Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Earth Satellites . ... Posted on June 2, 2015 | ... Continue Reading.. Posted on December 19, 2014 | ... Posted on October 30, 2014 | ... Posted on May 9, 2014 | ... Posted on November 19, 2013 | ... Posted on July 22, 2013 | ... Posted on May 10, 2013 | ... Posted on March 26, 2013 | ... 3 Comments In February 2013, the asteroid 2012 DA14 flew past the Earth closer than many of the EarthтАЩs geo-stationary satellites. ...

... NGC 1316: After Galaxies Collide . ... A preliminary inspection indicates that NGC 1316 is an enormous elliptical galaxy that started devouring a smaller spiral galaxy neighbor about 100 million years ago. ... In the Center of 30 Doradus . ... In the center of 30 Doradus lies a huge cluster of the largest, hottest, most massive stars known. ... A group of galaxies is a system containing more than two galaxies but less than the tens or hundreds typically found in a cluster of galaxies. ...

... 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) . ...

... Travel . ... Parkes Radio Telescope , Parkes (Australia) . Project P837, May September 2013 . ... 100-m Radio Telescope , Effelsberg (Germany) . ... Workshop H?? in Dwarf Galaxies . 15 16 July 2015, Sydney, NSW, Australia . ... Conference The Periphery of Disks . 3 6 November 2014, Sydney, NSW, Australia . ... 21 October 2014, Sydney, NSW, Australia . ... 19 21 June 2013, Sydney, NSW, Australia . ... 9 11 November 2011, Sydney, NSW, Australia . ... 9 13 July 2007, Sydney, NSW, Australia . ...

... International Year of Astronomy in Ireland . ... Christmas Moon", painting by Miruna Popescu, Armagh Observatory, featured as " Lunar photo of the Day " and " Astronomy Sketch of the Day " on 25 December 2009. ... To mark the 400th anniversary of GalileoтАЩs first use of the telescope to observe the sky, 2009 has been celebrated worldwide as the International Year of Astronomy. Moon over Armagh - link to Astronomy Sketch of the Day on 25 December 2009 . ... Monday, 11 May 2009 23:54 . ...

... 2001 October 7 . Abell 2218: A Galaxy Cluster Lens . ... WFPC2 , HST , NASA . Explanation: Gravity can bend light, allowing huge clusters of galaxies to act as telescopes. Almost all of the bright objects in this released Hubble Space Telescope image are galaxies in the cluster known as Abell 2218. ... The cluster of galaxies Abell 2218 is itself about three billion light-years away in the northern constellation Draco . ... About APOD | ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

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... Team . ... V.V.Sokolov "The gamma-ray bursts, core-collapse supernovae and global star forming rate at large redshifts" . ... I.V.Sokolov, A.S.Moskvitin, Eda Sonbas, O.V.Verkhodanov, O.P.Zhelenkova "A galaxy cluster in the GRB 021004 field" . ... The monitoring of GRB afterglows and the study of their host galaxies with the SAO RAS 6-m telescope from 1997". ... A.S.Moskvitin, T.A.Fatkhullin, V.V.Sokolov and V.N.Komarova, "Spectral and photometric monitoring of CCSNe at SAO RAS" . ...

... STEPS OF ISS ASSEMBLY . ... STEPS OF THE ISS ASSEMBLY All flights 09/30/2009 - up to now 11/15/2008 - 09/30/2009 10/23/2007 - 10/24/2008 12/10/2006 - 10/21/2007 02/28/2005 - 10/26/2006 02/28/2005 - 09/08/2005 04/19/2004 - 02/27/2005 04/26/2003 - 05/24/2004 09/25/2002 - 02/04/2003 04/25/2002 - 09/24/2002 11/26/2001 - 04/15/2002 06/12/2001 - 10/31/2001 02/26/2001 - 05/23/2001 10/12/2000 - 02/20/2001 08/06/2000 - 09/20/2000 07/12/2000 - 07/26/2000 11/20/1998 - 05/29/2000 . ... Station element . ...

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... Steven L. Smith . NASA International Space Station Program Liaison to the European Space Agency . ... SPECIAL HONORS: NASA Distinguished Service Medals (two), NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal, NASA Space Flight Medal, NASA Exceptional Service Medal, IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award and IBM Outstanding Community Service Award. ... NASA EXPERIENCE: Smith is a veteran of four space flights covering 16 million miles and seven space walks totaling 49 hours and 25 minutes. ... DECEMBER 2013 ...

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... Confirmation that a mysterious cloud of hydrogen in the Virgo Cluster is a dark galaxy has been published by a team of astronomers . New evidence from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope in the Netherlands has been used to rule out all but one of the ideas put forward to explain the existence of VIRGOHI 21, an intergalactic gas cloud 50 million light-years from the Earth. ... Only Dark Matter can account for the existence of such a system. ...

Maidanak Laboratory is a part of Sternberg Astronomical Institute of Moscow State University. ... Observations are conducted with 1.5 meter RC telescope AZT-22 of Maidanak Observatory (Uzbekistan). rus . ... maidanak lab home page . ... at Sternberg Astronomical Institute . ... 2000). ... Because of technical reasons, we had to use three different CCD cameras in our observations, Pictor-416 camera in 1995, Pictor-416 and TI 800 x 800 cameras in 1997 and 1998, and ST-7 camera in 1999 and 2000. ...

... Staff . ... Galaxies, AGN, Cosmology . ... A new survey of X-ray clusters of galaxies with the Swift-X-ray Telescope . ... In this framework, an international collaboration between INAF-OAA, INAF-Brera, INAF-OATs, the University for Science and Technology of China-Hefei, the University of Ferrara, and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, is undertaking a new cluster survey using an X-ray facility that was never exploited before for this goal: the X-ray Telescope (XRT) onboard the Swift satellite...

... Cosmology and High Energy Astrophysics (Zeldovich-90) | ... 11:2|00:35 |C.Martin |Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) | ... 11:5|00:20 |Coffee | ... polarization microwave background observations | ... 16:2|00:25 |R.Kneissl |Searching for SZ clusters | ... 17:0|00:35 |A.Vikhlinin |Baryon content of galaxy clusters and cosmology| ... CLUSTERS OF GALAXIES | ... 13:0|00:2|F.Durret |Clusters of galaxies seen in X-rays: war and | ... Clusters/Groups/Galaxies | ... black holesOptical observations of | ...

... The damage to NIFS has freed up the RSAA instrumentation team to concentrate on the timely delivery of the Gemini South Adaptic Optics Imager (GSAOI). ... GSAOI is the second instrument that ANU is building for Gemini. ... GSAOI Website: http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/gsaoi/ NIFS Website: http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/nifs/ RSAA Website: http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/ Australian Gemini Project Office Website: http://www.ausgo.unsw.edu.au/ Gemini Public Information Website: http://www.gemini.anu.edu.au/public/ . ...

These links highlight 2008 - current ARC projects for telescopes, instruments, or operations at Apache Point. ... Eyepiece: April 10, 2009 . Painted Enclosure: April 23, 2009, Part A , Part B . Drive Maintenance: July 24, 2009, Part A , Part B , Part C , Part D , Part E , Part F , Part G . ... New Interior Photos: March 14, 2014 . TripleSpec Electronics Mount: March 05, 2008: Part A , Part B , Part C . ... TripleSpec: October 30, 2008 . ... GFP Upgrade: December 8, 2010 . ...