Astronomy Picture of the Day . Snowstorm on Planet Earth . ... 31.01.2000 . ... Credit: SeaWiFS Project , GSFC , NASA Explanation: Earth is an ocean planet . From low Earth orbit, the Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) instrument onboard NASA's SeaStar spacecraft globally maps ocean color, tracking changes in the climate and biosphere of our water world . ... January . ... Publications with keywords: Earth - water - seawifs . Publications with words: Earth - water - seawifs . ...

... 2006 August 21 . Ceres: Asteroid or Planet? Credit: NASA , ESA , J. Parker ( SwRI ) et al. Explanation: Is Ceres an asteroid or a planet? ... Ceres , at about 1000 kilometers across, is the largest object in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. ... Pictured above is the best picture yet of Ceres, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope as part of a series of exposures ending in 2004 January. ... Tomorrow's picture: double swirl . ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...

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... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... PULSE@Parkes . ... Luminosity dependent changes of pulse profiles in the X-ray binary GX 1+4 . ... We have reviewed the X-ray pulse profiles from a large number of observations of the accreting binary pulsar GX 1+4 obtained during the last 25 years. ... The pulse shape is dependent on both the X-ray luminosity and whether the pulsar is spinning up or down. ... General features of GX 1+4 pulse profiles . ...

... The SAO ( Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory ) Summer Intern Program is a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program where students work on astrophysics research with an SAO/Harvard scientist. ... On-line Application Form -- is OPEN for the 2016 SAO Summer Intern Program . ... SAO Summer Intern Program . ... Recent SAO Summer Intern Program Events . ... June 2015 . ... For more information about the SAO Summer Intern Program and other programs/opportunitities that may be of interest: ....

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The Astronomical Society of Australia has been asked by STANDARDS AUSTRALIA to compile a list of "designated" optical observatories that are valuable resources for (i) research, (ii) education and (iii) community use. The ASA is the final arbiter of whether any particular observatory is so designated. ... Upon receipt of your application form, your observatory will be entered on a list of "Pending Designated Observatories" on the ASA Home Page. ... It will be emailed for you. ... Email . ...

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... Институт прикладной математики им. М.В.Келдыша . БАЛЛИСТИЧЕСКИЙ ЦЕНТР . О Центре . ... Баллистический Центр Института прикладной математики им. М.В.Келдыша РАН . Баллистический центр (БЦ) ИПМ им. М.В. Келдыша создан по предложению С.П. Королева и М.В. Келдыша в 1965 году. На него были возложены работы по баллистико-навигационному обеспечению (БНО) управления полетом пилотируемых кораблей и автоматических космических аппаратов научного и народно-хозяйственного назначения. ...

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... Bad Astronomy . ... I think I will break from my usual format of Bad Astronomy/ Good Astronomy by saying that the way we define seasons currently is not strictly bad, but I feel (in my opinion!) that it could be better. The definition of when the seasons begin is at the moment of solstice or equinox; that is, winter (in the north) starts on December 22 nd and summer starts on June 22 nd . ... Now imagine breaking up the Sun's 46 degree up-and-down yearly swing into 1 day intervals. ...

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... STScI previously used Microsoft Word and Microsoft Access, a Sybase ODBC driver, and the Adobe Acrobat PDF writer, along with a substantial amount of Visual Basic, to generate a variety of documents for the internal Space Telescope Grants Administration System (STGMS). ... To create a document, the internal STGMS application invoked a VB program which launched Microsoft Word and Microsoft Access, Access extracted the required data from a Sybase database using ODBC into an Access table. ...

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