Classroom Activity: Making a Rainbow . ... When white light from the Sun or a light bulb passes through a prism, the light splits into its component wavelengths. ... Red, blue, green colored filters - if possible, cut 1x4-inch pieces of the filters for each student . ... Many students have the misconception that filters somehow dye the light a certain color. ... Younger students can draw the rainbow and make up a mnemonic for remembering the order of the colors (such as, ROY G. BIV). ...

. This illustration shows the discovery that the outer Milky Way is a really a mixture of two distinct components rotating in opposite directions. The inner component of the Galaxy's halo spins clockwise with the galaxy's rotation at about 50,000 miles per hour. The outer component rotates counterclockwise to the galaxy at 100,000 miles per hour. SDSS-II, Masashi Chiba, Tohoku University, Japan

... Space flight . ... Space Hotel . ... The program of deployment of small orbital station (SOS) consisting of a family of spacecrafts and module-spacecrafts represents a consecutive realization of flight scenarios with consecutive building up of functions. ... Scenario 1 - the regular and revised spacecrafts of class "Soyuz" - TMSC and MNMSC (MNMSC-cargo, MNMSC-MR) are used, pls. see fig fig.8 . ... The terms of transition to this scenario are determined by terms of readiness of one or another module....

New GCVS Versions for Three Southern Constellations Peremennye Zvezdy (Variable Stars) 27, No. ... We are currently working on a version of the General Catalogue of Variable Stars (GCVS) revised taking into account the new data accumulated since the 4th GCVS edition. ... It will contain all stars of the 4th GCVS edition plus a complete catalogue of the stars added to the GCVS in the Name Lists of Variable Stars Nos. ...

SET OF MAGNETIC AND ELECTRIC FIELD DETECTORS EXO-EM . ... 3 components measurements of both magnetic and electric fields; . ... wide frequency range (0 - 10000) Hz; . ... ECHO-EM is intended for measurement of a complete vector and three components of both electric and magnetic fields, and transfers the received data to the block of the processing of the information and also in telemetry. ... digital 0.1-20 Hz; . ... frequency band (0.01- 10000) Hz; . ... digital (500 - 1000) Hz; . ...

The direct detection of gravitational waves is one of those events long-expected by physicists that are nevertheless a significant occurrence which excites the world scientific community as if something unexpected has happened. ... Many rumors leaked ahead of the conference, and the fact that something (that is, a signal corresponding to gravitational waves) was discovered by LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) was discussed on the sidelines. ... arXiv:1602.03868 . ...

... 486 Enrichetta Iodice and Enrico Maria Corsini, eds. c 2014 Astronomical Society of the Pacific Inner Polar Gaseous Disks: Incidence, Ages, and Possible Origin O. K. Sil'chenko1 and A. V. Moiseev2 Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia Special Astrophysical Observatory, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhnii Arkhyz, Russia Abstract. ... Further Bettoni et al. (1990) have claimed inner polar gaseous disk in the Southern ringed lenticular galaxy NGC 2217. ...

Abstracts Navigation of high-apogee orbit of the SRT in RadioAstron mission Akim E.L., Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics Bebenin R.M., Astro Space Center of the Lebedev Physical Institute Ponomarev Yu. ... OH masers, OH megamasers, and nuclear starbursts Baan Willem, ASTRON, The Netherlands The nature and structure of high-gain OH maser emission sources will be considered in Galactic and extragalactic sources. ... However, they are incompatible and may show inconsistencies with observations. ...

... GCR and SCR are primary cosmic rays. 10-15 years after the discovery of cosmic radiation (1919) there emerged two main avenues of investigation in the physics of cosmic rays (CR): 1) nuclear - elucidation of the origin of elementary particles and nuclear interactions; and 2) astrophysical (space physics) - solution of the problem related to the origin and variations (changes in intensity) of CR. ... Besides, the CR flux in interplanetary space is, strictly speaking, not isotropic. ...

... Astronomy in Ukraine Past, Present, and Future (MAO-2014) . ... Erik Hog (Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark) Absolute astrometry in the next 50 years Abstract . ... In brief, the two Gaia-like missions would provide an astrometric foundation for all branches of astronomy from the solar system and stellar systems to compact galaxies, quasars and dark matter (DM) by data which cannot be surpassed the next 50 years. ... Is there any future for the ground based astrometry technique now? ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... On Thursday, February 15th 2001 (and replayed on March 19), the Fox TV network aired a program called ``Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?'', hosted by X-Files actor Mitch Pileggi. ... Dust around the lander . ... However, it appeals to our common sense: when the sky is black here on Earth, we see stars. ... Bad: The program claims that when the top half of the lander took off from the Moon to bring the astronauts back into orbit, there was no flame from the rocket. ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

... VaST is a software tool for finding variable objects on a series of astronomical images. ... VaST performs object detection and aperture photometry using SExtractor on each image, cross-matches lists of detected stars, performs magnitude calibration with respect to the first (reference) image and constructs a lightcurve for each object. ... VaST FITS image viewer ./pgfv . ... Part I" PZP, vol. ... K. V. Sokolovsky, S. A. Korotkiy; "New Variable Stars Discovered by the NMW Survey" PZP, vol. ...