Next: M.E. Bailey, Director Up: Research Previous: C.S. Jeffery, Research Astronomer Contents . Dr Michael Smith has focused mainly on the earliest stages of stellar evolution: the processes leading to star formation from an initially unstable, collapsing cloud of gas, and the energetic outflows -- jets and winds -- associated with the formation and early evolution of protostars and pre-main-sequence stellar objects. ... Spectacular jets of molecules, however, betray its presence. ...

... Fortran . Storage rules Dummy argument is a quantity in the specification of a procedure, function or subroutine. Actual argument is a quantity in the call of a procedure, function or subroutine. ... Becomes 101 END PROGRAM EXAMPLE SUBROUTINE SUB(X, Y, Z) IMPLICIT NONE REAL, INTENT(IN) :: X REAL, INTENT(INOUT) :: Y REAL, INTENT(OUT) :: Z Y = Y**2 Z = X + Y END SUBROUTINE SUB In Fortran there is really only one kind of argument usage, called argument association. ...

The AstroGuide . ... Other Sites . ... AstroGuide Listing . ... See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . Escambia Amateur Astronomers Association is a local club that serves the people interested in amateur astronomy. The web site features astrophotos, project guidelines for the construction of a telescope and accessories, a Kid Stuff section, and more. ... Web Site . ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . ...

... Astronomy news . ... NASA's Spitzer Images Out-of-This-World Galaxy . ... It is spiral-shaped like our Milky Way, with long, spindly arms of stars. The "eye" at the center of the galaxy is actually a monstrous black hole surrounded by a ring of stars. In this color-coded infrared view from Spitzer, the area around the invisible black hole is blue and the ring of stars, white. ... The ring around the black hole is bursting with new star formation. ...

... 2001) MIR detection rate towards water masers: ~80% (De Buizer et al. ... Is accompanied by outflow Surprisingly, near-IR outflow observations in H2 showed emission PARALLEL to maser distributions, not perpendicular De Buizer (2003) surveyed sites of linearly distributed methanol masers at CTIO ­ ONLY 2 had emission perpendicular to the maser distribution ­ 12 (86%) had emission parallel to the maser distribution De Buizer (2003) G319.95-0.20 G320.23-0.28 Surprisingly, near...

T he Siding Spring Survey (SSS) is a Near-Earth Object search program that utilises the 0.5-m Uppsala Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, N.S.W., Australia. ... The mission of the Siding Spring Survey is to contribute to the inventory of near-earth objects (NEOs), or more specifically, the potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) and comets (PHOs) that may pose a threat of impact and thus harm to civilization. ... Based on the CSS Mission page . ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

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Once students get the hang of it, they can find and measure the brightness of Delta Cephei in a few minutes. ... of Delta Cephei . ... Oct. ... The following table lists the measurements of Delta Cephei made by one amateur astronomer in autumn 1990. ... 4.0 . ... This activity is a simplified version of one that appeared in Hands-On Astrophysics, a series of activities prepared by the American Association of Variable Star Observers with support from the National Science Foundation. << previous page | ...

... We report on the development of a Web agent which allows users to conveniently find information about specific objects or locations from astronomical resources on the World Wide Web. The HEASARC Astrobrowse agent takes a user-specified location and queries up to hundreds of resources on the Web to find information relevant to the given target or position. ... The types of resources the user can get include images, name resolution services, catalog queries or archive indices. ...

... This file irassss.dat 180 16740 IRAS Small Scale Structure Catalog Sources assoc.dat 58 5178 Information about positional associations with sources in other catalogs meaning.txt 80 235 Details of ... Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 10 A10 --- PSCname IRAS source name 11 A1 --- BMFlg Number of bands in 2): These fields are blank if the source was not detected in the corres- ponding IRAS band. ...