Discover the cosmos! ... 2005 December 5 . Fountains Discovered on Saturn's Enceladus . Credit: Cassini Imaging Team , SSI , JPL , ESA , NASA . Explanation: Fountains of ice shoot out from Saturn's moon Enceladus. Clear discovery images of the fountains were made using observations from the robot Cassini spacecraft currently orbiting Saturn . During a recent pass, Cassini was programmed to look back toward the Sun where Enceladus would appear as a thin crescent . ... About APOD | ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 28.02.1996 . ... Credit: J. Schoemer ( NASM ) Explanation: Tremendous explosions near the center of our Galaxy were discovered just this past December and are being announced today by a paper in Nature and a press conference at NASA . Bursts like these have never been seen before, and so the exact cause is unknown and will likely be the source of astronomical speculations and observations for years to come. ... Publications with keywords: Galactic Center . ...

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... CURRENT ASPECTS OF REMOTE SENSING OF EARTH FROM SPACE . ... For developing of the scientific concept and the programs of global monitoring of the Earth from space and pursuant to the disposal of Presidium of Russian Academy of Sciences # 10310-717 (August 11, 2004 ) Space Research Institute RAS and Center of Space Observations of the Russian Space Agency during November 16-18, 2004 conduct the Second Opened All-Russia conference ' Current Aspects of Remote ...

... ESO Science Newsletter December 2015 . 17 Dec 2015 . ... This newsletter is a summary of recent ESO Science Announcement items. Follow the links or visit ESO Science Announcements to read more. ... Read more . ... The allocation of ESO telescope time for Period 97 (1 April БЂ“ 30 September 2016) is expected to be emailed in the week beginning 21 December 2015. ... ESO Workshop, ESO Headquarters, Garching, Germany, 27 June БЂ“ 1 July, 2016 . ... Joint ESO, ALMA, NAOJ, NRAO Workshop. ...

The choice of which type of electricity is called "positive" and which "negative" was made around 1750 by Ben Franklin, early American scientist and man of many talents. Franklin studied static electricity, produced by rubbing glass, amber, sulfur etc. with fur or dry cloth. ... Later, when electric batteries were discovered, scientists naturally assigned the direction of the flow of current to be from (+) to (-). ... Exploration" home page (index) Glossary . Official GSFC Home Page .. ...

... Recent milestones in the Webb project include final delivery of all four science instruments to the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). ... The instruments have become part of the Integrated Science Instrument Module (ISIM) and are undergoing a series of cryogenic vacuum testing there. ... Once the ISIM tests at Goddard are completed, the next testing step involving the instruments is to integrate the ISIM with the mirror components and test the Optical Telescope Element and Integrated Science (OTIS...

. Contact Webmaster for web page errors, corrections, ommisions, and/or additions. This page last updated: June 28, 2006 - JMD . This page last checked: November 7, 2004 - JMD . Current Status . History . Offsite Information . Reference . Spicam is currently available for use at APO. Sloan digital sky survey camera (uses same detector): The Astronomical Journal, 116:3040-3081, 1998 December .

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... Up: Distributed Data Systems, Data Mining . ... The EROS (Exp?rience de Recherche d'Objets Sombres) experiment is a French collaboration between astronomers and particle physicists to search for the baryonic dark matter of the Galactic Halo by gravitational microlensing. ... Cross-identification with stellar objects in other surveys (e.g. ISOGAL, DENIS, see Omont et al. 1999) will also certainly become another use of EROS data in the next few years. ... EROS collaboration) 1998, A&A, 337, L17 . ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . This year's annual Geminid meteor shower is active during the period December 7 - 17, with the peak of activity occurring during the night of December 13th/14th. The Geminid shower is currently one of the best of the major annual meteor displays, usually having a high number of relatively bright, medium-speed (130,000 km per hour) shooting stars. ... Last Revised: 2009 December 7th . ...

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... This is a partial list of the Extragalactic Novae discovered in 1998. Current Novae can be found on the main page . Nova M31 1998 4 , IAUC 7028 discovered 1998/08/26 by Abastumani Observatory . ... Nova M31 1998 3 , IAUC 7023 discovered 1998/09/30 by Lick Observatory Supernova Search . ... Nova M31 1998 2 , IAUC 7015 discovered 1998/09/15 by Lick Observatory Supernova Search . ... Nova M31 1998 , IAUC 6981 discovered 1998/07/23 by Lick Observatory Supernova Search . ...

Next: Modes of Operation Up: CCD Scientific Performance Previous: Field of View . Thermal excitation of charge carriers from the valence to the conduction band creates a dark current signal which may vary with position in the array, and also has temporal shot noise variation. ... In a device devoid of localized defects which give rise to individual dark current spikes , most dark current arises from electrons generated at interface states at the surface. ...

. The following is a list of the currently installed versions of the CIMA. The links refer to the CIMA version log page . Normal: version 3.0 - this is the next version of CIMA which has become the new default version --- NOTE that this version uses a new syntax for command file observations, uses new configuration files and needs source files with full velocity information . Old: version 2.2 - this is the old version of CIMA You can return to the main CIMA page by clicking here .

... Astrophysics Group . ... COAST . COAST Current Status . ... COAST File Archive . ... Fringes and Power Spectra from COAST . ... The first stellar fringes were obtained in June 1991. ... We obtained sufficient data to reconstruct the first infrared image from an aperture synthesis array. ... The North telescope of the COAST array was moved to a new foundation, further to the North, making the longest baseline 67 metres. ... A fifth telescope was sited on the Southwest arm of the COAST array. ...

... Sun images . ... Sun flares . ... Active areas . December : 2009 . ... No sunspots and sunspot groups can be currently observed on the Sun's surface . No H-alpha plages without spots can be currently observed on the Sun's surface . Last updated: December 10, 2009 00:00 UT . ... 1953-2016 Laboratory of X-ray astronomy of the Sun, LPI RAS, Russia . ... 7(499)132-65-96, Fax: +7(499)132-65-97 . ...

Current scientific project and their status . General description of our projects. The scientific problematics. The goals of the projects. Galaxy formation and evolution in cosmic voids . RFBR project 14-02-00520) . 19 December 2014 . Study of galaxies in nearby voids: cosmological perspective . RFBR project 11-02-00261) . ... RFBR project 06-02-16617) . 15 January 2008 . One of the important Laboratory directions is creation new BCG samples. ...

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