... 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,...

... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Astronomers recently discovered that Scholz's star passed close to the Sun 70,000 years ago. Wouldn't its gravity have sent Oort Cloud comets raining into the inner planets? ... COMETS | OORT CLOUD . Based on the number of long-period comets that enter the inner solar system, astronomers estimate there are probably trillions of them in the Oort Cloud. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Discover | ...

... February 18, 1997 . A Big Cliff on Jupiter's Callisto . Credit: The Galileo Project , JPL , NASA . Explanation : Callisto 's surface is not without fault. In fact, an explorer crossing the surface of this large moon of Jupiter would need climbing equipment to pass this large, recently discovered fault. ... As the Sun illuminates Callisto 's surface from the left, the unusual cliff or scarp stands out by the shadow it casts to the right. ... About APOD > . ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

... 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 . ...

This is a copy of a Press Release from E.S.O. Eight years after the passage of Comet Halley in early 1986, astronomers at the European Southern Observatory have succeeded in obtaining an image of this famous object at a distance of no less than 2,820 million km from the Sun. ... The image shows the 6 x 15 km avocado-shaped nucleus as an extremely faint point of light without any surrounding dust cloud. ... This observation was made with the ESO 3.58 metre New Technology Telescope (NTT). ...

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The following is a list of recent hikes I've been on, mostly in the Canadian Rockies near Calgary, Alberta. Some include links to scanned photos. Home

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... Armagh Planetarium . ... Universe . ... October . ... Posted on October 21, 2010 | No Comments Galaxies, distant from us in space and time, have been in the news recently. ... No Comments If you love great articles on space and astronomy you are probably already following the Carnival of Space. ... Hello, IтАЩm Colin, welcoming you to Astronotes, the PlanetariumтАЩs official blog. Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

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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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... 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 . ...

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 . ...

Lab . Main page News People . ASA . Master . Master net Homepage . ... Lomonosov Moscow State University Sternberg Astronomical Institute . ... MASTER . ... Lomonosov (ShOK) . ... About Space Monitoring Laboratory, scientific directions, instruments, contacts . People, who work in lab . Latest news and news archive . ... All news ...

... PRIME CREW . ... On February 14, 1995 he was assigned to the second crew (PC-20) under the EuroMir-95 program and from February 20 to August 1995 he passed training as a flight engineer, together with G. Manakov and from April 1– with C.Fuglesang (ESA, Sweden). ... On February 3, 1999 by decision of RSA Board he was removed from the ISS crews and assigned as a flight engineer of the back-up crew (PC-28) and the prime crew (PC-29) for the Mir Orbital Station, together with S. Sharipov. ...

... August 2013 . ... 2013 Annual Meeting Welcomes More than 250 EPO Professionals and Cosmos Astronomy Professors to Explore Science Education and Outreach, and STEM Literacy . ... ASP 2013 Astronomy Award Recipients Feted at Annual Banquet . ... ASP to Participate in Silicon Valley Leadership Group 2013 Education Summit . ... The ASP's Education Manager, Suzanne Gurton , organized activities and interactive demos for participating families, with themes revolving around comets, meteors, and impacts. ...

Ida and Dactyl . Ida . ... On August 28, 1993 Galileo came within 2,400 kilometers (1,500 miles) of 243 Ida, the second asteroid ever encountered by a spacecraft. ... Dactyl . ... This color picture is made from images taken by the Galileo spacecraft about 14 minutes before its closest approach to Ida at a range of about 10,500 kilometers (6,500 miles). ... This image is the first full picture showing both asteroid 243 Ida and its moon Dactyl transmitted to Earth from NASA's Galileo spacecraft. ...

... Eclipses of the Moon in 2009 : . In 2009 there are four eclipses of the Moon (tree penumbral eclipses on February 9, July 7, and August 5-6 and a partial eclipse on December 31). ... Moon enters penumbra (P 1 ) . ... Moon leaves penumbra (P 4 ) . ... Eclipse, lunar : . ... It may be total (the Moon passing completely through the Earth's umbra ), partial (the Moon passing partially through the Earth's umbra at maximum eclipse), or penumbral (the Moon passing only through the Earth's penumbra ). ...