Space Agencies and Centres . Space research . ... BNSC - British National Space Centre . ... CNES - Centre National d' tudes Spatiales, France . ... NASDA - National Space Development Agency (Earth Observation Center), Japan . ... NASA Spacelink , includes information about the Mir station . ... John F. Kennedy Astronomy Observatory , contains rich list of astronomy sites . ... LIFE Magazine Space Links . ... Copyright RSSI 1993-1997, Space Research Institute RAS Network Information Centre ...

Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 349, 1397­1418 (2004) doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.07619.x The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey ­ XII. The spectroscopic catalogue and luminosity function S. M. Croom,1 R. J. Smith,2 B. J. Boyle,1 T. Shanks,3 L. Miller,4 P. J. Outram3 and N. S. Loaring4,5 1 2 3 4 5 Anglo-Australian Observatory, PO Box 296, Epping, NSW 1710, Australia Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University, Twelve Quays House, Egerton Wharf, Birkenhead CH41 1LD Department of Physics, University of

... Spacecraft that will search for planetary systems around 40 million stars and observe the largest explosions in the universe have been chosen as the next two missions in NASA's medium-class Explorer (MIDEX) program. ... The first mission, to be launched in 2003, is the Swift Gamma Ray Burst Explorer, a three-telescope space observatory for studying gamma ray bursts. ... During its three-year mission, Swift will also survey the sky for new black holes and other sources of cosmic gamma rays. ...

Introduction to PLASMA ASTROPHYSICS (Selected 10 lectures) Boris V. Somov Astronomical Institute and Faculty of Physics Moscow State University Pushino-na-Oke, 2008 Contents Ab out These Lectures 1 Particles and Fields: Exact Self-Consistent Description 1.1 Liouville's theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.1.1 Continuity in phase space . . . . . . . . . 1.1.2 The character of particle interactions 1.1.3 The Lorentz force, gravity . . . . . . . . . 1.1.4 Collisional friction . . . . . . . . . . . .