... 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. ...

Making HST Pictures: Examples and Illustrations . ... These illustrations represent some of the steps and techniques used to produce “pretty pictures” from HST images. ... TIFFs (ftp) . ... Separate images are exposed through different color filters. ... An alternate way to make color images . ... Eight bit (one byte) images contain 256 different values that may be represented by 256 shades of gray or 256 arbitrary colors from a color map (or palette) of all possible colors. ...

... 2015 January 19 . Infrared Orion from WISE . Image Credit: WISE , IRSA , NASA ; Processing Copyright : Francesco Antonucci . Explanation: The Great Nebula in Orion is an intriguing place. ... But this image , an illusory-color four-panel mosaic taken in different bands of infrared light with the Earth orbiting WISE observatory , shows the Orion Nebula to be a bustling neighborhood of recently formed stars, hot gas, and dark dust. ... Now Available: APOD 2015 Wall Calendars . ...

... Credit Copyright: WISE , IRSA , NASA ; Processing Copyright : Francesco Antonucci Explanation: The Great Nebula in Orion is an intriguing place. ... But this image , an illusory-color four-panel mosaic taken in different bands of infrared light with the Earth orbiting WISE observatory , shows the Orion Nebula to be a bustling neighborhood or recently formed stars, hot gas, and dark dust. ... Publications with keywords: Orion Nebula - infrared . Publications with words: Orion Nebula - infrared . ...

NASA s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of Earth and the Moon transiting the Sun together on September 13, 2015. The edge of Earth, visible near the top of the frame, appears fuzzy because Earth s atmosphere blocks different amounts of light at different altitudes. On the left, the Moon s edge is perfectly crisp because it has no atmosphere. This image was taken in extreme ultraviolet wavelengths of 171 angstroms. ... NASA/SDO ...

... STScI-PRC01-04 HUBBLE'S ULTRAVIOLET VIEWS OF NEARBY GALAXIES YIELD CLUES TO EARLY UNIVERSE Astronomers are using these three NASA Hubble Space Telescope images to help tackle the question of why distant galaxies have such odd shapes, appearing markedly different from the typical elliptical and spiral galaxies seen in the nearby universe. ... Light from these galaxies travels great distances (billions of light-years) to reach Earth. ... These stars emit mostly ultraviolet light. ...

... Data Reduction FAQ > The reduced science spectrum displayed in the Reflex window appears good but when I try to plot it, it is quite different. How can I get it? ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... ESO-MIDAS . ... Reflex . ... ESO Data . ... ESO HST Image Galleries . ... ESO Data Access Policy . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... ESO Annual Reports . ... Seminars at ESO Santiago . ... Seminars at ESO Garching . ... ESO Telescope Bibliography . ... Last Update: 01.04.14 ESO . ...

... Meta Index / Home Page / Errors . ... warning . ... For instance, if the PROPOSAL information record is missing the user can add a fake one to the SOSF without this having any effect on the data reduction. corrective action: Continue. ... For a certain exposure in the ODF one of the parameters was not found in the housekeeping data. ... RGS, EPN, OM : the current exposure is found to contain more than one distinct calibration mode. corrective action: In the summary file: MODE = UNDEFINED . ... error...

A very important stage in a story of formation of any new science is the shift from discussion of situation which are possible but do not occur in practice due to some reason to recognition of real phenomena of interest. ... We suggest to consider computer viruses as this new specific form of life which is coming in the contact with our form of life. ... Computer life has been created by human being, the role of independent evolution of computer viruses seems to be still negligible. ...

... Survey processing . ... ESO - Public Surveys . ... 21/12/2009 Release of Science Verification Data . ... 11/12/2009 Press release about VISTA (Text, Images and Videos) . The ESO press release is at www.eso.org/public/outreach/press-rel/pr-2009/pr-49-09.html . ... 10/12/2009 15:00+ Ownerhsip of VISTA accepted by ESO from STFC (UK Goverenment representative) . ... 15/10/2009 Science Verification period started (see 21/12/9 for release) . ... 17/04/2008 Press releases om M1 from ESO , STFC and QMUL . ...

Classroom Activity: Making a Rainbow . ... When white light from the Sun or a light bulb passes through a prism, the light splits into its component wavelengths. ... Red, blue, green colored filters - if possible, cut 1x4-inch pieces of the filters for each student . ... Many students have the misconception that filters somehow dye the light a certain color. ... Younger students can draw the rainbow and make up a mnemonic for remembering the order of the colors (such as, ROY G. BIV). ...

... Directives | ... Apache HTTP Server Version 2.2 . ... This document describes the terms that are used to describe each Apache configuration directive . ... Configuration files . ... This indicates where in the server's configuration files the directive is legal. ... A directive marked as being valid in this context may be used inside <Directory> , <Location> , <Files> , and <Proxy> containers in the server configuration files, subject to the restrictions outlined in Configuration Sections .htaccess ...

... Data . AAS 221 . AAS 219 . ... The first thing to note is that Twitter does not guarantee to return all matching Tweets, whatever method is used (unless you have direct access to their "fire hose", which I don't). ... This should result in the same results as my REST-based search (method 2), since the volume of Tweets was probably not enough to cause this site to miss Tweets based on their collection strategy . ... A search for the tag #aas219 (case insensitive) using the Twitter REST API . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Earth Satellites . ... Leonid meteors seen from 13 km altitude aboard an aircraft during the 1999 Leonids Multi-Instrument Aircraft Campaign (Leonid-MAC). Comet Tempel-Tuttle provides the cometary debris for the Leonid meteor shower. ... Every 17-19 November Earth crosses Tempel-TuttleтАЩs orbit and the Leonids become visible. With clear, dark skies observers may see 10 to 15 Leonid meteors every hour on those mornings. ...

... Comet Ikeya-Zhang, designated C/2002 C1 (Ikeya-Zhang), is named after Kaoru Ikeya of Shizuoka prefecture, Japan, and Daqing Zhang of Henan province, China, who independently discovered it on the night of 1 February 2002. A preliminary orbit reported the following day indicated that it would come moderately close to both the Earth and the Sun and that it might become visible to the naked eye during late March and April 2002. ... Bailey, M.E., Clube, S.V.M. and Napier, W.M. The Origin of Comets . ...

RTT150 . ... This search system is designed for generating the necessary information on series of pointings (observations of each source consist of sets of exposures with different filters and sometimes with different exposure times) for observed sources. Search results appear at the separate page as a table with the following data: . DATE - real (not evening!) observations date (in YYYY-MM-DD format); . ... Bin - minimal CCD binning mode (may vary during the observations); . ...

image collection >> physical phenomena >> internal waves . Image ers9609020202 . ... September 02, 1996 at 02:02 . ... Several IW packets are clearly visible on ERS-2 SAR image taken on 2 September 1996 at 02:02 UTC. ... Some of the IW packets are oriented approximately parallel to the depth contours (blue lines). ... Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Layered Ocean Model (NLOM) SSH and current analysis for 02 September 1996. ... Image . surface geometry : 100*100 km . ...

Probing new worlds" Images are listed in the order in which they appear on the contact sheet (reading right to left). ... 2763-8.tif |19.2 |CSIRO's |The location of both the solar |CSIRO's Dover Heights field | ... Photo: CSIRO | ... NOT FOR USE. ... image. ... MB |galaxy |from the optical image |information for the two images | ... CenA_AAT7.tif) and radio image |used in the composite. | ... Large Array radio telescope of the |courtesy of NRAO / AUI / NSF | ... CSIRO's Parkes radio telescope. | ...

This module provides the ability to set environment variables based upon attributes of the request. ... The mod_setenvif module allows you to set environment variables according to whether different aspects of the request match regular expressions you specify. ... BrowserMatch . ... Syntax: BrowserMatch regex env-variable [= value ] [ env-variable [= value ]] .. ... Module: mod_setenvif . ... The BrowserMatch directive defines environment variables based on the User-Agent HTTP request header field. ...

... self-absorption - the absorption of light shining on an object by a process similar to that which produced the light originally; if a cloud emits less light than it absorbs from other clouds behind it, this net loss of light, termed self-absorption , causes the foreground cloud to appear darker than the background field (the term is from spectroscopy, where small absorption dips sometimes occur in larger emission lines, making the latter look as if it is absorbing part of itself) . ... HISA Main ...