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Janos Haits

International Astronomical Union | IAU - 1 views

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    The International Astronomical Union (IAU) was founded in 1919. Its mission is to promote and safeguard the science of astronomy in all its aspects through international cooperation.
Janos Haits

International Space Apps Challenge - 0 views

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    The International Space Apps Challenge is your opportunity to build, create, and invent new solutions to challenges of global importance.
Sandra Flores

Fifth ATV's Georges Lemaître - 1 views

The fifth and final current proposed Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) of the European Space Agency will carry the name "Georges Lemaître". The Belgian theologian and astrophysicists is considered t...

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Astro Biology

Milky Way View From Space Station - 0 views

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    The Milky way steals the show from Sahara sands that make the Earth glow orange. Reid Wiseman a NASA astronaut has captured this pic from International Space Station.
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    The Milky way steals the show from Sahara sands that make the Earth glow orange. Reid Wiseman a NASA astronaut has captured this pic from International Space Station.
Janos Haits

Live From Space Second Screen | National Geographic Channel - 2 views

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    "The International Space Station (ISS) orbits the earth at over 17,000 mph. See the world from the perspective of its astronauts and discover what's happening on the ground right now."
Janos Haits

Spot The Station | NASA - 2 views

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    "Watch the International Space Station pass overhead from several thousand worldwide locations. It is the third brightest object in the sky and easy to spot if you know when to look up. Visible to the naked eye, it looks like a fast-moving plane only much higher and traveling thousands of miles an hour faster!"
Janos Haits

space-history - Silk - 3 views

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    "The Silk team has created an interactive database of 300 manned spaceflights, including the 80 missions to the International Space Station. You can use this resource to learn all about the history of man's adventure's in space: click on specific events to access their fact sheet, or use the "Explore mode" to combine variables, add filters and choose the type of graph. "
Janos Haits

Home - 0 views

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    The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an international partnership of Europe, North America and East Asia in cooperation with the Republic of Chile, is the largest astronomical project in existence. ALMA will be a single telescope of revolutionary design, composed initially of 66 high precision antennas located on the Chajnantor plateau, 5000 meters altitude in northern Chile.
Sandra Flores

Back on The Ground - 0 views

Furnace starts trial operationThe German ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst is now back on the ground, the commissioning of an assembled by him on the ISS furnace for experiments in materials science, h...

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Sandra Flores

Back on The Ground - 0 views

Furnace starts trial operationThe German ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst is now back on the ground, the commissioning of an assembled by him on the ISS furnace for experiments in materials science, h...

started by Sandra Flores on 09 Jan 15 no follow-up yet
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News Conference Features Next Space Station Crew, Interviews - 0 views

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    NASA will host a news conference for the next crew launching to the International Space Station, including NASA astronaut Tim Kopra, on Thursday, Sept. 24, at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston. NASA Television will broadcast the news conference live at 2 p.m. EDT, preceded by video of crew training at 1:30 p.m.
Kalyan Roy

Image of the Day: Rogue Galaxy Racing at 10-million KPH - 0 views

  • massive gravity distorts the galaxies' shape and sends them ripping through the cluster at unimaginable speeds.
  • The Virgo Cluster is the nearest big collection of galaxies to Earth, and it's filled with a collection of gas called the intercluster medium, whose pressure drives the galaxies' own internal gas out into the cluster, roiling up the galaxies' dust.
Todd Suomela

Reclaiming the Nighttime Sky - Environment and Energy - 0 views

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    On the International Dark Sky Association starting to lobby Washington D.C.
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    Will 2009 be the year the federal government finally takes light pollution seriously?
Janos Haits

Welcome to the LISC web portal - LISC - LISA International Science Community - 0 views

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    website features news, resources, and discussion boards about LISA (the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna), a space-based gravitational-wave observatory that will allow us to detect gravitational waves from massive black-hole mergers in the centers of galaxies, from the ultra-compact binary systems in our own Galaxy, and from many other sources. A joint ESA and NASA mission, LISA will create revolutionary research opportunities in astrophysics and fundamental physics.
Sandra Flores

Surface and core of the Earth in its sights - 0 views

Surface and core of the Earth in its sightsOn September 10, the Russian Plesetsk cosmodrome to be brought from the ESA GOCE satellite into orbit to determine the gravitational field and the referen...

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Sandra Flores

Surface and core of the Earth in its sights - 0 views

Surface and core of the Earth in its sightsOn September 10, the Russian Plesetsk cosmodrome to be brought from the ESA GOCE satellite into orbit to determine the gravitational field and the referen...

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