... 17.03.2016 . ... Explanation: Sporting a surprisingly bright , lovely green coma Comet 252P/Linear poses next to the Large Magellanic Cloud in this southern skyscape. ... In fact, it is one of two comets that will make remarkably close approaches in the next few days as a much fainter Comet Pan-STARRS (P/2016 BA14) comes within 3.5 million kilometers (9 times the Earth-Moon distance) on March 22. ... Publications with keywords: comet - LMC . ... Infrared Portrait of the Large Magellanic Cloud . ...

NASA Press Release Text - June 24, 1996 GALILEO READY FOR CLOSE FLYBY OF JUPITER'S BIGGEST MOON Now residing in orbit around Jupiter, NASA's Galileo spacecraft is primed for its first close flyby of Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede, at 2:29 a.m. EDT on June 27, 1996. ... In the days just before and after the Ganymede flyby, Galileo's other studies will include a search for auroral activity on Jupiter's nightside and observations of other Jovian moons: Io, Europa and Callisto. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Comets and Asteroids . ... Space Flight . ... November . ... By admin September 26, 2012 Posted in: Comets and Asteroids . Comet ISON is revealed.( ... Comet ISON.'s orbit and position on 25 September 2012.( ... The comet€а will reach its closest point to the Sun, perihelion in late November 2013.Then it is expected to whizz around the Sun a mere 1.1 million km above its surface making Comet ISON one of that class of comets called€а Sungrazers. ...

ALBUM: Debut Artist: Bjork 1993 Elektra Records Produced by Nellie Hooper and Bjork ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ @ SONG : Human Behaviour ( Bjork Gudmundsdottir /Nellie Hooper) If you ever get close to a human And human behaviour Be ready to get confused There's definitely no logic To human behaviour But yet so irristible There's no map To human behaviour They're terribly ...

... This year's eclipse is unique in duration. ... Although, at the present time, there are 6 solar observatories belonging to leading space agencies in orbit around the Earth, the eclipse of 22 July, 2009, will only be seen by two of them: the Russian CORONAS-PHOTON satellite equipped with TESIS telescopes and Japan's HINODE satellite fitted with an XRT space telescope. ... TESIS will be the first of the two devices (and the very first on Earth) to witness the solar eclipse. ...

... What's New? Bad Astronomy . ... August 24, 2005 . ... That says Mars will be closer to the Earth on August 27th than it has in 5000 years, and it may be 2267 until it gets this big again? ... Mars won't be closest in August, it won't be as big as the full Moon, and it was actually closer back in 2003. ... It's a near-exact duplicate of an email sent around the internets back in 2003, August 2003 , to be exact, when Mars really did have a close apparition with the Earth. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

From: TerryMosel aol.com Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 20:03:21 EDT Subject: Amazing conjunction, ISS Hi all, Have you seen the lovely conjunction of Venus, Mercury Saturn yet? ... Saturn will be getting harder to see, as it's now even closer to the Sun than the Venus-Mercury pair, 1 deg 32' away to the lower right (P.A. = 225 deg) The very closest approach of Venus Mercury takes place at 16.45 BST on 27 June; that's still daylight here of course. ... 17.00 BST: sep = 3' 56", P.A. = 220 deg. ... Good Luck! ...

... Bringing news from across the Universe to children all around the world . ... This Saturday is Valentine s Day and love is in the air for couples around the world...and across the Universe. This picture shows a pair of stars that spend day after day dancing around each other, slowly growing closer. ... The close pair are both white dwarf stars which are tiny and extremely dense stars leftover when a star like the Sun comes to the end of its life. ...

... SSAU History . ... Students from the University of Stuttgart will take part in the English-speaking summer school on engine building and will attend a course on the Theory and Design of Aircraft Engines during three weeks in Samara. ... The Aircraft Engines Design is a unique course for German undergraduate students. ... The course studied in the Samara University will be accepted into the program for German students, and each Bachelor will receive three European academic credit units for it. ...

... the shutters, loads . ... We have shutter/receiver protection to protect the receivers when we transmit with one of our transmitters (sband,430, hf). ... this is also controlled by the 430 ch load/antenna switch. closed always wins . ... shutter - open,close, or query the receiver/radar shutters . ... When the 430 dome is being used, we want to close all shutters, but leave the 430 dome receiver under control of the ch load/antenna switch (above the oscilloscopes in receiver room). ... shutter close...

EMERGENCY ENCLOSURE CLOSING . ... In general, emergency systems/procedures have been put in place for electrical power failure and/or for enclosure controller/ motor drive failure. ... In the event the emergency generator fails to start or generate power, use procedure 3.0 for motor drive/controller failure except, you will need to plug the 2 winches into the portable Kubota generator which is stored in the garage. ... AT EACH WINCH, PULL BACK THE HUB DRIVE TO RELEASE THE CABLE DRUM. ...

... First of all, you can obtain a map of the final coordinates of your objects and guide stars by using the command: PLOT/OPTOPUS [table] [label] [EW_flag] , . where [table] is the table output by REFRACTION/OPTOPUS . ... In order to avoid object misidentifications at a later stage, and for a cross identification between object identifiers and hole numbers, it is recommended to bring a printout of the table output created by the command REFRACTION/OPTOPUS to the telescope. ...

... On February 9, 1986, the most famous comet of all time will make the closest approach to the Sun in its current 76-year trip around our star. ... Why is the comet named Halley ? Is Comet Halley on target for its rendezvous with the inner solar system? ... These comets then move around the solar system in huge elongated orbits, which means they spend most of their time far away from the Sun. ... The coma and tail of a comet, indicated on a photograph of Halley's Comet taken on May 8, 1910. ...

... ASTRO LINKS . Here you will find thousands of links divided by categories. ... Please report any broken links to webmaster@wro.org . ... Amateur Clubs Home Pages . Literally Thousands of clubs listed from AROUND the WORLD!! Amateur Clubs around Ohio . ... Astronomy History . Find out the "How's and Why's" in Astronomy . ... We are not the only observatory on the web (just the best) . ... Miscellaneous Astro Links . ... These pages are just a little bit on the technical side. ...

... Please find below the final programme of the workshop. Each regular talk will be 20 minutes long plus another 10 minutes for questions and discussion at the end. On Friday there will be a pizza lunch combined with an informal discussion session kindly facilitated by John Dickey and Felix J. Lockman. ... Coffee . ... Magnetic Fields in the Thick Disk of the Milky Way . ... Highly Ionized Plasma in High-Velocity Clouds . ... Limits on the Hot Diffuse Galactic Halo . ... John Dickey . ...

Astrophysics Group: USS Drongo Briefing To: Captain Howard From: Astrophysics Group CC: Ships Computer Date: 05/06/02 Re: Initial Conclusions from Astrophysical Observations Summary We have landed at one of the poles of Ziggy. ... Ziggy's moon is in an orbit that carries it over the poles. ... We are at one of the poles of Ziggy. ... At our current location, the sun will be above the horizon for half a ziggy year, and then below the horizon for half a ziggy year, just like at the poles of the Earth. ...

... MAO main . ... July Issue: Global Sensor Networks Will Change Human Consciousness . ... Тема: July Issue: Global Sensor Networks Will Change Human Consciousness . ... July 2014 Issue Highlights . ... Scientific American Volume 311, Issue 1 . ... Extra Sensory Perception How a world filled with sensors will change the way we see, hear, think and live . ... Board Categories MAO main - Info - MAO - news - Flame Technical - Technical Support(Forum)(Техподдержка(Форум)) . ...

So the evidence for Dark Matter is fairly overwhelming. ... Theory: if the Universe is closed then all the luminous matter seen in galaxies contributes only 0.5% of the mass required to eventually halt the expansion . ... This means that galaxies are surrounded by dark matter halos which trapped baryonic gas (e.g. hydrogen) and turned it into stars. ... WIMPS - weakly interacting massive particles created in the extremely early universe . ... Theory 99% of the Universe is Dark Matter . ...

... Galileo Probe . The Galileo spacecraft was designed to study Jupiter's atmosphere, satellites, and surrounding magnetosphere for two years. ... From there, Galileo will spend more than five years traveling to Jupiter, where it will become the first spacecraft to make direct measurements from an instrumented probe within Jupiter's atmosphere. ... This image, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the predicted site at which the Galileo Probe will enter Jupiter's atmosphere on December 7, 1995. ...

... The European HST Archive has been moved to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre ( ESAC ), Spain, where most of ESA's Space Science Archives are located and operated from. ... The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), jointly operated by ESA and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) was, until the end of 2010, the European HST science facility, supporting the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...