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... This year SSAU provides 1429 state-funded places for admission in all kinds and directions of educational programs. ... In addition, SSAU Admission Committee notes the substantial increase in interest from the foreign applicants this year. The number of applications from foreign countries has already surpassed last year's totals - 76 applications. Based on the experience of admission campaigns of previous years, SSAU expects summer 2014 to enrol about 150 foreign students in the university. ...

... QUADRANTID METEORS. Message from from Terry Moseley: "This is one of the best annual meteor showers, and is expected to peak during the late morning of 3 January. ... Check this website to see how many meteors are in each shower - and submit your own observations! This is a live count of meteor showers based on visual data entered through the IMO electronic report form. ... Friday, 2 January 2009 22:40 . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ BERKELEY · DAVIS · IRVINE · LOS ANGELES · MERCED · RIVERSIDE · SAN DIEGO · SAN FRANCISCO SANTA BARBARA · SANTA CRUZ February 16, 2016 Dr Ken Sembach, Director Space Telescope Science Institute 3700 San Martin Drive Baltimore, MD 21218 Re: JSTAC recommendation regarding expeditious release of the JWST Exposure Time Calculator ( ETC ) with best­known values Dear Director Sembach: The ...

... An Unexpected Flare from the Crab Nebula . ... Credit Copyright: NASA , DOE , Fermi LAT , R. Buehler ( SLAC , KIPAC ) Explanation: Why does the Crab Nebula flare? ... As recently as one month ago, gamma-ray observations of the Crab Nebula by the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope showed an unexpected increase in gamma-ray brightness, becoming about five times the nebula's usual gamma-ray brightness, and fading again in only a few days. ... Publications with keywords: Crab Nebula - gamma ray . ...

Weekly Bulletin on Solar and Geomagnetic Activity Highlights on 22 - 28.07.2013, Forecast on 29.07 - 04.08.2013, Carrington Rotations 2139 (08,42.07.2013) SUNSPOT-FORMING ACTIVITY OF THE SUN REMAINED AT THE AVERAGE LEVEL, GRADUALLY INCREASING. ... NEXT WEEK THE LEVEL OF SUNSPOT ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO BE THE AVE- RAGE LEVEL. ... BY SOHO AND STEREO CORONO- GRAPHS DATA THERE WERE OBSERVED 24 CME FROM WHICH ONE WAS THE TYPE " HALO" AND ONE - "PARTIAL HALO II" TYPE. ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. April 11, 1996 . Unexpected X-rays from Comet Hyakutake . Credit: C. Lisse, M. Mumma (NASA/GSFC), K. Dennerl, J. Schmidt, and J. Englhauser (MPE) . Explanation: The first X-rays ever detected from a comet were discovered from Comet Hyakutake with the ROSAT satellite on March 27th. ... About APOD | ... A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC . ...

... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Travel to Paranal . ... ESO . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Images . ... Star Clusters . ... Usage of ESO Images and Videos . ... Usage of ESO Videos and Images . ... Stars@ESO . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... Astronomers at ESO's frontline Paranal Observatory got a surprise on the morning of 18 December when looking at the observatory's fish-eye, all-sky camera, MASCOT. ...

The rates of build-up in the atmosphere of human-made compounds that deplete the ozone layer (e.g., chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and halons) have slowed in recent years as a direct result of reductions in global emissions of these compounds. ... The peak global ozone depletions are expected to occur during the next several years. ... Methyl bromide continues to be viewed as a significant ozone- depleting chemical. ...

The Future of the Leap Second Dennis D. McCarthy U. S. Naval Observatory Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) · Begun in 1960 as cooperative effort of U.S. Naval Observatory and Royal Greenwich Observatory to make coordinated changes to clocks · Epoch and frequency adjusted to match UT1 corrected for seasonal variations (UT2) · Details of UTC system were formalized by International Radio Consultative Committee (CCIR) of ...

... Planets . ... Earth Satellites . ... The newly discovered ?mega-Earth? ... Its sibling, the lava world Kepler-10b, is in the background (the two planets? proximity is grossly exaggerated) .€а Kepler-10c has a diameter of about 29 000 km, 2.3 times as large as Earth, and weighs 17 times as much. ... The first mega-earth to be discovered is Kepler-10c which orbits a star lying about 560 light years from the Sun in the constellation Draco. ... Astronomers Find a New Type of Planet: The ?Mega-Earth? ...