... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... If you thought our tour of the solar system ended with Neptune and Pluto, you are setting your sights way too low. The planets of the solar system mark time relatively close to the Sun compared to interstellar space. Pluto orbits the Sun at an average distance 40 times that of the Earth, yet the nearest star (the Alpha Centauri system) to the solar system is a mind-numbing 260,000 times the distance of the Earth to the Sun. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

MSU-SK data examples. ... Fire in Moscow Rigion . June-Jule 1999 . A fire at Turkey's biggest oil refinery (Izmit city) . ... 19 August 1999 . Volgograd Region . 16 March 1999 . Moscow Region . Water vapour from Moscow heating stations, . 3 February 1999 . Arkhangelsk Region . Fire in August 1997 . Astrakhan Region . 23/04/1996 . Volgograd . example 1 . ... 1997-2002 SMIS IKI RAN and SRC "PLANETA" Moscow, Russia. ...

... Experimental base . ... The experimental base of the investigations is the topside sounding data obtained on board of the Intercosmos-19 and Cosmos-1809 satellites. ... It carried on board the following scientific payload: satellite ionospheric station for radio sounding of ionosphere (IS-338) and apparatus for the measurements of low-frequency electromagnetic field (VLF-2ME), electric component of high-frequency field (AHF-2K), electron temperature (KM-3), and spectrometer of photoelectrons (SF3-M)...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... News . Science news . ... August 7, 2015 "Rosetta" found a "solar shield" in the tail of Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet . ... August 7, 2015 Astronomers saw how lithium was born during new stellar flares . ... June 1, 2015 Astronomers found "vampire" planet in Andromeda constellation . June 1, 2015 Russian astronomers found "nano" black holes in distant galaxies . ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

... Asteroid . ... In case you didn't hear about it, which you probably didn't: On Jan. 7, an asteroid 1,000 feet across -- nearly three times the current diameter of Marlon Brando -- barely missed the Earth, which is most likely your planet of residence. ... What if this asteroid had hit the Earth? ... As it happens, the American Astronomical Society was holding a conference in Washington AT THE VERY SAME TIME as the asteroid nearly hit the Earth. ...

... Project page . ... Project workpage . Turbulence in the Multiphase Interstellar Medium . Project I | ... Project highlight | ... Towards simulating turbulence with adaptive meshes . ... A. Kritsuk, P. Padoan, M. Norman . ... A. Kritsuk M. Norman . ... A. Kritsuk, M. Norman, P. Padoan . astro-ph/0411626 | ... P. Padoan, A. Kritsuk, M. Norman, A. Nordlund . ... Introducing Enzo, an AMR Cosmology Application . B. O'Shea, G. Bryan, J. Bordner, M. Norman, T. Abel, R. Harkness, A. Kritsuk . ...

... Even future mission archives tend to concentrate more on what can be extracted out of a proposal or a Guaranteed Time Observation log than the actual extracted science out of the data itself. ... A year later the data is then publicly available. An archive researcher has then to go through a mass of data to find what may be useful without any indication as to what the actual observer's results were while using the data except the proposal, which in most cases is very general. ...

... 8 AAAP Meeting The Space Elevator is coming to Princeton! ... Program Chair Michele Novatski has invited Michael J. Laine of the LiftPort Group, Bremerton, WA, (http://liftport.com), who will present "Space Elevator- Countdown to 2018". ... To bring this vision to Winter Observing. ... For me, CCD astronomy is the way to go. life requires commitment and work by the members. ... Swift has successfully begun its mission to study gamma-ray bursts and identify their origins. ...

... J5: Radio and Radar Studies of the Solar System. ... Analogously, the key idea of the USSR (United Solar System Radar) concept would be the thousandfold increase in sensitivity over existing radar astronomy facilities, and besides, only the tenfold increase in transmitting power and collecting areas of transmitting and receiving antennas is necessary for this purpose. ... So, let us try to imagine the scientific impact, which would provide this United Solar System Radar. ... 3)  Asteroid's moons; . ...

THE THING As I was walking down the beach one bright and sunny day I came across a great big box a-floating in the bay I pulled it in and opened it up and much to my surprise I discovered a ! ... I turned around and got right out, running for my life But then I took it home with me and showed it to my wife This is what she hollered at me when I walked in the door Get out of here with that ! ... He said he'd take most any old thing, he was a desperate man, But when I showed him my ! ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center SPACE CENTER ROUNDUP Volume 45 · Number 2 FEBRUARY 2006 New Horizons The first mission to distant planet Pluto is under way after the successful launch of NASA's New Horizons spacecraft from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. ... The Roundup office is in Bldg. ... Jefferson D. Howell Fitness Facility in the Gilruth Center is just one aspect of the new JSC Exploration Wellness Program. ... WELL.. ... Roundup 03 ...

... In typical nightly use, the wide field and planetary telescope and cameras record images of favorably placed objects in the sky, including constellations, bright variable stars, nebulae through narrow-band filters, comets, the Moon, and planets. ... Shared Skies telescopes are available for use by students at the University of Louisville and the University of Southern Queensland, and by teachers and students in middle and high schools mentored by faculty at the universities. ...

Home About Meade Product Information Dealer Locator Gallery Customer Support Investor Relations Dealer Support Employment Opportunities Site Map . Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Autostar New Events & Discoveries . ... This page of Autostar Information gives you ephemerides for the latest astronomical events. ... Once you download the ephemeride file, you can drop the file onto the appropriate Autostar Update button to load the ephemeride into your Autostar. ... product information | ...

... These reports are submitted for engineering work accomplished during bright time and maintenance shutdowns. ... 010531: May 2001 Bright Time Engineering Work Summary . ... 020102: January 2002 Bright Time Engineering Work Summary . 020202: February 2002 Bright Time Engineering Work Summary . ... 030101: January 2003 Bright Time Engineering Work Summary . ... 040101: January 2004 Bright Time Engineering Work Summary . ... 050101: January 2005 Bright Time Engineering Work Summary . ...

... Elena Seifina and Lev Titarchuk "On the nature of the compact object in SS433: observational evidence of X-ray photon index saturation" 2010, Astrophysical. ... A.M. Cherepashchuk, R.A. Sunyaev, E.V. Seifina, E.A. Antokhina, D.I. Kosenko, S.V. Molkov, N.I. Shakura, K.A. Postnov, A.N. Timokhin, I.E. Panchenko "INTEGRAL Observations of SS433: Analysis of Precessional and Orbital X-ray Periodicities" 2007, 6th INTEGRAL Workshop, Eds. S. Grebenev, R.A. Sunyaev, p.411 (astro-ph/0610235) . ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

GCVS Research Group: . Recent publications . Kazarovets E.V., Samus N.N., Durlevich O.V., Kireeva N.N., Pastukhova E.N., The 81st Name-List of Variable Stars. ... Kazarovets E.V., Samus N.N., Durlevich O.V., Kireeva N.N., Pastukhova E.N., The 80th Name-List of Variable Stars. ... Samus N.N., Kazarovets E.V., Kireeva N.N., Pastukhova E.N., Durlevich O.V. General Catalogue of Variable Stars: Current status and new Name-lists Odessa Astronomical Publications, 2010, V. 23, p. 102-105. ...

... Solar Data: f.e. X-ray . Night Sky Live . ... Heavens-Above: Sky chart, Satellites, Iridiums and astronomical objects For Moscow For SAO Baksan . ... ESO-MIDAS page . ... Tutorials for Astronomy . ... Asteroid and Comet Hazard . ... Observable Comets: This page lists links to orbital elements and ephemerides of (potentially) observable comets. ... Leonid page - a lot of information for years Comets and Meteor Showers . The American Meteor Society . ... North American Meteor Network Home Page . ...

... VaST is a software tool for finding variable objects on a series of astronomical images. ... VaST performs object detection and aperture photometry using SExtractor on each image, cross-matches lists of detected stars, performs magnitude calibration with respect to the first (reference) image and constructs a lightcurve for each object. ... VaST FITS image viewer ./pgfv . ... Part I" PZP, vol. ... K. V. Sokolovsky, S. A. Korotkiy; "New Variable Stars Discovered by the NMW Survey" PZP, vol. ...