The Highs and Lows of Earth . ... A truly global answer has now been created by the Global Land One-km Base Elevation (GLOBE) Project. Pictured above is the best digital elevation map yet created for our home planet , a map it took over ten years to make that incorporates data provided by many different countries around the world . The relief map is color coded with sea level shown in black, relatively low areas shown in green, higher areas shown in brown, and the highest areas shown in white. ...

. NASA Johnson Space Center Oral History Project . Photos provided by Sharon McDougle . Explanation of the symbolism of the motif created in honor of . Dr. Mae C. Jemison becoming the first woman of color to journey into space. Select image for higher resolution .

... I did not know at the time but this would be my first tactile astronomy illustration! ... One day, I was taking tickets for a planetarium show and noticed a group of people who were blind, in line for the next show. ... I asked the librarian if they had any astronomy books; she directed me to a tall stack of Isaac Asimov books. ... I asked. ... I thought, "I'm going to do something about this" and began my quest to make astronomy accessible to people who are blind and visually impaired. ...

... About laboratory . ... Laboratory of Materials for Electrochemical Technologies (LMET) was created in July 2013 in accordance with decision of the Grant Board of the Government of the Russian Federation for support of research projects implemented under the supervision of world- leading scientists at Russian institutions of higher learning, research organizations of the governmental academies of sciences and governmental research centers of the ... Russian Academy of Sciences, ....

... STScI-PRC96-23a SUPER-SHARP VIEW OF THE DOOMED STAR ETA CARINAE A huge, billowing pair of gas and dust clouds are captured in this stunning NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the supermassive star Eta Carinae. ... GIF JPEG PRC96-23a Eta Carinae color gif/EtaCarC.gif jpeg/EtaCarC.jpg Higher resolution digital versions (300dpi JPEG) of the release photographs will be available temporarily in /pubinfo/hrtemp: 96-23a.jpg (color), 96-23abw.jpg (black/white). ...

HARP Gun (Photo by Peter . ... HARP, for High Altitude Research Project, was a study of the upper atmosphere by instruments shot from a cannon. ... The cannon which propelled the Martlet to the high atmosphere was the creation of Gerald Bull, a Canadian engineer who specialized in the design of cannon. ... When the cannon fired--its loud bang was heard all over Barbados--the airtight cover over the muzzle was blown away and the Martlet rose into the high atmosphere, to altitudes of 80-90 miles. ...

... Conjunction Over Armagh . ... Comet and Pleiades . ... Pleiades . ... Antares Region . Helix and Cat's Eye Nebulae . Orion Nebula . Lagoon and Eagle Nebulae . Crab Nebula . ... Our Galaxy Core . Andromeda Galaxy . Wide-field and Zoomed-in Galaxies . Interacting Typhoons and Galaxies . Spiral Galaxy M106 . Sombrero Galaxy . Whirlpool Galaxy . Colliding Galaxies . ... й Miruna Popescu, Armagh Observatory ...

... This paper describes the main algorithms used by the Einstein Level One processing to create the exposure masks and the background maps for Einstein IPC images, and how these algorithms were recreated in the IRAF environment. Our goal was to recreate the algorithms used by the Level One Processing to create exposure masks and background maps for Einstein Image Proportional Counter (IPC) data (cf. sections 2.5 and 2.7 of Harnden et al. ...

... Kent Observatory in Queensland, Australia, and Moore Observatory, in Kentucky, USA. This material is Copyright 2012 John Kielkopf , University of Louisville, unless otherwise noted. It is licensed with a Creative Commons License , which provides that it may be used freely for non-commercial purposes provided that the license terms are made clear to others, and that the source and Copyright are acknowledged. ... Last update: October 16, 2012 . kielkopf at louisville dot edu . ...

Astronomical Techniques Project 2 Radio Astronomy Continuum Imaging Due 19 May 2014 5pm The data for this project will be made available in class on Tuesday 13 May and online. During the second half of class on Wednesday 14 May instructions and examples on how to make radio continuum images in CASA will be provided. ... The uv-plane Now examine the uv-plane to gather information on what the radio source will look like once imaged. ... What is the shortest baseline in these observations in metres? ...

... The project assumes creation of an international space observatory - the interferometer "Earth - Space - Space" in order to perform of astronomical investigations in millimeter, submillimeter and infrared regions with extremely high sensitivity (to a few nanoJanskies units of flux density in continuum spectrum) and extremely high angular resolution (to a parts of microsecond of arc or, possibly, nanosecond). ... radio-interferometric channels of the system "Space - Space", region 0.2 - 3 mm; . ...

... I am involved in Project Astro, a program to bring astronomers into public schools to assist with teaching students about science and astronomy. ... While there are all sorts of scale model of the Solar System type exercises ( Mitchell Charity's page has a good listing of what's available), none were really tailored towards discovering the spatial relationships of the planets, and in a way that could be done at night as part of a Star Party. ...