... A Delta Rocket Launches . ... Shapley 1: An Annular Planetary Nebula . ... At that time, the center condenses into a white dwarf while the outer atmospheric layers are expelled into space and appear as a planetary nebula. ... Apollo 14 Deploys ALSEP . ... After the lunar module of Apollo 14 set down on the Moon, Astronauts Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell deployed the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) and collected samples of lunar material. ... Descent To Jupiter . ... December 2011 ....

... December 14, 1995 . An Atlas Centaur Rocket Launches . Credit: NASA , LeRC . Explanation: Atlas Centaur rockets have launched over 75 successful unmanned missions. ... Of recent scientific interest was the Atlas launched SOHO mission which will continually observe the Sun . Atlas rockets are manufactured by Lockheed Martin Co. ... About APOD | ... NASA Technical Rep.: ... A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC . ...

... Galileo Probe . The Galileo spacecraft was designed to study Jupiter's atmosphere, satellites, and surrounding magnetosphere for two years. ... From there, Galileo will spend more than five years traveling to Jupiter, where it will become the first spacecraft to make direct measurements from an instrumented probe within Jupiter's atmosphere. ... This image, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the predicted site at which the Galileo Probe will enter Jupiter's atmosphere on December 7, 1995. ...

... Galileo Probe . The Galileo spacecraft was designed to study Jupiter's atmosphere, satellites, and surrounding magnetosphere for two years. ... From there, Galileo will spend more than five years traveling to Jupiter, where it will become the first spacecraft to make direct measurements from an instrumented probe within Jupiter's atmosphere. ... This image, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the predicted site at which the Galileo Probe will enter Jupiter's atmosphere on December 7, 1995. ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... News . ... S.P. Korolev RSC Energia is the prime manned space flight organization in the Russian rocket and space industry, responsible for the development of the ISS Russian Segment, its integration into the Space Station and its operation, including development and operation of its principal modules (Zvezda, Pirs, Poisk, Rassvet, etc.), manufacturing, launch and operation of Soyuz TMA and Progress M spacecraft. ...

Whoever looked up at the sky at dusk on Monday, 1st December was fortunate enough to see one of the most beautiful night-sky views of the year тАУ a massing of planetary bodies in the south-west. The gas giant planet, Jupiter, was nearly in conjunction with bright, тАШevening starтАЩ, Venus, and the Moon. ... The images show, respectively, the telescope and Venus emerging from behind the Moon, after the end of the occultation, while Jupiter is above and to the right. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... December . ... Posted on December 16, 2013 | 1 Comment Mission X: Train Like an Astronaut is an international educational challenge focusing on fitness and nutrition encouraging students to ?train like an astronaut.? ... Continue Reading.. ... No Comments Our Image of the Month was released to celebrate the 22nd anniversary of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and is a striking panoramic look at a stellar nursery which is [ ] . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... galaxies . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... WISE launch rescheduled for December 14 . ... The launch of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission is now rescheduled for December 14, from Vandenberg Air Force Base in central California, with a launch window of 9:09 a.m. to 9:23 a.m. EST. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... Carl E. Walz (Colonel, USAF, Ret.) NASA ASTRONAUT (FORMER) . ... NASA EXPERIENCE: Selected by NASA in January 1990, Walz is a veteran of four space flights, and has logged a total of 231 days in space. He was a mission specialist on STS-51 (1993), was the Orbiter flight engineer (MS-2) on STS-65 (1994), was a mission specialist on STS-79 (1996), and served 196 days in space as flight engineer (FE-1) on ISS Expedition-Four (2001-2002). ...

... Future seminars . ... The p roject " Venus Express " : scientific goals , structure and mission scenario " . ... Talks of IKI collaborators, first place winners in the institute competition of scientific publications: . ... Prof. G.S. Bisnovaty-Kogan (IKI) . ... Dr. Christoph Winkler (Astrophysics Mission Division Research & Scientific Support Department ESA , Netherlands) . ... Prof. Fumiaki Nagase (Center for Planning and Information System, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan) . ...

... HST Overview . ... CONTENTS: -Update on STIS Situation -Calibration Close-out Highlights -Doppler Correction Errors -Cross-dispersion Plate Scale Corrections -CALSTIS V2.17 Release Notes -Support for STIS Imaging Data in Multidrizzle -Recently published Instrument Science Reports (ISRs) -Fix for CALHRS flux error +----------------------------------------------------------+ Update on STIS Situation We provide an update on the current status of STIS operations and future plans for the instrument. ...

... Home Education Workshops at Adorama Astro Imaging Workshop: Planetary Astro Imaging with a DSLR ? December 7, 2014 . ... Astro Answers . ... Beyond New York City . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... Presented by€а Adorama€а For the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

... Sun images . Magnetic storms online . Sun flares . Geomagnetic activity forecast . ... December : 2015 . ... No geomagnetic storms were observed for the past 3 hours No geomagnetic storms were observed for the past 24 hours . ... Mean planetary A index = 25 . ... Last updated: December 10, 2015 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 . ...

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Magnetic field experiment on Vega - 1 and 2 spacecraft. ... Two spacecrafts, Vega-1 and Vega-2 have been launched aboard Proton rockets from Baykonour on 15 and 21 December 1984, respectively. ... During the cruise phase from Earth to Venus both Vega-1 and Vega-2 spacecrafts had one-axis orientation i.e. Bx of magnetometer was directed to the Sun, By and Bz axes were rotated around Bx-axis. ... Spacecraft position data are presented in HGI and SE systems. ... Vega-1 magnetic data for 1984 . ...

In this presentation I will recap what we know about the dwarf planet Pluto its companion moons, including some recent results from the Division of Planetary Sciences October 2014 meeting (Tucson, AZ). Next I will describe NASA s New Horizons mission, launched in January 2006, who has been traveling across the solar system and will reach the Pluto system in July 2015. ... I will end the presentation with the latest news from the New Horizons mission and its plans after the July 2015 Plutoflyby. ...

Gaia local test of General Relativity With Gaia and Solar System Objects Daniel HESTROFFER1, P. DAVID1, A. HEES2, C. LE PONCIN LAFITTE3 1. ... SYRTE/ Observatoire de Paris Gaia, asteroids and orbits -- Gaia -- ESA astrometric space mission has been launched on 2013 December 19th -- is the successor of the pioneering Hipparcos/Tycho (1899-1993; 1997). ... Gaia mission: a few numbers for asteroids Launch date Observing mode Number of asteroids Aver. ... The Nordtvedt effect in the Trojan asteroids. ...

On the front of exoplanet modelling: ! ... Knudson et al.; etc.. ... First applications to our Solar System Planets The standard picture: · · · Internal structure of Jupiter and Saturn based on the three-layer picture Equation of state of Saumon-Chabrier for H/He (semi-analytical) Equations of state for metals ... /SESAME (Los Alamos) (relevant regime P ~ 1 Mbar - 100 Mbar: interpolated between experiments and asymptotic limits in the very high density, fully ionised limit) ...

NATIONAL ASTRONOMY AND IONOSPHERE CENTER . ... Astronomy . ... Visitor Center . ... Planetary Radar . ... A program of delay-Doppler mapping of the Galillean satellites is underway by L. Harcke and colleagues at Stanford University. The surfaces of Europa, Ganymede and Callisto have been imaged in order to determine the surface properties and look for different radar properties of the various terrain types. These maps will be correlated with the Galileo images of the satellites.€а . ...

... Berezhnoi A.A., Klumov B.A., Shevchenko V.V., Fortov V.E. Collision of a comet with Jupiter: Determination of fragment penetration depths from the molecular spectra, JETP Letters, V. 63, No. 6, p. 405-410, 1996 . ... Berezhnoi A.A., Klumov B.A., Shevchenko V.V., Fortov V.E. Shock chemistry in Jovian atmosphere following SL9 impacts, International Conference on the SL9-Jupiter Collision, I-2, July 3-5, 1996, Meudon, France . ... Berezhnoi A.A., Klumov B.A. Lunar ice: Can its origin be determined? ...