... 26.07.2010 . ... Credit: ESA , NASA , JAXA ; Montage: Emily Lakdawalla ( Planetary Society ) Explanation: As humans explore the universe, the record for largest asteroid visited by a spacecraft has increased yet again. Earlier this month, ESA's robotic Rosetta spacecraft zipped past the asteroid 21 Lutetia taking data and snapping images in an effort to better determine the history of the asteroid and the origin of its unusual colors . ... 2007 2008 . ... Publications with keywords: asteroid . ...

... 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 Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ...

... 2010 July 26 . Lutetia: The Largest Asteroid Yet Visited . Credit: ESA , NASA , JAXA , RAS , JHUAPL , UMD , OSIRIS ; . ... Explanation: As humans explore the universe, the record for largest asteroid visited by a spacecraft has increased yet again. ... Pictured above on the upper right, the 100-kilometer across Lutetia is shown in comparison with the other nine asteroids and four comets that have been visited, so far, by human-launched spacecraft. ... About APOD | ...

... ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . Mopra radio telescope . ... Australia Telescope Online Archive (ATOA) . ... Parkes | ... Australia Telescope 20GHz Survey . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ... The Secret Inner Life of the Orion Nebula . ...

... Planets . ... Stars . Exoplanets . ... Most exoplanets so far discovered fall into the category of тАШhot JupitersтАЩ, these are giant planets orbiting very close to their parent star. ... Note that we have discovered so many hot Jupiters because they are the easiest type of planet to find, they are not necessarily particularly common in the galaxy. ... Subsequently several similar hot and€а fuzzy worlds have been discovered the same way, proving this that this planet is not a one-off oddball. ...

Mathilde . ... On June 27, 1997 the Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft flew flew past asteroid 253 Mathilde. ... On June 27, 1997 NEAR made a spectatular 25 minute flyby of Mathilde which resulted in more than 500 images of a dark, crater-battered little world that dates to the beginning of the solar system. ... This first image of asteroid 253 Mathilde, returned by the NEAR spacecraft just before 10:00 AM EDT on June 27, 1997, was taken from a distance of 1800 kilometers (1120 miles). ...

... Same Visit, No Rotation, Large Shift . ... Data . ... HST Overview . Overview . ... Retrieving HST Data . ... Data Analysis . ... This IDCTAB contains uniquely computed distortion solutions for 10 filters: F225W, F275W, F336W, F390W, F43W, F555W, F606W, F775W, F814W, and F850LP. All other filters use the values for F606W. This test is designed to determine how the IDCTAB deals with a large shifts. ... F606W . ... X RMS Y RMS Vec Mag RMS Vec Mag Mean Vec Mag Median Vec Mag Max Vec Mag Min . ...

... Today this year's largest group of sunspots will cross the Sun's central meridian. ... The next day, the number of spots in the group reached five, and the day after, on June 2nd, it was possible to count thirteen sunspots on solar disk, which had been clear prior to this. ... This year's two most powerful active areas, which passed across the solar disk at the beginning of May, 2009, are set to appear in the Sun's eastern sector in two days, on June 6th. ...

... Ciel Espace, le magazine qui vous guide toujours plus loin . ... les plus belles images de l'Univers d†йcrypt†йes pour vous . ... des pages consacr†йes †а la publication de vos photos Mais c'est aussi une vraie communaut†й avec laquelle partager votre passion et nourrir votre curiosit†й. Accueil Ils photographient le ciel au Very Large Telescope . ... Astronomes ou ing†йnieurs, ils profitent de travailler sous le meilleur ciel du monde pour s'adonner †а leur passion de la photographie. ...

... Events . ... COSMOS 2009 - Ireland's Spring Star Party . The Irish Node for the International Year of Astronomy is announcing that this year St PatrickтАЩs Festival celebrations in all major cities in Ireland are endorsing an astronomy theme. In Dublin , this yearтАЩs theme for the festival Parade is тАШ The SkyтАЩs the Limit! тАЩ . ... Monday, 16 March 2009 00:49 . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

T riton ("TRY ton") is the seventh and by far the largest of Neptune 's satellites: orbit : 354,760 km from Neptune diameter : 2700 km mass : 2.14e22 kg D iscovered by Lassell in 1846 only a few weeks after the discovery of Neptune itself. ... Triton is probably only about 25% water ice with remainder rocky material. V oyager found that Triton has an atmosphere, albeit a very tenuous one (about 0.01 millibar ), composed mostly of nitrogen with a small amount of methane. ... Neptune .. ...

... SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Astronomy Beat . ... World Beat: Israel . ... Israeli astronomers have come a long way on limited resources, but at least they don't have to spend much effort battling pseudoscience: public education is strong, and religion and science coexist peacefully. ... The Israeli astronomical community sees itself as a modern scientific establishment in the European or American model, but with some special problems shared with the less developed world. ...

... Telescopes . ... The time requests are accepted in an electronic version with on-line form in Russian or English. ... Unregistered request will be disregarded by the Large Telescopes Programm Committee. In exclusive cases the secreatry of the Committee is entitled to accept an observational time request given permission of the Chairman of the Committee or the director of the SAO RAS. The Program Committee considers generally one time request submitted by the principal applicant. ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... Optical Interferometry . Very Large Telescope Interferometer . ... Optical Interferometry Team Publications . ... VSI is currently the subject of a Phase A study, performed by a European consortium led by Laboratoire d?Astrophysique de l?Observatoire de Grenoble . The Cavendish optical interferometry group are members of the consortium, contributing mostly to the studies of the VSI internal fringe tracker and to the definition of the science cases. ...

... Samara region . SSAU History . ... An alignment meeting on data mining, storage and processing of very large data amounts on the basis of hardware and software complex Big Data took place in Samara State Aerospace University. ... The laboratory for processing of very large data amounts on the basis of the hardware and software complex was made in the University and the necessary equipment was purchased. ... Data processing requires powerful processors and advanced computer programs. ... Big Data. ...

... Catalog . Publications . ... Koposov, S., Glushkova, E., Zolotukhin, I. 2008: Automated search for Galactic star clusters in large multiband surveys. ... BibTeX entry ] . ... Glushkova, E.V., Zabolotskikh, M.V., Koposov, S.E., Spiridonova, O.I, Vlasyuk, V.V., Rastorguev, A. S. 2010: Photometry of the poorly studied galactic open star clusters King 13, King 18, King 19, King 20, NGC 136, and NGC 7245 , Astronomy Letters, 36, 75 . ...

... Обычно лекции читаются раз в месяц, и за год удается прочесть 8-10 двухчасовых лекций. Приблизительная программа курса была напечатана в журнале "Земля и Вселенная" (1996 N5). ... Определение расстояний до звезд. ... Образование звезд ("Земля и Вселенная" 1994 N2 стр.12-20, "Земля и Вселенная" 1995 N1, стр.8-14 обе в соавторстве с А. Панферовым ) 8. ... Скопления галактик ("Звездочет" N7, стр.8-9, 1995) Галактики с активными ядрами ("Земля и Вселенная" 1995 N5 стр. ... 12-14, 1996 N7 стр. ...

The Extragalactic ALFA Zone of Avoidance team is mapping the distribution of low-Galactic-latitude galaxies and large scale structures through detection of galaxies' 21-cm emission with ALFA. This Zone of Avoidance (ZOA) survey finds new HI galaxies which lie hidden behind the Milky Way, and also provides redshifts and other HI parameters for partially-obscured galaxies known at other wavelengths. ... Discovery and Follow-up of a Nearby Galaxy from the Arecibo Zone of Avoidance Survey. ...

... About meteorites . ... Meteoritic data . Impact Crater Smerdyachee . ... Based on Smerdyachee's depth, near circularity, and its mounded wall, and analysis by N.A. Fillin of nearby Roshal, Russia, the Estonian scientists Yu.V. Krestlane and K.H. Mella proposed in 1987 that Smerdyachee Lake is a meteorite crater. ... In 2002, the Laboratory of Meteoritics of the Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences explored this mysterious lake. ...

Our publications in 2004 year Kniazev, Alexei Y.; Grebel, Eva K.; Pustilnik, Simon A.; Pramskij, Alexander G.; Kniazeva, Tamara F.; Prada, Francisco; Harbeck, Daniel . ... 704-727 (02/2004) . Kniazev, A. Y.; Grebel, E. K.; Pramskij, A. G.; Pustilnik, S. A. American Astronomical Society Meeting 204, #80.06 (05/2004) . Pustilnik, S.; Kniazev, A.; Pramskij, A.; Izotov, Y.; Foltz, C.; Brosch, N.; Martin, J.-M.; Ugryumov, A. Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.419, p.469-484 (05/2004) . ... 419.. ...