... 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. ...

Астрономические новости NASA на русском языке. ... Статьи . Статьи NASA . ... Профессиональная астрономия . ... Статьи NASA на русском . ... Главная Новости Профессиональная астрономия . ... NASA запустит шаттл, чтобы его экипаж провел последний ремонт и техническую модернизацию космического телескопа Hubble . NASA приняло решение о запуске шаттла, экипаж которого проведет последний ремонт и техническую модернизацию находящегося на орбите космического телескопа Hubble, сообщает Спейс-Информ . ...

LBV M33 varC in M33 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova M33varC in M33 . Basic information on this LBV, 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 links web page. ... This object, almost invisible for many years suddenly flared back to life in 2013. An LBV in outburst like this have been known flare into supernovae. ... 15.1 . ... Pedro Re' . ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... архив RSN . ... Ru.Space.News: . Октябрь 1998 . ... Дата: 09 октября 1998 (1998-10-09) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: MGS Aerobraking Update - October 3, 1998 Привет всем! ... October 8, 1998 CONTACT: Don Savage NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC (Phone: 202-358-1547) Bill Steigerwald Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD (Phone: 301-286-5017) Ray Villard Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD (Phone: 410-338-4514) PRESS RELEASE NO.: ...

... A faint, dusty rose of the northern sky, emission nebula IC 410 lies about 12,000 light-years away in the constellation Auriga. The cloud of glowing hydrogen gas is over 100 light-years across, sculpted by stellar winds and radiation from embedded open star cluster NGC 1893. ... These "tadpoles" (seen just below center) are regions of denser, cooler gas, and more slowly resist the erosive radiation from the hot stars. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

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... Two new LBV stars have been discovered in the Andromeda Galaxy. ... In Figure 1 the spectral energy distributions for six stars are shown: upper row - the newly discovered LBV stars, middle row - two well-known LBV stars Var A-1 and AE And, the lower row - two new B[e]-supergiant stars in Andromeda. ... Infrared spectra of the stars in the Andromeda Galaxy: two classical LBVs Var A-1 and AE And, two new LBVs J004526.62 and J004051.59, and two new B[e]-supergiants J004417.10 and J004444.52. ...

Andromeda Nebula. In the XVIII century the great English astronomer William Gershel included this galaxy into the observed stars congestions. ... What is this nebula interested for? It is a great spiral galaxy 1,5 times more than our galaxy - The Milky Way. The Milky Way and Andromeda Nebula are the greatest objects of the local group of galaxies. ... Andromeda Nebula is not the nearest galaxy to ours but its structure looks like the structure of our Galaxy. ...

I/220 The HST Guide Star Catalog (Lasker+ 1992) ================================================================================ The Guide Star Catalog Version 1.1 - An all-sky astrometric and photometric catalog to support the operation of the Hubble Space Telescope The Guide Star Catalog Version 1.0 is described in a series of papers: I. Astronomical foundations and image processing Lasker B.M., Sturch C.R., McLean B.J., Russell J.L., Jenkner H., Shara M.M. =1990AJ.. ... Astrophys. ...

... Во время полета к телескопу Hubble теплозащитный слой космического корабля Atlantis может быть поврежден космическим мусором. ... По словам представителя NASA Джона Шэннона, орбита, по которой вращается над Землей Hubble, "более высокая и более загрязненная", чем орбита Международной космической станции (МКС). Если вероятность серьезного повреждения корабля при полете к МКС составляет 1 к 300, то при полете к Hubble этот показатель почти в два раза выше и равен 1 к 185, передает ИТАР-ТАСС. ...

... 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 ...

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