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... The COMPTEL Gamma-Ray Sky . ... Credit: The COMPTEL Collaboration , Compton Gamma Ray Observatory , NASA Explanation: This premier gamma-ray view of the sky was produced by the COMPTEL instrument onboard NASA's orbiting Compton Gamma Ray Observatory . The entire sky is seen projected on a coordinate system centered on our Milky Way Galaxy with the plane of the Galaxy running across the middle of the picture. Gamma-ray intensity is represented by a false color map - low (blue) to high (white). ...

... 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. ...

... 2001 September 10 . Galactic Center Flicker Indicates Black Hole . ... CXO , NASA . Explanation: Why would the center of our Galaxy flicker? Many astronomers believe the only credible answer involves a black hole . ... Only one known type of object can fit so much mass in so small a volume: a black hole . This short flicker therefore provides additional evidence that a black hole does indeed reside at our Galaxy's center . ... About APOD | ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. June 21, 1999 . The Galactic Center in Infrared . ... Explanation: The center of our Galaxy is a busy place. In visible light , much of the Galactic Center is obscured by opaque dust . In infrared light , however, dust glows more and obscures less, allowing nearly one million stars to be recorded in the above photograph . ...

home resources > books . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Buy The Black Hole at the Center of our Galaxy at Amazon.com! Reviewed by Terrell Kent Holmes . In 1974 astronomers discovered a bright radio source at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius. It was an unknown quantity then, but astronomers now know that the object is a supermassive black hole causing a maelstrom of activity at the galactic center. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . See also images taken on November 22nd . Image taken by Andy McCrea who says, . To me the comet appears yellowish and it has gone from star-like to a . ... More images from Andy McCrea here . ... The true explanation is that a very faint comet, known as periodic comet Holmes, produced a massive outburst of material and became a million times brighter than it was just a day earlier. ... More images from Andy McCrea . ...

Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference 2001 November 4-10, 2001 . WW Physics Workshop - WWMMI Ocotber 12-17, 2001 . ... XXI Physics in Collision Conference June 28 - 30, 2001 . ... Workshop On Physics and Detectors for Future e+e- Linear Colliders March 19-21, 2001 . Frontiers in Contemporary Physics - II March 5-10, 2001 . ... Talks 2003 . ... LEP Energy WG Report , Eric Torrence return to top . ... Oregon RPC Status Report , David Strom, Jim Brau return to top . ...

The following are some standard questions that observers have about their fixed target confirmation charts. ... Why doesn't my target appear to be centered on the cross hairs? ... How is proper motion handled? ... Target well centered . If your target is not perfectly centered in the cross hairs, see the questions below for why it may not be centered and how well centered it must be . ... So, targets to be acquired by STIS should appear well centered in the cross hairs on the confirmation chart. ...

... НЕПРЕРЫВНОГО МАТЕМАТИЧЕСКОГО ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ . ... Кружок ?Олимпиады и математика? ... Московская математическая олимпиада . Заочный математический конкурс . ... Устные математические олимпиады . Олимпиады по программированию . Математический праздник . Математические регаты . ... Математические бои . Олимпиада по геометрии им. И.Ф.Шарыгина . ... Программа ?Math in Moscow? Научные конкурсы . Творческий конкурс . ... График олимпиад . ... XXVII Математический праздник . ...

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... Research . ... Ljubljana Univ., ... Zagreb Univ., ... Asiago Observatory, Italy . ... ESO, Germany . ... I am an associate astronomer at the European Southern Observatory (ESO). I divide my work between the scientific research and management of the ESO's User Support Department (USD), which is in charge of providing support to observers who use ESO's Paranal Observatory facilities . ... A final standard disclaimer: the opinions expressed in this site do not reflect in any way the opinions of ESO. ...

PUL VLBI Analysis Center . ... IVS : International VLBI Service for Geodesy and Astrometry . ... An IVS VLBI Analysis Center at the Central Astronomical Observatory at Pulkovo of the Russian Academy of Sciences, also widely known as Pulkovo Observatory, has been organized in September 2006. ... The center is a part of the Pulkovo EOP and Reference Systems Analysis Center (PERSAC) . ... Results of VLBI data analysis can be found at Pulkovo EOP and Reference Systems Analysis Center (PERSAC) page. ...

Supernova 2000dx in UGC 1775 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2000dx in UGC 1775 Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the Supernova links web page. ... AUDE has a 2000dx page in French [ Translate ] . ... 15.3 . ... vsnet-alert 5375 ] SN 2000dx (Ewa) brighter! ... vsnet-campaign-sn 110 ] SN 2000dx bright: update . ...

... Collaborations | ... Special Astrophysical Observatory of Russian Academy of Sciences (SAO RAS) . ... Lebedev Physical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences Astro Space Center (ASC) . Moscow, Russia . Institute of Applied Physics of Russian Academy of Sciences (IAP RAS) . ... Institute of Problems of Microelectronics Technology and High Purity Materials of Russian Academy of Sciences . ... A.M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences (GPI RAS) . ... IREE RAS ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Earth Satellites . ... Leonid meteors seen from 13 km altitude aboard an aircraft during the 1999 Leonids Multi-Instrument Aircraft Campaign (Leonid-MAC). Comet Tempel-Tuttle provides the cometary debris for the Leonid meteor shower. ... Every 17-19 November Earth crosses Tempel-TuttleтАЩs orbit and the Leonids become visible. With clear, dark skies observers may see 10 to 15 Leonid meteors every hour on those mornings. ...

... Институт прикладной математики им. М.В.Келдыша . БАЛЛИСТИЧЕСКИЙ ЦЕНТР . О Центре . ... Баллистический Центр Института прикладной математики им. М.В.Келдыша РАН . Баллистический центр (БЦ) ИПМ им. М.В. Келдыша создан по предложению С.П. Королева и М.В. Келдыша в 1965 году. На него были возложены работы по баллистико-навигационному обеспечению (БНО) управления полетом пилотируемых кораблей и автоматических космических аппаратов научного и народно-хозяйственного назначения. ...

Our friend, mentor, and colleague Alanna Connors passed away on February 2, 2013. ... She received her undergraduate physics degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1978 and a Doctorate in Physics and Astronomy at the University of Maryland in 1988. ... Her research in X-rays and later gamma-ray astrophysics required solid statistical methods which were generally unknown to astronomers in the early nineties. ... She also had an interest in public science education. ...