... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2010 December 7 . Too Close to a Black Hole . ... Explanation: What would you see if you went right up to a black hole? ... The black hole has such strong gravity that light is noticeably bent towards it - causing some very unusual visual distortions . ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply . ...

The stability of the cband receiver/ iflo was measured on 09feb11 during the day. cband receiver centered at 4745. shutter on cband receiver closed (receiver looks at absorber load). 7 iflo bands selected at: 4325,4466,4608,4750,4892,5034, and 5176 . ... The total power was computed for each sample,pol, and band by averaging the 8192 channels of each spectra. ... The vertical lines mark every 600 seconds (to help align things in adjacent bands). total total power varies 0 to 2% of tsys . ...

... This is the both the simplest and the most effective option for reducing the "address already in use" error. ... A situation where this might be a problem is if my program is trying to find a reserved local port ( SO_REUSADDR , then each time I run the program on my machine, I'll keep getting the same local reserved port, even if it is stuck in TIME_WAIT , and I risk getting a "connect: Address already in use" error if I go back to any place I've been to in the last few minutes. ...

... The documention and the test harness have also been updated. ... Version 1.3 30/07/ 1999 ---------------------- The following SPR has been fixed SSC-SPR-1132 backcorr ( version 1.2): dummy template .cc break build on Digital Unix (+fix) Submitted on 29th July 1999 by Achim Bohnet (ach@mpe.mpg.de) Closed 30th July 1999 Version 1.2 10/07/ 1999 ---------------------- Following the tests performed by Dean Hishaw, the following SPRs have been raised and are now closed in the ...

BAND: HELLOWEEN @SONG: SAVAGE 3:26 (Kiske) You hear the people talking you walk the wrong street Painting all things black and step on your feet ЁFlabby stomach, styled hairІ trousers full of air Their morality is real ours isn№t there Bridge : They don№t know , no they can№t see Our hearts close to the sun Different in our hearts filled with That faith we carry on Chorus : They just call us savage That№s what I like to be Let them call us ...

... Too Close to a Black Hole . ... 26.10.2014 . ... Credit Copyright: Alain Riazuelo Explanation: What would you see if you went right up to a black hole? ... Every star in the normal frame has at least two bright images - one on each side of the black hole . Near the black hole , you can see the whole sky - light from every direction is bent around and comes back to you. ... Publications with keywords: black hole - gravitational lens . Publications with words: black hole - gravitational lens . ...

EMERGENCY ENCLOSURE CLOSING . ... In general, emergency systems/procedures have been put in place for electrical power failure and/or for enclosure controller/ motor drive failure. ... In the event the emergency generator fails to start or generate power, use procedure 3.0 for motor drive/controller failure except, you will need to plug the 2 winches into the portable Kubota generator which is stored in the garage. ... AT EACH WINCH, PULL BACK THE HUB DRIVE TO RELEASE THE CABLE DRUM. ...

... Exoplanets . ... Artists impression of the blue exoplanet. ... This exoplanet is located in the constellation of Vulpecula, the fox, a faint pattern inside the Summer Triangle.ТљТљ This planet is a not too distant 63 light years away so has been studied by space-based telescopes.Тљ Data collected from Hubbleт??s Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) when this planet moved behind its star showed that in the shadow of the star the light reflected from HD 189733b reduced into the blue part of the spectrum. ...

... I fixed the bugs that caused the map_point changes to fail tests. Then I removed the no longer needed dimensional variables from the p structure and got those changes to pass all the tests. ... I put the code under subversion control in a new branch called refactor. ... The code change which processes each drizzle kernel over an entire image rather than a line at a time now passes the unit tests and was checked in. ... I got the keywords argument changes done and got the tests to pass. ...

Watching the Detective Although a lot is happening during the seasons, the facts seem to fit together. ... From these facts, we should be able to figure out the cause of the seasons. ... Facts 4, 5, and 8 indicate that the seasons have something to do with the Sun. ... Although the angle varies by the same amount at every latitude (see figure 4 ), the effect of this variation on solar heating increases with latitude, a fact you can confirm with a little trigonometry (see Geometry of the Seasons ). ...

Next: Release of 1 Dec. ... Fixed 04Jan98 RCW. Fix translation of VLA bandwidth code into an actual bandwidth. ... Fixed bug in SETFCAT, the routine that chooses the frequency catalog entry to use. ... Cleaning up code relating to setting scan times (before optimization). 17feb99 RCW. Count the number of times the tape stops. ... MINPAUSE causes the use of continuous tape motion if the tape stop time would between 2 scans would be less than MINPAUSE times the speed up factor. ... 26Feb99 RCW . ...

... You can boot Linux either from a floppy or from the hard disk. ... When booting Linux from a floppy disk, the boot sector contains code that just reads the first few hundred blocks (depending on the actual kernel size, of course) to a predetermined place in memory. On a Linux boot floppy, there is no filesystem, the kernel is just stored in consecutive sectors, since this simplifies the boot process. ... For example, when I boot, I it looks like this: љ љ љ љ LILO boot: Loading linux. ...

... Single and Multi-dimensional Arrays . Strings . ... BEWARE: In C Array subscripts start at 0 and end one less than the array size. ... In C Strings are defined as arrays of characters. ... char name[50]; C has no string handling facilities built in and so the following are all illegal : . ... In order to allow variable length strings the 0 character is used to indicate the end of a string. ... Write a C program to read through an array of any type. ...

... Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Section 3: File Menu . ... Displays the dialog to open an existing image: . ... Saves the current image as a new file name or new file type, or both. ... This can be useful to prevent having 20 or more images open at once, and saves having to close them manually. ... This is done by creating a text file with the same name as the image file. ... Note that Image Information is saved within the FITS file, so there will not be a text file to accompany these files. ...

... In this sound clip, we journey to the violent heart of a galaxy. We start off flying through the outskirts of a galaxy (hissing noise) passing various stars (different loud hisses) before penetrating the vast nebula surrounding the black hole that lurks in the middle. ... Sounds of Nebulae (864kb). ... Planetary Nebulae: Movie and Sounds (1Mb). ... Comet Song (664kb) Listen as a comet approaches the Sun and bursts into song, before fading back into the outer darkness. ...

ALBUM: baby @SONG: DESIRE The sun Blowing the moon away Lights me up for One more day The streets are naked In the morning sun The night lifts behind me I run and run Morning heat Puts a thin film of sweat ... breakfast Trying to impress the barman with a fresh voice When I ask for the bill The sun Blowing the moon away Lights me up for One more day The streets are naked In the morning sun The night lifts behind me I run and run Desire Desire for the unknown eyes Desire ...

Two different versions of an image of Pluto s haze layers, taken by New Horizons as it looked back at Pluto's dark side nearly 16 hours after close approach, from a distance of 480,000 miles (770,000 kilometers), at a phase angle of 166 . ... These images are much higher quality than the digitally compressed images of Pluto s haze downlinked and released shortly after the July 14 encounter, and allow many new details to be seen. ...

... Origin Meeting name/review/date during which the action item was originated. ... Description Detailed description. ... 0005 GASGANO v.1.3.X MZ CHANGE MEDIUM 28022001 MZ Closed Implement capability to import other rule files in the current one 0007 GASGANO v.1.3.7 MZ CHANGE HIGH 28022001 MZ Closed Envelope-extension: working on database observations and integration for special-ops in CD packing context (aid to dp-packer) 0008 GASGANO v.1.4.1 MZ CHANGE LOW 28022001 MZ ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... He wrote an article for the "Science and Technology Review" in which he claims that there is a "clear correlation" between transits of Venus and the flooding of the Yellow River! ... The news reports say he looked in historical records dating back 2187 years (the Chinese are known for keeping records a long time!), and found that the Yellow River flooded at the same time as the Venus transits. ... What could Venus do to cause such a flood? ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

New Images Hint at Wet and Wild History For Europa . Chunky ice rafts and relatively smooth, crater-free patches on the surface of Jupiter's frozen moon Europa suggest a younger, thinner icy surface than previously believed, according to new images from Galileo's spacecraft released today. ... These features, which lend credence to the idea of hidden, subsurface oceans, also are stirring up controversy among scientists who disagree about the age of Europa's surface. ... Europa . ...