The nasa.gov site requires that JavaScripts be enabled in your browser. ... Contact NASA . ... The term "astronaut" derives from the Greek words meaning "space sailor," and refers to all who have been launched as crew members aboard NASA spacecraft bound for orbit and beyond. Since the inception of NASA's human space flight program, we have also maintained the term "astronaut" as the title for those selected to join the NASA corps of astronauts who make "space sailing" their career profession. ...

Please enter the lightcurve file name and period search parameters: . Lightcurve file: . ... Apply the Heliocentric correction and convert all dates to Terrestrial Time (TT)? ... Also, the Heliocentric correction cannot be applied to such lightcurves. ... This period search service is also available at the mirror sites: Mirror 1 , Mirror 2 , Mirror 3 , Mirror 4 . You may download the latest source code distribution and install the period search service at your own web server. ...

... These Frontier Fields will combine the power of HST with the natural gravitational telescopes of high-magnification clusters of galaxies. ... We are soliciting gravitational lensing maps for the last four Hubble Frontier Fields clusters (MACSJ0717.5+3745, MACSJ1149.5+2223, AbellS1063, and Abell 370) based upon the exceptionally deep HST FF imaging and other new ancillary data. ... For the full set of proposal instructions and requirements, see the FY16 Frontier Fields Lensing Map Call for Proposals....

... Abstract: We present an extensive study of the radiative transfer in dusty galaxies based on Monte Carlo simulations. ... We have explored the dependence of A_l on a conspicuous set of quantities (Hubble type, inclination, dust optical thickness, dust distribution and extinction properties) for a large wavelength interval, ranging from 1250A to the K band, thus finally providing a comprehensive atlas of dust extinction in galaxies, which is electronically available. ... S04_MD20[ att , abs ] . ...

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . News | ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Mopra radio telescope . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ... Now, new Australia Telescope observations of the polar ring galaxy NGC 4650a suggest that the dark matter in this galaxy lies in a flattened distribution aligned with the polar ring. ...

... 2014 August 25 . Arp 188 and the Tadpole's Tail . ... Explanation: Why does this galaxy have such a long tail? In this stunning vista , based on image data from the Hubble Legacy Archive, distant galaxies form a dramatic backdrop for disrupted spiral galaxy Arp 188, the Tadpole Galaxy. ... One story goes that a more compact intruder galaxy crossed in front of Arp 188 - from right to left in this view - and was slung around behind the Tadpole by their gravitational attraction. ... About APOD | ...

... Up: Science Software Applications . ... It has extensions for creating GUI (Tk) and object-oriented ([incr tcl]) applications. Several Tcl-based tools that may be used for astronomical and other scientific applications have been created and are discussed. One example is ptcl , which registers PGPLOT functions as Tcl commands, creating a powerful interactive plotting package. ... Both programs use the same C code, Tcl commands, and [incr tcl] classes; only the GUIs are different. ...

... Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. ... Baikonur Cosmodrome Yasny launch base Downloads . ... Yasny launch base is located in Orenburg Region, Russia. ... Admin & Hotel Complex including hotels, dining facilities and office premises; . Assembly, Integration and Test Building (AITB) incorporating clean room facilities and fueling station; . ... Yasny launch base AITB is divided into four main areas: Clean room 1 (CR1), Clean room 2 (CR2), Fueling Station and Offloading & Storage Area. ...

... The Fornax Cluster of Galaxies . ... 11.01.2013 . ... Although almost 20 times more distant than our neighboring Andromeda galaxy, Fornax is only about 10 percent further that the better known and more populated Virgo cluster of galaxies. ... The picturesque barred spiral galaxy NGC 1365 visible on the lower right is also a prominent Fornax cluster member. ... Publications with keywords: NGC 1365 - Fornax - cluster of galaxies . Publications with words: NGC 1365 - Fornax - cluster of galaxies . ...

... Posts tagged ?model based? ... arXiv:stat.ME:0910.2585] . Variable Selection and Updating In Model-Based Discriminant Analysis for High Dimensional Data with Food Authenticity Applications . ... Category: Algorithms , arXiv , Cross-Cultural , Data Processing , Jargon , Methods , Spectral , Stat | ... Tags: bimodality , chi-square minimization , Classification , CMD , Estimation , machine learning , massive data , model based , PCA , spectral analysis , spectroscopic , survey , VO . ...

... ESO Science Newsletter March 2016 . ... Follow the links or visit ESO Science Announcements to read more. ... The Call for Proposals for observations at ESO telescopes in Period 98 (1 October 2016 - 31 March 2017) has been released. ... The deadline for proposals is 12:00 CEST 31 March 2016 . ... ESO Workshop, ESO Headquarters, Garching, Germany, 27 June БЂ“ 1 July, 2016 . ... Upcoming ESO or ESO-Related Workshops . ... The workshop is open for registration and the abstract deadline is 1 March 2016 ...

... Feeding the Monster: Gas Caught in its Death Spiral into a Massive Black Hole . ... Stromlo Professor Mike Dopita have used the Hubble Space Telescope to discover how a massive Black Hole in a nearby galaxy feeds itself. ... Earlier Hubble Telescope data obtained by another team member, Professor Holland Ford of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, had found a disk of gas rushing around the Black Hole at a speed of 500 kilometers a second. ...

Dark matter maps for a sample of 50 individual galaxy clusters (left), an average galaxy cluster (center), and those based on dark matter theory (right). ... The map based on predictions from CDM theory (right, middle) is a close match to the average galaxy cluster observed with the Subaru Telescope. NAOJ/ASIAA/School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham/Kavli IPMU/Astronomical Institute, Tohoku University ...

... Our resulting sample of ELGs presented in Tables 2 and 3 is not artificially biased to any specific type of galaxies. ... Since we are looking for selection of a sample of Case BCGs, it is interesting to examine how the detected BCGs are connected with Case emission-line codes. ... Altogether BCGs comprise about 60 % of all Case ELGs which display emission lines in our spectra, or about 44 % of all Case galaxies with some emission-line code. ... Among those with the code ``w'' about 40 % are BCGs. ...

... InformChaos Lab took part in CeBIT-2015 (Hannover, Germany) with "Active Ultra Wideband Wireless Networks". ... Lev Kuzmin received Dr.Sci. degree for his thesis "Wireless information transmission over UWB chaotic carrier" from IRE RAS. ... Artem Nikishov received Ph.D. degree from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology for the thesis "Generation of microwave chaotic oscillations in self-oscillating systems with several active elements". ... Our Products page is renewed. ... News | ...

NAUTICAL ASTRONOMICAL ALMANAC for 2011-2012 (in Russian-English) . Preface . The Institute of Applied Astronomy of the RAS (IAA RAS) submits the next issue of ?The Nautical Astronomical Almanac for the years 2011-2012? biennial (NAA-2). ... There are some auxiliary tables for interpolation and calculation of altitude and azimuth in NAA-2. Calculations of ephemerides in NAA-2 for 2011-2012 have been executed by the following researchers of Laboratory of Astronomical Yearbooks of IAA RAS: . ...

Databases (NSDC) of the Natural Planetary Satellites. ... NSDC: Database of astrometric observations of Natural Planetary Satellites . ... They are thoroughly looking for observations in different sources, creating their owndatabases which are then mostly inaccessible to other researchers. ... In the file "content" with explications, the reference is given to the data source as well as the bibliographic reference. ... Data sources. ... Why a specific bibliographic database for Natural satellites? ...

... Dr. Denis Bulaev . ... Talks . ... Invited Talks . Anomalous spin relaxation in nanotubes (in Russian) . ITP Seminar , Kapitza Institute for Physical Problems RAS , Moscow, Russia, September 6, 2007. Spin qubits based on quantum dots in III-V semiconductors and graphene (in Russian) . ... Spin properties of electrons and holes in quantum dots (in Russian) . ... Electric dipole spin resonance and spin decoherence for heavy holes in quantum dots . ... Spin qubits in graphene quantum dots . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Stars . ... Starbursts are short-lived events, stars are forming so quickly that the reservoirs of interstellar gas from which stars are coalescing would be used up on a timescale much shorter than the age of the galaxy . ... Strong stellar winds from giant new stars in the starburst region combine with the blasts of supernovae to push a mighty flood of extremely hot gas, a ?superwind? from the galaxy thousands of light years into intergalactic space. ...

THE SUBSYSTEMS OF THE MILKY WAY HALO. ... A catalogue of homogeneous fundamental astrophysical parameters for 145 globular clusters is composed on the base of the data of compilative catalogue by Harris (1997) and from another literature. ... In addition, it has large rotation velocity ( V rot =77?33 km/s), appreciable radial and vertical metallicity gradients equal by value, and has the oldest average age (subsystem of the old halo). ... Characteristic parameter of globular cluster subsystems. ...