... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2013 March 25 . Planck Maps the Microwave Background . ... Visible in all directions, this cosmic microwave background is a complex tapestry that could only show the hot and cold patterns observed were the universe to be composed of specific types of energy that evolved in specific ways. ... About APOD | ... A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC . ...

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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. February 7, 1998 . COBE Hotspots: The Oldest Structures Known . ... After computer processing to remove contributions from nearby objects and the effects of the earth's motion , the map shows temperature variations in the early Universe as red "spots". These spots are the oldest, most distant structures known. ... About APOD > . ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 19.05.2010 . ... Credit: Bret Webster Explanation: Long before Stonehenge was built, well before the Dead Sea Scrolls were written, ancient artists painted life-sized figures on canyon walls in Utah , USA -- but why? ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ... Publications with keywords: Milky Way . Publications with words: Milky Way . ... A Milky Way Shadow at Loch Ard Gorge . The Milky Way Over Bryce Canyon . Microwave Milky Way . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Site Info . ... Public Talks . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Who is this guy who calls himself "The Bad Astronomer?" ... First, yes, I am a real live astronomer (when people ask me what astronomers do, I tell them "They astronom !" ... These are emitted by powerful objects like black holes, exploding stars, and super-dense neutrons stars. ... Finally, am I really a bad astronomer? ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... Observing . ... Solar Observing . ... April 3 (SUN) - Solar Observing, Central Park , Manhattan . ... APRIL'S SKY . ... Lecture Series at the American Museum of Natural History The Amateur Astronomers Association is proud to present an astronomy lecture series from October through May each year for our members and the .. ... The€аAmateur Astronomers Association of New York€аwas organized in 1927 to promote the study of Astronomy, emphasizing its cultural and inspirational value. ...

Astronomy Articles . Articles | ... Moon | ... Astronomy Binoculars - The Skies The Limit - by Scott Gray, September 2006 . ... Astronomy Terms - To Help You Study The Universe - by Scott Gray, October 2006 . ... Himalia is the only moon other than Europa, Ganymeade, Callisto and IO visible with small telescopes. ... The Harvest Moon refers to the Full Moon that comes closest to the autumnal equinox, or the first day of autumn. ... Think the study of stars is best left to professional astronomers? ...

The 2016 Project ASTRO introductory workshop will take place September 16-17, 2016. ... Participating teachers and astronomers are required to attend. ... Home Phone: . ... work email . ... Please briefly describe your background and your experiences in astronomy (if different). Describe experiences you have working with schools or explaining astronomy to students and/or the public. ... What grade level(s) do you prefer to work with (check all that apply) . ... either work or home . ...

Next: Recording Systems Control Up: Recording Systems. ... SCHED was originally written in about 1979 as the scheduling program for global VLBI observations using the Mark II recording system. That was a system capable of recording 4 Mbps on video tape recorders. ... The wide band recording system in use for VLBI for many years was the Mark III system. ... However, SCHED was capable of scheduling Mark III observations on systems that used the VLBA control files (VLBA, VLA, and Green Bank). ...

... Contact us . ... Astrophysics Group . ... Software for Astrophysics . MADCOW . ... BLACS , ScaLAPACK , MPI (for parallelised version only) . ... The mock data files (1.8 MB) and scripts used in the simulations presented in astro-ph/0201438 . ... Various minor fixes . ... BUGFIX: Some nasty memory corruption bug has been fixed that used to strike randomly after several hours of computation time in the distributed version (single processor version and shared memory multi-processor not affected). ...

... GTK's rc Files . ... There are several directives to change the attributes of a widget. fg - Sets the foreground color of a widget. bg - Sets the background color of a widget. bg_pixmap - Sets the background of a widget to a tiled pixmap. font - Sets the font to be used with the given widget. ... The "widget_class" sets the style of a class of widgets. ... The "widget" directive sets a specifically named set of widgets to a given style, overriding any style set for the given widget class. ...

Picture an Astronomer A Project ASTRO Activity For Grades 4-12 The media and our past experiences have shaped and created our expectations of people in various careers. ... However, astronomy is carried out by men and women in every country and by people young and old. ... Activity Description Before an astronomy unit or the first visit by an astronomer to your classroom, it can be instructive to have the students picture what an astronomer looks like and then discuss their assumptions. ...

Next: Basic Properties Up: R Coronae Borealis Stars Previous: Introduction . RCB stars are named after a star just visible to the naked eye in the constellation of Corona Borealis. RCrB was discovered by Edward Pigott, an English amateur astronomer, who had been observing a star in the `Northern Crown' for over a decade. ... Since 1795, other RCB stars have been discovered and their properties have been carefully observed. ...

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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Colin Johnston . ... Our Galaxy . ... To locate it, look along the imaginary line between the two end stars on the leading edge of the PloughтАЩs blade (Merak and Dubhe) and Polaris (the North Star), the galaxy M82 (also known as the Cigar Galaxy) along with its companion M81, lies just off this line about a third of the way between the Plough and Polaris. €а€аAs usual, the supernova is far brighter than its home galaxy, appearing as an extra star. ...

... Kalirai and Harvey Richer of the University of British Columbia led the study, which began as an investigation of a globular star cluster in the Milky Way galaxy known as NGC 6397. ... Within the population of stars and galaxies behind NGC 6397, the Hubble image revealed a large elliptical galaxy that contains several hundred globular clusters. ... In fact, a single giant star in NGC 6397 appears 10 million times brighter than one of the distant globular clusters. ...

... 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. ...

... Figure 1: Data from selected high latitude pointings overlaid in detector co-ordinates. 132ksec total low proton flare conditions, and bright point sources excised . Figure 2: Same data set from selected high latitude pointings but in 0.2-2keV only. ... Figure 3: Same data set from selected high latitude pointings but in 2-10keV only. ... Figure: EPIC MOS data set from selected high latitude pointings plotted as spectra (PATTERNS 12&&#XMMEA_EM), and normalised for approx 1 arcmin square. ...