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 . ...

... Moon Phase below . ... ARTICLE: Why the moon always shows us the same face . ... Before you continue reading, you should know that this was not always the case, i.e. the Moon once was rotating with respect to the Earth, so that on every night a terrestrial observer (if there was one, because this was long, long before mankind appeared on our planet, and even before any major animals had appeared) saw another face of the Moon. ... Figure 1 (not to scale) shows how we can imagine the system Earth-Moon...

GENERAL INFORMA T ION ABOUT How does my LOMO® Night Vision Device Work? ... LOMO® NIGHT VISION DEVICES & FAQs When using a Night Vision Device, you are actually looking at an image that is projected by the intensifier tube located inside the unit (Fig. ... Light enters the Night Vision Device through the objective lens and hits the photocathode in front of the intensifier tube. ... Infrared (IR) Illuminator Microchannel Plate (Gen.2 Only) When do I use my LOMO® Night Vision Device? ... Fig. ...

... Under certain conditions, like those in the nucleus of a QSO, all atoms can be made to emit light at particular wavelengths. ... If that source is approaching the observer, the wave is squashed up onto itself making the wavelength shorter. ... This is redshift. ... You can see how the section of the QSO spectrum which we observe changes with redshift. ... We then see how far we had to slide the observed spectrum along the scale to make it match and that is the objects redshift. ... The 2QZ team . ...

The new view on the population of Galactic open clusters A.E.Piskunov1, N.V.Kharchenko2, S.RЖser3, E.Schilbach3, R.-D.Scholz4 1 2 3 4 Institute of Astronomy, Moscow, Russia Main Astronomical ... Observatory, Kiev, Ukraine Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, Heidelberg, Germany Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam, Germany What are open clusters and what do they teach us Groups of Population I ... Cluster complexes: OCC-1 = Gould's Belt cluster complex? ...

Note: you can click on a picture to see it enlarged ...you float into the ODS (Orbite Docking System) from Shuttle's airlock through tunnel extension ( also serves as EVA airlock ). The tunnel leads further to the Shuttle's back where Spacelab is placed. ... You move upwards.....and see a closed hatch. It's time to open it! Yet another closed hatch - but it's not the Shuttle's, it belongs to the Russian space station Mir. Open it - and you are in the Mir's docking module . ...

Surveys in Geophysics (2005) 26: 95­133 DOI 10.1007/s10712-005-1874-4 с Springer 2005 MAGNETOSHEATH INTERACTION WITH THE HIGH LATITUDE MAGNETOPAUSE S. SAVIN1, A. SKALSKY1, L. ZELENYI1, L. AVANOV1, N. BORODKOVA1, S. KLIMOV1, V. LUTSENKO1, E. PANOV1, S. ROMANOV1, V. SMIRNOV1, YU. YERMOLAEV1, P. SONG2, E. AMATA3, G. CONSOLINI3, T. A. FRITZ4, J. BUECHNER5, B. NIKUTOWSKI5, J. BLECKI6, C. FARRUGIA7, N. MAYNARD8, J. PICKETT9, J. A. SAUVAUD10, J. L. RAUCH11, J. G. TROTIGNON11, Y. KHOTYAINTSEV12 and K. STASIEWICZ12

... Heracles Triplane and Aerospace Systems . The key characteristics of two-stage aerospace systems are determined according to speed and carrying capacity of the aircraft-carrier used . ... So the SPIRAL system hypersonic carrier was expected to launch the second stage by weight 63 tons at a speed corresponding to 6M; whereas launching weight of the MAKS system orbital stage with the use of the An-225 MRIYA heavy subsonic aircraft reaches 275 tons, and the HERACLES aircraft - 450 tons. ...

The low aspect ratio, or spherical tokamak Globus-M [1] has recently been built in a support of international spherical tokamak plasma investigation program. ... The survey to determine the work scope in diagnostic design for Globus-M is given in the paper. ... The next one is an advanced diagnostic set intended to supply the data on basic plasma parameters: electron temperature and density profiles, ion temperature, plasma composition, radiation profile, Zeffective. ... Magnetic Diagnostics. ...