Incredible Hubble Space Telescope Images Appear In 2000 Space Calendar.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.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 8, 1999-- Remnants of the 1987 supernova appear as delicate overlapping rings of gas. Individual stars are resolved in a galaxy more than 50 million light years away. Shock waves from a starburst region in the nearby Large Magellanic Cloud Noun 1. Large Magellanic Cloud - the larger of the two Magellanic Clouds visible from the southern hemisphere Magellanic Cloud - either of two small galaxies orbiting the Milky Way; visible near the south celestial pole compress the surrounding gas, giving life to new generations of stars. These are just some of the incredible 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. images that appear in "The Year In Space" 2000 Desk Calendar. (http://www.YearInSpace.com) Sponsored by seventeen of the world's leading space organizations, including Lockheed Martin (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :LMT LMT left mentotransverse (position of fetus). ), Boeing (NYSE:BA), Motorola (NYSE:MOT) and Ball Aerospace (NYSE:BLL), this 164-page weekly desk calendar features color photographs from the past, present and future of space exploration and astronomical discovery. "The Year In Space" boasts 54 weekly color space images carefully culled from the NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. archives, interplanetary spacecraft, the Hubble Space Telescope and world-famous observatories. Historic images from the Gemini and Apollo programs appear along with recent images of the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station. An informative essay accompanies every image, and each weekly calendar page is filled with facts and anniversaries relating to the history of space exploration and astronomy. As a desk calendar for 2000, "The Year In Space" is extraordinarily complete, with weekly, monthly, yearly and multi-year calendars, a daily moon phase calendar, an address section, blank pages for notes, as well as articles about the International Space Station and the Hubble Space Telescope, a NASA launch schedule for 2000, a preview of planetary exploration in 2000, and more. "The Year In Space" is now available on the web (http://www.YearInSpace.com) or by calling 800/736-6836. Discounts up to 47% are available for all NASA employees nationwide, as well as for employees of organizations that sponsor the calendar, including Boeing (NYSE:BA), Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT), Motorola (NYSE:MOT), Ball Aerospace & Technologies (NYSE:BLL), Rotary Rocket Company, National Space Society, Eagle Picher Technologies, MacDonald Dettwiler, ASE (Adaptive Server Enterprise) A relational DBMS from Sybase that runs on Windows NT/2000, Linux and a variety of Unix platforms. ASE is a comprehensive and robust data management product with a long history dating back to the late 1980s. Space Solar Cells, Sky & Telescope, Astronomy Magazine, SpaceDaily.com, Space Camp, Sienna Software, The Planetary Society, U.S. Space Foundation, and the Space Awareness Alliance. |
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