... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2004 December 21 . Titan Disguised . ... Explanation: Will the Huygens probe land or splash down? In the next few days, the Cassini spacecraft currently orbiting Saturn will release a probe that will descend toward Saturn's largest moon in mid-January. ... About APOD | ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ...

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... Searchlight Beams from the Egg Nebula . ... The dramatic and mysterious looking object revealed in this Hubble Space Telescope image is known as the Egg Nebula. ... The large majestic Lagoon Nebula is home for many young stars and hot gas. ... Betelgeuse (sounds a lot like "beetle juice"), a red supergiant star about 600 lightyears distant, is shown here in this Hubble Space Telescope image which represents the first direct picture of the surface of a star other than the Sun. ...

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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Planets . ... Exoplanets . ... Space Flight . ... Science Fiction . ... August . ... By admin August 18, 2011 Posted in: August . Artist's impressions of Kepler and the light curve of transiting planet (Image credit: NASA) . ... In 1995 we knew of only nine planets (including Pluto, how times change), but in that year the first of the extra-solar planets or exoplanets was confirmed. ... Another is one of the most Earth-like worlds yet discovered . ...

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... The Lunar Orbiter 2 spacecraft was designed primarily to photograph smooth areas of the lunar surface for selection and verification of safe landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo missions. ... The spacecraft acquired photographic data from November 18 to 25, 1966, and readout occurred through December 7, 1966. ... The two separate lens, shutter, and platen systems utilized the same film supply and recorded imagery simultaneously in adjacent areas on 70-millimeter film. ...

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... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Have you ever looked at pictures of Saturn's rings and noticed what look like gaps in the rings? ... Gian Domenico Cassini discovered a large gap in Saturn's rings in 1675. Later, an astronomer named Encke discovered a smaller gap near the edge of the rings. ... It was found long ago that an orbit in the Cassini Division, as the large gap is named, has a period almost exactly one-half that of one of Saturn's moons named Mimas. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

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Lunar Orbiter 2 . ... The Lunar Orbiter 2 spacecraft was designed primarily to photograph smooth areas of the lunar surface for selection and verification of safe landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo missions. ... The spacecraft acquired photographic data from November 18 to 25, 1966, and readout occurred through December 7, 1966. ... The two separate lens, shutter, and platen systems utilized the same film supply and recorded imagery simultaneously in adjacent areas on 70-millimeter film. ...

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... Events . ... The orbit of the Moon is too small to be seen on this scale, but the 2008 December 1st alignment was especially interesting because additionally Venus was occulted by the Moon (this occultation was visible from Europe and NW Africa). Some more photos of the 1 December events received from Jonathan Bingham . ... Venus coming out from behind the Moon; photograph by Jonathan Bingham . ISS; photograph by Jonathan Bingham . ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

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... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... News . ... S.P. Korolev RSC Energia is the prime manned space flight organization in the Russian rocket and space industry, responsible for the development of the ISS Russian Segment, its integration into the Space Station and its operation, including development and operation of its principal modules (Zvezda, Pirs, Poisk, Rassvet, etc.), manufacturing, launch and operation of Soyuz TMA and Progress M spacecraft. ...

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Target: Venus . The Soviet VEGA Spacecraft Two remarkable "busloads" of automated spacecraft were launched toward Venus by the Soviet Union in December of 1984. Each one contains three separate modules: one lander and one balloon-carried atmosphere probe to be dropped off at Venus in June, 1985, and one major package of instruments which will continue on to encounter Halley's Comet in March, 1986. ... Venus and Earth: A Comparison . Earth . ... in Earth days) . ... 243 Earth days . ...

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... Tonight's Sky . ... Mars . ... Missing Mars Polar Lander found? A long-lost NASA spacecraft may have been imaged where it crash-landed on Mars nearly 6 years ago. ... T he MOC imager on NASA's Mars Global Surveyor orbiter appears to have located the Mars Polar Lander spacecraft, which vanished without a trace on landing in December 1999. ... Scientists using the high-resolution MOC imager on Mars Global Surveyor believe they have located the Mars Polar Lander spacecraft, lost since December 1999. ...

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... It was designed to observe the solar wind approaching Earth, from a position near the Lagrangian point L1, and it is part of the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) Initiative . ... The original plan called for "Wind" to approach its final station over two years, undergoing two close encounters with the Moon to boost its speed. ... If however the object is moving , the encounter is not symmetric, and in the end the spacecraft may have gained or lost speed, depending on its trajectory. ...

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GRANAT is the Russian x-ray sattelite launched to the high apogee orbit (200,000 km) and operated almost for 10 years (1989 -1999) , carrying out four major instruments: French SIGMA coded-mask hard x-ray telescope (30-1000 keV), Soviet ART-P coded-mask telescope (2??-60?? keV), all-sky monitor WATCH (6-150 keV), and a gamma-burst detector PHEBUS . ... Since September 1994, GRANAT is in the survey mode. ... Explore pages devoted to individual GRANAT instruments (including main scientific results): . ...

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National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... Frank Borman . ... A romance with airplanes that began when he was 15 years old, took Frank Borman to the Air Force and then to NASA. ... Frank Borman retired from the air Force in 1970, but is well remembered as a part of this nation's history, a pioneer in the exploration of space and a veteran of both the Gemini 7, 1965 Space Orbital Rendezvous with Gemini 6 and the first manned lunar orbital mission, Apollo 8, in 1968. ...

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Last modified: 23 December 1997 . Original version 19 December 1998 . Modified: 23 Dec . This WEB page contains the schedule for HALCA observations from January 1 to April 30, 1998. The January schedule is nearly final, and the February schedule may be slightly modified. Additions and changes will be made in the March and April schedules. ... VSOP V123a CYG-A C Socr 107 Fr:Apr-17 06:10 - 20:55 VLBA Percentage of time 2.2 . ...

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M obile A stronomical Sy stem of TE lescope- R obots MASTER-II Kislovodsk Lomonosov Moscow State University, Sternberg Astronomical Institute , Moscow Union "Optic" , Kislovodsk Solar Station Latitude = 43 o љ44'.767љN; Longitude = 42 o љ31'.417љE; Altitude = 2067љm MASTERљIIљ(8љsquareљdegress) + MASTERљVWF(VeryљWideљFieldљCameras (FOV=800 square degrees, Timeљresolutionљupљtoљ150љms, with unfiltered m_lim=14m on 5 sec. exposure, and ~10.5m with 0.15 sec) . ... 11h 38m 38.0s , -09d 59m 59s) . ...

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. Jasper Finn Nolan was born 2002 December 13, at 2:02 AM CST. Yep, the same day, and within 10 minutes of Tristan three years before. He was born at home, 3 houses away from where Tris was born. Jasper's Christmas present was to finally have a name. To go to big sister Rhiannon's photo page, click here . To go to big brother Tristan's photo page, click here . Ellen Howell <ehowell@naic.edu> Last modified: Feb 27 2003

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