Astronomy Picture of the Day . Lunar Module at Taurus Littrow . ... Credit Copyright: Daniel D. Durda ( SwRI ), Space Imagery Center , LPL , Apollo 17 Explanation: Can the Hubble Space Telescope take a picture that shows the Apollo lunar modules on the Moon? ... In fact, this picture does just resolve Apollo 17's Lunar Module, Challenger , and its shadow on the floor of the Taurus-Littrow valley in the Moon's Mare Serenitatis. ... Publications with keywords: Moon - Apollo 17 - lunar module - HST . ...

... 2002 June 28 . Lunar Module at Taurus-Littrow . ... Explanation: Can the Hubble Space Telescope take a picture that shows the Apollo lunar modules on the Moon? With its 2.4 meter diameter mirror , the smallest object that the Hubble can resolve at the Moon's distance of around 400,000 kilometers is about 80 meters across. ... It was taken in 1972 from the Apollo 17 Command Module, America , orbiting about 100 kilometers above the Moon's surface and covers an area about 1.1 kilometers wide. ...

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 Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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

... HST . ... Data . ... Hubble Heritage Project . ... HST Overview . ... Cycle 24 Announcement . ... Retrieving HST Data . ... 03/16/2004 - The ACS-WFC raw data and the associated calibration files for the Hubble Ultra Deep Field are now available. ... Also, a nice Javascript viewer for browsing the UDF field is now available. ... The ACS Ultra Deep Field (UDF) is a survey carried out using the Advanced Camera for Surveys ( ACS ) on HST and taking advantage of the Director's Discretionary time. ...

... Ciel Espace, le magazine qui vous guide toujours plus loin . ... Ciel Espace, nouvelle formule, c'est . ... 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 Hubble : un num†йro sp†йcial c†йl†иbre ses 20 ans de d†йcouvertes . ... Pour les 20 ans en orbite du t†йlescope spatial Hubble, тАЬCiel & EspaceтАЭ consacre un num†йro sp†йcial au plus c†йl†иbre des observatoires astronomiques. ...

... 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. ...

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes | ... Radio Observations of the Hubble Deep Field South - a New Class of Radio-Luminous Galaxies? ... Radio Observations of the Hubble Deep Field South . ... Radio Observations of the Hubble Deep Field South Region I: Survey description and initial results for HDF-S sources . ... Radio Observations of the Hubble Deep Field South Region II: The 1.4 GHz Catalogue and Source Counts...

... C. Pinto, D. Galli, F. Bacciotti . 2008, A , in press . IR diagnostics of embedded jets: velocity resolved observations of the HH34 and HH1 jets . ... 2008, ApJ, in press . The low-mass YSO CB230-A: Investigating the protostar and its jet with NIR spectroscopy and Spitzer observations . F. Massi, C. Codella, J. Brand, L. di Fabrizio, J. Wouterloot . ... Click to examine publications from other years . ... Star Formation Group . Radioastronomy Group . ... Arcetri Home Page . ...

... F. Rodionova and E. A. Kozlova . ... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, 119899, Moscow, Russia; jeanna@sai.msu ru. ... Brown University - Vernadsky Institute Microsymposium 34, October 8-9, 2001, Moscow, Russia . ... Brown University - Vernadsky Institute Microsymposium 38, October 27-29, 2003, Moscow, Russia . ... Brown University - Vernadsky Institute Microsymposium 40, 2004, Moscow, Russia . ... 1 Sternberg State Astronomical Institute Lomonosov Moscow University, Russia; marss8@mail.ru . ...

Dr. Victoria I. Prokhorenko . ... Situation Analysis of The "PROGNOZ" Orbit for Solar- Terrestrial Space Experiments. ... Studies of Satellite Situations Mission. ... A Situation Analysis of the Orbits of the Tail and Auroral Probes in the "INTERBALL" Project. ... Specific Tasks of Multiple Scale Plasma Measurement in Regatta- Cluster System (co-authors S. Savin and L. Zelenyi)- In Book: Proceedings of an International Workshop on Space Plasma Physics Investigations by Cluster and Regatta. ...

... We can help students grasp the significance of Hubble's extremely keen eye, and learn a bit about angles and math in the process, with the following in-class activity. ... Looking through binoculars or telescopes allows us to magnify a small section of the sky. To measure sizes or distances in that small section, astronomers divide a degree into 60 smaller pieces called arcminutes, and further subdivide minutes into 60 smaller sections called arcseconds. ... 30 feet = . ... 36 seconds . ...

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... Armagh Planetarium . ... Universe . ... September . ... Posted on September 27, 2010 | ... This new Hubble Space Telescope image shows that M66 seems to have been through the mangle. ... You can find out in this issue of Astronotes) . ... No Comments Dark matter and its part in the evolution of the Universe is revealed by new data collected by the Hubble Space Telescope. ... Newer Entries . ... Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space...

... Pre-university education . ... Samara region . SSAU History . SSAU roadmap . ... Scientists of Samara University (joined SSAU and SSU) began to develop a unified manoeuvring unit for CubeSat-type nanosatellites for the first time in Russia. ... During one of his latest visits to SSAU he proposed to extend capability of the nanosatellites created in Samara University by making a manoeuvring unit and allocated funding to begin work on this topic. ... Nanosatellites of Samara University . ...

... Most Important Journals . Less Popular Astronomical Journals . Physics . Space, Selectial mechanics, .. Russian Journals . ... Astrophysics & Astronomy . ... Astronomical Journal . ... New Astronomy . ... Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific . ... STScI News . Space Telescope Insitute Newsletter . ... Journal of Astronomical Data . ... Journal of High-Energy Physics (mirror in CERN ) [astro, grav, hi-energy .. ... Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Bad Astro Store . ... Site Info . ... It is from from Voyager 1 and shows a whopping big impact crater dominating the profile of the moon. Note that Mimas is about 400 kilometers across (about 250 miles). ... The wall around the crater is 5 kilometers high, and that central peak rises 6 kilometers above the surface (many impact craters have a large central peak which is caused by a pressure rebound from the impact). ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... Records were made this January when the RadioAstron satellite was joined by ground-based telescopes, forming a radio telescope 220,000 km across тАУ roughly 20 times larger than the Earth. RadioAstron , a Russian orbital telescope of 10 meter diameter, joined with ground-based observatories to resolve objects 50 times smaller than is possible with the Hubble Space Telescope. ... Images: . The RadioAstron spaceantenna observes a celestial radio source simultaneously with ground-based dishes. ...

Our publications in 1997 year Izotov, Yu. I.; Thuan, T. X.; Lipovetsky, V. A. Dwarf Galaxies: Probes for Galaxy Formation and Evolution, Joint Discussion 2, 21 August 1997, Kyoto, Japan. Izotov, Yuri I.; Thuan, Trinh X.; Lipovetsky, Valentin A. Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 01 1997, v.108, p.1 . ... Pustil'nik, S. A.; Lipovetsky, V. A.; Izotov, Y. I.; Brinks, E.; Thuan, T. X.; Knyazev, A. Y.; Neizvestnyi, S. I.; Ugryumov, A. V. Pis'ma Astron. ... 74, August 1997, p. 536 . ...

Bizyaev D., "The Argument Against Long Extragagalactic Distance Scale", Astron. ... Soviet Astronomy) 1997. ... Zasov A., Bizyaev D., "An Estimate of the Hubble Constant using a Criterion for Gravitational Stability of Gaseous Discs", Pis'ma v Astron. ... 1996. ... D.Bizyaev, "Types of galaxies", 1996, Zvezdochet, No 11, p.22 (in Russian) . D.Bizyaev, "The Hubble Constant", 1996, Zvezdochet, No 2, p.20 (in Russian) . D.Bizyaev, "Magellanic Clouds", 1995, Zvezdochet, No 6, p.12. (in Russian) . ...

... Jay Apt (Ph.D.) . NASA Astronaut (Former) . ... PUBLICATIONS: Dr. Apt shared his images and knowledge in the publication Earth in Orbit : NASA Astronauts Photograph the Earth , written in conjunction with NASA scientists Michael Helfert and Justin Wilkinson and published by the National Geographic Society. ... From 1976 to 1980 he was a staff member of the Center for Earth & Planetary Physics, Harvard University, supporting NASA s Pioneer Venus Mission by making temperature maps of Venus from Mt. ...