Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 3.11.1997 . ... Explanation: Where did these two irregular moons of Uranus originate? Last week two previously undiscovered moons of the distant gas planet were confirmed , the first in irregular orbits. ... If Uranus' irregular moons have the same origin as those orbiting Jupiter , Saturn , and Neptune , then they were probably caught from orbits around the Sun . ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ... Publications with keywords: Uranus . ...

Discover the cosmos! ... November 3, 1997 . Irregular Moons Discovered Around Uranus . ... Explanation: Where did these two irregular moons of Uranus originate? Last week two previously undiscovered moons of the distant gas planet were confirmed , the first in irregular orbits. ... If Uranus' irregular moons have the same origin as those orbiting Jupiter , Saturn , and Neptune , then they were probably caught from orbits around the Sun . ... About APOD > . ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

Past weeks: . June 25 - July 1, 2007 . July 2 - July 8, 2007 . ... July 30 - August 5, 2007 . ... November 26 - December 2, 2007 . December 3 - December 9, 2007 . ... December 3, 2007 - January 6, 2008 . ... February 25 - March 2, 2008 . March 3 - March 9, 2008 . ... March 31 - April 6, 2008 . April 7 - April 13, 2008 . ... May 5 - May 11, 2008 . ... July 7 - July 13, 2008 . ... December 1 - December 7, 2008 . ... December 29, 2008 - January 4, 2009 . ... March 30 - April 5, 2009 . ...

A team using CSIRO 's Parkes radio telescope has just found the thousandth pulsar known to science. ... This is thanks to the power of a new instrument on the telescope, the multibeam system , which has slashed the time it takes to scan the sky," said co-leader of the pulsar team, CSIRO's Dr Dick Manchester . ... There are many different types of pulsar, and we have only a few examples of some types," said Dr Manchester. ... E-mail: rmanches@atnf.csiro.au . ... e-mail: hsim@atnf.csiro.au . ...

... Planets . ... Earth Satellites . ... The newly discovered ?mega-Earth? ... Its sibling, the lava world Kepler-10b, is in the background (the two planets? proximity is grossly exaggerated) .€а Kepler-10c has a diameter of about 29 000 km, 2.3 times as large as Earth, and weighs 17 times as much. ... The first mega-earth to be discovered is Kepler-10c which orbits a star lying about 560 light years from the Sun in the constellation Draco. ... Astronomers Find a New Type of Planet: The ?Mega-Earth? ...

... Predicting the 1999 Leonid Storm : David Asher also explained previous Leonid meteor storms (notably the great storms of 1833 and 1966), and together with Rob McNaught (Australian National University, Siding Spring Observatory) made accurate predictions for the times of the `normal' storm trails of the Leonids. The prediction for the 1999 storm (for November 18 02 08 ) turned out to be `spot-on', and made headlines around the world. ...

JOURNиES - 2014 The binary asteroid 22 Kalliope: Linus orbit determination on the basis of speckle interferometric observations Sokova I.(1), Sokov E.(1), Roschina E.(1), Rastegaev D.(2), Gorshanov D.(1), Balega Yu.( 2), Dyachenko V.(2) (1) Pulkovo Observatory; (2) Special Astrophisical Observatory Binary asteroid 22 Kalliope 22 Kalliope - M-type asteroid from the Main asteroid belt discovered by J. R. Hind on November 16, 1852 in the Bishop' Observatory (UK). ...

... Bojan Nikolic web pages (r. 329) . Galaxy Evolution . This pages illustrates some of the galaxies with close pairs which we identified in our study of star formation in interacting galaxies selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (Nikolic et al 2004, see the publication list ) . ... This is 10 out of 114 of all of the galaxies in the volume limited sample at redshift smaller than 0.03 and with the first companion within 30 kiloparsecs. A gallery of interacting galaxies . ...

... I have been involved into the La Sagra asteroids team since the beginning of the La Sagra Observatory (OLS) in Andalusia, Spain in 2006. ... In the following years I contributed to the continuous improvements of the search methods and data reduction pipelines. ... There I got introduced to a study to examine the effect of host galaxy dust extinction on the observed properties of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). ... GRBs host galaxies photometry . ... Copyright 2012 Aleksandar Cikota. ...

... These two images of the Jovian moon Thebe were taken by Galileo's solid state imaging system in November 1996 and June 1997, respectively. ... Thebe, whose longest dimension is approximately 116 kilometers (72 miles) across, is tidally locked so that the same side of the satellite always points towards Jupiter, similar to how the near side of our own Moon always points toward Earth. ... The image on the right emphasizes the side of Thebe that faces away from Jupiter (the "anti-Jupiter" side). ...

Crater Gassendi . ... I made this drawing was made on the 26th of november 2001. If you compare this one with the previous drawing of Gassendi (below) the differences are clear. ... This drawing was made on the 28th of september 2001. After nearly a full month without observations I had a one hour gap between the thicker clouds. ... This drawing was made on the 29th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 27th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 25th of august 2001. ...

... ISC Kosmotras . ... Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. ... Having been launched at 11:15 Moscow time from Baikonur Cosmodrome, the Dnepr LV (a converted SS-18 ICBM) successfully injected 5 RapidEye spacecraft into orbit. ... Dr. Vladimir A. Andreev, Director General of ISC Kosmotras, speaking on behalf of the Company, extended his congratulations on the successful launch to the launch customers, namely British SSTL, Canadian MDA and German RapidEye AG. ... Dnepr LV Performance . ... Launch Sites . ...

... Over the first 4 years, its X-ray telescopes eROSITA and ART-XC will survey the whole sky with a record sensitivity in the 0.5-10 keV energy band. ... The goal of the second international Spectrum-RG conference is to discuss the different scientific topics addressed by the mission, synergies with surveys at other wavelengths, and requirements to follow-up observations.Contributed talks and poster presentations are invited on the topics related to the SRG science goals. ... Active galactic nuclei . ...

... Up: Archives and Information Services . Previous: Search and Retrieval of the AXAF Data Archive on the Web using Java . ... Our Web interface to the HST archive (WDB) was substantially augmented during the past few months: A seamless integration of Java applets and CGI interfaces to the database now allows basic manipulation and visualization of data. ... These applets only require a common Web browser and offer very helpful features to facilitate archive data selection. ...

... Based on the accurate radio position, GT 0236+610 was identified with LSI+61 303 (Gregory et al. , 1979[ 59 ]), a B0 star at a distance of 2 kpc (Frail and Hjellming, 1991[ 52 ]) with unusually broad, double-peaked, and variable and emission lines. ... The star wind velocity is estimated as  km s (Howarth, 1983[ 67 ]). ... The radio emission from LSI+61 303 exhibits non-thermal periodic outbursts of variable amplitude with a period of days (Taylor and Gregory, 1982, 1984[ 188 , 189 ]; Coe et al. ...

January 19-22, 2009: 13 th annual Gravitational Wave Data Analysis Workshop (GWDAW-13) . January 12-14, 2009: 2 nd NSF-Sponsored ALFALFA Undergraduate Workshop . August 1-2, 2008: NANOGrav International Pulsar Timing Array Meeting . ... January 13-14, 2008: First NSF-Sponsored Undergraduate ALFALFA Workshop | Meeting Photos | ... November 29-30, 2007: 3rd US VLBI Technical Group Meeting . September 12-13, 2007: Frontiers of Astronomy with the World's Largest Radio Telescope . ...

... Dale A. Gardner . NASA Astronaut (deceased) . ... NASA EXPERIENCE: б  Gardner was selected as an Astronaut Candidate by NASA in January 1978, reporting to the Johnson Space Center in July 1978.б  In August 1979, he completed a one-year training and evaluation period, making him eligible for assignment as a mission specialist astronaut .б  He subsequently served as the Astronaut Project Manager for the flight software in the shuttle onboard computers leading up to the first ...

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... 9a. Earth orbits Sun? . ... 10a. Scale of Solar Sys. ... If the mean distance of Earth from the Sun is 1 AU ("Astronomical Unit"), then that of Venus is 0.723 AU, of Mercury 0.387 AU and that of Mars is 1.524 AU. ... By noting (1) where on the Sun's disk is the crossing seen, (2) timing its duration at two far-apart points on Earth, and (3) comparing the times, one can calculate the distance to Venus and from it the scale of the solar system. ... One occurred in 1639--too early. ...

... Invoking a CGI Program . ... To open a document in your browser, use a URL that specifies an absolute or relative location for the document. An absolute location has the form: . ... To open a local file in your web browser, use a URL that has the form: . ... mailto: address For example: . ... http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu:80/cgi/overview.html To specify a URL that invokes a CGI program, specify the location of the CGI program, followed by a query string which contains the arguments for the program. ...