... The last decade saw the profound discovery of many worlds beyond our solar system, but none analogs of our home planet Earth. ... Spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker in orbit around asteroid 433 Eros found out earlier this month when it recorded its first fly-over sequence. ... Venus Once Molten Surface . ... If you could look at Venus with radar eyes - this is what you might see. ... The Lunar Orbiter 1 spacecraft was launched in 1966 to map the lunar surface in preparation for the Apollo moon landings. ...

Program Number . ... Resolving the Complex Star Formation History of the Leo I Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy . Abstract . ... Observations of the Galilean Satellites in Support of the New Horizons Flyby . ... educing Systematic Errors on the Hubble Constant: Metallicity Calibration of the Cepheid PL Relation . ... The present program aims to address this issue through HST ACS and WFPC2 imaging of Cepheids in several fields in the relatively nearby spiral galaxy, M101. ... Past weeks: . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Space Flight . Human Exploration . Robot Exploration . ... Originally Discovery had been set to launch on 1 November, but this was delayed when fatigue cracks were found in the structure of its External Tank. ... A little bit of trivia is that Discovery has actually made the only shuttle-era Christmas time flight to date, this was STS-103 ,€а a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope in 1999. ...

... NASA Asteroid Orbiter . ... Launched on February 17, 1996, the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission is to be the first of NASA's Discovery missions, a series of small-scale spacecraft designed to proceed from development to flight in under three years for a cost of less than $150 million. ... The ultimate goal of the mission is to rendezvous with and achieve orbit around the near Earth asteroid 433 Eros in February, 1999, and study the asteroid for approximately one year. ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2001 February 13 . NEAR Spacecraft Survives Landing on Asteroid Eros . ... Explanation: Yesterday NEAR-Shoemaker became the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid and send signals back from its surface. Since the robot spacecraft was not designed for such a contingency , the success of the landing on asteroid 433 Eros was not assured. ...

... Р?С?С?С?Р?Р?Р?Р?РеС?Р?С?Р?РеР? ... Launched on February 17, 1996, the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission is to be the first of NASA's Discovery missions, a series of small-scale spacecraft designed to proceed from development to flight in under three years for a cost of less than $150 million. ... The ultimate goal of the mission is to rendezvous with and achieve orbit around the near Earth asteroid 433 Eros in February, 1999, and study the asteroid for approximately one year. ...

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... OKB1 - TSKBEM - NPO ENERGIA - S.P.KOROLEV RSC ENERGIA . ... Beginning of wide international activities in joint space programs. ... Beginning of full-scale activities on development of the Sea Launch rocket space complex. ... Start of activities on the International Space Station. ... Docking of the Spektr optical module with the Mir station. ... Launch of Zarya functional cargo module (Russia) - the first module of the International Space Station. back . ... INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION | ...

... Pluto's orbit is also highly inclined -- tilted 17 degrees to the orbital plane of the other planets. ... Ground-based observations indicate that Pluto's surface is covered with methane ice and that there is a thin atmosphere that might freeze and fall to the surface as the planet moves away from the Sun. ... This is the first image-based surface map of the solar system's most remote planet, Pluto. ... This is the first surface map of Charon, the moon of the solar system's most remote planet, Pluto....

... Our recent observations with the Hubble Space Telescope (August 29, 2014) led to revealing a highly isolated dwarf spheroidal galaxy KKs 3 situated at a distance of 2.12 0.07 Mpc from the Milky Way. The dSph galaxy locates on the southern sky (RA=02 h 24 m 44.4 s , Dec.= ... Over the last decade, about 30 dSph galaxies have been discovered inside the Local Group through systematic search in the vicinity of M31 and more that a dozen dSphs were discovered in the nearby group around M81. ...

... More on 51 Peg: . The discovery of a Jupiter--mass planet in orbit around the solar--type star 51Peg has been reported by Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz (Geneva Observatory) on October 6th at the 9th Cambridge workshop on "cool stars, stellar systems, and the sun" held at Florence (Italy). ... Recall that the measurements of radial velocity only yield v sin i which in turn gives us M sin i. For most values of i, sin i will be greater than 0.5 and this gives a mass estimate of 0.5 Jupiter masses. ...

... Mark C. Lee (Colonel, USAF, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (former) . ... EDUCATION: Graduated from Viroqua High School, Viroqua, Wisconsin, in 1970; received a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1974, and a master of science degree in mechanical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980. ... NASA EXPERIENCE: Lee was selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in May 1984. ... Lee retired from NASA and the Air Force effective July 1, 2001. ...

Clues to the formation and evolution of our Galaxy, the Milky Way, are hidden in the chemical abundances and kinematics of its stars. ... The discovery of the ongoing accretion of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy confirmed that mergers with satellite dwarf galaxies have contributed to the formation of the Galactic halo. ... In particular, I investigated the accretion of dwarf galaxies by the Galaxy and the role of asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars in the chemical evolution of these systems. ...

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... 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 . ...

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One of the goals of ALFALFA (the Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA Survey) is that of verifying whether a significant population of optically faint, baryon rich, low mass systems exists. ... ALFALFA has easily detected the cloud VIRGOHI 21, reported by Davies et al. ... The clouds in the complex appear not to be gravitationally bound to one other, and may represent the remnant of an ancient episode of harassment. ... Davies, J., Minchin, R., Sabatini, S., van Driel, W., Baes, M. et al. ...

... NASA's Dawn spacecraft returns close-up image of asteroid Vesta . ... NASA's Dawn spacecraft has returned the first close-up image after beginning its orbit around the giant asteroid Vesta. ... When Vesta captured Dawn into its orbit, there were approximately 9,900 miles (16,000 kilometers) between the spacecraft and asteroid. ... This is the first image obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft after successfully entering orbit around Vesta. ... NASA's Dawn spacecraft enters orbit around asteroid Vesta . ...