... Unusual Layers on Saturns Moon Phoebe . ... Credit: Cassini Imaging Team , SSI , JPL , ESA , NASA Explanation: What caused the unusual light and dark layers on Saturn 's moon Phoebe ? The layers were discovered just Friday during the Cassini spacecraft flyby of the small moon. ... Publications with keywords: Phoebe - Saturn - cassini spacecraft . Publications with words: Phoebe - Saturn - cassini spacecraft . ... Crescent Saturn . ... APOD: 2007 August 1- Unusual Cratering on Saturns Dione . ...

... 2010 February 15 . Cassini Spacecraft Crosses Saturn's Ring Plane . ... Later that century, it became understood that Saturn 's unusual protrusions were rings and that when the Earth crosses the ring plane , the edge-on rings will appear to disappear. ... In modern times, the robot Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn now also crosses Saturn's ring plane. ... Saturn's thin ring plane appears in blue, bands and clouds in Saturn's upper atmosphere appear in gold. ... About APOD | ...

Next: Sky Subtraction Up: Construction of Flat Previous: Standard construction . For a number of projects where very deep integrations and accurate flat fields are required, and the targets are point sources or much smaller than the frame size, the sky background itself can be used to calculate the flat field. ... Use STATISTICS/IMAGE to calculate the image median, and COMPUTE/IMAGE to divide by this to get the normalised flat field. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Concept Spacecraft . ... Posted on June 23, 2011 | 37 Comments Has lurid fiction like the movie Iron Sky any basis in fact? €аEveryone knows that WW2 Germany developed rockets far in advance of the Allies, but some argue that in [ ] . Continue Reading.. ... Posted on October 15, 2010 | ... 3 Comments NASA?s next manned spacecraft will be the Orion, a capsule which will be carried into space by a rocket. ...

Target Acquisition Reference Information . Figure 7.1 on page 88 shows mean predicted count rates as a function of (B - V) 0 color for the four acquisition mirrors. Also shown are the fits to the predicted count rates for different amounts of reddening. ... You can estimate target acquisition count rates using the plots instead of Table 7.1 on page 92 : . ... Read from the Figures (depending on the mirror used) the predicted count rate. ...

... This calibration approach is recommended when dealing with high frequency data from the old ATCA correlator, especially at 3mm wavelengths. ... The approach described here exploits the dual frequency bands that were available with the old correlator. ... Rather the current approach assumes that you have a single Miriad dataset containing bandpass calibrator, phase calibrator, flux density calibrator and program source. ... MFCAL . ... Input multi-source, dual-band dataset. select=source(1921-293) . ...

Blackholes Forum Message . Forums: . ... Alternative Idea . ... With the proposal of exotic super dense entities like quark stars and others including black holes, matter on the atomic level can, and most likely does, break down to its most simplist building blocks (photons, leptons, quarks, etc). ... 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" . ...

... File view and tree view . ... Show (expand) directory tree starting from that point (the sign appears near directory name). ... Alternative way is to click on a [+] sign which appears near directory names throughout the archive (it will bring the tree into view from that directory). ... E.g., searching for "nftp" will find "nftp103.zip", "nftp/readme" and so on. ... nftp*" will find all files (NOT directories) which have the characters "nftp" in their names, including "nftp103.zip" and "about.nftp";...

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Next: M.D. Smith, Research Astronomer Up: Research Previous: J.G. Doyle, Research Astronomer Contents . During the final stages in its life, a star is transformed in ways which remain poorly understood. ... Each transformation is a response to changes in chemical composition in the stellar interior as nuclear reactions convert one source of fuel into another. ... Consequently, the number of stars currently in these late stages of stellar evolution is comparatively small. ...

... 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. ...

. This is the CIMA alternative drift map menu: . The following is the on-line help page for alternative drift map: . You can return to the main CIMA page by clicking here .

Альтернативный форум . Scientific.ru Все форумы . ... Re: Astronomers Create 3D Map of Dark Matter Space.com 07 January 2007 01:37 pm ET . x203a; x203a; x203a; в ответ на: Astronomers Create 3D Map of Dark Matter Space.com 07 January 2007 01:37 pm ET Abramyan G.L. : An alternative theory . ... Astronomers Create 3D Map of Dark Matter Space.com 07 January 2007 01:37 pm ET Abramyan G.L., 10.01.2007 01:10 . ... Re: Прочел и привожу текст, меня вомутивший. Анатолий Рыков, 11.01.2007 08:53 . ...

... The parameter pgdev allows the user to specify a pgplot device, but, in contrast to the pgplot standard, the file name should not be included, but instead supplied via the parameter plotfile . ... To write a colour postscript file called op.ps: pgdev=/cps plotfile=op.ps . However note that at present, if a colour postscript device ( pgdev = `/cps'), a fits file ( pgdev = `/fits') or a ppm file ( pgdev = `/ppm') are selected, the task in fact bypasses pgplot and writes the postscript file directly. ...

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... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2000 February 28 . The Sombrero Galaxy from VLT . ... FORS1 , VLT ANTU , ESO . ... Reasons include the Sombrero 's unusually large and extended central bulge of stars, and dark prominent dust lanes that appear in a disk that we see nearly edge-on. Billions of old stars cause the diffuse glow of the extended central bulge. ... About APOD | ...

... I normally begin by asking the class what they think would be different if the Moon didn't exist, or if the Sun were closer to Earth, or if a star exploded nearby. ... The winds would be much stronger. ... In using what-if questions in the classroom, it is worth bearing in mind that students extrapolating the effects of new scenarios will encounter two different situations: direct changes to the new version of Earth and indirect changes resulting from the direct changes. ...

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. The sharply-defined crater just above the center of this Cassini image shows layers of alternating bright and dark material. A thin dark layer on the crater wall appears to define the base of an ejecta blanket. Cassini was 8,314 miles (13,377 km) from Phoebe when this image was taken. NASA / JPL / CICLOPS

... Print Mixed messages with work in progress about the universe Simon Grose DISRUPTIVE alternative views that anger a current orthodoxy, leave their proponents ostracised and intrigue the masses are part and parcel of science. ... Another correct alternative theory earned Western Australia's Barry Marshall and Robin Warren a Nobel Prize in 2005. ... Scepticism about global warming being caused by our fossil-fuelled emissions is headed the same way, but it's a journey yet to be completed. ...