... Space flight . ... Space camp . Space Hotel . ... The "Hydrospace" program is a unique complex of engineering facilities and is intended for training cosmonauts for their operations in outer space. ... The Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory includes : . ... A mock-up of the "Orlan-M" EVA-suit; . ... Air- and water supply systems complex; . ... The air- and- water supply systems are intended for provision of EVA- suit, diving equipment and diving decompression chamber with air and water. ...

... Field of interest: data analysis and interpretation of X-ray observations of BHC and NS systems, astrophysics of compact objects and related phenomena: X-ray , optical and radio observations , shocks and stellar winds, emission mechanism, the spectral and timing analysis of the X-ray emission from microquasars ( signature of accreting BH), atoll- and Z-sources ( signature of accreting NS), modeling of INTEGRAL images % . ...

LARGE-SCALE CHAINS ON THE SOLAR DISK: BRIEF DESCRIPTION . ... At first the large-scale chains were found on the NRH images at 17 GHz (see a brief description in Chertok and Shibasaki 1997,1998; a comprehensive paper is in preparation now). ... Recently this remarkable feature of the large-scale solar activity has been confirmed also by consideration of the modified mosaic full-disk TRACE EUV images (see July 19,1998 , August 3, 1998 and August 6, 1998 event) . ... 1995, Solar Phys., V. 162. ...

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; . ...

... 2.05.1998 . ... Credit: W. Waller and F. Varosi ( GSFC ), IRAS , SkyView , NASA Explanation: Astronomers have discovered that looking at dust along the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy is a bit like looking into a frothy glass of beer. ... This processed infrared image , based on data from NASA's IRAS satellite , maps the radiation from the edges of galactic dust clouds and reveals the complex distribution. ... Publications with keywords: dust - Milky Way . Publications with words: dust - Milky Way . ...

... 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. ...