... ESO is building what will be the World's largest optical telescope array, The Very Large Telescope (VLT). The VLT Project organisation is responsible for the design and construction of the Unit Telescopes, including enclosures, optics, adapter-rotators and coating unit. ... Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 18.09.2006 . ... September 2006 . ... 2005 2006 . ... 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: dwarf planet . Publications with words: dwarf planet . ... Eris: More Massive than Pluto . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2004 September 2 . The Large Cloud of Magellan . ... As a result, two fuzzy cloud-like objects easily visible for southern hemisphere skygazers are known as the Clouds of Magellan . ... The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) pictured above is only about 180,000 light-years distant in the constellation Dorado . ... About APOD | ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... Posted on March 14, 2012 | 23 Comments How big is the largest known star? ... Continue Reading.. ... 1 Comment A new image of the Omega Nebula reveals amazing detail in a cosmic landscape of gas clouds, dust and newborn stars.€а Captured by the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the [ ] . ... Posted on November 24, 2011 | ... Imaged with the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory in [ ] . ...

... The British consortium, currently led by Professor Gordon Bromage of the University of Central Lancashire , includes the Universities of Keele , Nottingham and Southampton , the Open University and Armagh Observatory and will be joining the other partners in the SALT project, from South Africa, Poland, Germany, USA and New Zealand. ... SALT Dome . ... The SALT project is managed by a team based at the SALT Headquarters at Sutherland and South African Astronomical Observatory in Cape Town. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Star Atlas . ... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... The planet has extreme temperature swings and perhaps active lava flows. ... A digital supplement to Astronomy magazine. ... Join TravelQuest International with Astronomy and Discover magazines on one of three great tour options surrounding this celestial spectacle . ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

... Innovative Designs for the Next Large Aperture UV/Optical Telescope . ... The NHST Working Group held a workshop on April 10-11, 2003 to discuss mission concepts, designs and instrumentation for a potential large aperture (4-10m) telescope operating at UV/optical (UVO) wavelengths. ... Potential missions to address these science themes included (but were not limited to): 1. 4 to 10-m-class visible coronagraphic telescopes with the primary science of planet detection and characterization. ...

... Telescopes . ... The International Conference "Dark Ages and White Nights (Spectroscopy of the CMB)" (June 20-24, 2016) . ... The International Conference "Stars: from collapse to collapse" (October 3-7, 2016) . The traditional annual competition conference of scientific and scientific-engineering papers of the Observatory staff members . ... A session of the Dissertation Council (October 16, 2015) . ... International scientific conference "Large Optical Telescopes" (October, 10-13, 2011) . ...

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder . Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . Visiting Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... The Large Southern Array (LSA) is a European project involving the construction of a new-generation, Southern Hemisphere, millimetre-wave synthesis telescope. ...

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... 2000 September 25 . AR 9169: A Large Sunspot . ... Explanation: One of the largest sunspots in recent years is now crossing our Sun . Dominating active region AR 9169 , the sunspot is the large dark complex visible below (west) and right of center in the above photograph of our Sun taken last Thursday. ... AR 9169 holds the largest sunspot yet produced during this Solar Maximum , the time of greatest sunspot activity during the Sun's 11-year magnetic cycle . ... About APOD | ...

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... There has been a heated public discussion in the past few years about whether our ninth planet is really deserving of the name. Since Pluto orbits a star, and is much less luminous, it certainly satisfies the definition we have above. The problem is actually not with Pluto, but with a very large number of other bodies in our Solar System which also satisfy this definition, but which are not called planets. Perhaps the most notable of these is Ceres, the largest asteroid. ... Planet . ...

... 2 April 1999 . The Nobeyama Radioheliograph data show that in the microwave range, besides large-scale trans-equatorial chains (see, e.g., the May 11-15, 1993 and November 1-4, 1993 events), there are also many examples displaying large and strongly evolving "longitudinal" or "internal" chains connecting remote active regions inside an active zone in one (northern or southern) hemisphere (the August 20-September 3, 1998 event). ... Last update: 2 April 1999 . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Bad Astro Store . ... Site Info . ... It is from from Voyager 1 and shows a whopping big impact crater dominating the profile of the moon. Note that Mimas is about 400 kilometers across (about 250 miles). ... The wall around the crater is 5 kilometers high, and that central peak rises 6 kilometers above the surface (many impact craters have a large central peak which is caused by a pressure rebound from the impact). ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun , and the second largest in the solar system . Saturn's most distinctive feature is its ring system . ... Saturn has an internal magnetic field with a dipole aligned with the rotation axis (Ness et al., ... The solar wind and Saturn's rings and satellites supply the particles that are trapped in the radiation belts. ... Between the inner and outer satellites orbits Titan, Saturn's largest moon (larger than the planet Mercury ). ... Res., ...

T he Siding Spring Survey (SSS) is a Near-Earth Object search program that utilises the 0.5-m Uppsala Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, N.S.W., Australia. ... The mission of the Siding Spring Survey is to contribute to the inventory of near-earth objects (NEOs), or more specifically, the potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) and comets (PHOs) that may pose a threat of impact and thus harm to civilization. ... Based on the CSS Mission page . ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

... The Large Magellanic Cloud is a Dwarf Irregular galaxy in orbit around our own Milky Way. It is a large object, several degrees in size, and easily visible to the unaided eye in Southern Hemisphere skies. The LMC is located in the constellation of Doradus at about 5h30m Right Ascension, -68 degrees Declination, and lies at a distance of roughly 50 kiloparsecs (160,000 light years) from Earth. ...

... PUBLIC LECTURE - APRIL 12, 2016 . New Discoveries in the Outer Solar System: Ceres, Pluto and Planet X . ... Dr. Green will talk about "New Discoveries in the Outer Solar System: Ceres, Pluto, and Planet X". ... Beginning in 1992 planetary astronomers began to find Pluto like objects beyond the orbit of Neptune showing us that Pluto was a member of an entirely new family of objects we now call the Kuiper Belt. ... Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton, Inc., ...