ... FEBRUARY 2012 ...

... Cambridge . ... Bojan Nikolic web pages home . ... Welcome to the web-log (AKA, blog) about my astronomical research. ... Some of the articles are simply commentary or pointers on others people work in astronomy and contain no original research . ... Simple smoothing of astronomical images in FITS format (April 29, 2012) . ... Talk at the University of Cambridge (November 3, 2010) . ... Introductory talk at the Kavli Institute for Cosmology, Cambridge (March 22, 2010) . ...

Supernova 2002fk in NGC 1309 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2002fk in NGC 1309 Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the updates and links web pages. ... 2002/09/19.848 . ... JM Llapasset image . ... 13.0 . ... Josep M. Bosch . ... Josep M. Bosch image . ... vsnet-campaign-sn 476 ] SN 2002fk in NGC 1309 . ...

... It was done. ... Agenda of the RadioAstron teleconference August 25, 2010 Corrections to the Agenda 1 2 3 N. Kardashev N. Kardashev N. Babakin Project status Present status of tests of science payload in LA Brief review of Pushchino TS verifications with Venus Express: current status and outlook Current status and activities related to TS in South Africa and in New Zealand Action items L.Gurvits S.Likhachev S.Gulyaev M.Popov 4 5 Chairman: N.Kardashev List of ...

... Our paper on A Correlation Between the Intrinsic Brightness and Average Decay Rate of Swift/UVOT Gamma-Ray Burst Optical/Ultraviolet Light Curves has been published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. ... Our paper presenting evidence that the transient X -ray source Swift J2058.4+0516 was a star being torn apart by a supermassive black hole has been published in the Astrophysical Journal. ... Stephen Holland, . Most recently updated: October 31, 2012 sholland@stsci.edu . ...

... Henry Draper, a doctor by trade, was a prominent American amateur scientist and an early pioneer of astronomical photography. ... Aside from the star catalog bearing his name, Henry Draper is best known for obtaining the first photograph of an astronomical nebula, recording the Great Nebula of Orion on the night of September 30, 1880. ... Draper, Henry", by Charles A. Whitney, 1971, in the Dictionary of Scientific Biography , ed. Charles Coulston Gillispie (New York: Scribner), v. 4, p. 178 . ...