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The Sky Survey will systematically map one-quarter of the entire sky, producing a detailed image of it and determining the positions and absolute brightnesses of more than 100 million celestial objects.

The first female spaceflight participant launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on September 18, 2006 en route to the International Space Station (ISS) along with the Expedition 14. She is chairman and co-founder of Prodea Systems, Inc.

Watch the Leonid meteor storm live!

During its 2.5-year mission, Spitzer will obtain images and spectra by detecting the infrared energy, or heat, radiated by objects in space...

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NASA photo library archive.

The SIMBAD astronomical database provides basic data, cross-identifications, bibliography and measurements for astronomical objects outside the solar system. SIMBAD can be queried by object name, coordinates and various criteria.

SpaceRef is a space news and reference site. This includes space exploration and missions, a space calendar of events, interactive space news and a space directory and search engine.

The GALaxy evolution EXplorer (GALEX) is a NASA Small Explorer Class mission that is investigating the causes and evolution of star formation in galaxies over the history of the Universe.

Purchase observing time in a professional-class telescope located in the Canary Islands. Images are streamed to your computer via the Internet.

Aladin is an interactive software sky atlas allowing the user to visualize digitized astronomical images, superimpose entries from astronomical catalogues or databases, and interactively access related data and information from the Simbad database, the VizieR service and other archives for all known sources in the field.

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