Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... Credit: 1994 by Michael Okoniewski Explanation: Carl Sagan died last Friday at the age of 62. ... Among his many activities as a scientist, he contributed to the discovery that the atmosphere of Venus is prohibitively hot and dense, and found evidence that Saturn's moon Titan contains oceans stocked with the building blocks of life . ... December . ... 1995 1996 . ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ... U. Based on Astronomy Picture Of the Day . ...

Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. December 26, 1996 . Carl Sagan 1934-1996 . ... Explanation : Carl Sagan died last Friday at the age of 62. Sagan was the world's most famous astronomer. ... Sagan 's outstanding ability to explain allowed almost a billion people to better understand the cosmos in which they live. ... About APOD > . ...

... Donate to Support Science Literacy . ... 2016 Annual Awards . The ASP is accepting nominations for the organizationтАЩs national annual awards which recognize special achievements in astronomy research, technology, education, and public outreach. ... Shop the AstroShop . ... The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) is accepting nominations for the organizationтАЩs national annual awards which recognize special achievements in astronomy research, technology, education, and public outreach.. ...

... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... The facility was specifically designed to overcome challenges associated with its remote location and its significance as the control centre of the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO) - home to CSIRO's ASKAP radio telescope and two other experiments currently located at the MRO: the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) and Experiment to Detect the Global Epoch of Reionization Signature (EDGES) . ...

... Appendix - Tower Building Objects . ... TOYS.CLP - the objects used in SNEAKERS ;********************************************************************** ;***** TOYS in SNEAKERS **** ( defclass TOY ( is-a USER) ( slot time)) ;********** POINTS ********* ( defclass POINT ( is-a TOY) ( slot x) ( slot y) ( slot z)) ;*********** PLATFORMS ************ ( defclass PLATFORM ( is-a TOY) ( slot shape (allowed-symbols SQUARE TRIANGLE)) ( slot corner1) ( slot corner2) ( ...

... December 13, 1997 . The Coma Cluster of Galaxies . ... The Coma Cluster of Galaxies pictured is one of the densest clusters known - it contains thousands of galaxies . Each of these galaxies house billions of stars - just as our own Milky Way Galaxy does. ... In fact, the Coma Cluster is so big it takes light millions of years just to go from one side to the other! Most galaxies in Coma and other clusters are ellipticals , while most galaxies outside of clusters are spirals . ...

... SSAU History . ... Students from the University of Stuttgart will take part in the English-speaking summer school on engine building and will attend a course on the Theory and Design of Aircraft Engines during three weeks in Samara. ... The Aircraft Engines Design is a unique course for German undergraduate students. ... The course studied in the Samara University will be accepted into the program for German students, and each Bachelor will receive three European academic credit units for it. ...

... Bojan Nikolic web pages (r. 329) . ... I have a bzr branch of the casa-core repository (sing the bzr-svn plugin), and I?ve made a branch off this branch with some small build improvements. ... Destination directory export CCINSTALLDIR=/home/bnikolic/p/casa-main #HDF5 wget http://www.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/current/src/hdf5-1.8.3.tar.gz tar xzvf hdf5-1.8.3.tar.gz cd hdf5-1.8.3 ./configure --enable-cxx --prefix=$CCINSTALLDIR make && make install && cd .. ... Building the casa-core libraries . ...

... 2014 . GLORIA has succeeded in building up the first large scale robotic telescope network of free access, which will allow any user to provide scientific knowledge. The project, which was initiated in October 2011, makes use of thirteen telescopes: five in Spain, two in Chile, one in Argentina, two in the Czech Republic, one in South Africa and two in Russia. ... A total lunar eclipse will occur on April 15th, 2014, the first in two and half years. ... Last update: 10/11/2014 ...