... Globular cluster NGC 2808, elliptical galaxy NGC 2986, and the Sextans Dwarf . ... What would cause Earthт??s orbit to become more circular instead of its present elliptical orbit, and has this ever happened before? ... Gravitational interactions among the planets cause the ellipticities of the orbits to oscillate periodically by a few percent over millions of years. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... If you are already registered on Astronomy.com, please log in below. ...

Guest Editorial , July 2006 . Past ? Present ? Future . ... SETI, the quest for reasonable signals from Space, is aimed at the Past. ... From here on Earth, we can say with good reason that conducting both searches (SETI) and transmission (METI) of reasonable signals, we appear poised just halfway between the Past and the Future: namely, in the Present! ... This editorial was submitted in response to Their Past, Our Future , by SETI League executive director emeritus H. Paul Shuch. ...

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... Planet Ziggy seems to be located in the outer regions of an elliptical galaxy, or perhaps in a globular cluster orbiting such a galaxy. ... We have not been able to detect any spiral galaxies elsewhere in the sky. ... Iif they are too small for their gravity to achieve this. force holding the two objects together ­ strongly suggests that these objects are Page 1 The Milk Stain No milky-way is seen. ... We are calling it the Milk Stain. This could be an elliptical galaxy or a globular cluster. ...

. Echelle spectrometer . LYNX For consultations or other requests, please, contact with Dr. Maksim Yushkin: maks@sao.ru .

Instrument . ... Scanning TV-sensor with on-board data recording system for global coverage mode . ... recording, direct transmission . ... IR-radiometer for global coverage and direct data transmission modes . ... The scientific instrument package onboard the Meteor-3 spacecraft provides for regular instant acquisition of images of cloudiness and Earth surface in visible and infra-red bands, data on air temperature and humidity, sea surface temperature and clouds temperature. ...

This document explains some of the directives provided by the core server which are used to configure the basic operations of the server. ... Process Creation . Network Configuration . ... User . ... A single control process is responsible for launching child processes which listen for connections and serve them when they arrive. ... The User and Group directives are used to set the privileges of the Apache child processes. ... The child process creates multiple threads to serve requests. ...

... Galaxies Away . ... This striking pair of galaxies is far, far away ... about 350 million light-years from Earth. ... Planetary Nebula NGC 7027 in Infrared . ... NGC 7027 is one of the smallest known planetary nebulae. Even so, NGC 7027 is 14,000 times larger than the Earth-Sun distance. ... A Baby Galaxy . ... Starbirth in NGC 1808 . ... The center of galaxy NGC 1808 is bursting with new stars, but why? Being a barred spiral galaxy makes NGC 1808 somewhat similar to our own Milky Way Galaxy. ...

... NRL . ... STScI . ... GSFC: Aerospace Building, 10210 Greenbelt Rd. ... Note that visitor badges for NRL need to be requested several days prior to the talk. ... The talks will be in room 408 of the Aerospace building, about 3/4 miles west of the GSFC main entrance at 10210 Greenbelt Rd (193). To get there, go out of the GSFC main gate and turn left, or continue past the main gate when coming from the BW Parkway. ... The visitor center is in the building just before (and outside) the gate. ...

... Hughes STX/COSSC NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD 20771 . ... The exploration of hypertextual data presentation at the COSSC was facilitated by the creation of tables of data, in electronic form, which describe the BATSE and EGRET datasets available in the Compton Observatory archive. ... As our store of data continues to grow, we will continue to explore new and novel ways in which hypertext allows the data in the COSSC archive to be presented and selected. 56 kB PostScript reprint . ...

... CBET now has an M31 novae page , M33 novae page , and an M81 novae page . ... Also, see W. Pietsch's M31 (apparent) optical nova catalogue , M33 novae catalog , and M81 novae catalog Please note that I do not keep track of galactic novae . Nova M81 2016-04a? (= PNV J09560598+6900401 ), ATEL 8904 discovered 2016/04/02.876 by Kamil Hornoch and H. Kucakova . ... Nova M31 2016-03a? (= PNV J00421695+4059098 ), CBAT TOCP discovered 2016/03/01.721 by unknown . ... other extragalactic Novae from 2016 . ...

All teams have to inform the Olympic Coordinating Council (OCC) and the Local Organizing Committee (LOC) about their participation not later than the dates determined by the Acting Statutes/Regulations on the International Astronomy Olympiad . ... Leaders of official teams of states have to present to the OCC necessary personal information about every leader, participant and observer (if any) not later than 9 weeks before the beginning of the Olympiad. ... Passport data: 8.1.( Passport no . ...

... Positive Start of the data set. fragments present at the centre of the region and negative ones scattered around. Two major negative fragments locate at both east and west sides of the positive ones. At the west, positive fragments touch the negative ones. ... 01:45 The BP becomes A few negative fragments emerge near the stronger and positive ones at the east and move toward bigger. them. At the west, positive fragments keep moving toward the negative ones and cancellation continues. ...

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... CentralProcessor 0.11 documentation . ... The following parameters determine where the measurement sets are that hold the data to be processed. The default behaviour is to read the MS from the given Scheduling Block (SB) directory. ... Location (on galaxy) of the scheduling blocks. This is used when specifying SB numbers - the default is the standard location for BETA operation. ... These parameters determine which beams in the data to process. ... User Parameters - Pipeline & job control . ...

... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... ESO's Governing Bodies . ... Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Visits to ESO Sites . ... Media Visits . ... Architecture at ESO . ... ESO Acronyms . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Video News Releases . ... New on eso.org . ... ESO News . ... ESO Media Newsletter . ... 7 December 2009 . Media Advisory: ESO to hold media teleconference on 11 December to present pioneering new survey telescope. ... Subscribe to receive news from ESO in your language . ...

... The mouse pointer is represented on the screen by a small bitmap called the cursor . ... GdkWindow* gdk_window_get_pointer (GdkWindow* window , gint* x , gint* y , GdkModifierMask* state ); . ... It is possible to grab the pointer, which means that all pointer events will go to the grab window for the duration of the grab. ... gint gdk_pointer_grab (GdkWindow* window , gint owner_events , GdkWindow* confine_to , GdkCursor* cursor , guint32 time ); . void gdk_pointer_ungrab (guint32 time ); . ...

Russian version of HP . ... StarCalc is the fastest professional astronomy planetarium & star mapping program for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP (StarCalc version for PocketPC computers you can found here ). ... Extensibility : This program is based on common "Plugin StarCalc interface to catalogs and object groups", which allows program to add new modules as Plugins. ... Welcome to the Pocket StarCalc Home Page: . ... Some bugfixes in eclipses" and line" plugins - see the new versions in downloads page. ...

... Astronomy in Ukraine Past, Present, and Future (MAO-2014) . July 17, 2014, Kyiv, Ukraine . ... of the Main Astronomical Observatory of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine . ... The Conference MAO-2014 is devoted to the 70th anniversary of the Main Astronomical Observatory of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (MAO NASU). ... The Conference will be held at the MAO NASU, Kyiv, Ukraine. ... Main Astronomical Observatory of NASU, Kyiv, Ukraine . ... Main Astronomical Observatory . ...

... Solar PV Arrays (needs storage) . 2 .Magic Hydro Power that doesn't kill salmon (does not need storage) . ... You need to realistically calculate the capital costs of building the facility, how much land it will utilize, and what the operating costs are. ... Energy storage = 40 kilowatt hours per gram. ... You are to build an energy model from this array of power generating facilities and energy storage that you will be sustainable and deliver energy at a reasonable cost to the consumer. ...