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... Hot Gas In Hydra A . ... Explanation: The Hydra A galaxy cluster is really big. ... But individual galaxies are too cool to be recorded in this false-color Chandra Observatory X-ray image which shows only the 40 million degree gas that permeates the Hydra A cluster. ... Publications with keywords: galaxy cluster - hot gas - Hydra A . Publications with words: galaxy cluster - hot gas - Hydra A . ... The Hydra Cluster of Galaxies . MACS 1206: A Galaxy Cluster Gravitational Len . ...

... December 17, 1999 . Hot Gas In Hydra A . ... Explanation: The Hydra A galaxy cluster is really big. ... But individual galaxies are too cool to be recorded in this false-color Chandra Observatory X-ray image which shows only the 40 million degree gas that permeates the Hydra A cluster. Astronomers have discovered that such X-ray hot gas clouds , millions of light-years across, are common in galaxy clusters . ... Tomorrow's picture: Irregular Galaxy Sextans A . ... About APOD > . ...

meandata |pgc|int||n/a|PGC number meandata |objname|varchar|%-24s|n/a|Principal name meandata |objtype|int|%-7s|n/a|Type of object (G=galaxy; C=Cluster; S=Star) meandata |al1950| real |% 10.5f |hours|RA 1950 (hours decimal value) meandata |de1950| real |% 10.5f | degrees |DEC 1950 ( degrees decimal value) meandata |al2000| real |% 10.5f |hours|RA 2000 (hours decimal value) meandata |de2000| real |% 10.5f | ...

Next: The BeppoSAX Low-Energy Concentrator Spectrometer Archive at the Space Science Department of ESA . Up: Archiving . ... The Integrated Data Archive System . ... This paper shows aspects of the development of a prototype application to test the feasibility of near real time distribution of Telemetry Packets to the different instrument control centers. ... The FIRST ground segment will be based on the object oriented FIRST Integrated Network and Data Archive System - FINDAS. ...

... Asteroid . ... In case you didn't hear about it, which you probably didn't: On Jan. 7, an asteroid 1,000 feet across -- nearly three times the current diameter of Marlon Brando -- barely missed the Earth, which is most likely your planet of residence. ... What if this asteroid had hit the Earth? ... As it happens, the American Astronomical Society was holding a conference in Washington AT THE VERY SAME TIME as the asteroid nearly hit the Earth. ...

... The concerns here are similar to those for observing bright targets; saturation and blooming of the bright companion PSF must not impact the faint target. Also, one may need to consider subtracting the PSF of the bright object, and effects which limit the accuracy of that subtraction. If the bright companion will saturate and bloom, it will be necessary to rotate the CCD so that blooming along the CCD columns does not obliterate the faint target. ...

The picture above was made with this demo POV file and this Mirror object POV file . ... This is a magnifying mirror with a light around it, on an articulated arm, designed for wall-mounting. ... Behind this mirror in the image are two more mirrors, one above showing the front, and one below showing the arm in a bent position, and the whole thing roated so that you are effectively looking "up" at it. ... The two images below show details of the base, and the back of the mirror. ...

... The exercises are now available on the web and in six booklets (100 pages in total), titled: . ... Exercise 1: Measuring the Distance to Supernova 1987A", . Exercise 2: The Distance to Messier 100 as Determined by Cepheid Variable Stars", . Exercise 3: Measuring the Distance to the Cat's Eye Nebula" and . Exercise 4: Measuring a Globular Star Cluster's Distance and Age". ... More exercises will follow in the future. ... Exercise 3 - Measuring the Distance to the Cat's Eye Nebula . ...

... Several HST instruments both current and decommisioned have provided imaging linear polarimetry capabilities. ... The STECF IRAF layered package impol provides five tasks specifically aimed at reduction of HST imaging polarimetry data. ... Reduction of HST polarimetry data and simulation of raw polarimetry images, together with polarization vector plotting, are covered. ... For reduction of data from imaging linear polarization instruments other than from HST, the instrument name is `SPECIAL'. ...

... Laboratory of Real Structure of Crystals . ... Fields of research . Experimental techniques . ... Photoelasticity method for study of microstress fields around individual dislocations (and their clusters) and their influence on physical properties of crystals. ... Two-level periodic pulse loading technique for study of characteristics of the kink pair formation and motion along dislocation lines in different types of crystals. ISSP RAS © 2006 All rights reserved ...

... Contact: Huib van Langevelde, Director Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe +31 521 596 500 langevelde@jive.nl www.jive.nl Arpad Szomoru, Head of Technical Operations and R D Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe +31 521 596 500 szomoru@jive.nl www.jive.nl Michael Lindqvist, Astronomer Onsala Space Observatory +46 31 772 55 08 michael.lindqvist@chalmers.se www.chalmers.se/rss/oso-en Kristine Yun, EXPReS Public Outreach Officer Joint Institute for ...

... We have measured this "redshift" for the pink black holes, and allowed for it in our calculations. ... We see this effect in the emission from gas around these pink black holes, but it is far too small an effect to account for the pinkness. Thus the swirling motions of gas around or into the black holes cannot produc the colour. ... At first we thought that these things were normal blue black holes hidden behind clouds of interstellar dust, that absorbed the blue light and made them appear pink. ...

High redshift radio galaxies and SMBH evolution Mark Lacy Outline - what did we learn in the last 10 years? Radio galaxies contain really big black holes. ... Some high-z radio galaxies are forming a lot of stars. Radio jets can both drive strong shocks into the ISM (negative feedback for star formation?) and form stars (positive feedback for star formation?) High-z radio galaxies are not alone - radio quiet and radio intermediate type-2 quasars are common at high redshifts. ...

Program to display an object's position in real time} {Set the delimiter to % so we can use , in prompts} set_delimiter(%) {On first pass, get the name of the object etc.} if (s1=.) set_string (s1%Sun) display _title(+++ Real-time Positions +++) write_string (Possible objects are:) new_line write_string (Sun, Moon, name of a planet, parabolic or elliptical) new_line new_line ...

... The space station Mir is the most complex and unique vehicle of the twentieth century. ... It is in proposing to UNESCO the procedure of giving to the space station Mir a status of the object of the World cultural heritage of the mankind as a very valuable unique object of the technical culture of the 20th century, and realization of the special project of its preservation. ... Proactive organization work to get in UNESCO the status of the object of the World cultural heritage for the station Mir; ....