... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... NASA] Космическое агентство NASA сформулировало новую программу по созданию космического корабля многоразового использования второго поколения (Second Generation Reusable Launch Vehicle, 2nd Generation RLV), который должен быть гораздо безопаснее и дешевле современных ракет. Предполагается, что полеты этих кораблей начнутся в 2010 г. Напомним, что нынешние "шаттлы" считаются кораблями первого поколения. ... другие статьи .. ...

Russian version of HP . ... StarCalc is the fastest professional astronomy planetarium & star mapping program for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP (StarCalc version for PocketPC computers you can found here ). ... Extensibility : This program is based on common "Plugin StarCalc interface to catalogs and object groups", which allows program to add new modules as Plugins. ... Welcome to the Pocket StarCalc Home Page: . ... Some bugfixes in eclipses" and line" plugins - see the new versions in downloads page. ...

... Next Routine] [List of Routines] NAME: ADD_HEADER PURPOSE: addition information from FITS-headers MPFS-frames DESCRIPTION: The function computes the total exposure, mean value zenit distance and modified FITS header CALLING SEQUENCE: Result =ADD_HEADER( headers ) CATEGORY: reduction MPFS-data INPUTS: Headers = String array FITS-headers from the MPFS data OUTPUTS: Header = String array containing the header from the FITS file. ... OPTIONAL INPUT KEYWORD PARAMETERS: BEFORE = Keyword string name. ...

... SHORT TERM PREDICTION OF POWER SOLAR FLARES FROM SSRT DATA . The algorithm for short term prediction of powerful solar flares, based on SSRT data, includes microwave emission characteristics in total and polarized flux, the structure of active region (AR) magnetic field at the photospheric level, and H a patrol data. ... During this period, 7 AR's crossed the solar disk, in which 20 flares of importance ? ... Data on AR's and magnetic fields were received from the Sayan observatory by teletype. ...

Berlin, Germany . Berlin was founded in the early thirteenth century as the capital of Brandenburg. ... After the Second World War, the city was partitioned into East and West Berlin. ... Though medical and educational facilities were well funded in both East and West Berlin, housing remained a problem for both. Inadequate housing retarded the population growth of East Berlin, and West Berlin suffered from the destruction of one third of its housing to during the Second World War. ...

... We will first explain the combinatorial aspects, then deal with more algebraic things, if time permits. ... We will then concentrate on the particular case of the so-called pentagons and hexagons and describe their classification, following the work of D.Zvonkine, Steiner and Curtis, Kapovich and Millman, and the author. ... Tropical Plucker functions is a class of functions that obey tropical analogs of classical Plucker relations on minors of a matrix. ... Joint work with Ch. ...

... Printed in U.S.A. AN EXTRA LONG X-RAY PLATEAU IN A GAMMA-RAY BURST AND THE SPINAR PARADIGM V. Lipunov1, 2, 3 and E. Gorbovskoy 1, 2, 3 Received 2007 May 3; accepted 2007 June 25; published 2007 August 6 ABSTRACT The recently discovered gamma-ray burst GRB 070110 displayed an extraordinar y X-ray afterglow with Xray radiation--i.e., an X-ray ... 2006; Wang & Meszaros 2007). ... It is followed by a slow collapse (the magnetic field is weak), which results in a weak X-ray burst. ...

I/199 Lick Northern Proper Motion Program: NPM1 Catalog (Klemola+ 1987) =============================================================================== = Lick Northern Proper Motion Program: NPM1 Catalog Klemola A.R., Hanson R.B., Jones B.F. <Astron. ... Positions are given for equinox B1950 and computed epoch 1950. ... Other data given for each star are: the original mean epoch, a stellar class code, the number of NPM fields measured, and discrepancy flags for position, proper motion, and photometry. ...

Клуб Скептиков] [Конференция] . ... Skeptik : Программа, убивающая цыплят . А вот, какой миленький example я нашел в старом (1992) пакете Borland C++ 3.10 Help: . ... Skeptik Программа, убивающая цыплят 18-Окт (07:56) Киви re: Программа, убивающая цыплят 18-Окт (10:21) Alex re: Программа, убивающая цыплят 18-Окт (13:55) . DoctoR re: Программа, убивающая цыплят 18-Окт (19:54) Сократ re: Программа, убивающая цыплят 19-Окт (10:51) Прохожий re: Минимальная частота звука 18,2 Гц. ...