... These Frontier Fields will combine the power of HST with the natural gravitational telescopes of high-magnification clusters of galaxies. ... We are soliciting gravitational lensing maps for the last four Hubble Frontier Fields clusters (MACSJ0717.5+3745, MACSJ1149.5+2223, AbellS1063, and Abell 370) based upon the exceptionally deep HST FF imaging and other new ancillary data. ... For the full set of proposal instructions and requirements, see the FY16 Frontier Fields Lensing Map Call for Proposals....

An international group of astronomers, including Dr Simon Jeffery of the Armagh Observatory, has used the Hubble Space Telescope to verify the origin of a very unusual and rare type of star. The group's studies confirm that the so-called "extreme helium stars" are formed by the merger of two white dwarf stars. ... One, dubbed the final-flash (FF) model, suggests an outer helium layer of a cooling white dwarf ignites, producing an extra thermal pulse that balloons the star into a giant. ...

... Australian telescopes have helped the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) find thousands of new galaxies. ... Preliminary HST results were released today by NASA's Space Telescope Science Institute , as were the results from the Australian institutions. ... Called the Hubble Deep Field South , it complements the original Hubble Deep Field , another small patch in the northern sky. ... The Anglo-Australian Telescope has measured the distances of about 75 faint far-flung galaxies in the field. ...

... Jupiter's big moon Ganymede is not only the size of a planet -- it sounds like one too, as heard in audio recordings made from data returned by NASA's Galileo spacecraft released today. ... Characterized by a soaring whistle and hissing static, Ganymede's song reveals that the Solar System's largest moon is also the only one known to possess a planet-like, self-generated magnetic cocoon called a magnetosphere , which shields the moon from the magnetic influence of its giant parent body, Jupiter. ...

... Summary of reduced ISAAC fields . ... This data release includes eight fully reduced VLT/ISAAC fields in J,H,K s bands covering 50 arcmin 2 of the GOODS region in the Chandra Deep Field South (CDFS). ... 8 ISAAC fields) . ... The 8 ISAAC fields which are part of this data release are superimposed onto a SOFI image (J+K) (part of a previous EIS data release). ... In one case (GOODS field 11/J-band), for which not enough standard stars were available, the ZP was boostrapped from previous SOFI/EIS data...

... WISE is achieving 5sigma point source sensitivities better than 0.08, 0.11, 1, and 6 mJy in unconfused regions on the ecliptic in bands centered at wavelengths of 3.4, 4.6, 12, and 22 mum. ... The WISE All-Sky Release Source Catalog is available in compressed (gzip or bzip2) ascii form. ... Users should be aware that the Catalog table is extremely large. ... For complete documentation of the WISE All-Sky Release Source Catalog and the All-Sky Data Release, please see the Explanatory Supplement . ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 29.11.1995 . ... November . ... November 1995 . ... 1995 1996 . ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . NASA Official: Jay Norris. ... A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC . ... U. Based on Astronomy Picture Of the Day . Publications with keywords: compton . Publications with words: compton . ... Boosting Compton . The Compton Observatory Turns Five . Compton Returns ...

... December 14, 1998 . The Hubble Deep Field South . Credit: R. Williams ( STScI ), HDF-S Team , NASA . ... Part of this field is shown above. Numerous astronomers are currently poring over this field, trying to find clues about young galaxies , cosmological curvature , and dark matter . Clearly, visible among galaxies as dim as magnitude 30 in this long-duration exposure (and in the original Hubble Deep Field North ) are many peculiar looking galaxies . ... About APOD > . ...

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE . about Progress M-CO1 Vehicle Launch to the ISS . ... The Docking Compartment #1 (DC1) was developed and manufactured at S.P. Korolev RSC Energia, ISS RS prime developer in Russia, and is intended to provide a complementary docking port for Soyuz- and Progress-type manned and logistics vehicles, and support cosmonauts and astronauts egress into space from the Russian Segment of the Space Station. ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

... SciSim release covered by this note . ... Data-Analysis-with-SAS in a simple and standardised way, and should allow calibration experts to re-assess the reliability of the different elements of XMM-Newton simulations. ... Also, a release of all calibration files to be used in the reduction, through the SAS, of SciSim generated data, is coordinated with this release. ... Furthermore, two SAS tasks (odffix and epicproc) had to be updated to make possible a proper SAS data reduction of simulated data. ...

search uCdot: . uCdot . ... uClinux-dev . ... Kernel Archives . ... Deeply embedded linux article . ... Read More.. ... uClinux-2.5.43uc0 released . ... Not a lot of really new stuff, quite a few little changes." ... gerg writes "The newest uClinux patch set for 2.5 series kernel is out now. ... Preethi writes "Dear all, If uClinux is ported to a new processor are there any tools available to test the functionality of the whole kernel or do we have to make our own ? ... Monday September 30 . ...

... Polish scientists at the Space Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences, in Wroclaw, south-west Poland, have constructed an instrument called SphinX (short for Solar PHotometer In X-rays), which is an X-ray spectrophotometer, that will obtain spectra in the energy range 0.5--15 keV in 256 energy channels with frequency of up to 100 times a second. ... SphinX is part of a package of instruments known as TESIS (PI Prof. Sergei Kuzin, Lebedev Institute, Moscow). ... Space Research Centre, . ...

... Galileo Probe . The Galileo spacecraft was designed to study Jupiter's atmosphere, satellites, and surrounding magnetosphere for two years. ... From there, Galileo will spend more than five years traveling to Jupiter, where it will become the first spacecraft to make direct measurements from an instrumented probe within Jupiter's atmosphere. ... This image, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the predicted site at which the Galileo Probe will enter Jupiter's atmosphere on December 7, 1995. ...

Below is the sample image and caption given out at the AAS meeting. ... Dark, sinuous clouds of cold hydrogen gas reveal themselves as shadows against the glow of warmer, brighter clouds in the background. ... This image, made with radio telescopes at the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory near Penticton, British Columbia, was presented to the American Astronomical Society meeting in Austin, TX on January 8, 1999. PHOTO CREDIT: Steven Gibson and Russ Taylor of the University of Calgary. ...

... Analyzing the Cosmic Hand (CNN) . Elements in the Aftermath (APOD) . 3C58: Pulsar Power (APOD) . IC 443: Supernova Remnant and Neutron Star (APOD) . ... Stars Suggest a Quark Twist and a New Kind of Matter (NY Times) . NASA/Chandra image releases: . ... 3C58: Pulsar Gives Insight on Ultra Dense Matter and Magnetic Fields . ... RX J1856.5-3754 and 3C58: Cosmic X-rays May Reveal New Form of Matter . ... 3C58: Young Pulsar Reveals Clues to Supernova . ... Email: slane-at-cfa.harvard.edu . ...

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... March 25, 2006: Version 3.0.0 New control panel with an observing queue and a log Pointing to apparent position including proper motion precession and nutation to epoch of ... declination axis to polar axis non-orthogonality optical axis skew altitude- and azimuth-dependent mechanical effects encoder reference Control of telescope hardware August 20, 2006 Version 3.0.4 Modifications from Dan Azari adding features suported by the RC Optical Systems ...