... The Once and Future Stars of Andromeda . ... The big, beautiful Andromeda Galaxy, aka M31, is a spiral galaxy a mere 2.5 million light-years away. ... Pictured above as it appears at the Paleaku Peace Gardens Sanctuary in Kona, Hawaii, USA, a meticulously planned garden spanning about 30 meters provides a relatively accurate map of our Milky Way Galaxy. ... Also known as NGC 104, it roams the halo of our Milky Way Galaxy along with some 200 other globular star clusters. ... The Seagull Nebula . ...

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... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2006 December 7 . The Outskirts of M77 . ... Explanation: Face-on spiral galaxy M77 lies a mere 60 million light-years away toward the aquatic constellation Cetus . ... Including the fainter outskirts, the galaxy's diameter is well over 100 thousand light-years at M77's estimated distance, making it larger than our own spiral Milky Way . ...

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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... Monthly Sky Notes . December . ... Would anyone turn down a good firework show in December? ... The Geminids meteor shower should then emerge in all its glory in the east in the constellation GeminiтАЩs patch of sky on the evening of the 13 th and early morning of the 14 th of December, with the last shooting stars visible up until the 18 th December and approximately one meteor per hour on display at that stage. ...

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From: TerryMosel@aol.com Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 14:26:30 EST Subject: Public Lecture, Dublin, + + + Hi all, Public lecture, in association with the Radio Science symposium on 'Wireless Networking'. ... The ISS Space Shuttle are currently visible in the early evening skies over Ireland. ... Clear Skies, Terry Moseley From: TerryMosel@aol.com Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 20:10:20 EST Subject: ISS Shuttle Double! ... Good luck, Terry Moseley . Last Revised: 2002 December 3rd . ...

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... Ближайшие семинары . Прошедшие семинары . ... Положение о семинаре . БЛИЖАЙШИЕ СЕМИНАРЫ . 15 марта 2016 г (вторник) . В.Н. Руденко (ГАИШ МГУ, ИЯИ РАН) . ... 04 февраля 2016 г (четверг) . О. Вайсберг (ИКИ РАН) . ... 28 января 2016 г (четверг) . Л.В. Ксанфомалити (ИКИ РАН) . ...

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... Articles | ... Forums . ... 230 deg . 49 deg . ... 130 deg . ... More Info . ... 210 deg . ... 168 deg . ... 249 deg . ... 195 deg . ... 271 deg . ... 110 deg . ... 338 deg . ... July 15 . 247 deg . ... 224 deg . ... 340 deg . ... July Phoenicids (PHE) . ... August 10 . 341 deg . ... 339 deg . ... 307 deg . ... 334 deg . ... 335 deg . ... 286 deg . ... 327 deg . ... 262 deg . ... 102 deg . ... 153 deg . ... 117 deg . ... December 2 . ... 123 deg . ... 100 deg . ... www.astronomy.net . ...

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Discover the cosmos! ... December 6, 1999 . M83: The Southern Pinwheel Galaxy from VLT . ... Explanation: M83 is one of the closest and brightest spiral galaxies on the sky. Visible with binoculars in the constellation of Hydra , majestic spiral arms have prompted its nickname as the Southern Pinwheel. Although discovered 250 years ago, only in this century was it appreciated that M83 was not a gas cloud but a barred spiral galaxy much like our own Milky Way Galaxy . ... About APOD > . ...

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XMM-Newton Science Analysis System . ... Meta Index / Home Page Further enhancements may be necessary in the light of in-flight experience, eg. location of the source within the camera field-of-view, to avoid CCD boundaries) . the nearest-neighbour distance threshold may need to be a function of source brightness, to alleviate problems with multiple detection of bright sources (this depends on the performance of the source detection software) . XMM-Newton SOC/SSC -- 2005-08-16 ...

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In autumn 1994, two groups of astronomers announced that they had discovered Cepheid variable stars in a distant cluster of galaxies. ... As the term suggests, variable stars change in brightness over time. ... Variable stars are an ideal way to get high-school students doing real science, with real data, from the real sky. ... a sky chart to find the stars . ... Students can use the nearby stars to estimate the magnitude of Delta. ... Locate the star Delta in Cepheus and estimate its brightness . ...

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... Julian Cribb, CSIRO National Awareness , ph 02 6276 6244 (bus), 02 6286 6022 (h), mobile 0418 639 245 . ... Dr. Lister Staveley-Smith , CSIRO Australia Telescope National Facility . phone: 02 9372 4271 (bh) or 02 9871 1307 (ah), www-homepage ) . ... Prof. Ron Ekers , Director, CSIRO Australia Telescope National Facility . ... and CSIRO Australia Telescope National Facility . ... phone: 02 6216 7220) . ... Helen Sim (hsim@atnf.csiro.au) --- Phone: +61 (0) 2 9372 4251, Fax: +61 (0)2 9372 4310 . ...

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... Science Users Information Future Facilities and Development E-ELT jump to navigation jump to content . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... In December 2012 ESO Council fully approved the E-ELT Programme ( more , more , even more , still more ). ... In December 2014 ESO Council approved the construction of the E-ELT in two phases, and authorised spending on Phase 1 . ... 15 Jan 2012] Announcement of the E-ELT Workshop "Shaping E-ELT Science and Instrumentation" , 25 February 01 March 2013 . ...

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Difficult times ahead of the Arecibo Observatory. Its budget will be reduced by $8 millions and its future is in jeopardy unless new funding sources can be identified . ... This important scientific contribution could come to an end in 2011, as the closing of this facility, operated by Cornell University in New York under a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation (NSF), has been proposed by a review panel. ...

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A Christmas Carol Featuring Ghosts · Past · Present · Future Eric Torrence 1/9 December 2004 The Ghost of Christmas Past 7 Preliminary Analyses Presented Very impressive showing, broad physics interests 14 AWG readers, 21 RC members,.. ... Eric Torrence 3/9 December 2004 Ghost of Christmas (near) Future We are trying to get two Moriond Tau talks (one EW, one QCD) Publications of Tau04 results would be a natural reason to argue for these talks CWR must start no later than Feb. 11th! ...

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Subaru Telescope is an 8.2m telescope on top of Maunakea, Hawaii. The telescope has suites of state-of-art instruments which cover almost entire wavelength range in optical to mid-infrared and various spectral resolutions. We will briefly introduce some scientific highlights using Subaru Telescope to show its capabilities. Recently a new prime focus optical imager Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) started its science operations. ...

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... The Galactic low-mass X-ray binary GS 2023+338 was discovered during the burst on May 22, 1989 with the Japanise satellite Ginga (aka Galaxy). The flux reached 17 crabs (this unit of flux measurement is an bright X-ray source, Crab Nebula) at 10-35 keV. ... No other radio telescope worldwide carried out multi-frequency measurements. ... Upon 14 days the radio flux fell below the detection level at the RATAN-600 in relation to the decrease of the X-ray flux. ...

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. A Hubble Space Telescope image shows the Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxy Arp 220, about 250 million light-years away in the constellation Serpens. The image shows the dust-obscured starlight from hundreds of star clusters in a small region of the galaxy about 5,000 light-years across. At the center of the image are two bright knots, where researchers detected magnetic fields. NASA, ESA, and C. Wilson (McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada)

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National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... Robert L. Curbeam, Jr., ... Curbeam served as a spacecraft communicator (CAPCOM) responsible for relaying all voice communication between Mission Control and crews aboard the Space Shuttle and International Space Station, CAPCOM Branch Chief, and Payloads Group Lead, responsible for representing the crew office in the design, training and operation of on orbit experiments, and Safety Branch Chief for the astronaut office. ... DECEMBER 2007 ...

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Find Similar Abstracts (with default settings below ) . ... Translate Abstract . ... Bispectrum speckle interferometry and future long-baseline interferometry of the carbon star IRC+10216 . ... 2003SPIE.4838.1055B We present near-infrared (JHK) bispectrum speckle-interferometry monitoring of IRC+10216 obtained with the SAO 6m telescope. The present speckle observations covering baselines up to 6m provide important complementary informations for future long-baseline interferometry. ...

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... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... When Venus is on the far side of the Sun, we see the entire near side lit by the Sun. ... When it is on the near side of the Sun, it shows a beautiful thin crescent, because it is between us and the Sun and we see the mostly unlit dark half. ... To see this for yourself, draw a circle one centimeter across, then, next to it, draw a circle 6 centimeters across. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

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