... A Force from Empty Space: The Casimir Effect . ... Measuring slightly over one tenth of a millimeter, the ball moves toward a smooth plate in response to energy fluctuations in the vacuum of empty space. ... The form and genesis of dark energy is almost completely unknown, but postulated as related to vacuum fluctuations similar to the Casimir Effect but generated somehow by space itself . ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...

... Circumstellar disc of beta Pictoris: constraints on grain properties from polarization. To appear in the Astronomy & Astrophysics . abs , src , ps ] . ... Dust influx to Titan from Hyperion . ... abs ] . ... Characteristics of bulges and disks in interacting galaxies . ... Dust grains around Herbig Ae/Be stars: porous, cometary-like grains? ... To appear in the Astronomy & Astrophysics Supplement . ... Finally, Links may lead you to more options (e.g. via the LANL preprint system). ...

... 2002 September 17 . A Force from Empty Space: The Casimir Effect . ... Measuring slightly over one tenth of a millimeter, the ball moves toward a smooth plate in response to energy fluctuations in the vacuum of empty space. ... The form and genesis of dark energy is almost completely unknown, but postulated as related to vacuum fluctuations similar to the Casimir Effect but generated somehow by space itself . ... About APOD | ...

... 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. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Moon . ... Earth Satellites . ... By admin October 4, 2012 Posted in: Moon . A tiny second moon.This is Phobos (27 km across) seen over Mars by ESA's Mars Express (Image credit:ESA) . ... They concluded that at any given time Earth probably has a second moon. ... But, just perhaps, briefly the Earth had a second natural satellite seen by thousands of people.Remember the spectacular fireball witnessed over the UK and Ireland on 21 September 2012 ? ...

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Near-infrared images of star forming regions containing masers ( Figure 1 ) . L. Testi, M. Felli, P. Persi, M. Roth . 1997, A&AS, in press . ... C. Kramer, J. Alves, C. Lada, E. Lada, A. Sievers, H. Ungerechts, M. Walmsley . ... 1997, "Star Formation with ISO", Lisboa, June 24-26, ASP Conference Series, eds. J. Yun and R. Liseau . ... R. Cesaroni, M. Felli, L. Testi, C.M. Walmsley, L. Olmi . ... Click to examine publications from other years . ... Star Formation Group . ... Arcetri Home Page . ...

... Laboratory for Spectroscopy of Molecular Structures . ... News . ... A new article entitled Description of optical properties of cholesteric photonic liquid crystals based on Maxwell equations and Kramers-Kronig relations has appeared in Physical Review E. Congratulations to Grigoriy Ksyonz on his first publication! . 25 th February 2013 . ... 22 nd November 2012 . ... 22 nd February 2012 . 4 th Workshop on Liquid Crystals for Photonics 2012 will take place in Hong Kong December 9-11, 2012. ...

... FAQ Key Publications Links . ... Combined with previous data from our High-z Supernova Search Team and recent results by Riess et al., this expanded set of 16 high-redshift supernovae and a set of 34 nearby supernovae are used to place constraints on the following cosmological parameters: the Hubble constant (H 0 ), the mass density ( M ), the cosmological constant (i.e., the vacuum energy density, ), the deceleration parameter (q 0 ), and the dynamical age of the universe (t 0 ). ...

Essay ­ A3002 ­ Cosmology Final copy due September 15th. ... Your first task for Cosmology is to write an approximately 700 word Op-Ed piece on "Why I am studying Cosmology". ... Some Suggestions for Good Writing Write with a point of view. Figure out what you are writing about before you start writing. ... Write with structure: Good writing is not just the use of language. ... 70%-80%: A good essay which is deficient in one or more areas. 60%-70%: An essay which is deficient in several areas ...

... The 209 candidates were selected from our first and second priority samples introduced in Paper IV. Of 169 first priority candidates, 141 objects appeared in our list as new ones. 28 objects were listed in the NED as galaxies or objects from various catalogs with known redshifts and some of them already had information on emission lines in earlier publications. ... The ``random selected sample'' was created to access the fraction of BCGs in the second priority list and contains 43 objects. ...

The basic problems of the Laboratory are connected with researches of dynamics of minor planets and comets. ... THE ORBIT IMPROVEMENT of minor planets from optical and radar observations, . the utilization of minor planet observations for THE DETERMINATION OF ORIENTATION OF STAR CATALOGUES and DETERMINATION OF MASSES OF MINOR PLANETS BY DYNAMICAL METHOD, . THE ESTIMATION OF COLLISION PROBABILITY of minor planets with other bodies and with each other, . ...

... I have been involved into the La Sagra asteroids team since the beginning of the La Sagra Observatory (OLS) in Andalusia, Spain in 2006. ... In the following years I contributed to the continuous improvements of the search methods and data reduction pipelines. ... There I got introduced to a study to examine the effect of host galaxy dust extinction on the observed properties of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). ... GRBs host galaxies photometry . ... Copyright 2012 Aleksandar Cikota. ...

... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... ATCA . ... Science & Technology . ... ATCA Live . ... Teacher workshops . ... 64 messages : Starting 2001-09-05 14:23:51, Ending 2005-05-08 14:04:29 . ... Monday, 6 September 2004 . ... final announcement Tony.Wong_at_email.protected . ... final announcement amelatos_at_email.protected . Wednesday, 31 October 2001 . ... Millimetre Workshop, 2nd announcement Tony.Wong_at_email.protected . ... MM Science Workshop, 29-30 Nov Tony.Wong_at_email.protected . ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Medals: National Academy of Sciences (1960); Meteoritical Society (1968); American Association for the Advancement of Science (1972); Royal Astronomical Society (1975); Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1976) . ... Biography: E.J. pik was educated at Tallinn High School and Moscow Imperial University. ... Quarterly Journal Royal Astronomical Society 27 , 508, 1986 . ... E.J. pik in the library at Armagh Observatory 1. ...

Pulsars (from PULSAting stARs) were discovered, albeit accidentally, by Jocelyn Bell at Cambridge in 1967. ... In addition, some pulsars are known to be members of binary systems in which the companion is another neutron star, a white dwarf and even a main sequence star. ... PSR B1913+16: . ... Although subsequent pulsar surveys with better sensitivity to short period objects have found a large number of similar objects, for 24 years PSR B1937+21 stayed as the most rapidly rotating neutron star known. ...

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... ALMA . ... Publications list . ... M. S. Clemens, A. Bressan, B. Nikolic and R. Rampazzo, The history of star formation and mass assembly in early-type galaxies , MNRAS 392:35, astro-ph abstract , ADS entry , catalogues, materials . ... ADS entry . ... ADS entry , astro-ph abstract , PDF . ... B. Nikolic: Inference of Coefficients for Use in Phase Correction II: Using the Observed Correlation Between Phase and Sky Brightness Fluctuations , ALMA Memo 588, 2009. pdf , ADS page , supporting materials ....

... Telescopes . ... The International Conference "Dark Ages and White Nights (Spectroscopy of the CMB)" (June 20-24, 2016) . ... The International Conference "Stars: from collapse to collapse" (October 3-7, 2016) . The traditional annual competition conference of scientific and scientific-engineering papers of the Observatory staff members . ... A session of the Dissertation Council (October 16, 2015) . ... International scientific conference "Large Optical Telescopes" (October, 10-13, 2011) . ...