... 2011 November 29 . Across the Center of Centaurus A . Image Credit: NASA , ESA , and the Hubble Heritage ( STScI / AURA ) - ESA /Hubble Collaboration; Acknowledgement: R. O'Connell ( U. Virginia ) . ... Infrared images from the Hubble have also shown that hidden at the center of this activity are what seem to be disks of matter spiraling into a black hole with a billion times the mass of the Sun . ... APOD Graduate Assistantship: Research the universe - support a leading astronomy web site . ...

... Enceladus Creates Saturns E Ring . ... Credit: CICLOPS , JPL , ESA , NASA Explanation: The active moon Enceladus appears to be making Saturn's E ring. An amazing picture showing the moon at work was taken late last year by the Saturn-orbiting Cassini spacecraft and is shown above . Enceladus is the bright point near the center, right near the center of Saturn's E ring . ... Publications with keywords: Enceladus - saturn rings . Publications with words: Enceladus - saturn rings . ...

... 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. ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. June 21, 1999 . The Galactic Center in Infrared . ... Explanation: The center of our Galaxy is a busy place. In visible light , much of the Galactic Center is obscured by opaque dust . In infrared light , however, dust glows more and obscures less, allowing nearly one million stars to be recorded in the above photograph . ...

... SSAU History . SSAU roadmap . ... Scientists of SSAU and specialists of JSC Metallist-Samara work out a project on creation of import-substituting sea water desalting plants and wastewater treatment plants. ... So, the first experimental installation designed to produce one cubic meter of fresh water per hour, has a power consumption of only 10 kilowatt-hours, which is at the level of the latest foreign desalination plants. ... e-mail: ssau@ssau.ru . http://www.ssau.ru . ...

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Next: Creation of the Up: Typical Run Previous: Initialisation of the . The command CREATE/PSF creates a 1D image of a normalized gaussian centered in 0. Command: . NAMEP : output image . FWMM : full width at half maximum of the instrumental response (?) ... This image is to be used by the command COMPUTE/ABS ; any other (non gaussian) PSF can be used provided it is centered in 0, normalised and has the same step size as the synthetic image. ... Mon Jan 22 15:08:15 MET 1996 ...

... 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. ...

Mercury Winter 2012 Table of Contents . ... It observes the sky in nine frequency bands covering 30 to 857 GHz, that is at wavelengths ranging from . ... Planck's studies of the CMB will not be released for another year. ... Planck's all-sky surveys at frequencies of 100 to 857 GHz are unique. ... If you enjoyed this excerpt from a feature article and would like to receive our quarterly Mercury magazine, we invite you to join the ASP and receive 4 issues a year. ...

... Large-scale production and analysis of mock galaxy images. ... Recently I've been involved in a collaboration ( The Illustris Project ) to create and analyze large-scale simulations of galaxy formation. ... Click to see a comparison between the Hubble Ultra Deep Field and a galaxy formation experiment run on a supercomputer: . ... Today, stars and planets form in clouds of gas and dust in galaxies, clumps of matter denser than the universal average by roughly 30 orders of magnitude. ...

NATIONAL ASTRONOMY AND IONOSPHERE CENTER . ... Dr. Jos†й F. M†йndez has been President of the Ana G. M†йndez University System (AGMUS) for the past thirty six years. ... Under the leadership of Dr. Jos†й F. M†йndez, AGMUS has established collaborative efforts with other universities, several national laboratories and many federal agencies. ... During his years as President of the AGMUS, Dr. M†йndez has changed the lives of many thousands of young minority students and improved the future for us all. ...

This widget allows you to create an image display application with minimal work. ... ImageDisplay_ResourceNames . ... Refresh the active display canvas for an ImageDisplay widget. ... Get/create the KDisplayDataWindow for an ImageDisplay widget. ... The PseudoColour world canvas . ... The DirectColour world canvas . ... If TRUE the AnimateControl widget is created . ... If TRUE the View2Datasets widget is created . ... This routine will refresh the active display canvas for the ImageDisplay widget. ...

... Institutes of Chernogolovka . The largest of all the scientific institutions of the center is the Institute of Chemical Physics in Chernogolovka , where fundamental problems of chemical physics are studied: kinetics and mechanisms of chemical and biological processes; processes of combustion, explosion, and polymerization; and mechanisms of elementary reactions involving high energy particles. ... Developments and Technologies . ...

... joel created the event <b>ASRAS Board members meeting - monday May 9 @ Farash Center</b> . ... joel created the event <b>ASRAS MONTHLY MEMBERSHIP MEETING - Friday May 6 at Farash Center - Ionia NY</b> . ... joel created the event <b>ASRAS MONTHLY MEMBERSHIP MEETING - Friday April 1 at RIT</b> . ... joel created the event <b>ASRAS MONTHLY MEMBERSHIP MEETING - Friday Mar 4 at RIT</b> . ... 2 months ago . ... joel created the event <b>ASRAS General membership meeting - RIT - Friday FEB 5</b> . ...

... If requested ( runbackground =Y), the task creates a background lightcurve, as well as a background spectrum for the imaging modes (FF, eFF, LW, SW) using background masks. ... The background masks are created by task badpixfind using threshold parameters, appropriate for the detection of real X-ray sources. ... As the GTIs strongly depend on the intended science this screening is not performed and only background masks, the lightcurve, and a GTI file are created by epchain . ...

Picture an Astronomer A Project ASTRO Activity For Grades 4-12 The media and our past experiences have shaped and created our expectations of people in various careers. ... However, astronomy is carried out by men and women in every country and by people young and old. ... Activity Description Before an astronomy unit or the first visit by an astronomer to your classroom, it can be instructive to have the students picture what an astronomer looks like and then discuss their assumptions. ...

... Students Life . ... Trade Union of undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral students . ... The University Student Trade Union has protected the rights of undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate students for more than 80 years. ... to issue international student?s identity cards ISIC and IYTC; . ... The Trade Union Committee closely cooperates with the University Student Council, Student Scientific Society and Student Councils of Halls of Residence. ... International Students' Education Center . ...

Nowadays at the Department the experimental and theoretical investigations, including astronomical and ionospheric observations, active experiments with space vehicles are taking place. ... Solar Corona physics and erruptive phenomenae. ... Stellar astronomy. ... The Department has organized and put into practice more then 50 expeditions for observation of Solar ecllipces, aurorae polaris, comets, meteor streams, controlled space experiments, and also for investigations of geophysical characteristics. ...