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. ...

Please enter the lightcurve file name and period search parameters: . Lightcurve file: . ... Apply the Heliocentric correction and convert all dates to Terrestrial Time (TT)? ... Also, the Heliocentric correction cannot be applied to such lightcurves. ... This period search service is also available at the mirror sites: Mirror 1 , Mirror 2 , Mirror 3 , Mirror 4 . You may download the latest source code distribution and install the period search service at your own web server. ...

... 2005 February 7 . A Telescope Laser Creates an Artificial Star . ... Explanation: What do you get when you combine one of the world's most powerful telescopes with a powerful laser ? An artificial star. ... Therefore, astronomers have developed the ability to create an artificial star where they need it -- with a laser . ... Above, a laser beam shoots out of the Keck II 10-meter telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii in 2002, creating an artificial star. ... About APOD | ...

... A time series analysis is applied to the photometric data obtained by the HST Fine Guidance Sensors (FGS), in order to discover new variable stars and to derive information about microvariability of a large sample of objects. ... Our project is based on a time series analysis of all data sets recorded by the FGSs in order to detect variability among the used Guide Stars. ... Based on ESO 1.5m Danish DFOSC photometry, we have verified variability for three Guide Stars. ...

... Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. ... Baikonur Cosmodrome Yasny launch base Downloads . ... Yasny launch base is located in Orenburg Region, Russia. ... Admin & Hotel Complex including hotels, dining facilities and office premises; . Assembly, Integration and Test Building (AITB) incorporating clean room facilities and fueling station; . ... Yasny launch base AITB is divided into four main areas: Clean room 1 (CR1), Clean room 2 (CR2), Fueling Station and Offloading & Storage Area. ...

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INTMINS . The INTMINS Project is based on: . The Agreement between Space Research Institute (IKI) Russian Academy of Science (Director IKI - A.A.Galeev) and INSPIRE Project (President - W.W.L.Taylor); . ... INTMINS ( INT erball - M ir- INS pire) is an acronym created out of the names of three projects that are working together to investigate the propagation of electromagnetic (EM) waves from electron and plasma beams in the Earth’s ionosphere. ... ENERGIYA is in charge of MIR. ...

NAUTICAL ASTRONOMICAL ALMANAC for 2011-2012 (in Russian-English) . Preface . The Institute of Applied Astronomy of the RAS (IAA RAS) submits the next issue of ?The Nautical Astronomical Almanac for the years 2011-2012? biennial (NAA-2). ... There are some auxiliary tables for interpolation and calculation of altitude and azimuth in NAA-2. Calculations of ephemerides in NAA-2 for 2011-2012 have been executed by the following researchers of Laboratory of Astronomical Yearbooks of IAA RAS: . ...

... We present a new Tcl/Tk based GUI interface tool which features plotting of curve and image data and allows for user input via return of regions or specific cursor positions. ... Curves and Images may then be combined to form a displayed Graph. ... With the development of several GUI based tools for High Energy Astrophysics at the HEASARC, we found a need for a interface tool that supports combined curve plotting and image display in a native Tcl/Tk environment. POW is our answer. ...

GTK+ / Gnome Application Development . ... Overview of a Gnome Source Tree . ... Almost all Gnome applications use the same build system based on the GNU tools automake , autoconf , and libtool . ... Beginning with this chapter and continuing throughout Part 2 of the book, a sample application called GnomeHello will be used to demonstrate Gnome features. ... Together, these tools are used to create a portable shell script called configure ; configure is distributed to users with your software package. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . M2-9: Wings of a Planetary Nebula . ... 23.12.1997 . ... WFPC2 , HST , NASA Explanation: Are stars better appreciated for their art after they die? ... M2-9 , a butterfly planetary nebula 2100 light-years away shown in representative colors, has wings that tell a strange but incomplete tale . ... We . ... U. Based on Astronomy Picture Of the Day . Publications with keywords: planetary nebula - M2-9 . Publications with words: planetary nebula - M2-9 . ...

... Laboratory for Spectroscopy of Molecular Structures . ... News . ... A new article entitled Description of optical properties of cholesteric photonic liquid crystals based on Maxwell equations and Kramers-Kronig relations has appeared in Physical Review E. Congratulations to Grigoriy Ksyonz on his first publication! . 25 th February 2013 . ... 22 nd November 2012 . ... 22 nd February 2012 . 4 th Workshop on Liquid Crystals for Photonics 2012 will take place in Hong Kong December 9-11, 2012. ...

... Binary large object. ... CGI is a popular interface used to create server-based web applications with languages such as Perl or C. A web browser, such as Netscape Navigator. ... Core JavaScript contains a core set of objects, such as Array , Date , and Math , and a core set of language elements such as operators, control structures, and statements. ... A JavaScript primitive value is a member of one of the following types: undefined , null , Boolean , number , or string . ... World Wide Web . ...

... InformChaos Lab took part in CeBIT-2015 (Hannover, Germany) with "Active Ultra Wideband Wireless Networks". ... Lev Kuzmin received Dr.Sci. degree for his thesis "Wireless information transmission over UWB chaotic carrier" from IRE RAS. ... Artem Nikishov received Ph.D. degree from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology for the thesis "Generation of microwave chaotic oscillations in self-oscillating systems with several active elements". ... Our Products page is renewed. ... News | ...

... News . ... Pre-university education . ... Samara University scientists have developed a technology of new-designed photoelectric converters for solar batteries of spacecraft. ... The new solar batteries will be as much effective as their contemporary nanoheterostructured counterparts surface-supported by germanium, and the cost will be five times cheaper. ... Scientists of Samara University (joint SSAU and SSU) developed a technology basis of new silicon-based photoelectric converters (FEC). ...

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? ...

... The column VER FLAG contains the source ag setting. ... EMSRLI ) then else call error( badInput , input PPS file is not the EPIC M-L detect list ) return endif *** make a copy of the input file with prefix flag write (outname,'(a,a)') flag _ ,trim(stringParameter( set )) call copyDataset(stringParameter( set ),outname) *** pointer to file and table outfile = dataSet(outname,MODIFY) outtab = table(outfile, SRCLIST ) *** create new columns ind_sol = addColumn( ...

... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Star Clusters . ... FLAMES . ... 100 Hours of Astronomy . ... IMAX€о 3D Film Hidden Universe . ... This image, the first to be released publicly from VISTA, the worldтАЩs largest survey telescope, shows the spectacular star-forming region known as the Flame Nebula, or NGC 2024, in the constellation of Orion (the Hunter) and its surroundings. ...

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... The use of Astronomy in Research Based Science Education (RBSE), an NSF-funded Teacher Enhancement program, invites applications from middle- and high-school teachers interested in developing a research component for their science classes within the multi-disciplinary context of astronomy. ... 40 Years of Students Tracking Asteroids . ... Asteroids Finally Hit Project CLEA . ... LodeStar is a $32.8 million project dedicated to astronomy-oriented science education and research. ...