... ESO is building what will be the World's largest optical telescope array, The Very Large Telescope (VLT). The VLT Project organisation is responsible for the design and construction of the Unit Telescopes, including enclosures, optics, adapter-rotators and coating unit. ... Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

M1 image More About M1 Nice Color Picture . ... M16 image More About M16 HST image . ... M31 image More About M31 Nice Color Picture . ... M42 image ; M43 image More About M42/43 Nice Color CCD Picture . M51 image More About M51 Color Image of M51 M51 Supernova . M57 image More About M57 Nice Color CCD Picture Very Deep M57 Image . ... M81 image More About M81 M81 Supernova Ultraviolet Image of M81 More about Ultraviolet Imaging . M82 image More About M82 M82 False Color M82 True Color . ...

... From the chain visibility point of view, it is very recommended to look at the Javascript movies , especially if the frame rate can be not regulated in your MPEG player. ... The non-CH-associated large-scale chains visible on the SOHO/EIT images at three wavelengths of 171, 195 and 284 as well as on the MLSO/HAO He I 10830 spectroheliogram of December 16, 1997. ... The SOHO/EIT movies at 171 and 195 show the chain dynamics on June 1-3, 1998. ... Javascript movie (230 KB), SOHO/EIT, 171 . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. February 16, 1999 . The Large and Small of M87 . ... Explanation: The small core of elliptical galaxy M87 appears to be energizing its whole galactic neighborhood. Recent images from the Very Large Array (VLA) of radio telescopes indicate that huge bubbles of hot gas not only exist but are still being created. ... About APOD > . ...

... The Large and Small of M87 . ... Explanation: The small core of elliptical galaxy M87 appears to be energizing its whole galactic neighborhood. Recent images from the Very Large Array (VLA) of radio telescopes indicate that huge bubbles of hot gas not only exist but are still being created. ... The source creating and feeding the bubbles has been traced to jets pointing back to M87's center , where a supermassive black hole is thought to live. ... A Jet from Galaxy M87 . ... Hubble s Lagoon . ...

... Analysis of the WFPC2 saturated star images indicate that the large angle scattering (>3" from a star) is significantly higher than expected. ... The first set was from the SMOV Ghost Check proposal 5615, in which 100 second images of d Cas (V=2.7) were obtained at the center of each chip in F502N. The second set was a series of 6 second exposures of Vega (V=0.0) centered on WF2 through F410M (WFPC2 GTO proposal 5205). ... The source of the WFPC2 scattering may be the CCDs. ...

... Today this year's largest group of sunspots will cross the Sun's central meridian. ... The next day, the number of spots in the group reached five, and the day after, on June 2nd, it was possible to count thirteen sunspots on solar disk, which had been clear prior to this. ... This year's two most powerful active areas, which passed across the solar disk at the beginning of May, 2009, are set to appear in the Sun's eastern sector in two days, on June 6th. ...

Two- point correlation function and power spectrum at very large scales from Stromlo-APM redshift survey Zugan G. Deng et al. ... This sample promises one to analyze features of the large scale structures in the distribution of galaxies, and the segregation of di erent morphological types of galaxies at very large scales ( 100h 1 Mpc). ... Comparison two-point correlation functions of early and late type galaxies shows that segregation exists at very large scales too. ...

A 1 channel wide spike was found in the center of sbc 1, polB using the interim correlator. ... spike in center of the band, 1 channel wide. ... It was seen in 3 level (and stokes) and 9 level configurations. ... 12aug11 13:00 problem went away. ... problem went away. ... The large spike is causing the Tsys to increase. ... A large spike in the center of the band (5 times Tsys) occurred for: . ... A spike in the center of the band has been seen before (sep 2002) but at a much weaker level. ...

Next: Imaging - INVERT Up: Primary Beams and Mosaicing Previous: Summary of Imaging Strategies . For the joint approach, the reduction proceeds in a fashion which appears very similar to conventional observations. First a dirty image is formed (with associated point-spread function), and then a deconvolution algorithm is used to `clean' this dirty image. ... Imaging - INVERT . ... Next: Imaging - INVERT Up: Primary Beams and Mosaicing Previous: Summary of Imaging Strategies Miriad manager . ...

... Previous: Multi-threaded Query Agent and Engine for a Very Large Astronomical Database . ... Dedicated tools have been developed at CDS in order to face the challenge of fast on-line access to very large astronomical catalogues. ... When a query to such a large catalogue is submitted to VizieR , the CDS database of catalogues and tables (Ochsenbein et al. 2000), a dedicated program handles the request, extracts and decodes the matching data, and sends its output back to VizieR. ... 1990, Russel et...

U mbriel ("UM bree el") is the thirteenth of Uranus 's known satellites and the third largest: orbit : 265,980 km from Uranus diameter : 1170 km mass : 1.27e21 kg U mbriel is a character in Alexander Pope 's The Rape of the Lock . ... All of Uranus' large moons are a mixture of about 40-50% water ice with the rest rock, a somewhat larger fraction of rock than Saturn 's large moons such as Rhea . ... It has far more and larger craters than do Ariel and Titania . ... Uranus .. Ariel .. ...

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You Can Make Stellar Images Brighter . Articles | ... A few months ago I wrote an article titled "You Can’t Make Them Brighter". So why am I now writing that you can make them brighter. ... The image of a focused star is actually a small disk called the Airy disk, named after the 19 th century scientist Sir George Airy. ... For a given aperture, a smaller Airy disk means that the light is focused to a smaller disk and is therefore brighter. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ...

Title: A Dark-Matter Spike at the Galactic Center? Authors: Piero Ullio , HongSheng Zhao , Marc Kamionkowski . ... Title: The Galaxy Environment of Quasars in the Clowes-Campusano Large Quasar Group at z~1.3 . ... Title: The Galaxy Environment of a Quasar at z=1.226: A Possible Cluster Merger . ... 16 matches for the search pattern galaxy environment . The URL for this page is: http://xxx.itep.ru/find/astro-ph/1/galaxy+environment/0/1/0/past,all/0/0 www-admin@xxx.lanl.gov ...

... 739C As one part of a program to detect complete samples of active extragalactic objects, the 3.36x10^-3 sr field centered on alpha=12h04min, delta=+11deg30' (1950.0) was mapped with the Very Large Array at 1411MHz. Sixty-seven maps cover this field so that no point is more than 15arcmin from the nearest map center. ... The rms map noise is 0.030 + 0.001 mJy, and the resulting source list is complete to a map peak flux density S_p = 0.2 mJy within 25 arcmin of the field center. ...

... Make up at least 5 data points, each with an x value, a y value and an uncertainty in the y value. ... Right-click on the top of the column containing the x-data and drag your mouse to the bottom of the column to select it. ... You must first enter the Positive Error Value (the `up error bars') ­ click at top of the column of y error values and drag down to select all of the values (in the above screenshot the y error values are in the column labeled ). ... Let's try fitting a straight line. ...

... sin f = y / r . cos f = x / r . ... They are now viewed as new definitions of the sine and cosine, for the polar angle f given by x and y ( a slightly different way of formulating this definition is described further below ). ... sin 2 f + cos 2 f = 1 . ... Angle . ... Many trigonometry texts define the sine and cosine slightly differently, using the so-called unit circle . ... Then the distance AB ("the sine line") equals sin a , and the distance OA ("the cosine line") equals cos a . ...

... 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. ...