... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Sky this Month . ... Star Atlas . ... stars . ... The Sky This Week: April 1 - 10 . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Why do some stars appear to flash a variety of different colors when you look at them through a telescope? ... So, Earthт??s atmosphere will bend some colors from especially bright stars more so than others, which makes the source look like itт??s flashing colors. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

... Jupiter's Rings . ... Unlike Saturn's bright rings which are composed of chunks of rock and ice, Jupiter's rings appear to consist of fine particles of dust. ... Exploring Saturn's Rings . ... By watching a star flicker and fade as it passed behind Saturn's rings, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft was able explore the ring system in amazing detail. ... Saturn's spectacular system of bright rings has been the subject of study and wonder since Galileo first turned his telescope on the ringed planet in 1610....

Project 183B. Final Report (in ukr). Project 183B. Publications (in ukr). Project 207. Final Report (in ukr). ... www.ukr.net . ... Dictionaries from Rambler.ru . Dictionaries from Meta.ua . Online Dictionary: a US site . The William Strunk, Jr. guide to Stylish English . Ukrainian and/or semi-ukrainian:) Papers . www.pravda.com.ua in Ukrainian and in English . ... BBC ukrainian . ...

12feb07 Measuring the SEFD around 1100 Mhz . ... bandpass filter low frequency falloff around 1130 Mhz . ... A 500 Mhz bandpass centered on 1100 Mhz (via the spectrum analyzer) showed a 6 db difference between 1100 Mhz and the noise floor at 1000 Mhz. ... The interim correlator was used with 25 Mhz bands centered at: 1040, 1060, 1080, and 1100 Mhz. ... 1040 Mhz cfr trking src(.gif) There is probably not very much sky signal getting into this band so it looks better than it should. ...

... Bringing news from across the Universe to children all around the world . ... Have you ever walked down the street late a night and seen a point of light in the distance? ... This is because things look fainter when they're farther away. ... That s what astronomers did in 1995 when the Hubble Space Telescope was pointed at a region of the night sky about the size a tennis ball would look if it were a 100-metres away. ... One camera, called MUSE, was used to take a fresh look at the patch of sky. ...

The Sun's corona . ... For instance, short "plumes" rising from the polar regions of the Sun look very much like field lines coming out of the end of a bar magnet, and they therefore suggest that the Sun, in addition to the intense fields of sunspots, also has a global magnetic field like the Earth's. Arches above the . Sun's surface . ... It is brightest near sunspots, whose arched field lines apparently hamper the outflow of solar wind which carries away energy and helps cool the corona. ...

. Album : Фотоальбом Сергея Аюкова :: Travels to distant places and countries :: 1997/08 Japan (Kyoto, Nara) :: 17/08 Kyoto streets. Maruyama park . Up . << Prev . Dreaming about things on display. After checking, they appeared to be not that tasty compared to how they look. Next >> . Created with the tool album generator from David's MarginalHacks on Wed Jun 5 20:38:34 2013 .

... 2014 January 29 . Jelly Donut Shaped Rock Appears on Mars . Image Credit: Mars Exploration Rover Mission , Cornell , JPL , NASA . Explanation: What if a rock that looked like a jelly donut suddenly appeared on Mars? ... Even so, the rock's unusual light tones surrounding a red interior created interest in its composition -- as well as causing it to be nicknamed Jelly Donut . ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply . ... A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC . ...

Check out some poking around I've been doing on comet and asteroid dynamics from various databases. Comets are bad for our health! Well, at least over the long term-- look at what just *one* fragmet of Shoemaker-Levy 9 (the comet which impacted Jupiter in July of 1994) would have done had it hit Michigan instead of Jupiter! ... Charles Morris' JPL Comet Page . Mike A'Hearn's Home Page . Casey Lisse's Home Page . Small Bodies Node ...

Welcome to the Everyday Classroom Tools curriculum, Observing the World Around Us, which takes its form in The Threads of Inquiry. Before you begin, you will probably like to know how to use the Threads, what they will look like, and what resources are contained in their text. ... It pinpoints the scientific motivations for this Thread, or why it is important for students to understand what is happening around them with regards to the Thread topic. ... the Threads, and additional button . ...

... This artist's concept shows a lump of material in a swirling, planet- . ... Astronomers have witnessed odd behavior around a young star. Something, perhaps another star or a planet, appears to be pushing a clump of planet-forming material around. ... Spitzer observed infrared light coming from one such disk around a young star, called LRLL 31, over a period of five months. ... could be shoving planet-forming material together, causing its thickness to vary as it spins around the star. ...

... Mystery flare , from Terry Moseley: . While observing a pass of the ISS tonight (now last night, July 10!) ... It was in the general region of Gamma Ophiuchi, although the sky was too bright, with too few stars visible, for me to get an accurate position. AHA, you'll say - an Iridium Flare! ... BUT - they usually appear in roughly the same quadrant of the sky as the predicted flares, since the Sun-Earth-Satellite angle is similar. ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... We have measured this "redshift" for the pink black holes, and allowed for it in our calculations. ... We see this effect in the emission from gas around these pink black holes, but it is far too small an effect to account for the pinkness. Thus the swirling motions of gas around or into the black holes cannot produc the colour. ... At first we thought that these things were normal blue black holes hidden behind clouds of interstellar dust, that absorbed the blue light and made them appear pink. ...

... 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. ...

ATMoB "Double Star Award " Guidelines Purpose: To promote observing among the membership of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston ­ in particular, double, triple, and multiple stars. Introduction: Double, triple, and multiple stars are the "Rodney Dangerfields" of the night sky. ... W hile they can be observed under a variety of sky conditions, double stars ­ especially close ones ­ are best viewed on nights when the seeing is steady. ... The direction from a star to Polaris is north. ...

... Spacecraft . ... To space by cannon? Finally, the deep space explorers --spacecraft which break away from the Earth's gravity . ... The "Luna" series of the USSR conducted 7 soft landing of unmanned probes, two of them with wheeled robotic "Lunokhods," and two of those missions returned samples to Earth. Others spacecraft have visited the major planets of the Solar system. ... The Mariner series have explored Venus and Mars--and Mariner 10 even reached Mercury, for three separate encounters! ...

Physicists have been honored by having their picture on currency in many countries around the world. ... Marie and Pierre Curie (Marie: 1867-1934, Pierre: 1859-1906) appear on the French 500 franc note. ... The greatest physicist of this century, Einstein not only invented the theories of special relativity (behavior of rapidly moving object) and general relativity (theory of gravitation), but made fundamental contributions to the beginnings of quantum theory. ... For a bio, click here . ... 100 K) . ...

... See Environment File. ... An SM expression is something that can appear on the right hand side of a SET command. ... A filecap file is a database used to describe the byte-by-byte format of binary files, to allow SM to read them (using the IMAGE command). ... The word list is used in a few places in the manual in the specific sense defined by the YACC grammar in `control.y' . ... Their peculiarities are described by a termcap file, allowing SM's command editor to run on (almost) any terminal. ...

... Stars . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... The meteors will radiate from the constellation of Perseus, however they can appear anywhere in the night sky. ... With the naked eye it looks to be a single star but if you look through a telescope you will see that Albireo is actually a double star. ... If you canтАЩt get enough of double stars then in the constellation of Lyra we have some more amazing examples to see. Beta Lyrae, also known as Sheliak, is a double star found in this constellation. ...