... 2010 April 14 . A Large Space Station Over Earth . Credit: STS-131 Crew, Expedition 23 Crew, NASA . Explanation: The International Space Station is the largest object ever constructed by humans in space. ... The station is so large that it could not be launched all at once -- it is being built piecemeal with large sections added continually by flights of the Space Shuttle . ... On the far right, a crescent Earth slices through the blackness of space. ... About APOD | ...

... Credit Copyright: Space Shuttle STS-133 Crew, Space Station Expedition 26 Crew, NASA Explanation: What's happening outside the space station? ... Five days ago, the space shuttle Discovery was launched to the International Space Station , carrying six crew members and the large Leonardo Multi Purpose Logistics Module . ... Publications with keywords: space shuttle Discovery - ISS - international space station . Publications with words: space shuttle Discovery - ISS - international space station . ...

EIGHTH CREW REQUIRED RESOURCES FIFTH RUSSIAN VISITING CREW SERVANTES SSM PROJECT IMAGE VIDEO . ... From May to October 1994 he trained for a 30-day flight to Mir under EC-17 program and Euromir 94 mission within a backup crew together with Russian cosmonauts Yu.P. Gidzenko and S.V. Avdeev. ... From October 2002 to February 2003 he was in training at Yu.A. Gagarin CTC as a flight engineer-1 of the Soyuz TMA TSC of expedition crew-5, visiting crew (VC-5) of the International Space Station. ...

... ESO is building what will be the World's largest optical telescope array, The Very Large Telescope (VLT). The VLT Project organisation is responsible for the design and construction of the Unit Telescopes, including enclosures, optics, adapter-rotators and coating unit. ... Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ...

... A team of Japanese scientists including Armagh astronomer Dr David Asher have announced the discovery of the second largest known Earth-crossing asteroid. The group is based at the new Japanese Spaceguard Centre at Bisei, west of Osaka. ... The subsequent tracking and orbit determination was assisted by Armagh asteroid expert David Asher, who is currently visiting Japan to help in the setting up of the new Spaceguard Centre funded by the Japanese government. ...

... If you arrive by train: . ... Trains from Moscow, other Russian cities to the south and south-east of St. Petersburg arrive at the Moskovskii vokzal, linked to the metro station Ploshchad' Vosstaniya. ... Domestic and some international flights arrive at the Pulkovo-1 terminal, from where one can reach the Moskovskaya metro station by bus No. 39 or "marshrutka" (routed shared taxi, express minibus) No. ... Location of Pulkovo Observatory (map) : . ... Location of the Workshop : . ... Copyright 2014....

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Planets . ... Exoplanets . ... Space Flight . ... Science Fiction . ... August . ... By admin August 18, 2011 Posted in: August . Artist's impressions of Kepler and the light curve of transiting planet (Image credit: NASA) . ... In 1995 we knew of only nine planets (including Pluto, how times change), but in that year the first of the extra-solar planets or exoplanets was confirmed. ... Another is one of the most Earth-like worlds yet discovered . ...

Amalthea . Jupiter V . Amalthea [am-al-THEE-uh] is one of Jupiter's smaller moons. ... These four images of Jupiter's moon, Amalthea, were taken by Galileo's solid state imaging system at various times between February and June 1997. ... Amalthea, whose longest dimension is approximately 247 kilometers (154 miles) across, is tidally locked so that the same side of the satellite always points towards Jupiter, similar to how the near side of our own Moon always points toward Earth. ...

... Creation of Space transportation system on the base of large length rope utilization . ... A given address contains the proposal to equip the International Space Station with the long rope and to create on that base a Space transportation system. ... A given system has the multifunctional purpose. ... The rope system could be the base for creating of alternative system of station angular orientation. To utilize the rope system to launch small satellites from the station and to return them back. ...

Astronomers Detect Coolest Radio Star . ... The new radio-star is much smaller and colder than our Sun.€а With a surface temperature not much higher than that of a giant planet, and a size comparable to JupiterтАЩs, it is scarcely visible in optical light.€а Yet the radio flares seen at Arecibo show it must have a strong magnetic field, implying that the same could be true of other similar stars. ...

... Director of the RAS ISR . RAS Academician . ... Astrophysics module Kvant of the orbital complex Mir launched in 1987 contains the largest on the station complex of the scientific equipment named the orbital observatory Roentgen. Observatory Roentgen consists of 4 X-ray telescopes, jointly exceeding the range of energies from 2 to 800 keV. ... Among the most significant results that were received in the observatory Roentgen are: . ... measurement of the periods of 9 X-ray pulsars; . ...

A team using CSIRO 's Parkes radio telescope has just found the thousandth pulsar known to science. ... This is thanks to the power of a new instrument on the telescope, the multibeam system , which has slashed the time it takes to scan the sky," said co-leader of the pulsar team, CSIRO's Dr Dick Manchester . ... There are many different types of pulsar, and we have only a few examples of some types," said Dr Manchester. ... E-mail: rmanches@atnf.csiro.au . ... e-mail: hsim@atnf.csiro.au . ...

... Telescopes . ... The International Conference "Dark Ages and White Nights (Spectroscopy of the CMB)" (June 20-24, 2016) . ... The International Conference "Stars: from collapse to collapse" (October 3-7, 2016) . The traditional annual competition conference of scientific and scientific-engineering papers of the Observatory staff members . ... A session of the Dissertation Council (October 16, 2015) . ... International scientific conference "Large Optical Telescopes" (October, 10-13, 2011) . ...

. Album : Фотоальбом Сергея Аюкова :: Travels to distant places and countries :: 1997/08 Japan (Kyoto, Nara) :: 18/08 Higashi-Honganji temple . Up . << Prev . We are walking to large Buddhist temple near Kyoto station (Higashi-Honganji Temple). Next >> . Created with the tool photo album generator a script written by David Ljung on Wed Jun 5 20:38:36 2013 .

... Clayton C. Anderson . ... EDUCATION: Graduated from Ashland-Greenwood High School, Ashland, Nebraska, 1977; graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Hastings College, Nebraska, in 1981; and received a Master of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from Iowa State University in 1983. ... Anderson also served as a space station Capsule Communicator (CAPCOM) and as the Astronaut Office Crew Representative for the space station electrical power system. ... JANUARY 2013 ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... US state, Canadian province, or country . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... Magazine . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... space flight . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... international space station . ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

... Posts tagged ?AstroStat? ... Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy V (including summer school & tutorials) . ... Category: Astro , News , Stat | ... Continue reading ?AstroStat Summer School [Announcement]? Tags: 2010 , AstroStat , June 2010 , Penn State , summer school . ... Tags: 2009 , Announcement , AstroStat , August , Heidelberg , IMPRS , IMPRS-HD , inference , Max Planck , summer school . ... Tags: 2009 , Announcement , AstroStat , June , Penn State , summer school . ... CAS 2010 . ...

... SCIENCE AND BUSINESS . Such a trifle as a starry night sky of largest observatories turned out to be a small change coin in commercial bargains for exclusive communal services in Russia, and for a few elite flats in penthouses in Ukraine. SCIENCE AND BUREAUCRATISM . ... Till in Russian) . ... Clericalization of science and education (Till in Russian). ... Researcher of the Sternberg Astronomical Institute, The Moscow University. ... SAI home page . ... October, 2008) . ... November, 2007) . ...

The 11 th Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad (November 2015) : . ... Only students did not participated at the IAO-2015 may participate in the APAO-2015 (that is a student may participate in the 20 th IAO or in the 11 th APAO but not in both of these Olympiads). ... National representation quota at APAO-2015 is (up to) 8 students and 2 team leaders (the same number is at the Asian Physics Olympiad): not more than 4 participants for the group Alpha, not more than 4 participants for the group Beta. ...

... Following several successful moon landings,NASA decided to use its last Saturn V not to fly to the moon but to place in low Earth orbit a large space station, named Skylab. ... It was followed that year by three manned flights using the smaller Saturn IB, each carrying 3 astronauts for a prolonged stay aboard Skylab. ... Mass measurements aboard Skylab were part of the medical experiments conducted there. ... Measuring body mass in the M172 chair (see illustration) was not a simple matter. ...