... When massive stars explode they create large radioactive blast clouds which expand into interstellar space. ... Possible locations of these stellar explosions known as supernovae, are indicated by the bright clumps in this map of the central regions of our Milky Way Galaxy. ... Aurora Astern . ... Painting with Solar Neutrons . ... Solar flares are propelled high above the Sun's surface by powerful, twisted magnetic fields. ... A Total Solar Eclipse . ... Asteroid Gaspra's Best Face . ...

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. To remove a directory that is a symbolic link that points to another directory use the command: rm directory_name . Notice that the directory does not need to be empty and you do not have to use the rmdir command. You are not really removing a directory, just a named symbolic link that points to the "real" directory.

... 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. ...

SAI VO . ... SAI CAS . ... Web Services . Catalog Access Services . ... SAI CAS Wiki . SAI Web Services . ... Development . arXiv.org Search . ... Astronomical Thesaurus . ... We are working on the following projects, which we consider as of BETA quality: . ... PLASTIC interface to SAI CAS . ... We created a simple PLASTIC-ized interface to SAI CAS for communication between ConeSearch and any other plasticized VO tools , such as locally-running TOPCAT , The Aladin Sky Atlas. ... SAI MSU | ...

... Welcome to the ADLab home page! Advanced Design Laboratory of the Special Astrophysical Observatory is concerned with research on low light level imaging and development of scientific digital imaging systems. About ADLab . ... Current project "A New Generation Multipurpose CCD Controller" . Project Contents . ... Publications on the Project . ... Other Web Sites of Interest . Created: 24 March 1998 . ... people have visited our web site. ... Copyright 1998 Advanced Design Laboratory. ...

... Author Info : Husband, father of 2, R D chemist, bowler, shooter, Doom/Duke/Quake player Development Machine : Pentium 150 over-clocked to 166, 64 megs EDO, 4.3 gig Maxtor HD, 1 gig SparQ drive, 16cx CD, 56k Cardinal Connecta internal modem, Epson 600 printer, Audio PCI sound, Labtec CS-1400 speakers + subwoofer, UMAX Vista S6E scanner Additional Credits to : Robin Potter rap783@novell6.bham.ac.uk , who created the original Stairs.Wad upon which this ...

For Sale !! Offered for sale is a unique model, Buran 002, the only one from the Russian program, Buran, which made it's take off and landing as a conventional aircraft. Created for development of automatic landing, Buran 002 is a full size analoque of orbital ship built of the same materials and under the same technology as space models. Дополнительный фотоархив испытательных полетов самолета-аналога "Бурана" (БТС-02) в ЛИИ им.Громова находится здесь . ... E-mail: buran@buran.ru ...

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... After passing degree work in MAO of NAS of of USSR Sosonkin has received the recommendation for receipt in post-graduate course of M??. ... Subjects of his scientific work were use of new receivers of radiation, in particular of electron-optical converters at observant astronomy. ... On industrial base FTI Sosonkin has created installation on base EOC UM - 92 for Cassegrain focus of a telescope ?ZT-2 and similar to it and installation with the same type EOC for focus of Newton. ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... History . Brief History of Rocket and Space Technology . Rocket Systems . Flights Chronology . ... Rocket Space Complexes . ... In addition, other projects aimed to create advanced rocket-space technology systems (manned Lunar complexes L1, L3; superheavy launch vehicle H1; multipurpose orbital complex; Martian manned complex, etc.) ... Contribution of RSC Energia to the Russian Rocket-Space Technology . ...

Summary of A. Skop enkov's prop osal This proposal concerns the classical Knotting Problem in topology: classify embeddings of a given space into another given space up to isotopy. ... The Knotting Problem is known to be hard. ... The Knotting Problem is most interesting for manifolds of dimension at most 4, because embeddings of such manifolds often appear in other branches of mathematics and its applications. ... For N not a homology sphere until 2005 no description of the orbits was known. ...

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... Space flight . ... Space Hotel . ... Small orbital stations (SOS) are intended for the arrangement of flexible manned programs on commercial basis with the possibility of using the traditional Russian manned , cargo spacecrafts, their modifications and new modules oriented for the minimum costs and terms of orbital objects development . оThe principle of SOS building is as follows: it is developed not as a separate self-sufficient project of an ... It means a possibility of: . ...

... Institutes of Chernogolovka . The largest of all the scientific institutions of the center is the Institute of Chemical Physics in Chernogolovka , where fundamental problems of chemical physics are studied: kinetics and mechanisms of chemical and biological processes; processes of combustion, explosion, and polymerization; and mechanisms of elementary reactions involving high energy particles. ... Developments and Technologies . ...

A very important stage in a story of formation of any new science is the shift from discussion of situation which are possible but do not occur in practice due to some reason to recognition of real phenomena of interest. ... We suggest to consider computer viruses as this new specific form of life which is coming in the contact with our form of life. ... Computer life has been created by human being, the role of independent evolution of computer viruses seems to be still negligible. ...

... Linux systems will usually have the Python core (Version 2.7) available. ... ALSVID Python Utilities for Processing FITS Images ================================================== file _renumber.py Renumber files in a directory fits _1d_to_dat.py Extract a 1-dimensional FITS array as data fits _absolute_value.py Absolute value of an image fits _background_remove.py Fit and subtract a background fits _bias.py Subtract a bias frame fits _bin.py Bin a stack of images one by one ...

WALTER W. GUY BIOGRAPHICAL DATA SHEET NAME: Walter W. Guy O RAL H ISTORY: 30 OCTOBER 2006 27 NOVEMBER 2006 29 JANUARY 2007 EDUC ATIONAL Ї Ї BACKGROUND: Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering , University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 1959 Master of Science degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Materials Science, Rice University, Houston , TX, 1968 NASA EXPERIENCE: NASA Langley Research Center , Hampton, VA (1959-1961) Ї W. W. Guy and J. F. Saunders, Jr., ...

Drawing and Part Configuration Management and Release Procedures: . ... Context: This procedure is intended for use by APO Telescope Drafting and Engineering personnel for the development, release and maintenance of telescope related models, drawings, and other controlled documents to facilitate the sharing of information between the various institutions and personnel that have need of technical information and engineering files regarding APO telescope design and development. ... Release Procedure: . ...

The database contains references to the papers, data files and links to the Internet resources related to measurements and calculations of the optical constants in the wavelength interval from X-rays to radio domain. ... References to some useful books and reviews on the subject (e.g. the classical handbooks edited by E.D.Palik) and links to Internet collections of optical constants and personal WWW pages with related software were also placed in the database. You have arrived at our welcome page. ...