Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Science Fiction . UFOs and Fringe Science . ... Posted on January 8, 2014 | 2 Comments The year 2014 could see the first 3D printer brought into space, the first fare-paying passengers leave Planet Earth on the Virgin Galactic and the first test mission of a [ ] . Continue Reading.. Posted on December 5, 2013 | ... Posted on September 4, 2013 | ... Posted on May 29, 2013 | ... Posted on April 29, 2013 | ...

... Astronomy Ireland's Evening Classes to begin on 8 October . ... Donegal Bay & Blue Stacks Festival 09 has an astronomical theme this year to mark IYA 2009. ... We have the privilage of launching World Space Week in Ireland on the 3rd Oct and we honour Astronomy (working closely with International Year of Astronomy 2009, Armagh Planetarium and Robert Hill from the NI Space Office) as our Carnival theme on the night. ... Donegal on Sunday . ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... Even future mission archives tend to concentrate more on what can be extracted out of a proposal or a Guaranteed Time Observation log than the actual extracted science out of the data itself. ... A year later the data is then publicly available. An archive researcher has then to go through a mass of data to find what may be useful without any indication as to what the actual observer's results were while using the data except the proposal, which in most cases is very general. ...

Blackholes Forum Message . Forums: . ... Discussion Forums | Blackholes I | Post . ... It Happens Without The Mirror . ... Post Message | ... Posted by Clerk on February 1, 2005 03:59:23 UTC . ... They need the mirror.... - duordi - February 2, 2005 - 19:04 UTC . ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | Advertise on Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

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... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... Moon . ... Supernova showered Earth with radioactive debris . ... Moon Maps . ... Gift Center . ... With the Moon gradually moving away from Earth, what will happen to people and objects when the Earth-Moon center of mass reaches Earth's surface? ... The barycenter, or the Earth-Moon system's center of mass, is a mathematical construct used to help us understand the system as a whole. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

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By the time you read this report, the General Assembly will be in progress. This long IAU meeting, formally hosted by the National Committee for Astronomy (NCA) (of the Australian Academy of Science) in conjunction with the Astronomical Society of Australia, will take place in the period 13 - 26 July. ... When this meeting is over I will write a report of the meeting, and hopefully the organizers of the next General Assembly will be able to learn from our mistakes and avoid them. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. Hey, it's either this or one of those really irritating PayPal donation buttons here. ... Area of science: Astronomy . ... How many supernovas have happened in history? ... This was a very bright supernova, easily visible in full daylight, and today can be seen as the Crab Nebula , one of the most studied objects in the sky. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ... Subscribe to the Bad Astronomy Newsletter! ...

... After the jun05 cool down a resonance was seen in polA at 1400 Mhz (see 01jun05 resonance in polA ). This affected the daily Tsys measurements since they are made at 1400 Mhz with a 1 Mhz bandwidth (07mar06: the warmup actually created resonances in polA and polB ). ... People using the circular option (hybrid after the dewar) got no cal in one polarization because of the 90 deg phase shift in cal going to polA and polB in combination with the hybrid used to create the circular polarization. ...

Wave Model for light Electromagnetic Wave What Happens to the Wave When it Encounters the Small Opening? ... Diffraction: Bending of light when it passes around a sharp obstacle or through a narrow slit. ... Constructive interference occurs when waves reinforce each other (as at point A above). ... Diffraction Grating has many narrow "slits". ... Both light waves arrive in phase. ... If light waves 1 and 2 arrive at the eye in phase (constructive interference), then you see a bright reflection. ...

Women comprise more than half of science PhD graduates and early career researchers, but less than 20% of senior academics in Australian universities and research institutes. ... Professor Jennifer Martin will discuss the issues and roadblocks women face, outline what universities and individuals can do to make change happen, and highlight the current Academy of Science Science in Australia Gender Equity (SAGE) pilot of the UK Athena SWAN gender equity accreditation system. ...

Early execution of a Phase 2 (before start of cycle) There are valid reasons for starting the execution of a Phase 2 program before the start of the cycle for which it was approved. ... PI must submit a Proposal Change Request via the Proposal Information website, including scientific justification for early scheduling (or for any request to move plan windows earlier) · Telescope Time Review Board reviews request. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... What's happening at the center of spiral galaxy M83? ... M83, visible in the inset image on the upper left, is one of the closest spiral galaxies to our own Milky Way Galaxy and from a distance of 15 million light-years, appears to be relatively normal. ... Bright Stars, Dim Galaxy . ... These two clusters of bright, newly formed stars surrounded by a glowing nebula lie 10 million light-years away in the dim, irregular galaxy cataloged as NGC 2366. ...

Next Previous Contents . This means that an interrupt happened that no driver expected. ... In many cases you can safely ignore this error message, especially if it only happens once or twice at boot-time. For boot-time messages, look at the messages which are nearby for a clue as to what is going on. For example, if probing is going on, perhaps a probe for a physical device caused that device to issue an interrupt that the driver didn't expect. ...

... Sometimes a DAL or FITSIO error may occur when an event list file is opened with evselect . This is due to the maximum number of FITS file opening allowed by cfitsio being exceeded. By opening an event list, all the GTI extensions are stored into temporary files, which remain open until the GTI extensions get copied to the output products as part of the data subspace. ... Pages maintained by SAS librarian . Any question about SAS should be addressed to the XMM-Newton help desk . ...

GTK+ 2.0 Tutorial . ... Timeouts, IO and Idle Functions . Next . What if you have a function which you want to be called when nothing else is happening ? gint gtk_idle_add( GtkFunction function, gpointer data ); . This causes GTK to call the specified function whenever nothing else is happening. void gtk_idle_remove( gint tag ); . ... The function pointed to by the first argument to gtk_idle_add will be called whenever the opportunity arises. ...

An Ancient Universe: How Astronomers Know the Vast Scale of Cosmic Time . THE CHANGING UNIVERSE: EVOLUTION HAPPENS! ... Luckily nature has left a wide range of clues about evolution for us - at every scale of the universe - which we can uncover with some good astronomical detective work. a) Changes in the Solar System . ... An Ancient Universe - Table of Contents . ... The Universe: An Overview | ... The Changing Universe - Changes in the Solar System - Changes in Stars - Changes in the Universe | ...

... Dialog box. ... At this point you should explain briefly what happens when changes are made to the options in the dialog box. For example, the following lines explain what happens with the Sparkle Plug-In when the options have been modified by the user: . Changes to the options effect the current image. ... Changes to the various options do not have an immediate effect on the image. ... Here would be the description of what the first option does and how to make changes with it. ...

The New Home for the CHIANTI Atomic Database for Spectroscopic Diagnostics of Astrophysical Plasmas . ... The CHIANTI package is freely available to all researchers. ... On January 8 2010 the CHIANTI team were awarded the Group Achievement Award for Geophysics by the Royal Astronomical Society (UK). ... The Group Achievement Award for Geophysics is given to the CHIANTI consortium, the team of scientists who have developed the 'Atomic Database for Spectroscopic Diagnostics of Astrophysical Plasmas.' ...