... 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. ...

Galaxies are diffuse objects which are imaged against a background of finite brightness and noise. Galaxies which have the maximum contrast with respect to this background are the ones that are first discovered. ... These galaxies have been missed to date but active surveys for them are underway. ... In this page we present several examples of these newly discovered Low Surface Brightness galaxies as well as examples of high surface brightness galaxies. ...

Low Res. 72 dpi - 37K . ... Res. 150 dpi - 132K . ... In this Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) image, the central star is partially hidden by the disk, but can be pinpointed by the stubby jet (shown in green), which it emits. ... Res. 150 dpi - 96K . ... The thin, dark disk is illuminated by the light of its hidden central star. ... A thin, dark lane extends to the left and to the right of the binary, suggesting that a disk or ring of dusty material encircles the two young stars. ...

... Is the Sun always straight up at noontime? ... Hale Bopp: The Great Comet of 1997 . ... Sixteen years ago, Comet Hale-Bopp rounded the Sun and offered a dazzling spectacle in planet Earth's night. ... NGC 891 Edge On . ... The spiral galaxy spans about 100 thousand light-years and is seen almost exactly edge-on from our perspective. ... Hubble Remix: Active Galaxy NGC 1275 . ... Active galaxy NGC 1275 is the central, dominant member of the large and relatively nearby Perseus Cluster of Galaxies. ...

Starbursts are regions of enhanced star formation efficiency, where gas is being converted into stars at much higher rates than can be sustained over billions of years. ... A nice example in the southern sky is the nearby galaxy NGC 7552, which was imaged with the Compact Array at 3 cm by Forbes et al. ... On 9 May we re-observed this galaxy with the Compact Array in the 3-mm lines of HCN and HCO + . ... The two lines were observed simultaneously, allowing a direct comparison of their line strengths. ...

... The concerns here are similar to those for observing bright targets; saturation and blooming of the bright companion PSF must not impact the faint target. Also, one may need to consider subtracting the PSF of the bright object, and effects which limit the accuracy of that subtraction. If the bright companion will saturate and bloom, it will be necessary to rotate the CCD so that blooming along the CCD columns does not obliterate the faint target. ...

... Editor's choices for the most educational Astronomy Pictures of the Day about spiral galaxies: . APOD: 2003 March 10 - M101: The Pinwheel Galaxy . Explanation: Why do many galaxies appear as spirals ? ... One result is that M101 , also called the Pinwheel Galaxy , has several extremely bright star-forming regions (called HII regions ) spread across its spiral arms. ... APOD: 2003 April 13 - NGC 1365: A Nearby Barred Spiral Galaxy . ... NGC 1365 is a member of the Fornax Cluster of Galaxies . ...

... From Terry Moseley: "A very bright fireball was seen widely over Ireland, and even as far away as Liverpool, at about 00.30 on Sunday morning, 4 April. John McConnell saw it from Maghaberry, Co Antrim, and a woman saw it from her home in Newry, Co Down. The Liverpool observer reports that the fireball appeared at 30 - 40 degrees altitude in the western sky at 00:33 UT on 2009 April 05. ... I saw it) early Sunday morning at 00:32 BST. ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

True Color Image Gallery: Galactic SNR | Magellanic Cloud SNR . ... Chandra Proposer's Guide pile up section ] During frame readout, the ACIS CCDs take 40 microsec to (parallel) transfer the charge by one pixel. As a result of this, each frame readout, each pixel is exposed for 40 microsec to a source (plus cosmic X-ray background) at each location along its column. ... Note also that the image does not just trail, it extends along the whole column. ... Chandra Supernova Remnant Catalog . ...

... This program was created for correlating chosen regions in the series of fts images. ... Chosen regions' . ... In this section the program counts the integral for each region of the grid for each image. ... As a matter of fact, the integral is total brightness of the region and it is counted by 'int_tabulated' IDL function. ... In addition, the program will show the count of the regions which correlate with the corresponding region (the brighter region means the bigger count) and its contour. ...

... HTML . HEAD . ... BODY . The HTML tag identifies a document as an HTML document. ... The HEAD tag defines an HTML document header. ... The web browser displays none of the information in the header, except for text contained by the TITLE tag. ... The HEAD tag can contain TITLE, BASE, ISINDEX, META, SCRIPT, STYLE, and LINK tags. ... The BODY tag specifies the main content of a document. ... TEXT=" color " . ... VLINK="color" specifies the text color of visited (followed) links in a document. ...

... 2 April 1999 . The Nobeyama Radioheliograph data show that in the microwave range, besides large-scale trans-equatorial chains (see, e.g., the May 11-15, 1993 and November 1-4, 1993 events), there are also many examples displaying large and strongly evolving "longitudinal" or "internal" chains connecting remote active regions inside an active zone in one (northern or southern) hemisphere (the August 20-September 3, 1998 event). ... Last update: 2 April 1999 . ...

This page is devoted to information on Supernova 1999eb in NGC 664 Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main supernova page. Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the Supernova links web page. ... Normally, I wait until I get about 6 or so images before starting a web page for a specific SN, with 3 images and a spectrum the first day, I decided to get started while I had time. ...

To display information about your processes that are currently running: ps PID TTY TIME COMMAND 13185 ttyAF/ABFd 0:00 rlogind 13187 ttyAF/ABFd 0:01 bash 13218 ttyAF/ABFd 0:00 ps . ... 0:00 bash 3015 ? ... 0:00 bash 18469 ? ... To display information about the processes associated with another user (System V) ps -u rob PID TTY TIME COMMAND 1390 ttyAH/ABHb 0:18 bash 1403 ttyAH/ABHc 0:01 bash 1435 ttyAH/ABHY 0:01 bash 1471 ttyAH/ABHY 5:57 ream 2307 ttyAH/ABHb 0:29 xbiff 2315 ttyAH/ABHb 0:27 xbiff . ...

You Can Make Stellar Images Brighter . Articles | ... A few months ago I wrote an article titled "You Can’t Make Them Brighter". So why am I now writing that you can make them brighter. ... The image of a focused star is actually a small disk called the Airy disk, named after the 19 th century scientist Sir George Airy. ... For a given aperture, a smaller Airy disk means that the light is focused to a smaller disk and is therefore brighter. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ...

This all-sky image, constructed from 2 years of observations by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, shows how the sky appears at energies greater than 1 billion electron volts (1 GeV). Brighter colors indicate brighter gamma-ray sources. ... A diffuse glow fills the sky and is brightest along the plane of our galaxy (middle). Discrete gamma-ray sources include pulsars and supernova remnants within our galaxy as well as distant galaxies powered by supermassive black holes. ...

... Прекрасный вклад в развитие малыша – это игровой развивающий центр «Чудесный сад 360» от Bright Starts. ... В развивающем центре имеется специальный сектор пианино, который имеет возможность работы в нескольких режимах: различные звуки, мелодии и пианино. ... Развивающий центр 'Чудесный сад 360' станет настоящим подарком для любого ребенка. ... Бюстгальтеры и топы . ... Материал верха: натуральная кожа . ... Материал подошвы: термопластиковая резина . ... Материал: натуральная кожа...

ATMoB "Galaxy Observing Award " Guidelines Purpose: To promote observing among the membership of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston through participation in the Galaxy Observing Awards program. ... Examples of elliptical galaxies: M49, M59, M60, M87, NGC 4125. Limiting Magnitude Assessment: Spirals: A spiral galaxy consists of a flattened disk, with stars forming a (usually two-armed) spiral structure, and a central concentration of stars known as the bulge. ...

Next: Installing Up: General information Previous: About this guide Contents . In order to facilitate reading this manual, various fonts are used. Responses you are asked to type in at the command level appear in these fonts: hds_open, filename . ... Procedure names in the text appear like this: average , whereas widget buttons are typed like this: OPEN or D ISP C ORR , depending on whether or not they bring up a new widget or take immediate action, respectively. ...

... The Russian TESIS/ CORONAS-PHOTON Solar Observatory, which has been working in orbit since January 30th, 2009, has photographed one of the most important events in the build up to the upcoming solar cycle - the formation of our star's new southern belt of activity. The first magnetic fields of the new cycle in the southern hemisphere appeared on the Sun's surface on May 23-24th. ... The belt of activity is one of the primary concepts, characterizing the solar cycle. ...