... Trapped Motion . ... The trapping of particles by magnetic fields was first studied by Kristian Birkeland in Norway, starting around 1895. ... Perhaps the most interesting story of that era concerns Nicholas Christofilos , a Greek elevator engineer whose avocation was the study of particle motion in magnetic fields. ... Atomic bombs produce large numbers of energetic electrons, and Christofilos hoped that such electrons would become trapped in the magnetic field as an artificial radiation belt. ...

... Trapped Motion . ... The trapping of particles by magnetic fields was first studied by Kristian Birkeland in Norway, starting around 1895. ... Perhaps the most interesting story of that era concerns Nicholas Christofilos , a Greek elevator engineer whose avocation was the study of particle motion in magnetic fields. ... Atomic bombs produce large numbers of energetic electrons, and Christofilos hoped that such electrons would become trapped in the magnetic field as an artificial radiation belt. ...

... 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. ...

... Special Reports Giant space cloud may be powered by black holes 17:57 23 April 2007 NewScientist.com news service David Shiga An enormous cloud of roiling plasma in space may be drawing its energy from black holes, new observations suggest. Such clouds might be sources for the mysterious particles that occasionally crash into Earth's atmosphere at ultra - high speed. ... But higher energy particles in the cloud may be able to escape, he says. ...

M1 image More About M1 Nice Color Picture . ... M16 image More About M16 HST image . ... M31 image More About M31 Nice Color Picture . ... M42 image ; M43 image More About M42/43 Nice Color CCD Picture . M51 image More About M51 Color Image of M51 M51 Supernova . M57 image More About M57 Nice Color CCD Picture Very Deep M57 Image . ... M81 image More About M81 M81 Supernova Ultraviolet Image of M81 More about Ultraviolet Imaging . M82 image More About M82 M82 False Color M82 True Color . ...

... Ice Fountains Discovered on Saturns Enceladus . ... Credit: Cassini Imaging Team , SSI , JPL , ESA , NASA Explanation: Fountains of ice shoot out from Saturn's moon Enceladus. Clear discovery images of the fountains were made using observations from the robot Cassini spacecraft currently orbiting Saturn . ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ... Публикации с ключевыми словами: Enceladus - Saturn - Энцелад - Сатурн . Публикации со словами: Enceladus - Saturn - Энцелад - Сатурн . ...

Discover the cosmos! ... 2012 July 24 . South Polar Vortex Discovered on Titan . Image Credit: Cassini Imaging Team , ISS , JPL , ESA , NASA . Explanation: What's happening over the south pole of Titan? A vortex of haze appears to be forming, although no one is sure why. ... Winter, however, is slowly descending on the south of Titan, so that the vortex , if it survives, will be plunged into darkness over the next few years. ... About APOD | ... A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC . ...

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 . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... Mysterious source of high-energy cosmic radiation discovered . ... During 10 years, five high-energy cosmic rays (plotted as orange asterisks) came from one small part of the sky near the star Merak in the Big Dipper. ... Scientists have discovered a previously unidentified nearby source of high-energy cosmic rays. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article...

... November 5, 1997 . The Milky Way's Gamma-Ray Halo . Credit: D. Dixon ( UCR ), D. Hartmann ( Clemson ), E. Kolaczyk ( U. Chicago ), NASA . Explanation: Our Milky Way galaxy appears to be surrounded by a halo of gamma rays . Gamma rays are the most energetic form of electromagnetic radiation , with more than a hundred thousand times the energy of visible light, but known gamma-ray sources don't account for the diffuse distribution of this high-energy glow. ... About APOD > . ...

Next: The Evolutionary Status of Up: No Title Previous: Massive X-ray Binaries . After 25 years of pulsar studies, a radiopulsar has been discovered in a binary system with a massive optical companion (Johnston et al. ... As shown in the very first calculations of joint evolution of NS and normal stars in binaries (Kornilov and Lipunov, 1983b[ 86 ]) a considerable fraction (maybe, the majority) of NS in binary systems having an optical companion must be at the ejector љ (E) state. ... Systems . ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Although the comet itself never comes dangerously close to the Earth, the particles of dust that it has shed during its many past passages through perihelion found their way into the Earth's atmosphere, appearing as meteors in the cold December sky. ... Animation 1 . ... An Ursid meteor captured by the Armagh Observatory's NE-facing meteor camera in the early morning of 23rd December. ... Meteor Showers Online . ...

Jean Ballet, CEA/SAp 01 February 2005 Column rejection in the MOS The core of soft sources is removed by the standard emchain. Due to very large fluctuations in count rate from one column to the next at low energy. ... New columns with very bad (too low) energy were discovered in 1E 0102. ... 0831_0125911901, MOS 1, CCD 1, GD 153 (SW mode) Standpixeas alotsrs moved Bad ard l n n y ie The columns running through the source core are rejected by embadpixfind 1.20 in SAS 6.1. ...

EMBARGOED UNTIL: 9:20 AM CST, January 6, 1999 CONTACT: John Biretta Space Telecsope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD (Phone: (410) 338-4917; Internet: biretta@stsci.edu) HUBBLE DETECTS FASTER-THAN-LIGHT MOTION IN GALAXY M87 Astronomers reported today discovering clouds which appear to move many times faster than the speed of light, shooting out from the region of a black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy. ... It's an illusion created by the finite speed of light and rapid motion," Biretta said. ...

Recent Changes - Search : . ... PmWiki . ... Basic Editing . ... PmWiki FAQ . ... pmwiki.org . ... edit SideBar . ... Go to new wiki . History . Print . LBASep2014 / . NB Ceduna appears to have variable gain throughout this experiment. This problems appears to be in the receiver itself but was not discovered until toward the end of the LBA session. ... Edit - History - Print - Recent Changes - Search . ...

... part 1 | ... The Basic Stages in Earth's Pre-geological Development . ... After fragments of the Vortex sleeves separated, whirlwinds of second and third orders ("NC" - new micro-vortex) were generated- future planet cores and their satellites - all of them developing independently, governed by the common laws of development of cosmogenic vortexes. ... Our planet's core today is comprised of considerably deteriorated cosmogenic vortex; consequently, the Earth has a moderated magnetic field. ...

... The International Year of Astronomy (IYA2009) will be a global celebration of astronomy and its contributions to society and culture, highlighted by the 400th anniversary of the first use of an astronomical telescope by Galileo Galilei. The aim of the IYA is to stimulate worldwide interest, especially among young people, in astronomy and science under the central theme "The Universe, Yours to Discover." ... Discover the universe with a telescope similar to the one Galileo used 400 years ago. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Solar System . ... Planets . ... Space Flight . ... Neptune, which is not visible with the naked eye, was discovered by mathematical prediction in 1846 before being observed through a telescope. ... Tidal interactions between Neptune and Triton mean that in 100 million years these two bodies may come too close to one another causing Triton to be torn apart leaving Neptune with a ring system more spectacular than SaturnтАЩs. ...

... SAO researchers have discovered that supercritical accretion disks eject hot gas with a velocity of a few thousand kilometers per second. The supercritical regime of accretion onto black holes is very important for astrophysics. In the first half-billion years just after our Universe was born, supermassive black holes (quasars) began to appear and grow in centers of young galaxies. ... Gas falling onto a black hole (accretion) is not a frequent phenomenon in our Galaxy. ...

. The temperature of degenerating is the temperature below which there appear the quantum effects connected with the indenty of the particles. For bose-gas this temperature Td is equal to the one below which the condensation of Bose-Einstein occurs. Td = Ef/ k , where Ef - maximum energy of particles at T = 0 (fermy-energy), k - constant of Boltzman ( k = 1,3807*10^-23 Dg/K). Back .