. In this comparison of actual observations with simulations, the top images show Hubble observations of the density of gas in the central portion of two galaxies. The bottom images are computer simulations that are remarkably similar to the Hubble observations. Knots of star formation in the two galaxies show how gas falling into a galaxy's center is controlled by jets from the central black hole. NASA/ESA/M. Donahue (Michigan State Univ.)/Y. Li (Univ. of Michigan)

STAR FIELDS Newsletter of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston Including the Bond Astronomical Club Established in 1934 in the Interest of Telescope Making & Using Vol. ... 9 October 2000 This Month's Meeting.. ... Dr. Donahue described the work done on solar observing from the early 1900's to today. ... See details in September's Star Fields THE ANNUAL MEETING of the AAVSO (the American Association of Variable Star Observers) will be held Wed-Sun October 25th-28th in Waltham, Massachusetts. ...

A A 449, 805­808 (2006) DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20052957 c ESO 2006 Astronomy Astrophysics A search for water masers toward extrasolar planets V. Minier1, 1 2,3 and C. Lineweaver3, 4 2 3 4 Service d'Astrophysique, DAPNIA/DSM/CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France e-mail ... No maser lines are clearly observed. ... The objective was to study whether water masers can form in the near environment (e.g. planetary atmosphere, circumstellar environment or comet clouds) of extrasolar planets. ...

... This interview is being conducted with Dr. Lennard Fisk in Ann Arbor, Michigan for the NASA Headquarters Oral History Project. ... I did an undergraduate degree at Cornell [University, Ithaca, New York] in physics, and started Cornell in graduate school in space science. ... Fisk: No. ... As a sign of the NASA attitudes at that time, in the press conference for the launch of Hubble Space Telescope, NASA wanted to do it as it normally did, which was just advertise what the astronauts were going to do...

... Fan, X., Strauss, M. A., Annis, J., Gunn, J. E., Hennessy, G. S., Ivezic, Z., Knapp, G. R., Lupton, R. H., Munn, J. A., Newberg, H. J., Schneider, D. P., and Yanny, B., for the SDSS Collaboration, "Spectroscopy of Quasar Candidates from Sloan Digital Sky Survey Commissioning Data", 1998, After the Dark Ages: When Galaxies Were Young (the Universe at 2 < z < 5), Eds S. Holt and E. Smith, 282. ... The Discovery of a Field Methane Dwarf from Sloan Digital Sky Survey Commissioning Data", 1999, Ap. ...