... Skygazers around planet Earth enjoyed the close encounter of planets and Moon in July 15's predawn skies. ... A Hole in Mars . ... The hole was discovered by chance on images of the dusty slopes of Mars' Pavonis Mons volcano taken by the HiRISE instrument aboard the robotic Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter currently circling Mars. ... The moon was discovered earlier this month in images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in preparation for the New Horizons mission's scheduled flyby of Pluto in 2015. ...

... 2007 March 27 . Enceladus Creates Saturn's E Ring . ... Explanation: The active moon Enceladus appears to be making Saturn's E ring. An amazing picture showing the moon at work was taken late last year by the Saturn-orbiting Cassini spacecraft and is shown above . Enceladus is the dark spot inside the bright flare, right near the center of Saturn's E ring . ... The above bright image of the normally faint E-ring was made possible by aligning Cassini so that Saturn blocked the Sun. ...

Ida and Dactyl . Ida . ... On August 28, 1993 Galileo came within 2,400 kilometers (1,500 miles) of 243 Ida, the second asteroid ever encountered by a spacecraft. ... Dactyl . ... This color picture is made from images taken by the Galileo spacecraft about 14 minutes before its closest approach to Ida at a range of about 10,500 kilometers (6,500 miles). ... This image is the first full picture showing both asteroid 243 Ida and its moon Dactyl transmitted to Earth from NASA's Galileo spacecraft. ...

... This paper describes the main algorithms used by the Einstein Level One processing to create the exposure masks and the background maps for Einstein IPC images, and how these algorithms were recreated in the IRAF environment. Our goal was to recreate the algorithms used by the Level One Processing to create exposure masks and background maps for Einstein Image Proportional Counter (IPC) data (cf. sections 2.5 and 2.7 of Harnden et al. ...

... There are two ways to create menus: there's the easy way, and there's the hard way. ... So, if we wanted to create a standard File menu , with the options Open , Save , and Quit , the code would look something like: file_ menu = gtk_ menu _new (); /* Don't need to show menus */ /* Create the menu items */ open_ item = gtk_ menu _ item _new_with_label ( Open ); save_ item = gtk_ menu _ item _new_with_label ( Save ); quit_ item = gtk_ menu _ ... Create a menu item using gtk_menu_item_new(...

... 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. ...

... Scientists of Samara State Aerospace University (SSAU) have created an unique mobile platform for the production of training and gaming simulators. ... Such mobile platforms also known as the Stewart platforms became widespread in the world primarily as simulators for training of highly-qualified military pilots and drivers. ... For example, the Rocket and Space Centre Progress is going to test level sensors for residual fuel in the fuel tanks of the rocket carrier on this mobile platform. ...

... Table files like the ones created in the section on imcnts can be displayed, printed and manipulated using the tasks contained in the stsdas.ttools package. ... sp> tables # Load the relevant package ta> tprint rp90_cnt prpar=yes # .tab extension assumed # the hidden parameter prpar is set to display the header # as well as the data ta> tprint rp90_cnt # Displays only the data info ta> tprint rp90_cnt prdata- prpar+ # Displays only the header info ta> tprint rp90_cnt prparam=yes | ...

... The blue bubble is a planetary nebula known as Abell 33. Planetary nebulae are created when an aging star blows away its outer layers of gas in a gigantic cosmic bubble. ... Creating the illusion of the cosmic diamond is a bright star along the rim of the nebula. ... The star is about 700 light years away, that is halfway between Earth and the nebula. ... At the centre of the ring, you can see the remains of the star that created this planetary nebula, now a white dwarf . ...

XMM-Newton Science Analysis System Page: 1 om at eld July 2, 2008 Abstract Creates a tracking shifted at eld and applies it to an OM OSW image. ... The tracking shifted at eld is created by extracting a window from the OM In Orbit Flat eld. This window is made slightly bigger than the OM OSW Image to accomodate the tracking shifts of pixels within the In Orbit Flat eld. ... The at elded OM OSW Image is also output for use in subsequent pipeline tasks. ... Intermediate OM In Orbit Flat eld le. ...

The File System . This section describes how you can create new files, copy existing files, and delete obsolete files. ... RENAME to change the name of a file. ... Files can be created in several ways: text can be entered from the keyboard via the CREATE command, an editor can create a file, as can a running program, and files can be copied from other directories. ... To delete obsolete files, use the DELETE command followed by a file name or file name template (wildcards). ...

... 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. ...

. To remove a directory that is a symbolic link that points to another directory use the command: rm directory_name . Notice that the directory does not need to be empty and you do not have to use the rmdir command. You are not really removing a directory, just a named symbolic link that points to the "real" directory.

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Supernova 1994D is one of the brighter Sn from the recent past. ... The parent galaxy of this SN, NGC 4526 , was also the host galaxy of SN 1969E ( IAUC 2139 ). ... We have a photometry reference image created by Odd Trondal. ... Images of Supernova 1994D . U of Oregon (Electronic Universe) image 3/26/94 8:10 UT, K-band . ... ING image Undated color . SEDS image Undated . SEDS image Undated (zoom in of last image) . ... U of Oregon (Electronic Universe) light curve . ...

... Behemoth black hole found in an unlikely place . ... black holes . ... Chandra suggests rare explosion created our galaxyт??s youngest black hole . ... BLACK HOLES | ... The lack of such evidence implies a black hole may have formed. т??Itт??s a bit circumstantial, but we have intriguing evidence the W49B supernova also created a black hole,т?? said Daniel Castro from MIT. т??If that is the case, we have a rare opportunity to study a supernova responsible for creating a young black hole.т?? ...

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The "ring of fire" seen by satellite cameras around the polar caps (picture below) is probably created by electrons leaking from the tail's plasma sheet, whose magnetic field lines form a somewhat imperfect trap. ... One possible explanation involves the close association between auroral arcs and electric currents which flow along field lines between the ionosphere and distant space ( Birkeland currents ). ... That produces an extra resistance to the flow of current. ...

... Aurora from Space . ... Magnetic Storms . ... The "ring of fire" seen by satellite cameras around the polar caps (picture below) is probably created by electrons leaking from the tail's plasma sheet, whose magnetic field lines form a somewhat imperfect trap. ... One possible explanation involves the close association between auroral arcs and electric currents which flow along field lines between the ionosphere and distant space ( Birkeland currents ). ... Why no aurora at the magnetic poles? ...

This page elaborates on the previous example which discussed the use of color maps in connection with Ggi plot fields. ... How this can be done will be shown in a later example. /* example8.c -XT */ # include stddef.h # include math.h # include gipsyc.h # include cmain.h # include init.h # include finis.h # include userfio.h # include pgplot.h # include ggi.h #define ROWS 100 /* number of image rows */ #define ...