The nasa.gov site requires that JavaScripts be enabled in your browser. ... Contact NASA . ... The term "astronaut" derives from the Greek words meaning "space sailor," and refers to all who have been launched as crew members aboard NASA spacecraft bound for orbit and beyond. Since the inception of NASA's human space flight program, we have also maintained the term "astronaut" as the title for those selected to join the NASA corps of astronauts who make "space sailing" their career profession. ...

... Paul J. Francis . ... 3mm] Joint appointment with the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics . I present a way of adapting the techniques of Problem Based Learning (PBL) to undergraduate astronomy classes. A fictitious astronomical mystery is invented, and presented to the class. The students, working in small groups, propose observations to crack the mystery. ... Two case studies of this technique are presented and discussed. ... Student Briefing . Running the Exercise . ...

ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . Mopra radio telescope . ... Information & tools for observers . ... Australia Telescope Online Archive (ATOA) . ... ATCA | ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ... The Australia Telescope National Facility Colloquium . ...

Two Worlds, One Sun . ... Examples of the sundial or Marsdial are shown above where the left image, captured near local noon, shows the effect of the Sun high in the martian sky. The right image from the later in the afternoon with the Sun lower in the sky, shows a long shadow cast by the Marsdial's central post. Based on the computer generated grid overlay, students determined the local time in the central inset image to be about 12:17 pm local solar time. ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...

... This year SSAU provides 1429 state-funded places for admission in all kinds and directions of educational programs. ... In addition, SSAU Admission Committee notes the substantial increase in interest from the foreign applicants this year. The number of applications from foreign countries has already surpassed last year's totals - 76 applications. Based on the experience of admission campaigns of previous years, SSAU expects summer 2014 to enrol about 150 foreign students in the university. ...

... Although many of the images are used for teacher-driven activities, students do have the opportunity to work with scientists on original research projects. ... The primary goal is to have teachers experience astronomy research and then to bring the research data into their classrooms via the internet. ... They also learn how to process their data, build a solar telescope to take home to their classrooms, and learn background information from astronomers in each of the three research areas. ...

... at the ISSP RAS. ... MSU student Kostretsova N.B. successfully defended her thesis entitled "Investigation of Thermal and Chemial Expansivity of Ceria-Based Solid Solutions". ... V.A. Kolotygin successfully defended his PhD thesis "Perovskite-Like Oxide and Composite Anode Materials for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells: Functional Properties and Electrochemical Behavior in Contact with Gallate- and Silicate-Based Solid Electrolytes" and was awarded PhD degree in the area of Materials Science and Engineering ....

Nuffield Research Placements offer up to 1000 funded places a year, so that students across the UK can get an insight into the world of scientific research. The Nuffield Foundation offers bursaries to first year post-16 science students in England, Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland, helping students to take part in science based projects, lasting 4-6 weeks, in universities, industry or research institutions during the summer holidays. ... 2012 James Murphy : (pdf) . ... 2007 Emma Riley: (ppt) . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2004 January 10 . Two Worlds, One Sun . ... Explanation: Two Worlds, One Sun , is the legend emblazoned on the Spirit rover's camera calibration target. ... Examples of the sundial or Marsdial are shown above where the left image, captured near local noon, shows the effect of the Sun high in the martian sky . ... About APOD | ...

Next: The exercise level Up: Using Ceilidh as a Student Previous: Using Ceilidh as a Student . ... This menu is identical whether it is obtained from the system level of Ceilidh using the sc command, or by entering Ceilidh with a -c argument. ... Course Summary button) If the teacher remembers to keep the information up-to-date, this command gives you a summary of the timetable for your course, with . ... ceilidh -c pr1 . ... If you entered the course level from the system level using first ceilidh . ...

... Science Users Information > Science Publications > Science Announcements > Revised Acknowledgement for Publications Based on ESO Data . ... Science Archive Facility . ... When findings based on ESO data are published, acknowledgement is requested through a specific statement, to be found here . ... Please add this acknowledgement to your future papers which are based on ESO data, regardless of whether these are new observations using proprietary data or data obtained from the ESO Science Archive . ...

This course is designed to expose incoming students to the Internet and the resources that it contains. ... Clearly, one's global view is intimately shaped by one's own view of the relationship between Man and Nature. ... The point is then to compare these two opposing views against a body of scientific data about the Natural World in order to have students develop a line of moral reasoning about the future which is based on science, not prejudice, superstition or ego. ...

... Up: Science Software Applications . ... It has extensions for creating GUI (Tk) and object-oriented ([incr tcl]) applications. Several Tcl-based tools that may be used for astronomical and other scientific applications have been created and are discussed. One example is ptcl , which registers PGPLOT functions as Tcl commands, creating a powerful interactive plotting package. ... Both programs use the same C code, Tcl commands, and [incr tcl] classes; only the GUIs are different. ...

The AstroGuide . ... AstroGuide Listing . ... See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . SEDS is an independent, student-based organization which promotes the exploration and development of space. SEDS pursues this mission by educating people about the benefits of space, by supporting a network of interested students, by providing an opportunity for members to develop their leadership skills, and inspiring people through our involvement in space-related projects. ... Web . ...

... We describe the construction of convolution kernels that allow one to generate (multiwavelength) images with a common PSF, thus preserving the colors of the astronomical sources. We generate convolution kernels for the cameras of Spitzer, Herschel Space Observatory, Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX), Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), ground-based optical telescopes (Moffat functions and sum of Gaussians), and Gaussian PSFs. ... ADS ] . ADS Citation Query . citations = 125 . ...

Internet Sites | Children's Books | ... Tilt of the Earth - Beautiful site explaning the tilt of the Earth. ... Nine Planets: Planet Data - It might be fun to discover how tilted the other planets are in the Solar System! ... Bill Nye the Science Guy-Episode: Climates - Learn a bit about the Earth's climates and make a model of a weather system. Weather Links for Teachers and Parents - Nick the Weather Dude's list of useful links about weather. ... Philomel Books, 1995. ... Tilt-A-World | ...

Databases (NSDC) of the Natural Planetary Satellites. ... NSDC: Database of astrometric observations of Natural Planetary Satellites . ... They are thoroughly looking for observations in different sources, creating their owndatabases which are then mostly inaccessible to other researchers. ... In the file "content" with explications, the reference is given to the data source as well as the bibliographic reference. ... Data sources. ... Why a specific bibliographic database for Natural satellites? ...

... Level one is just being cute, and gives you a chance to build up supplies. ... Level three is big. ... Play Information * Episode and Level # : Three new levels: E2M1 to E2M3 Single Player : Yes Cooperative 2-4 Player : Yes (not tested) Deathmatch 2-4 Player : Yes (not tested) Difficulty Settings : Yes New Sounds : No New Graphics : No Demos Replaced : None * Construction * Base : From scratch. ... Copyright / Permissions * Authors MAY use this level as a base to build additional levels. ...

Arecibo Observatory . ... NAIC (Arecibo) and NRAO (Green Bank) are organizing the seventh NAIC-NRAO school on single-dish radio astronomy. ... The objective of the school is to provide graduate students, post-docs, and experts in other fields of astronomy with both knowledge and practical experience of the techniques and applications of single-dish radio astronomy. ... Dave Frayer (NRAO) . ... Home Register Program Travel Form Fee Payment Form Flyer Accommodation NRAO Green Bank Arecibo Observatory . ...

... Data bases (DB) and information systems (IS) in the Solar-Terrestrial Physics (STP) have been under development during many years in the following directions: . ... Other samples to handle and to archive data on a CD-ROM are listed. It is shown that growth of Russian language content in Internet lead to the necessity to establish a digital library and to develop its infrastructure: catalogues, search systems, directories and information systems, procedures to access collected data. ...