... Since the invention of the telescope over 400 years ago, they have been built in many shapes and sizes, and for many different uses. Not many people know this, but the first telescopes were created by the Dutch around 1600 and were used to spot far-off enemy ships. Back then, telescopes were called БЂњlooking glassesБЂќ. ... With his telescope, Galileo became the first person to see many amazing features of our Solar System, including craters on the Moon and Jupiter's four largest moons. ...

... Very few of us can do something without the feeling that it can be done and done good. So, I want to say several words on the possibility of building the Open society in Russia. ... Even if we can't find long happy periods in the history, but can find ideas, which were original for Russia and the whole world, which were created by Russian philosophers, we can say that we can try to build the Open Society, because Russian way of thinking has something in common with the ideas of the Open society. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Solar System . Sun . ... Stars . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... Among the wonders of the sky they shared may have been something we do not have today, a neighbouring star roaming through the outer edge of the Solar System. ... Today Scholzт??s Star is about 20 light years from the Sun in the constellation of Monoceros. ... Seen from our Solar System, Scholzт??s Star barely moves across the across the sky. ... Astronotes . ... Subscribe to Astronotes . ...

... And the Fingers of . ... This manual, the Linux System Administrators' Guide, describes the system administration aspects of using Linux. It is intended for people who know next to nothing about system administration (as in ``what is it?''), but who have already mastered at least the basics of normal usage. ... The structure of this manual is such that many of the chapters should be usable independently, so that if you need information about, say, backups, you can read just that chapter. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bad Astronomy: The North Star, Polaris, is a very bright star. Good Astronomy: Polaris is a middling-bright star, easily missed. ... He said it was close to Polaris, the North Star, but he also said it was in the East. ... It's natural, I suppose, to think that such an important star should be bright, but really, that's a conceit, like thinking that the Earth is at the center of the Universe. If more people knew just why Polaris is the North Star, this Bad Idea would stop. ...

MY IMAGES COME -------------- My images come From the people who do the work From the people who sing the songs From the people who live the life From the people who get along A bottle of rum For the demon what always lurk For the demon what do me wrong For the fury what is my wife For the struggle what is my song CHORUS It get me down sometime It get me down but only A little look around and I find That I am not so lonely We in the same boat brother! ...

... Archives . ... I cannot remember when I first met Chernoff face but it hooked me up instantly. ... Alas, another absent mindedness: I don?t understand why I didn?t realize that I already have the data, XAtlas for trying Chernoff faces until today. ... There are other variations and other data analysis systems offer different fashioned tools for drawing Chernoff faces to explore multivariate data. ... Tags: calibration , Capella , Chandra , Chernoff face , EDA , line ratios , MADS , XAtlas . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2009 May 6 . A Spring Sky Over Hirsau Abbey . ... Visible nearly above you, during springtime at sunset in much of the northern hemisphere, will be the Big Dipper , part of the constellation of the Big Bear . ... Visible around the entire image edge is the courtyard of Hirsau Abbey , once a Benedictine Monastery founded in the year 830. ...

... Do you know why we have seasons on Earth? ... Even if you offer students the great activities developed by the Harvard researchers, or the great activities in ASP's teacher resource book, The Universe at Your Fingertips , your students still won't learn anything unless they work hard and think about their work. ... But none of these are worth a hoot unless they are also accompanied by hard work on students' part. ... The key to success in astronomy is the same as it is in everything else: hard work....

Participants about project . ... makes the world a welcoming place. ... we see it shared by those who love it. ... us more aware of our own community when we shared it . with the schools around the world. ... pleased my students chose to share the feelings of . ... Our town cannot grow much as it is like an island with . other communities growning around it. ... diverse, with many Mexican people recently adding to . ... Our town is old and the new City Building looked a bit . ... city. ...

... You are at the Voice and Vocal Page . This is the subject that always interested me. I sang all my life I could remember. ... So I had much different problems. ... I began to find out the Schools - methods of the voice healing and development. ... Some times ago I found out that there is so much information in and around me. This is not my own information, of course, but it needs to write it and system it or I'll forget it. Some things I could find in different books, some not. ...