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... I am an astronomer at the Australian National Universities' Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics. We are located at Mount Stromlo Observatory, just outside of the Australian National Capitol, Canberra. The observatory has telescopes at two sites, one at Mount Stromlo, and the other near Coonabarabran. ... The work described here is not just my work, but the collective effort of more than 20 people from around the globe with whom I work on the High-Z SN search. ...

... 50 Greatest Mysteries . ... The Sun's Heartbeat . ... Hotspots in fountains on the Sun's surface may help explain coronal heating mystery . ... The finding offers a possible new framework for how the Sun's high atmosphere gets hotter than the surface of the Sun. ... The suggestion in this paper is that cool gas is being ejected from the Sun's surface in spicules and getting heated on its way to the corona." ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...

... AprцЁs tant d'annц©es au cours desquelles la station spatiale internationale ne fut que plans virtuels en 3D - sans cesse modifiц©s, au grц© des situations politiques, des budgets et des drames de la navette -, dц©clarations d'intentions et maniцЁre de montrer ses muscles avant de tendre la main, il existe bel et bien au-dessus de nos tцЄtes un "complexe orbital". ... Dix ans aprцЁs le dц©but de sa construction, il y aura donc un vrai morceau d'Europe dans l'ISS. ...

... разработка теории и методов расчета лучевых дифференциалов первого, второго и третьего порядков в градиентных оптических системах; . ... разработка методов расчета геометрических аберраций второго и третьего порядка осесимметричных оптических систем, содержащих асферические поверхности и градиентные среды типа "псевдоаксикон"; . ... получены формулы для расчета смещения изображения и геометрических аберраций второго порядка в градиентных оптических системах с малыми нарушениями осевой симметрии; . ...

... http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~agoodman/ . ... Alyssa Goodman is Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University, and a Research Associate of the Smithsonian Institution. Goodman and her research group at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, MA study the dense gas between the stars. ... Presently, she is working closely with colleagues at Microsoft Research, helping to expand the use of the WorldWide Telescope program. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) generates on the order of 7,000 telemetry values, many of which are sampled at 1Hz, and with several hundred parameters being sampled at 40Hz. ... As part of the recent NASA initiative to re-engineer HST's ground control systems, a concept arose to apply newly available data warehousing technologies to this problem. ... In addition to routine study and problem analysis, we use telemetry to look for long term trends in how the platform is behaving. ...

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. ...