... 2004 July 3 . Cassini To Venus . Credit: KSC , NASA . Explanation: Saturn Orbiter Cassini with Titan Probe Huygens attached rocketed into early morning skies on October 15, 1997. ... Cassini, a sophisticated robot spacecraft was actually headed toward inner planet Venus , the first way point in its 7 year, 2.2 billion mile interplanetary journey to Saturn. In fact, Cassini swung by Venus during April 1998 and June 1999, Earth in August 1999, and Jupiter in December 2000. ...

... Cassini to Venus . ... Credit: KSC , NASA Explanation: Saturn Orbiter Cassini with Titan Probe Huygens attached rocketed into early morning skies on October 15, 1997. ... In fact, Cassini swung by Venus during April 1998 and June 1999, Earth in August 1999, and Jupiter in December 2000. During each of these "gravity assist" encounters the six ton spacecraft picked up speed, reaching Saturn only three days ago. ... Publications with keywords: cassini spacecraft - launch - Venus - gravity assist . ...

... Armagh Planetarium . ... Universe . ... October . ... Posted on October 21, 2010 | No Comments Galaxies, distant from us in space and time, have been in the news recently. ... No Comments If you love great articles on space and astronomy you are probably already following the Carnival of Space. ... Hello, IтАЩm Colin, welcoming you to Astronotes, the PlanetariumтАЩs official blog. Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

NEWS FEDERATION rus ENCYCLOPEDIA rus HISTORY rus MIR STATION RUSSIAN . ... Cosmonauts. ... Launches . ... Launch Vehicles. ... Space Science . Military Space . ... ISS Main Expedition Five Mission Chronicle: October 2002 . In October, Valery Korzun, Peggy Whitson and Sergey Treshchov greeted their first guest crew onboard Atlantis. The STS-112 crew attached S1 truss section to ISS. ... Launch . ... Russian Census Reached Orbit . ... Cosmodrome Prepares Expedition Launch . ...

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... October 11, 1999 . Eta Carinae in X-Rays . Credit: Chandra X-ray Observatory , NASA . Explanation: Eta Carinae is the one of the most luminous star systems in our Galaxy , radiating millions of times more power than our Sun . Eta Carinae is also one of the strangest star systems known, brightening and fading greatly since the early 1800s. Recently, the Chandra Observatory observed Eta Carinae in X-ray light , adding even more unanticipated pieces to this enigmatic puzzle. ...

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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 . ...

... Our Sun is part of a huge wheel-shaped collection of stars. ... Astronomers have long suspected it was a very massive black hole, and that every galaxy had such a central mass, created early in the history of the universe. ... However, unless that object happens to be headed directly at the black hole (a relatively small target) it will just swing around and fly away again, like a comet making a pass at the Sun. The velocity acquired in falling towards the black hole also helps it escape. ...

... Richard F. Gordon, Jr. ... NASA Astronaut (former) . ... ORGANIZATIONS: Fellow, American Astronautical Society; Associate Fellow, Society of Experimental Test Pilots; and Navy League. ... Gordon, R. F., FJ-4B FUEL CONSUMPTION AND PERFORMANCE REPORT, Flight Test, NAS Patuxent River, Maryland, 1958. ... In 1957, he attended the Navy's Test Pilot School at Patuxent River, Maryland, and served as a flight test pilot until 1960. ... He served as backup pilot for the Gemini 8 flight. ...

In this presentation I will recap what we know about the dwarf planet Pluto its companion moons, including some recent results from the Division of Planetary Sciences October 2014 meeting (Tucson, AZ). Next I will describe NASA s New Horizons mission, launched in January 2006, who has been traveling across the solar system and will reach the Pluto system in July 2015. ... I will end the presentation with the latest news from the New Horizons mission and its plans after the July 2015 Plutoflyby. ...

... 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 ...

... Bringing news from across the Universe to children all around the world . ... The astronomical camera that took this new photo of the centre of our Galaxy makes everyday digital cameras look like nothing more than toys! When you go to a shop to buy a new camera, you will see that they talk about how many megapixels it has. ... From this super high-quality photo, astronomers can see about 173 million objects, of which about 84 million have already been confirmed as stars! ...

... Thur 22 October 2009, Armagh . Astronomy Ireland Celebrates Galilean Nights . ... On 22-24 October 2009, the International Year of Astronomy 2009 Cornerstone Project, Galilean Nights, will see amateur and professional astronomers, enthusiasts and the public taking to the streets all around the globe, pointing their telescopes to the wonders that Italian astronomer Galileo observed 400 years ago. ... Monday, 19 October 2009 19:00 . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

Domes Forum Message . Forums: . ... Under $100.00 . ... Well, they fixed that street light across the street. ... An expensive dome wouldn't help very much because when I open the top slit, you still have street lights in front of you. ... There's nothing I can do about the light spilling into the sky, but with the tarps open I never look directly into the street light, I get no glare on the eyepiece and I get real good night vision going. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ...

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Blastoff to Saturn . ... Voyager 1 flew 124,000 kilometers (77,000 miles) above Saturn's cloudtops in 1980, showing us a close look at Saturn's large moon Titan and sending back stunning images of Saturn and its rings. ... In the early moonlit morning of October 15, 1997, Cassini launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida, to join these three trailblazing spacecraft on its voyage to Saturn. ... The Cassini-Huygens mission has two major phases: cruise and tour. ... Analogy: Titan and Saturn . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Site Info . ... Public Talks . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Who is this guy who calls himself "The Bad Astronomer?" ... First, yes, I am a real live astronomer (when people ask me what astronomers do, I tell them "They astronom !" ... These are emitted by powerful objects like black holes, exploding stars, and super-dense neutrons stars. ... Finally, am I really a bad astronomer? ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

Magnetic field measurements onboard the Interball Tail spacecraft are carried out by the FM-3I instrument which consists of two flux-gate magnetometers covering two different ranges: [-200, +200] nT and [-1000, +1000] nT. Besides scientific goals, the FM-3I experiment data is used to perform the attitude control of the Interball Tail spacecraft. ... August 22, 1995 . ... October 18, 1995 . Top of the page . ... Back to the Interball Home Page . ...