... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2001 February 12 . Approaching Asteroid Eros . ... Explanation: Today, at about 3 pm EST, the first human-made spacecraft is scheduled to touchdown on an asteroid . At an impact speed of 8 kilometers per hour, it is most probable that the robot spacecraft NEAR-Shoemaker will not survive its planned collision with 433 Eros . ... About APOD | ...

... NEAR Spacecraft Survives Landing on Asteroid Eros . ... Approaching Asteroid Eros . ... Orbiting asteroid 433 Eros, 145 million miles from Earth, NASA's NEAR spacecraft has been returning stunning views as its year long mission of exploration nears completion. ... Aurora Astern . ... The robot spacecraft NEAR-Shoemaker has been orbiting asteroid Eros for nearly one year On February 12, before maneuvering fuel wanes, NASA will command the craft to descend right down onto the surface. ... February . ...

Mariners 6 & 7 to Mars . ... Mariners 6 and 7 were designed to fly over the equator and southern hemisphere of the planet Mars . ... One hundred million kilometers (62 million miles) later, Mariner 6 encountered Mars on July 31, 1969; Mariner 7 reached the planet four days later on August 4, 1969. ... Mariner 6 & 7 . ... View of Mars from Mariner 6 . This cratered surface of Mars was photographed by Mariner 6's wide angle TV camera on July 30, 1969 at a range of 3,459 kilometers (2,150 miles). ...

Most of these images were obtained by Mike Bessell, Michelle Buxton, Hwankyung Sung, Ralph Sutherland and Bob Watson at SSO using a 2Kx2K Site CCD behind a Nikon or Hasselblad lens or directly on the 1m telescope. A few images are from the Hubble Space Telescope. Some of the M42 images were obtained with the KPNO 1m and ESO NTT telescope. One image is a mosaic of IRAS images. ... Details of the CCD imaging program at MSSSO. ... antenna.jpg (53KB) . ... ngc6744.jpg (59KB) . ...

... Galileo image of Ida asteroid 114k gif ; 41k jpg . ... Large false color image of asteroid 951 Gaspra 172k gif ; 33k jpg . ... Montage of 11 images taken by Galileo spacecraft of 951 Gaspra 75k gif 75k jpg . ... True Enhanced Color images 140k gif ; 18k jpg ; 596k tiff . ... HST images of 4 Vesta (rotation series) 25k jpg ; 216k gif ; caption . ... Comet Shoemaker-Levy imaged by Hubble/WFPC 145k gif . ... AAT image of Comet Halley (color) 40k gif . ... CCD image of comet Mueller 93a 96k gif . ...

... 21 cm HI-line spectra of southern ZOA galaxies . ... Galaxies are distributed in a cosmic web consisting of high-density clusters and galaxy groups, which are embedded in walls, and filaments surrounding large low-density regions, the so-called voids. ... The attached image shows the distribution of the 394 inclined spiral galaxies selected from the Parkes HI Zone of Avoidance survey (HIZOA) color coded by their velocity. ... today * ATNF | Parkes | ...

Official Arecibo picture site . Below are some pictures of the place where I work. ... Picture of the platform, taken by my dad. It doesn't look that big!", he says. Well, we'll see. My dad, in front of the primary. ... You can see how holey the surface really is. ... We see the line feed on the left and part of the Gregorian dome on the right. See from inside, the platform is quite complex. ... Looking down on the Gregorian dome! ... Below: Pictures of my new Office! ...

... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... ESO's Governing Bodies . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Travel to E-ELT Armazones . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Star Clusters . ... Stars@ESO . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... ESO 3.6-metre telescope . ... MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope . ... ESO 1-metre Schmidt telescope . ... Wide view centred on the CatтАЩs Paw Nebula (NGC 6334). ... Cat's Paw Nebula , Digitized Sky Survey 2 (DSS 2) , NGC 6334 . ...

Four spacecraft: INTERBALL Tail probe (IB_TAIL), Auroral probe (IB_AUR), POLAR(NASA/ISAS), GEOTAIL (NASA) are considered. ... Orbital ASCII files | ... four spacecraft . ... INTERBALL . Tail Probe . ... ASCII files . ... Auroral probe . ... NASA) . ... NASA, ISAS) . ... The four spacecraft . ... INTERBALL mission | ...

... 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 . ... February 2005 . ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

... ISS Commander . ... Cosmonaut Training Center, Russia . ... From May 1994 to February 1995 he passed training as the 3-rd (backup) crew commander under PC-18 program on the Mir Station. From February to May 1995 he passed training as the backup crew commander under PC-19 program on the Mir Station. ... In June 1995 - January 1996 be passed training as the prime crew commander of the Soyuz TM-23 spacecraft for flight under PC-21/NASA-2 program on the Mir Station together with Yu.Usachev and Sh. ...

February 2008 Astronotes 1 Hot spots of Saturn pole of Saturn. ... But at the start of January 2008 another image was taken not of the planet's south pole, but of the north pole and a similar hot spot was discovered. "...for the past ten years it has been winter at Saturn's north pole " This warming came as a shock because for the past ten years it has been winter at the north Polar View This infra red composite of images from Cassini shows Saturn's mysterious polar hexagon. ...

M1 image More About M1 Nice Color Picture . ... M16 image More About M16 HST image . ... M31 image More About M31 Nice Color Picture . ... M42 image ; M43 image More About M42/43 Nice Color CCD Picture . M51 image More About M51 Color Image of M51 M51 Supernova . M57 image More About M57 Nice Color CCD Picture Very Deep M57 Image . ... M81 image More About M81 M81 Supernova Ultraviolet Image of M81 More about Ultraviolet Imaging . M82 image More About M82 M82 False Color M82 True Color . ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center SPACE CENTER ROUNDUP Volume 45 · Number 2 FEBRUARY 2006 New Horizons The first mission to distant planet Pluto is under way after the successful launch of NASA's New Horizons spacecraft from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. ... The Roundup office is in Bldg. ... Jefferson D. Howell Fitness Facility in the Gilruth Center is just one aspect of the new JSC Exploration Wellness Program. ... WELL.. ... Roundup 03 ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... I have a fun video on how to stand an egg on end on my blog at Discover Magazine . ... At the end of the show, one of the characters looks up the words "egg" and "equinox" on the web... and says it sent him to "thingsthatarewrong.com". ... Bad Astronomy : Only on the day of the Vernal (spring) Equinox, can you stand a raw egg on its end. Good astronomy : If you can stand a raw egg on end, it has nothing to do with the Equinox. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... click image to view discuss) . Student K. Tower views Saturn . Pictures from the Barrows School (Reading, MA) Star Party, courtesy of Sean Dougherty/Boston Globe (Published in Boston Sunday Globe, February 16, 2003, Page C5). Submitted by Brewster LaMacchia on 05/21/2006 22:54:53 . ... Students F Pustorino (at telescope) and K. DiMambro view Orion . ... Parents students at a telescope . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... Next: An IRAF-Independent Interface Up: Software Systems Previous: A New PROS . ... We present a high-level representation of the packages and tasks within IRAF/PROS. ... We have produced a high-level overview of PROS. ... The incremental stages were the short-term goals: a project overview diagram (i.e., an organizational diagram of software modules); high-level diagram (i.e., a bubble diagram of each module in the system); and unifying element tables (i.e., tables of task vs. software attributes)....

Astrophotography Discussion Forum . ... Discussion Forums | ... iMerge processing Moon craters pictures - lupuvictor - November 30, 2010 - 15:26 UTC . my way on astrophotography with 8 inch telescope - lupuvictor - November 10, 2010 - 09:43 UTC . ... Astronomy and Pictures - interstellar - October 22, 2008 - 13:29 UTC . ... Astrophotography, How to??? - skintooth4 - October 10, 2005 - 18:38 UTC . ... Photographing Occultations - voijarisa - December 4, 2004 - 01:46 UTC . ... www.astronomy.net . ...

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... Information processing in nonlinear systems with dynamic chaos // Доклады Международного семинара "Нелинейные цепи и системы".- ... The idea and the method for using one-dimensional nonlinear dynamic systems for storing and processing information were proposed in [1, 2]. ... The main part of the preprint is Section 4, where the "InformChaos" software pack, accomplishing the above principles of storing and processing visual information, is described in detail. ...