... The Sun's photosphere has thousands of bumps called granules and usually a few dark depressions called sunspots. ... Edge on NGC 3628 . ... Sharp telescopic views of magnificent edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 3628 show a puffy galactic disk divided by dark dust lanes. ... NGC 7380: The Wizard Nebula . ... Located only 8,000 light years away, the Wizard nebula, pictured above, surrounds developing open star cluster NGC 7380. ... Spiral Galaxy NGC 3370 from Hubble . ... October Skylights . ... October . ...

... PROBLEMS: "Unknown" (i.e. no physics model) components; What's a "Good-Enough-Fit" (e.g. Poisson)? ... ASIDE: MULTI-SCALE FOR POISSON - called Multiplicative Multiscale Innovation Models MMI Slides courtesy of R.Willett, SAMSI 2006 Timmermann Nowak, 1999 Kolaczyk, 1999 ASIDE: MULTI-SCALE FOR POISSON - called Multiplicative Multiscale Innovation Models MMI Slides courtesy of R.Willett, SAMSI 2006 Timmermann Nowak, 1999 Kolaczyk, 1999 ASIDE: MULTI-SCALE FOR ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : "That's as remote as the dark side of the Moon!" ... As the tired, hackneyed refrains went on, one in particular caught my ear: " Fly me away to the bright side of the moon, and meet me on the other side." ... As the Moon orbits the Earth, different parts of it get illuminated by the Sun. ... Bad Addendum : At the end of the album "Dark Side of the Moon" by Pink Floyd, there is a voiceover that actually says "There is no dark side of the moon. ...

HST Call for Proposals and HST Primer for Cycle 24 . ... Hubble Space Telescope Call for Proposals for Cycle 24 > Chapter 8: Filling Out the APT Proposal Form > 8.15 Targets . ... Your proposal can include observations of fixed targets (i.e., all targets outside the solar system whose positions can be defined by specific celestial coordinates), generic targets (i.e., targets defined by certain general properties, rather than by specific coordinates), and solar-system targets (i.e., moving targets). ...

The HyperNews Linux KHG Discussion Pages . Forum: Character Device Drivers . Keywords: release method close fclose . Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 03:07:04 GMT . From: < unknown > . I just finished a character device driver and I it appears that when fclose() is called on the device the release() method is called as well even if the device has been opened multiple times.

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Our Galaxy . ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... This activity is believed to be promoting the unusually high rate of star formation seen in M82. ... Radio image of M82 made with the MERLIN and VLA telescopes. Insets show MERLIN images from April 25th and May 3rd 2009 demonstrating the sudden appearance of the mystery object.€а All images are at a frequency of 5 GHz. ... Mystery object in Starburst Galaxy M82 . ...

... 2008 April 1 . New Space Station Robot Asks to be Called "Dextre the Magnificent" . ... Explanation: In a surprising and potentially troubling request, the new space station robot known as Dextre demanded that astronauts refer to it in the future at "Dextre the Magnificent." ... Happy April Fools Day from the f o l k s at APOD . ... Dextre was deployed last month to help build and service the International Space Station . ... About APOD | ...

These images, taken by New Horizons' Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI), show numerous large-scale features on Pluto's surface. When various large, dark, and bright regions appear near limbs, they give Pluto a distinct, but false, non-spherical appearance. ... These images are displayed at four times the native LORRI image size and have been processed using a method called deconvolution, which sharpens the original images to enhance features on Pluto. ...

home publications > mercury . ... The Universe in the Classroom . ... Decoding the Mystery of Dark Energy . ... About 70% of the universe?s energy consists of a force that accelerates cosmic expansion, and scientists know virtually nothing about it. ... Using Type Ia supernovae, which result from the thermonuclear explosions of white dwarfs locked in binary systems (see "Searching for Supernovae To Be," Jan/Feb 2003 ), the teams were able to determine the recent expansion history of the universe. ...

ALBUM: Levitation Album @ SONG : LEVITATION ( - Brock - ) In the darkness I will shine, cast not shadows, nor define I walk on water, float on air, there's no other to compare I have this fascination, no cause for a deviation It's called levitation There's no cause to start and scream, nor rub your eyes, this is no dream Although I sit upon this chair, I rise and float up in the air I have this ...

... This spectacular new photograph of space contains so many bright shining stars it looks like someone spilt a pot of glitter over it! ... On the left is a very bright star cluster called NGC 3603. This cluster is famous within our Galaxy for having the highest concentration of massive stars of any star cluster! ... While Wolf-Rayet stars are thought to be fairly common across the Universe, they live such short lives we rarely stumble across them. ...

Recent evidence suggests that the Universe is filled with something termed "Dark Energy". ... Baryons are normal particles (e.g. protons and neutrons) which make up all of ordinary matter. ... What are some resolutions to this problem and how do "Low Surface Brightness Galaxies" fit in to the problem of missing baryons. ... In this exercise, you will use a computational engine to model two interacting galaxies to see if you can reproduce the observed morphology of two real systems. ...

... Report on Cosmic Call 1999 . ... Cosmic Call Sessions . ... This Report outlines methodology, hard- and software, which were developed to transmit first public Interstellar messages from Evpatoria Deep Space Center (EDSC), and describes four Cosmic Call Sessions, which were fulfilled in EDSC on May 24 and June 30 - July 1, 1999. ... Each Cosmic Call consists of two parts. ... Dutil Message, . ... The software for gathering all messages and creating the Cosmic Call stream, was written on C language. ...

... Бренд: Terranova . ... Платья с рисунком . ... Размер: 46 . ... Полусапоги Call It Spring. ... детское автокресло maxi-cosi rodi xp ndash ; очень яркое современное кресло, которое в полной мере обеспечивает маленькому пассажиру удобство, комфорт, а главное mdash ... поездке, нагрузки на позвоночник не будет, а его осанка будет правильно сформирована. даже взрослый ребенок, если устанет ndash ; сможет вздремнуть, так как сидение ... размеры автокресла . ... размеры сидения . ...

... subroutine CAL_getEncircledEnergy(E, theta, Radius) . E: energy in eV for which the enclosed energy value will be computed . theta: field angle in arcsec which defines the position of the PSF barycenter and the center of the circular extraction window. Radius: radius specification in mm of the window in which the enclosed energy has to be calculated. It is assumed that the extraction window is circular and perfectly centered on the PSF barycenter. ...

... Howard Phillips Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu , 1926 . ... Butch, Eldridge, Maria, Wilbur . ... Daniel, Eldridge, Maria, Wilbur . ... Bartholemu, Daniel, Eldridge, Maria, Wilbur . ... Amelia, Charlton, Lance, Rosa . ... Amelia, Charlton, Cyrus, Lance, Rosa . ... Amelia, Bruno, Charlton, Jake, Lance, Quentin . ... Amelia, Charlton, Emmett, Jake, Kimberly, Maria . ... Player . ... Eldridge Bainbury Thornwhistle . ... Web Links: Call of Cthulhu RPG + alt.horror.cthulhu FAQ + H. P. Lovecraft Archive . ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... meteors impacting the Earth's upper . ... The Armagh Observatory is opening its doors on Monday 13th December for an evening of meteor observing to capture the Geminid meteor shower. ... They may be seen at any time during the period 7-17 December, appearing to come from a point in the sky known as the radiant, located near the two bright stars called the "twins", Castor and Pollux, in the constellation of Gemini. ...

Umbriel . Uranus II . Umbriel [UM-bree-ul] is the darkest satellite of Uranus. It is about the same size as Ariel and has about the same density. The surface appears to be old with large craters and does not change much from one location to another. Near the top is a puzzling bright ring called the fluorescent cheerio . ... Dark regions are represented as red and bright regions are represented as blue. The two white regions are bright ejecta from two fresh craters. ...

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO FOR SINGLE ELECTRON EVENTS . There are two types of noise present during single electron counting: the noise per event and the noise per pixel. ... 3.2 Dark Current Shot Noise . ... N g = gain noise discussed in section 1 above . ... G * S opt / S e = optical noise; the gain of a single electron times the ratio of the optical to electrical signal (see discussion above). k = 0 if background subtraction is used, or the pixel to pixel dark current non-uniformity if not. ...

... The expansion is measured as a number called the Hubble Constant . ... Our value is about 20% lower than the one got with the Hubble Space Telescope in 1994," said Dr Jim Lovell, leader of the team that made the measurement. The Hubble Constant is named after American astronomer Edwin Hubble, who in the 1920s found that other galaxies were moving away from ours. ... The Hubble Constant links the galaxy's distance with its speed." ... A short run-down on the Hubble Constant: . ...