An Ancient Universe: How Astronomers Know the Vast Scale of Cosmic Time . ... The Sun is one of hundreds of billions of stars that make up a magnificent grouping of stars we call the Milky Way galaxy. ... The other stars are so far away, however, that even at this speed, light from the next nearest star takes 4.3 years to reach us. ... The Ancient Universe - The Age of the Expanding Universe - The Age of the Oldest Stars - The Age of Light From Distant Galaxies - The Age of the Chemical Elements | ...

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Some common problems in geodesy and astrometry after establishing ICRF Victor V. Popadyov, Centre de geodesie et cartographie (CNIIGAiK) Svetlana A. Tolchel'nikova, GAO Pulkovo Distribution of duties between astrometry and geodesy · Connection between the 2 sciences was established by the plumb-line near Earth surface · Astrometry : ... E. rot., pole motion). ... Radiosources are unobservable from points of geodetic net. ...

... News | ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Engineering education program . ... Facilities . ... ASKAP Home . ... Some 300 engineers and scientists from 15 countries have travelled to Fremantle, Western Australia, to take part in a global overview of the status, progress and way forward for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) in terms of engineering and management. ... For more information on the SKA Engineering Meeting, follow along the conversation on Twitter using #SKAEngCon2014 . ...

In 1985, a group was established at our institute , with the aim of using the technique of lunar occultations in the near IR for high angular resolution. ... The current archive includes several hundreds occultations. ... Observations are carried out almost exclusively in the near IR, by means either of fast InSb photometers such as FIRT and FIRPO , or of Nicmos-based IR cameras which can be read out at high speed in a subarray, such as ARNICA and MAGIC . ... FIRPO . ... Archive . ...

Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XIII ASP Conference Series, Vol. 314, 2004 F. Ochsenbein, M. Al len, and D. Egret, eds. Access to Databases of Atomic and Molecular Data in the VO M.L. Dubernet LERMA, Observatoire de Paris, Section de Meudon 5, Place Jules Janssen 92195 Meudon Cedex France B. Debray Observatoire de Besanёon, 41 bis, avenue de l'Observatoire, BP 1615, c 25010 Besanё n Cedex France co Abstract. ... 2004). ... Discussion Around 20 persons attended the BoF session. ...

January 2004 Starfields. The monthly newsletter of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston. ... 1 January 2004 Newsletter of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston Including the Bond Astronomical Club Established in 1934 In the Interest of Telescope Making & Using January 2004 Newsletter President's Message.. HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERYONE! ... The December meeting of the ATM's of Boston was called to order by our esteemed President Eileen Myers. ... David is the director of Public Relations at CfA. ...

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Schmidt scholarship for young scientists . ... The Schmidt Scholarship Fund was established to award scholarships to support young scientists working in area of superconductivity.The scholarship fund was established as the unsolicited gift of the professors of Physical Institute III, University of Erlangen-Nuernberg Dr. Paul Mueller and Dr. Alexey Ustinov. ... Barkov T.L. Bolginov V.V. Nefyodov Yu.A. Prokofiev. ... Shevchun A.F. Veretennikov A.V. List scholars in the year 2001: . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... astronomers . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... Tycho Brahe (or Tyge Ottesen Brahe) was born in Knutstorp Castle, Scania in Denmark in 1546, which is now part of Sweden. €аHe was born into nobility and many of his ancestors had served on the KingтАЩs advice board or were important public figures in Denmark. ... Tycho had constructed apparatus (funded by his inheritance after his uncleтАЩs death) that allowed him to study the night sky with great precision. ...

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The Russian Parliament will soon consider a bill that would restructure the Russian space program, 35 years after the launch оf Sputnik. ... But the legislation's most striking and controversial feature is a provision that would ban testing and deployment оf space weapons ? including anti-satellite weapons and space-based missile interceptors. ... A draft bill was written by a group of experts within the Moscow Space Club, several of whom now work on space issues with the Russian Parliament. ...

St. Petersburg, Russia, June 27-30, 2011 . ... Program committee . ... The International Academy of Astronautics created a SETI committee in the seventies now established in Permanent Study Group. ... The Committee reserves the right to reject paper or to change form of its presentation. ... The registration fee includes conference materials, coffee breaks, welcome party, transportation and dinner while visit to "Svetloe" observatory, book of abstracts, conference program, volume of Proceedings. ...

... Echoes from RS Pup . ... In fact, RS Pup is a Cepheid type variable star; a class of stars whose brightness is used to estimate distances to nearby galaxies as one of the first steps in establishing the cosmic distance scale. As RS Pup pulsates over a period of about 40 days, its regular changes in brightness are also seen along the nebula delayed in time , effectively a a light echo . ... Publications with keywords: cepheid - distance scale - light echo . ... V838 Mon: Echoes from the Edge . ...

CATALOG OF CONSUMER GOODS . KEY TECHNOLOGIES FOR CONSUMER GOODS PRODUCTION . ... DIVERSIFICATION OF PRODUCTION . PRODUCTION OF CONSUMER GOODS . Having space technologies as our core business, our enterprise has long ago become established as a producer of consumer goods. Since 1970, the enterprise has brought the output of metal utensils (pressure cookers and milk cookers) to a commercial level. ... INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION . ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

... The JSC History Portal offers access to the JSC History Collection , other JSC history materials, and hundreds of NASA history web pages. ... Johnson Space Center was established in 1961, and from the early Gemini, Apollo and Skylab projects to today's Space Shuttle and International Space Station Programs, the Center continues to lead NASA's efforts in human space exploration. ... JSC Space Shuttle Program . ... This link provides access to the NASA JSC History Portal Document Search page. ...