... CREO plans to produce an optical tape storage system with a capacity of 1000 GBytes per tape. ... The drive fits in one rack and average power consumption is 1000 W single phase. ... Hence the drive will just do the job if we store raw data, and with a moderate amount of data compression before storage, we will get a comfortable margin. ... We were concerned about drive reliability. ... The Exabyte 8 mm drives currently available write 2 GByte at a maximum data rate of 0.25 MByte/second. ...

... The spectrum of the brightest star, our Sun, shows several dark gaps perpendicular to the flow of it’s colours (figure 1). These so called spectral absorption lines where discovered in 1802 by the English scientist William Wollaston. ... Some stars as Pollux show a spectrum similar to that of our sun with strong Ca II and Fe II lines, others as Sirius or Vega show strong absorption lines of hydrogen, others, as Mira show very complicated spectra due to molecular absorption lines (see figure 5). ...

... I will touch upon the following points: ­ fast evolution of the sizes of quiescent (elliptical) galaxies between z = 2 and z = 1; ­ prolonged star formation histories of dwarf spheroidal galaxies in the Local Group; ­ apparent lack of external sources of cold gas accretion for the nearby spiral galaxies; ­ old stellar ages and magnesium overabundance of the large-scale disks of nearby lenticular galaxies. ... This discovery has challenged the recognized scenarios of elliptical galaxy evolution. ...