... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Have you ever looked at pictures of Saturn's rings and noticed what look like gaps in the rings? ... Gian Domenico Cassini discovered a large gap in Saturn's rings in 1675. Later, an astronomer named Encke discovered a smaller gap near the edge of the rings. ... It was found long ago that an orbit in the Cassini Division, as the large gap is named, has a period almost exactly one-half that of one of Saturn's moons named Mimas. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

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Hide Zen home . ... sncat2sntab.pl - convert old catalog to table sn . ... CREATE TABLE cats ( id integer PRIMARY KEY, name text ); -- a list of properties of galaxy CREATE TABLE properties ( id integer PRIMARY KEY, name text ); CREATE TABLE galaxy ( id integer PRIMARY KEY, name text ); CREATE TABLE galaxy _property ( gid integer REFERENCES galaxy (id), pid integer REFERENCES properties(id), value float, UNIQUE( gid ,pid) ); CREATE t=# select * from galaxy; id | ...

... 24.02.2009 . ... Credit: Drew Sullivan ( Ancient Starlight ) Explanation: Why is the Horsehead Nebula surrounded by a bubble? ... Glowing like an emission nebula, the origin of the bubble , known as Barnard's Loop , is currently unknown. Progenitor hypotheses include the wind s from bright Orion stars and the supernovas of stars long gone. ... February 2009 . ... Publications with keywords: Horsehead Nebula - emission nebula . Publications with words: Horsehead Nebula - emission nebula . ...

... Transit spectroscopy ! Study composition, chemistr y, and physical conditions in atmosphere of the planet ! Giant planet imaging ! ... Instruments have coronagraphic or interferometric capabilities JWST is highly complementar y to ground-based xAO instruments JWST direct exoplanet imaging Instrument Mode NIRCam MIRI Lyot coronagraph Four-quadrant phase mask coronagraph Contrast 10-5 at 1 ... NIRCam/MIRI: <<1 MJup at >50 AU (Unique to JWST) Search for giant planets in SFRs ! ...

... A wordlwide network of amateur and professional astronomers record and time the mutual eclipses and occultations of the Galilean satellites as accurately as possible. ... Already, the acceleration of Io is evident in the data and continued monitoring through this coming season will help pin down the acceleration of the other three satellites. ... From Dr Apostolos Christou, Armagh Observatory: . ... If you want to know the observing times from your location get it by filling in this form . ...

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... The damage to NIFS has freed up the RSAA instrumentation team to concentrate on the timely delivery of the Gemini South Adaptic Optics Imager (GSAOI). ... GSAOI is the second instrument that ANU is building for Gemini. ... GSAOI Website: http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/gsaoi/ NIFS Website: http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/nifs/ RSAA Website: http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/ Australian Gemini Project Office Website: http://www.ausgo.unsw.edu.au/ Gemini Public Information Website: http://www.gemini.anu.edu.au/public/ . ...

... Milky Way . ... Space Flight . ... The maiden flights onboard Virgin Galactic?s spaceplanes are scheduled to take place early next year (however this date has been changed around for a few years after multiple delays). €аRegardless of the wait over 700 people are now ticket holders and are hoping to become space tourists paying just $250,000 for the pleasure. ... He has already done flights to the edge of space in a Mig 21, and done weightless flights in the Russian cosmonaut traing eircraft ? ...

Catalogue of designations . HyperLeda home | Documentation | Search by name | ... Search the designations of an object . This catalogue (table a101 in the database) presents the compilation of the designations of objects. ... A given object may have several names. ... The colon behing a galaxy designation means that this name is given to 2 (or more) objects. ... The pair keeps the name given in the catalogue and the 2 objects members of the pair have the same name + the colon. code . ...

... However, while low mass stars are usually found to form in loose groups with densities of a few stars per cubic parsecs, high mass stars are known to form in dense clusters with up to 10000 stars per cubic parsec. ... We have undertaken a survey of a cospicuous number of fields around intermediate mass young stars (Herbig Ae/Be stars, HAeBe) with the aim of detect and characterize the groups of young stars that may have formed together with the HAeBe star. ... BD +404124 - A rich, compact cluster. ...

Thebe . Jupiter XIV - 1979J2 . Thebe [THEE-bee] is the fourth known satellite of Jupiter. ... Thebe rotates synchronously around Jupiter. Very little is known about this moon. ... Stephen Synnott . Date of discovery . ... Discovery Image . This is one of the discovery images (FDS 16383.54) of Thebe. ... Once the shadow images were analyzed, Thebe was located on several other images. ... This image of Thebe (FDS 16220.56) was taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft on February 27, 1979. ...

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... Aristarchus was extremely clever and also figured out a way to determine the ratio of distances between the earth and the moon and the earth and the sun. ... Eratosthenes (220 B.C.) - The early Greeks knew the Earth was a sphere based on the shadow of Earth on the Moon during lunar eclipses. Eratosthenes proceeded to use this information to measure circumference of Earth in the following manner; he knew that on a certain date that a stick placed in the ground at Syene cast no shadow. ...

Sydney, December 3 4, 2009 . ... Rationale . ... The workshop on т??Diffuse gas in and around the Milky Wayт?? is designed to bring together researchers working on atomic and ionised gas associated with the Milky Way and the Magellanic system. The workshop will highlight new data from the Parkes Galactic All-Sky Survey (GASS) of H i emission, the WHAM-South survey of HЮБ emission, and Areciboт??s GALFA survey of Galactic H i . ... Galactic corona . Milky Way dynamics . ...

A FIFO ("First In, First Out", pronounced "Fy-Foh") is sometimes known as a named pipe . ... In this case, the name is that of a file that multiple processes can open() and read and write to. ... With FIFOs, though, each unrelated process can simply open() the pipe and transfer data through it. ... Once the FIFO has been created, a process can start up and open it for reading or writing using the standard open() system call. ... Lets say you have a pipe with one reader and one writer connected to it. ...

. The Rotating Service Structure is rolled back from Space Shuttle Discovery at Launch Pad 39B for a propellant-loading test its external tank on April 14. During a test, the tank is filled to launch levels with ultra-cold hydrogen and oxygen propellants, known as "cryogenics." The test is designed to evaluate how the tank, orbiter, solid rocket boosters and ground systems are performing under full "cryo-load." . NASA / KSC

... 8, ``Celestial Mechanics'', 2002 Families of periodic solutions of the planar restricted three--body problem and their application at designing the orbit for the space radio telescope B. B. Kreisman Astro Space Center of Lebedev Physical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia 1. ... The monodromy matrix allows to define the directions of prolongation both of initial family, and of a family, induced by it as the solutions of second kind. If there is no second integral at q ? ...

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