... WFIRST . ... Science Blog . ... WFIRST Overview . Science . ... Observations . ... Its wide-area, multicolor imaging survey, covering over 2,000 square degrees, will enable weak lensing shape and photometric redshift measurements of hundreds of millions of galaxies, which will in turn yield precise measurements of distances and matter clustering through measurements of cosmic shear, galaxy-galaxy lensing, and the abundance and mass profiles of galaxy clusters. ...

... ESO for the Public > Doing Business with ESO > Technology Transfer > Education and Training . ... Star Clusters . ... ESO's education and training programmes take a variety of forms. ... Through its education and Public Outreach Department, ESO provides much information on ESO's activities and projects, as well as general information on astronomy. ... A further instance of Technology Transfer through training is the professional experience gained by ESO staff through their employment at ESO. ...

One of the main purposes of the Department is preparation of highly skilled specialists in the fields of astrophysics, astrometry and space physics. ... Annualy 2-7 graduates of the Department become post-graduates. ... Among over 500 Department graduates there are ~30 Doctors of Science, 130 Candidates of Sciences, 2 Member-Correspondent of Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) and 1 of Ukrainian one, 4 Ukraine State Prize laureates, Directors of science and industrial institutes. ...

... April 29, 1999 . NGC 2266: Old Cluster in the New General Catalog . ... Explanation: The New General Catalog of star clusters and nebulae really isn't so new. ... Take for example this star cluster known as NGC 2266 (item number 2,266 in the NGC compilation). It lies about 10,000 light-years distant in the constellation Gemini and represents an open or galactic cluster . With an age of about 1 billion years, NGC 2266 is old for a galactic cluster. ... About APOD > . ...

... NGC 2266: Old Cluster in the New General Catalog . ... Credit: Till Credner Sven Kohle , Bonn University , Calar Alto Observatory Explanation: The New General Catalog of star clusters and nebulae really isn't so new. ... With an age of about 1 billion years, NGC 2266 is old for a galactic cluster. ... Publications with keywords: cluster - NGC catalog - NGC 2266 - galactic cluster . Publications with words: cluster - NGC catalog - NGC 2266 - galactic cluster . ... Star Cluster Dreams . ...

Euro-Asian Association of Astronomy Teachers . ... General information . ... With a purpose to support the enthusiasm of the young amateurs and their teachers, to give them a possibility to test their knowledge and to help them to get in touch with their like-minded friends, the I Open Russian Astronomy Olympiad has been organized by the Euro-Asian Astronomical Society (EAAS) and Ministry of Education of Russian Federation in May 1994 in town of Yaroslavl', Central Russia. ... November 2000, SAO RAS. ...

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home education > activities . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Astronomy . ... This classic activity by Dennis Schatz asks students to invent a more-or-less plausible life form that could survive on one of the moons and planets in our solar system. [a] . ... Good as far as it goes, but fails to point out a crucial difference with the real world: on the planets, the impacting bodies explode making craters much bigger and rounder than the ones the students will obtain. [m,h] . ...

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... Contacts . 2012: . ... We refined the fundamental parameters of the components, the orbital periods, and the conditions of photospheric heating of the secondary component by the ultraviolet radiation of the hot component. ... The observations of the star clusters associated with ultra-luminous x-ray sources (ULXs) in four galaxies on the 6-meter and VLT telescopes have shown that all the ULXs are located within 200pc of very young star clusters (younger than 5 million years). ... Archive . ...

... February 21, 1996 . Millions of Stars in Omega Centauri . ... Explanation: Pictured above is the largest ball of stars in our Galaxy. About 10 million stars orbit the center of this globular cluster - named Omega Centauri - as this giant globular cluster orbits the center of our Galaxy . Recent evidence indicates that Omega Centauri is by far the most massive of the about 160 globular clusters in the Milky Way . ... About APOD | ...

... Open here the home page of a Spanish translation "La Exploraci n de la Magnetosfera Terrestre" , by J. M ndez of Algorta, Spain. Open here the home page of a French translation L'Exploration de la Magn tosph re Terrestre , by Kamil Fadel and Marielle Verg s of Paris, France. ... Both home pages list translated files in bold face . ... This is the home page of an overview of space research on the Earth's environment in space. ... A Teacher's Introduction to the Earth's Magnetosphere . ...

... ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Governance overview . Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Our people overview . ... Publications overview . Annual reports . ... Careers overview . ... ATNF facilities . ... Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . Mopra radio telescope . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ...

... Third International Symposium UNIVERSAT-2009: UNIVERSITY SATELLITES IN SPACE SCIENCES EDUCATION is canceled . ... With great regret we have to inform you that the Third International Symposium UNIVERSAT-2009: UNIVERSITY SATELLITES IN SPACE SCIENCES EDUCATION scheduled to take place 28 September, 2009 - 4 October, 2009 in Moscow, Russia, has been canceled by the Organizing Committee. ... On behalf of UNIVERSAT-2009 Organizing Committee, . ...

... Robert L. Stewart (Brigadier General, USA, Ret.) ... SPECIAL HONORS: Awarded Army Distinguished Service Medal , Defense Superior Service Medal , 2 Legion of Merit, 4 Distinguished Flying Crossed, a Bronze Star, a Meritorious Service Medal , 33 Air Medals, the Army Commendation Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster and V Device, 2 Purple Hearts, the National Defense Service Medal , the Armed Forces Expeditionary Recipient of NASA Space Flight Medal (1984 & 1985). ...

The Youth Space Center ( YSC ) was established in Bauman Moscow State Technical University (BMSTU) in 1989 to provide primary aerospace education for young people, stimulate youth creative research thinking, promote space science and technology achievements and develop cooperation with other youth organizations in the international aerospace community. ... BMSTU students can participate in such YSC activities as annual international workshop for space enthusiasts and Practical Cosmonautics course. ...

... The MIDAS system is built along lines which should allow easy integration of complex analysis algorithms as well as allowing greater flexibility in interactive use and in the creation of user specific procedures from the basic building blocks. ... The present version which became available in 1984 follows a similar philosophy in its application program interfaces, but has been expanded to the new Standard Interfaces which have a broader base than previously. ...

... We have compared visualized fields of GSC and USNO A1.0 catalog with unpublished photographic finding charts that were sent by L. Plaut to the compilers of the GCVS. ... 7-15 A9 --- GCVS GCVS or NSV name 17-25 F9.4 --- GSC GSC number 26 A1 --- NoteFlag *Nonstar (GSC) flag 28-29 I2 h RA2000GSC.h Hours RA (GSC), equinox 2000.0 31-32 I2 min RA2000GSC.m Minutes RA (GSC), equinox 2000.0 34-38 F5.2 s RA2000GSC.s Seconds RA (GSC), equinox 2000.0 40 A1 --- DE2000GSC.- ... Plaut, L., 1966, Bull. ...

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