... 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 Picture of the Day . NGC 5882: A Small Planetary Nebula . ... 28.08.1996 . ... Credit: H. Bond, HST, STSci , NASA Explanation: Will most stars one day look like this? Pictured above is the planetary nebula NGC 5882, captured by the Hubble Space Telescope . Although planetary nebulae can appear similar to planets like Uranus and Neptune , they are actually gas clouds surrounding stars typically hundreds of light years away. ... August 1996 . ... 1995 1996 . ...

... March 31, 1997 . NGC 3242: The 'Ghost of Jupiter' Planetary Nebula . ... WFPC2 , HST , NASA . Explanation : It's a weed , it's Jupiter , no it's - actually planetary nebula NGC 3242. ... NGC 3242 is such a planetary nebula, with the stellar remnant white dwarf star visible at the center. This nebula is sometimes called "The Ghost of Jupiter" for its similar appearance to the familiar planet. NGC 3242 is much farther away however, than the measly 40 light-minutes distance to Jupiter . ...

... 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.: ...

... 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. ...

M1 image More About M1 Nice Color Picture . ... M16 image More About M16 HST image . ... M31 image More About M31 Nice Color Picture . ... M42 image ; M43 image More About M42/43 Nice Color CCD Picture . M51 image More About M51 Color Image of M51 M51 Supernova . M57 image More About M57 Nice Color CCD Picture Very Deep M57 Image . ... M81 image More About M81 M81 Supernova Ultraviolet Image of M81 More about Ultraviolet Imaging . M82 image More About M82 M82 False Color M82 True Color . ...

This is the homepage of Andrew Fruchter, an astronomer on the staff of the Space Telescope Science Institute . ... Here you can look at an HST images of the optical counterparts of gamma-ray bursts and their host galaxies. ... Therefore, substantial information on the fine scale structure of objects can be obtained by offsetting the pointing of the telescope between exposures and then combining these "dithered" exposures into a single image. ...

... R. E. Jackson . ... H.-M. Adorf . ... D. C. Wells . ... AstroWeb is a World Wide Web (WWW) interface to a collection of Internet accessible resources aimed at the astronomical community. ... The goal of AstroWeb is to be the most complete, up to date, and useful listing of Internet accessible astronomical resources available anywhere. ... Jackson, Wells, and Adorf noticed that they and others had created largely overlapping lists of Astronomical resources. ...

... Information about a variety of different calendars for different cultures (e.g., Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Chinese, Hindu etc.) ... In addition, the Chinese had two different ways of interpreting and observing celestial events. One way the Chinese used astronomy was known as lifa; it was a discipline that aimed to understand the regularities and the predictable events in the celestial system through careful, observations, measurements and records. ... back to Teachers' Newsletter Main Page ...

... Planets . ... Earth Satellites . ... The newly discovered ?mega-Earth? ... Its sibling, the lava world Kepler-10b, is in the background (the two planets? proximity is grossly exaggerated) .€а Kepler-10c has a diameter of about 29 000 km, 2.3 times as large as Earth, and weighs 17 times as much. ... The first mega-earth to be discovered is Kepler-10c which orbits a star lying about 560 light years from the Sun in the constellation Draco. ... Astronomers Find a New Type of Planet: The ?Mega-Earth? ...

... Professor Mark Bailey completed work with the former PDRA Vacheslav Emel'yanenko on the capture of Halley-type comets from the long-period cometary flux. He also completed a paper with Ph.D. student Scott Manley on collision probabilities between small solar system bodies, and together with PDRA David Asher and visiting research fellow Vacheslav Emel'yanenko provided the explanation for the unexpected outburst of Leonid fireballs on the morning of 1998 November 17. ...

Title : MAKEITSO.WAD Version # If Any : 1.0 Date Finished : 5.Jan.96 Author : Marcus Malden Email Address : rp11910@online-club.de marcus.malden@uni-essen.de http : http://online-club.de/m3/rp11910 Other Files By Author : See MALWAD.TXT for a complete description of my PWAD-Levels compared to its filedate. ... Title : NORBERT.WAD Version # If Any : 1.0 Date Finished : 31.DEC.95 Author : Marcus Malden Difficulty Settings : Yes Base : New levels from scratch Build Time : 48 min. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Sky this Month . ... Star Atlas . ... stars . ... The Sky This Week: April 1 - 10 . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Why do some stars appear to flash a variety of different colors when you look at them through a telescope? ... So, Earthт??s atmosphere will bend some colors from especially bright stars more so than others, which makes the source look like itт??s flashing colors. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

... Posts tagged ?light curve? ... Posted by hlee . ... Tags: book , Brieman , cigar , Clinton , data mining , Friedman , Hastie , KDD , light curve , machine learning , SCMA , shaking hands , SN , statistical learning , Supernova , Tibshirani . Category: Algorithms , Cross-Cultural , High-Energy , Jargon , Methods , Quotes , Stat , Uncertainty | Comment . ... Click for what was appeared in arXiv this week. ... Category: arXiv , Data Processing , gamma-ray , Objects , Spectral , Timing , X-ray | ...

... See Environment File. ... An SM expression is something that can appear on the right hand side of a SET command. ... A filecap file is a database used to describe the byte-by-byte format of binary files, to allow SM to read them (using the IMAGE command). ... The word list is used in a few places in the manual in the specific sense defined by the YACC grammar in `control.y' . ... Their peculiarities are described by a termcap file, allowing SM's command editor to run on (almost) any terminal. ...

Filename completion is only available if the the environment variables EDITOR and/or VISUAL are set to either emacs , gmacs or vi . For example: EDITOR=emacs . ... To complete a file or directory name with emacs or gmacs set press the ESC key twice. ls -l on<ESC><ESC> line_help . If the filename is not completed enter more characters until the filename can be uniquely identified. ... To complete a file or directory name with vi set press the \ (backward slash) key. ls -l on\ line_help . ...

... Главная . ... Новости . ... Проекты . Любителям астрономии . Проект ISON . ... Подробнее . ... Категория: Новости проекта ISON . ... Метки: Космический мусор ,љ Астероиды ,љ Гамма-всплески ,љ Любителям астрономии ,љ Кометы љ . ... Метки: Космический мусор ,љ Астероиды ,љ Любителям астрономии љ . ... Новости обсерваторий проекта] - Обсерватория Кубанского государственного университета от Иванов А - 09.04.2016 11:08:49 . ... 1999-2013 Copyright "Астрономия и Телескопостроение" . ...

A team of U.S. and German astrophysicists have made the first ever detection of X-rays coming from a comet. ... Following the initial detection, the team reported repeated X-ray emissions from the comet over the next 24 hours. ... One preliminary theory is that X-ray emission from the Sun was absorbed by a cloud of gaseous water molecules surrounding the nucleus of the comet, and then were re-emitted by the molecules in a process physicists call "fluorescence." ... Comets . ...

... The remote area was formed very early, at a time when the Universe was a fifth of its present age and the presence of the galaxy string defies existing models, which can not explain how a string this big could have formed so long ago. ... The simulations tell us that you cannot take the matter in the early Universe and line it up in strings this large," Dr Francis said. ... But in the early Universe, most galaxies had not yet formed, and most dark matter clouds will not yet contain a galaxy. ...

... The MIDAS release 94NOV is the 9th official release of portable MIDAS. A number of new applications have been added to this version. ... It enhances the line editing capabilities of MIDAS, like a history stack of commands, Emacs or Vi editing functions, command and filename completion functions, and a communication channel to the MIDAS GUI Xhelp for a help-on-line function . ... For a more complete list of all updates/additions use the MIDAS command HELP [NEWS] after having installed this release. ...