... Globular cluster NGC 2808, elliptical galaxy NGC 2986, and the Sextans Dwarf . ... What would cause Earthт??s orbit to become more circular instead of its present elliptical orbit, and has this ever happened before? ... Gravitational interactions among the planets cause the ellipticities of the orbits to oscillate periodically by a few percent over millions of years. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... If you are already registered on Astronomy.com, please log in below. ...

Guest Editorial , July 2006 . Past ? Present ? Future . ... SETI, the quest for reasonable signals from Space, is aimed at the Past. ... From here on Earth, we can say with good reason that conducting both searches (SETI) and transmission (METI) of reasonable signals, we appear poised just halfway between the Past and the Future: namely, in the Present! ... This editorial was submitted in response to Their Past, Our Future , by SETI League executive director emeritus H. Paul Shuch. ...

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... Planet Ziggy seems to be located in the outer regions of an elliptical galaxy, or perhaps in a globular cluster orbiting such a galaxy. ... We have not been able to detect any spiral galaxies elsewhere in the sky. ... Iif they are too small for their gravity to achieve this. force holding the two objects together ­ strongly suggests that these objects are Page 1 The Milk Stain No milky-way is seen. ... We are calling it the Milk Stain. This could be an elliptical galaxy or a globular cluster. ...

. Echelle spectrometer . LYNX For consultations or other requests, please, contact with Dr. Maksim Yushkin: maks@sao.ru .

Instrument . ... Scanning TV-sensor with on-board data recording system for global coverage mode . ... recording, direct transmission . ... IR-radiometer for global coverage and direct data transmission modes . ... The scientific instrument package onboard the Meteor-3 spacecraft provides for regular instant acquisition of images of cloudiness and Earth surface in visible and infra-red bands, data on air temperature and humidity, sea surface temperature and clouds temperature. ...

This document explains some of the directives provided by the core server which are used to configure the basic operations of the server. ... Process Creation . Network Configuration . ... User . ... A single control process is responsible for launching child processes which listen for connections and serve them when they arrive. ... The User and Group directives are used to set the privileges of the Apache child processes. ... The child process creates multiple threads to serve requests. ...

... Galaxies Away . ... This striking pair of galaxies is far, far away ... about 350 million light-years from Earth. ... Planetary Nebula NGC 7027 in Infrared . ... NGC 7027 is one of the smallest known planetary nebulae. Even so, NGC 7027 is 14,000 times larger than the Earth-Sun distance. ... A Baby Galaxy . ... Starbirth in NGC 1808 . ... The center of galaxy NGC 1808 is bursting with new stars, but why? Being a barred spiral galaxy makes NGC 1808 somewhat similar to our own Milky Way Galaxy. ...

... NRL . ... STScI . ... GSFC: Aerospace Building, 10210 Greenbelt Rd. ... Note that visitor badges for NRL need to be requested several days prior to the talk. ... The talks will be in room 408 of the Aerospace building, about 3/4 miles west of the GSFC main entrance at 10210 Greenbelt Rd (193). To get there, go out of the GSFC main gate and turn left, or continue past the main gate when coming from the BW Parkway. ... The visitor center is in the building just before (and outside) the gate. ...

... Hughes STX/COSSC NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD 20771 . ... The exploration of hypertextual data presentation at the COSSC was facilitated by the creation of tables of data, in electronic form, which describe the BATSE and EGRET datasets available in the Compton Observatory archive. ... As our store of data continues to grow, we will continue to explore new and novel ways in which hypertext allows the data in the COSSC archive to be presented and selected. 56 kB PostScript reprint . ...

... CBET now has an M31 novae page , M33 novae page , and an M81 novae page . ... Also, see W. Pietsch's M31 (apparent) optical nova catalogue , M33 novae catalog , and M81 novae catalog Please note that I do not keep track of galactic novae . Nova M81 2016-04a? (= PNV J09560598+6900401 ), ATEL 8904 discovered 2016/04/02.876 by Kamil Hornoch and H. Kucakova . ... Nova M31 2016-03a? (= PNV J00421695+4059098 ), CBAT TOCP discovered 2016/03/01.721 by unknown . ... other extragalactic Novae from 2016 . ...

All teams have to inform the Olympic Coordinating Council (OCC) and the Local Organizing Committee (LOC) about their participation not later than the dates determined by the Acting Statutes/Regulations on the International Astronomy Olympiad . ... Leaders of official teams of states have to present to the OCC necessary personal information about every leader, participant and observer (if any) not later than 9 weeks before the beginning of the Olympiad. ... Passport data: 8.1.( Passport no . ...