Discover the cosmos! ... 2005 December 5 . Fountains Discovered on Saturn's Enceladus . Credit: Cassini Imaging Team , SSI , JPL , ESA , NASA . Explanation: Fountains of ice shoot out from Saturn's moon Enceladus. Clear discovery images of the fountains were made using observations from the robot Cassini spacecraft currently orbiting Saturn . During a recent pass, Cassini was programmed to look back toward the Sun where Enceladus would appear as a thin crescent . ... 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. December 22, 1996 . 18 Miles From Deimos . Credit: The Viking Project , NASA . ... Potato shaped and barely 6 miles wide this asteroid-like body was visited by the Viking 2 orbiter in 1977. This image was made when the spacecraft approached to within 18 miles of Deimos' surface. ... About APOD > . ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

... NEAR to Asteroid Eros . ... 28.12.1998 . ... Credit: NEAR Spacecraft Team , JHU APL , NASA Explanation: On December 23, the NEAR spacecraft flew by asteroid 433 Eros . ... When NEAR is fully operational, it will likely provoke the world's largest telescopes to point not toward asteroid Eros but to positions indicated by another of NEAR's instruments: its gamma-ray burst (GRB) detector . ... December 1998 . ... 1999 2000 . ... Publications with keywords: NEAR project - 433 Eros - asteroid . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Solar System . ... Comets and Asteroids . ... Space Flight . ... Posted on June 29, 2015 | 759 Comments Maybe you have seen one of the alarming videos or emails circulating around the internet claiming that the End is Nigh. ... Continue Reading.. ... Posted on December 5, 2014 | ... Posted on October 18, 2013 | ... 3 Comments In February 2013, the asteroid 2012 DA14 flew past the Earth closer than many of the EarthтАЩs geo-stationary satellites. ...

... It was designed to observe the solar wind approaching Earth, from a position near the Lagrangian point L1, and it is part of the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) Initiative . ... The original plan called for "Wind" to approach its final station over two years, undergoing two close encounters with the Moon to boost its speed. ... If however the object is moving , the encounter is not symmetric, and in the end the spacecraft may have gained or lost speed, depending on its trajectory. ...

From: TerryMosel aol.com Date: 30 November 2006 00:12:38 GMT Subject: Greenwich job, Geminid Meteors Hi all, 1. ROYAL OBSERVATORY GREENWICH: Job Vacancy - Astronomer - Public Engagement: Astronomer - Public Engagement. ... You can start to see the first Geminids in the late evenings from about December 8, but activity starts to pick up about the 10th, building to the maximum which this year will be in the early hours of December 14. ... Clear skies, Terry Moseley . ...

... It was designed to observe the solar wind approaching Earth, from a position near the Lagrangian point L1, and it is part of the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) Initiative . ... The original plan called for "Wind" to approach its final station over two years, undergoing two close encounters with the Moon to boost its speed. ... If however the object is moving , the encounter is not symmetric, and in the end the spacecraft may have gained or lost speed, depending on its trajectory. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Site Info . ... Public Talks . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Who is this guy who calls himself "The Bad Astronomer?" ... First, yes, I am a real live astronomer (when people ask me what astronomers do, I tell them "They astronom !" ... These are emitted by powerful objects like black holes, exploding stars, and super-dense neutrons stars. ... Finally, am I really a bad astronomer? ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

ASTRO 2010 Home page . ... All notices of intent that were submitted (171 total) . ... STScI notices of intent contributions (6 first author; 38 total) . All white papers that were submitted (set filter to: "Science white papers") (356 total; someduplicates) . ... STScI white paper contributions (14 first author; 50 total) . All position papers that were submitted (set filter to: "State of the Profession Papers") (69 total) . ... STScI position paper contributions (7 first author; 10 total) . ...

... Главная . ... Новости . ... Проекты . Любителям астрономии . Проект ISON . ... Подробнее . ... Категория: Новости проекта ISON . ... Метки: Космический мусор ,љ Астероиды ,љ Гамма-всплески ,љ Любителям астрономии ,љ Кометы љ . ... Метки: Космический мусор ,љ Астероиды ,љ Любителям астрономии љ . ... Новости обсерваторий проекта] - Обсерватория Кубанского государственного университета от Иванов А - 09.04.2016 11:08:49 . ... 1999-2013 Copyright "Астрономия и Телескопостроение" . ...

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... The European HST Archive has been moved to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre ( ESAC ), Spain, where most of ESA's Space Science Archives are located and operated from. ... The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), jointly operated by ESA and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) was, until the end of 2010, the European HST science facility, supporting the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

... The expansion is measured as a number called the Hubble Constant . ... Our value is about 20% lower than the one got with the Hubble Space Telescope in 1994," said Dr Jim Lovell, leader of the team that made the measurement. The Hubble Constant is named after American astronomer Edwin Hubble, who in the 1920s found that other galaxies were moving away from ours. ... The Hubble Constant links the galaxy's distance with its speed." ... A short run-down on the Hubble Constant: . ...

Weaving together Astronomy+Statistics+Computer Science+Engineering+Intrumentation, far beyond the growing borders . ... Archives . ... People . ... To my personal thoughts, the history of astronomy is more interesting than the history of statistics. ... Quintessential Contributions: . ... The contents are only spanned about 100 years and there are great chances that my mind still favors the history of astronomy over the history of statistics. ... Comment ( RSS ) | ... Entries RSS . ... Chandra Blog . ...

Proceedings of the XXVIIth Young European Radio Astronomers Conference (YERAC). ... Please Note: e-mail addresses and external links in these contributions were correct when these papers were written in 1995, but may no longer be valid. ... In addition to the hypertext version of each paper, indicated by the link from the title of the paper, there are links to postscript versions of each paper, which are suitable for printing if you want a hardcopy of a given paper. ... Sandor Frey (or postscript ) . ...

... Observing . ... Solar Observing . ... April 3 (SUN) - Solar Observing, Central Park , Manhattan . ... APRIL'S SKY . ... Lecture Series at the American Museum of Natural History The Amateur Astronomers Association is proud to present an astronomy lecture series from October through May each year for our members and the .. ... The€аAmateur Astronomers Association of New York€аwas organized in 1927 to promote the study of Astronomy, emphasizing its cultural and inspirational value. ...

... I have been involved into the La Sagra asteroids team since the beginning of the La Sagra Observatory (OLS) in Andalusia, Spain in 2006. ... In the following years I contributed to the continuous improvements of the search methods and data reduction pipelines. ... There I got introduced to a study to examine the effect of host galaxy dust extinction on the observed properties of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). ... GRBs host galaxies photometry . ... Copyright 2012 Aleksandar Cikota. ...

Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XIII ASP Conference Series, Vol. ... Skysoft is a YAASD (Yet Another Astronomical Software Directory), but with a different overall approach. To be useful, Skysoft needs to be a long­lived pro ject, setting little pressure for maintenance, imposing a very low nuisance level to the developers community, and requiring a lowmaintenance cost. ... This site is designed so that software developers acquire more visibility because of astronomical context. ...

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... The International Year of Astronomy (IYA2009) will be a global celebration of astronomy and its contributions to society and culture, highlighted by the 400th anniversary of the first use of an astronomical telescope by Galileo Galilei. The aim of the IYA is to stimulate worldwide interest, especially among young people, in astronomy and science under the central theme "The Universe, Yours to Discover." ... Discover the universe with a telescope similar to the one Galileo used 400 years ago. ...