... 2010 February 24 . Astronaut Installs Panoramic Space Window . Credit: ISS Expedition 22 Crew , Shuttle Endeavour STS-130 Crew , NASA . Explanation: This space job was almost complete. Floating just below the International Space Station , astronaut Nicholas Patrick put some finishing touches on the newly installed cupola space windows last week. ... Pictured, Patrick floats near the outermost of seven windows on the new cupola of the just-installed Tranquility module . ... About APOD | ...

This is the homepage of Andrew Fruchter, an astronomer on the staff of the Space Telescope Science Institute . ... Here you can look at an HST images of the optical counterparts of gamma-ray bursts and their host galaxies. ... Therefore, substantial information on the fine scale structure of objects can be obtained by offsetting the pointing of the telescope between exposures and then combining these "dithered" exposures into a single image. ...

A Newly Active Volcano On Jupiters Io . ... Credit: University of Arizona , JPL , NASA Explanation: Would a volcano plume discovered in January above Jupiter's Moon Io still be active months later? ... The original plume , above the Tvashtar Catena volcanic area, was not even visible. A picture taken in January of the area surrounding the Tvashtar Catena eruption is shown above in enhanced color, with a new picture taken in August shown in the inset. ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...

... January 6, 1996 . Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy M32 . ... Explanation: Being the largest galaxy around can sometimes make you popular. ... M31 , the Andromeda galaxy, is the largest galaxy in our Local Group of galaxies - even our tremendous Milky Way Galaxy is smaller. ... M32 is a dwarf elliptical galaxy . Elliptical galaxies have little or no measurable gas or dust - they are composed completely of stars and typically appear more red than spiral galaxies . ... About APOD | ...

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... Posts tagged ?incompleteness? ... Comment . ... The notions of missing data are overall different between two communities. ... Astronomers?I?m not sure how they think but my impression so far is that a missing value in one attribute/variable from a object/observation/informant, all other attributes related to that object become useless because that object is not considered in scientific data analysis or model evaluation process. ... 2 Comments . ... Entries RSS . ... Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS)...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... 2011 saw 472 Irish primary schools showcase excellence in science and maths. ... The Discover Primary Science and Maths programme recognises the achievements of primary school children and teachers in the application of science and maths.€а Schools registered on the Discover Primary Science and Maths programme can apply for an Award of Science and Maths Excellence after they have met certain criteria for science and maths related activities. ...

... Professor Mark Bailey completed work with the former PDRA Vacheslav Emel'yanenko on the capture of Halley-type comets from the long-period cometary flux. He also completed a paper with Ph.D. student Scott Manley on collision probabilities between small solar system bodies, and together with PDRA David Asher and visiting research fellow Vacheslav Emel'yanenko provided the explanation for the unexpected outburst of Leonid fireballs on the morning of 1998 November 17. ...

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... Complete content for online Mercury is available to ASP members and institutional subscribers . ... You can retrieve the latest issue of Mercury here . ... The 2012 Transit of Venus , Paul Deans . Only six Venus transits have ever been observed; the one in 2012 will be the 7th. ... STEM at the College and University Level , Michael G. Gibbs . ... Astronomy in the News . ... Editorial, Paul Deans . ... Armchair Astrophysics, Christopher Wanjek . ... ASP Award Winners . ... Sky Sights, Paul Deans . ...

The process of determining the number and characteristics of sources in astronomical images is so fundamental to a large range of astronomical problems that it is perhaps surprising that no standard procedure has ever been defined that has well understood properties with a high degree of statistical rigour on completeness and reliability. ... In this analysis we present results from testing such algorithms as implemented in the SExtractor, Selavy (Duchamp), and sfind tools on simulated data. ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... Jeffrey N. Williams (COLONEL, U.S. ARMY, RETIRED) . ... Williams has served in the Extra-Vehicular Activity (EVA), Space Station, and Soyuz Branches of the Astronaut Office, led the development of a space shuttle cockpit upgrade, and completed temporary assignments at Marshall Space Flight Center supporting the test and evaluation of the International Space Station Laboratory Module and at NASA Headquarters in support of legislative affairs. ...

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... Комментариев нет 22 августа 2010, 13:58 Blogger , English , Астрономия . ... Neptune will finally complete its first full orbit of the sun since it was discovered in 1846a approximately one year from now, according to NASA estimates. ... Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-21 . ...

... Moon . ... What can astronomers tell us about the different colors on the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa? ... We can use the colors of Europa s surface to tell us about the chemical compounds that make up the surface and subsurface of the jovian moon. Even before the first spacecraft made a close visit to Europa, astronomers on Earth used telescopes to study the moon and were able to use a technique called spectroscopy to determine that Europa s surface is composed mostly of water ice. ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... Pulsars . ... Stars ? ... The array was designed to detect compact radio sources such as these by virtue of the fact that they would scintillate (twinkle) when observed from the Earth through the interplanetary medium ? ... One of Antony Hewish?s research students, Jocelyn Bell, was set the task of operating the telescope and inspecting the daily charts for the kind deflections in the trace which occurred when a scintillating source passed over the array. ...

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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 . ...