... February 6, 1996 . COBE Hotspots: The Oldest Structures Known . Credit: NASA , COBE , DMR , Four Year Sky Map . ... These spots are the oldest structures known - probably the oldest structures humanity will ever know. ... By studying the size and distribution of the spots found with COBE and future missions , astronomers hope to learn what matter and processes caused the spots to form - and hence determine the composition , density , and future of our universe. ... 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. February 7, 1998 . COBE Hotspots: The Oldest Structures Known . ... After computer processing to remove contributions from nearby objects and the effects of the earth's motion , the map shows temperature variations in the early Universe as red "spots". These spots are the oldest, most distant structures known. ... About APOD > . ...

Most of these images were obtained by Mike Bessell, Michelle Buxton, Hwankyung Sung, Ralph Sutherland and Bob Watson at SSO using a 2Kx2K Site CCD behind a Nikon or Hasselblad lens or directly on the 1m telescope. A few images are from the Hubble Space Telescope. Some of the M42 images were obtained with the KPNO 1m and ESO NTT telescope. One image is a mosaic of IRAS images. ... Details of the CCD imaging program at MSSSO. ... antenna.jpg (53KB) . ... ngc6744.jpg (59KB) . ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 15.09.1995 . ... Credit: 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 . ... Space Station Over the Ionian Sea . ... Construction of International Space Station Begins . ...

. Next: FSRQs Up: THE DEEP X-RAY RADIO Previous: Redshift Distribution . DXRBS' unique combination of a dual X-ray/radio survey method and high sensitivity has opened up important, large new regions of parameter space for both blazar sub-classes, within which a large fraction of our sample (nearly 50%) lie. This section is devoted to discussing these discoveries and their impact upon our understanding of the blazar class. љ . FSRQs . BL Lacs . Paolo Padovani . 1/5/1998

... HIZOA J0836-43: a massive galaxy . ... The galaxy HIZOA J0836-43 was discovered by Donley et al. (2006) in the Parkes HI Survey of the Zone of Avoidance (HIZOA) and is also detected in the HI Parkes All Sky Survey (HIPASS) . ... The extended neutral hydrogen disk of HIZOA J0836-43, mapped with the Australia Telescope Compact Array, is at least 130 kpc in diameter (top panels) and rotates with over 300 km/s (bottom panels). ... today * ATNF | Parkes | ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . News . Observing . ... Magazine . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Open cluster NGC 2818, spiral galaxy NGC 2964, and spiral galaxy NGC 2976 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... February 2007 . ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

Since the days of Sputnik and Explorer 1, thousands of spacecraft have gone into space, some of them carrying human passengers. The first person to orbit the Earth was the Russian Yuri Gagarin, on April 12, 1961. The first American to do so was John Glenn, who completed three orbits on February 20, 1962; more than 26 years later, at age 77, Glenn returned to space aboard the space shuttle. ... in orbit. ... Manned satellites include various " space stations " intended for long-term residence. ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... History . Brief History of Rocket and Space Technology . ... Project History . ISS Russian Segment . Steps of ISS Assembly . ... ISS 45/46 . ... Missions Archive . ... Sea Launch . ... News . ... News archive . Contribution of RSC Energia to the Russian Rocket-Space Technology . ... RSC Energia: Progress MS-02 docked with the ISS.' ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

Eyepieces Forum Message . Forums: . ... Eyepieces | ... Pictures . ... Posted by Jarvis Krumbein on November 2, 2003 05:23:47 UTC . ... I was having serious problems manhandling the tube assembly of the old setup around as the bloody thing was very heavy. ... Pictures - gjeckes - November 2, 2003 - 08:06 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" . ...

Official Arecibo picture site . Below are some pictures of the place where I work. ... Picture of the platform, taken by my dad. It doesn't look that big!", he says. Well, we'll see. My dad, in front of the primary. ... You can see how holey the surface really is. ... We see the line feed on the left and part of the Gregorian dome on the right. See from inside, the platform is quite complex. ... Looking down on the Gregorian dome! ... Below: Pictures of my new Office! ...

. The installation of the 2.5m new rotator was completed the end of January and pictured below. A big thanks to French Leger and larry Carey, both from UW. Captions above photo . Photos taken by Gretchen Van Doren/APO.

Our publications in 2002 year Kniazev, A. Y.; Grebel, E. K.; Pustilnik, S. A.; Pramskij, A. G. American Astronomical Society, 201st AAS Meeting, #52.23; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 34, p.1195 (12/2002) . ... N.; Pustilnik, S. A.; Kniazev, A. Y.; Elmegreen, B. G.; Larsen, S. S.; Alfaro, E. J.; Hodge, P. W.; Pramsky, A. G.; Richtler, T. Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.389, p.855-870 (07/2002) . ... 253-253 (02/2002) . ... 24P (01/2002) . ...

We present the results of our observations of the white-light corona in polarized light performed at Criciuma eclipse, Brazil. During the observation of 3.11.94 we have made five couple of pictures of the solar corona in polarization light. ... Koutchmy S., Molodensky M., Starkova L., Ershov A., Matsuura O .: ... Molodensky M., Starkova L., Koutchmy S., Ershov A .: ... Koutchmy S., Molodensky M.M., Starkova L.I . ... Koutchmy S., Molodensky M.M., Starkova L.I. Koutvitsky V. and Ershov A . ...

February 2008 Astronotes 1 Hot spots of Saturn pole of Saturn. ... But at the start of January 2008 another image was taken not of the planet's south pole, but of the north pole and a similar hot spot was discovered. "...for the past ten years it has been winter at Saturn's north pole " This warming came as a shock because for the past ten years it has been winter at the north Polar View This infra red composite of images from Cassini shows Saturn's mysterious polar hexagon. ...

... Next: An IRAF-Independent Interface Up: Software Systems Previous: A New PROS . ... We present a high-level representation of the packages and tasks within IRAF/PROS. ... We have produced a high-level overview of PROS. ... The incremental stages were the short-term goals: a project overview diagram (i.e., an organizational diagram of software modules); high-level diagram (i.e., a bubble diagram of each module in the system); and unifying element tables (i.e., tables of task vs. software attributes)....

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE DAILY REPORT #1223 PERIOD COVERED: 0000Z Daily Status Report as of 257/0000Z. 1.0 ACTIVITIES SCHEDULED AND ACCOMPLISHED: 1.1 Completed WF/PC-2 5092 (GTO Low Latitude Parallel Program: Cycle 4) The WF/PC-2 was used to make observations taken in parallel with the prime science observations. ... The observations were completed as planned, and no problems were reported. ... The observations were completed as planned, and no anomalies were noted. ... The data was not recoverable. ...

... Research of an atmosphere of the Earth and other planets of Solar system by optical methods . ... The long-term experience of study of atmospheres of planets of Solar system in a department of physics of planets has defined directions and methods of researches spent for laboratory . ... The tasks of laboratory are researches by optical methods of structure of a Terrestrial atmosphere, namely study of spectra of absorption of its compound radiation of natural and artificial sources. ...

Maxim KAZARYAN (Steklov Institute and IUM, Moscow): Hodge integrals and the tautological ring of the moduli space of curves . The cohomology ring of the (compactified) moduli spaces of algebraic curves has extremely complicated structure and there is no hope to get its complete description. It happens, however, that cohomology classes which are interesting from the point of view of applications form a relatively small subring of the whole cohomology ring and its description is much simpler. ...

... Copyrightї1997 Bob Yen (byen@ix.netcom.com) (http://www.comet-track.com/hb/hb.html) . ... Information on Comet Hale-Bopp for the Non-Astronomer Hale-Bopp rotates about twice a day (3/14/97) . ... The Comet Observation Home Page was been selected to receive the Griffith Observatory Star Award for the week of February 2 - 8, 1997 for excellence in promoting astronomy to the public through the World Wide Web. ... Typically, about 1,000 individual users/computers access this page every day. ...