The Sun is our nearest star and the source of energy for life on Earth. ... For centuries astronomers wondered whether they were clouds floating in the Sun's atmosphere, but we now know that they really are huge regions of magnetic field, about as intense as the field at the poles of an iron magnet. ... Such abrupt events were named solar flares , and what made them especially interesting was that occasionally, after a prominent flare, a magnetic storm would erupt on Earth. ...

Seven months ago, on Mar 19, 2008, at 09:12 Moscow time, a new star appeared on the sky. The Sun had already risen over the Russia, but people of the Western hemisphere might be able to see by their eyes a faint starlet near one of Bootes constellation stars. This starlet appeared and faded by an order of magnitude in a minute. Astronomers named it GRB080319B or, informally, the Naked-Eye Burst, as it was twice as bright as human eye can see a star. ... Royal Astronomical Society . ...

... 2015 - 2016 . ... Eugene Higgins Professor of Astrophysics, Princeton University . ... December 8, 2015 . ... November 10, 2015 . ... University of the Sciences in Philadelphia author . ... Amateur Astronomer . ... 2014 - 2015 . ... June 9, 2015 . ... Digital Planetarium and the 2012 Transit of Venus from Hawaii . 2013 - 2014 . ... International Occultation Timing Association . ... 2012 - 2013 . ... 2011 - 2012 . ... Princeton University . ... Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton, Inc., ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... FIRST . ... This site is an initiative by MRAO Cambridge to provide improved access for the UK to the images being produced from the FIRST survey. ... Note that a small image returned by this server will have different gridding and orientation from an image of corresponding position and size returned by the FIRST CUTOUT server at the main site. ... This site may evolve to provide more of the facilities available at the FIRST main site in due course. ...

... APT Activities and Science Results 3. ... APT Secretary Philip Edwards (ISAS) reviewed the aims of the APT (http://www.vsop.isas.ac.jp/apt/DefinitionAndAims.html). ... The Australia Telescope Compact Array, and Ceduna, Hartebeesthoek, Kashima, Mopra, Parkes, and Shanghai telescopes of the Asia-Pacific Telescope participated in these observations. ... In the absence of Tetsuo Sasao, Philip Edwards briefly described results of the APT 22 GHz observations conducted from October 1st to 5th, 1997. ...

The small solids. Asteroids or the small planetes . ... The comets. ... Ceneca the Young.Procuring about the nature.63 y. The comet is a celestial body of a great size, but a rare one... transparent. Sometimes there seen a core and the medium forms a kind of a tail, beard or dishevelled looks. ... The core is an ice body - conglomeration of frosted gas and dust. ... The comet state is variable: ones have the con tails, others the dust tails, and the third have both. ... Meteors and meteorites. ...

Title : Star City Filename : Starcity.wad; Starcity.zip Author : Roger Ritenour Emale Address : ritenour@mail.comet.net Story Line : The starship Pleiades is yours and you have freed the station Mir from the aliens. ... Description : Single level with lots of new graphics. ... Starcity will run under all versions of Doom2. ... Combat : This level features urban combat at night. ... Additional Credits : Doug Ryerson, I borrowed a few of his textures from his ANTARES.WAD. ...

Обзоры hep-ph: тематический рубрикатор . ... обзор! hep-ph/0304132 . ... Authors: M. Battaglia et al. Comments: 330 pages , Proceedings of the First Workshop on the CKM Unitarity Triangle, CERN 13-16 February 2002, to appear as CERN Yellow Report . ... Comments: 25 pages, 10 figures . ... Comments: 22 pages, no figures, LATEX, preliminary version of Summary Talk given at HQ 2002, International Workshop on Heavy Quarks and Leptons, Vietri sul Mare, Salerno, Italy, May 27 - June 1, 2002; . ...

... Some people have asked why Venus appears in "different places" in these photos. ... Dave Wallace . ... It was taken from Brookline, NH using my Celestron 5" SCT through a Tutill Solar Skreen filter using Fuji Superia Reala color print film. ... Marblehead Middle School Fifth Grade Students viewed the 2004 Transit of Venus from Riverhead Beach on Marblehead Harbor when the Sun broke through the clouds at about 6:45 a.m. Eyepiece projection with my 8" Meade SCT and Televue 32mm Plossl worked well. ...

Jean Ballet, CEA/SAp 01 February 2005 Column rejection in the MOS The core of soft sources is removed by the standard emchain. Due to very large fluctuations in count rate from one column to the next at low energy. ... New columns with very bad (too low) energy were discovered in 1E 0102. ... 0831_0125911901, MOS 1, CCD 1, GD 153 (SW mode) Standpixeas alotsrs moved Bad ard l n n y ie The columns running through the source core are rejected by embadpixfind 1.20 in SAS 6.1. ...

... In the 1800s it was already evident that the Earth's magnetic field was involved: auroral rays seemed to follow the Earth's magnetic field lines, and the frequency with which aurora was observed depended on the distance from the magnetic pole, not from the geographic one. ... That is the beginning of the ionosphere , a layer with enough free electrons (and ions) to play an important role in radio communications. ... The simplest atom is the one of hydrogen, with just one electron. ...

... Dale A. Gardner . NASA Astronaut (deceased) . ... NASA EXPERIENCE: б  Gardner was selected as an Astronaut Candidate by NASA in January 1978, reporting to the Johnson Space Center in July 1978.б  In August 1979, he completed a one-year training and evaluation period, making him eligible for assignment as a mission specialist astronaut .б  He subsequently served as the Astronaut Project Manager for the flight software in the shuttle onboard computers leading up to the first ...

... Korolev, Moscow area. On February 28, 2006 RSC Energia hosted the training sessions of Brazilian citizen Marcos Pontes under the training program for the participant in space flight to the International space station (ISS) within 10th Visiting Crew. ... President of RSC Energia after S.P. Korolev, General Designer N.N. Sevastiyanov congratulated M. Pontes on his birthday during the joint training sessions presenting wrist-watch and memorable gold medal of the Corporation. ...

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 . ...

. This image is a screen capture of the full width half max of the imager array taken on February 15, 2000. The left portion of the image is simply the fwhm calculations for each of the chips in the array. On the right side is the estimated fwhm corrected for wavelength. This takes all the different filters and converts the estimated seeing as if it were in i' I believe. It is useful as a measure of the consistency of image quality across the array. As you can see, it is quite good! . long@apo.nmsu.edu

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); . ...

... Asteroid . ... In case you didn't hear about it, which you probably didn't: On Jan. 7, an asteroid 1,000 feet across -- nearly three times the current diameter of Marlon Brando -- barely missed the Earth, which is most likely your planet of residence. ... What if this asteroid had hit the Earth? ... As it happens, the American Astronomical Society was holding a conference in Washington AT THE VERY SAME TIME as the asteroid nearly hit the Earth. ...

... In spring 1998, we finished our postgrad studing, ".. summer's almost gone" . ... Researcher at ASC. ... Researcher at SAI. ... PhD Dec 1998; Researcher at SAI, postdoc in US. E-mail: atim#sai.msu.ru . ... E-mail: gorshkov#sai.msu.ru . ... E-mail: andrew#sai.msu.ru . ... Phd Oct 1999; Assistant professor at Chicago. ... PhD Feb 1998; E-mail: polar#sai.msu.ru . ... E-mail: sunny#sai.msu.ru Researcher at SAI. ... People of our Great Group (Gr-Gr hereafter), e-mail me, what do you think about it. ...

Next: Descriptor NFILTCAR Up: Instrument descriptors Previous: Instrument descriptors . The two most critical types of physical information needed about the filters themselves are (1) what are their transmission curves? and (2) does the instrument either regulate or measure their temperature? ... In addition, we need to know how many different filter-code fields appear in the data. Bearing all this in mind, here are the descriptors for filters: . ... Mon Jan 22 15:08:15 MET 1996 ...

Dimitri ZVONKINE (Paris-7 Jussieu): Models of 2-dimensional gravity and enumeration of ramified coverings of the sphere . We explain why the enumeration of ramified coverings of the sphere provides a model of 2-dimensional gravity. ... We also prove some combinatorial results concerning ramified coverings of the sphere. ... It appears naturally in elementary graph enumeration problems, in the intersection theory on moduli spaces of stable curves, and in the enumeration of ramified coverings. ...