... Today, July 4th, at about 10:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time (PDT), the Mars Pathfinder spacecraft will land on Mars. ... Mars Pathfinder is nearing the end of its 7 month journey. ... Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) were discovered by accident. ... You're zipping through the Solar System when you pass ... asteroid 253 Mathilde. ... On the way to visiting the asteroid 433 Eros in February 1999, the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft flew right by another asteroid: 253 Mathilde last Friday. ...

Discover the cosmos! ... February 28, 1996 . Explosions Discovered Near Galactic Center . ... Explanation: Tremendous explosions near the center of our Galaxy were discovered just this past December and are being announced today by a paper in Nature and a press conference at NASA . Bursts like these have never been seen before, and so the exact cause is unknown and will likely be the source of astronomical speculations and observations for years to come. ... About APOD | ...

Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . 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. Discovered independently by Lick Observatory Supernova Search (USA) and Koichi Itagaki (Japan). ... 2009/10/11.44 . 17.2 . ... Joseph Brimacombe . ...

Mathilde . ... On June 27, 1997 the Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft flew flew past asteroid 253 Mathilde. ... On June 27, 1997 NEAR made a spectatular 25 minute flyby of Mathilde which resulted in more than 500 images of a dark, crater-battered little world that dates to the beginning of the solar system. ... This first image of asteroid 253 Mathilde, returned by the NEAR spacecraft just before 10:00 AM EDT on June 27, 1997, was taken from a distance of 1800 kilometers (1120 miles). ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Solar System . ... Planets . ... Space Flight . ... Neptune, which is not visible with the naked eye, was discovered by mathematical prediction in 1846 before being observed through a telescope. ... Tidal interactions between Neptune and Triton mean that in 100 million years these two bodies may come too close to one another causing Triton to be torn apart leaving Neptune with a ring system more spectacular than SaturnтАЩs. ...

Particles, Energy, and Cosmology Particles, Energy, and Cosmology Eugene Rotary Jim Brau February 5, 2008 1 The End of Physics "The more important fundamental laws and facts of physical science have all been discovered, and these are now so firmly established that the possibility of their ever being supplanted in consequence of new discoveries is exceedingly remote." ... Creation of massive matter (E=mc2) Particles, Energy, and Cosmology Eugene Rotary Jim Brau February 5, 2008 8 What is matter? ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . On Friday 15th February the recently discovered Apollo-class near-Earth asteroid 2012 DA14 will make a close pass by the Earth. The asteroid will come within about 34,000 km (21,000 miles) of the centre of our planet at 7.26 p.m. That is, within the ring of geostationary communication satellites which orbit at some 35,800 km above the surface of the Earth. ... Last Revised: 2013 February 11th . ...

... Galileo Probe . The Galileo spacecraft was designed to study Jupiter's atmosphere, satellites, and surrounding magnetosphere for two years. ... From there, Galileo will spend more than five years traveling to Jupiter, where it will become the first spacecraft to make direct measurements from an instrumented probe within Jupiter's atmosphere. ... This image, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the predicted site at which the Galileo Probe will enter Jupiter's atmosphere on December 7, 1995. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . News . Observing . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... May 2016: Gravitational waves breakthrough . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... February 2016 . ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... History . ... ISS Russian Segment . ... News . Science news . ... Progress M-04M is the 36th Russian logistics spacecraft launched to ISS within the framework of this project, and the fourth spacecraft in the new series of logistics spacecraft Progress M with improved performance. ... Contribution of RSC Energia to the Russian Rocket-Space Technology . ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

Image credit: Michael Nolan, Arecibo Observatory. These radar images of near-Earth asteroid 2001 SN263 were obtained on 2008 Feb 12 and 13. ... Image from Feb 12 . ... First near-Earth triple asteroid discovered by Arecibo Observatory . ... was discovered this week by astronomers at the sensitive radar telescope at Cornell University?s Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. ... For example, Arecibo has discovered more than half of the near-Earth binary asteroid systems discovered since 1999. ...

... Sun images . ... February : 2016 . ... Image of Sun's photosphere obtained 09.02.2016 at 23:40 UT with HMI instrument on board SDO spacecraft . ... Image of Sun's magnetic field obtained 09.02.2016 at 23:52 UT with HMI instrument on board SDO spacecraft . ... Image of Sun's transition region obtained 09.02.2016 at 23:39 UT with AIA instrument on board SDO spacecraft . Image of Sun's corona . Image of Sun's corona obtained 09.02.2016 at 23:39 UT with AIA instrument on board SDO spacecraft . ...

... Comet Lovejoy over the Parkes Dish . ... This beautiful picture of Comet Lovejoy was taken by CSIRO's Parkes staff member John Sarkissian when it was visible above the illuminated 64-m Parkes Telescope on the 28th of December 2011. The comet, official known as C/2011 W3 (Lovejoy) was discovered on the 27th of November 2011 by Australian amateur astronomer Terry Lovejoy . His new find, C/2014 Q2 , discovered on the 17th of August 2014, is currently visible in the sky . ... today * ATNF | ...

... What a beautiful picture of a field of stars from the European Southern Observatory! ... A patch of sky so filled with stars that hardly any dark spots are seen across the entire picture. However in the centre, next to an especially bright, blue star cluster, you can see a strange dark cloud. ... We call clouds like this one Bok globules'. ... Bok globules are the remains of much larger clouds, known as 'molecular clouds'. ... What do you see in this dark patch? We see a lizard. ...

... When the Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by the planet Uranus in January 1986, astronomers were treated to their first close-up glimpse of the satellites that orbit the seventh planet. ... But by far the most intriguing of those 15 satellites was a jigsaw-puzzle world called Miranda . ... How dark was it at Miranda? One of the Voyager scientists put it this way: Taking pictures in the Uranus system is like trying to do photography in a ballpark at night when the only light comes from a single candle. ...

... The name Discovery Date mag Size(m) Publication MASTER -Observatory --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HAZARDOUS ASTEROIDS : 7 MASTER HAZARD Asteroid 2015 UM67 2015 Oct 28.88218 16.9 940m MPEC 2015-V01 MASTER -SAAO automatically MASTER software 6 MASTER rediscovered HAZARD Asteroid 2011 QG21 2015 Aug 17.94764 17.2 300m MPEC 2015-Q28 ...

... The IB_TAIL magnetic conjugations with the others Spacecraft . ... ASCII file description | Plot description | ... ASCII file | real time plot . ... The IB_TAIL magnetic conjugations with the groundbased magnetic observatories . ... The IB_TAIL magnetic mapping polar diagram, and ASCII files for each decade of month: . ... ASCII files description | DEC 1 (ASCII file, size more then 350Kb!) ... Back to the IB_TAIL Home page. ... INTERBALL mission  ...

... Asteroid . ... In case you didn't hear about it, which you probably didn't: On Jan. 7, an asteroid 1,000 feet across -- nearly three times the current diameter of Marlon Brando -- barely missed the Earth, which is most likely your planet of residence. ... What if this asteroid had hit the Earth? ... As it happens, the American Astronomical Society was holding a conference in Washington AT THE VERY SAME TIME as the asteroid nearly hit the Earth. ...

HST has resumed science observations with NICMOS, FGS and WFPC2. ... Abstract . ... Leon Koopmans, Kapteyn Astronomical Institute . ... The largest Kuiper belt objects . ... Comprehensive Auroral Imaging of Jupiter and Saturn during the International Heliophysical Year . ... 2007 has been designated the International Heliophysical Year, and HST will be playing a key part in the associated scientific activities by participating in a detailed investigation of auroral activity in jupiter and Saturn. ...

... Alfred Merrill Worden . NASA Astronaut (former) . ... Married to Jill Lee Worden (Hotchkiss). ... He served as a member of the astronaut support crew for the Apollo 9 flight and as backup command module pilot for the Apollo 12 flight. ... Scott and Irwin collected approximately 171 pounds of lunar surface materials on their three expeditions onto the lunar surface; and Worden logged 38 minutes in extravehicular activity outside the command module, "Endeavour." ...