... The First (Experimental) International Astronomy Olympiad . The following olympic problems were proposed for the participants on the theoretical part: Grades 8-10 . ... Why is it sometimes better to use a small telescope in orbit around the Earth than it is to use a large telescope on a mountain top? ... What will an observer looking to the Moon through the telescope see? ... Paper with a drown circle and table of maximal elongations of Mercury and Venus had been done for participants. ...

... August 19, 1999 . Light From The Dark Sun . ... Explanation: Only in the fleeting darkness of a total solar eclipse is the light of the solar corona easily visible from Earth. ... In this series of images recorded from Siofok, Hungary during the total phase of the August 11 eclipse, progressively longer exposures (top left to bottom center) have been used to more faithfully capture different regions of the elusive solar corona. ... About APOD > . ...

... Access key help . ... Astrophysics Group . ... Galaxy Formation and Evolution . Main Projects . ... PhD Thesis Projects . ... One of the main goals of the instrument is to identify and characterise the first galaxies formed in the early Universe and to track their evolution through the cosmic epoch by delivering the deepest spectra ever obtained for these objects in the near-IR range. ... SPIRE programme) on the evolution of the dust content in galaxies. ...

... CNRS - RAS RFBR Associated European Laboratory "Physical Properties of Coherent Electronic States in Condensed Matter" between Institut Neel, CNRS and Kotel'nikov IRE RAS (2008-now), member . ISTC, Elements for Micro- and Nanoelectromechanics Based on the Whiskers of Quasi One-Dimensional Conductors and HTSCs (2006-2009), participation . ... RFBR, Electron and spin transport in low-dimensional structures (2013-2015) . ... RFBR, Conduction and energy states of chain structures (2010-2012) . ...

... The space station Mir is the most complex and unique vehicle of the twentieth century. ... It is in proposing to UNESCO the procedure of giving to the space station Mir a status of the object of the World cultural heritage of the mankind as a very valuable unique object of the technical culture of the 20th century, and realization of the special project of its preservation. ... Proactive organization work to get in UNESCO the status of the object of the World cultural heritage for the station Mir; ....

... Prof. N.N. Kiselev . ... Dr. V.K. Rosenbush . ... Kiselev N.N., Velichko F.P. (1998) Polarimetry and photometry of comet C/1996 B2 Hyakutake. ... PDF file ] . Kiselev N.N., K. Jockers, V.K. Rosenbush et al. ... Kiselev N.N., Jockers K., Rosenbush V.K. (2002) Comparative study of the dust polarimetric properties in split and normal comets. ... Rosenbush V.K., Kiselev N.N., Velichko S.F. (2002) Polarimetric and photometric observations of split comet C/2001 A2 (LINEAR). ...

MARSES Project Information . MARSES is an integrated research experiment devoted to searching for water, water-ice or permafrost layers believed to exist at some depth under the visible surface of Mars. ... Secondary tasks are the measurement of the soil properties of the subsurface of Mars which include porosity, electrical resistance of the liquid phase, thermal conductivity, temperature dependence. ... Jean?s escape of water via the atmosphere is very slow (of the order of 3 m over 5 Gy). ...

... Astronomy news . ... Earth Seen By NASA's Moon Mapper On India's Chandrayaan-1 Spacecraft . A new image of Earth taken from 200 kilometers (124 miles) above the lunar surface was taken by the Moon Mineralogy Mapper, one of two NASA instruments onboard the Indian Space Research Organization's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft. ... NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., designed and built the Moon Mineralogy Mapper and is home to its project manager, Mary White. ...

... Confirmation that a mysterious cloud of hydrogen in the Virgo Cluster is a dark galaxy has been published by a team of astronomers . New evidence from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope in the Netherlands has been used to rule out all but one of the ideas put forward to explain the existence of VIRGOHI 21, an intergalactic gas cloud 50 million light-years from the Earth. ... Only Dark Matter can account for the existence of such a system. ...

The International Astronomical Union XXVII General Assembly, . ... 1. the IAU/UNESCO International Year of Astronomy 2009 goal 8: facilitate the preservation and protection of the world's cultural and natural heritage of dark skies in places such as urban oases, national parks and astronomical sites, . 2. the Declaration approved during the International Conference in Defence of the Quality of the Night Sky and the Right to Observe Stars (La Palma, Canary Islands, 2007), . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Year of Pluto . ... Chandra celebrates the International Year of Light . ... New images are being released to celebrate the International Year of Light 2015. ... This composite image combines data collected at X-ray wavelengths by Chandra (purple), ultraviolet by the galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX, blue), visible light by Hubble (green), and infrared by Spitzer (red). ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...

... 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 . ...

... HST Overview . ... The FOC suffers from various types of background, the most important of which are thermal electrons, Cerenkov radiation from high energy particles, geocoronal emission lines, zodiacal light, and light scattered within HST from the bright Earth or Moon. ... From on-orbit measurements using the f /96 camera, the former background has been found to vary with solar zenith distance (ZD); see Sections 6.4, 6.5, and 7.0 of the FOC Instrument Handbook , version 7.0, for more details. ...

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... About meteorites . ... Meteorite Encyclopedia . ... About laboratory . ... On the night of September 24-25, in the north of Irkutsk Oblast, local residents saw a brightly glowing space object draw a line across the sky and fall into the taiga. ... But scientists learned of the heavenly visitor only on October 3, when a fax arrived at the Institute of Sun And Earth Physics from Bodaibo. ... The first thing we did was to interview residents of villages located along the meteor's flight path. ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... Since the Irkutsk IS radar is based on station "Dnepr", which was not intended for IS measurements, we made a serios effort to modernize this station in order to carry out ionospheric observations. Four main directions of the development of the radar experimental base: . modernization of the radar receiving system; . development of primary processing and measurement control methods; . ...

Spinning discs in space Mass feeding and feedback in YSOs . ScienceAlert Ever wonder how solar-mass stars form? By Tim Wetherell. Sticking to the stars . The complex processes creating accretion discs . ... Disks, Winds and Jets: From Planets to Quasars . ... Theory and modelling of accretion processes . Protoplanetary discs . ... Star formation . Jets and winds . ... Email: raquel@mso.anu.edu.au . ... Webpage: http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/~raquel/ . ...

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... Main . ... The RadioAstron is an international space VLBI project led by the Astro Space Center of Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow, Russia. ... List of organizations which were taken part in developing of the project and now support the RadioAstron mission is presented here . The RadioAstron Newsletter # 29 , July 18, 2015. RadioAstron Announcement of Opportunity - 4 for observations from July 2016 to June 2017 inclusive. ... 2.7, December 17, 2015 : English version. ... Main ASC . ...