... 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. ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... JOHN E. BLAHA (COLONEL, USAF, RET.) NASA ASTRONAUT (FORMER) . ... EDUCATION: Graduated from Granby High School in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1960; received a bachelor of science in engineering science from the United States Air Force Academy in 1965 and a master of science in astronautical engineering from Purdue University in 1966. ... NASA EXPERIENCE: Selected as an astronaut in May 1980, Blaha has logged 161 days in space on 5 space missions. ...

Chapter 11. Specifying OpenGL Environment Variable Settings . ... Several antialiasing methods are available and you can select between them by setting the __GL_FSAA_MODE environment variable appropriately. ... To see the available values for __GL_FSAA_MODE along with their descriptions, run: nvidia-settings --query=fsaa --verbose . The __GL_FSAA_MODE environment variable uses the same integer values that are used to configure FSAA through nvidia-settings and the NV-CONTROL X extension. ...

... If the user types "!" at the first ">" prompt, the existing parameter file is used if one exists. ... The following commands are available (for a description see the VAX/VMS Hermes User's manual): keyword=values (only one keyword per line) /ABO /ERRLEV n /GO /MESLEV n /OFF dev /ON dev /MODE n /STAT n When the program calls one of the routines of the Userinp family, the user is prompted in the usual way (depending on the default level). ... At the first occasion the ">" prompt will then appear. ...

... HST . What is the offset in the U2 direction that can be taken before a gap appears? ... HST Peer Review Process . ... HST Overview . Overview . ... Retrieving HST Data . ... HST Science Year in Review . ... What is the offset in the U2 direction that can be taken before a gap appears in the coverage of the sky between the two pointings? ... Same question for a U3 offset. ... This should allow you to accurately address the issue of optimal offsets in the mosaic. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . Noctilucent clouds as photographed by Mark Bailey from Lisdoart on 14th July 2006 at 11.30 pm. ... These so-called noctilucent (night glowing) clouds (NLCs), are formed by sunlight reflecting off ice crystals high in the atmosphere, and usually appear in the northwest, through north to northeast during twilight in the late spring and summer months at our latitude. ...

... Source File: mod_cern_meta.c . Module Identifier: cern_meta_module . Compatibility: Available in Apache 1.1 and later. ... There are many ways to manage meta information, this one was chosen because there is already a large number of CERN users who can exploit this module. ... Context: directory . ... Compatibility: MetaFiles is only available in Apache 1.3 and later. ... Context: (Apache 1.3) directory . ... Specifies the name of the directory in which Apache can find meta information files. ...

... Schubert calculus and Gelfand­Zetlin polytopes (with Valentina Kiritchenko and Vladlen Timorin), 32 pages, preprint, 2011. Available on arXiv:1101.0278. ... Springer fiber components in the two columns case for types A and D are normal (with Nicolas Perrin), Bulletin de la Sociґ ґ Mathґ ete ematique de France, to appear, 2011. ... Bruhat order for two subspaces and a flag, 30 pages, preprint, 2007. Available on arXiv:math/0704.3061. ... English translation: Moscow Univ. Math. ...

... Jelly Donut Shaped Rock Appears on Mars . ... Credit Copyright: Mars Exploration Rover Mission , Cornell , JPL , NASA Explanation: What if a rock that looked like a jelly donut suddenly appeared on Mars? ... The unexpectedly placed rock, pictured above , was imaged recently by Opportunity after not appearing in other images taken as recently as twelve Martian days ( sols ) before. ... Publications with keywords: Mars . Publications with words: Mars . ... Opportunity s Decade on Mars . ...

Proceedings of Turbulent Shear Flows XI , 1997. NASA Technical Paper # 3555 , 1997. Proceedings of European Turbulence Conference VI , 1996. ESPRI Research Report # 104, 117-143 (1996) . ... Proceedings of Turbulent Shear Flows X , 1995. ASME Paper 95-GT-437 , 1995. ... Invited AIAA Paper 94-2281 presented at the 1994 AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, Colorado Springs, CO. AIAA Paper 94-2323, presented at the 1994 AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, Colorado Springs, CO. ...

... 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 . ...

... Apache HTTP Server Version 2.2 . ... cern_meta_module . Source File: . mod_cern_meta.c . Emulate the CERN HTTPD Meta file semantics. Meta files are HTTP headers that can be output in addition to the normal range of headers for each file accessed. ... Name of the directory to find CERN-style meta information files . ... Specifies the name of the directory in which Apache can find meta information files. ... File name suffix for the file containg CERN-style meta information . ...

... Apache HTTP Server Version 2.4 . ... cern_meta_module . Source File: . mod_cern_meta.c . Emulate the CERN HTTPD Meta file semantics. Meta files are HTTP headers that can be output in addition to the normal range of headers for each file accessed. ... Name of the directory to find CERN-style meta information files . ... Specifies the name of the directory in which Apache can find meta information files. ... File name suffix for the file containing CERN-style meta information . ...

To appear in "Fourth Workshop on Robotic Autonomous Observatories (2015)"RevMexAA(SC) MASSIVE PHOTOMETRY OF LOW-ALTITUDE ARTIFICIAL SATELLITES ON MINI-MEGATORTORA S. Karpov, 1, 3 E. Katkova,2 G. Beskin, 1, 3 A. Biryukov3,4 S. Bondar,2 E. Davydov5 E. Ivanov,2 A. Perkov,2 V. Sasyuk3 RESUMEN Favor de prop orcionar un resumen en espanol. ... The nine-channel Mini-MegaTORTORA (MMT-9) optical widefield monitoring system with high temporal resolution system is in operation since June 2014. ...

Next: The course and unit level Up: Ceilidh - On Line C Tutoring System Previous: Introduction . ... To enter the system at the general level, the appropriate command (which should have been set up by your computer systems administrator) is . ... q quit this session fs find student | ... text ceilidh only) in X the courses available appear on main window.This command tells you which courses are available and supported by the Ceilidh system, their full title and their abbreviation. vp . ...

The SAOtng graphical user interface is written in TCL using the NOAO widget server . A copy of the GUI specification is maintained in a file named saotng.gui , available in the SAOtng bin directory. If you are familiar with TCL, you can modify this file to create a new GUI and use it as your SAOtng interface. ... But if you create a modified version of saotng.gui, use: make crunch in the SAOtng directory to create the crunch.gui file. ...

To Do List ========== November 10, 2007 =============== Progress in base code not yet on this site will appear in the next beta version released here. ... Features in development for the next stable release include TDI with absolute timing Binning and subarea readout Autoguiding with the tracking control and adaptive optics features XML based server/client for remote use Command line version Browser version Connection to XmTel and XEphem for coordinate information in FITS headers ...

. The value of the PATH variable is set so that you have access to the commands available on your system. You can use commands that are not on your path list by setting a new value for the PATH environment variable. Did You Know? .

... Primordial theory review : Dick Bond . Defects and the CMB review : Andy Albrecht . ... Gravitational wave contribution to CMB anisotropies : V.B. Lukash and E.V. Mikheeva . C_l from cosmic strings : Lloyd Knox . Some aspects of CMB anisotropies induced from topological defects : Mairi Sakellariadou . ... CMB anisotropies from scaling sources : Ruth Durrer . ... SZ observations I : Sarah Church . ... Holes in the microwave sky? ... Detecting cosmic strings in the CMB : James Robinson . ...

M1 image More About M1 Nice Color Picture . ... M16 image More About M16 HST image . ... M31 image More About M31 Nice Color Picture . ... M42 image ; M43 image More About M42/43 Nice Color CCD Picture . M51 image More About M51 Color Image of M51 M51 Supernova . M57 image More About M57 Nice Color CCD Picture Very Deep M57 Image . ... M81 image More About M81 M81 Supernova Ultraviolet Image of M81 More about Ultraviolet Imaging . M82 image More About M82 M82 False Color M82 True Color . ...