... The remote planet Pluto and its moon Charon orbit the Sun at a mean distance of almost 6,000 million kilometres, or nearly fourty times farther out than the Earth. During a recent investigation by an international group of astronomers [1], the best picture ever of Pluto and Charon [2] was secured with the European Space Agency's Faint Object Camera at the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). ... The new HST image was taken when Charon was near its maximum elongation from Pluto (0.9 arcseconds). ...

Ice Volcanoes Reshape Europa's Chaotic Surface . Ice-spewing volcanoes and the grinding and tearing of tectonic plates have reshaped the chaotic surface of Jupiter's frozen moon Europa, images from NASA's Galileo spacecraft reveal. ... Although the images do not show currently active ice volcanoes or geysers, they do reveal flows of material on the surface that probably originated from them, said Galileo imaging team member Dr. Ronald Greeley of Arizona State University, Tempe. ... Europa . ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... This shows the Sun, Moon and Earth (not to scale) together with the . ... They have tested the technique on the Earthshine, the light reflected from the Earth by the Moon, and showed that it can reveal the presence of life in our planet. ... This technique uses the fact that the light reflected from the planet is polarised, whereas that emitted by the star is not. ... Polarised light can tell us about the reflecting surface...

... UA SCIENTIST & TEAM DISCOVER SURFACE FEATURES COVER TITAN (Science contacts: Peter H. Smith, (602) 621-2725; Mark Lemmon, (602) 621-1485; UA Lunar and Planetary Laboratory) . Scientists for the first time have made images of the surface of Saturn 's giant, haze-shrouded moon, Titan. ... About three weeks before Cassini's first flyby of Titan, the spacecraft is to release the European Space Agency's Huygens Probe to parachute to Titan's surface. ... Upper left: hemisphere facing Saturn. ...

NASA Press Release Text - June 24, 1996 GALILEO READY FOR CLOSE FLYBY OF JUPITER'S BIGGEST MOON Now residing in orbit around Jupiter, NASA's Galileo spacecraft is primed for its first close flyby of Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede, at 2:29 a.m. EDT on June 27, 1996. ... In the days just before and after the Ganymede flyby, Galileo's other studies will include a search for auroral activity on Jupiter's nightside and observations of other Jovian moons: Io, Europa and Callisto. ...

... New ETC Release (20.2) . ... Data . ... HST Overview . ... FUV HV History . ... COS Data Handbook . ... As part of the ETC 20.2 release, the included COS and STIS throughputs have been updated to provide our best estimates for Cycle 20. ... Comparing the ETC 20.1.1 and 20.2 predictions for April 2013, the STIS NUV dark rate has decreased by 30%, the COS NUV dark rate has increased by 11%, and the FUV dark rates (for both spectroscopic and spectroscopic target acquisition modes) have increased by 130...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . Galileo's First Color Image of Io . ... 19.07.1996 . ... Credit: Galileo Project , JPL , NASA Explanation: Above is the first color image of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io released by the Galileo Project. ... The image was made on June 25 when the Galileo spacecraft approached within 1.4 million miles. ... While scientists continue to analyze this image and other recent Galileo data the robot spacecraft will continue to explore Jupiter's moons . ... July 1996 . ...

PRESS-RELEASE . ... The Descent Module (DM) of the Soyuz TMA-10 spacecraft has returned to Earth the commander and flight engineer of the 15th expedition of the International Space Station (ISS), as well as the space flight participant Malaysia’s national Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor who in the period from October 12 to October 21 2007 worked under the 13th visiting expedition program (VE-13). ... The Flight Director is RSC Energia First Deputy General Designer V.A. Soloviev. ...

... 2MASS Overview . The 2MASS Sky . Executive Summary of 2MASS Second Incremental Data Products . Point Source Catalog . Extended Source Catalog . ... Distribution Mode for 2MASS Products . Data Release Plan . ... Point Source Catalog (PSC) . Extended Source Catalog (XSC) . ... 2MASS Source Naming Convention . ... General Properties of the Data Release . ... Comparison of Achieved Performance of Second Incremental Release Catalogs with Level 1 Science Specification . ...

... Polish scientists at the Space Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences, in Wroclaw, south-west Poland, have constructed an instrument called SphinX (short for Solar PHotometer In X-rays), which is an X-ray spectrophotometer, that will obtain spectra in the energy range 0.5--15 keV in 256 energy channels with frequency of up to 100 times a second. ... SphinX is part of a package of instruments known as TESIS (PI Prof. Sergei Kuzin, Lebedev Institute, Moscow). ... Space Research Centre, . ...

Image credit: Michael Nolan, Arecibo Observatory. These radar images of near-Earth asteroid 2001 SN263 were obtained on 2008 Feb 12 and 13. ... Image from Feb 12 . ... First near-Earth triple asteroid discovered by Arecibo Observatory . ... was discovered this week by astronomers at the sensitive radar telescope at Cornell University?s Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. ... For example, Arecibo has discovered more than half of the near-Earth binary asteroid systems discovered since 1999. ...

Next: Recent Releases Up: THE SCHED USER MANUAL Version Previous: Release Instructions. ... Recent Releases . ... Version 6.02 (Released 29 July 2005) . ... Version 6.0 - Released March 8, 2005 . ... Release of 02 July 2002. Release of 16 October 2001. Release of 12 February 2001. Release of 30 January 2001. ... Release of 1 July 1999. ... Release of 30 March 1998. ... Release of 18 August 1997. ... Release of 26 June 1996 . Release of 13 Apr 1996 . Release of 22 Feb 1996 . ...

... Time calculated from Fermi GBM Trigger Time = 14:12:08.67 ( Connaughton, GCN 9230 ). 1% coincident with our start zero image time. 3x3 degrees around Swift XRT position . ... SUBJECT: GRB 090424 : MASTER-Net prompt optical limit DATE: 09/04/25 20:29:42 GMT FROM: Vladimir Lipunov at Moscow State U/Krylov Obs E. Gorbovskoy, V. Lipunov, V.Kornilov, A.Belinski ... Our observations results: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fermi GRB Trigg.* ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... The 9C survey of radio sources was made with the Ryle Telescope at a frequency of 15.2 GHz and a resolution of 25ТљxТљ25Тљcosec(dec) arcsec 2 . ... Waldram, E.M., Pooley, G.G., Grainge, K.J.B., Jones, M.E., Saunders, R.D.E., Scott, P.F., Taylor, A.C., 2003, MNRAS, 342, 915 . ... Field name . ... It comprises seven fields, each delineated by boundaries in RA and Dec, together covering a total of 114.7 deg 2 for which the source catalogue is complete to ~ 10 mJy. ...

... SciSim v2.0.3 replaced the following files rfc_surface.dat ( courtesy Christian Erd, ESTEC) mos_pattern.dat ( courtesy Paul Bennie, Leicester U.) changed the filter_diameter to 65mm (was 72) SciSim v2.0.2 replaced the following files ( courtesy Dave Lumb, ESTEC) mos_clocks.dat mos_doping.dat mos_pattern.dat mos_surface.dat old files are renamed to *.v2_0_1 SciSim v2.beta.2 all explanation of the contents of the data ...

... Press release for Feb. 7, 2001 09.00 a.m. (Moscow time) . The Station "Mir" and cargo ship "Progress M1-5"operations scheduled for 6-7 Feb. completed. To increase power generation the Station's attitude in inertial coordinate system is controlled by jets with the spinning about its longitudinal axis of 0,25 degrees /sek.The Station and the cargo ship onboard systems checked out, the orbit radiomonitoring performed. The Station remains pressurized, the onboard systems perform nominal. ...

... Posts tagged ?Data Release? Mar 5th, 2008| 02:13 pm | ... Today, the 5th year data was released (The news is found here ). ... Tags: 5th year , Data Release , WMAP . ... vlk on [MADS] Parallel Coordinates . ... Algorithms arXiv Astro Bad AstroStat Bayesian CHASC Cross-Cultural Data Processing Fitting Frequentist Galaxies gamma-ray High-Energy Imaging Jargon Job Languages MC MCMC Meta Methods Misc News Nuggets Objects Optical Physics Quotes Spectral Stars Stat Timing Uncertainty X-ray . ...

Within the Hubble Ultra Deep Field there are approximately 10,000 discrete objects. ... Most of these objects are very small and likely have masses in the range of 10 5 to 10 7 solar masses. Note the mass of the Milky Way galaxy is 10 12 solar masses. ... Finally, for you cosmologists/experts out there this ultra deep field is quite consistent with what was seen in the original Hubble Deep Field 5) don't necessarily have small angular diameters. ...

Astronomical Society of the Pacific Announces 2007 Award Winners in Astronomy Research and Education . The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) announced today the eight winners of its 2007 awards for excellence in astronomy research and education. The ASP's most prestigious award, the Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal for lifetime achievement in astronomy has been awarded to Martin Harwit, Professor Emeritus of Astronomy, Cornell University. ...

README for XFree86 on OS/2 : Introductory Note about the release 3.3.6 . ... This version of the code is called XFree86/OS2 3.3.6. This is a bugfix release for 3.3.5 and previous versions which again adds hardware support for some newer cards, including AGP boards. XFree86-3.3.6 contains all security fixes that were released for earlier versions. ... XFree86/OS2-3.3.6 is a full, unrestricted version which does not expire, and for which the complete source code is available. ...