... Bringing news from across the Universe to children all around the world . ... Unlike many other subjects, like history and mathematics, science doesn t have to be learnt from a book, you can really experience it. After all, science is the study of the world around us. ... Take Messier 7, the cluster of stars in this photograph, it can be seen easily with the naked eye. You will find the cluster in the stinger of the constellation many of us know as Scorpius (the Scorpion). ...

... Doug's Home Page . ... In the examples below we show a number of ways that data can be moved back and forth between S-Lang and Perl . ... Source code typeof : "undef"; __END__ __SLang__ variable foo = Any_Type [3]; foo[0] = "a string"; foo[1] = 23; define getfoo(x) { return foo[x]; } message( "In S-Lang:" ); vmessage( "typeof(foo[0]) = %s", string(typeof(foo[0])) ); vmessage( "typeof(foo[1]) = %s", string(typeof(foo[1])) ); vmessage( "typeof(foo[2]) = %s", string(typeof(foo[2])) ); . ...

... Oral traditions have since time immemorial satisfied generations of children and adults with stories of wonder, fantasy, truth, and mystery. ... The story of astronomy and astronomy's evolution as a science includes countless tales originally crafted to explain the visible celestial bodies, their motions (regular and irregular), the mysteries behind their existence, and the powers they exert over us on Earth. ... Impediments to Elementary Astronomy Programs . ... Storytelling Activities - Moon Story...

... This section describes how to establish an interactive session on a remote computer while you are logged on to the VMS host. There are two ways to do this: Telnet (which you will use for connecting to Unix hosts or any remote system) and the DECnet SET HOST to connect to another VMS machine. ... To login to a remote node on the network, the SET HOST command is used. ... REM-S-END, control returned to node _AVION:: You can login to a remote machine using the telnet command. ... SET HOST . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Space Flight . ... Science Fiction . ... February . ... By admin January 12, 2015 Posted in: Armagh Planetarium . Train to be a space hero at Armagh Planetarium (Image credit: NITB-used with permission) . Armagh Planetarium is pleased to announce that for a week during the Northern Ireland Science Festival Science festival we will help you inspire a would-be astronaut in your classroom! ... Where : Armagh Planetarium . ...

The First Law (1): Energy is Conserved in a closed system: . ... We usually consider work and heat flow as the two kinds of energy . The Second Law (2): The Law of Entropy: . ... The amount of disorder increases . ... You can not go from a disordered system to an ordered system without inputting more energy (this is the most important attribute of the second law) . ... In no way can we recover work of that this disordered system without putting energy into the system. ... More on Thermodynamics . ...

A methodical and didactical complex "Sign Language" . ... ABSTRACT The process of communication of the deaf includes the wide use of the sign language. ... The aim of this work is to develop a tool that should facilitate process of sign language teaching and also give to the trainee a means for independent study of various normative variants of sign language - for example, Russian, English, International and so on. ... The process of dialogue of the deaf people includes wide use of sign languages. ...

... No one is sure, although it is likely related to a star in a binary star system entering the planetary nebula phase, when its outer atmosphere is ejected. ... Star Streams and the Sunflower Galaxy . ... A bright spiral galaxy of the northern sky, Messier 63 is about 25 million light-years distant in the loyal constellation Canes Venatici. Also cataloged as NGC 5055, the majestic island universe is nearly 100,000 light-years across, about the size of our own Milky Way. ...

Next: Official Visits Up: Widening Access Previous: Media Coverage . Visits by groups to the Armagh Observatory Grounds and Astropark have continued to be encouraged. ... The first of these, during the period 15-18 September, was a joint venture in partnership with the Armagh Public Library. ... A selection from the list of group visits to the Observatory during 2003 is provided in Table 5 . ... Table 5: Group visits and tours around the Armagh Observatory during 2003. Group . ... 5 Mar 2003 . ...

... 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. ...