... Astrophysics Group . ... Pulsars . ... Stars ? ... The array was designed to detect compact radio sources such as these by virtue of the fact that they would scintillate (twinkle) when observed from the Earth through the interplanetary medium ? ... One of Antony Hewish?s research students, Jocelyn Bell, was set the task of operating the telescope and inspecting the daily charts for the kind deflections in the trace which occurred when a scintillating source passed over the array. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 15.09.1995 . ... Credit Copyright: NASA , Russian Space Research Institute Explanation: This picture of the Russian space station Mir over the Pacific Ocean was recorded by the Space Shuttle Discovery in February 1995. ... Work on an International Space Station is in progress. ... Publications with keywords: Mir - space station . Publications with words: Mir - space station . ... Bright Sun and Crescent Earth from the Space Station . ... Skylab Over Earth . ...

Next: Dynamic Scheduling Up: Scan Times Previous: Dealing with Formatter Reconfigurations Contents . The nominal scan start time, if set using DWELL , is the time good data is expected to be available. ... The more modern systems, especially the Mark5C recorders and the software correlators, approach this ideal and the recordings are started at the time specified in the VEX file for the start of good data. ... A recording scan is the time between stops of the recording media. ...

... Jupiter's big moon Ganymede is not only the size of a planet -- it sounds like one too, as heard in audio recordings made from data returned by NASA's Galileo spacecraft released today. ... Characterized by a soaring whistle and hissing static, Ganymede's song reveals that the Solar System's largest moon is also the only one known to possess a planet-like, self-generated magnetic cocoon called a magnetosphere , which shields the moon from the magnetic influence of its giant parent body, Jupiter. ...

... Checkout of EM of all devices installed in the Focal Container has been done as a preparation to deliver them to LA. ... Device Container (DC) equipped with the thermal models of scientific payload was assembled with the Thermo-Vacuum Model (TVM) of the Spacecraft Bus. ... Focal Module equipped with the thermal models of scientific payload is prepared for thermal tests of special cryogenic system which will be used for LNA cooling during Pushchino test. ... DM        - Device Module = DC + H-maser ....

... Комментариев нет 22 августа 2010, 13:58 Blogger , English , Астрономия . ... Neptune will finally complete its first full orbit of the sun since it was discovered in 1846a approximately one year from now, according to NASA estimates. ... Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-21 . ...

Filename completion is only available if the the environment variables EDITOR and/or VISUAL are set to either emacs , gmacs or vi . For example: EDITOR=emacs . ... To complete a file or directory name with emacs or gmacs set press the ESC key twice. ls -l on<ESC><ESC> line_help . If the filename is not completed enter more characters until the filename can be uniquely identified. ... To complete a file or directory name with vi set press the \ (backward slash) key. ls -l on\ line_help . ...

The Space Shuttle Discovery is pictured here docked to the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station. It's going to be hard to top this mission," NASA Administrator Michael Griffin said. ... The crew got phone calls from two world leaders. ... Commander Eileen Collins and the crew of the STS-114 mission, Jim Kelly, Charlie Camarda, Wendy Lawrence, Steve Robinson, Andy Thomas and Soichi Noguchi of Japan, landed at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., at 7:11 a.m. CDT on Aug. ...

... Comments, Opinions Publications Dnepr Program . Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. Cluster Launch of Dnepr LV 22 August 2013 KOMPSAT-5 Launch 21 November 2013. Dnepr Cluster Mission 2013 19 June 2014. Dnepr Cluster Mission 2014 6 November 2014. ... Mission profile SHM configuration Reliability Dnepr LV Performance Launch Sites . Baikonur Cosmodrome Yasny launch base Downloads . ... Preparations for the Dnepr-DubaiSat-1 launch are well progressing at Baikonur Cosmodrome. ...

... Space Research Institute . Main . ... Main research and development work completed in 2010 and ready for implementation . Elaboration of automatic technology for analysis of abnormal changes of vegetation status based on satellite data . ... Satellite MODIS-Terra image, obtained on May, 17 2010. ... Main research and development work completed in 2009 and ready for implementation . Main research and development work completed in 2008 and ready for implementation ...

Astronomy Discussion Forums . ... For The Record . ... Post Message | ... Posted by Aurino Souza on October 17, 2002 13:03:14 UTC . ... for the record...."vague denials and buck-passing?" - carefuluniverse - October 17, 2002 - 16:06 UTC . your post, translated - aurino1 - October 17, 2002 - 16:53 UTC . ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... Observatory . ... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Publications > Science Announcements > MUSE Science Verification Completed . ... Observing Facilities . ... Instrumentation Development . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... ESO Data . ... Of the 86 proposals submitted for the Science Verification (SV) of MUSE , a total of 49 proposals were allocated. ... All the SV data are available to the whole user community, subject to the VLT Science Verification Policy and Procedures . ...

NASA's Galileo spacecraft radioed confirmation late this week that it has entered Jupiter's environment, crossing over the boundary from interplanetary space into the giant magnetic cocoon around Jupiter called the magnetosphere. ... On Thursday, December 7, Galileo's previously deployed atmospheric probe will plunge into Jupiter's cloud tops at 5:56 p.m. EST and descend into the giant planet on a parachute. ... Jupiter's magnetosphere is like a giant bubble around the planet. ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... библиотека . архив RSN . ... Ru.Space.News: . Март 1998 . ... Дата: 26 марта 1998 (1998-03-26) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: STARDUST Update - March 20, 1998 Привет всем! ... TELEPHONE (818) 354-5011 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov Galileo Europa Mission Status March 25, 1998 NASA's Galileo spacecraft is sending to Earth the final pictures and science information stored on its onboard tape recorder during the December 1997 flyby of Jupiter's moon Europa. ...

Contents and Select Excerpts . ... Summer 2008 . This page contains the table of contents and select excerpts only and is not a complete reproduction of this issue. Complete content for online Mercury is available to ASP members and institutional subscribers . ... Astronomy in the News . ... Editorial, Paul Deans . ... A Personal Sky . ... Annals of Astronomy, Clifford J. Cunningham . ... ASP's EPO in the IYA . ... Sky Sights, Paul Deans . The Sky of August, September, and October . ...

SSC 2011: DISCOVER THE STARS AT ARMAGH Cross-Border Schools Science Conference 2011 The Centre for Cross Border Studies, The Royal School Armagh, The Armagh Observatory, and The Armagh Planetarium Thursday 5th and Friday 6th May 2011 Discovering the Universe Through Team-Working in Astronomy and Related Sciences 09:30 09:45­09:55 09:55­10:10 Arrive at Royal School (Reid Hall). ... Stars and Solar System group enters Planetarium. ... Each Group will be divided into Teams each containing 4 students. ...

... The one year crew. (image credit: NASA/Bill Stafford) . The тАЬOne Year CrewтАЭ has specific objectives to their mission all in a bid to find out if the human body and mind is capable of long missions to an asteroid, back to the Moon or even to Mars in the future. ... On-board the Russian space station Mir four cosmonauts clocked up more than a year in space in the 1980s and 1990s.€а (1942-) has the record for the longest single space flight of 437 days or 14 months in space in 1995. ...

... Gallery . ... The Common Room roof is completed . Sidebar Left . Sidebar Top . No Sidebar . Sidebar Bottom . Sidebar Right . ... Title: The Common Room roof is completed . Description: NOTE: All images and movies are copyright and must not be reproduced or mirrored in any form without written permission. ... The Common Room roof is completed NOTE: All images and movies are copyright and must not be reproduced or mirrored in any form without written permission. ...

... This paper describes two approaches for user interfaces to the Hubble Space Telescope ( HST ) archive. StarView is a custom interface with many interactive features for the serious archive user. An experimental World Wide Web (WWW) interface is also described, which supports some of the basic features of StarView available via standard WWW clients such as NCSA Mosaic. ... StarView is the primary user interface to the HST archive (Williams 1993; Long 1994). ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... Observing . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Mars orbiter completes primary mission . ... NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has completed its primary, 2-year science phase. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...