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... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2007 February 22 . Mystery Over Australia . ... Explanation: Place your cursor on this stunning view through dark skies over western Australia to highlight wonders of the southern Milky Way -- including the famous Southern Cross , the dark Coal Sack Nebula, and bright reddish emission regions surrounding massive star Eta Carinae . ...

... Data . ... Retrieving HST Data . ... This section highlights some typical FOC image characteristics. ... Occulting fingers located near the aperture entrance if the image size is greater than 512 x 512 pixels or if the FUV prism is in the beam. Reseau marks etched onto the faceplate of the detector to aid in geometric correction ( Figure 4.4 ). ... A faint diagonal parallel striping pattern called pattern noise . ... Figure 4.5: FOC 512 x 512 Image Showing Faint "Thumbprint" Pattern or "Fringes" . ...

... A Leonid Bolide Over Kansas . ... The 1998 Leonid Meteor Shower featured many bright events. ... Observers there reported a peak rate for the 1998 Leonid Meteor Shower of about 600 meteors per hour. ... Goodness, Gracious, Green Balls Of Fire!", might have been an appropriate theme song title for the 1998 Leonid meteor shower. ... Rich in bright and awesome fireballs, the Leonid Meteor Shower came early this year. ... Close Up of the Bubble Nebula . ... Leonids 1998: A Safe Meteor Storm . ...

... Research . ... Ljubljana Univ., ... Zagreb Univ., ... Asiago Observatory, Italy . ... ESO, Germany . ... I am an associate astronomer at the European Southern Observatory (ESO). I divide my work between the scientific research and management of the ESO's User Support Department (USD), which is in charge of providing support to observers who use ESO's Paranal Observatory facilities . ... A final standard disclaimer: the opinions expressed in this site do not reflect in any way the opinions of ESO. ...

... SSAU History . ... The first Russian symposium on nanosatellites RusNanoSat-2015 will take place in Samara State Aerospace University from June 2 to June 4. ... The first SSAU nanosatellite SamSat-218 (the first Russian students nanosatellite) will be sent into orbit in the first launch campaign from the space-launch complex Vostochniy, together with a small spacecraft Aist-2 . ... The first Russian symposium on nanosatellite RusNanoSat-2015 will be attended by the leading Russian and foreign . ...

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... Counterpoint: Where Is the Best Place to View a Solar Eclipse? ... NASA Goddard Space Flight Center . Most eclipse viewers crave every second of totality they can get. For them, there is only one place to view an eclipse: at the center line. ... Extended views of Baily's beads, the chromosphere, and solar prominences can all be had near the edges of the eclipse path, but only at the expense of views of the corona, as the duration of totality drops precipitously near the shadow's limits. ...

... HAPPY FACES . ... People smiling . ... Places . ... Happy Faces, Smiling Faces . ... Beautiful faces all over town . ... Means friendship in lots of places . ... Lots of happy faces smiling . ... Happy Faces and smiling Faces . ... A happier place is a beautiful face. ... Happy faces are smiling faces . ... Beautiful places bring happy faces . ... Places bring happy faces . ... Beautiful places bring friendship every where . ... Beautiful places, happy faces here to stay. by Ashley F & Megan H . ...

... A new exhibition - 'Planet Earth: Our Place In Space' - was recently opened at the National Museum of Ireland in Co. ... These specimens will be used to explain what meteorites tell us about the early solar system and also what we know about the earth as a planet. Minerals and rocks will further illustrate what the earth is made of and its nature as a planet. ... For more information about the exhibition see National Museum of Ireland . ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... 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. ... ISC Kosmotras announces signing of a launch contract with T B?TAK Space Technologies Research Institute (T B?TAK UZAY) for injection of RASAT spacecraft - the first Earth observation satellite designed and manufactured in Turkey by Dnepr LV in 2010. ... Dnepr LV Performance . ...

Thought-Provoking Imagery Shows Sun's Place in the Galaxy . ... SOHO - Explosive Coronal Mass Ejections from the Sun . SOHO-6 Comet at 2-6 solar radii from the Sun . ... The remarkable images come from SOHO's visible-light coronagraph, LASCO, which is able to mask the intense rays from the Sun's surface in order to reveal the much fainter glow of the solar atmosphere, or corona. ... SOHO is ideally placed to report and even anticipate their origins in the Sun's atmosphere. ... The Sun . ...