... 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. ...

... Triton: Neptunes Largest Moon . ... So, looking toward the Sun, extreme ultraviolet cameras onboard STEREO B were able to record a stunning movie of a lunar transit (aka solar eclipse), as the Moon tracked across the solar disk. ... Stars, Dust and Nebula in NGC 2170 . ... Visible above are red glowing emission nebulas of hydrogen, blue reflection nebulas of dust, dark absorption nebulas of dust, and the stars that formed from them. ... APOD: 2007 February 24- X rays and the Eagle Nebula . ...

... Here some data observed on the 6m telescope with IFP installed in the OLD focal reducer are presented. ... Mkn 3: velocity field . ... NGC 5252: [OIII] image . ... NGC 5252 was observed 23 Feb. 1998 in the [OIII]5007 emission line with CCD TK1024 as detector. ... We observed the ionized gas velocity fields of the spiral galaxies with two purpose. ... Restored velocity field of NGC 157 in the reference frame rotating with the pattern speed overlaid on the Ha image of the galaxy . ... NGC 4100 . ...

... In 1995, two intermittent detector features (aka hotspots) particular to the ROSAT HRI have been noticed on the edge of the HRI field. ... To view the hotspots: . HS #1 > xdisplay "rh123456n00.qp[key=(rawx,rawy)][186:697,230:741]" HS #2 > xdisplay "rh123456n00.qp[key=(rawx,rawy)][3380:3891,297:808]" HS #3 > xdisplay "rh123456n00.qp[key=(rawx,rawy)][2753:3252,3065:3564]" OR > xexamine rh...qp[key=(rawx,rawy)] [HS #1, if present, appears as a spot in the lower left; HS #2 in the lower right.] ...

Yesterday I got a fragment (first 12 disks of 43 total) of Merlin beta 9.014 (string appeared in kernel and drivers; cmd.exe reports 9.012). ... Those 12 disks appeared to be sufficient to pass 1st phase of installation and run Merlin off Maintenance Desktop. ... 1) HPFS 2MB cache limit is still there. ... InfoPM shows about the same graphics performance as on Warp 3.0 (slightly worse on some operations). ... Looks like at least keyboard layout will be easily customizable in Merlin. ...

In 2001, Westerbork observations of the disturbed galaxy named VV-29 (alias Arp-188, UGC-10214) showed that there is second smaller galaxy (named VV-29c) that appears behind the western side of the main body of the distorted galaxy. ... The galaxy was featured as the May 2, 2002 Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... When VV-29 had its 15 minutes of fame in May 2002, it appeared under the name "The Tadpole Galaxy," but based on the images above, we will always think of it as "The CHAINSAW"! ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... To view them, you must have access to Ghostview , or another suitable viewer. ... A. Fludra, J.G. Doyle, T. Metcalf, J.R. Lemon, K.J.H. Phillips, J.L. Culhane and T. Kosugi . ... View Abstract . ... E.R. Houdebine and J.G. Doyle . ... E.R. Houdebine, J.G. Doyle and M. Koscielecki . ... A.G. Gunn, J.G. Doyle, M. Mathioudakis, E.R. Houdebine, S. Avgoloupis . ... J.G. Doyle, E.R. Houdebine, M. Mathioudakis, P.M. Panagi . ...

A team of U.S. and German astrophysicists have made the first ever detection of X-rays coming from a comet. ... Following the initial detection, the team reported repeated X-ray emissions from the comet over the next 24 hours. ... One preliminary theory is that X-ray emission from the Sun was absorbed by a cloud of gaseous water molecules surrounding the nucleus of the comet, and then were re-emitted by the molecules in a process physicists call "fluorescence." ... Comets . ...

... This artist's concept shows a lump of material in a swirling, planet- . ... Astronomers have witnessed odd behavior around a young star. Something, perhaps another star or a planet, appears to be pushing a clump of planet-forming material around. ... Spitzer observed infrared light coming from one such disk around a young star, called LRLL 31, over a period of five months. ... could be shoving planet-forming material together, causing its thickness to vary as it spins around the star. ...

... The larger image shows the entire nebula; the inset picture captures the complicated structure surrounding the dying star. The remarkable features of this nebula are the numerous holes in the inner shells with jets of material streaming from them. ... The multiple shells of material ejected by the dying star give this planetary nebula its odd form. ... At least four jets of material can be seen in the "full nebula" image: a pair near 6 and 12 o'clock and another near 2 and 8 o'clock. ...

P1437 2000-May-27 14:12:36 Technical Page Proposal Type: Regular General Category: Pulsars Observation Category: Total Time Requested: 21+ (depending on burst) Hours Proposal Title: A quasi-periodically (dis)appearing pulsar ABSTRACT: In this Target-of-Opportunity proposal, we would like to observe a pulsar, which is not visible for most of the time but shows regular outbursts of emission for 4{6 out of 30{40 days, the rst time such a phenomenon is observed. ...

Twilight observations with MASS/DIMM B. Safonov Sternberg Astronomical Institute Moscow State University Comprehensive Characterization of Astronomical Sites, 2010 B. Safonov (Moscow State University) Twilight observations with MASS/DIMM SITE 2010 1 / 17 Why observe in twilight with MASS/DIMM? ... ASM includes 3 devices sensitive to background: guider, DIMM and MASS. B. Safonov (Moscow State University) Twilight observations with MASS/DIMM SITE 2010 2 / 17 Background in guider. ...

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, . ...

... EXPN DNO D A T E UT TIME FQ SOURCE CORR-Telescopes VT734 355-MO Dec 21 08:00-21:00 C TAU-A Pointing VT735 356-TU Dec 22 08:00-21:00 C TAU-A Pointing VT736 358-TH Dec 24 09:00-20:00 K ORIONKL Pointing VT737 359-FR Dec 25 09:00-20:00 K ORIONKL Pointing VT738 360-SA Dec 26 09:00-20:00 C 0528+134 Mitk-UD KA SH W018c 364-WE Dec 30 06:00-15:00 L 0552+398 Socr-VLBA W071n 6-WE Jan 06 10:00-17:00 L J0745+10 Mitk-AT HO MP UD SH KA W059e 7-TH ...

Astronomy Discussion Forums . ... Atm ћ Astrophotography ћ Blackholes ћ Blackholes2 ћ CCD ћ Celestron ћ Domes ћ Education . ... New Model: How Do The Sun And Moon Appear To Move Across The Sky . ... Post Message | ... focused on the Sun and the Moon as they appear from the given location of the Earth surface: . ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

Properties of the Solar Eruptive Event of 19 October 2001, 09:40 UT . ... 1) IZMIRAN, Troitsk, Moscow Region, 142190 . ... Basing on IZMIRAN and NIRFI radio observations, we analyze an event which is characterized by sufficiently intense emission in the cm- and dm-ranges under almost total lack of metric bursts. This peculiarity appears to be caused by very slow speed (V~240 km/s) of a coronal mass ejection (CME) recorded in this event with SOHO/LASCO. ... Coronal Mass Ejections . ...

... We will first explain the combinatorial aspects, then deal with more algebraic things, if time permits. ... We will then concentrate on the particular case of the so-called pentagons and hexagons and describe their classification, following the work of D.Zvonkine, Steiner and Curtis, Kapovich and Millman, and the author. ... Tropical Plucker functions is a class of functions that obey tropical analogs of classical Plucker relations on minors of a matrix. ... Joint work with Ch. ...

. NASAтАЩs Great Observatories have captured the bubble of debris that surrounds the last supernova seen in our galaxy. In this combined image, HubbleтАЩs visible light observations appear yellow, SpitzerтАЩs infrared observations appear red, and ChandraтАЩs X-ray observations appear blue and green (representing high-energy and low-energy X rays, respectively). NASA/ESA/JHU/R. Sankrit and W. Blair

... A radio galaxy is a galaxy that emits an unusually big amount of energy at radio wavelengths. ... Inside of each galaxy with an active nucleus (radio galaxies are among them) there must be a system of a "central machine" responsible for the colossal amount of the emitted energy from radio to gamma ranges. ... Sometimes a radio source in an active galaxy may flare again if the needed conditions appear (a new portion of matter would fall into the furnace of the "central machine"). ...

... Polar Magnetic Storms . ... Birkeland studied them in 1902-1903 using a network of four stations--in Norway and on Iceland, Spitzbergen (Svalbard), and Novaya Zemlya [ Birkeland, 1908, 1913; Bostr?m 1968]--and concluded that there existed a distinct type of magnetic storm, the "elementary polar magnetic storm" with a typical time scale of less than an hour, associated with the aurora and with electric currents which descended along auroral field lines and flowed horizontally along auroral arcs. ...