... 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. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 1.09.2014 . ... Credit Copyright: Jeff Dai Explanation: Why would the sky look like a giant target? Airglow. Following a giant thunderstorm over Bangladesh in late April, giant circular ripples of glowing air appeared over Tibet , China , as pictured above. ... Now Available: APOD 2015 Wall Calendars . ... April . ... September 2014 . ... 2013 2014 . 2015 2016 . ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...

... 2011 September 11 . On the Origin of Gold . Image Credit: Dana Berry, NASA . ... The relative average abundance in our Solar System appears higher than can be made in the early universe , in stars , and even in typical supernova explosions . Some astronomers have recently suggested that neutron-rich heavy elements such as gold might be most easily made in rare neutron -rich explosions such as the collision of neutron stars . ... About APOD | ... A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC . ...

... emacs . ... an emacs window should appear on the terminal screen. In the emacs window, type the following in response to the prompts: . ... unixprompt> imageshell ~lrp/latest.image . ... If any of these defunct processes were old SPIKE images improperly terminated, they may be hogging too much memory for a new image to be loaded. From an LRP window: . ... 15-MAY-1997 12:56:18 calendar load date (UT) 971537A8 1997.135:12:54:26 15-MAY-97 12:54:26 $ . ... USER(2): (load-sms "97.153") . ...

Астрономический календарь 2016 Какие астрономические явления подарит нам наступающий 2016 год? Наверняка он даст обильную пищу астрологам: как же - мало того, что год високосный, так еще в аккурат на 29 февраля приходится соединение с Солнцем самой далекой официальной планеты солнечной системы - Непутна.. ... Затмения: . ... В отличие от предыдущего года , в наступающем произойдет пять затмений: два солнечных (09 марта и 01 сентября) и три лунных (23 марта, 18 августа и 16 сентября). ... март . ...

... Home Calendar . ... Lecture Series 2014-2015 . ... AAA Fall Astronomy Class: Astronomy Basics тАУ October-November 2015 . ... This Month's Sky . ... This Month's Sky - 2015 . This Month's Sky - January 2015 . ... Beyond New York City . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

An Ancient Universe: How Astronomers Know the Vast Scale of Cosmic Time . COSMIC CALENDAR . The Cosmic Calendar Activity. If we were to compress the history of the universe (from the Big Bang to the present moment) into one year, you can see where various "cosmic events" would fall in that year. ... The first mammals don't emerge until December 26th, and the first humans come on the scene in the evening of December 31st. ... Return to An Ancient Universe . ...

... 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) . ...

. 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 .

The Astronomy Shop . ... AstroGuide | Calendar | ... Moon | ... Shop | ... MoonFlip™ - A Flipbook Project to Animate the Daily Moon Phases . ... Make an old-fashioned flip book from this sheet of preprinted daily moon phases to produce an animation of a complete lunation cycle. ... Precise layout and scaling make this flipbook animation make this changing moon phase simulation really work. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ... dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... MRO Users Manual . Observers Checklist . ... Getting to MRO . ... MRO Home . ... The Manastash Ridge Observatory (MRO) is located approximately 9 miles West-Southwest of Ellensburg, WA. ... MRO is operated by the Astronomy Department of the University of Washington for the training of graduate and undergraduate students as well as for astronomical research. ... Students who use the observatory must learn the basics of astronomical observing as well as the care and operation of the instrumentation. ...

... LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 18, 2004 . ... LWN.net FAQ . ... This article is part of the LWN Porting Drivers to 2.6 series . Completions are a simple synchronization mechanism that is preferable to sleeping and waking up in some situations. ... When your driver begins some process whose completion must be waited for, it's simply a matter of passing your completion event to wait_for_completion() : . ... void complete(struct completion *comp); void complete_all(struct completion *comp); . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... September . ... Posted on September 27, 2010 | 11 Comments In the early 1960s, the sky had no limits for NASA . ... Continue Reading.. ... 69 Comments ?Rods from God? is the nick-name given to a hypothetical orbital weapon for bombarding targets on the Earth from space. ... No Comments Dark matter and its part in the evolution of the Universe is revealed by new data collected by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

. Be sure to check back for added events. Application Deadline for 2008/09 . May 20, 2008 . Summer Workshop at the Museum of Science 2008 (MoS) . July 14 15 (Mon./Tues.) . First Followup Workshop . TBD (September or October) . Second Follow-up Workshop at MoS . TBD . Third Follow-up Workshop at MoS . TBD .

... 2000 September 6 . Emerging Planetary Nebula CRL 618 . ... ESAIC , HST , ESA , NASA . Explanation: CRL 618 may look to some like an Olympian declaring victory. ... Since then it has run out of core material to fuse and so has started to become a planetary nebula . In its current proto-planetary nebula phase, CRL 618 is evolving quickly, expelling hot gasses in complex jets and rings moving outwards faster than 700,000 kilometers per hour. ... About APOD | ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

... Словно как театр в начале сезона, небеса в сентябре начинают свои красочные представления. ... Венера в сентябре будет "утренней звездой", и к концу месяца перед рассветом она поднимется на высоту в 30 градусов. 7 сентября произойдет стояние Венеры, и она начнет двигаться прямым ходом к наибольшей западной элонгации (удалении от Солнца), которая произойдет в октябре. 24 сентября Венера будет особенно неотразимой и достигнет своего наибольшего блеска - второй раз в этом году. ...

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... Stellar Evolution . Nucleosynthesis in Stars . The Evolution of Star Clusters . JAVA Physics Lab . Alternative Energies Class . Steve Kevan's Physics 251 Class . ... Talk on Solid State Physics of CCD detectors . Talk on Cosmological Issues . ... Digital Spectra of Stars . NETexperts E-mail List . The Electronic Universe Project e-mail: nuts@moo.uoregon.edu ...

... On Wednesday, 10 September 2008, physicists turn on the multibillion-pound machine that will recreate the birth of the universe: the LHC (Large Hadron Collider). Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal and President of the Royal Society, applauds the greatest experiment in history. ... Wednesday, 10 September 2008 00:37 . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... Visibility of Small Solar-System Bodies . Asteroids) in 2009 : . ... Distance (AU) . ... Jan. 12, 2009 . ... 8.8 m . ... is at opposition on July 4, 2009 . ... Apparent . ... from Sun (AU) . ... is at opposition on September 21, 2009 . ... middle distance between Earth and Sun, equal 149.6 millions km. ... Mean Distance: . ... a configuration of the Sun, Earth and a planet in which the apparent geocentric longitude of the planet differs by 180 from the apparent geocentric longitude of the Sun. ...