... 2013 February 22 . Curiosity Self-Portrait Panorama . Image Credit: NASA , JPL-Caltech , MSSS - Panorama by Andrew Bodrov . Explanation: This remarkable self-portrait of NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover includes a sweeping panoramic view of its current location in the Yellowknife Bay region of the Red Planet's Gale Crater . ... The MAHLI frames used to create Curiosity's self-portrait exclude sections that show the arm itself and so MAHLI and the robotic arm are not seen. ... About APOD | ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2000 February 28 . The Sombrero Galaxy from VLT . ... FORS1 , VLT ANTU , ESO . ... Reasons include the Sombrero 's unusually large and extended central bulge of stars, and dark prominent dust lanes that appear in a disk that we see nearly edge-on. Billions of old stars cause the diffuse glow of the extended central bulge. ... About APOD | ...

... NASA , NSF Explanation: Is our Earth unique? In continuing efforts to answer this question, astronomers have now discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a distant normal star. ... Slight, fast, but regular wobbles of nearby small M - dwarf star Gliese 876 showed evidence for a planet with a likely mass slightly higher than a minimum six times the mass of Earth. ... Publications with keywords: planets - Earth - Gliese 876 . Publications with words: planets - Earth - Gliese 876 . ...

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 . ...

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National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... Bruce McCandless II (Captain, USN, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (former) . ... He was a member of the astronaut support crew for the Apollo 14 mission and was backup pilot for the first manned Skylab mission (SL-1/SL-2). ... A veteran of two space flights, McCandless has logged over 312 hours in space, including 4 hours of MMU flight time. ... With the completion of this flight McCandless logged 191 hours in space (including 4 hours of MMU flight time). ...

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... A team of Japanese scientists including Armagh astronomer Dr David Asher have announced the discovery of the second largest known Earth-crossing asteroid. The group is based at the new Japanese Spaceguard Centre at Bisei, west of Osaka. ... The subsequent tracking and orbit determination was assisted by Armagh asteroid expert David Asher, who is currently visiting Japan to help in the setting up of the new Spaceguard Centre funded by the Japanese government. ...

... Radio astronomers at Arecibo Observatory observe a wide variety of phenomena in the Milky Way and in other galaxies. ... Some REU projects are carried out on pre-existing data, and others rely on obtaining new data. ... Deriving a new shape model from existing radar images has been a popular student project in past years, and there are data sets that could be used for this. We are collecting thermal infrared emission data for many of the near-Earth asteroids that are also observed with radar. ...

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These observations are aimed at fully charactering FORS1 photometric system (UBVRI zero-points, color-terms and extinction coefficients) for the Tektronix 2048x2048 pixel CCD (24µm px) . To this aim, the two Landolt/Stetson photometric fields SA95 and SA101 will be observed on a number of epochs and at different airmasses during February and March 2007. ... SA101 . ... OBs for SA101 have to be observed during evenigh twilight (exceptions are expected for the second half of March) . ...

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IMPLEMENTATION OF THE MIR ORBITAL COMPLEX . MISSION PROGRAM . Since the launch of core module on February 20, 1986, till March, 23, 2001 Mir Orbital Complex (Mir OC) was in operational use on orbit under the Flight Test Program of the module-based permanently manned Mir station. A total of more than 100 launches of different spacecraft and modules (including the US Shuttle launches) were performed under the Mir Complex Mission Program. ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

... Space Flight . ... Earth Satellites . ... The first satellite launched into orbit was Sputnik€а 1 (meaning ?Traveller?), launched in 1957 by the Soviet Union. ... Space Shuttle creeping to the pad to launch the Misty satellite into orbit? ... The Misty is not the only mystery in orbit, another potential covert satellite is known as Prowler. ... However there does seem to be enough substantiated sightings and evidence to suggest there are or perhaps were real mystery satellites orbiting the Earth. ...

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