... Highest, Tallest, and Closest to the Stars . ... Shrouded in cloud Everest's peak is at 8,848 meters (29,029 feet) elevation above sea level. ... Still, measured from its base starting below the ocean's surface, Mauna Kea is over 10,000 meters tall, making it Earth's tallest mountain from base to summit. ... The highest equatorial mountain, the Chimborazo volcano's peak elevation is 6,268 meters above sea level. ... That makes Chimborazo's summit the place on Earth's surface closest to the stars . ...

... 2011 February 19 . Spiral Galaxy NGC 2841 Close Up . Credit: NASA , ESA , and the Hubble Heritage ( STScI / AURA ) - ESA / Hubble Collaboration . Explanation: A mere 46 million light-years distant, spiral galaxy NGC 2841 can be found in the northern constellation of Ursa Major . ... NGC 2841 has a diameter of over 150,000 light-years, even larger than our own Milky Way, but this close-up Hubble image spans about 34,000 light-years along the galaxy's inner region. ... About APOD | ...

... February 3, 1998 . A Magellanic Mural . ... Explanation: Two galaxies stand out to casual observers in Earth's Southern Hemisphere : the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). ... Recent observations of the LMC (on the left) have determined that it is on a nearly circular orbit around our Galaxy, and have even helped in the determination of the composition of dark matter in our Galaxy . ... About APOD > . ...

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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Comets and Asteroids . ... Space Flight . ... Earth Satellites . ... By admin February 19, 2011 Posted in: Comets and Asteroids . ... Since it was launched in 1999, the Stardust spacecraft has travelled about 5.7 billion km (3.5 billion miles) on its odyssey from Earth to comet Wild 2, back to Earth then on to comet Tempel 1. ... Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

LadyBug Power Monitor - Attenuators Document No. ... If we add this to the directional coupler attenuation, we will get 89.82dB total. ... We are surements of the attenuators attached to the LadyBug using 90.02dB in the LabVIEW application. power sensors placed at the Gregorian Dome (GD) and Carriage House (CH). ... Conclusion 3 Total Attenuation There is a slightly difference between the previous measurements of the attenuators in 2010, and the total attenuation measured during this exercise. ...

Laboratory of Stellar Physics . ... A study of close binaries with black holes, neutron stars and white dwarfs. ... A study of SS433 - the massive close binary with a black hole in the regime of supercritical accretion . ... A search for intermediate-mass black holes (IMBH). The black holes which are not supermassive black holes observed in quasars, and which were formed not in massive stars. ... A search for new magnetic stars, new CP stars, measurements of magnetic fields in stars . ...

Serguei NATANZON (UIM, Moscow): Klein topological field theories . It is well-known that classical two-dimensional topological field theories are in one-to-one correspondence with commutative Frobenius algebras. An important extension of classical two-dimensional topological field theories is provided by open-closed two-dimensional topological field theories. In this paper we extend open-closed two-dimensional topological field theories to nonorientable surfaces. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . Armagh Observatory, 11 June 2015: Armagh Observatory reports that the next two weeks will provide an interesting opportunity to observe the brightest planet, Venus, and the largest planet, Jupiter, as they move towards one another in the evening twilight. ... The image shows the sky view towards the West at around 11pm on 20 June 2015. ... Professor Mark E. Bailey, Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG. ...

... Submitted by Al Takeda on 02/17/2013 21:45:36 . Asteroid 2012 DA14 . Asteroid 2012 DA14 made a close pass to the Earth on February 15, 2013. ... This movie was produced using the ATMoB's 10-inch Meade Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope located in the Clamshell observatory. ... Even though my exposure was 1-second in duration, 2012 DA14 was easy to see and the Friday night DVD class members were able to see it in real time. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

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. Latest image of the far side of the Sun based on high resolution STEREO data, taken February 2, 2011, when there was still a small gap between the STEREO ahead-and-behind data. This gap will start to close February 6, 2011, when the spacecraft achieve 180ТА degree separation, and will completely close over the next several days. NASA

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... Archive for February 2007 . ... Sometime early this year, Jeremy Drake asked this innocuous sounding question in the context of determining the bounds on the amplitude of an absorption line: Is the 3sigma error bar the same length as 3 times the 1sigma error bar? ... Likelihoodists will say ?Maybe, yeah, er, depends?, and Bayesians will say ? ... Tags: Bayesian , central limit theorem , confidence bounds , error bar , Frequentist , highest posterior density , HPD , likelihoodist , sigma . ...

After being first recognised as a distinct category of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), the progenitors of short GRBs have remained highly elusive although we have long suspected that they are compact binary mergers. ... The compact binary merger progenitor is typically thought to produce a black hole central engine. However, we have now identified prolonged energy injection in short GRB lightcurves that is inconsistent with the expected black hole central engine. ...

. If you look closely, you can see the bobcat get buried and then the front end loader get buried trying to drag it out.

... The greater the distance, the smaller the parallax. ... That triangle has the same proportions as the much larger triangle ABC, and therefore, if the distance B'C to the thumb is 10 times the distance A'B' between the eyes, the distance AC to the far landmark is also 10 times the distance AB. ... The most distant objects our eyes can see are the stars, and they are very far indeed: light which moves at 300,000 kilometers (186,000 miles) per second, would take years, often many years, to reach them. ...

General Information . ... The conference is organized by the Sternberg Astronomical Institute (SAI) of Moscow University and the IAU Working group "Site-testing Instruments" . ... Use of site data in telescope operation and adaptive optics. ... Recent conferences on this subject (2007, 2008) demonstrated great interest of the community, hence the need for a new meeting. ... Unlike previous recent conferences, this meeting will cover all aspects of site monitoring for optical/IR astronomy. ...

... The most spectacular view however is from space, where large areas of aurora can be observed simultaneously, even the entire polar cap. ... Such pictures often show a continuous ring of aurora around the polar cap (picture above), caused mostly by electrons leaking out along magnetic field lines, from the plasma sheet of the Earth's magnetic tail. ... Field lines from the auroral oval are believed to lead to the plasma sheet. ... A near-Earth circular polar orbit has many uses. ...