... Surprising Comet ISON . ... After failing to appear for Sun staring spacecraft at perihelion, its harrowing closest approach to the Sun, sungrazing Comet ISON was presumed lost. ... Sungrazing Comet ISON reached perihelion, its closest approach to the Sun, yesterday, November 28, at 18:45 UT. ... NGC 1999: South of Orion . ... In the above photograph taken on 1997 April 6, Comet Hale-Bopp was imaged from the Indian Cove Campground in the Joshua Tree National Park in California, USA. ... November . ...

... 2011 February 19 . Spiral Galaxy NGC 2841 Close Up . Credit: NASA , ESA , and the Hubble Heritage ( STScI / AURA ) - ESA / Hubble Collaboration . Explanation: A mere 46 million light-years distant, spiral galaxy NGC 2841 can be found in the northern constellation of Ursa Major . ... NGC 2841 has a diameter of over 150,000 light-years, even larger than our own Milky Way, but this close-up Hubble image spans about 34,000 light-years along the galaxy's inner region. ... About APOD | ...

... Planets . ... Earth Satellites . ... Looking in the direction of the constellation Cygnus the Swan and launched by NASA in 2009 is the Kepler Space Observatory.Many previous missions searching for exoplanets mainly detected large giant planets, like large hot Jupiters (it is easier to detect larger planets).However KeplerтАЩs main objective is to search for much smaller planets located in a habitable zone which is not too close nor too far from their star; planets which may be just like our Earth. ...

... Registration will not guarantee that you will be able to attend until you receive an e-mail notification after registration closes. All accepted participants to the Conference will be listed on the web page under Participants. ... The fee will be included in your room bill which can be payed from Monday June 8 to Wednesday June 10 at Spineto reception desk (from 10:30 am to 2:30 pm). Room check-in and conference registration will take place in the afternoon/evening of Sunday June 7. ...

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The Wind spacecraft. ... It was designed to observe the solar wind approaching Earth, from a position near the Lagrangian point L1, and it is part of the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) Initiative . ... The original plan called for "Wind" to approach its final station over two years, undergoing two close encounters with the Moon to boost its speed. ... For additional details and updates, see the home page of the "Wind" mission. Exploration" home page (index) Glossary . ...

... It was designed to observe the solar wind approaching Earth, from a position near the Lagrangian point L1, and it is part of the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) Initiative . ... The original plan called for "Wind" to approach its final station over two years, undergoing two close encounters with the Moon to boost its speed. ... If however the object is moving , the encounter is not symmetric, and in the end the spacecraft may have gained or lost speed, depending on its trajectory. ...

... Submitted by Al Takeda on 02/17/2013 21:45:36 . Asteroid 2012 DA14 . Asteroid 2012 DA14 made a close pass to the Earth on February 15, 2013. ... This movie was produced using the ATMoB's 10-inch Meade Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope located in the Clamshell observatory. ... Even though my exposure was 1-second in duration, 2012 DA14 was easy to see and the Friday night DVD class members were able to see it in real time. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... Observing . ... Home Education Workshops at Adorama Astronomy Workshop: Observing Variable Stars from the City ? February 15, 2015 . ... Beyond New York City . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... Presented by€а Adorama €аFor the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

... The International Cometary Explorer ( ICE ) spacecraft has now had a close encounter of the best kind (the real kind) with Comet Giacobini-Zinner and has returned a host of useful scientific information. ... While Halley's Comet is too close to the Sun for observation, we can turn our attention to the Voyager 2 spacecraft's closest encounter with the planet Uranus. ... Planet A spacecraft (Japan) has its closest fly-by of Halley's Comet; distance = 100,000 to 200,000 km (60,000 to 120,000 mi) . ...

... ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Governance overview . Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Our people overview . ... Publications overview . ... Careers overview . ... ATNF facilities . ... MRO Support Facility . Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . Mopra radio telescope . ... Current telescope status . ... Astrophysics overview . ... Final agenda (v. 05/11/2007) . ... Meetings . ...

Positions of the carriage and focus, 2013. ... South . ... South+Flat reflector . ... Focus . ... 910 . ... 890 . March . ... Feed cabin N2. 02/2013: carriage 1131000 - old position; 2861000 - new location (when the adjusting device close to the center). ... found 18.02.2013 . ... 12516 from 7r (19.04) . ... 2863000 carriage . ... Positions of the carriage and focus, 2012. ... beginning of March - 898 mm . ...

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). ...

... Close What Happened to Comet Holmes? November 15, 2007 by J. Kelly Beatty Click here to get a sky chart and simple instructions for finding Comet Holmes in the sky. ... The tiny black square indicates the area around the nucleus imaged three days later by the Hubble Space Telescope. ... Acquired on November 4, 2007, this Hubble Space Telescope view of Comet Holmes's nucleus is 10 wide, about 7,500 miles at the comet's distance. Even HST's powerful camera cannot resolve the 2-mile-wide nucleus. ...

Asteroid 2005 YU55 was listed on NASA's "Sentry Risk Page" as having as small (about one in 10 million) chance of hitting the Earth in the next century. We observed this asteroid with the Arecibo Planetary Radar system on April 19-23 2010. ... We obtained radar images of asteroid 2005 YU55 at 11 PM local time on 2011 Nov 9 using the Arecibo Observatory Planetary Radar System in Puerto Rico and the Robert W. Byrd Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia. ... Last modified 2011 November 14 . ...

... Dale A. Gardner . NASA Astronaut (deceased) . ... NASA EXPERIENCE: б  Gardner was selected as an Astronaut Candidate by NASA in January 1978, reporting to the Johnson Space Center in July 1978.б  In August 1979, he completed a one-year training and evaluation period, making him eligible for assignment as a mission specialist astronaut .б  He subsequently served as the Astronaut Project Manager for the flight software in the shuttle onboard computers leading up to the first ...

... Observing . ... Rosetta closes in on Earth . ESA's comet chaser, Rosetta, is on its way to its second close encounter with Earth on November 13. ... This is an artist's rendition of Rosetta's closest approach to Earth during its second swing-by of our planet on November 13 this year. ... The increased energy from this Earth swing-by will help Rosetta cross the asteroid belt for a second time, observe Lutetia, its second target asteroid, and finally rendezvous with comet 67/P Churyumov-Gerasimenko. ...

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). ...

Serguei LANDO (Poncelet laboratory, Moscow): Cohomology of Hurwitz spaces . The problem of studying the intersection theory on Hurwitz spaces naturally arises in connection with the Hurwitz problem. ... The study of the intersection theory on Hurwitz spaces has been initiated in [1,4]. We discuss a new approach to the intersection theory on Hurwitz spaces. ... 3] M. E. Kazarian, S. K. Lando, {\it On intersection theory on Hurwitz spaces}, Izv. ...

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