... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2000 October 27 . Close To Eros . Credit: NEAR Project , JHU APL , NASA . Explanation: Scroll right and fly close over asteroid Eros! ... The car-sized Near Shoemaker spacecraft is now on its way to a higher, more stable orbit about 200 kilometers above asteroid Eros . ... About APOD | ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

... Credit: Chris Cook Explanation: This October, Mars has become a bright, yellowish star in planet Earth's sky as it approaches oppositon , the period when Mars and Earth pass close as they orbit the Sun. ... For example, this series of sharp Mars images follows the development of a dust storm as the planet rotates from right to left. ... Publications with keywords: Mars - dust storm . Publications with words: Mars - dust storm . ... Victoria Crater on Mars . ... Inside Victoria Crater on Mars . ...

... Each day we feature a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. October 17, 1995 . Galaxy Dwingeloo 1 Emerges . ... Explanation: If you look closely at the center of the above photograph, you will see a spiral galaxy behind the field of stars. ... In fact, all the individually discernible stars in the above photograph are in our Galaxy. ... About APOD | ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Posted on December 10, 2012 | No Comments Music can be a great way to relax and unwind. Many people play an instrument, are part of a band or enjoying listening to their favourite song on the radio [ ] . Continue Reading.. Posted on November 29, 2012 | ... Posted on September 20, 2012 | ... Posted on August 29, 2012 | ... Posted on July 3, 2012 | ... Posted on April 19, 2012 | ... Posted on January 19, 2012 | ...

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General Information . ... The conference is organized by the Sternberg Astronomical Institute (SAI) of Moscow University and the IAU Working group "Site-testing Instruments" . ... Use of site data in telescope operation and adaptive optics. ... Recent conferences on this subject (2007, 2008) demonstrated great interest of the community, hence the need for a new meeting. ... Unlike previous recent conferences, this meeting will cover all aspects of site monitoring for optical/IR astronomy. ...

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... Our Sun is part of a huge wheel-shaped collection of stars. ... Astronomers have long suspected it was a very massive black hole, and that every galaxy had such a central mass, created early in the history of the universe. ... However, unless that object happens to be headed directly at the black hole (a relatively small target) it will just swing around and fly away again, like a comet making a pass at the Sun. The velocity acquired in falling towards the black hole also helps it escape. ...

... Figure 8: Can you detect the motion of the near-Earth asteroid 2000PH against the background stars during its close approach to Earth around 27 July 2004? ... Down) observed and imaged the unusual near-Earth asteroid 2000PH during its close approach to the Earth around 27 July 2004. The observations were carried out remotely using the new 2m aperture Faulkes telescope situated on the 10,000-foot summit of Haleakala, on the island of Maui in Hawaii. ...

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. Because of an outburst of gas, astrophotographer Chris Schur captured Comet Hergenrother in this image near magnitude 10 on October 9. Astronomers think the outburst occurred when Comet Hergenrother reached perihelion, its closest approach to the Sun, October 1. Chris Schur

... Astronomers have found a planet the size of Earth just outside of our Solar System, orbiting around our nearest star! ... More than 800 planets have now been found outside our Solar System, we call them 'exo-planets . ... While the newly discovered exo-planet is similar to the Earth in size, it is much closer to its star than our planet. ... A year on the exo-planet would be just three days long (this is how long it takes the planet to complete one orbit of its star). ...

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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 . ...

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE . ... the International Space Station . ... P. Semenov, Technical Manager of the Russian Manned Space Programs, General Designer of S.P. Korolev RSC Energia, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Frederick D. Gregory, NASA Deputy Administrator, N.A. Anfimov, General Director of TsNII of Machine-Building, Academician of RAS, as well as representatives of Roskosmos, NASA, Russian enterprises and organizations participating in the implementation of the ISS program. ...

. Pulkovo NEO Page . Central Astronomical Observatory at Pulkovo . of Russian Academy of Sciences, St.-Petersburg, Russia . Apparent Close Approaches of Near-Earth Asteroids to the Stars for April 2016 . By these observations it is possible to obtain the positions of asteroids with higher accuracy. This page includes the ephemerides of such phenomena for some observatories, namely: . Pulkovo . CrAO . Kourovskaya . Majdanak . Pulkovo Obs. Mountain Station . Mondy .

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Blastoff to Saturn . ... Voyager 1 flew 124,000 kilometers (77,000 miles) above Saturn's cloudtops in 1980, showing us a close look at Saturn's large moon Titan and sending back stunning images of Saturn and its rings. ... In the early moonlit morning of October 15, 1997, Cassini launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida, to join these three trailblazing spacecraft on its voyage to Saturn. ... The Cassini-Huygens mission has two major phases: cruise and tour. ... Analogy: Titan and Saturn . ...

. Album : Фотоальбом Сергея Аюкова :: Travels to distant places and countries :: 1996/05 Greece, Chalkidiki :: Boat trip to Mount Athos. Peninsula governed by monks. Up . << Prev . We're getting closer; Mt. Athos is at the background. It is about 2000 meters high. Wind is cold (that's why I look so sick :-). Next >> . Photo album generated by album tool from David Madison's Marginal Hacks on Wed Jun 5 20:38:30 2013 .

... Galileo Probe . The Galileo spacecraft was designed to study Jupiter's atmosphere, satellites, and surrounding magnetosphere for two years. ... From there, Galileo will spend more than five years traveling to Jupiter, where it will become the first spacecraft to make direct measurements from an instrumented probe within Jupiter's atmosphere. ... This image, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the predicted site at which the Galileo Probe will enter Jupiter's atmosphere on December 7, 1995. ...