... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

Captain of a crew of the space station is sure that 13 years for it is not an age. On Saturday an international expedition consisting of Russian Viktor Afanasiev, French Jean-Pierre Eniere and Slovak Ivan Bella set off from launching pad Baikonur to the space station Mir. ... The station is set in order. ... As a captain of maybe the last crew of the station Mir, what do you think about the planned sinking of the station? ... The International Space Station (ISS) will begin working not very soon. ...

... This method is based on putting space modules, vehicles and EVA-suit donned cosmonauts in the swimming pool under conditions of neutral buoyancy, indifferent equilibrium and unsupported state. ... You can also dive into the swimming pool with the SCUBA equipment in order to examine the mock-ups of space stations and vehicles and pass a course of rehabilitation in a hyperbaric oxygenation complex. ... Services / Hydrospace: General description Technical description "Orlan" suit Photo gallery Price . ...

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Armenia (ANRAO registered) . Brazil (ANRAO registered) . Bulgaria (ANRAO registered) . China (ANRAO registered 30.07.2003.) ... Note: participating states - states which have sent teams with contestants to at least one IAO; individual participation - individual participating of the contestants from the state; observing states - states, which have sent observers to at least one IAO but haven't sent contestants yet. National Astronomy Olympiads of participating states . ...

... Crossed Dipoles for dual polarization conducting plane Droopy Dipoles for broad-band, dual polarization LOFAR -Low Band dipole element 4x4 array of dipoles on ground plane - the ` LOFAR -High band' element h s s (many analogies to gratings for optical wavelengths) 4x4 Tuned for 150 MHz sin projection ZA = 0 deg 45 15 60 30 75 4x4 Patterns · · ZA = 30 deg tuned for 150 MHz 120 150 180 210 240 Lofar stations ??? a ` station ' = 101 ` ...

Main Program Travel Where to go in Moscow Information . ... Moscow Kremlin, see map . ... Moscow State University . ... Moscow City ( Vystavochnaya metro station) . ... Izmailovo Kremlin (Partizantskaya metro station) . ... Kolomenskoe (Kashirskaya metro station) . Kolomenskoe (Kolomenskoe metro station) . ... The Key Map of Moscow Kremlin . ... Interactive Moscow Metro Map . ... International Conference: Cosmology and High Energy Astrophysics (Zeldovich-90) 20-24 Dec 2004, Moscow, Russia . ...

... Following several successful moon landings,NASA decided to use its last Saturn V not to fly to the moon but to place in low Earth orbit a large space station, named Skylab. ... It was followed that year by three manned flights using the smaller Saturn IB, each carrying 3 astronauts for a prolonged stay aboard Skylab. ... Mass measurements aboard Skylab were part of the medical experiments conducted there. ... Measuring body mass in the M172 chair (see illustration) was not a simple matter. ...