Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Earth Satellites . ... Studying the ancient civilizations of the past is not always an easy feat. ... This is done by searching sites from different scales. ... Dr Sarah Parcak from the University of Alabama used images captured by satellite to identify lost pyramids in Egypt as well produce a detailed map of the once lost city of Tanis. ... Egypt from satellite- Parcak and her team has marked over 3000 ancient sites along the banks of the River Nile. ...

... A team of Japanese scientists including Armagh astronomer Dr David Asher have announced the discovery of the second largest known Earth-crossing asteroid. The group is based at the new Japanese Spaceguard Centre at Bisei, west of Osaka. ... The subsequent tracking and orbit determination was assisted by Armagh asteroid expert David Asher, who is currently visiting Japan to help in the setting up of the new Spaceguard Centre funded by the Japanese government. ...

... Donate to Support Science Literacy . ... 2016 Annual Awards . The ASP is accepting nominations for the organizationтАЩs national annual awards which recognize special achievements in astronomy research, technology, education, and public outreach. ... Shop the AstroShop . ... The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) is accepting nominations for the organizationтАЩs national annual awards which recognize special achievements in astronomy research, technology, education, and public outreach.. ...

... Magnetic compass discovered in China . ... Richard Carrington in England observes a violent and rapid eruption near a sunspot; 17 hours later a large magnetic storm begins. ... The electrons hit near the magnetic poles, leading him to propose that the polar aurora is created by electron beams from the Sun. ... Syun-Ichi Akasofu (Japan-US) and Sydney Chapman revive and expand Birkeland's notion of a "polar magnetic storm", now named "magnetospheric substorm." ...

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... 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 archive data is stored in databases that are published online as SkyNodes. ... Loading an entire survey like 2MASS or SDSS into a database involves making decisions about issues like data formats and indices for tables. ... Building a SkyNode Preparing The Data Sky Surveys usually provide data to the public in a form of ASCII or FITS files and their brief descriptions. ... New SkyNodes at SkyQuery.net New, final data releases from great surveys made a list of SkyNodes this year. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . Unusual Hollows Discovered on Planet Mercury . ... 27.03.2012 . ... Credit Copyright: NASA / JHU APL / CIW Explanation: What are those unusual features on planet Mercury? ... The rounded depressions appear different than impact craters and nothing like them has been noted on Earth's Moon or anywhere else in the Solar System . ... March 2012 . ... Publications with keywords: Mercury . Publications with words: Mercury . ... MESSENGER s Last Day on Mercury . ...

... several mechanisms of sound generation by electromagnetic waves, all specific for low temperatures, were disclosed and studied (V.F.Gantmakher and V.T.Dolgopolov; see Sov.Phys.-JETP 30, 78 (1970); . ... it was demonstrated that quantum oscillations of conductivity in bismuth had smaller period near the crystal surface that in the bulk (S.S.Murzin and V.T.Dolgopolov, JETP Lett. 37, 696 (1983); . ... JETP 74, 905 (1992); 76, 714 (1993); 77, 513 (1993); 78, 226 (1994); 82, 951 (1996); JETP Lett. ...

G. I. Olshanski Dobrushin Math Lab, Institute for Information Transmission Problems Moscow, Russia olsh@online.ru Thoma's theorem, quasi­symmetric functions, and the boundary of the graph of zigzag diagrams I will talk about a joint work with Alexander Gnedin. ... Vershik and Kerov also observed that the characters of S are in a 1­1 correspondence with normalized nonnegative multiplicative functionals on the algebra of symmetric functions over the reals. ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . Corporation . OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Anniversaries . ... Important Anniversaries of the Corporation . 2014 . December 26, 2014 - 40th anniversary of the date of launching orbital station Salyut-4. ... January 16, 2014 - 45th anniversary of the date on which the world's first experimental space station comprised of the docked space vehicles Soyuz-4 and Soyuz-5 began to operate. ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... Scientists discover storms in the tropics of Titan . ... Eventually, the storm generated a number of bright but transient clouds over Titan's tropical latitudes, a region where clouds had never been seen and where it was thought they were extremely unlikely to form. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

... Sun's commitment to open systems and quality products means that I can have confidence in running my entire company on their architecture, from technical applications that empower our engineers and scientists to enterprise-wide solutions that keep the business running!' ... Open systems open new possibilities. ... And because Sun systems are already the popular choice of the petroleum industry, software vendors typically develop new applications for our platform first. ...

... Two new LBV stars have been discovered in the Andromeda Galaxy. ... In Figure 1 the spectral energy distributions for six stars are shown: upper row - the newly discovered LBV stars, middle row - two well-known LBV stars Var A-1 and AE And, the lower row - two new B[e]-supergiant stars in Andromeda. ... Infrared spectra of the stars in the Andromeda Galaxy: two classical LBVs Var A-1 and AE And, two new LBVs J004526.62 and J004051.59, and two new B[e]-supergiants J004417.10 and J004444.52. ...

The IAA RAS . ... View details . ... Observatories 'Svetloe' and 'Zelenchukskaya' participate in frequent VLBI-observation sessions organized by the International VLBI Service for Geodesy and Astrometry . ... As part of collaboration with the U. S. Naval observatory in the areas of EOP determination and analysis the USNO uses IAA RAS daily EOP data obtained from SLR and VLBI. ... The IAA RAS and the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales carry out joint DORIS observations on the Badary observatory. ...

... May 3, 1997 . Giant Cluster Bends, Breaks Galaxy Images . ... Explanation : What are those strange blue objects? Many are images of a single, unusual, beaded, blue, ring-like galaxy which just happens to line-up behind a giant cluster of galaxies. ... The distinctive shape of this background galaxy -- which is probably just forming -- has allowed astronomers to deduce that it has separate images at 4, 8, 9 and 10 o'clock, from the center of the cluster. ... About APOD > . ...

... Jay Apt (Ph.D.) . NASA Astronaut (Former) . ... PUBLICATIONS: Dr. Apt shared his images and knowledge in the publication Earth in Orbit : NASA Astronauts Photograph the Earth , written in conjunction with NASA scientists Michael Helfert and Justin Wilkinson and published by the National Geographic Society. ... From 1976 to 1980 he was a staff member of the Center for Earth & Planetary Physics, Harvard University, supporting NASA s Pioneer Venus Mission by making temperature maps of Venus from Mt. ...

... CERN, ESA and ESO Launch "Physics On Stage" [1] . ... Beginning in February 2000, three major European research organisations are organising a unique Europe-wide programme to raise the public awareness of physics and related sciences. Physics on Stage" is launched by the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN), the European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Southern Observatory (ESO), with support from the European Union. ... Physics on Stage" in 22 European Countries . ...

IACETH Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science Road traffic emissions in ff Switzerland: Results from the Results Gubrist tunnel Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science (IACETH), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ZЭrich (ETHZ) UniversitДtstrasse 16 CH-8092 ZЭrich, Switzerland email: Johannes.Staehelin@env.ethz.ch Johannes Staehelin 1. ... Road traffic emission models and Road emission tunnel measurements 3. ... Measurements of the Gubrist tunnel Measurements of 5. ...