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... 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. ...

... Planet Building in HD 100546 . ... NOAO , NASA/GSFC ), CTIO , ESO , NSF Explanation: More than 100 billion boulders may be swarming in the disk around nearby star HD 100546 . In a scene thought similar to the early years of our own Solar System , ever larger rocks are growing by colliding and accreting dust as the messy business of planet formation appears to be underway. ... Publications with keywords: planetesmals - dust - planets . Publications with words: planetesmals - dust - planets . ...

... Looking south-east at the moonlit ANU 2.3m teтАж . ... Title: Looking south-east at the moonlit ANU 2.3m telescope building with the Anglo-Australian Telescope dome in the distance . ... Looking south-east at the moonlit ANU 2.3m telescope building with the Anglo-Australian Telescope dome in the distance The Milky Way from the Southern Cross to the tail of the Scorpion is rising. ...

ST ScI Preprint #1400 . Authors: S. Michael Fall This article summarizes--from a personal perspective--some of the main themes that have emerged at this conference and in this field generally in the past few years. ... Appeared in: Building Galaxies, From the Primordial Universe to the Present , eds. F. Hammer, T. X. Thuan, V. Cayatte, B. Guiderdoni, T. T. Van . Affiliations: . Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218 . ...

... Bojan Nikolic web pages (r. 329) . ... http://carma.astro.umd.edu/wiki/index.php/Installing_Developer_CASA . Building CCMTools as required by CASA . ... Building . ... Notes related to building CASA . A prototype build system for CASA using SCons . ... Generating IDL files . ... Notes on the classic CASA build . ... Writing the tool XML file . ... Automatically generated IDL files from the files describing each of the tools of CASA. ... Building CASA . ... Building the casa-core libraries . ...

... Active Disk Building in a Local HI-massive LIRG . by Michelle Cluver (UCT) . ... However, the mid-infrared uncovers a star-forming disk housing an intense starburst with a star formation rate of approximately 21 Msun/yr (Cluver et al. 2008 , 2010 ).This luminous infrared galaxy (LIRG) appears to be undergoing asymmetric inside-out disk building, with a star formation efficiency comparable to local disk galaxies and quite different to merger-driven starbursts. ... today * ATNF | ...

... 2001 May 2 . Planet Building in HD 100546 . ... NOAO , NASA/GSFC ), CTIO , ESO , NSF . Explanation: More than 100 billion boulders may be swarming in the disk around nearby star HD 100546 . ... For an Earth-like planet in such a hostile environment, the sky would be lit continuously with streaking meteors and the ground would rumble continuously with impacts . ... The bright light and six-pointed diffraction spikes from the central star have been removed from the false-color image. ...

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. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Sky this Month . ... Star Atlas . ... stars . ... The Sky This Week: April 1 - 10 . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Why do some stars appear to flash a variety of different colors when you look at them through a telescope? ... So, Earthт??s atmosphere will bend some colors from especially bright stars more so than others, which makes the source look like itт??s flashing colors. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

... Donate to Support Science Literacy . ... 2016 Annual Awards . The ASP is accepting nominations for the organizationтАЩs national annual awards which recognize special achievements in astronomy research, technology, education, and public outreach. ... Shop the AstroShop . ... The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) is accepting nominations for the organizationтАЩs national annual awards which recognize special achievements in astronomy research, technology, education, and public outreach.. ...

... Planets . ... Earth Satellites . ... The newly discovered ?mega-Earth? ... Its sibling, the lava world Kepler-10b, is in the background (the two planets? proximity is grossly exaggerated) .€а Kepler-10c has a diameter of about 29 000 km, 2.3 times as large as Earth, and weighs 17 times as much. ... The first mega-earth to be discovered is Kepler-10c which orbits a star lying about 560 light years from the Sun in the constellation Draco. ... Astronomers Find a New Type of Planet: The ?Mega-Earth? ...

... Roger Ritenour Title : Earth Filename : Earth.wad Author : Roger Ritenour Emale Address : ritenour@mail.comet.net Description : Ten level episode replacement for first episode of Hell on Earth. ... Play Information * Episode and Level # : Map01-Map10 of Doom II Single Player : Yes Cooperative Player : Yes (untested) Deathmatch : Yes (untested) Difficulty Settings : Yes, full range, all settings are slightly more difficult than standard Doom settings. ...

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Next: Phenology Garden Up: Buildings, Grounds, Library and Previous: Buildings, Telescopes and Telescope Contents . Strong support for the provision of a new Library, Archives and Historic Scientific Instruments Building was expressed by the Board of Governors at their annual meeting in March 2004. ... During 2004 the project was advanced largely by John Butler, who prepared a detailed application for external funding to support the proposal, which is intended to be submitted to the HLF in 2005. ...

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... The azimuth position to maximize the dome signal building 2 was measured on 23jan13. ... Mount a 1400 Mhz helical antenna from john harmon's old office on the 4th floor of building 2. ... za = 15 deg The plots show the signal strength vs az,za for the spectral channel containing the tone (after hanning smoothing) (.ps) ( .pdf ) . ... The dashed colored lines show the azimth for the peaks at za= 19,17, and 15 degrees. ... The peak strength at a single za can change by 33 db in 3 degrees of azimuth . ...

When I build NEdit on my SunOS system, I get undefined symbols: _memmove , _atexit , _strerror . ... I built NEdit on my Linux system, and it's full of bugs. ... When I build NEdit on my SunOS system, I get the fillowing undefined symbols: ld: Undefined symbol _memmove _atexit _strerror *** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `nedit' . ... NEdit fails to build on Linux, with messages undefined reference to `XpGetDocumentData' undefined reference to `XpGetPageDimensions' .. ...