Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Moon . ... Space Flight . Human Exploration . ... Posted on April 7, 2016 | 2 Comments Armstrong and Aldrin were the first two people on the Moon when Apollo 11 landed there in July 1969. ... Continue Reading.. Posted on December 3, 2015 | ... No Comments If at one time or another any have considered NASAтАЩs human space exploration program to have been rather uneventful, unambitious, or even stagnant since the days of the Apollo Moon [ ] . ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . A Halo Around the Moon . ... 7.12.2008 . ... Credit: Juan Carlos Casado Explanation: Have you ever seen a halo around the Moon? This fairly common sight occurs when high thin clouds containing millions of tiny ice crystals cover much of the sky. ... A similar Sun Halo may be visible during the day. ... 2009 . ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ... Publications with keywords: Moon - halo . Publications with words: Moon - halo . ...

Mercury Fall 2007 Table of Contents . ... The day that Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the Moon, 20 July 1969, was a big one for two reasons: humans were landing on the Moon, and I got to stay up late. ... There was a time in the summer and fall of 1969 when it was almost impossible to pick up a magazine or newspaper without seeing something about the astronauts who had landed on the moon. ...

... Bringing news from across the Universe to children all around the world . ... Looking up at the night sky, it's hard to believe that stars don't live forever. ... But in reality, like humans, stars are born, they live, they grow old and eventually die. How they die, though, depends on their mass. ... Astronomer's believed that we'd pretty much figured out the exact life-cycle of stars with around the same mass as our Sun, which is a small star. ...

... 2011 November 21 . Around the World in 90 Minutes . Video Credit: Expedition 28 29 Crews, ISAL , NASA's JSC ; . ... Many wonders of the land and sky are visible in the eighteen sequences, including red aurora above green aurora , lights from many major cities, and stars in the background. ... Please help create a useful companion guide for this moving video by identifying landmarks, cities, countries, weather phenomena, and even background constellations that appear. ... About APOD | ...

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... Observatory tours are usually conducted by the Librarian, who in 2000 showed approximately 500 individuals from 19 different countries around the Observatory. These figures highlight the success of the Armagh Observatory's `open door' policy to attract visits by interested members of the public, groups and societies. ... In addition to tours, the Observatory also organized several public lectures, and hosted a number of special events during 2000. ...

... The JSC History Portal offers access to the JSC History Collection , other JSC history materials, and hundreds of NASA history web pages. ... Johnson Space Center was established in 1961, and from the early Gemini, Apollo and Skylab projects to today's Space Shuttle and International Space Station Programs, the Center continues to lead NASA's efforts in human space exploration. ... JSC Space Shuttle Program . ... This link provides access to the NASA JSC History Portal Document Search page. ...

Participants about project . ... makes the world a welcoming place. ... we see it shared by those who love it. ... us more aware of our own community when we shared it . with the schools around the world. ... pleased my students chose to share the feelings of . ... Our town cannot grow much as it is like an island with . other communities growning around it. ... diverse, with many Mexican people recently adding to . ... Our town is old and the new City Building looked a bit . ... city. ...

... HUBBLE UNCOVERS DUST DISK AROUND A MASSIVE BLACK HOLE . Resembling a gigantic hubcap in space, a 3,700 light-year-diameter dust disk encircles a 300 million solar-mass black hole in the center of the elliptical galaxy NGC 7052. ... Because the jets in NGC 7052 are not perpendicular to the disk, it may indicate that the black hole and the dust disk in NGC 7052 do not have a common origin. ... NGC 7052 is located in the constellation of Vulpecula, 191 million light-years from Earth. ...

... Sometimes we did, but her hands flew from her side Wild eyed, crazy Mary Down a long dirt road Past the parson's place An old blue car we used to race Little country store With a sign tacked to the side Said ' No L-o-i-t-e-r-i-n-g allowed' Underneath that sign always congregated quite a crowd Take a bottle , drink it down, pass it around Take a bottle , drink it down, pass it around Take a bottle , ... Crazy (see above for lyrics!) ...

... More on 51 Peg: . The discovery of a Jupiter--mass planet in orbit around the solar--type star 51Peg has been reported by Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz (Geneva Observatory) on October 6th at the 9th Cambridge workshop on "cool stars, stellar systems, and the sun" held at Florence (Italy). ... Recall that the measurements of radial velocity only yield v sin i which in turn gives us M sin i. For most values of i, sin i will be greater than 0.5 and this gives a mass estimate of 0.5 Jupiter masses. ...

. Map of Nizhnij Arkhyz . Living building #1 and #2 with general shops on a ground floor; . 3,4 -- living buildings; . 5 -- school; . 6 -- sport hall and swimming pull; . 7 -- service building, . 8 -- SAO admimistration, library, laboratories; . 9 -- hotel and coffee, . 10 -- informatics departament

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... Resembling a gigantic hubcap in space, a 3,700 light-year-diameter dust disk encircles a 300 million solar-mass black hole in the center of the elliptical galaxy NGC 7052. ... Because the front end of the disk eclipses more stars than the back, it appears darker. ... Despite its size, the disk is 100 times less massive than the black hole. ... The bright spot in the center of the disk is the combined light of stars that have crowded around the black hole due to its strong gravitational pull. ...

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... Bad Astronomy . ... On Thursday, February 15th 2001 (and replayed on March 19), the Fox TV network aired a program called ``Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?'', hosted by X-Files actor Mitch Pileggi. ... Dust around the lander . ... However, it appeals to our common sense: when the sky is black here on Earth, we see stars. ... Bad: The program claims that when the top half of the lander took off from the Moon to bring the astronauts back into orbit, there was no flame from the rocket. ...

Space vehicle "Apollo-11". ... The main aim is to carry the cosmonauts on the Moon, there are also pilotless flights and the spacemen's flights around the Earth, the "Apollo" modification were used to carry the cosmonauts on the orbit station 'Skylab' and joined with the Soviet spaceship "Sojus-19" on the programme APAS . ... The first was N. Armstrong in "Apollo-11", E. Aldrin (1969) ( см. D. Irvin on the Moon ). The maximum time of the being in the Moon is 75 hours ("Apollo-17", 1972). ...

... ASKAP commissioning progress . by the ASKAP team (CASS) . This is an early ASKAP image of the calibrator PKS 0407-658 from the most recent commissioning run. ... We are not far off forming all 36 beams to start wide-field imaging, where each field would be around 30 square degrees. The data were calibrated using PKS 1934-638 instead of self-calibration. Credit: ASKAP Engineering and Science Commissioning (ACES) Team; image made by Maxim Voronkov (CASS) . ... today * ATNF | ... ASKAP | ...

12feb07 Measuring the SEFD around 1100 Mhz . ... bandpass filter low frequency falloff around 1130 Mhz . ... A 500 Mhz bandpass centered on 1100 Mhz (via the spectrum analyzer) showed a 6 db difference between 1100 Mhz and the noise floor at 1000 Mhz. ... The interim correlator was used with 25 Mhz bands centered at: 1040, 1060, 1080, and 1100 Mhz. ... 1040 Mhz cfr trking src(.gif) There is probably not very much sky signal getting into this band so it looks better than it should. ...