... A Close Up or Martian Soil . ... Credit: Mars Exploration Rover Mission , JPL , NASA Explanation: Make your background the closest image of Mars yet. The Spirit Rover currently rolling on Mars has taken the highest resolution image to date of another planet. ... As more images come in and as the Spirit Rover continues to explore Mars, more information about the unusual floor of Gusev Crater are likely to emerge. ... Publications with keywords: Mars - Spirit rover . ... Victoria Crater on Mars . ...

... Armagh Planetarium . ... Universe . ... October . ... Posted on October 21, 2010 | No Comments Galaxies, distant from us in space and time, have been in the news recently. ... No Comments If you love great articles on space and astronomy you are probably already following the Carnival of Space. ... Hello, IтАЩm Colin, welcoming you to Astronotes, the PlanetariumтАЩs official blog. Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

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... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2004 January 18 . A Close-Up of Martian Soil . Credit: Mars Exploration Rover Mission , JPL , NASA . Explanation: Make your background the closest image of Mars yet. The Spirit Rover currently rolling on Mars has taken the highest resolution image to date of another planet. ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...

. Home . News . Gallery . Events . Twitter . Press Releases . Links . Contact Us . Calendar . Press & Web Coverage . Previous . Next . List . Another shot t aken 30th November by John McConnell. It shows the planetary conjunction of Venus and Jupiter at their closest, with the Moon below. Friday, 2 January 2009 23:14 . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . [Back To Top] .

... When two stars are born together they fall into orbit around each other, creating what we call a binary system . ... An eclipse is when the light from one object is blocked by another object. ... So, for years now astronomers have confidently believed that a dark object known as a brown dwarf star was lurking, hidden within this binary system. ... The new images of the binary system are so accurate that they would have been able to reveal a brown dwarf 70 000 times fainter than the central star! ...

... I fixed the bugs that caused the map_point changes to fail tests. Then I removed the no longer needed dimensional variables from the p structure and got those changes to pass all the tests. ... I put the code under subversion control in a new branch called refactor. ... The code change which processes each drizzle kernel over an entire image rather than a line at a time now passes the unit tests and was checked in. ... I got the keywords argument changes done and got the tests to pass. ...

... OPMINSEP is the parameter for OPTMODE=HAS that is used to prevent two scans on the same source from being scheduled too close together. SCHED determines the default spacing of scans -- evenly spaced across the available time -- regardless of whether the user overrides that default by specifying the desired hour angles. That default spacing is multiplied by OPMINSEP to get the minimum separation. ... Default: 0.0 which means don't have a minimum separation. ... Example: OPMINSEP = 0.4 . ...

... Class . ... PREV CLASS NEXT CLASS . FRAMES NO FRAMES All Classes . ... FIELD | ... METHOD . DETAIL: FIELD | ... public interface IJEventListener . ... Field Summary . static int . ... Field Detail static final int FOREGROUND_COLOR_CHANGED . ... Constant Field Values . static final int BACKGROUND_COLOR_CHANGED . ... static final int COLOR_PICKER_CLOSED . ... static final int LOG_WINDOW_CLOSED . ... static final int TOOL_CHANGED . ... Method Detail void eventOccurred (int eventID) . ...

... The Sun has come all of one day away from breaking its record for the longest period of inactivity for the last decade - reaching a mid-summer low and falling into yet another state of "hibernation". Yesterday, on the first day of autumn, new sunspots appeared on the surface of the Sun following an absence of almost 50 days. ... The first low lasted 51 days, from 21 July until 11 September last year. ... Now, almost a year later, it seems the Sun has hit a new low almost as "deep" as the first. ...

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... NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer mission studies the shape, brightness, size and distance of distant galaxies across 10 billion years of cosmic history, giving scientists a wealth of data to help us better understand the origins of the universe. ... This image is a blend of the Galaxy Evolution Explorer's M33 image and another taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. ... Spitzer, for example, can detect mid-infrared radiation from dust that has absorbed young stars' ultraviolet light. ...

... the shutters, loads . ... We have shutter/receiver protection to protect the receivers when we transmit with one of our transmitters (sband,430, hf). ... this is also controlled by the 430 ch load/antenna switch. closed always wins . ... shutter - open,close, or query the receiver/radar shutters . ... When the 430 dome is being used, we want to close all shutters, but leave the 430 dome receiver under control of the ch load/antenna switch (above the oscilloscopes in receiver room). ... shutter close...

... STScI-PRC97-38a HUBBLE SEES SUPERSONIC EXHAUST FROM NEBULA M2-9 is a striking example of a "butterfly" or a bipolar planetary nebula. Another more revealing name might be the "Twin Jet Nebula." If the nebula is sliced across the star, each side of it appears much like a pair of exhausts from jet engines. ... The central star in M2-9 is known to be one of a very close pair which orbit one another at perilously close distances. ... M2-9 is 2,100 light-years away in the constellation Ophiucus. ...

... The Seasons . ... Section #1 Stargazers and Skywatchers described the observed motion of the Sun across the sky, in different seasons of the year. ... If the Earth's axis were perpendicular to the ecliptic, as in the drawings here, the Sun's position in the sky would be halfway between the celestial poles, and its daily path, seen from any point on Earth, would stay exactly the same, day after day. Each point on Earth would be carried around the axis AB once a day. ... The Sun and Seasons . ...

... CLOSE_TO_CCD_BORDER This event was immediately next to a border of the CCD, so that part of its charge may have been lost. ... For EPIC/MOS only events next to the left and lower borders are affected and flagged. ... CLOSE_TO_BADCOL This event was immediately next to a column declared bad through its offset, so that part of its charge may have been lost. CLOSE_TO_BADROW This event was immediately next to a row declared bad through its offset, so that part of its charge may have been lost. ...

... M ercury is the closest planet to the Sun and the eighth largest. ... Heraclitus even believed that Mercury and Venus orbit the Sun, not the Earth. ... The perihelion of its orbit precesses around the Sun at a very slow rate. 19th century astronomers made very careful observations of Mercury's orbital parameters but could not adequately explain them using Newtonian mechanics. ... Actually Earth's density is due in part to gravitational compression; if not for this, Mercury would be denser than Earth...

... The awsome spectacle of a brilliant comet, with its long ghostly tail streaming behind it, is a rare event. ... Only one other comet, Comet Halley, was seen so far from the Sun, giving scientists an opportunity to watch it as it slowly warmed up and sprouted a tail. ... Comets are the Rip Van Winkles of the solar system -- mini-worlds that have changed little during their 4.5-billion-year nap far from the Sun. ... Observing Comets . ... Once, comets inhabited the entire solar system. ...

The Chi-Square Goodness of Fit Statistic . This statistic enables us to test whether observed frequencies are close to . those we would expect. ... Expected frequencies . ... For example, if we . have an honest die we would expect 1/6 of all cases to show any of . ... So, for example, if we roll a die 60 times we would expect : . ... If we actually roll a die 60 times we wouldn't expect each of the faces . ... times each face actually comes up is the observed frequency for that face. ...

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