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 Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Risks Comparable to NEOs . ... The Increasing Rate of Discovery of Asteroids . ... Comet and Asteroid Collision Probabilities . ... Extreme albedo comets and the impact hazard (PDF Format) . ... Asteroid Impact Animations . ... Workshop on Scientific Requirements for Mitigation of Hazardous Comets and Asteroids - 2002 . ... The Spaceguard Survey Report, 1992 (PDF) . Tsunami from Asteroid/Comet Impacts . ...

... VLT: A New Largest Optical Telescope . ... 1.09.1996 . ... But an even larger optical telescope is being built. Dubbed the Very Large Telescope (VLT), the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is building four 8.2-meter mirrors in Chile which together will act as a single telescope with a mirror diameter of over 16-meters. ... Publications with keywords: optical - VLT - telescope . Publications with words: optical - VLT - telescope . ... Earth Rotating Under Very Large Telescopes . ...

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... September 1, 1996 . VLT: A New Largest Optical Telescope . Credit and Copyright: European Southern Observatory . ... Dubbed the Very Large Telescope (VLT), the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is building four 8.2-meter mirrors in Chile which together will act as a single telescope with a mirror diameter of over 16-meters. The first of these telescopes should be completed in 1997, and all four should be completed and working together sometime in the year 2000. ... About APOD | ...

... Planets . ... The planets were found using the HARPS instrument on the 3.6m telescope at ESOтАЩs La Silla Observatory. ... A planet in orbit around a star causes the star to regularly move towards and away from observers on Earth. ... One newly discovered planet, HD 85512 b, is best hope found so far for a habitable exoplanet. ... The HARPS team so far have found that about 40% of stars similar to own Sun have at least one planet smaller than Saturn (which is 95 times more massive than Earth). ...

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... General information . ... Staff . Research staff . ... Information . ... Historical highlights . Historical research . ... This process is thought to occur in circumstellar disks of gas and dust around young stars on rather short timescales : infrared surveys show that the number of low mass stars with disks drops dramatically for stars older than 10 Myr, suggesting that in order to form large solids before the disk disperses, the growth process has to take place within a few million years. ...

... This is a personal project collecting and documenting early images of Harvard College Observatory, focusing on the site at Observatory Hill (previously Summer House Hill). ... Earliest source: "[Observatory women computers], 1891." ... A group photo of computers at Harvard together with Mary Anna Palmer Draper, aka Mrs. Henry Draper. ... 1891 . General: The women depicted in this photograph analyized stellar photographs and computed data at the Harvard College Observatory. [link] 1891 . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... Magazine . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... galaxies . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Mullard Radio Observatory . ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... MRAO Telescopes . CLFST . ... Since the early days of Radio Astronomy in Cambridge we have been building instruments to survey the sky at low frequencies. ... The Cambridge Low-Frequency Synthesis Telescope 151-MHz aerials . The CLFST was built in 1980. ... The Cambridge Low-Frequency Synthesis Telescope 38-MHz aerials . ... The photo on the left shows some of the 38-MHz aerials; a group of 151-MHz aerials can be seen on a parallel baseline alongside. ...

Observatories 1 --- | ... Mills Observatory . ... The observatory building . ... One of the conditions of the transfer was that the Observatory would move to a better site, so ROE moved from the (increasingly smoggy) City Centre to Blackford Hill, about 2 miles south. ... Rumour has it that the site (which is pretty close to being below sea level, a novel idea for an observatory) was chosen based partly on the sunshine records being kept by the town clerk in nearby Bexhill (Florida for the english). ...

... Comparison of simulations with the large scalтАж . Sidebar Left . Sidebar Top . ... Title: Comparison of simulations with the large scale radio galaxy M87. Description: Comparison between a snapshot from Movie 2 (left panel) with the large scale radio structure of the famous radio galaxy M87. ... Comparison of simulations with the large scale radio galaxy M87. Comparison between a snapshot from Movie 2 (left panel) with the large scale radio structure of the famous radio galaxy M87. ...

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... SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Astronomy Beat . ... World Beat: Israel . ... Israeli astronomers have come a long way on limited resources, but at least they don't have to spend much effort battling pseudoscience: public education is strong, and religion and science coexist peacefully. ... The Israeli astronomical community sees itself as a modern scientific establishment in the European or American model, but with some special problems shared with the less developed world. ...

. Highlights (early results) . There are a lot of achivements. Let's try to enumerate and describe some of them: . Nov, 2004

... Jay Apt (Ph.D.) . NASA Astronaut (Former) . ... PUBLICATIONS: Dr. Apt shared his images and knowledge in the publication Earth in Orbit : NASA Astronauts Photograph the Earth , written in conjunction with NASA scientists Michael Helfert and Justin Wilkinson and published by the National Geographic Society. ... From 1976 to 1980 he was a staff member of the Center for Earth & Planetary Physics, Harvard University, supporting NASA s Pioneer Venus Mission by making temperature maps of Venus from Mt. ...

. General Information . Media Files . Participants . Timetable . Local Information . Photos . Back to the album list . Previous Click the image to view it in fullsize. Previous . The BTA (Bolshoi Teleskop Alt-azimutalnyi, Eng:Large Altazimuth Telescope) is a large 6 m optical telescope at the Special Astrophysical Observatory. The BTA-6 was the largest telescope in the world between its first light in 1975 and 1993.

... Files in red?history) . ... The Sun . ... Large sunspots may be occasionally seen by the unaided eye, with the sun near the horizon and dimmed by thick haze. ... Year after year, beginning in 1826, on every clear day, Schwabe would scan the sun and record its spots, until 17 years later he began to suspect a regular variation . ... Some, led by Rudolf Wolf, examined old records to reconstruct earlier sunspot cycles, while Edward Sabine in England in 1852 found a similar periodicity in magnetic...