... 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. ...

... HUBBLE UNCOVERS DUST DISK AROUND A MASSIVE BLACK HOLE . Resembling a gigantic hubcap in space, a 3,700 light-year-diameter dust disk encircles a 300 million solar-mass black hole in the center of the elliptical galaxy NGC 7052. ... Because the jets in NGC 7052 are not perpendicular to the disk, it may indicate that the black hole and the dust disk in NGC 7052 do not have a common origin. ... NGC 7052 is located in the constellation of Vulpecula, 191 million light-years from Earth. ...

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 . ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Activities > APEX Science Verification > SHFI . ... Observing Facilities . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... Telescope Time Allocation . ... ESO Data . ... The Science Verification (SV) observations of the APEX Swedish Heterodyne Facility Instrument were observed in March 2008. ... A selection of the APEX-1 proposals listed below have been observed during the week of joint SV observations in March 2008, and later during the ESO time of period...

... The SMS program is a critical endeavor to investigate whether the predictions of standard cold dark matter cosmology are consistent with the observed matter distribution in the Milky Way halo. It is the deepest, most extended search for optically elusive dwarf satellite galaxies and tidal streams to date, covering the entire Southern hemisphere. ... However only a few dwarf satellites have been found around the Milky Way to date - 22 dwarfs compared to 500-10,000 predicted by theory (Klypin et al. ...

Proposal Identification No.: ... Proposal Type: General Category: Sub-Category: Observation Category: Total Time Requested: Minimum Useful Time: Prop osal Title: ABSTRACT: Regular Astronomy Spectroscopy Extragalactic 30 Hours 1 hour Mapping Extended HI around two THINGS galaxies One of the outstanding questions in astronomy today is how galaxies obtain the gas that they need to continue forming stars for longer than a few gigayears. ...

... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... milky way . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Has dark matter ever been detected in or around the Milky Way Galaxy? ... While some scientists claim theyт??ve seen evidence of a т??windт?? of dark-matter particles, most members of the astronomy community believe this was a false detection and direct observation of this mysterious material hasnт??t happened yet. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com!...

... Ciel Espace, le magazine qui vous guide toujours plus loin . ... Ciel Espace, nouvelle formule, c'est . des actualitГїs . ... des interviews, des portraits . ... des pages consacrГїes Г la publication de vos photos Mais c'est aussi une vraie communautГї avec laquelle partager votre passion et nourrir votre curiositГї. Accueil Г? la une D'Гїtranges signaux venus d'autres galaxies . ... Des Гїclairs radio venus d'autres galaxies . ... 20/01/2015 - Une multitude d'Гїtoiles hors des galaxies . ...

... Astronomy news . ... NASA's Spitzer Images Out-of-This-World Galaxy . ... It is spiral-shaped like our Milky Way, with long, spindly arms of stars. The "eye" at the center of the galaxy is actually a monstrous black hole surrounded by a ring of stars. In this color-coded infrared view from Spitzer, the area around the invisible black hole is blue and the ring of stars, white. ... The ring around the black hole is bursting with new star formation. ...

The Australia Telescope Compact Array ( ATCA ) is a radio interferometer consisting of six 22-m antennae aligned along a 6-km-long, east-west track. ... The ATCA Upgrade , which is part of the Major National Research Facility ( MNRF ) program, will allow astronomers to observe at even higher frequencies, around 22 GHz (12 mm) and 90 GHz (3.5 mm). ... The ATCA Upgrade will open a number of new opportunities; these are set out below. ... The ATCA Upgrade involves the following projects: . ...

... The Andromeda Galaxy in Infrared . ... Credit: K. Gordon ( U. Arizona ), JPL-Caltech , NASA Explanation: What is the Andromeda galaxy really like? ... Astronomers trained the orbiting Spitzer Space Telescope at the Messier monster (M31) for over 18 hours, creating a mosaic that incorporated 11,000 separate exposures. ... Publications with keywords: M31 - Spitzer space telescope - infrared . Publications with words: M31 - Spitzer space telescope - infrared . ... Infrared Andromeda . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Colin Johnston . ... Milky Way . Stars . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... June . ... This red supergiant is the brightest star in the constellation Scorpius and is of awesome size. ... Returning to Vega (which will be the pole star in about 12 000 years from now), follow an imaginary line between it and Arcturus, this line will cross two more constellations, faint and sprawling Hercules and that celestial smile Corona Borealis. ...

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... ftp://www.kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp/pub/cgmw/ : This catalog, giving about 7000 galaxies behind the Milky Way between l = 210 degrees and 250 degrees, represents a systematic search for galaxies by means of 32 film copies of the UK Schmidt Southern Infrared Atlas on the Milky Way covering about 900 square degrees. ... Japan, Vol. ... This will be distributed upon request from Astronomical Data Analysis Center of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan and other astronomical data centers. ...

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... March 22, 1999 . An Infrared Galaxy Gallery . ... NICMOS , HST , NASA . Explanation: Where do stars form in galaxies? One way to find this out it to look for glowing hydrogen , a material common to hot star-forming regions . To find large areas of glowing hydrogen , the Hubble Space Telescope 's NICMOS instrument surveyed about 100 nearby spiral galaxies . Six of these galaxies are shown above: NGC 5653, NGC 3593, NGC 891 , NGC 6946, NGC 4826 , and NGC 2903. ... About APOD > . ...

... The search for distant objects which can be both galaxies and quasars is one of the most important problems of observational astrphysics, because it allows one to determine cosmological parameters connected with the time of appearence and evolution of stellar systems, large scale structure of the Universe. ... Radio galaxies are important objects to be studied because they are sources of infrared-optical-ultraviolet continuum, emission lines and continual radio emission. ...

... Galaxy Evolution home . ... Regulating the ISM and star formation . Cosmological evolution of star-forming galaxies . ... Local Information . ... In order to investigate the cosmological evolution of star-forming galaxies it is essential that we understand the physics which controls the evolution and regulation of star formation in the ISM. ... We use a combined observational and numerical approach to study interacting and merging galaxies in the local Universe. ...

... Program of the Course of Radio Astronomy . Moscow State University , Physics Department , Astronomy Division , 4 th year, 60 hours in total) . ... Molecular maser emission. ... The emission of the interstellar neutral hydrogen. ... Pacholczyk, A. G. Radio Astrophysics, W. H. Freeman & Co., ... Frontiers of Astrophysics, Avrett, E. H., ed., Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., ... Kaplan, S. A., Pikelner, S. B. The Interstellar Medium, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., ...

Next: CONICA: The high resolution Up: VLT Status and Instruments Previous: VLT First Light . ... Infrared instruments for the VLT . Instrument Summary . ... The already approved infrared instruments for the VLT are: . ... CONICA: Coude Near Infrared Camera (P.I. R. Lenzen, MPIA, Heidelberg) - an historical name as this instrument will be used for diffraction limited 1-5 m imaging, polarimetry and spectroscopy with the NAOS, Nasmyth Adaptive Optics System on UT1 (P.I. G. Rousset, ONERA ). ...