... 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 Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ...

... Explosions Discovered Near Galactic Center . ... Tremendous explosions near the center of our Galaxy were discovered just this past December and are being announced today by a paper in Nature and a press conference at NASA. ... X-ray Moon and X-ray Star . ... An X-ray star winks out behind the Moon in these before and after views of a lunar occultation of the galactic X-ray source designated GX5-1. ... Apollo 15: Driving on the Moon . ... Apollo 15's Home on the Moon . ... ASCA X-Ray Observatory . ...

... 2005 December 30 . The Perseus Cluster of Galaxies . ... Each of these fuzzy blobs is a galaxy, together making up the Perseus Cluster , one of the closest clusters of galaxies . ... Near the cluster center, roughly 250 million light-years away, is the cluster's dominant galaxy NGC 1275, seen here just left of picture center. ... The Perseus Cluster of Galaxies is part of the Pisces-Perseus supercluster spanning over 15 degrees and containing over 1,000 galaxies. ... About APOD | ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Planets . ... Exoplanets . ... Space Flight . ... Science Fiction . ... August . ... By admin August 18, 2011 Posted in: August . Artist's impressions of Kepler and the light curve of transiting planet (Image credit: NASA) . ... In 1995 we knew of only nine planets (including Pluto, how times change), but in that year the first of the extra-solar planets or exoplanets was confirmed. ... Another is one of the most Earth-like worlds yet discovered . ...

A Canadian and American team of Astronomers have used the 305-m wide Arecibo radio dish, the world's largest and most sensitive radio telescope, to uncover a dozen new super-fast-spinning pulsars. The team directed their search for these rare and exotic stars by pointing the Arecibo radio telescope towards massive star clusters, called Globular Clusters, orbiting our Milky Way galaxy. ... One of the most exotic residents in the Globular cluster system are the millisecond pulsars. ...

... Over the first 4 years, its X-ray telescopes eROSITA and ART-XC will survey the whole sky with a record sensitivity in the 0.5-10 keV energy band. ... The goal of the second international Spectrum-RG conference is to discuss the different scientific topics addressed by the mission, synergies with surveys at other wavelengths, and requirements to follow-up observations.Contributed talks and poster presentations are invited on the topics related to the SRG science goals. ... Active galactic nuclei . ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... A bright nova has recently been discovered in the constellation of Delphinus (The Dolphin). ... The nova was confirmed late on August 14 at a magnitude of 6.3 (in a dark sky the faintest naked-eye stars are approximately 6.0 magnitudes - the lower the magnitude the brighter a star). ... Nova explosions occur in binary systems composed of a star similar to our Sun but only ~1/10 of its mass, and a star called a white dwarf. ...

... 2000 December 15 . IC443's Neutron Star . ... Explanation: Using x-ray data from the orbiting Chandra Observatory along with radio data from the Very Large Array , a team of researchers has discovered evidence for a new example of one of the most bizarre objects known to modern astrophysics -- a neutron star . ... The core collapsed when the star, located a reassuring 5,000 light-years away in the constellation Gemini , exploded long ago. How long ago? ... About APOD | ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

... 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) . ...

... Xiaohui Fan, University of Arizona . ... Abstract . ... Decelerating and Dustfree: Efficient Dark Energy Studies with Supernovae and Clusters . ... Jason Surace, California Institute of Technology . ACS Imaging of a Unique Spitzer Field: Morphology of mid-IR Variable Sources . ... A Survey for Supernovae in Massive High-Redshift Clusters . ... The largest Kuiper belt objects . ... An ACS Treasury Survey of the Coma cluster of galaxies . ... ACS Nearby Galaxy Survey . ... Past weeks: . ...

Next: Targeted searches Up: Searches and surveys Previous: Large area surveys . Crab pulsar would not have been detected by systematic surveys until after 1982! B1937+21 (P=1.6ms) discovered 1982 [ 2 ] . For large areas: data rate greater than hardware limits at the time. ... Globular cluster targeted searches ( msps) . In 1991 only 4 Galactic msps known . Large area searches become feasible . In 1996 now 35 Galactic msps known . ... Thu Dec 19 15:15:11 GMT 1996 ...

... Future seminars . ... G.V. Levina (Institute of Continuous Media Mechanics) . ... Abstract . ... The INTEGRAL mission and its first results" . ... Reconnection - new basic results and solar simulations " . October, 30 . ... D.L. Vainchtein (IKI RAN; Dept. of Mechanical and Environmental Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara, USA) . ... New results on Solar Structure and Dynamics and Solar Space Observatories " . ... E.B. Gliner (Theoretial Research Institute, San Francisco) . ...

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 . ...

... Observing . ... Subscriber Extras . ... Web Extras . ... Globular cluster NGC 2808, elliptical galaxy NGC 2986, and the Sextans Dwarf . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Web Extra: Astronomers animate one of the largest galaxy clusters ever observed . ... At the center of the Phoenix Cluster, a large elliptical galaxy lurks where the hot gas is ejected, giving off unprecedented levels of X-rays, which have been observed by the orbiting Chandra X-ray telescope. ...

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 . ...

... Team . ... V.V.Sokolov "The gamma-ray bursts, core-collapse supernovae and global star forming rate at large redshifts" . ... I.V.Sokolov, A.S.Moskvitin, Eda Sonbas, O.V.Verkhodanov, O.P.Zhelenkova "A galaxy cluster in the GRB 021004 field" . ... The monitoring of GRB afterglows and the study of their host galaxies with the SAO RAS 6-m telescope from 1997". ... A.S.Moskvitin, T.A.Fatkhullin, V.V.Sokolov and V.N.Komarova, "Spectral and photometric monitoring of CCSNe at SAO RAS" . ...

... This is a partial list of the Extragalactic Novae discovered in 1999. ... Nova SMC 1999 4 , IAUC 7308 discovered 1999/08/03.667 by MACHO . ... Nova SMC 1999 3 , IAUC 7286 discovered 1999/09/17.1 by EROS . ... Nova M31 1999 5 , IAUC 7272 , discovered 1999/10/02.2 by Lick Observatory Supernova Search . ... Nova M31 1999 4 , IAUC 7249 discovered 1999/08/30.3 by Lick Observatory Supernova Search . ... Nova M31 1999 3 , IAUC 7236 discovered 1999/08/10.4 by Lick Observatory Supernova Search . ...

... Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. Cluster Launch of Dnepr LV 22 August 2013 KOMPSAT-5 Launch 21 November 2013. Dnepr Cluster Mission 2013 19 June 2014. ... Mission profile SHM configuration Reliability Dnepr LV Performance Launch Sites . ... The launch vehicle is steam ejected from its Transport and Launch Canister (TLC) by means of hot gases of black powder gas generator. ... Activation of black powder gas generator . ... Separation of black powder gas generator . ... Dnepr LV Performance . ...

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... Day-by-day lines contain complete set and intended for those who have been there (I mean, in Kyoto :) . ... Large format is mainly for 1600x1200 screens and fast link (pictures are up to 150K in size). Normal is for typical 1024x768 screen (i.e. 15" monitors). ... Photos look incredible on it. ... Large . ... Normal . ... Thumbnails . ... Contents with thumbnails: Large | ... Nara, one of the historical cities of Japan . ... August 17, Sunday. ... Nara. ... return to photo album contents | ...