... 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....

Caption to PR Photo 19d/99 : This is a close-up view of the double galaxy NGC 5090 (right) and NGC 5091 (left), in the southern constellation Centaurus. ... However, some of the starlike objects seen in this region may be globular clusters (or dwarf galaxies) in orbit around NGC 5090. ... Note inserted on April 26: The original caption text identified the second galaxy as NGC 5090B - this error has now been corrected. ...

... Most stars form in clusters, so the simple picture of star formation needs to incorporate the impact that young stars have on their environments, and each other. One region we study is NGC 1333, shown to the left as seen by the Spitzer Space Telescope. This is a тАЬproto-typicalтАЭ star-forming region located тАЬonlyтАЭ 1000 light years away in the direction of the constellation Perseus. ... Copyright 2015 Adele Plunkett. ...

... Globular star cluster Omega Centauri is some 15,000 light-years away and 150 light-years in diameter. ... Star Forming Region NGC 3582 . ... The complex nebula resides in the star forming region called RCW 57. ... The Tarantula Nebula is more than 1,000 light-years in diameter -- a giant star forming region within our neighboring galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). ... Bright lenticular galaxy M86 is near center of this cosmic view, at the heart of the Virgo Galaxy Cluster. ...

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE . ... the International Space Station . ... P. Semenov, Technical Manager of the Russian Manned Space Programs, General Designer of S.P. Korolev RSC Energia, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Frederick D. Gregory, NASA Deputy Administrator, N.A. Anfimov, General Director of TsNII of Machine-Building, Academician of RAS, as well as representatives of Roskosmos, NASA, Russian enterprises and organizations participating in the implementation of the ISS program. ...

... 2015 April 25 . Cluster and Starforming Region Westerlund 2 . Image Credit Copyright : NASA , ESA , the Hubble Heritage Team . ... Explanation: Located 20,000 light-years away in the constellation Carina, the young cluster and starforming region Westerlund 2 fills this cosmic scene . ... Strong winds and radiation from those massive young stars have sculpted and shaped the region's gas and dust, into starforming pillars that point back to the central cluster. ... About APOD | ...

Armagh Observatory is to lead a new effort to understand the formation of stars through a collaboration of institutes spread throughout Europe. ... In addition to the Observatory, the project involves astronomers stationed in Germany, Russia, Armenia and Spain: the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, the Special Astrophysical Observatory in Russia, Byurakan Observatory in Armenia and Calar Alto Observatory in Spain. ... Michael Smith: Armagh Observatory, N. Ireland . ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... Surveys and Catalogues . AMI-Planck . ... The Planck 2013 data release included a catalogue of 1227 galaxy clusters detected via the Sunyaev-Zel?dovich (SZ) effect, the largest SZ-selected cluster catalogue to date. ... This website currently contains results for the 195 clusters with Planck signal-to-noise ratio > 5; results for the remaining clusters in the catalogue with 4.5 тЙд SNR тЙд 5 will be added at a later date. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... This image of the Tarantula Nebula comprises one of the largest mosaics ever assembled from Hubble photos and includes observations taken by HubbleтАЩs Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys, combined with observations from the European Southern ObservatoryтАЩs MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope which trace the location of glowing hydrogen and oxygen. ... Subscribe to Astronotes . ...

Data from the 15 square degree region centered on l = 192 , b = -2 covered by McIntyre et al. 2015 and described in that paper. The data is split into low and high velocity cubes following the two frequency bands of the Mock spectrometers. Low velocity cube . High velocity cube . ... All cubes are 4 4 , aligned in RA and Dec, and cover -2630 19655 km/s. Cube centers are in RA and Dec (J2000), with Galactic coordinates given for reference. ... J0513+21 (l=183 b=-11) - 853 MB . ...

... Feeding the Monster: Gas Caught in its Death Spiral into a Massive Black Hole . ... Stromlo Professor Mike Dopita have used the Hubble Space Telescope to discover how a massive Black Hole in a nearby galaxy feeds itself. ... Earlier Hubble Telescope data obtained by another team member, Professor Holland Ford of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, had found a disk of gas rushing around the Black Hole at a speed of 500 kilometers a second. ...

... 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 . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... Globular cluster NGC 2808, elliptical galaxy NGC 2986, and the Sextans Dwarf . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... A violent, complex scene of colliding galaxy clusters . ... GALAXY CLUSTERS | ... Colliding galaxy clusters MACS J0717+3745, more than 5 billion light-years from Earth. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter...

... Solar flare activity is produced by the processes of accumulation and release of energy in an active region. ... In the framework of study of solar active regions, producing powerful flares the researchers from the RATAN-600 radio telescope have detected sources with features in the form of a sharp drop in the intensity of polarized radiation in various parts of the recorded frequency range (2-16GHz), sometimes changing the sign of polarization. ...

FOR RELEASE: 9:00 a.m. PDT, June 9, 1998 . ... Reports are being presented by Dr. Patricia A. Henning and Mr. Andrew J. Rivers, of the University of New Mexico, in Albuquerque, NM, to the American Astronomical Society meeting in San Diego, California. Henning and Rivers represent two international teams of astronomers from the University of New Mexico and Australia, Mexico, the Netherlands, and Great Britain. ... The Parkes survey has uncovered 103 galaxies, only 28 of which were mapped before. ...

... We report on our ongoing project ``Infrared Study of HII Regions Associated with Small Clouds.' ... These IR data, combined with optical imaging (which will be obtained from the IAC-80 telescope), IRAS survey maps, and existing CO observations of the associated clouds, will allow us to undertake a detailed investigation of the gas-to-dust mass ratio, initial mass function and the star-formation efficiency in these complexes. ... CHECKPSF: check the PSF (Point Spread Function) model, . ...

... 06.03.2001 . ... March 06 2001 09:00 (Moscow time) . The OC "Mir" operations scheduled for March 05 are complete. ... The onboard systems perform nominal, the Complex arrays generate enough electricity, the thermal mode is normal. Command complex was powered on and command software was entered in tne cause of communication sessions, pressure was equalized in pneumatic and hydrobus fuel tanks of the joint propulsion system of the core block of OC "Mir". ...

... Fields Observed . ... Data Archive . ... Complete Optical and X-ray data for all ChaMPlane fields are available through the DS9 VO interface . ... functionality of DS9 is available to manipulate the results in addition to those provided by the "Champlane tools" You can select images, compare . ... our region of interest has been selected by drawing a red square region on the image. at bottom left the high res optical image of that selected region, and on the right is the X-ray image. ...

home publications > mercury . ... Big Clusters, Tiny Galaxies . ... Astronomers struggle to understand why giant star clusters form in the tiniest of galaxies . ... These clusters are probably young versions of globular clusters, but they are commonly called super star clusters. Seven dwarf galaxies within 16 million light-years have formed super star clusters, with one of these galaxies, NGC 1569, possessing two young clusters. ... Super star clusters have a lot to tell us about star formation. ...

XMM-Newton CCF Release Note XMM-CCF-REL-217 RGS Background Sp ectra Templates R. Gonzґ alez-Riestra June 28, 2006 1 CCF comp onents Name of CCF RGS1 TEMPLATEBCKGND 0003 RGS2 TEMPLATEBCKGND 0003 VALDATE 2000-01-01T00:00:00 2000-01-01T00:00:00 EVALDATE ­ ­ Blocks changed X100 P090 1 0.00.. ... X100 P095 2 8.00 XSCS flag NO NO 2 Changes This is the second release of the RGS background sp ectra templates CCFs to b e used by the SAS task rgsbkgmodel. ...