... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Universe Today . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... As we look farther out, to more distant objects, we see that they are rushing away from us. ... If the Universe is open, it will expand forever. ... If the Universe is flat, it is forever balanced between open and closed; it will expand forever, but always slowing, just balancing gravity. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ... Subscribe to the Bad Astronomy Newsletter! ...

S P E C I A L R E P OR T F F 62 ROM SLOWDOWN to SPEEDUP By Adam G. Riess and Michael S. Turner Distant supernovae are revealing the crucial time when the expansion of the universe changed from deceler ating to acceler ating tion. ... Gravity keeps us grounded. ... Although Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for gravity to push as well as pull, most physicists regarded this as a purely theoretical possibility, irrelevant to the universe today. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 31.05.2015 . ... Credit Copyright: High-Z Supernova Search Team , HST , NASA Explanation: Long ago, far away, a star exploded. Supernova 1994D , visible as the bright spot on the lower left, occurred in the outskirts of disk galaxy NGC 4526 . Supernova 1994D was not of interest for how different it was, but rather for how similar it was to other supernovae . ... Publications with keywords: supernova - cosmology . ... A Supernova through Galaxy Dust . ...

... 2015 November 11 . An Unexpected Rocket Plume over San Francisco . ... Explanation: What is that unusual light in the sky? ... The consensus of experienced sky observers was that the plume resulted from a rocket launch -- an explanation that was soon confirmed as an unpublicized test of a submarine-launched , unarmed, Trident II D5 nuclear missile . ... About APOD | ...

... December 30, 1998 . Supernova 1994D and the Unexpected Universe . Credit: High-Z Supernova Search Team , HST , NASA . Explanation: Far away, long ago, a star exploded. ... Supernova 1994D was not of interest for how different it was, but rather for how similar it was to other supernovae . ... The large number and great distances to supernovae measured in 1998 have been interpreted as indicating that we live in a previously unexpected universe . ... About APOD > . ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Data Handling and Products > Data Reduction FAQ > I see unexpected boxy emission-like features in my REDL spectra - where do they come from? ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... ESO-MIDAS . ... ESO Data . ... The pipeline by default interpolates across the bad columns in the REDL CCD when it creates the master bias, but does not so when it processes the science data. This inconsistency can create boxy emission-like features as seen in the figure below. ...

... These are ``quirks'' rather than ``bugs''. Below is a list of quirks. When loading a file and ``Reset Intensity Upon File Load'' is disabled, the intensity range of the previous image will be used. ... When moving between two images (such as when blinking, or when loading a new image), the display system attempts to retain the old image parameters (i.e. zoom box). What is retained are the corners of the zoom box measured in image pixel co-ordinates, not world co-ordinates. ...

Astronomy Discussion Forums . ... I Expected More Sense Than That. ... Post Message | ... Posted by Richard D. Stafford, Ph.D. on November 8, 2002 04:14:05 UTC . ... You are missing the point - harvey1 - November 8, 2002 - 13:10 UTC . I hope Stafford doesn't mind my intruding his forum - mrsouza - November 8, 2002 - 14:55 UTC . ... www.astronomy.net . ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... History . Brief History of Rocket and Space Technology . ... Flights Chronology . ... Project History . ISS Russian Segment . Steps of ISS Assembly . Spaceflights Chronology . Chronology of Extravehicular Activity . ... during establishment and maintenance of various ISS orientation modes (ICS, ОCS) and station reconfiguration; . ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

... Planets . ... Earth Satellites . ... The newly discovered ?mega-Earth? ... Its sibling, the lava world Kepler-10b, is in the background (the two planets? proximity is grossly exaggerated) .€а Kepler-10c has a diameter of about 29 000 km, 2.3 times as large as Earth, and weighs 17 times as much. ... The first mega-earth to be discovered is Kepler-10c which orbits a star lying about 560 light years from the Sun in the constellation Draco. ... Astronomers Find a New Type of Planet: The ?Mega-Earth? ...

Next Previous Contents . This means that an interrupt happened that no driver expected. ... In many cases you can safely ignore this error message, especially if it only happens once or twice at boot-time. For boot-time messages, look at the messages which are nearby for a clue as to what is going on. For example, if probing is going on, perhaps a probe for a physical device caused that device to issue an interrupt that the driver didn't expect. ...

... It's not often you get an email from me sent just before 7 a.m.! But I happened to be awake heard the 06.30 BBC Radio Ulster News describe a "Meteor Storm" to be expected later tonight (Fri 19 Nov). ... This was, I presume, based on a Press Release from the RAS, about the possibility of some unusual 'late' Leonid meteor activity. ... In fact, the predicted level is only about 10 meteors per hour! ... At this time of year we get around 10 meteors per hour from the sporadic background every night! ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Sky this Month . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Distant supernovae trace early universe's deceleration . The most distant supernovae ever seen confirm that the universe's expansion first slowed down before it started speeding up. ... Studies of distant supernovae suggest the expansion of the universe was slowing down after the Big Bang, but today, the universe's expansion rate is accelerating. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...

... The hotter the gas, the faster they move, and the more energy each of them holds. The free ions and electrons in a plasma behave the same way. Knowing the temperature of the high atmosphere of Earth, or that of the Sun, we can calculate energies expected of ions and electrons found there. However, ions and electrons actually observed in space are often much , much more energetic, and may move at a respectable fraction of the velocity of light (300,000 km/sec or 186,000 miles/sec). ...

... I.A.Dynnikov, Three-page approach to knot theory. ... Universal semigroup, Funktsional'nyi Analiz I Prilozhenija, 34 (2000), no.1, 29-40 (Russian); English translation in Functional Analysis and Its Appl. 34 (2000), no.1, 24-32. I.A.Dynnikov, Finitely presented groups and semigroups in knot theory. ... Math. 2000, no. ... English translation: Russian Math. ... A.Vershik, Numerical invariants of exponential groups, and a locally free approximation of braid groups (in Russian), Zapiski Nauchn. ...

Documentation for Delay Line Final Design Review - 12 Feb 2008 Notes: Anything marked in Status as [TBU] is definitely `To Be Updated' `Expected Date' refers to the expected date of release where this is likely to be different from the due date. ... TBU] INT-406-VEN-0112 MF/RCB/DMAW/EBS 22 Jan 08 22 Jan 08 Released. ... MF/XS/DMAW MF MF MF MF/XS/DMAW 22 Jan 08 29 Jan 08 Yet to be drafted 22 Jan 08 22 Jan 08 Yet to be drafted 22 Jan 08 22 Jan 08 Released. ... Document No. ...

Weekly Bulletin on Solar and Geomagnetic Activity Highlights on 01 - 07.06.2015, Forecast on 08 - 15.06.2015, Carrington Rotation 2164 (21,44.05.2015) SUNSPOT-FORMING ACTIVITY OF THE SUN WAS AT THE AVERAGE AND LOW LEVEL. ... NEXT WEEK THE AVERAGE AND HIGH LEVELS OF SUNSPOT-FORMING OF ACTIVITY, IS EXPECTED. ... FLARE ACTIVITY WAS AT THE LOW LEVEL ALL DAYS BESIDES JUNE, 1 -THE VERY LOW. ... IN THE RE- MAINING DAYS OF THE GEOMAGNETIC SITUATION EXPECTED UNSETTLED AND QUITE. ...

... This project is lead by Dr Brian Schmidt and aims to measure the ultimate fate of the Universe: Will the Universe expand forever, or will gravity eventually halt its expansion, and send it crashing into the "gnaB giB" the "Big Bang" in reverse? ... Measuring distances in the Universe is extremely difficult, but by comparing the relative brightnesses of SN Ia, it is possible to measure a distance to a single object with a precision of about 7%. ... SN 1997ck, the most distant star yet discovered . ...

Mercury Summer 2011 Table of Contents . ... A Hubble Space Telescope view of a segment of the Coma Cluster of galaxies, one of the densest known galaxy collections in the universe. ... In 1998, competing teams of astronomers were forced to come to grips with increasingly convincing observations that the expansion of the universe was accelerating , rather than decelerating (as they expected). ... Its discovery resulted directly from measurements of the distances to remote galaxies. ...

... 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? ...