... 2014 October 12 . The Helix Nebula from Blanco and Hubble . ... ESA , NOAO , NASA . Explanation: How did a star create the Helix nebula ? The shapes of planetary nebula like the Helix are important because they likely hold clues to how stars like the Sun end their lives. Observations by the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope and the 4-meter Blanco Telescope in Chile , however, have shown the Helix is not really a simple helix . ... APOD Wall Calendar: Nebulas and Star Clusters . ...

... APOD: 2006 October 1- Earth at Night . ... 1.10.2006 . ... Credit Copyright: C. Mayhew R. Simmon ( NASA / GSFC ), NOAA / NGDC , DMSP Digital Archive Explanation: This is what the Earth looks like at night. ... Human-made lights highlight particularly developed or populated areas of the Earth's surface, including the seaboards of Europe , the eastern United States, and Japan. ... October 2006 . ... Publications with keywords: Earth - night sky . Publications with words: Earth - night sky . ...

... Planets . ... The planets were found using the HARPS instrument on the 3.6m telescope at ESOтАЩs La Silla Observatory. ... A planet in orbit around a star causes the star to regularly move towards and away from observers on Earth. ... One newly discovered planet, HD 85512 b, is best hope found so far for a habitable exoplanet. ... The HARPS team so far have found that about 40% of stars similar to own Sun have at least one planet smaller than Saturn (which is 95 times more massive than Earth). ...

The X International Astronomy Olympiad has been held in Beijing (China) on October 25 - November 2, 2005. ... China Beijing . ... Like at VII and VIII IAOs the host team (team of Beijing city) took part in the Olympiad as the 16 th team. ... The 10 th International Astronomy Olympiad has been held successfully in Beijing on October 25 - November 2, 2005. ... J.Zhu (Beijing, X IAO-2005 LOC Chairman), . ... Dr. Michael G. Gavrilov, Founding Chairman of the International Astronomy Olympiad, . ...

STScI . ... What is STScI . ... HST . ... STUC Charter . ... STUC Meeting Presentations . ... From: IN%"HUTCHINGS@comox.dao.nrc.ca" 4-OCT-1993 13:40:45.26 To: IN%"stockman@stsci.edu", IN%"macchetto@stsci.edu" CC: Subj: HST Users Comm report Oct 4 Here is the STUC report from the meeting of Sept 27,28. ... We note that the STScI has responded to users whose early cycle programs may not be completed before the repair mission, by proposing to carry over largely incomplete high priority proposals. ...

NEWS FEDERATION rus ENCYCLOPEDIA rus HISTORY rus MIR STATION RUSSIAN . ... Cosmonauts. ... Crews . ... Heroes Of Space Remember . ... Lori Garver And Lance Bass Want To Be Space Tourists . News conference on May 31 looked like a nice PR action but prospects for Bass' flight this October are almost zero. ... Igor Izvekov explains how and why Russian cosmonauts receive their class degrees. ... Russian crewmembers for ISS expedition crews through ISS-15 are designated for three-member crews. ...

Blackholes2 Forum Message . Forums: . ... Post . ... Im New Here And I Would Like Some Help . ... Post Message | ... Posted by CJ on July 18, 2004 00:07:39 UTC . ... What is the event horizon - sirius_black - August 12, 2004 - 19:14 UTC . Event horizon - mathman - August 12, 2004 - 21:26 UTC . ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... Galilean Nights: 22 and 23 October . ... The Armagh Observatory and the Armagh Natural History and Philosophical Society are co-hosting a free public lecture on Thursday 22 October 2009 in the Rotunda Lecture Theatre, St. Patrick's Trian, Armagh. The Lecture will be delivered by Dr Martin Hendry of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Glasgow. ... Monday, 19 October 2009 18:32 . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . News . Observing . ... Magazine . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Open cluster NGC 2818, spiral galaxy NGC 2964, and spiral galaxy NGC 2976 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... October 2012 . ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

Last modified: 01 October 1998 . Original version 01 October 1998 . Modified: . This WEB page contains the schedule for HALCA observations from November 03 1998 to February 28, 1999. Because of the present HALCA problems, it is likely that the schedule will change once the final status is known. ...

Dear colleagues, we would like to remind you about Workshop on Precision Physics and Fundamental Physical Constants (FFK 2013), which will be held in St. Petersburg from October 7 until October 11, 2013 in Pulkovo observatory ( http://www.gao.spb.ru ). We thank those who has already registered ( http://www.gao.spb.ru/russian/psas/ffk2013/part-en.html ), and invite those who has not to do it before August 31. Please, send your abstracts before July 31. ... The main topics of the workshop are: . ...

Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the updates and links web pages. Discovered independently by Lick Observatory Supernova Search (USA) and Koichi Itagaki (Japan). ... 2009/10/11.44 . 17.2 . ... Joseph Brimacombe . ...

... October Monthly Meeting - Amateur Contributions in the Era of Surveys . ... Thursday, Oct 9, 2008 at 8:00 PM . ... Commercial CCDs and telescopes make this possible at modest cost for bright objects, and large, wide field professionalsystems like PanSTARRS and LSST extend coverage to fainter magnitudes. ... Please join us for a pre-meeting dinner discussion at Changsho, 1712 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA at 6:00pm before the meeting. ... Oct . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... SPIcam is a general purpose, visible-wavelength, direct imaging CCD camera with > 50% QE between 400-900 nm. It may be operated in either traditional point-and-stare mode or in a drift-scanning mode. The detector in SPIcam is a backside-illuminated SITe TK2048E 2048x2048 pixel CCD with 24 micron pixels and an unbinned plate scale of 0.14 arc seconds per pixel, giving a field of view of 4.78 arc minutes. ... CCD pixel size = 24 m . ... CCD read noise = 5.7 e - / pixel 0.1 . ...

General Information . ... We'd like to announce the forthcoming IAU Conference: . ... A conference organized by Sternberg Astronomical institute (Moscow, Russia) and Working group "Site-testing Instruments" of the International Astronomical Union on various aspects of site-testing techniques, approaches and results. RUSSIA, Kislovodsk (Caucasus Mineral Waters region), 4-9 October 2010. ... Victor Kornilov, Sternberg Astronomical Institute . ... 3-4 October: Registration and accommodation . ...

... Pre-university education . ... Samara region . ... Weather . ... Samara State Aerospace University Students life What's the Weather Like? Average wintertime temperature is -15 degrees Centigrade. ... On the coldest days, the temperature can drop to as low as -30 - -35 degrees. There s lots of snow in February. ... The snow usually melts by early May, and the first summer days arrive in the second half of May. ... On the hottest summer days, the temperature can rise to as high as +30 degrees. ...

... Now, think about a much bigger move: What do you think it would be like if the Earth moved to a different part of our Galaxy? Our Galaxy, the Milky Way, is shaped like a whirlpool: It has bands of stars that spiral around the centre, which astronomers call the Galaxy s arms . ... We live in the outer parts of the Milky Way, in one of its spiral arms. ... The small centre of the Milky Way is a much more crowded place, as this is where most of its stars are found. ...

... This thread contains a step-by-step recipe to extract EPIC (pn will be used as an example) light-curves of a point-like source, starting from a calibrated, concatenated event list (either produced with epproc or available as PPS product; it will bear the name: PN.fits in this thread). The content of this thread is the same as Extraction of a X-ray light curve for a point-like source (command-line version). ... in the lccorr GUI window (see Fig.7) define at least the following widgets: . ...

... SONG : MULTITUDES the multitude excites, the flags are flown by fireside the programme starts and i am running through this madness and all the time i can't relate we sit around in rooms we talk our fears asking why we should go on god i try to make ends meet the best i can playing rhythms out of time far from the multitudes a few will always stand they don't fit in they don't belong - move on, move on this way within disorder ...