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... Public . ... Science Users Information > Science Archive Facility > First public release of data products from the VISTA public surveys . ... Public Surveys . ... Science Data Products Forum . ... The ESO Science Archive Facility now provides community access to the first data products from the VISTA public survey projects. ... The data products from the first VISTA public release can be queried for and retrieved at this URL: . ... http://www.eso.org/sci/observing/phase3/data_releases.html . ...

A team using CSIRO 's Parkes radio telescope has just found the thousandth pulsar known to science. ... This is thanks to the power of a new instrument on the telescope, the multibeam system , which has slashed the time it takes to scan the sky," said co-leader of the pulsar team, CSIRO's Dr Dick Manchester . ... There are many different types of pulsar, and we have only a few examples of some types," said Dr Manchester. ... E-mail: rmanches@atnf.csiro.au . ... e-mail: hsim@atnf.csiro.au . ...

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE . ... the International Space Station . The Russian Soyuz TMA-4 manned transport spacecraft docked to the International Space Station (ISS) Orbital Complex. ... P. Semenov, Technical Director of Russian Manned Space Programs, General Designer of S.P. Korolev RSC Energia, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences), as well as representatives of the Russian enterprises and organizations participating in the implementation of the ISS program. ...

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... 2014 January 6 . Three CubeSats Released . Image Credit: Expedition 38 Crew , NASA . Explanation: Cubes are orbiting the Earth. ... Pictured above , three CubeSats were released from the International Space Station (ISS) last November by the arm of the Japan ese Kibo Laboratory module. ... Depending on the exact height of their release, CubeSats will re-enter the Earth's atmosphere on the time scale of months to years. ... About APOD | ... NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices . ...

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... UA SCIENTIST & TEAM DISCOVER SURFACE FEATURES COVER TITAN (Science contacts: Peter H. Smith, (602) 621-2725; Mark Lemmon, (602) 621-1485; UA Lunar and Planetary Laboratory) . Scientists for the first time have made images of the surface of Saturn 's giant, haze-shrouded moon, Titan. ... About three weeks before Cassini's first flyby of Titan, the spacecraft is to release the European Space Agency's Huygens Probe to parachute to Titan's surface. ... Upper left: hemisphere facing Saturn. ...

... These Frontier Fields will combine the power of HST with the natural gravitational telescopes of high-magnification clusters of galaxies. ... We are soliciting gravitational lensing maps for the last four Hubble Frontier Fields clusters (MACSJ0717.5+3745, MACSJ1149.5+2223, AbellS1063, and Abell 370) based upon the exceptionally deep HST FF imaging and other new ancillary data. ... For the full set of proposal instructions and requirements, see the FY16 Frontier Fields Lensing Map Call for Proposals....

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 6.01.2014 . ... Credit Copyright: Expedition 38 Crew , NASA Explanation: Cubes are orbiting the Earth. ... Pictured above , three CubeSats were released from the International Space Station (ISS) last November by the arm of the Japan ese Kibo Laboratory module. ... Depending on the exact height of their release, CubeSats will re-enter the Earth's atmosphere on the time scale of months to years. ... Publications with keywords: ISS . Publications with words: ISS . ...

Scientists Discover Surface Features on Titan . ... Scientists for the first time have made images of the surface of Saturn 's giant, haze-shrouded moon, Titan. ... Peter H. Smith of the University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory and his team took the images with the Hubble Space Telescope during 14 observing runs between Oct. ... About three weeks before Cassini's first flyby of Titan, the spacecraft is to release the European Space Agency's Huygens Probe to parachute to Titan's surface. ...

Image credit: Michael Nolan, Arecibo Observatory. These radar images of near-Earth asteroid 2001 SN263 were obtained on 2008 Feb 12 and 13. ... Image from Feb 12 . ... First near-Earth triple asteroid discovered by Arecibo Observatory . ... was discovered this week by astronomers at the sensitive radar telescope at Cornell University?s Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. ... For example, Arecibo has discovered more than half of the near-Earth binary asteroid systems discovered since 1999. ...

... We present the first edition of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Quasar Catalog. The catalog consists of the 3814 objects (3000 discovered by the SDSS) in the initial SDSS public data release that have at least one emission line with a full width at half-maximum larger than 1000 km s-1, luminosities brighter than Mi*=-23, and highly reliable redshifts. ... Based on observations obtained with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which is owned and operated by the Astrophysical Research Consortium. ...

... Donate to Support Science Literacy . ... 2016 Annual Awards . The ASP is accepting nominations for the organizationтАЩs national annual awards which recognize special achievements in astronomy research, technology, education, and public outreach. ... Shop the AstroShop . ... The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) is accepting nominations for the organizationтАЩs national annual awards which recognize special achievements in astronomy research, technology, education, and public outreach.. ...

... On 4 April 2005, INTAS, the International Association for the promotion of cooperation with scientists from the New Independent States(NIS) of the former Soviet Union, launched the first stage of its Open Call for Research Projects Proposals 2005-2006. With an indicative budget of ?12 million, the INTAS Open Call 2005-2006 encompasses basic and applied research with no thematic orgeographical restrictions, but excluding market-oriented technology development. ...

... Feeding the Monster: Gas Caught in its Death Spiral into a Massive Black Hole . ... Stromlo Professor Mike Dopita have used the Hubble Space Telescope to discover how a massive Black Hole in a nearby galaxy feeds itself. ... Earlier Hubble Telescope data obtained by another team member, Professor Holland Ford of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, had found a disk of gas rushing around the Black Hole at a speed of 500 kilometers a second. ...

... The highest redshift X-ray jet discovered . by Chandra in GB 1428+4217 at z = 4.72 . X-ray jet discovered by Chandra . ... Science Papers on ADS . ... Chandra Press Release . The paper describing the details nas been published in ApJ and it is available also on astro-ph Feb. ... The jet paper published in ApJ Letters is available on astro-ph Oct. ... ApJ Letters paper available on astro-ph: Paper 2003 Feb. ... ApJ papers available on astro-ph: Paper 1, 2002 and Paper 2, 2007 . ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... Frank Borman . ... A romance with airplanes that began when he was 15 years old, took Frank Borman to the Air Force and then to NASA. ... Frank Borman retired from the air Force in 1970, but is well remembered as a part of this nation's history, a pioneer in the exploration of space and a veteran of both the Gemini 7, 1965 Space Orbital Rendezvous with Gemini 6 and the first manned lunar orbital mission, Apollo 8, in 1968. ...

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