... Unloading a space shuttle -- for the last time. ... So, spaced about 4 hours apart these 4 images of the solar system's most distant gas giant cover one Neptune day. ... For the last time, the US Space Shuttle has approached the International Space Station (ISS). Following a dramatic launch from Cape Canaveral last week that was witnessed by an estimated one million people, Space Shuttle Atlantis on STS-135 lifted a small crew to a welcome rendezvous three days ago with the orbiting station. ...

M1 image More About M1 Nice Color Picture . ... M16 image More About M16 HST image . ... M31 image More About M31 Nice Color Picture . ... M42 image ; M43 image More About M42/43 Nice Color CCD Picture . M51 image More About M51 Color Image of M51 M51 Supernova . M57 image More About M57 Nice Color CCD Picture Very Deep M57 Image . ... M81 image More About M81 M81 Supernova Ultraviolet Image of M81 More about Ultraviolet Imaging . M82 image More About M82 M82 False Color M82 True Color . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... 2009 November 9 . NGC 2623: Galaxy Merger from Hubble . Credit: NASA , ESA and A. Evans ( Stony Brook ) et al. ... Analysis of this Hubble image and images of NGC 2623 in infrared light by the Spitzer Space Telescope , in X-ray light by XMM-Newton , and in ultraviolet light by GALEX , indicate that two originally spiral galaxies appear now to be greatly convolved and that their cores have unified into one active galactic nucleus (AGN). ... About APOD | ... A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC . ...

An image of the grand design of spiral galaxy M100 obtained with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope resolves individual stars within the majestic spiral arms. ... Hubble has the ability to resolve individual stars in other galaxies and measure accurately the light from very faint stars. This makes space telescope invaluable for identifying a rare class of pulsating stars, called Cepheid Variable stars embedded within M100's spiral arms. ... 617) 495-7062 . Fax: (617) 495-7356 . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . Colin Johnston . ... Moon . ... Space Flight . ... June . ... By admin July 17, 2012 Posted in: Colin Johnston . ... Image credit:Don Pettit/NASA) . ... Image credit:NASA) . ... 4 June:The US intelligence community giving NASA two surplus giant spysats for conversion to Hubble-style space telescopes. ... 18 June:€аa Chinese space docking . ... Hello, IтАЩm Colin, welcoming you to Astronotes, the PlanetariumтАЩs official blog. ...

... STScI-PRC00-37 HUBBLE CAPTURES AN EXTRAORDINARY AND POWERFUL ACTIVE GALAXY Resembling a swirling witch's cauldron of glowing vapors, the black hole-powered core of a nearby active galaxy appears in this colorful NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. ... The larger outer ring extends off the image and is in the plane of the galaxy's disk. ... The black hole and its accretion disk are expelling gas out of the galaxy's disk and into its halo (the region above and below the disk). ...

... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Member States . ... United Kingdom . Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Galaxies . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... VLT Unit Telescopes Names . ... These two optical images from the Anglo-Australian Telescope in Australia show the Circinus galaxy before (February 1995) and after (March 1996) the supernova explosion of SN 1996cr was visible. ... Circinus Galaxy , SN 1996cr . ...

... Abstract . ... Systemic and Internal motions of the Magellanic Clouds: Third Epoch Images . ... Snapshot Survey for Planetary Nebulae in Globular Clusters of the Local Group . ... The tangential motions of the Clouds amount to only a few milliarcseconds, but the high spatial resolution and high stability of HST imaging makes such measurements possible, even with only a 2-year baseline. ... Globular clusters are the oldest structures within the Milky Way that are directly accessible to observation. ...

Probing new worlds" Images are listed in the order in which they appear on the contact sheet (reading right to left). ... 2763-8.tif |19.2 |CSIRO's |The location of both the solar |CSIRO's Dover Heights field | ... Photo: CSIRO | ... NOT FOR USE. ... image. ... MB |galaxy |from the optical image |information for the two images | ... CenA_AAT7.tif) and radio image |used in the composite. | ... Large Array radio telescope of the |courtesy of NRAO / AUI / NSF | ... CSIRO's Parkes radio telescope. | ...

... Visible Distribution of Galaxies. ... Features of Elliptical, Lens-Shaped, Spiral and Irregular Galaxies. Galaxies with Bar. ... Distribution of Surface Brightness of Surface and Spiral Galaxies. ... Color Characteristics of Galaxies. ... Methods of Galaxies' Mass Determination. ... Hidden Mass of Spiral Galaxies. ... Features of Dark Matter Distribution in E and SO Galaxies. ... The Whole Number of Galaxies and Their Density by the Results of Observation on the 'Hubble' Space Telescope. ...

The Steady State model of the Universe was proposed in 1948 by Bondi and Gold and by Hoyle. ... At the time the Steady State model was proposed, the Big Bang model was in trouble because the value of the Hubble constant was clearly bigger than the inverse of the age of the Universe. ... Thus the Steady State model has flat spatial sections like the critical density Big Bang model. ... The Steady State model has no adjustable parameters to correct for this error, but the Big Bang does. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... galaxies . ... space flight . exoplanets . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Why can the Hubble Space Telescope see distant galaxies but not exoplanets? ... D espite Hubble's marvelous ability to image distant galaxies, the telescope isn't able to image extrasolar planets. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

... Circumstellar disc of beta Pictoris: constraints on grain properties from polarization. To appear in the Astronomy & Astrophysics . abs , src , ps ] . ... Dust influx to Titan from Hyperion . ... abs ] . ... Characteristics of bulges and disks in interacting galaxies . ... Dust grains around Herbig Ae/Be stars: porous, cometary-like grains? ... To appear in the Astronomy & Astrophysics Supplement . ... Finally, Links may lead you to more options (e.g. via the LANL preprint system). ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... ISS Russian Segment . ... Sea Launch . ... News . ... In accordance with the mission plan of the International Space Station (ISS) and Russian commitments under this international project, a manned transportation spacecraft Soyuz TMA-11M was launched from Baikonur launch site at 08:14:16 Moscow Time. ... RSC Energia: Progress MS-02 docked with the ISS.' ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

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... Among their major tools of exploration are the images and data in large surveys taken using the Hubble Space Telescope. ... A Collection of Resources to Get Behind the Headlines . ... This episode of Astronomy Behind the Headlines is indeed ripped from recent headlines, when astronomers used the newly refurbished Hubble Space Telescope to see deeper into space (and thus farther back in time) than had ever been possible. ... The James Webb Space Telescope page on finding the first stars and galaxies:...

... Curriculum Vitae Observations and theory of star cluster formation 22) A.K.Dambis and Yu.N.Efremov Journal for History of Astronomy, 31, 115-134, 2000 Dating Ptolemy's star catalogue through proper motions: the Hypparchan epoch 23) B.G.Elmegreen, Yu.N.Efremov, S.Larsen Astrophys. J., 535, 748 - , 2000 A young globular cluster in the galaxy NGC 6946 24) Yu.N.Efremov. ... 28) Yu.N.Efremov. ... The location of star complexes in the Galaxy was studied in papers with E.Alfaro, L.Berdnikov and T.Sitnik. ...

... NASA Astronaut . ... NASA EXPERIENCE: Selected by NASA in April 1996, Dr. Pettit reported to the Johnson Space Center in August 1996. ... He lived aboard the International Space Station for 5-1/2 months during Expedition 6, was a member of the STS-126 crew, and again lived aboard the station for 6-1/2 months as part of the Expedition 30/31 crew. ... Expedition 30/31 (December 21, 2011 to July 1, 2012) launched to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz TMA-03M craft from Kazakhstan. ...

Hubble Family Homes . ... New Albany . ... New Albany High School . ... During the summer Edwin translated Spanish documents for an import company, and that fall he was hired to teach Spanish, physics, and mathematics, and to coach basketball, at New Albany High School. ... Gale E. Christianson has written an authoritative biography -- Edwin Hubble, Mariner of the Nebulae (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, New York, 1995) -- that documents Hubble's career and describes the year he spent in Louisville. ...