... This page contains pictures and text to accompany the press release entitled "some black holes are pink", which was presented as part of the Fresh Science event, ScienceNow! ... I first show colour pictures of the pink black holes (and of some blue and yellow ones for comparison. ... If you are having this trouble, I've included pictures below with stretched colour maps, to emphasise the colours: these should print better. (jpeg image, 29kb) . ... Quasar (black hole) PKS 1133-172. ...

... Bringing news from across the Universe to children all around the world . ... Yet, all of these things are made from the same stuff: chemical elements. ... In total, there are only 118 chemical elements. That means that everything in your room and everything that we can see on Earth is made up from different amounts of some of these chemical elements. ... There might be some extra chemical elements out there, but astronomers only know about 118 chemical elements so far. ...

A team of U.S. and German astrophysicists have made the first ever detection of X-rays coming from a comet. ... Following the initial detection, the team reported repeated X-ray emissions from the comet over the next 24 hours. ... One preliminary theory is that X-ray emission from the Sun was absorbed by a cloud of gaseous water molecules surrounding the nucleus of the comet, and then were re-emitted by the molecules in a process physicists call "fluorescence." ... Comets . ...

... Recognizing which columns represent the same physical quantity is important not only to combine two or more tables, but it is of prime importance when the aim is to recognize sources with similar physical characteristics in an N-dimensional parameter space, ie, true data-mining. ... Modern day merging requires an additional piece of meta-data: the UCDs or Unified Content Descriptors (Ortiz et al. ... UCD(RA) > 10 is ambiguous. ... Column names are unique in a catalogue, UCDs are not. ...

OptInt PmWiki : MROI Delay Line SW / Requirements Review . The requirements review took place on 21 May 2009. ... Requirement specifications for the MROI production delay line software . Delay Line Production Software Development Statement of Work (not attached as it contains confidential salary costs) . ... Requirements Specification for the MROI Delay Line System . ... Printable View of http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/projects/OAS/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/MROIDelayLineSW/RequirementsReview) ...

... We have compared visualized fields of GSC and USNO A1.0 catalog with unpublished photographic finding charts that were sent by L. Plaut to the compilers of the GCVS. ... 7-15 A9 --- GCVS GCVS or NSV name 17-25 F9.4 --- GSC GSC number 26 A1 --- NoteFlag *Nonstar (GSC) flag 28-29 I2 h RA2000GSC.h Hours RA (GSC), equinox 2000.0 31-32 I2 min RA2000GSC.m Minutes RA (GSC), equinox 2000.0 34-38 F5.2 s RA2000GSC.s Seconds RA (GSC), equinox 2000.0 40 A1 --- DE2000GSC.- ... Plaut, L., 1966, Bull. ...

Next: Silicate minerals Up: A Database of Optical Previous: Database of Optical Properties . ... If necessary, data have been determined for the different crystallographic axes. ... In the following we give some examples of the data and their possible applications. Table: Summary of data measured in the Jena laboratory, which are currently available from the JPDOC. compound . ... amorph. ... Next: Silicate minerals Up: A Database of Optical Previous: Database of Optical Properties root 2003-03-06 ...

... Massive stars, having 10-150 masses of the Sun, with metallicities Z tens to hundreds times less than that of the Sun (Zo), are the main regulators of the galaxy formation and evolution processes in the early Universe. ... In this galaxy, using the 6 m BTA telescope, a new massive blue variable star with high luminosity (>=10 5 Sun's luminocities in visible light) was found. As far as its properties are concerned, this star falls into an LBV (Luminous Blue Variable) class of stars. ...

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. ...

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This menu contains items that illustrate and explain some of the basic concepts that are represented by any operating system and by UNIX in particular. It helps you to understand why UNIX behaves in the way that it does. ... what an operating system is . the structure of the UNIX operating system . about commands and processes . the UNIX file system . ... Understanding these concepts you will help you make better use of UNIX and have a clearer idea about what it is you are doing. ...

Next: Observational Zoo of Binaries Up: No Title Previous: Contents . In the early 1980s, our understanding of binary star evolution љ based on the pioneer work by Paczynski (1971)[ 150 ], Tutukov and Yungelson (1973)[ 195 ], van den Heuvel and Heise (1972)[ 201 ], allowed us to construct a general evolutionary scenario љ which successfully explained the genesis of well-studied normal stars and offered potential explanation for new X-ray sources discovered in space experiments. ...

... title='Серьги с бриллиантами из красного золота - Костромская ювелирная фабрика алькор - Костромская ювелирная фабрика алькор' border='0' align='left' width='120' style='margin-right: 20px;' hspace='7' vspace='5'/> . This classic collection of twelve best-loved Christmas carols is perfect for festive family fun. ... The perfect gift for giving both adults and children the Christmas spirit! ... Обруч гимнастический "Gymflextor", цвет: красный, 90 см, 1,3 кг - GymFlextor - GymFlextor . ...

In this chapter we will consider two very simple but useful Web agents that I have written on Actor Prolog for my own needs. ... Let us start the Web agent. Fig. ... Start of the Web agent. The Context diagram consists of three blocks: "Logic Programming Sites", "Edit", and "Check". ... Some Web sites that are linked with the logic programming and Prolog are listed in the pulldown list (these addresses are transferred to the "Edit" block from the "Logic Programming Sites" block). ...

Milky Way X-ray background emission « »: , . ... RXTE , . ... Using near-infrared Galaxy intensity measured with COBE/DIRBE experiment and X-ray data from RXTE and INTEGRAL it was shown that X-ray brightness of the Galactic background emission closely follows its stellar density and can be explained by a cumulative emission of a large number of weak Galactic X-ray sources. ... Map of Galactic background emission in hard X-ray energy band obtained with INTEGRAL observatory. ... 2006, &, 452, 169 ., ...

Some Recent RR Lyra Measurements Taken From MRO . This RR Lyrae star (302129) was discovered by Scott Anderson and Armin Rest using imaging data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The attached plot is a folded light curve of data taken by Brandon Lawton and Bridget Kaeding this summer (2000) with MRO (the open squares). ... Because both observatories caught this star on the rising branch, we can get the period quite accurately. ...

Geophysical rocket R-11A . ... Rocket R-11A has been designed to take measurements of atmospheric pressure at different altitudes from 60 to 160 km, define optical properties of upper atmospheric layers, measure concentration of positive ions, record a number of the container collisions with micrometeorites. Rocket P-11A was first launched from the Novaya Zemlya in October 1958. The rocket reached an altitude of 103 km. ... SEA LAUNCH . ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

... Recent Topics . ... Forum . MAO main . Info . IAU Budget Forecast . ... Тема: IAU Budget Forecast (2016-2018) . ... Please find attached the proposed IAU budget forecast for the next . ... a) Budget forecast overview . b) Budget forecast details . ... IAU-NRF Agreement about the Strategic Plan); . ... www.mao.kiev.ua/images/postbyemail/NM_IAU_Budget_2016-2018.zip . ... Board Categories MAO main - Info - MAO - news - Flame Technical - Technical Support(Forum)(Техподдержка(Форум)) . ...

Astronomy Articles . Articles | ... Moon | ... Astronomy Binoculars - The Skies The Limit - by Scott Gray, September 2006 . ... Astronomy Terms - To Help You Study The Universe - by Scott Gray, October 2006 . ... Himalia is the only moon other than Europa, Ganymeade, Callisto and IO visible with small telescopes. ... The Harvest Moon refers to the Full Moon that comes closest to the autumnal equinox, or the first day of autumn. ... Think the study of stars is best left to professional astronomers? ...

... AstroAsciiData is a Python module to handle ASCII tables. ... The idea to develop this Python module emerged from the fact that ASCII tables continue to be one of the most popular and widely used data exchange formats in astronomy and probably science in general. ... To load this ASCII table, go into Python, load the AstroAsciiData module and read in the table with: . ... demo = asciidata.open('webexa.txt') . ... Users who only want to work with ASCII tables neeed no further python modules. ...