... LIGO and Gravitational Waves Detection . Dr. Peter Fritschel . Thursday, Oct 9, 2014 at 8:00 PM . ... Gravitational-wave astrophysics promises to become a radically new way of exploring the universe. Dr. Fritschel will discuss the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO), the world's leading project to build and operate gravitational wave detectors. ... Oct . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

Crab : the standard X-ray candle with all (modern) X-ray satellites M.G.F. Kirsch1a, U.G. Briel b, D. Burrows c, S. Campana d, G. Cusumano e, K. Ebisawa f, M.J. Freybergb, M. Guainazzi ... fAstro-E2 Guest Observer Facility, USA, gNASA's GSFC, USA, h Stockholm Observatory, Sweden, iCAMK, Warsaw, Poland; INTEGRAL Science Data Center, Switzerland, jUniversity of Miyazaki, Japan, kHarvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA, lCenter for Astrophysics ... Crab nebula in 1968. ...

... So it's only fitting that music come along with astronauts on the ultimate journey into space. ... Astronaut Edward T. Lu, Expedition 7 NASA ISS science officer and flight engineer, plays a musical keyboard during off-shift time in the Destiny laboratory on the International Space Station. Astronaut Carl E. Walz (lower left), Expedition 4 flight engineer, plays host to some crewmates as he performs on a musical keyboard in the Destiny laboratory on the International Space Station. ...

Astrophysical Research Consortium Board of Governors (as of January 1, 2015) UW Dr. Werner Stuetzle Divisional Dean of Natural Sciences Professor , Department of Statistics 50 Communications Building University of Washington, Box 353765 Seattle, WA 98195-3765 Phone : 206-616-8709 email : wxs@u.washington.edu Assistant: Kai Fujita, fujitak@u.washington.edu Dr. Scott Anderson Department of Astronomy , Chair Physics / ...

Introduction to PLASMA ASTROPHYSICS (Selected 10 lectures) Boris V. Somov Astronomical Institute and Faculty of Physics Moscow State University Pushino-na-Oke, 2008 Contents Ab out These Lectures 1 Particles and Fields: Exact Self-Consistent Description 1.1 Liouville's theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.1.1 Continuity in phase space . . . . . . . . . 1.1.2 The character of particle interactions 1.1.3 The Lorentz force, gravity . . . . . . . . . 1.1.4 Collisional friction . . . . . . . . . . . .