... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2000 July 23 . Isaac Newton Explains the Solar System . Explanation: Sir Isaac Newton changed the world. ... But he went home from Cambridge one summer in 1665, thought a lot about the physical nature of the world, and came back two years later with a revolutionary understanding of mathematics , gravitation , and optics . ... About APOD | ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 23.07.2000 . ... Explanation: Sir Isaac Newton changed the world. ... Newton's insights proved to be so overwhelmingly powerful he was the first scientist ever knighted . ... July 2000 . ... 1999 2000 . ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ... Publications with keywords: scientist - Isaac Newton - Solar System . Publications with words: scientist - Isaac Newton - Solar System . ... Our Busy Solar System . ... A Solar System Portrait . ...

... Any water on Mars is locked up in the ice caps. ... The most recent successful mission to Mars is the Mars Science Laboratory better known as the Curiosity rover. ... CuriosityтАЩs primary role is to search for conditions that may have once been able to harbour any sort of bacterial life concealed beneath the Martian surface. ... Using what we know about life on Earth, where there is water, there is life, signs of water may help us understand what Mars was like billions of years ago. €а . ...

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... February 22, 1999 . NGC 1316: After Galaxies Collide . ... WFPC2 , HST , NASA . ... A preliminary inspection indicates that NGC 1316 is an enormous elliptical galaxy that started devouring a smaller spiral galaxy neighbor about 100 million years ago. ... Most elliptical galaxies have more and brighter globular clusters than evident in NGC 1316 . ... One hypothesis therefore holds that these globulars survive from an even earlier galaxy that was subsumed into NGC 1316. ... About APOD > . ...

I added a new directory search to Zope, which returns the important fields for an individual user. ... I finished changes to the ldap search product and asked it to be moved to production. ... I ran some reports to track down our problem childrenin Active Directory. ... I'm working on a fix to the employee update sscript. ... The problem with the employee update script proved to be more elusive than I thought. ... I finished changing the employee update script to remove employees who have left. ...

XMM­Newton CCF Release Note XMM­CCF­REL­111 RGS GTI Selection C. Gabriel February 27, 2002 1 CCF components Name of CCF VALDATE EVALDATE List of Blocks changed XSCS flag RGS1 HKPARMINT 0009 1999­01­01T00:00:00 --- HKPARMINT NO RGS1 HKPARMINT 0010 2000­09­04T09:02:00 --- HKPARMINT NO RGS2 HKPARMINT 0008 1999­01­01T00:00:00 --- HKPARMINT NO 2 Changes The HK parameter names of the RGA temperature sensors were wrong in the former versions and had to be changed. ... Check the GTIs produced. ...

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. Sitemap . Contact . Search . Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . by . Enric Pall . Big Bear Solar Observatory . A colloquium presented at Armagh Observatory on 2006 February 1st. The slides from this presentation are available in the following formats. HTML in your browser . PDF file - 14MB . Quicktime movie - 9MB . Macromedia Flash - 9.7MB . MS Powerpoint - 12MB . Last Revised: 2009 December 17th .

... Bad Astronomy . ... I think I will break from my usual format of Bad Astronomy/ Good Astronomy by saying that the way we define seasons currently is not strictly bad, but I feel (in my opinion!) that it could be better. The definition of when the seasons begin is at the moment of solstice or equinox; that is, winter (in the north) starts on December 22 nd and summer starts on June 22 nd . ... Now imagine breaking up the Sun's 46 degree up-and-down yearly swing into 1 day intervals. ...

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Next: Observational Zoo of Binaries Up: No Title Previous: Contents . In the early 1980s, our understanding of binary star evolution љ based on the pioneer work by Paczynski (1971)[ 150 ], Tutukov and Yungelson (1973)[ 195 ], van den Heuvel and Heise (1972)[ 201 ], allowed us to construct a general evolutionary scenario љ which successfully explained the genesis of well-studied normal stars and offered potential explanation for new X-ray sources discovered in space experiments. ...

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... Previous: Literature and Catalogs in Electronic Form: Questions, Ideas and an Example: the IBVS . ... Astronomers can use the ADS to maintain their publication lists; a simple http link can bring a current bibliography at any time. ... For example the following links to Martha Hazen's bibliography. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/abs_connect?author=hazen,m. &aut_syn=YES&nr_to_return=all . ... To have a complete bibliography via ADS one needs but to add the missing articles into ADS. ...

The Australian Academy of Science is releasing The science of climate change: questions and answers and it is must reading no matter what your view is of Global Warming. It is a consensus overview by Australia's most expert climate scientists, overseen by the Academy, to explain what we know, and we do not know about anthropogenic climate change, and how we might mediate future changes. ... However, my own scientific opinions in my areas of expertise are consistent with their conclusions. ...

... This article is part of the LWN Porting Drivers to 2.6 series . This article serves as a sort of final resting place for various small changes in the kernel programming API which do not fit elsewhere. The kdev_t type has been removed from the kernel; everything which works with device numbers should now use the dev_t type. ... Consider using these while fixing your code; the next time the type of i_rdev changes, you will be happier. ... Driver porting: miscellaneous changes, designated inits . ...