June 2007 Astronotes 1 Astronomy Greats: Galileo Image Credit: Portrait of Galileo Galilei by Justus Sustermans ca. 1639 (via Wikimedia) By Naomi Francey, Education Support Officer In a previous Astronotes I was explaining how all our rooms at Armagh Planetarium are named after famous Astronomers. ... Born in Pisa, Italy as one of seven children, he accomplished a great deal during his lifetime. ... NASA named one of their probes after Galileo and, like Galileo, it made many original discoveries. ...

... PUBLIC LECTURE - APRIL 12, 2016 . New Discoveries in the Outer Solar System: Ceres, Pluto and Planet X . ... Dr. Green will talk about "New Discoveries in the Outer Solar System: Ceres, Pluto, and Planet X". ... Beginning in 1992 planetary astronomers began to find Pluto like objects beyond the orbit of Neptune showing us that Pluto was a member of an entirely new family of objects we now call the Kuiper Belt. ... Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton, Inc., ...

One of the main purposes of the Department is preparation of highly skilled specialists in the fields of astrophysics, astrometry and space physics. ... Annualy 2-7 graduates of the Department become post-graduates. ... Among over 500 Department graduates there are ~30 Doctors of Science, 130 Candidates of Sciences, 2 Member-Correspondent of Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) and 1 of Ukrainian one, 4 Ukraine State Prize laureates, Directors of science and industrial institutes. ...

... Pre-university education . ... Samara region . SSAU History . SSAU roadmap . ... Samara State Aerospace University improved its position in the third annual ranking of higher education institutions in Russia. ... Besides Samara State Aerospace University entered the top twenty of the national higher education institutions, as their graduates are in demand by employers. ... Samara State Medical University also rose from the 57th to the 49th place in the ranking of higher education institutions. ...

A team of U.S. and German astrophysicists have made the first ever detection of X-rays coming from a comet. ... Following the initial detection, the team reported repeated X-ray emissions from the comet over the next 24 hours. ... One preliminary theory is that X-ray emission from the Sun was absorbed by a cloud of gaseous water molecules surrounding the nucleus of the comet, and then were re-emitted by the molecules in a process physicists call "fluorescence." ... Comets . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Sky this Month . ... Star Atlas . ... stars . ... The Sky This Week: April 1 - 10 . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Why do some stars appear to flash a variety of different colors when you look at them through a telescope? ... So, Earthт??s atmosphere will bend some colors from especially bright stars more so than others, which makes the source look like itт??s flashing colors. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

... Table of Contents - Subject Index - Author Index - Search . ... Hands-On Universe: A Global Program for Education and Public Outreach in Astronomy . M. Bo?r, H. Pack, A.-L. Melchior, C. Pennypaker, M. Isaac, T. Ebisuzaki, and S. Faye . ... Hands-On TAROT: Intercontinental Use of the TAROT for Education and Public Outreach . M. Bo?r, C. Thiebaut, G. Buchholtz, A.-L. Melchior, C. Pennypaker, M. Isaac, and T. Ebisuzaki . ... Using the Net for Education and Outreach in Astronomy . ...

... Steven L. Smith . NASA International Space Station Program Liaison to the European Space Agency . ... SPECIAL HONORS: NASA Distinguished Service Medals (two), NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal, NASA Space Flight Medal, NASA Exceptional Service Medal, IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award and IBM Outstanding Community Service Award. ... NASA EXPERIENCE: Smith is a veteran of four space flights covering 16 million miles and seven space walks totaling 49 hours and 25 minutes. ... DECEMBER 2013 ...

Image credit: Michael Nolan, Arecibo Observatory. These radar images of near-Earth asteroid 2001 SN263 were obtained on 2008 Feb 12 and 13. ... Image from Feb 12 . ... First near-Earth triple asteroid discovered by Arecibo Observatory . ... was discovered this week by astronomers at the sensitive radar telescope at Cornell University?s Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. ... For example, Arecibo has discovered more than half of the near-Earth binary asteroid systems discovered since 1999. ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... History . Brief History of Rocket and Space Technology . ... Flights Chronology . ... Project History . ISS Russian Segment . Steps of ISS Assembly . Spaceflights Chronology . Chronology of Extravehicular Activity . ISS 45/46 . ... Rocket Space Complexes . ... Launches Chronology . ... Automatic Space Systems . ... HISTORY . ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

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09/1986: Visiting Astronomer, Sofia, Rogzen Observatory, Bulgaria . ... 04/1996: Visiting Astronomer, N.Copernicus Astronomical Center Poland . 02/1998: Visiting Astronomer, N.Copernicus Astronomical Center, Poland . 09/1998: Visiting Astronomer, N.Copernicus Astronomical Center, Poland, Paris-Meudon Observatory, France . 05/1999: Visiting Astronomer, Beijing Astronomical Observatory, China . 10/2000: Visiting Astronomer, Beijing Astronomical Observatory, China . ...

The small solids. Asteroids or the small planetes . ... The comets. ... Ceneca the Young.Procuring about the nature.63 y. The comet is a celestial body of a great size, but a rare one... transparent. Sometimes there seen a core and the medium forms a kind of a tail, beard or dishevelled looks. ... The core is an ice body - conglomeration of frosted gas and dust. ... The comet state is variable: ones have the con tails, others the dust tails, and the third have both. ... Meteors and meteorites. ...

The Doppler shift is the effect of sound increasing or decreasing in pitch as an object moves towards or away from you. ... Light works the same way, except light is shifted to redder colours when an object is moving away, and to blue colours when an object is travelling towards us. ... Almost every object he observed had its light stretched to redder colours, indicating essentially everything in the Universe was moving away from us. ... So the Hubble constant tells us how old the Universe is. ...

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Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the updates and links web pages. Discovered independently by Lick Observatory Supernova Search (USA) and Koichi Itagaki (Japan). ... 2009/10/11.44 . 17.2 . ... Joseph Brimacombe . ...

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