... 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. ...

... July 24, 1997 . Mars Pathfinder's Landing Site . ... Explanation: Where is Mars Pathfinder ? ... From the surface Mars appears covered with rocks, but from orbit Mars appears covered with craters. ... These hills are about one kilometer from the landing site, twice the planned range of Sojourner . Two craters loom nearby: a small one to the east not easily visible here, and a big one to the south of Pathfinder. ... About APOD > . ...

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE DAILY REPORT #2735 PERIOD COVERED: 0000Z (UTC) 10/24/00 - 0000Z (UTC) 10/25/00 Daily Status Report as of 299/0000Z 1.0 OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED AND ACCOMPLISHED: 1.1 Completed Two Sets of STIS/CCD 8837 (CCD Dark Monitor-Part 1) The Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (CCD) was used to monitor the darks. The proposal completed with no reported problems. ... The proposal completed nominally. ... The proposal also monitor the STIS focus in an imaging mode. ...

... This chapter documents all the JavaScript objects, along with their methods and properties. ... Full entries for each object appear in alphabetical order; properties and functions not associated with any object appear in Chapter 2, "Top-Level Properties and Functions." ... Tables included in the description of each object summarize the object's methods and properties. Full entries for an object's methods and properties appear in alphabetical order after the object's entry. ...

... Phobos from Mars Express . ... Why is this small object orbiting Mars? The origin of Phobos, the larger of the two moons orbiting Mars, remains unknown. Phobos and Deimos appear very similar to C-type asteroids, yet gravitationally capturing such asteroids, circularizing their orbits, and dragging them into Mars' equatorial plane seems unlikely. Detailed View of a Solar Eclipse Corona . ... Only 11 million light-years away, Centaurus A is the closest active galaxy to planet Earth. ...

... Star Atlas . ... stars . ... Globular cluster NGC 2808, elliptical galaxy NGC 2986, and the Sextans Dwarf . ... Proxima Centauri is a red dwarf star, so would it appear red from the surface of an Earth-like planet in that star's habitable zone? ... Astronomers haven t found planets around our Sun s nearest neighbor, the red dwarf Proxima Centauri. ... Most exoplanets orbit red dwarfs the most common and longest-lived type of star. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

The Sun's corona . ... For instance, short "plumes" rising from the polar regions of the Sun look very much like field lines coming out of the end of a bar magnet, and they therefore suggest that the Sun, in addition to the intense fields of sunspots, also has a global magnetic field like the Earth's. Arches above the . Sun's surface . ... It is brightest near sunspots, whose arched field lines apparently hamper the outflow of solar wind which carries away energy and helps cool the corona. ...

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This feature is only available with the Bourne Again Shell (bash). ... To complete a command name press the TAB key. tel <TAB> net telnet> . ... Pressing the TAB key again displays all the commands on your path that begin with those letters. For example: ma <TAB><TAB> mach mail makecookie man maze macptopbm make makedepend mapname . ... Command name completion also works in the middle of a command line. For example the command name teln <TAB> orion.geo.aber . ...

Mercury magazine is now digital only, with all of the same articles and features that appeared in the print version. The magazine will be formatted to download and include space for advertising. Our readers are directly involved in the mainstream of astronomy research and education. ... 86% are involved in astronomy education at some level . ... 1/4 page . ... Additional work includes resizing of ad material, reformatting or correcting electronic files and correction of advertiser errors. ...

... LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 18, 2004 . ... LWN.net FAQ . ... This article is part of the LWN Porting Drivers to 2.6 series . Completions are a simple synchronization mechanism that is preferable to sleeping and waking up in some situations. ... When your driver begins some process whose completion must be waited for, it's simply a matter of passing your completion event to wait_for_completion() : . ... void complete(struct completion *comp); void complete_all(struct completion *comp); . ...

... Space Research Institute . Main . ... Main results of the experimental and theoretical research completed in 2011 . An automated method for mapping of vegetation cover over Russia using Earth observation data . ... The Space Research Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences . ... P.285-302. (in Russian) . ... P.103-116. (in Russian) . ... Main results of the experimental and theoretical research completed in 2010 . Main results of the experimental and theoretical research completed in 2009 ...

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GTK+ / Gnome Application Development . ... Home . ... There simply isn't space to cover all of glib's features in this book. ... Here's a brief list of features not already mentioned: . ... G_VA_COPY copies a va_list in a portable way. ... Convenience/portability routines to get the user's home directory, get the name of a /tmp directory, and similar tasks. ... If you need some generally-useful routine that's not in glib already, consider writing it in glib style and contributing it to the library! ...

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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Solar System . ... Planets . ... Space Flight . ... Neptune, which is not visible with the naked eye, was discovered by mathematical prediction in 1846 before being observed through a telescope. ... Tidal interactions between Neptune and Triton mean that in 100 million years these two bodies may come too close to one another causing Triton to be torn apart leaving Neptune with a ring system more spectacular than SaturnтАЩs. ...

I-GALFA View of a Galactic Tangent Region . ... Image featured in NAIC Newsletter #46 . I-GALFA image of hydrogen gas in a tangent region outside the Sagittarius arm. ... Because we are viewing this gas in a direction closely aligned with (tangent to) its orbital motion, it appears to be moving away from us (we are orbiting the Galactic center with a similar speed, but our own motion in a different direction). ... The gas near 60 degrees longitude is being viewed tangent to its orbital motion. ...

Experimental rocket R-1A . To mature mass and operating characteristics of rocket R-1, its designers proposed to use an integral fuel tank and a warhead separated from the rocket at the ascent phase completion. In this case, only the ascent phase appeared to be rated for the launch vehicle and considerably more favorable regarding mechanical and thermal loads as compared to the atmospheric portion of the descent phase of the flight trajectory. ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...