... 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. ...

Browse the articles below for new ideas for your classroom. Mercury September/October 2005: Astronomy Education and Public Outreach: Steps and Missteps Toward an Emerging Profession (pdf) . Focus on Education articles as they appeared in Mercury: . ... March/April 2000: . ... Education Newswire articles as they appeared in Mercury, by issue. ... January/February 2000 . November/December 1999 . ... March/April 1999 . ... November/December 1998 . ... November/December 1997 . ...

... The ADS abstract service at: http://adswww.harvard.edu has been updated considerably in the last year. New capabilities in the search engine include searching for multi-word phrases and searching for various logical combinations of search terms. ... The ADS is currently used by over 10,000 users per month, which retrieve over 4.5 million references and over 250,000 full article pages each month. ... Quick Updates: The quick updates allow us to quickly enter new data into the database. ...

... Archives . ... All models are wrong, but some are useful. ... One of the most frequently cited quotes appeared in an article, titled The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete which I liked it very much because it cited the updated maxim by Peter Norvig, Google?s research director, . ... The article addressed perspectives of the new Petabyte data analysis era, where the traditional modeling and testing are not likely feasible. ... Chandra Blog . ... SAMSI AstroStat Prog....

Use these guidelines to fill out or edit the corresponding fields in the preprint entrytool. NOTE: Inside INPUT fields, Netscape DOES replace special symbols that appear in the default value for that field by the actual character. ... 1) The Space Velocity Institute Bedrock City, FS 00001 USA (2) Also: The Apple Institute for advanced juices Cambridge, MA 00002 UK (3) Sun Center, Telescope Rd 149 12600 Earth City, SS (4) On leave from the Transylvanian Penitentiary Results in: . ...

Next: CONCLUSION Up: CHIRPLET TRANSFORM SUBSPACES Previous: Nondilational Chirplet Transform . Suppose we choose a windowed sinusoidal FM signal for our mother chirplet. Such a signal has a frequency that periodically rises and falls (much like the vibrato of musical instruments or the wail of a police siren). ... Figure 14 . ... Using the warbling mother chirplet, we also computed the ``dilation-dilation'' ( ) plane of the chirplet transform (Fig. 16 ) for the pendulum data. ...

... The GALFA Continuum Transit Survey group ( GALFACTS ; PI: A. R. Taylor) has conducted several test observations and will begin an all-sky full-Stokes continuum survey later this year with the new P-ALFA spectrometer. ... Sample Perseus images of GALFA H I 21cm-line and full-Stokes continuum emission are shown below along with maps of molecular (CO) gas, thermal dust, and ionized gas optical emission for comparison. ... The GALFA H I emission appears to envelop the molecular cloud gas traced by CO. ...

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... Dessins d'enfants and differential equations. ... Sparse hyp ergeometric systems. ... On the Horn system of partial differential equations and series of hyp ergeometric typ e. Mathematica Scandinavica 91. no. ... On a multidimensional system of hyp ergeometric differential equations. ... Complex Analysis and Differential Operators. ... Complex Analysis and Differential Equations. ... On the solution of multidimensional hyp ergeometric differential equations by means of multidimensional residues. ...

Communications For Your Astronomy Event . Articles | ... Some manufacturers have received approval to market radios that are certified for use in both the Family Radio Service (FRS) and the General Mobile Radio Service (GMRS). ... FRS radios have a maximum power of Ѕ watt (500 milliwatt) effective radiated power and integral (non-detachable) antennas. ... FRS and GMRS Channel 1 . ... The FRS/GMRS radios I have transmit more than 1/2 watt when on channels 1-7 and 15-22. ... www.astronomy.net . ...

The attention of the scientific world has been gripped by the publication of work by two former research students at Armagh Observatory, namely Dr Enric Pall and his wife, Dr Pilar Monta s-Rodr guez . ... What is unusual about their work is that the spectrum was obtained during a total lunar eclipse meaning that the light had passed tangentially through the Earth's atmosphere before illuminating the Moon. ... 028-3752-2928; FAX: 028-3752-7174; cjb arm.ac.uk; jmf arm.ac.uk . ...