... Bacteriophages: The Most Common Life Like Form on Earth . ... Credit: Wikipedia ; Insert: Mike Jones Explanation: There are more bacteriophages on Earth than any other life-like form. These small viruses are not clearly a form of life , since when not attached to bacteria they are completely dormant. Bacteriophages attack and eat bacteria and have likely been doing so for over 3 billion years ago. ... Publications with keywords: Earth - life . Publications with words: Earth - life . ...

... 2008 April 21 . Bacteriophages: The Most Common Life-Like Form on Earth . ... Explanation: There are more bacteriophages on Earth than any other life-like form. These small viruses are not clearly a form of life , since when not attached to bacteria they are completely dormant. ... Although initially discovered early last century, the tremendous abundance of phages was realized more recently when it was found that a single drop of common seawater typically contains millions of them. ...

... Science Users Information > Observing with ESO Telescopes > Phase 2 Preparation > Phase 2 Submission . ... Service Mode Philosophy . ... Service Mode OB Rules . ... Readme File . ... Checking OBs and README files in the ESO Database . ... These checks will be automatically performed also at the time of checking the Phase 2 material in the ESO Database, and non-compliant OBs or README files will be rejected. ... All Service Mode OBs and README files must be submitted to the ESO Database from P2PP. ...

SSC 2011: DISCOVER THE STARS AT ARMAGH Cross-Border Schools Science Conference 2011 The Centre for Cross Border Studies, The Royal School Armagh, The Armagh Observatory, and The Armagh Planetarium Thursday 5th and Friday 6th May 2011 Discovering the Universe Through Team-Working in Astronomy and Related Sciences 09:30 09:45­09:55 09:55­10:10 Arrive at Royal School (Reid Hall). ... Stars and Solar System group enters Planetarium. ... Each Group will be divided into Teams each containing 4 students. ...

Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the updates and links web pages. Discovered independently by Lick Observatory Supernova Search (USA) and Koichi Itagaki (Japan). ... 2009/10/11.44 . 17.2 . ... Joseph Brimacombe . ...

... Massive stars, having 10-150 masses of the Sun, with metallicities Z tens to hundreds times less than that of the Sun (Zo), are the main regulators of the galaxy formation and evolution processes in the early Universe. ... In this galaxy, using the 6 m BTA telescope, a new massive blue variable star with high luminosity (>=10 5 Sun's luminocities in visible light) was found. As far as its properties are concerned, this star falls into an LBV (Luminous Blue Variable) class of stars. ...

... Комментариев нет 22 августа 2010, 13:58 Blogger , English , Астрономия . ... Neptune will finally complete its first full orbit of the sun since it was discovered in 1846a approximately one year from now, according to NASA estimates. ... Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-21 . ...

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE DAILY REPORT #2906 PERIOD COVERED: 0000Z (UTC) 07/02/01 - 0000Z (UTC) 07/03/01 Daily Status Report as of 184/0000Z 1.0 OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED AND ACCOMPLISHED: 1.1 Completed Three Sets of WF/PC-2 9162 (Local Galaxy Flows and the Local Mass Density) The WF/PC-2 was used to investigate dark matter which is the main constituent of the universe. ... The proposal completed with no reported problems. ... There were no reported problems. ... No problems were reported. ...

... Complete content for online Mercury is available to ASP members and institutional subscribers . ... You can retrieve the latest issue of Mercury here . ... The 2012 Transit of Venus , Paul Deans . Only six Venus transits have ever been observed; the one in 2012 will be the 7th. ... STEM at the College and University Level , Michael G. Gibbs . ... Astronomy in the News . ... Editorial, Paul Deans . ... Armchair Astrophysics, Christopher Wanjek . ... ASP Award Winners . ... Sky Sights, Paul Deans . ...

... After delivery of all engineering models and SRT test sets to LA main ASC activities were moved to LA as well. ... Special attention was paid to the problem of tests on the electromagnetic compatibility between service and scientific on-board payload. ... The SRT was attached to special supporting frame, and LNA cooling system (NSOTR) was installed on the Focal Container. ... FC Focal Container - hermetic package with the scientific payload; it contains receivers, . ... TVT Thermo-Vacuum Tests . ...

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. ...

OptInt PmWiki . ... Tech Meet 2 . ... Page History | ... PmWiki . ... Return to Tech Meet 2 ( Edit ) . ... 1 pixel independent of pixel scale (avoids aliasing of high frequencies in speckled image) . ... ADR & CAH: Optical image quality tolerancing of OAP-based layout . ... ADR & CAH: Layout and tolerancing of lens-based optical system . ... ADR & CAH: Use tolerancing results to assign image quality and stability budgets by component . ... ADR & CAH: Think about how to apportion image quality budget . ...

In this chapter we will consider two very simple but useful Web agents that I have written on Actor Prolog for my own needs. ... Let us start the Web agent. Fig. ... Start of the Web agent. The Context diagram consists of three blocks: "Logic Programming Sites", "Edit", and "Check". ... Some Web sites that are linked with the logic programming and Prolog are listed in the pulldown list (these addresses are transferred to the "Edit" block from the "Logic Programming Sites" block). ...

Astronomy Discussion Forums . Forums: . ... God and Science ћ SETI ћ Software ћ UFO ћ XEphem . ... Discussion Forums . ... SETI A Great Idea And A Complete Waste . Forum List | ... Post Message | ... SETI is a beautiful idea but it is a complete waste of time and money. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | Advertise on Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

What follows is a brief list of benchmarks and discoveries that shaped our ideas on atoms and nuclei. ... Discovery of electrons . ... Comparing this to Faraday's results, one could get " Avogadro's number ", the number of (say) hydrogen atoms in one gram of hydrogen--an enormously large number. ... Similarly, energized atoms are only allowed to exist in one of a number of energy levels. ... By the way, Avogadro's number is 602,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (6.02 10 23 ) molecules in 1 gr hydrogen. ...

The completion of the 12-mm and 3-mm receiver systems on the Compact Array has secured two new astronomical windows into the southern skies. ... These include investigating the molecular gas reservoirs in and around galaxies in the very distant (high redshift) universe. ... Northern hemisphere millimetre interferometers have already observed molecular gas and dust in a handful of high-redshift radio galaxies, confirming that these objects are still forming the bulk of their stars. ...

... From Stargazers to Starships", overview , home page . stargaze/Sintro.htm . The Great Magnet, the Earth", overview home page . earthmag/demagint.htm . ... home page Education/Intro.html . Ideas which have motivated these sites . ... A chronology of astronomy, physics and space study , attached to the "Stargazers" site. ... The home page is outreach/outreach.htm . ... Many web pages exist about such subjects, but they often leave the reader no wiser, and at times, more confused. ...

Scientists Discover Surface Features on Titan . ... Scientists for the first time have made images of the surface of Saturn 's giant, haze-shrouded moon, Titan. ... Peter H. Smith of the University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory and his team took the images with the Hubble Space Telescope during 14 observing runs between Oct. ... About three weeks before Cassini's first flyby of Titan, the spacecraft is to release the European Space Agency's Huygens Probe to parachute to Titan's surface. ...

... Pre-university education . ... Samara region . ... University at a glance . ... A group of young scientists of Samara University under the guidance of the candidate of chemical sciences Yevgeniy Aleksandrov began to make the most extensive database in the world for the structure and physical properties of crystalline coordination polymers. ... The idea of making a database for coordination polymers already exists in the scientific community of the world. ... SAMARA STATE AEROSPACE UNIVERSITY . ...

Proposal Identi cation No.: P1685 Date Received: 2002-May-30 20:02:45 Technical Page Proposal Type: Regular General Category: Pulsars Observation Category: Galactic Total Time Requested: 150 Hours Proposal Title: Timing of Pulsars Recently Discovered in 430-MHz Drift-Scan Search Data ABSTRACT: We request 150 hr of observing time to carry out regular timing observations spanning a 12-month baseline on pulsars recently discovered in 430-MHz drift-scan search data. ...