... 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. ...

... 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") . ...

... 2000 September 22 . M55: Globular Star Cluster . ... Explanation: The fifty-fifth entry in Charles Messier's catalog, M55 is a large and lovely globular cluster of around 100,000 stars. ... Globular star clusters like M55 roam the halo of our Milky Way Galaxy as gravitationally bound populations of stars known to be much older than stellar groups found in the galactic disk. Astronomers who make detailed studies of globular cluster stars can accurately measure the cluster ages and distances. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... Not so long ago and not so far, far away, a galaxy was born. Seen in this Hubble Space Telescope image, the island universe of stars, gas, and dust cataloged as POX 186 is a mere 68 million light-years distant toward an uncrowded region in the constellation Virgo. ... Only a few short years ago, when the APOD editors were in graduate school, the pervasive, cosmic Dark Energy was not even seriously discussed. ... Galaxy Cluster in the Early Universe . ...

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 . ...

... July 13, 1999 . The Flame Nebula in Infrared . ... Explanation: What lights up the Flame Nebula? Fifteen hundred light years away towards the constellation of Orion lies a nebula which, from its glow and dark dust lanes, appears like a billowing fire. ... Rather the bright star Alnitak , the easternmost star in the Belt of Orion visible to the nebula's right, shines energetic light into the Flame that knocks electrons away from the great clouds of hydrogen gas that reside there. ...

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... Section M-7 describes the basic problem of trigonometry (drawing on the left): finding the distance to some far-away point C, given the directions at which C appears from the two ends of a measured baseline AB. ... That means that the angle ? ... 2? r covers an angle 360њ . ... Suppose you want to estimate the distance to some distant landmark--e.g. a building, tree or water tower. ... Alpha Centauri, the sun-like star nearest to our solar system, has a distance of 4.3 years and a parallax of 0.75"....

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... This Announcement contains detailed information on organizational items, scientific and cultural program of Odessa session GMIC-99. ... 8.00- 23.00 Registration of participants in the hall of Tour-complex "Odessa"(Arcadia region, GAGARIN plateau, 5). ... 8.00- 13.00 Registration of participants in the hall of Tour-complex "Odessa". 10.00-12.00 Program Committee session and press conference dedicated to GMIC-99 (Odessa Scientists' House). ... 9.00- 11.00 Plenary session. ... 13.00- 14.00 Lunch. ...

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Stellar Clusters are very useful laboratories for empirically studying stellar evolution. ... All cluster stars are at the same distance . All cluster stars have the same physical age . ... CM diagram Young Cluster In this case we see the Main Sequence fully represented. The blue dots represent massive stars with short main sequence lifetimes. ... Thus, identifying the most massive star which is still on the main sequence is an effective means of determining the age of a stellar cluster. ...

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... 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. ...