... The Magellanic Clouds are small irregular galaxies orbiting our own larger Milky Way spiral galaxy. ... Thousands of Coma Cluster Galaxies . ... The Coma Cluster of galaxies pictured is a dense cluster containing many thousands of galaxies. ... Elliptical Galaxy M87 . ... Elliptical galaxy M87 is a type of galaxy that looks much different than our own Milky Way Galaxy. ... Spiral Galaxy M83 . ... Long winding spiral arms are clearly evident on this spectacular picture of the spiral galaxy M83. ...

... 2000 February 8 . Rings Around Beta Pictoris . ... Explanation: An unusual dust disk surrounds nearby star Beta Pictoris . ... Recent images and computer simulations indicate that the disk contains several elliptical dust rings larger than our own Solar System . The above image taken with the Hubble Space Telescope uncovered evidence of these rings as apparent knots in the edge-on disk . ... These rings might have been formed when a nearby star passed Beta Pic about 100,000 years ago. ...

What's New in Views of the Solar System . ... Mars Icosahedraon Added . ... Rotation Earth Movie . Europa Rotation Movie . ... Color Rotation Tethys Movie . Rotation Tethys Movie . ... Rotating Mars Movie . ... Animation: Io Rotation Movie . ... Rotating Moon Animation . ... Animation of Janus, The Rotating Moon of Saturn . ... Two excellent animations of Mars' moons Phobos and Deimos were added on 9/3/97. ... A high-resolution mosaic image of Phobos , a moon of Mars, was added on 7/8/97. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Comets and Asteroids . ... Space Flight . ... April . ... Posted on January 7, 2016 | ... Continue Reading.. Posted on June 29, 2015 | ... No Comments In November 2014, the European Space AgencyтАЩs washing-machine-sized investigation and analysis lander lab Philae, did something that no other automated probe had ever done before, it successfully landed on a [ ] . ... No Comments Comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) was discovered in August 2014. ...

... 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. ...

... Observatory . ... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science and Technical Meetings > Conferences 2015 > Stellar Halos 2015 . ... Science Users Information . Observing Facilities . La Silla Paranal Observatory . Paranal Facilities . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... Data Handling and Products . ... Science Data Products Forum . ... Science Archive Facility . ... ESO Data . ... ESO Data Access Policy . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... Final Announcement & Note to participants . ...

... I'm modifying the stsci_python package so that it runs under python 2 and 3. So far I've got the code set up and converted the code in the top directory. ... I've been converting the stsci_python code so it works under python 2 and 3. ... It turns out that before I can test any of the migrated code, I need to first convert pandokia so it runs under 2 and 3. ... I finished making code changes to Pandokia. ... I spent the day trying to debug problems with the database tests. ... Archive for 2015 . ...

... 21 February 2008 total lunar eclipse photographed by Bob English in Franklin, TN. ... Friday, 22 February 2008 11:16 . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... 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! ...

Since the days of Sputnik and Explorer 1, thousands of spacecraft have gone into space, some of them carrying human passengers. The first person to orbit the Earth was the Russian Yuri Gagarin, on April 12, 1961. The first American to do so was John Glenn, who completed three orbits on February 20, 1962; more than 26 years later, at age 77, Glenn returned to space aboard the space shuttle. ... in orbit. ... Manned satellites include various " space stations " intended for long-term residence. ...

... 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 . ...

... The Pleiades star cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, is a conspicuous object in the night sky with a prominent place in ancient mythology . ... The stars in the Pleiades are thought to have formed together around 100 million years ago, making them 1/50th the age of our sun, and they lie some 130 parsecs (425 light years ) away. ... Data for these stars are listed in a table below. ... Yes . ... WEBDA Pleiades cluster data . ... M45: The Pleiades Star Cluster (2007 November 18) ...

EPIC Calibration and Operation Meeting PN Open Points EPIC NCR Status 7th February 20 01 Fabio Giannini ESA-HQ : 7th February 2001 XMM 1 Summary · PN Open Points · EPIC Status ­ MOS ­ p-n ­ RAD MON ESA-HQ : 7th February 2001 XMM 2 PN Open points · OFFSET / NOISE Transmission current ... RAD MON OPEN Non Conformances ­ All closed by desperation ESA-HQ : 7th February 2001 XMM 7 EPIC Status · MOS Major recent problems ­ Bright pixels in MOS 2 (July 2000). ...

... 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. ...

... On the morning of Thursday, 26 February, amid the Gal pagos Islands, the Sun will fade from view. Not the culmination of ancient prophecy, but none less mystical, Earth's small Moon will be executing a slow slide past the enormous Sun. ... And anyone living in southern North America, Central America, northern South America, or on islands and cruise ships in the Caribbean Sea will, weather permitting, have the opportunity to experience the wonder of a solar eclipse. ...

... Container Widgets . ... A Layout container is created using: GtkWidget *gtk_layout_new( GtkAdjustment *hadjustment, GtkAdjustment *vadjustment ); . ... You can add and move widgets in the Layout container using the following two functions: void gtk_layout_put( GtkLayout *layout, GtkWidget *widget, gint x, gint y ); void gtk_layout_move( GtkLayout *layout, GtkWidget *widget, gint x, gint y ); . ... Fixed Container . ...

Last modified: 30 November 1997 . Original version 27 November 1997 . Modified: 30 Nov . This WEB page contains the schedule for HALCA observations from November 24, 1997 to February 28, 1998. The February schedule may be modified slightly. ... VSOP V025c 1334-127 C Socr 18 Su:Jan-18 09:00 - 17:45 VLBA V129c1 3C84 C Socr 43 Th:Feb-12 00:15 - 03:00 VLBA Percentage of time 2.6 . ...

... Cassini spacecraft captures images and sounds of big Saturn storm . ... The huge storm churning through the atmosphere in Saturn's northern hemisphere overtakes itself as it encircles the planet in this true-color view from NASAт??s Cassini spacecraft. ... Scientists analyzing data from NASAт??s Cassini spacecraft now have the first-ever up-close details of a Saturn storm that is 8 times the surface area of Earth. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...

... 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. ...

... Space Contents 1-2 YEAR 3-4 MONTH 5-6 DAY 7-8 BLANK 9-12 N (THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE aa DAILY VALUE ) 13-15 BLANK 16-19 S (THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE aa DAILY VALUE ) 20-22 BLANK 23-26 M1 (HALF DAILY VALUE OF aa INDICES FOR THE GREENWICH DAY ) 27-29 BLANK 30-33 M2 (SECOND HALF DAILY VALUE OF aa INDICES FOR GREENWICH DAY ) 34-36 BLANK 37-38 CC_OR_K (QUIET DAYS CLASSIFICATION) 39-41 MONTHLY MEAN DATA: Loacated after the last day of the month. ...