... 2015 January 7 . Hubble 25th Anniversary: Pillars of Creation . Image Credit: NASA , ESA , and The Hubble Heritage Team ( STScI / AURA ) . Explanation: To celebrate 25 years (1990-2015) of exploring the Universe from low Earth orbit, the Hubble Space Telescope's cameras were used to revisit its most iconic image. The result is this sharper, wider view of the region dubbed the Pillars of Creation , first imaged by Hubble in 1995 . ... APOD Talk: Friday, January 9 in New York City . ...

Next: Binary Radiopulsars with Black Up: Black Holes in Binaries Previous: Black Holes in Binaries . Two different types of stellar BH formation exist: (1) direct core collapse   of a massive star and (2) AIC of a NS. A BH of the first type presumably will have a mass comparable to that of the collapsing star and can be born both from a single star and in a binary system. ... Next: Binary Radiopulsars with Black Up: Black Holes in Binaries Previous: Black Holes in Binaries Mike E. Prokhorov . ...

... Mountains of Creation . ... An infrared view from the Spitzer Space Telescope , it features interstellar clouds of cold gas and dust sculpted by winds and radiation from a hot, massive star outside the picture (just above and to the right). Still swaddled within the cosmic clouds, newborn stars are revealed by Spitzer's penetrating gaze, their formation also triggered by the massive star. ... Publications with keywords: W5 - star formation - dust - interstellar medium . ... Stars in a Dusty Sky . ...

... April 9, 1999 . WR 104: Pinwheel Star . ... Explanation: Like a cosmic lawn sprinkler, dust streaming from a rotating star system creates a pinwheel pattern in this false color infrared image . Astronomers discovered the surprising star dust scenario using a sophisticated interferometer and the 10 meter Keck I telescope to observe the bright Wolf-Rayet star WR 104. ... The problem is, their starlight would also be so intense that any dust flakes should be destroyed! ... About APOD > . ...

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 . ...

... Does the time it takes different methods to create all the elements coincide with the universeт??s accepted age? ... Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Different kinds of stars create elements at different rates, all of which are consistent with the age of the universe. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Registration is FREE and takes only a few seconds to complete. If you are already registered on Astronomy.com, please log in below. ...

... Filesystems are created, i.e., initialized, with the mkfs љ command. ... Search for bad blocks and initialize the bad block list accordingly. -l filename . ... badblocks /dev/fd0H1440 1440 > bad-blocks . ... 1 block group . 8192 blocks per group, 8192 fragments per group . ... Then bad blocks were searched with badblocks љ , with the output redirected to a file, bad-blocks . Finally, the filesystem was created, with the bad block list initialized by whatever badblocks љ found. ...

The above process keeps the # of protons and the # of neutrons in the early Universe constant. This is extremely important and will result in a testable prediction later. Remember, a free neutron (one that is not bound in an atomic nucleus) will decay into a proton + electron (+ anti-neutrino) in about 900 seconds. ... During this epoch, the proton-to-neutron ratio is 1.0 . ... The Universe consists of protons, neutrons and electrons plus a photon background and a neutrino background. ...

... The audience is assumed to have little or no prior exposure to Java and Object-Oriented programming. ... The topics will help you to understand how to use Java to create, access, and support Java applications and applets. ... Introduce object-oriented programming concepts and how they apply to Java programming. ... Java Applications. ... To develop Java applets and applications, one must first understand the fundamental concepts of object-oriented programming (OOP) and application development. ...

... STScI-PRC95-45a CRUCIBLE OF CREATION: PANORAMIC HUBBLE MOSAIC ZOOMS IN ON MAELSTROM OF STAR BIRTH This spectacular color panorama of the center the Orion nebula is one of the largest pictures ever assembled from individual images taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. ... Though this 2.5 light-years wide view is still a small portion of the entire nebula, it includes almost all of the light from the bright glowing clouds of gas and a star cluster associated with the nebula. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Planets . ... Alien Life . ... Space Flight . ... Prof. Pinklepot and the Aliens (Image credit: D-Signs and Displays ) . ... A sing-song concludes our visit to Planet Alien and the time-machine begins to start up again.€а We make our way back to Planet Earth and Professor Pinklepot thanks us for coming on this massive journey with him.€а The images used during the fly through space are stunning and we get a real sense of moving through the Cosmos. ...

To create a tarfile containing several files: tar cvf data.tar *.dat . This creates a tarfile data.tar containing all the files in the current directory which have the filename extension .dat . ... To create a tarfile of a directory: tar cvf project.tar Project Project/README Project/Makefile Project/Makefile Project/main.c Project/screen.c Project/menus.c Project/calculator.c Project/setup/configuration . ... This creates a tarfile book.tar containing the directories text and illustrations . ...

... This is combined emission from all the gas clouds circling the black hole, between 0.1 and 10 light years out. ... These are the expanding clouds of gas left behind when a massive star comes to the end of its life and explodes, producing a supernova. ... Also known as the Veil nebula, a vast and beautiful whispy nebula left over from an exploding star. ... The Crab Nebula (120kb). ... Carbon Star (120kb) Red giant stars, surrounded by clouds or carbon dust. ... 3500 K star (64kb) , like Aldebaran. ...

... Educational programs (English) . ... SSAU History . ... On June 11 Heinz Palkovski, Director of Institute of Metallurgy from Germany conducted a lecture on Preparation, testing and use of sandwich materials . ... The very same material is a sandwich, where the base and the filler arranged in layers of a certain thickness. ... Professor Heinz Palkovski is currently engaged in research of sandwich materials and his lecture was devoted to this theme. ... Tags: heinz palkovski lecture sandwich materials...

Next: An example of Up: Association of images Previous: Association of images . The two sets of selection criteria (``first choice'' and ``second choice'') have to be entered in a table containing four columns: . FUNCTION --character column (max 256 char) . This column defines the different selection criteria and shall contain mathematical expressions in which the variables may be the columns of the OST. ... RANGE_1 --character column (max 256 char) . ... WEIGHT --real column . ...

... From this list the extraction stage creates images, spectra, and rates files. These products are aimed to adhere to OGIP standards as closely as possible. Please note, however, that it is likewise possible to create data sets which do not map onto any standard OGIP file type, e.g. PHA-versus-wavelength image for RGS. ... For binned products, binning of a given column is in general controlled by a minimum value, a binning factor, and a maximum value. ...

... Creation of Space transportation system on the base of large length rope utilization . ... A given address contains the proposal to equip the International Space Station with the long rope and to create on that base a Space transportation system. ... A given system has the multifunctional purpose. ... The rope system could be the base for creating of alternative system of station angular orientation. To utilize the rope system to launch small satellites from the station and to return them back. ...

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 . ...

... Classes . Files . ... casa . casa::SymLink . ... The default constructor creates a SymLink with path "." SymLink (const Path &name) . ... SymLink (const File &name) . ... create (const Path &target, Bool overwrite= True ) . ... copy (const Path &target, Bool overwrite= True ) const . ... The class SymLink handles SYMbolic LINKs in the file system. ... An exception is thrown if the path exist and is no symbolic link or if it does not exist, but cannot be created. casa::SymLink::SymLink . ...