... 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. ...

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... 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!...

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... 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 . ...