... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... This calibration approach is recommended when dealing with high frequency data from the old ATCA correlator, especially at 3mm wavelengths. ... The approach described here exploits the dual frequency bands that were available with the old correlator. ... Rather the current approach assumes that you have a single Miriad dataset containing bandpass calibrator, phase calibrator, flux density calibrator and program source. ... MFCAL . ... Input multi-source, dual-band dataset. select=source(1921-293) . ...

Next: Extinction properties (transmitted radiation) . ... The notes in their current form concern only 2 but main for astronimy aspects of the optical properties of cosmic dust - the ability to extinct and polarize transmitted radiation. The corresponding obervational effects the extinction and polarization (not due to scattering) plaied and plays till now the primary role in astrophysical effects of cosmic dust considered in the literature. ... Extinction properties (transmitted radiation) . ...

In 2001, Westerbork observations of the disturbed galaxy named VV-29 (alias Arp-188, UGC-10214) showed that there is second smaller galaxy (named VV-29c) that appears behind the western side of the main body of the distorted galaxy. ... The galaxy was featured as the May 2, 2002 Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... When VV-29 had its 15 minutes of fame in May 2002, it appeared under the name "The Tadpole Galaxy," but based on the images above, we will always think of it as "The CHAINSAW"! ...

... Structure of Data . ... Catalog . ... The SAI OCL Catalog site provides several VO-enabled modes of operation: . VO-enabled catalog data analysis from a browser . ... Endpoint URL is http://ocl.sai.msu.ru/catalog/conesearch/ . ... VO-enabled catalog analysis from a browser . Presently, this recipe works with Firefox (Windows, MacOS, Linux), Internet Explorer (Windows) and Opera (Windows) browsers with Java plugin 1.6 installed. ... Main TOPCAT window with SAI OCL catalog loaded will appear. ...

Proceedings of Turbulent Shear Flows XI , 1997. NASA Technical Paper # 3555 , 1997. Proceedings of European Turbulence Conference VI , 1996. ESPRI Research Report # 104, 117-143 (1996) . ... Proceedings of Turbulent Shear Flows X , 1995. ASME Paper 95-GT-437 , 1995. ... Invited AIAA Paper 94-2281 presented at the 1994 AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, Colorado Springs, CO. AIAA Paper 94-2323, presented at the 1994 AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, Colorado Springs, CO. ...

... 8th August 2000: The VLT images the Comet Linear breakup shower . ... Comet C/1999 S4 (LINEAR) was discovered on 27 September 1999 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Lincoln Laboratory programme LINEAR (Lincoln Near Earth Asteroid Research), at the White Sands Missile Range in Socorro, New Mexico, USA. The LINEAR programme , which uses a 1m prime-focus Cassegrain telescope to search the sky for comets and asteroids passing close to the Earth, is funded by the United States Air Force. ...

... Strange visual effects would appear as documented in the above relativistically-accurate animation . First of all, relativistic aberration would cause objects to appear to bunch up in front you. Next, the Doppler shift would cause the colors of forward objects to shift toward the blue, while things behind you would shift toward the red. ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ... Publications with keywords: motion - color . Publications with words: motion - color . ...