Breathtaking Collection of Hubble Space Telescope Images Selected To Appear in 2007 Space Calendar."Year In Space" 2007 Calendar is Now Shipping ITHACA Ithaca, city, United States Ithaca (ĭth`əkə), city (1990 pop. 29,541), seat of Tompkins co., S central N.Y., at the southern end of Cayuga Lake, in the Finger Lakes region; settled 1789, inc. as a city 1888. , N.Y. -- A paper-thin band of dust obscures the brilliant core and spiral arms of an edge-on galaxy 60,000 light-years away. The Crab Nebula, scene of a violent supernova explosion nearly a thousand years ago, is captured in an unprecedented high-resolution view. Wispy tendrils Tendrils is an irregular collaboration between noted Australian guitarists, Joel Silbersher and Charlie Owen (musician). A difficult sound to describe, Tendrils features two seemingly chaotic but strangely melodic and complementary, guitar parts and occasionally stripped back of gas and dust meander through a bedazzling star-filled region of the southern sky. These Hubble Space Telescope Hubble Space Telescope (HST), the first large optical orbiting observatory. Built from 1978 to 1990 at a cost of $1.5 billion, the HST (named for astronomer E. P. Hubble) was expected to provide the clearest view yet obtained of the universe. vistas are just a few of the 53 breathtaking outer space images that appear in the "Year In Space" 2007 Desk Calendar, an award-winning 144-page weekly calendar featuring images and information from the past, present and future of space exploration and astronomical discovery. http://www.YearInSpace.com. Published in cooperation with The Planetary Society, "The Year In Space" takes its readers on an out-of-this-world journey while giving them a convenient way to organize their busy lives back on Earth. The 53 weekly images represent the full spectrum of space exploration, from the Apollo Moon landings to the International Space Station. Amazing planetary images by the Cassini Orbiter and the Mars Exploration Rovers are presented along with incredible deep space views taken by the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes. An informative essay accompanies every image, and each weekly calendar page is filled with historic dates in space history. "The Year In Space" is also a versatile desk calendar, with weekly, monthly, yearly and multi-year calendars, a daily moon phase calendar, an address section, blank pages for notes, and more. "The Year In Space" can be ordered online at http://www.YearInSpace.com or by calling 800/736-6836. There is free standard shipping in the U.S. Discounts of 25% to 44% are available for educators, students, Internet surfers, and NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. employees. Discounts also apply to employees, customers, retirees and stockholders of organizations that sponsor the calendar, including Analytical Graphics Inc., Boeing (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :BA), collectSPACE.com, Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT LMT left mentotransverse (position of fetus). ), Northrop Grumman (NYSE:NOC), MDA Space Missions MDA Space Missions is an operating unit of MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates, comprised of the following wholly owned subsidiaries:
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