... 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. ...

... Data Reduction FAQ > The reduced science spectrum displayed in the Reflex window appears good but when I try to plot it, it is quite different. How can I get it? ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... ESO-MIDAS . ... Reflex . ... ESO Data . ... ESO HST Image Galleries . ... ESO Data Access Policy . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... ESO Annual Reports . ... Seminars at ESO Santiago . ... Seminars at ESO Garching . ... ESO Telescope Bibliography . ... Last Update: 01.04.14 ESO . ...

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... 2005 August 8 . Mars to Appear Normal This August . ... Regardless of numerous urban legends circulating, Mars will appear relatively normal in August. October is the best month to see Mars this year. ... As Earth catches up to Mars in their respective orbits around the Sun, Mars will keep rising earlier in the night. On 2005 October 30, Earth will have caught up to Mars and the planets will be the nearest to each other in their orbits -- this time around. ... About APOD | ...

... Iridescent clouds . ... A relatively rare phenomenon known as iridescent clouds can show unusual colors vividly or a whole spectrum of colors simultaneously. ... The Cassini spacecraft, launched from Earth in 1997, has now swung past Jupiter and should arrive at Saturn in the year 2004. ... In the Center of the Lagoon Nebula . ... The center of the Lagoon Nebula is busy with the awesome spectacle of star formation. ... In this nebula is a bright star cluster known as the Trapezium, shown above. ...

The Mars Flag has a different design on the reverse side. obverse side of flag . ... The orbit lines on the obverse cross the Sun on the lower half of the flag and appear to go behind the Sun on the upper half of the flag. The reverse side has the orbits lines continuing around the Sun on the upper half of the flag. ... The Mars Flag reverse side is a continuation of the obverse side and not just a different design on the back and not a mirror image of the obverse. Main Flag Background Color . ...

The antenna element Ravi ATNF, Narrabri 1. ... Miriad works out the radio Parabolic reflector: A parabolic reflector adds all the fields from a surface = aperture at a focal point. ... Feeds are `compact' and `corrugated' horns The inner profile is curved The inner surface has grooves Cross-section of a horn Sub-reflector 28 main-reflector Feed horn O `optical axis' The feed horn adds all the rays that come from the 28 deg. wide sub-reflector. The feed down-weights rays that come off-axis. ...

. To you, the user, it appears as though there is only one type of file in UNIX - the file which is used to hold your information. In fact, the UNIX filesystem contains several types of file. Ordinary files . Directories . Special files . Pipes .

sedthumb_circl59_21MAY10.pdf.gz" ------------------- SEDs and thumbnails for sources from catalog: LO_FIN_circl59_21MAY10.dat 1.- Thumbnails show a 150 x 150 arcsec square region centered on each of the sources in LO_FIN_circl59_21MAY10.dat. ... Each SED corresponds to the central source in the thumbnails (source ID appears in the SED plot). ... FWHM of the central source. Other sources from catalog LO_FIN_circl59_21MAY10.dat falling within the square area are shown as white squares. ...

The Experiment: To find the first galaxies . Understand basic properties of star formation/galaxies ? guess how a young galaxy, or protogalaxy would appear . ... New stars very blue: will appear redder at large distances (redshift). Dust protects gas from radiation. Dust is heated and is luminous at infrared wavelengths. ... Gas in close to a group of galaxies (cluster) may become very hot and emit X-rays. Previous slide . Next slide . Back to first slide . ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . On Sunday evening, 28th November, the Armagh Observatory was inundated with reports from people who had seen a bright meteor or fireball. ... The Armagh Observatory would like to thank those who have so far reported observations of this event, and encourage any businesses and others who may operate north-pointing CCTV cameras to inspect any video footage recorded between approximately 17:30 and 18:00 on Sunday 28th November. ...

RTT150 . ... This search system is designed for generating the necessary information on series of pointings (observations of each source consist of sets of exposures with different filters and sometimes with different exposure times) for observed sources. Search results appear at the separate page as a table with the following data: . DATE - real (not evening!) observations date (in YYYY-MM-DD format); . ... Bin - minimal CCD binning mode (may vary during the observations); . ...

... A birdie has been seen in Pixel 0b of the alfa receiver near 1430 Mhz during experiment a2010. ... The plots compare the birdie from sep04 and mar05: . ... Middle plot: gregorian room temperature for the birdie times. Bottom plot: The gregorian room temperature versus the birdie frequency. The frequency of the birdie is proportional to the temperature in the gregorian turret room. The sep04 problem was traced to the module that converts from rf to if and then to the fiber. ...

image collection >> physical phenomena >> internal waves . Image ers9609020202 . ... September 02, 1996 at 02:02 . ... Several IW packets are clearly visible on ERS-2 SAR image taken on 2 September 1996 at 02:02 UTC. ... Some of the IW packets are oriented approximately parallel to the depth contours (blue lines). ... Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Layered Ocean Model (NLOM) SSH and current analysis for 02 September 1996. ... Image . surface geometry : 100*100 km . ...

. Album : Фотоальбом Сергея Аюкова :: Travels to distant places and countries :: 1997/08 Japan (Kyoto, Nara) :: 17/08 Kyoto streets. Maruyama park . Up . << Prev . Dreaming about things on display. After checking, they appeared to be not that tasty compared to how they look. Next >> . Created with the tool album generator from David's MarginalHacks on Wed Jun 5 20:38:34 2013 .

... The data below shows the most-popular words used in tweets about JWST@SXSW . ... However, I have not tried to combine different forms of the same word, so JWST and #JWST are counted separately (it is not surprising that JWST appears so much, since it is the search term used to find the tweets :-). Here we restrict ourselves to those tweets not flagged by Twitter as being a re-tweet. The top words are shown. Here we restrict ourselves to only those flagged by Twitter as being a re-tweet. ...

Solar Large-Scale Chains: Some Events . ... The chains appear to light up separators or quasi-separatrix layers between different interacting large-scale magnetic flux systems in the global solar magnetosphere and, in particular, to outline large-scale coronal structures involved in the CME process. ... Some features of the chains and their relations to CMEs are illustrated for a number of halo CME-associated events. 23 events of 1997-2000 . ... Halo-CME-associated events of November 1997 . ...

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Next: Summary Up: The Second EGRET Catalog Previous: Upper Limits for . In regions of the sky where two or more sources have overlapping point spread functions, it is often difficult to resolve the number of sources and their locations. ... As an example, Nolan et al.(1995) list a source 0445+62 at l = 146.89 , b = 10.65 , with a = 4.0 and a source 0500+59 at l = 150.52 , b = 10.25 , with a = 4.2. ... Both of these sources lie close to the threshold adopted for this catalog. ... 1995). ...

... Five years ago, the giant radio telescopes in outback West Australia detected radio signals, apparently coming from a planet orbiting the obscure star HD666123, in the constellation Carina. ... The "Dot" HD666123 The radio signals are coming from the dot of light marked in the above (negative) telescope image, which was taken at a wavelength of 500nm. ... The "Planet" 360 AU HD666123 You've been tracking the dot, from which the radio waves are coming, for four days now. and it appears to be moving. ...