Apollo 17's Moonship . ... Credit Copyright: Apollo 17 , NASA (Image scanned by Kipp Teague) Explanation: Awkward and angular looking, Apollo 17's lunar module Challenger was designed for flight in the vacuum of space. This sharp picture from the command module America , shows Challenger's ascent stage in lunar orbit. ... This spaceship performed gracefully, landing on the moon and returning the Apollo astronauts to the orbiting command module in December of 1972 - but where is Challenger now? ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... 2001 January 6 . Apollo 17's Moonship . ... Explanation: Awkward and angular looking, Apollo 17's lunar module Challenger was designed for flight in the vacuum of space. This sharp picture from the command module America , shows Challenger's ascent stage in lunar orbit. ... This spaceship performed gracefully, landing on the moon and returning the Apollo astronauts to the orbiting command module in December of 1972 - but where is Challenger now? ... About APOD | ...

... Main . ... Software . ... The Fakerat is a software package to help planning of observations with the RadioAstron mission. This version of the software has been designed to match the technical information that appears . in the RadioAstron User's Handbook . Fakerat, version 16, Linux distribution; release on December 27, 2013: . ... fakerat file . fakerat_lib file . readme file . install file . ... package src . Software complex ASL , Windows and Linux distributions. ...

. NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins participates in the second of two spacewalks, which were designed to allow the crew to change out a faulty water pump on the exterior of the space station. Fellow spacewalker Rick Mastracchio appears in the reflection of Hopkins' helmet. NASA

... News . ... Pre-university education . ... Samara region . SSAU History . SSAU roadmap . ... Scientists of Samara University (joined SSAU and of SSU) have designed new materials for accumulator batteries, that will allow us to refuse from the use of a relatively scarce and expensive lithium in favour of a more widespread and cheap metals. ... Calculations of properties for the future substances are made with the use of a software system ToposPro, developed by the scientists of ICTMS. ...

... The material contained in this Handbook is derived from ground tests and design information obtained by the IDT and the engineering team at JPL, and from on-orbit measurements. ... HST Phase II Proposal Instructions , (Version 8.0, 15 December 1995). ... Calibrating Hubble Space Telescope: Post Service Mission (1995).1 . ... The Imaging Performance of the Hubble Space Telescope , Burrows, C. J., et. al., ... The Performance and Calibration of WFPC2 on the Hubble Space Telescope, Holtzman, J., et al....

... System concept SKA1: AA-low . ... Coffee . ... AA Pathfinders: guiding SKA design . AA Science driven technical requirements . ... Science . ... Calibration and imaging . ... SKA1 Science Requirements . ... Discussion . ... Calibration and imaging requirements . ... Redundancy calibration method in phased arrays . ... System concept SKA 1 : AA-low . ... SKA1 AA-low system design considerations . ... Dense Aperture Array Antenna Design for SKA . ... Array antenna designs for the SKA-AA-low . ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Although the comet itself never comes dangerously close to the Earth, the particles of dust that it has shed during its many past passages through perihelion found their way into the Earth's atmosphere, appearing as meteors in the cold December sky. ... Animation 1 . ... An Ursid meteor captured by the Armagh Observatory's NE-facing meteor camera in the early morning of 23rd December. ... Meteor Showers Online . ...

... The SAS task especget has been designed to allow extraction of source+background and background spectra, redistribution matrices, and effective area vectors from an EPIC event list with a single command. especget can be launched from the main xmmselect window, in which case an extraction region size optimization algorithm is also ran, which maximizes the signal-to-noise of the net source spectrum. ... When you are happy with your definition, click the button 1D region in the xmmselect window. ...

Program: RFITS Purpose: Load FITS files from tape into a GIPSY set. ... Keywords: *** AUTO= Try to run in automatice mode [Y]. ... NODATA= Create only set headers [N]. ... Example: USER RFITS ,AUTO=N USER RFITS ,INTAPE=IMPORT USER RFITS ,INFILES=31 USER RFITS ,OUTSET=NGC4214 USER RFITS ,CTYPE1=RA-NCP USER RFITS ,CUNIT1= USER RFITS ,LIMITS1= USER RFITS ,GRID1= USER RFITS ,CTYPE2=DEC-NCP USER RFITS ,CUNIT2= USER RFITS ,LIMITS2= ...

... The damage to NIFS has freed up the RSAA instrumentation team to concentrate on the timely delivery of the Gemini South Adaptic Optics Imager (GSAOI). ... GSAOI is the second instrument that ANU is building for Gemini. ... GSAOI Website: http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/gsaoi/ NIFS Website: http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/nifs/ RSAA Website: http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/ Australian Gemini Project Office Website: http://www.ausgo.unsw.edu.au/ Gemini Public Information Website: http://www.gemini.anu.edu.au/public/ . ...

The Wind spacecraft. ... It was designed to observe the solar wind approaching Earth, from a position near the Lagrangian point L1, and it is part of the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) Initiative . ... The original plan called for "Wind" to approach its final station over two years, undergoing two close encounters with the Moon to boost its speed. ... For additional details and updates, see the home page of the "Wind" mission. Exploration" home page (index) Glossary . ...

User catalogs allow you enter positions for your objects into a file, to save time during an observing run. ... Before diving into the details, here is an example: # default coordinate system and object # (these are the standard defaults, so if you like them you can omit this line) CSys=FK5; Date =2000; RotType= Object ; RotAng=0 # some random objects # Name Pos1 (e.g. RA) Pos2 (e.g. Dec) Options in keyword-value format NGC6543 rot 90 ... Object Data . Defaults . Catalog Options . ...

... The Russian Federation State Program "Physics of Condenced Matter", the "Superconductivity" division , Project code "Generation-2" . ... The multielement josephson structures are known to allow implementation of the unique properties of the Josephson junctions as electromagnetic waves sources with high change rate of generation frequency, working in the millimeter and submillimeter wavelength diapasones. ... Even the optimal type of the junction electrodynamic interconnection isn't chosen. ...

... December 29, 1997 . The Milky Way in Infrared . Credit: The COBE Project , DIRBE , NASA . ... Until the invention of the telescope , nobody really knew what the "Milky Way" was. About 300 years ago telescopes caused a startling revelation: the Milky Way was made of stars . Only 70 years ago, more powerful telescopes brought the further revelation that the Milky Way is only one galaxy among many. Now telescopes in space allow yet deeper understanding. ... About APOD > . ...

Modules | ... Apache HTTP Server Version 2.2 . Apache > HTTP Server > Documentation > Version 2.2 . ... This document describes what a Multi-Processing Module is and how they are used by the Apache HTTP Server. ... Choosing an MPM . MPM Defaults . The Apache HTTP Server is designed to be a powerful and flexible web server that can work on a very wide variety of platforms in a range of different environments. ... At the user level, MPMs appear much like other Apache modules. ... mpm_winnt . ...

An image of the grand design of spiral galaxy M100 obtained with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope resolves individual stars within the majestic spiral arms. ... Hubble has the ability to resolve individual stars in other galaxies and measure accurately the light from very faint stars. This makes space telescope invaluable for identifying a rare class of pulsating stars, called Cepheid Variable stars embedded within M100's spiral arms. ... 617) 495-7062 . Fax: (617) 495-7356 . ...

... ========================================= * Play Information * Advanced engine needed : No, designed for normal 'vanilla' Doom2 New Levels : 1 Episode and Level # : Map 01 Single Player : Yes Cooperative 2-4 Player : Yes (but not really tested) Deathmatch 2-4 Player : Yes (again not tested, 16 starting locations, but it is probably too large for dm) ... Area 2 (Northern Structure) - better architecture linked to the third area by a teleport. ...

... L-Wide . ... Receiver History . ... Available Filters: . ... Use with e.g. filter 5) NOTE 2 1120-1220 3 1230-1470 4 1550-1820 5 1100-1800 6 1360-1470 7 1320 hipass NOTE 8 1180-1280 9 1280 hipass (ext Output unit. ... Consequently, the calibration for data collected using the hipass 1320 and the hipass 1370 filters only will be mis-calibrated (i.e. by using the opposite polarisation calibration data). ... It is now possible to select any bandpass filter that is not in the 1320 hipass band. ...