... 2003 November 24 . IC 405: The Flaming Star Nebula . ... Explanation: Rippling dust and gas lanes give the Flaming Star Nebula its name. ... When a proton recaptures an electron, red light is frequently emitted. ... Pictured above , the Flaming Star Nebula, officially known as IC 405 , lies about 1500 light years distant, spans about 5 light years, and is visible with a small telescope toward the constellation of Auriga . ... About APOD | ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . A Telescope Laser Creates an Artificial Star . ... 7.02.2005 . ... An artificial star. ... Therefore, astronomers have developed the ability to create an artificial star where they need it -- with a laser . ... Above, a laser beam shoots out of the Keck II 10-meter telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii in 2002, creating an artificial star. ... February 2005 . ... Publications with keywords: telescope - laser . Publications with words: telescope - laser . ...

... November 9, 1999 . Spiral Galaxies in Collision . ... the Hubble Heritage Team ( AURA / STScI / NASA ) . ... Until then, spiral galaxies NGC 2207 and IC 2163 will slowly pull each other apart, creating tides of matter, sheets of shocked gas , lanes of dark dust , bursts of star formation , and streams of cast-away stars . Astronomers predict that NGC 2207, the larger galaxy on the left, will eventually incorporate IC 2163, the smaller galaxy on the right. ... About APOD > . ...

... STScI-PRC95-45a CRUCIBLE OF CREATION: PANORAMIC HUBBLE MOSAIC ZOOMS IN ON MAELSTROM OF STAR BIRTH This spectacular color panorama of the center the Orion nebula is one of the largest pictures ever assembled from individual images taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. ... Though this 2.5 light-years wide view is still a small portion of the entire nebula, it includes almost all of the light from the bright glowing clouds of gas and a star cluster associated with the nebula. ...

Blackholes Forum Message . ... Can Black Holes Create Space Time? ... Quasar jet streams (QJS) have been exhibiting Faster than light motion since they were first discovered by radio astronomy a long time ago. ... But what if Black holes were creating Space time, what if a relationship between matter energy and space time exists, in a conundrum what can matter exist in, it can exist in side of it's self, how about this as a hypothesis, can black holes create space time? ... www.astronomy.net . ...

... It s caused by sunlight reflecting off dark cosmic dust in the Solar System. ... By combining the power of four very large telescopes into one super-telescope, astronomers have given themselves the ability to peer closely at almost 100 distant stars. And they discovered ghostly zodiacal light glowing around nine of them exactly as we see it in our own Solar System! ... In fact, out of almost 2000 planets that have been discovered around distant stars, only around 20 have been photographed! ...

... Classes . Files . ... casa . casa::SymLink . ... The default constructor creates a SymLink with path "." SymLink (const Path &name) . ... SymLink (const File &name) . ... create (const Path &target, Bool overwrite= True ) . ... copy (const Path &target, Bool overwrite= True ) const . ... The class SymLink handles SYMbolic LINKs in the file system. ... An exception is thrown if the path exist and is no symbolic link or if it does not exist, but cannot be created. casa::SymLink::SymLink . ...

... This paper describes the main algorithms used by the Einstein Level One processing to create the exposure masks and the background maps for Einstein IPC images, and how these algorithms were recreated in the IRAF environment. Our goal was to recreate the algorithms used by the Level One Processing to create exposure masks and background maps for Einstein Image Proportional Counter (IPC) data (cf. sections 2.5 and 2.7 of Harnden et al. ...

... Does the time it takes different methods to create all the elements coincide with the universeт??s accepted age? ... Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Different kinds of stars create elements at different rates, all of which are consistent with the age of the universe. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Registration is FREE and takes only a few seconds to complete. If you are already registered on Astronomy.com, please log in below. ...

To create a tarfile containing several files: tar cvf data.tar *.dat . This creates a tarfile data.tar containing all the files in the current directory which have the filename extension .dat . ... To create a tarfile of a directory: tar cvf project.tar Project Project/README Project/Makefile Project/Makefile Project/main.c Project/screen.c Project/menus.c Project/calculator.c Project/setup/configuration . ... This creates a tarfile book.tar containing the directories text and illustrations . ...

... From this list the extraction stage creates images, spectra, and rates files. These products are aimed to adhere to OGIP standards as closely as possible. Please note, however, that it is likewise possible to create data sets which do not map onto any standard OGIP file type, e.g. PHA-versus-wavelength image for RGS. ... For binned products, binning of a given column is in general controlled by a minimum value, a binning factor, and a maximum value. ...

... Filesystems are created, i.e., initialized, with the mkfs љ command. ... Search for bad blocks and initialize the bad block list accordingly. -l filename . ... badblocks /dev/fd0H1440 1440 > bad-blocks . ... 1 block group . 8192 blocks per group, 8192 fragments per group . ... Then bad blocks were searched with badblocks љ , with the output redirected to a file, bad-blocks . Finally, the filesystem was created, with the bad block list initialized by whatever badblocks љ found. ...

The "ring of fire" seen by satellite cameras around the polar caps (picture below) is probably created by electrons leaking from the tail's plasma sheet, whose magnetic field lines form a somewhat imperfect trap. ... One possible explanation involves the close association between auroral arcs and electric currents which flow along field lines between the ionosphere and distant space ( Birkeland currents ). ... That produces an extra resistance to the flow of current. ...

comments sql gen Rick Whitman November 27, 1996 Usage The tool is invoked byentering comments sql gen on the command line followed by one argumentwhich is a le speci cation for the updated load le you want to process. For example: comments_sql_gen a3d1145dy.lod The input load le will generally have been created using the recreate load le command which recreates a load le based on the database contents for a particular reference le. The load le can then be edited to update the comments. ...

Next: An example of Up: Association of images Previous: Association of images . The two sets of selection criteria (``first choice'' and ``second choice'') have to be entered in a table containing four columns: . FUNCTION --character column (max 256 char) . This column defines the different selection criteria and shall contain mathematical expressions in which the variables may be the columns of the OST. ... RANGE_1 --character column (max 256 char) . ... WEIGHT --real column . ...

Альтернативный форум . Scientific.ru Все форумы . ... Re: Astronomers Create 3D Map of Dark Matter Space.com 07 January 2007 01:37 pm ET . x203a; x203a; x203a; в ответ на: Astronomers Create 3D Map of Dark Matter Space.com 07 January 2007 01:37 pm ET Abramyan G.L. : An alternative theory . ... Astronomers Create 3D Map of Dark Matter Space.com 07 January 2007 01:37 pm ET Abramyan G.L., 10.01.2007 01:10 . ... Re: Прочел и привожу текст, меня вомутивший. Анатолий Рыков, 11.01.2007 08:53 . ...

Next: Binary Radiopulsars with Black Up: Black Holes in Binaries Previous: Black Holes in Binaries . Two different types of stellar BH formation exist: (1) direct core collapse   of a massive star and (2) AIC of a NS. A BH of the first type presumably will have a mass comparable to that of the collapsing star and can be born both from a single star and in a binary system. ... Next: Binary Radiopulsars with Black Up: Black Holes in Binaries Previous: Black Holes in Binaries Mike E. Prokhorov . ...

... Our Galaxy . ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... NGC 2841: a spiral galaxy some 46 million light years away. ... It is especially hard to explain this process of star birth in some spiral galaxies. ... Targets include both star clusters and galaxies, and star formation rates seen range from the starburst galaxy M82 (the Cigar Galaxy) which is creating about ten new stars in its core alone every year to the much less fecund star producer NGC 2841. ... Tweets that mention Baby stars of NGC 2841 | ...

In this gallery are many images of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies which have recently been discovered and analyzed. ... The central surface brightness of this galaxy is 24.28 . Malin 2 This galaxy is another huge disk galaxy with a scale length of 15 kpc and a redshift of 15000 km/a. The high surface brightness knot in one of its spiral arms actually has the same color, luminosity and H-alpha equivalent width as the entire Large Magellanic Cloud . ... Truly it is a Low Surface Brightness Galaxy. ...

OptInt PmWiki : Pm Wiki / Creating New Pages . ... Links > . ... The first step to create a new page, you need to edit an existing page, and on it add a link to the page you want to create. To link to your new page, you must choose a name for it. ... Typing [[my new page]] will create a link to my new page ? ... PmWiki will then dutifully tell you that the page you entered doesn't exist, but you can click on the "Edit" link in order to create, edit, and save the new page. ...