... 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. ...

... Planet Building in HD 100546 . ... NOAO , NASA/GSFC ), CTIO , ESO , NSF Explanation: More than 100 billion boulders may be swarming in the disk around nearby star HD 100546 . In a scene thought similar to the early years of our own Solar System , ever larger rocks are growing by colliding and accreting dust as the messy business of planet formation appears to be underway. ... Publications with keywords: planetesmals - dust - planets . Publications with words: planetesmals - dust - planets . ...

... Donate to Support Science Literacy . ... 2016 Annual Awards . The ASP is accepting nominations for the organizationтАЩs national annual awards which recognize special achievements in astronomy research, technology, education, and public outreach. ... Shop the AstroShop . ... The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) is accepting nominations for the organizationтАЩs national annual awards which recognize special achievements in astronomy research, technology, education, and public outreach.. ...

... Bojan Nikolic web pages (r. 329) . ... http://carma.astro.umd.edu/wiki/index.php/Installing_Developer_CASA . Building CCMTools as required by CASA . ... Building . ... Notes related to building CASA . A prototype build system for CASA using SCons . ... Generating IDL files . ... Notes on the classic CASA build . ... Writing the tool XML file . ... Automatically generated IDL files from the files describing each of the tools of CASA. ... Building CASA . ... Building the casa-core libraries . ...

... 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") . ...

... Construction of the Observatory's principal buildings began in 1789, using plans drawn up by Francis Johnston, one of Ireland's most celebrated architects, a native of Kilmore, County Armagh who in later years became known as `Ireland's Wren'. The main buildings, which are of considerable architectural merit, comprise in their original designation a residence for the Astronomer, a meridian room, a library and several telescope domes. ...

... Active Disk Building in a Local HI-massive LIRG . by Michelle Cluver (UCT) . ... However, the mid-infrared uncovers a star-forming disk housing an intense starburst with a star formation rate of approximately 21 Msun/yr (Cluver et al. 2008 , 2010 ).This luminous infrared galaxy (LIRG) appears to be undergoing asymmetric inside-out disk building, with a star formation efficiency comparable to local disk galaxies and quite different to merger-driven starbursts. ... today * ATNF | ...

... 2007 September 10 . Building Galaxies in the Early Universe . Credit: NASA , ESA , and N. Pirzkal ( STScI / ESA ) et al. ... A recent analysis of the HUDF focused on the smallest, faintest and most compact galaxies imaged. These small galaxies are thought to be the building blocks of modern galaxies . ... Part of the HUDF is shown above , while one blue building-block galaxy, highly redshifted by the universe so as to appear more yellow, is shown in the upper left inset. ... About APOD | ...

... The Russian TESIS/ CORONAS-PHOTON Solar Observatory, which has been working in orbit since January 30th, 2009, has photographed one of the most important events in the build up to the upcoming solar cycle - the formation of our star's new southern belt of activity. The first magnetic fields of the new cycle in the southern hemisphere appeared on the Sun's surface on May 23-24th. ... The belt of activity is one of the primary concepts, characterizing the solar cycle. ...

Open Systems Handbook: A Guide to Building Open Systems . ... This book is designed to provide interested individuals and organizations with an overview of open systems and the work being done to achieve them. ... This section is organized using a descriptive model of an open systems environment developed by the IEEE PI 003.0 Working Group, which is developing the Guide to POSIX-based Open System Architecture. ... Standards for open systems 13 . Chapter 3: The open systems environment (OSE) 15 . ...

... Forum . ... Recent Topics . ... MAO main . ... COSPAR Capacity Building Workshop Announcement . ... Над?слано: Понед?лок, 18 Травень 2015 р 11:33:34 . Тема: COSPAR Capacity Building Workshop Announcement . ... A regional COSPAR Capacity Building Workshop on Planetary Missions Data Analysis will be organized immediately prior to the second COSPAR Symposium. ... Further information about COSPAR Capacity Building Workshops is available at cosparhq.cnes.fr/events/cb-workshops . ... MAO NASU . ...

... The ANU 2.3m telescope building, the Anglo-AuтАж . Sidebar Left . ... Title: The ANU 2.3m telescope building, the Anglo-Australian Telescope dome and the ANU 24-inch telescope dome. ... NOTE: All images are copyright and must not be reproduced or mirrored in any form without written permission. No use may be made of any of the images without Dr Shobbrook's written permission. ... The ANU 2.3m telescope building, the Anglo-Australian Telescope dome and the ANU 24-inch telescope dome. ...

... The azimuth position to maximize the dome signal building 2 was measured on 23jan13. ... Mount a 1400 Mhz helical antenna from john harmon's old office on the 4th floor of building 2. ... za = 15 deg The plots show the signal strength vs az,za for the spectral channel containing the tone (after hanning smoothing) (.ps) ( .pdf ) . ... The dashed colored lines show the azimth for the peaks at za= 19,17, and 15 degrees. ... The peak strength at a single za can change by 33 db in 3 degrees of azimuth . ...

When I build NEdit on my SunOS system, I get undefined symbols: _memmove , _atexit , _strerror . ... I built NEdit on my Linux system, and it's full of bugs. ... When I build NEdit on my SunOS system, I get the fillowing undefined symbols: ld: Undefined symbol _memmove _atexit _strerror *** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `nedit' . ... NEdit fails to build on Linux, with messages undefined reference to `XpGetDocumentData' undefined reference to `XpGetPageDimensions' .. ...

... This is a personal project collecting and documenting early images of Harvard College Observatory, focusing on the site at Observatory Hill (previously Summer House Hill). ... Ida Woods . ... Earliest source: "[Observatory data analysis by women computers] ." ... I've dated this photo to March of 1898 based on a calendar visible in the image. ... Immediatly in front of her are Eve Leland (back row center) and Ida Woods to the right. ... Mabel Gill (or "Edith F. Gill" sipickwomen ) . ...

This image shows IRAS 04302+2247, a star hidden from direct view and seen only by the nebula it illuminates. Dividing the nebula in two is a dense, edge-on disk of dust and gas which appears as the thick, dark band crossing the center of the image. The disk has a diameter of 80 billion miles (15 times the diameter of Neptune's orbit), and has a mass comparable to the Solar Nebula, which gave birth to our planetary system. ... Image: NASA . ...

Yesterday I got a fragment (first 12 disks of 43 total) of Merlin beta 9.014 (string appeared in kernel and drivers; cmd.exe reports 9.012). ... Those 12 disks appeared to be sufficient to pass 1st phase of installation and run Merlin off Maintenance Desktop. ... 1) HPFS 2MB cache limit is still there. ... InfoPM shows about the same graphics performance as on Warp 3.0 (slightly worse on some operations). ... Looks like at least keyboard layout will be easily customizable in Merlin. ...

Related Building Energy Efficiency Sites . ... Arizona Energy Office . Association of Energy Engineers . ... Beijing Energy Efficiency Center . ... CANMET Energy Diversification Research Laboratory . ... Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Building Simulation Research . ... National Renewable Energy Laboratory High-performance Buildings Research . ... Oak Ridge National Laboratory Buildings Technology Center . Oak Ridge National Laboratory Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Program . ...

GTK+ / Gnome Application Development . ... With the basic concepts out of the way, you're ready to start building a full-scale Gnome application. This part of the book walks you through the creation of a generic application skeleton: a source tree using automake and autoconf , argument parsing, session management, internationalization, the main window, dialogs, toolbars, and menubars. ... Creating Your Source Tree . Gnome Application Basics . ... Gnome Application Checklist . ...