... Recent Results . ... last 10 years in ADS) . in SAO press releases . ... observations database) . ... Last update: . ... Measurement of the dark halo shape in polar ring galaxies . Determining the mass of supermassive black hole in galaxy Mrk6 nucleus based on spectropolarimetric observations . The dust jets in the nucleus of comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 . ... New Polar Ring Galaxies . Traces of recent interactions in isolated Seyfert galaxies . ...

... 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....

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Our Galaxy . ... Other Galaxies . ... Space Flight . ... When Galaxies Collide (Image credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO). Visible light image: the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope) . In the southern sky constellation of Corvus (the Crow), we see the Antennae Galaxies (alias NGC 4038 and 4039). ... Your email address will not be published. ... Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

... For immediate release . The VLT Infrared Spectrometer And Array Camera (ISAAC) [1] was installed at the first 8.2-m VLT Unit Telescope (UT1) on November 14, 1998, cf. ESO PR Photos 42a-h/98 . ... The first focus tests on stars yielded images of excellent sharpness, around 0.45 arcsec full-width-half-maximum (FWHM). ... This Press Release is accompanied by several images and spectra which illustrate some of the exceptional new astronomical capabilities offered by this instrument. ...

Next: Data Fusion from Diverse Resources for Optical Identification of Radio Sources. ... Sung, H.-i., Kim, S. C., Yim, I. S., Nam, H.-W., Kim, B. G., Kim, J., & Lee, D.-J. 2003, in ASP Conf. ... The first dataset is from the Bohyunsan Optical Astronomy Observatory (BOAO)'s 1.8m optical telescope. ... In this paper, we introduce the prototype version of KADC using the Bohyunsan Optical Astronomy Observatory (BOAO) 1.8m optical telescope data. ... Figure 3: The KADC web page showing the search result. ...

... Public . Science . ... Science Users Information > Observing with ESO Telescopes > Phase 3 > Data Releases . ... Public Surveys . ... Data Releases . ... Data delivered by ESO Public Survey projects: . ... Data Release . ... Deep co-added, resampled images and associated source lists per band (3rd data release) . ... ZYJHKs images and associated source lists of completed survey tiles covering ~690 sq.deg . ... YJKs images and associated source lists for 7 survey tiles (4th updating data release) . ...

CSIRO Ref 98/194 . Astronomers using CSIRO 's Parkes radio telescope have made a picture that shows our Galaxy ripping apart its nearest neighbours. ... The two nearest neighbouring galaxies, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (left), are less than a tenth of our Galaxy in size. ... One was a process called ram-pressure stripping - gas being swept out of the Magellanic Clouds as the Clouds travelled through our Galaxy's outskirts." ... Email: hsim@atnf.csiro.au . ...

The Extragalactic ALFA Zone of Avoidance team is mapping the distribution of low-Galactic-latitude galaxies and large scale structures through detection of galaxies' 21-cm emission with ALFA. This Zone of Avoidance (ZOA) survey finds new HI galaxies which lie hidden behind the Milky Way, and also provides redshifts and other HI parameters for partially-obscured galaxies known at other wavelengths. ... Discovery and Follow-up of a Nearby Galaxy from the Arecibo Zone of Avoidance Survey. ...

... The Earth's sister planet is smiling between the low clouds near the bottom of the frame during its January 2nd conjunction with the slender, young crescent Moon above. ... A rival to vanquished Comet ISON in 2013, Comet Lovejoy (C/2013 R1) still sweeps through early morning skies, captured in this starry scene on New Year's day. ... Instead it's Venus in a crescent phase, captured with a long telephoto lens from Quebec City, Canada, planet Earth on a chilly December 30th evening. ... 31.12.2013 . ...

... Assignments 4, 5 and 6 all involve the imaginary world of Ziggy. ... Each week, you should write a short executive briefing to Captain Howard, explaining to her what you have learned from that week's data. ... A 500 word limit applies to each briefing you submit. You will submit three briefing papers (due dates below): one for each data release. ... First briefing due (Assignment 4). 2nd data set released. ... Second briefing due (Assignment 5). 3rd and final data set released. ...

OptInt PmWiki . MROI Delay Line / . Edit Page | Page History | ... MROI Delay Line Design Contract . ... Document Management . ... Released FDR Documents . ... Design Documents . ... MROI . ... This page contains links to delay line Final Design Review documents which have been released by Cavendish Laboratory. ... Trolley Mechanical Design Description [to be updated] . ... Trolley Electronics Design Description [updated 2008/01/28] . Limits Design Description [to be updated] . ...

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 . ...

... Chandra Survey . ... Fields Observed . ... Data Archive . X-ray Database . ... Bulge Windows Survey . ... The ChaMPlane survey is being conducted at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. 20 ksec) galactic plane fields (|b| ~ Grindlay et al. (2005) for general description). ... The ChaMPlane project is currently supported by NASA (Chandra Archive), NOAO, and NSF. ... Chandra ACIS chip boundaries (green lines) and X-ray source positions (red circles) are superimposed on the image. ...

Hide Zen home . ... sncat2sntab.pl - convert old catalog to table sn . ... CREATE TABLE cats ( id integer PRIMARY KEY, name text ); -- a list of properties of galaxy CREATE TABLE properties ( id integer PRIMARY KEY, name text ); CREATE TABLE galaxy ( id integer PRIMARY KEY, name text ); CREATE TABLE galaxy _property ( gid integer REFERENCES galaxy (id), pid integer REFERENCES properties(id), value float, UNIQUE( gid ,pid) ); CREATE t=# select * from galaxy; id | ...

Astronomical Society of the Pacific Announces 2009 Award Winners in Astronomy Research and Education . The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) today announced the winners of its 2009 awards for excellence in astronomy research and education. ... The Thomas J. Brennan Award for excellence in the teaching of astronomy in grades 9-12, has gone to Ardis Herrold , astronomy and Earth sciences educator at Grosse Pointe North High School in Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan. ...

... The quasar database tables are in the subdirectory QSO as follows: QSO.DOC General documentation FORMAT.DOC Summary of column names and fortran formats QSOS Object list XOBS X-ray observational data XFLUXA X-ray fluxes, energy index = 0.0 XFLUXB X-ray fluxes, energy index = 0.5 XFLUXC X-ray fluxes, energy index = 1.0 XFLUXD X-ray fluxes, energy index = 1.5 OPTICAL Optical information MISSING QSOs not processed NOTES Notes to all the ... O stars Chlebowski,T., Harnden Jr., ...

... 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, . ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... This shows the Sun, Moon and Earth (not to scale) together with the . ... They have tested the technique on the Earthshine, the light reflected from the Earth by the Moon, and showed that it can reveal the presence of life in our planet. ... This technique uses the fact that the light reflected from the planet is polarised, whereas that emitted by the star is not. ... Polarised light can tell us about the reflecting surface...

... PUL2 catalog contains original absolute proper motions of 59646 stars in 149 fields with galaxies. ... Mean errors of relative proper motions in PUL2 catalog is 5.5 mas/year. ... The external mean error of one relative proper motion of a bright star of PUL2 catalog is 9 mas/year for both of coordinates. ... After issue of UCAC2 catalog, we decided to improve accuracy of proper motions, using Pul-3 coordinates (of 1950s) as the first epoch, and UCAC2 coordinates as the second epoch. ...

USA Solar Mission . Courtesy of NASA's National Space Science Data Center . The Solar Maximum Mission (SMM) was designed to provide coordinated observations of solar activity, in particular solar flares, during a period of maximum solar activity. ... Complementary studies were made as part of the SMM guest investigator program, and coordinated in situ measurements of flare particle emissions were made from the ISEE 3 spacecraft. The spacecraft was launched on February 14, 1980. ...