Astronomy Picture of the Day . Mysterious Acid Haze on Venus . ... Credit: ESA / MPS , Katlenburg-Lindau , Germany Explanation: Why did an acidic haze spread across Venus? The unusual clouds were discovered last July by ESA 's robotic Venus Express spacecraft currently orbiting Venus . ... The above false-color picture of Venus was taken last July 23rd in ultraviolet light , and shows the unusual haze as relatively smooth regions across the image bottom. ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...

... 2005 February 7 . A Telescope Laser Creates an Artificial Star . ... Explanation: What do you get when you combine one of the world's most powerful telescopes with a powerful laser ? An artificial star. ... Therefore, astronomers have developed the ability to create an artificial star where they need it -- with a laser . ... Above, a laser beam shoots out of the Keck II 10-meter telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii in 2002, creating an artificial star. ... About APOD | ...

... Stars are born in big clouds of gas and dust in the Universe. ... This amazing new picture shows a small part of a cloud in our own galaxy (called the Milky Way) in which stars are being formed. In the picture you can see bright arc shapes in the cloud, but what created them is a mystery. ... When all of their fuel is gone, these massive stars explode in what is called a supernova explosion the biggest firework display in the Universe! ...

... This paper describes the main algorithms used by the Einstein Level One processing to create the exposure masks and the background maps for Einstein IPC images, and how these algorithms were recreated in the IRAF environment. Our goal was to recreate the algorithms used by the Level One Processing to create exposure masks and background maps for Einstein Image Proportional Counter (IPC) data (cf. sections 2.5 and 2.7 of Harnden et al. ...

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The File System . This section describes how you can create new files, copy existing files, and delete obsolete files. ... RENAME to change the name of a file. ... Files can be created in several ways: text can be entered from the keyboard via the CREATE command, an editor can create a file, as can a running program, and files can be copied from other directories. ... To delete obsolete files, use the DELETE command followed by a file name or file name template (wildcards). ...

... Table files like the ones created in the section on imcnts can be displayed, printed and manipulated using the tasks contained in the stsdas.ttools package. ... sp> tables # Load the relevant package ta> tprint rp90_cnt prpar=yes # .tab extension assumed # the hidden parameter prpar is set to display the header # as well as the data ta> tprint rp90_cnt # Displays only the data info ta> tprint rp90_cnt prdata- prpar+ # Displays only the header info ta> tprint rp90_cnt prparam=yes | ...

... Our Galaxy . ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... NGC 2841: a spiral galaxy some 46 million light years away. ... It is especially hard to explain this process of star birth in some spiral galaxies. ... Targets include both star clusters and galaxies, and star formation rates seen range from the starburst galaxy M82 (the Cigar Galaxy) which is creating about ten new stars in its core alone every year to the much less fecund star producer NGC 2841. ... Tweets that mention Baby stars of NGC 2841 | ...

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. To remove a directory that is a symbolic link that points to another directory use the command: rm directory_name . Notice that the directory does not need to be empty and you do not have to use the rmdir command. You are not really removing a directory, just a named symbolic link that points to the "real" directory.

... C. Codella, R. Cesaroni, A. Lopez-Sepulcre, M.T. Beltran, R. Furuya, L. Testi . 2009, A , in press . ... C. Codella, M. Benedettini, M.T. Beltran, F. Gueth, S. Viti, R. Bachiller, M. Tafalla, S. Cabrit, A. Fuente, B. Lefloch . 2009, A Letters, in press . ... R. Cesaroni, P. Hofner, E. Araya, S. Kurtz . ... A. Lopez-Sepulcre, C. Codella, R. Cesaroni, N. Marcelino, C.M. Walmsley . ... Click to examine publications from other years . ... Star Formation Group . ... Arcetri Home Page . ...

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... There are two ways to create menus: there's the easy way, and there's the hard way. ... So, if we wanted to create a standard File menu , with the options Open , Save , and Quit , the code would look something like: file_ menu = gtk_ menu _new (); /* Don't need to show menus */ /* Create the menu items */ open_ item = gtk_ menu _ item _new_with_label ( Open ); save_ item = gtk_ menu _ item _new_with_label ( Save ); quit_ item = gtk_ menu _ ... Create a menu item using gtk_menu_item_new(...

... If the parameter withinputlist is set to ``true'', the reconstruction and/or background image will be created using source parameters from an input source list. ... Use parameters makerecon and savebkgrnd to specify which of the output images you want to create. Only sources originally detected at scales up to maxscale will be used for to calculate the images. The value of maxscale will also control the scale of the kernel used to filter the background image. ...

The database contains references to the papers, data files and links to the Internet resources related to measurements and calculations of the optical constants in the wavelength interval from X-rays to radio domain. ... References to some useful books and reviews on the subject (e.g. the classical handbooks edited by E.D.Palik) and links to Internet collections of optical constants and personal WWW pages with related software were also placed in the database. You have arrived at our welcome page. ...

Laboratory of Stellar Physics . ... A study of close binaries with black holes, neutron stars and white dwarfs. ... A study of SS433 - the massive close binary with a black hole in the regime of supercritical accretion . ... A search for intermediate-mass black holes (IMBH). The black holes which are not supermassive black holes observed in quasars, and which were formed not in massive stars. ... A search for new magnetic stars, new CP stars, measurements of magnetic fields in stars . ...

... The main field of my investigations is stellar spectrophotometry. As a result of scientific activity of our group spectrophotometric catalog was created including energy distribution data on 900 stars in the range 3200-7600AA and 250 stars in the range 6000-10800AA (Voloshina et al., Spectrophotometry of Bright Stars, ed. I.N.Glushneva, 1982, Moscow, Nauka, in Russian). ...

Program: RESTORE Purpose: This program restores the residuals created by CLEAN. Category: CLEAN, RADIO, TABLES File: restore.c Author: K. Begeman Description: The restoration is done with a truncated gaussian beam {maximum 129*129 grid units}. ... Keywords: INSET= Set and subset(s) of residual(s). ... For a two-dimensional subset, first give HPBW along majo axis, then HPBW along minor axis. ... FACTOR= Beam Multiplication Factor [1.0]. ... Updates: Jan 23, 1982: KGB Original program created. ...

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