... Bringing news from across the Universe to children all around the world . ... Smoking, drinking alcohol and eating bad food can make you look years older and live years less. It turns out that the same is true for star clusters! Globular clusters, like the one in this space photograph, are groups of stars tightly bundled together by gravity. ... Now astronomers have come across something very strange hidden deep in the hearts of these giant old star cities: young stars! ...

... Of course, at the time, I did not realize that the phone call that night would alter the course of my life.It seemed like a normal phone call, nothing out of the ordinary, just a call from Sam asking me to meet him the next day. ... He seemed so anxious to see you," she worried. ... Although Sam did not call again, Mirabella continued to pester me about going to see him. ... We arranged to meet the next day. The day I went into town to see Sam was the first really cold day of fall. ...

VIEW OUT OF THE WINDOW FROM NEVADA, USA . ... We live in the Mojave Desert, so our summers are hot while our winters are very mild. ... We are able to see the beautiful colors in the rocks surrounding our valley, since trees do not grow on the mountains. Many people have shade trees, grass, and flowers surrounding their homes so they can see the beauty of these plants very close, but if you venture into the desert, you are able to see all the desert plants and animals. ... View Out Of the Window | ...

A special report by Katie Barnard on her work experience at Narrabri . ... I have been interested in astronomy for some time, and so I thought work experience would be a good idea to see what it was really like. ... In my time at the ATCA, I worked with Naomi McClure-Griffiths, a PhD student from the university of Minnesota. ... Naomi gave me some `cubes' (seen as movies) of different sections of the sky, from observations at Parkes, to look through and identify possible shells. ...

... A rough estimation is that in the United States there is one planetarium per 100,000 population, ranging in size from the Hayden Planetarium's 20-meter dome seating 430 people, to three-meter inflatable portable domes where children sit on the floor. ... Together dblo associates make a huge impact in the architecture, interior design and development arena in London. ... With the holidays around the corner what better way to spoil your family than with your very own private home cinema. ...

Y ou don't need your own Voyager to see the solar system. ... Refer to Sky Telescope or a similar magazine for up to date positions or check one of the several Web sites that show planetary positions. ... You can see 99.99% of the mass of the solar system with no instruments whatsoever. ... Jupiter . ... Mars . ... For $200 you can get a far better optical instrument than Galileo or Newton had. ... Date . ... William Herschel . ... O f course, the solar system has more than just planets and moons. ...

December: A Significant Month in Apollo . In 1968 and 1972, the month of December marked two significant events in NASA history?the first and last missions to the Moon. ... When they announced Apollo 8, I just couldn't believe it, but we were all over George Low to go try it, because we were young enough to try anything. ... http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/apollo8_mp3/apollo8.htm . ... http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/HouHistory/HoustonHistory-Fall08.pdf . ... Return to JSC History Portal . ...

... WHERE DO DREAMS LEAD? ... Jane stayed in London with her grandparents during the summer holidays. ... She could permit herself everything she wanted. But she had only one dream: to find herself in the far future. If there was the TIME МЛС1IINK that time. ... James Thompson, in her class. ... James. ... Jane? ... His look was happy and full of love and good. ... Jane and James wanted to save him But they forgot that they were from the past, which meant they didn't lose values: love and good. ...

... aiscam@finesse . ... Install Appropriate Filters and Edit filters.txt file . Edit filters.txt file on aiscam@finesse in /home/aiscam/config . ... aiscam: filter -ini ; initializes filter information . aiscam: filter -r ; lists filters installed . aiscam: filter 4 ; moves filter wheel . ... aiscam: fpzero -w 4044.4 -1591.47 ;set fpzero with wavelength and central z . ... aiscam: file dark ;set filename for dark exposures . ... aiscam: file bias ;set filename for biases, no time needed . ...

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. Take care what name you give to the file copy. If you choose the name of a file that already exists it will be overwritten by the new copy! . Either: . Always use the cp command together with its -i option. This will prompt you for confirmation whenever the copy would overwrite an existing file. or . Create a command alias for the cp command. Including the -i flag in the alias will make sure that you are always prompted for confirmation whenever the copy would overwrite an existing file.

... Coming Soon to a Channel Near You: Oracle.. ... But now users are discovering that this beefy class of multiprocessing, "fault-tolerant" PC servers handle databases just as well as mainframes and minicomputings. ... Programmers at four competing Unix software vendors are working together on what may be the last chance for Unix on the corporate desktop. ... COSE's Common Desktop Environment goes a long way toward establishing a standard Unix interface that's easy enough for novice users to master. ...

... SUPER RATIO . ... On this page I will present the most important (on my opinion) idea on Intellegence Life in the Universe . ... On the problem of the Super Ratio in astrophysics" . ... As a matter of fact, this is the main problem of the modern natural science. ... Here I shall try to speak about the most important problem of the modern natural science, the problem which is undoubtedly, of more importance than discovery of Blacks Holes, creation of Grand Unification Theory or Artificial...

... FIFTY YEARS AGO: THE BIRTH OF NASA, 1958 . Thursday, Dec 11, 2008 at 8:00 PM . ... NASA is the world's most famous space agency, and it's now half a century old. ... Please join us for a pre-meeting dinner discussion at Changsho, 1712 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA at 6:00pm before the meeting. ... Thursday, Dec 11, 2008 at 8:00 PM in Phillips Auditorium, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics ( 60 Garden St, Cambridge, MA ). ... Dec . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... Bojan Nikolic web pages home . ... As an exercise to put through the new InMin library through its paces, I have looked recently at applying Nested Sampling ( Skilling2006 ) algorithm to the fitting of star-formation history as function of redshift. ... The data I used are from Figure 1 of Yuksel08 but I use only the grey data paints, which are just the data originally from Hopkins2006 . ... The next step is to define the function which is the model for the history of the SFR density. ...

... Schedule IKI RAN Data Acquisition, Processing and Dissemination Center . SRC "Planeta" Data Acquisition, Processing and Dissemination Center . Sea Surface Temperature Adriatic Sea . Baltic Sea . Barents Sea . Black Sea . ... Composite Image of Cloudiness Russia . ... Regional Archive (only cloudless data) . ... Operative Regional Archive (all data for last 3 days) . ... NOAA Data on other Servers (about Russia) . For more information send a mail to: info@sputnik.infospace.ru . ...

Lectures . ... тАЬOther Ways of Looking for Life in the SkyтАЭ ? Freeman J. Dyson . ... Lecture Series 2011-2012 . ... Dr. Freeman J. Dyson, one of the nationтАЩs most renowned physicists, and professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., will open the AAAтАЩs 2011-2012 lecture series Friday, October 21, when he speaks on тАЬOther Ways of Looking for Life in the Sky.тАЭ The free public lecture begins at 6:15 p.m. in the Kaufmann€аTheater of the AMNH. ...

... 2015: . Explanation of the Origin of Ultraluminous X-Ray Sources . Using optical spectroscopy, we revealed the origin of unusual objects: ultraluminous X-ray sources in other galaxies, which radiate in the X-ray range thousands times stronger than the black holes in our Galaxy. ... Detection of Radio Transients and Variable Radio Sources using the Archive Data of the Cold Surveys . ... O.Zhelenkova ), E.Majorova, A.Temirova . ... E.Majorova, O.Zhelenkova. ... Archive . ...

Next: NICMOS/HST H-band (F160W) Images Up: NICMOS Science Previous: HST NICMOS Observations of . ... Observations of P . ... The NICMOS team has devised a comprehensive program of observations of the Galactic Center. ... Data in hand give a first look at variability and a detailed look at the search for the tip of the main sequence will be discussed where NICMOS has demonstrated adequate sensitivity and photometric precision to identify likely O8-B1 stars at the Galactic Center. ...

... T.T.T. Put up in a place where its easy to see the cryptic admonishment T.T.T. When you feel how depressingly slowly you climb, its well to remember that Things Take Time. ... SOCIAL MECHANISM When people always try to take the very smallest piece of cake how can it also always be that thats the one thats left for me? ... ATOMYRIADES Nature, it seems, is the popular name for milliards and milliards and milliards of particles playing their infinite game of billiards and billiards and billiards. ...