Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The observatory is located off State Route 76 in northern San Diego County, California, two hours' drive from downtown San Diego and three hours' drive from central Los Angeles (UCLA, LAX airport). [38] Those staying at the nearby Palomar Campground can visit Palomar Observatory by hiking 2.2 miles (3.5 km) up Observatory Trail. [39]
Joel R. Primack, distinguished Professor of Physics at UCSC, has directed the UC-HiPACC consortium since its inception. [2] Peter Nugent from the Lawrence Berkley National Labarotory serves as the coordinator from northern California and Michael Norman from the University of California San Diego (UCSD) serves as the coordinator from southern California. [3]
The Hale Telescope is a 200-inch (5.1 m), f / 3.3 reflecting telescope at the Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California, US, named after astronomer George Ellery Hale. With funding from the Rockefeller Foundation in 1928, he orchestrated the planning, design, and construction of the observatory, but with the project ending up taking ...
All data are validated by the NStED science staff and traced to their sources. NStED is the U.S. data portal for the CoRoT mission. As of June 2007, the database catalogued 140,230 stars, [1] but by December 2011, SDtED was no longer in operation. Most data and services have been transferred to the NASA Exoplanet Archive.
Johnson Space Center (JSC) is NASA’s center for human spaceflight training, research and flight control. Created as the Manned Spacecraft Center on November 1, 1961, the facility consists of a complex of 100 buildings constructed in 1962–1963 on 1,620 acres (660 ha) of land donated by Rice University in Houston, Texas. [ 32 ]
Also found in the NVO are NASA's rich data collections including data from the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Spitzer Space Telescope, and other space-based missions. The NVO Closeout Repository provides access to a variety of additional data from nearly every astronomical research facility, observatory, and ...
NASA Office of Space Science and Applications (OSSA) (1992) State of the Data Union NASA-TM-109951 pp 28-32; Bretherton, Francis (1993) 1992 Review of the World Data Center-A for Rockets and Satellites and the National Space Science Data Center US National Research Council, Washington, DC: US National Academies Press OCLC 30712126
There are about 12,000 active astronomical researchers worldwide, so ADS is the equivalent of about 5% of the working population of astronomers. The global astronomical research budget is estimated at between 4,000 and US$5,000 million, [19] so the value of ADS to astronomy would be about 200–250 million USD annually. Its operating budget is ...