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7 September: Partial eclipse of the Moon, visible from D-Space SGAO telescopes
All of this partial lunar eclipse is visible from eastern Africa, India and central Asia, and thus from SGAO Telescopes, which are available in D-Space network of telescopes. Feel free to use our service, and realize your requests, observing the Moon with the Sea of Galilee Observatory (SGAO) telescopes.
More information can be found here.
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International Astronimical Summer School, Rozhen 2006
Institute of Astronomy with the National Astronomical Observatory - Rozhen, Bulgaria, and the Informational Center for European Educational Programmes -Bulgaria organized International Youth Astronomical Summer Schools. Students, interested in astronomy, had the opportunity to participate in observations of astronomical objects, listened to lectures and will made discussions in the National Astronomical Observatory- Rozhen. Together with astronomers from the Observatory the young people worked on interesting observational programmes, they have been taught in the Planetarium in Smolian town.
More information can be found here.
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Science Teachers Conference, June 15-17, 2006, CERN, Geneva
The winners of the contest will participate to the Science Teachers Conference organised by the PENCIL project at CERN, in June. The organising committee of the SkyWatch Contest 2006 will cover the travel and accommodation expenses of the winners.
More information can be found here.
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D-Space at Xplora Science Teachers Conference, CERN, Geneva, 15 - 18 June 2006
Xplora, within the Pencil Project, organised a science teachers conference at CERN, Geneva. The conference took place from 15 to 18 June 2006, focused on open source and ICT in science education, science teaching approaches, the role of science centres in education and more. The D-Space Service contributed with a D-Space service presentation, a teachers training workshop and the SkyWatch 2006 awards ceremony.
More information can be found here.
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Total Solar Eclipse, March 29, 2006
The DSpace team will travel to the small Greek island of Kastelorizo (Castelo Rosso) at the SE end of Greece to observe the Total Solar Eclipse with two solar telescopes and to transmit live the event over the web.
More information can be found here.
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30 November 2005 - Buried craters and underground ice - Mars Express uncovers depths of Mars
For the first time in the history of planetary exploration, the MARSIS radar on board ESA's Mars Express has provided direct information about the deep subsurface of Mars. audio interview
More information can be found here.
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30 November 2005 - Mars Express evidence for large aquifers on early Mars
Substantial quantities of liquid water must have been stably present in the early history of Mars. The findings of OMEGA, on board ESA's Mars Express, have implications on the climatic history of the planet and the question of its 'habitability' at some point in its history.
More information can be found here.
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30 November 2005 - Highlights of ESA’s Huygens mission
After a seven-year journey on board the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini spacecraft, ESA’s Huygens probe was released on 25 December 2004. It reached the upper layer of Titan's atmosphere on 14 January 2005 and landed on the surface after a parachute descent of 2 hours and 28 minutes.
More information can be found here.
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21 November 2005 - ESA ‘Huygens and Mars Express’ science highlights - Call to press
ESA PR 54-2005. This has been a triumphant year for science at the European Space Agency. Almost one year has passed since ESA’s Huygens probe landed on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan.
More information can be found here.
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17 November 2005 - Mars Express radar data analysis is on the move
The Mars Express radar, MARSIS, has now been deployed for more than four months. Here we report on the activities so far.
More information can be found here.
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16 November 2005 - Integral reveals new class of ‘supergiant’ X-ray binary stars
ESA’s Integral gamma-ray observatory has discovered a new, highly populated class of X-ray fast ‘transient’ binary stars, undetected in previous observations.
More information can be found here.
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11 November 2005 - Communicating scientific research
Scientific research brings many benefits yet many find it difficult to understand and of little relevance to their daily lives. Next week’s CER 2005 conference will be looking at ways to change Europeans’ perception of science and research, the driving forces behind much of the progress made by society.
More information can be found here.
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9 November 2005 - Venus Express en route to probe the planet's hidden mysteries
ESA PR 50-2005. The European spacecraft Venus Express has been successfully placed into a trajectory that will take it on its journey from Earth towards its destination of the planet Venus, which it will reach next April.
More information can be found here.
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8 November 2005 - Listening for Venus Express
A complex and far-flung network of ground tracking stations will be intently ‘watching’ tonight’s sky waiting to acquire the critical first signal back to Earth from Venus Express, scheduled to lift off from Baikonur Cosmodrome on board a Soyuz launcher at 04:30 CET tomorrow morning.
More information can be found here.
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27 October 2005 - Cassini to fly-by Titan and Huygens landing site
After three amazing close encounters with the icy moons Tethys, Hyperion and Dione, the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini spacecraft is returning to Titan for its ninth planned fly-by with Saturn’s large atmosphere-shrouded moon.
More information can be found here.
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