... The Cat's Eye Nebula . ... This image from the Hubble Space Telescope reveals The Cat's Eye Nebula to be one of the most complex planetary nebulae known. ... John Glenn: Discovery Launch . ... At left, the Space Shuttle Discovery waits in darkness on Kennedy Space Center's launch pad 39B. At right, on Thursday October 29, Discovery blasts through a bright afternoon sky returning Senator John Glenn to space over 36 years after he became the first American in orbit. ... An Ion Drive for Deep Space 1 ....

... 2008 October 26 . Massive Stars in Open Cluster Pismis 24 . Credit: NASA , ESA and J. M. ApellАniz ( IAA , Spain) . Explanation: How massive can a normal star be? Estimates made from distance, brightness and standard solar models had given one star in the open cluster Pismis 24 over 200 times the mass of our Sun, making it a record holder. ... Component stars would still remain near 100 solar masses, making them among the more massive stars currently on record. ... About APOD | ...

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... We have simulated the observations of a very distant cluster of galaxies at high redshift. ... The simulations are made for the HST instruments FOC, WFPC II, and the Advanced Camera, and for an 8-m telescope on the ground equipped with adaptive optics. ... A comparison of the fields of view of post-COSTAR HST imaging instruments with the Advanced Camera (AC) and the ground-based adaptive optics camera (AO) is shown in Fig. 1 superimposed on the noise-free cluster simulation. ...

... The commissioning of the FORS2 multi-mode astronomical instrument at KUEYEN , the second FOcal Reducer/low dispersion Spectrograph at the ESO Very Large Telescope, was successfully finished today. ... FORS2 is now ready to be handed over to the astronomers on April 1, 2000. ... Additional information about the VLT Data Flow System is available in ESO PR 10/99 . ... ESO Press Photo 05a/00 . Preview; JPEG: 400 x 452; 52k] . ... This is the caption to ESO PR Photos 05a-c/00 . ...

... You are here: start €Ё correlator €Ё mpiscript . ... MPI . ... An important one in most cases is MPI_Comm_rank() which returns an ordinal integer number to each instance . ... Type $ mpirun -np 3 -machinefile machines env . ... On cuppa it is OMPI_MCA_ns_nds_vpid $ mpirun -np 6 -machinefile machines env | ... usr/bin/perl use Env; Env::import(); $rank=$OMPI_MCA_ns_nds_vpid; if ($rank == 0) { print "I am zero\n"; } elsif ($rank < 5) { print "I am $rank\n"; } else { die "Nothing to do\n"; } . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Our Galaxy . ... Other Galaxies . ... Space Flight . ... October . ... Posted on November 19, 2010 | 1 Comment Could HIP 13044 b be the strangest exoplanet yet found? ... Continue Reading.. ... 2 Comments Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have been looking ten thousand years into the future of the vast globular cluster Omega Centauri. ... Posted on October 4, 2010 | 1 Comment Gorgeous! ... Posted on September 27, 2010 | ...

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 . ...

Photon Scattering: Basic Principle of Photon Scattering . Audio Narration is available . No Scattering: Photon Source and Detector . ... For optical photons, scattering goes as wavelength to the -4 power. In the case of blue photons compared to red photons, this means that blue photons are about 10 times more likely to get scattered than red photons. ... Watch the blue photons scatter away from the detector . ... Interstellar dust make stars appear redder than they really are . ...

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... Star Atlas . ... stars . ... If neutron stars don't produce energy from fusion, like normal stars, how can they shine in visible light? ... Although it is true that neutron stars have, for the most part, consumed all their internal thermonuclear fuel, they tap into other energy sources to produce light. Indeed, neutron stars are remarkably "resourceful" and employ a variety of physical mechanisms to make themselves visible.A newborn neutron star is incredibly hot ? ... Atlas of the Stars . ...

... The Pleiades star cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, is a conspicuous object in the night sky with a prominent place in ancient mythology . ... The stars in the Pleiades are thought to have formed together around 100 million years ago, making them 1/50th the age of our sun, and they lie some 130 parsecs (425 light years ) away. ... Data for these stars are listed in a table below. ... Yes . ... WEBDA Pleiades cluster data . ... M45: The Pleiades Star Cluster (2007 November 18) ...

... Have you ever been lucky enough to see a flock of ducks getting ready to fly to warmer climates for the winter? ... But if we look up much, much higher, above Earth s atmosphere and far beyond, we can see another flock the Wild Duck Cluster. Unless you have the eyes of a hawk, you ll need a telescope or pair of binoculars to see this cluster of stars. ... Tightly packed clusters with many stars live the longest, which is lucky for the Wild Duck Cluster, because it contains over 3000 stars! ...

Next: Caverns in Binary Systems Up: Ejectors in Massive Binary Previous: The Number of Ejectors . In the very first years after the discovery of radiopulsars, it became clear that for some reason they avoid forming binary systems. ... Illarionov and Sunyaev (1975)[ 76 ] noted the fact that coherent radiowaves with a wavelength longer than 75 cm, which make it possible to observe most of the radiopulsars, are absorbed effectively in the stellar wind of a normal star. ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... Pamela Ann Melroy (Colonel, USAF, RET.) NASA Astronaut (FORMER) . ... Initially assigned to astronaut support duties for launch and landing, she also worked advanced projects for the Astronaut Office.б  She also performed Capsule Communicator (CAPCOM) duties in mission control.б  Colonel Melroy served on the Columbia Reconstruction Team as the lead for the crew module and served as Deputy Project Manager for the Columbia ...

... I Please find selected by IKI time intervals proposed for interagency joint bounary layer study: . at October 2000, with CLUSTER II . at July - September 2000 . at April - June 2000 . at Mach - April 2000 . II Visualisation of the time intervals selected by Nelson Maynard: . ... III The extended list of the time intervals seleced by IKI for bounary layer study at Januay - October 2000: . ... April . ... October, with CLUSTER II . ... vprokhor@iki.rssi.ru . ... ssavin@iki.rssi.ru . ...

Launch of Explorer 1 . Click here for a full size version of this image. ... The USSR was first, sending off its first "Sputnik" ("satellite") on October 4, followed by Sputnik II on November 3. ... News conference following the launch of Explorer 1 . ... Unlike the orbits of the Sputniks, that of Explorer 1 was quite elliptical and it rose to an altitude of about 2500 kilometers. ... Explorer 2 failed to orbit, but Explorer 3, launched March 26, was successful, and it did carry a tape recorder. ...

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... GSAOI Home . ... Science . ... The goal of this project is to detect the termination of the white dwarf cooling sequence in nearby open star clusters, and hence derive cluster ages that are independent of the normal main sequence turnoff method. ... The potential for accurate proper motion measurements, i.e., measurements of transverse motion across the sky, with GSAOI offers a means of overcoming this difficulty. ...

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