... 2010 October 25 . Water Ice Detected Beneath Moon's Surface . ... LCROSS , LRO , NASA . ... Pictured above from LRO, areas in false-color blue indicate the presence of soil relatively rich in hydrogen , which is thought likely bound to sub-surface water ice. ... How deep beneath the surface the ice crystals permeate is still unknown, as well as how difficult it would be to mine the crystals and purify them into drinking water . ... About APOD | ... NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices . ...

... Ancient Greeks understood it quite well, and they considered astronomy not only as science, but also as art, with its Muse - Urania. ... Pushkin . ... Vulcano Island . ... Vulcano Workshop . ... Jim Beall Tree, Washington . ... Julia Tree, Pushkin . ... Tyumen, St.Peter and Pavel church . ... Binary Star . Binary System of X-ray Pulsar . Disk Accretion onto Magnetized Neutron Star . ... Discovery of X-ray stars . ... X-ray stages of binary evolution and Non X-ray stages of binary evolution . ...

... ST-ECF . ABOUT ST-ECF . ... After an initial agreement between NASA and ESA in 1977 and following Hubble's more than twenty years in space and 110,000 orbits of the Earth, the aim of this conference is to celebrate the huge contributions made by the Hubble observatory to our knowledge and understanding of the Universe. ... David Southwood . ... Robert O'Connell . ... Robert O'Dell . ... Questions and information: HST3@stecf.org . ... Maintained by HST 3 Webmaster <HST3@stecf.org> . ...

Astronomy Discussion Forums . ... Back To Basics . ... Post Message | ... Posted by Harvey on October 9, 2002 05:36:27 UTC . ... Or is it back to obfuscation? - doctordick - October 9, 2002 - 15:44 UTC . A number is a very specific thing - harvey1 - October 9, 2002 - 16:41 UTC . ... Exactly - harvey1 - October 10, 2002 - 18:43 UTC . ... www.astronomy.net . ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

Thanks to numerous ground and space-based surveys, we are now aware of over 1800 planets orbiting other stars, with another nearly 5000 candidates from the Kepler Mission awaiting confirmation. ... The answer to this question lies in the study of young planets and their formation environments. In this talk I will show how high-precision time series data from space telescopes is beginning to illuminate the conditions surrounding planet formation and the star-disk connection. ...

... 7.1 Introduction to media types . ... 7.3 Recognized media types . 7.3.1 Media groups One of the most important features of style sheets is that they specify how a document is to be presented on different media: on the screen, on paper, with a speech synthesizer, with a braille device, etc. Certain CSS properties are only designed for certain media (e.g., the 'cue-before' property for aural user agents). ... For example, the 'font-size' property is useful both for screen and print media. ...

... A hundred years later, a handful of Tunguska-sized asteroids have been spotted by telescopes, but most remain unseen. The asteroid designated 2008 TC3 , which made the news on October 6th before colliding with the Earth on October 7th was too small to constitute a part of the "Earth impact hazard". ... 2008 TC3, for example, finally exploded in the atmosphere above Sudan . ... Wednesday, 8 October 2008 01:15 . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... October 2, 1999 . Phi Persei: Double Star . ... Based on recent results , this artist's vision of the double star Phi Persei , 720 light years away, shows a bright, rapidly rotating massive star surrounded by a disk of gas. A small companion star orbits 100 million miles away. ... Ten million years ago the small companion was actually the most massive star in the system and because of its greater mass evolved into a giant star more quickly. ... About APOD > . ...

... LCROSS , LRO , NASA Explanation: Is there enough water on the moon to sustain future astronauts? The question has important implications if humanity hopes to use the Moon as a future outpost. Last year , to help find out, scientists crashed the moon-orbiting LCROSS spacecraft into a permanently shadowed crater near the Moon's South Pole. ... Publications with keywords: Moon - water - water-ice - crater . Publications with words: Moon - water - water-ice - crater . ...

Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the updates and links web pages. Discovered independently by Lick Observatory Supernova Search (USA) and Koichi Itagaki (Japan). ... 2009/10/11.44 . 17.2 . ... Joseph Brimacombe . ...

... Its optical telescopes – the Europe's largest telescope of the mirror diameter 6 m BTA (Big Telescope Azimuthal) Medium-Size telescope of the mirror diameter 1 m ( Zeiss-1000 ) and the small telescope of the mirror diameter 0.6 m (Zeiss-600) – are at the altitude 2100 m above sea level 17 km away from the settlement Nizhnij Arkhyz. ... Nizhnij Arkhyz . SAO staff members live in the settlement Nizhnij Arkhyz at a distance of 25 km to the southward of stanitsa Zelenchukskaya. ...

Next: Release of 12 February Up: Old Releases Previous: Release of 02 July Contents . ... Also, there are some two head (tape), 256 Mbps that are not yet approved but will be. 26 Feb 2001 RCW. ... 9 April 2001 RCW. ... Fix formatting of the two head version of HEAD_POS section in VEX file and relaxed constraints on patching for MkIV 19 Sept 2001 Huib . ... 4 Oct 2001 RCW. ... 5 Oct 2001 Huib . ... 9 Oct 2001 RCW/Huib . Took out warnings on 40 and 66 ips on MkIV receorders 10 Oct 2001 Huib . ...

... 4 "Magnetic stars" of the multilateral cooperation of the Academies of Sciences of Socialist countries on the problem "Physics and Evolution of stars", organized by the Astronomical Council and the SAO of the USSR AS , was held in the SAO, from October, 12 to October, 17 , 1987. ... The most important problems: origin and evolution of magnetic fields and chemical anomalies, interaction of magnetic fields and stellar matter are being analyzed. ... Investigation of CP stars with anomalous He lines; 2)...

... region (region-7.9) [xmmsas_20070708_1801-7.1.0] . ... The basic source region shape is a circle. There are three ways to assign the radius, specified via the parameter radiusstyle : . radiusstyle =`userfixed'. ... In this choice, the task uses for the source region radius that value which encloses energyfraction of the total flux under the Point Spread Function (PSF). ... At present the effect of this reprojection on the source region contours is ignored and circles are retained. ...

... Questions: . ... Find some information on the design and potential of the Advanced Gas Turbine. ... Find some information on the frequency and amount of oil spills which occur in the world's oceans in a given year. ... We don't care how many you get correct. However, of the questions there, explain which one had an answer that most surprised you and how should that answer affect our future policies? ... Find some information about the history of Dam failures in the US and Canada since 1900. ...

... VLBA+Italy survey (to contact the schedulers) (closed) E.Fomalont and J.Romney: To provide some review of problems happened with fringe search in VSOP project. (closed) M.Popov : To compose a tentative time -table of possible observations , and inform the observatories on the specific time slots that might be requested for fringe search program in October-November. (continued) C. Gwinn: to try to compile FAKERAT software on modern platforms. (closed) GBT and ...

... The material in "From Stargazers to Starships" meets several important requirements of the national standards. Pages cited below are from National Science Education Standards National Academy Press, Washington 1995. ... For example: the sections on astronomy not only describe calendars and sundials (including their construction), but also the astronomy of the ancient Greeks, including two different ways in which ancient Greeks estimated the distance to the Moon. ...

The HST Data Handbook describes datasets produced by each instrument aboard the Hubble Space Telescope. ... Version 3.0 (October 1997) of the handbook adopts a modular organization that lends itself to frequent updates. Individual chapters may be updated at any time as new information becomes available, and the revision date column in the tables below will identify the most recent version. ... Updates to several chapters are now available via the PDF Download page. ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science and Technical Meetings > Conferences 1997 > windvar . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... Data Handling and Products . ... ESO Data . ... Science in Garching . ... If you have not submitted the abstract of your invited/contributed paper, please return it very quickly so that the abstract booklet can be completed. ... If you are presenting a poster paper, please remember to bring one transparency indicating the most important result of your poster...

... Registration form . ... Institute of Applied Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences invites you to participate in the all-Russian scientific conference "Asteroid-Comet Hazard-2005" which will be held 3-7 October 2005 in St. Petersburg. ... Batrakov Yu.V. Institute of Applied Astronomy of RAS, St.Petersburg . ... Institute of Applied Astronomy of RAS . ... Finkelstein A.M. Institute of Applied Astronomy of RAS, St.Petersburg . ... Institute of Applied Astronomy of RAS, St.Petersburg . ...