Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... The robot spacecraft Galileo whose primary mission is to explore the Jupiter system, has encountered and photographed two asteroids during its long journey to Jupiter. ... The Earth-Moon System . ... A double planet? From 4 million miles away on December 16, 1992, NASA's robot spacecraft Galileo took this picture of the Earth-moon system. ... This picture of the planet Jupiter was taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft as it passed the planet in 1979. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Posted on March 4, 2015 | 3 Comments Already the year 2015 is proving to be a great year for stargazing with planets, comets and meteorites gracing the skies but prepare for March as it brings a тАШmicro [ ] . Continue Reading.. ... Posted on December 5, 2014 | 4 Comments The December skies mark my favourite time of the year for stargazing. ... Posted on October 24, 2014 | ... Posted on September 26, 2014 | ...

... December 24, 1999 . Hubble Holiday . Picture Credit: STS-82 Crew , NASA . Explanation: How would you like to spend your holiday in low earth orbit? That's what the crew of the space shuttle Discovery is doing as they deliver six new gyros and a faster main computer to the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope . ... Discovery is scheduled to return to Earth after Christmas, with a December 27 landing at Kennedy Space Center - but you can e-mail season's greetings to the orbiting crew. ...

... Galileo Probe . The Galileo spacecraft was designed to study Jupiter's atmosphere, satellites, and surrounding magnetosphere for two years. ... From there, Galileo will spend more than five years traveling to Jupiter, where it will become the first spacecraft to make direct measurements from an instrumented probe within Jupiter's atmosphere. ... This image, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the predicted site at which the Galileo Probe will enter Jupiter's atmosphere on December 7, 1995. ...

... Galileo Probe . The Galileo spacecraft was designed to study Jupiter's atmosphere, satellites, and surrounding magnetosphere for two years. ... From there, Galileo will spend more than five years traveling to Jupiter, where it will become the first spacecraft to make direct measurements from an instrumented probe within Jupiter's atmosphere. ... This image, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the predicted site at which the Galileo Probe will enter Jupiter's atmosphere on December 7, 1995. ...

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... The European HST Archive has been moved to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre ( ESAC ), Spain, where most of ESA's Space Science Archives are located and operated from. ... The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), jointly operated by ESA and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) was, until the end of 2010, the European HST science facility, supporting the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

STScI . Guidelines for Preparing Viewgraphs and Computer based Presentations to be used in an STScI Webcast . ... Us . ... To reach the largest possible audience with the greatest understanding of your material, ITSD has prepared a few guidelines for preparing viewgraphs and computer based presentations. ... Avoid using colors that appear at the same level of brightness (e.g., red text on a blue background), viewgraphs appear quite different on a projected screen compared to the computer. ...

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NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER ORAL HISTORY PROJECT BIOGRAPHICAL DATA SHEET NAME: Glynn S. Lunney O RAL H ISTORY: 9 March 1998 9 December 1998 28 January 1999 8 February 1999 26 February 1999 30 March 1999 26 April 1999 18 October ... EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: Attended the University of Scranton, 1953-1955 BS in Aeronautical Engineering, University of Detroit, 1958 PRE- NASA CAREER: NACA Lewis Research ... NASA-TM-X-84. Cleveland, Ohio: NASA Lewis Research Center, 1959. ... NASA-TM-X-69335. ...

... As an experiment, I made some three-color images of Messier 42, more commonly known as the Great Nebula of Orion. ... green enhanced . ... halfsize or fullsize . ... Each image is a ``true color'' composite of three monochromatic images, in which the red, green, and blue intensities each correspond to the intensity of one of the original images. ... The HST image is assembled from different filters than mine: red is Nitrogen [II] at 6583 , green is H-alpha at 6563 , and blue is O [III] at 5007 . ...

From: TerryMosel aol.com Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 18:55:49 EST Subject: Jupiter's new Red Spot, Asteroid impact threat Hi all, 1. Jupiter has developed a new Red Spot! ... Christopher Go of the Philippines photographed it on February 27th using an 11-inch telescope and a CCD camera: Above: Red spots on Jupiter, photographed by amateur astronomer Christopher Go on Feb. ... The official name of this storm is "Oval BA," but "Red Jr." might be better. ... Now it is the same color as the Great Red Spot!" ...

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... Colors of Sunlight . S-4A.Color Expts. ... Here is your opportunity to demonstrate the three-color theory by using your computer. I am indebted for this to Joe Burns , on whose color demonstration file it is based. ... You see below two tables with colored fields. ... blue . ... D0FBFF gives the intensity of the three colors which make up the background: D0 is the intensity of red , FB is the intensity of green and the second FF is the intensity of blue , the maximum blue you can get. ...

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