... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. September 18, 1998 . Lunar Prospects . Picture Credit: Galileo Project , USGS JPL , NASA . Explanation: Launched on January 6th , NASA's Lunar Prospector spacecraft has been exploring the Moon with instruments designed to sense global properties while orbiting pole-to-pole, 63 miles above the lunar surface. ... About APOD > . ...

... This image was made when the spacecraft approached to within 18 miles of Deimos' surface. ... Launched on January 6th, NASA's Lunar Prospector spacecraft has been exploring the Moon with instruments designed to sense global properties while orbiting pole-to-pole, 63 miles above the lunar surface. ... Recent data from the Galileo spacecraft currently orbiting Jupiter now confirms that these rings were created by meteoroid impacts on small nearby moons. ... Dust Hip Deep on Phobos . ...

USSR Venus Orbiters . ... Venera 15 and Venera 16 were a two-spacecraft mission designed to use 8-centimeter (3-inch) band, side-looking radar mappers to study the surface properties of Venus . ... Each spacecraft consisted of a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and a radio altimeter. ... The Venera 15 and 16 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems were identical, and were used to map the surface of Venus at a resolution of 1 to 2 kilometers (.6 to 1.2 miles) over a period of 8 months. ...

STScI . Research . ... The 8.4m ground-based Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will survey the entire visible sky deeply in multiple colors every week probing dark matter and dark energy, searching for supernovae, near-Earth asteroids and Kuiper-belt Objects. ... GRAPES is an ACS grism spectroscopic survey of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. ... The Hubble Deep Field is a Director's Discretionary program on HST to image a typical field at high galactic latitude in four wavelengths as deeply as possible. ...

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): . ...

NASA Mars Orbiter . ... The Mars Global Surveyor mission is designed as a rapid, low-cost recovery of the Mars Observer mission objectives. The science objectives involve high resolution imaging of the surface, studies of the topography and gravity, the role of water and dust on the surface and in the atmosphere of Mars, the weather and climate of Mars, the composition of the surface and atmosphere, and the existence and evolution of the Martian magnetic field. ...

... 7.1 Introduction to media types . ... 7.3 Recognized media types . 7.3.1 Media groups One of the most important features of style sheets is that they specify how a document is to be presented on different media: on the screen, on paper, with a speech synthesizer, with a braille device, etc. Certain CSS properties are only designed for certain media (e.g., the 'cue-before' property for aural user agents). ... For example, the 'font-size' property is useful both for screen and print media. ...

Next: EVOLUTION MODELS Up: EXTREME HELIUM STARS: PULSATION Previous: EXTREME HELIUM STARS . The characteristic surface properties, effective temperature , surface gravity and composition , of EHes have been summarized by Jeffery (1996). ... Helium: ( ) By definition, helium dominates the atmospheric abundances. ... This is supported by a correlation between N and Fe abundances in EHes. ... Next: EVOLUTION MODELS Up: EXTREME HELIUM STARS: PULSATION Previous: EXTREME HELIUM STARS Simon Jeffery . ...

... We suggest simple method of the selection of distant galaxies based on their radio properties. ... RC0015+0503a , RC0015+0503b , RC0015+0501 , RC0034+0513 , RC0038+0449 , RC0042+0504 . ... RC0105+0501 , RC0110+0500 , RC0117+0503 , RC0126+0502 , RC0133+0459 , RC0135+0450 , RC0137+0539 , RC0143+0505 , RC0152+0453 , RC0154+0459 , RC0159+0448 . ... RC0209+0501b , RC0213+0516 , RC0226+0512 , RC0250+0512 . ... RC0302+0456 , RC0308+0454 , RC0311+0507 , RC0318+0456 , RC0355+0449 . ...

... Stellar Evolution . Nucleosynthesis in Stars . The Evolution of Star Clusters . JAVA Physics Lab . Alternative Energies Class . Steve Kevan's Physics 251 Class . ... Talk on Solid State Physics of CCD detectors . Talk on Cosmological Issues . ... Digital Spectra of Stars . NETexperts E-mail List . The Electronic Universe Project e-mail: nuts@moo.uoregon.edu ...

... Home . ... Main . ... The pulsar group is part of the Australia Telescope National Facility , a division of the CSIRO . The ATNF operates the Parkes radio telescope where the majority of our observations are carried out. ... The ATNF Pulsar Educational Page gives a broad overview of pulsar properties, observations and current research projects. ... Our group developed the web-based ATNF Pulsar Catalogue , which provides comprehensive information on all published pulsars. ... Pulsar Catalogue . ...

... Search . ... Astrophysics Group . Research . ... Research and Instrumentation . ... While this seems an extraordinary endeavour, in light of what we have learnt about Solar System planets, only a handful of key ingredients are required to start characterising an exoplanet. ... The NGTS project is a partnership between the University of Cambridge, Queen?s University Belfast, University of Warwick, University of Leicester, Observatoire de Geneve, DLR (Berlin) and Universidad Catolica de Chile. ...

... Star Atlas . ... stars . ... Kepler spacecraft takes pulse of distant stars . Using the unparalleled data provided by Kepler, scientists are revolutionizing our understanding of stars and their structures. ... An international cadre of scientists that used data from NASA's Kepler spacecraft announced Tuesday the detection of stellar oscillations, or т??starquakes,т?? that yield new insights about the size, age, and evolution of stars. ... KASC scientists also reported on the star RR Lyrae. ...

To achieve its task within the INTERBALL project, the subsatellite must have an orbit close to that of the main satellite and be at a certain distance away from the latter. ... For example, in case of the Tail Probe, to study the fine structure of boundaries between the formations in the interplanetary space (shock waves, magnetopause, magnetic clouds, plasma pistons, etc.) the distance between the subsatellite and the main spacecraft should be in the range of 100-300 km. ...

... Many massive planets contrary to Jupiter have large eccentricities of orbits. ... Another problem is to study the conditions and boundaries of stable, regular motions of small mass planet in systems having `Jupiter' with large orbital eccentricity as well as properties of regular, stable, and irregular, chaotic motions. ... The regular eccentricity evolution described above demonstrates that stable quasi--circular orbits of small planet are unusual. ...

. My astronomical research interests center on galaxy structure and evolution. Current topics include: . Polar-ring and interacting galaxies (see also new catalogue ) . Galaxy warps: statistics, properties and origin . Spiral galaxies at z~1: radial and vertical structure of stellar disks, statistics of interactions . Surface photometry and kinematics, dynamical modeling . Observational cosmology . Joomla Counter since Sep 1997

... It has been largely superceded by MatWeb . Conversion Factors . Material properties . Physical constants . Astronomical constants . This table gives conversion factors to convert various units to their SI equivalents. ... The units are SI. This is a short list of physical constants in SI units. ... Boltzmann constant . ... Gas constant . ... Mass . ... Plank's . ... Radiation constant . ... This is a short list of astronomical constants in SI units. ... Sun . ...

The Future of Single Dish Radio Astronomy Robert L. Brown N AI C Robert L. Brown 2005 NAIC/NR AO Astronomy Single Dish Summer School 1 "FUTURE" Year 2001 Vision* 1. ... Astronomy and Astrophysics in the New Millennium, Astronomy and Astrophysics Survey Committee, Board on Robert L. Brown 2005 NAIC/NR AO Astronomy Single Dish Summer School 2 1 "Future" Year 2003 Vision* 1. ... Robert L. Brown "Future" Year 2003 Vision* 7. ... Robert L. Brown A Science-Driven Future of Single Dish Radio Astronomy 4. ...

... NASA U.S. Spacesuit Knowledge Capture . ... During the program?s existence, more than 65 seminars have captured spacesuit history and knowledge; those that are available at this site have been approved for public release. For questions about the program or presentations, please contact: cinda.chullen-1@nasa.gov or vladenka.r.oliva@nasa.gov . The following presentations consist of video recordings (MPEG-4 and Ogg), transcripts (TXT),and accompanying slides and/or information (PDF). ...

Next: Mixing types of E-P-A Up: ``Ecology'' of Magnetic Rotators Previous: Evolutionary Tracks . So far we have considered evolution of a magnetic rotator related to single rotators or those entering binary system with circular orbits. ... Orbital eccentricity necessarily emerges after the first supernova explosion љ and mass expulsion from the binary system. ... Here, we concentrate on the evolutionary consequences of eccentricity. Mixing types of E-P-A binary systems with non-zero orbital . ...