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 Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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

... 17.03.2016 . ... Explanation: Sporting a surprisingly bright , lovely green coma Comet 252P/Linear poses next to the Large Magellanic Cloud in this southern skyscape. ... In fact, it is one of two comets that will make remarkably close approaches in the next few days as a much fainter Comet Pan-STARRS (P/2016 BA14) comes within 3.5 million kilometers (9 times the Earth-Moon distance) on March 22. ... Publications with keywords: comet - LMC . ... Infrared Portrait of the Large Magellanic Cloud . ...

... 2016 March 17 . Close Comet and Large Magellanic Cloud . ... Explanation: Sporting a surprisingly bright , lovely green coma Comet 252P/Linear poses next to the Large Magellanic Cloud in this southern skyscape. ... In fact, it is one of two comets that will make remarkably close approaches in the next few days as a much fainter Comet Pan-STARRS (P/2016 BA14) comes within 3.5 million kilometers (9 times the Earth-Moon distance) on March 22. ... About APOD | ... A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Our Galaxy . ... Space Flight . ... Posted on April 21, 2011 | No Comments An image from the European Southern Observatory, reveals two galaxies, NGC 3169 and NGC 3166, meeting in intergalactic space. ... Continue Reading.. ... 1 Comment NGC 2841 is a rather beautiful flocculent spiral galaxy. The Hubble Space Telescope recently imaged NGC 2841 as part of an investigation into how new stars are created. ... Posted on October 28, 2010 | ...

We present a mid-infrared analysis of star-formation activity in the Large Magellanic Cloud's molecular ridge (south of 30 Doradus). The Magellanic Clouds are a rare laboratory in which extragalactic star-formation diagnostics can be tested at high spatial resolution. ... Detailed analysis in very nearby galaxies, like the Magellanic Clouds, allows us to test and better understand the scaling relations used in unresolved and distant star-formation regions. ...

... A team of Japanese scientists including Armagh astronomer Dr David Asher have announced the discovery of the second largest known Earth-crossing asteroid. The group is based at the new Japanese Spaceguard Centre at Bisei, west of Osaka. ... The subsequent tracking and orbit determination was assisted by Armagh asteroid expert David Asher, who is currently visiting Japan to help in the setting up of the new Spaceguard Centre funded by the Japanese government. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

Revolution: 0772 . POS_0772_040225_141_00_0003.XMM . ... 2004-02-25 | ... PSF version: 0772_04 . ... SOPS_CLOSE . ... DEC: +71:22:48.0 . ... INSTENG2_CLOSE . ... INSTRUMENT_CLOSE . ... Slew: 5769 secs . ... Obs_dur: 1101 secs . ... Slew: 5187 secs . ... 003: 4362 sec . ... 001: 4727 sec . ... 002: 4707 sec . ... CLOSED . ... Obs_dur: 18900 secs . ... 004: 17887 sec . ... 005: 17882 sec . ... 400: 288 sec . ... 001: 17752 sec . ... 002: 17757 sec . ... 006: 3440 sec . ... 003: 16566 sec . ...

. ATLAS is a project to image seven square degrees of sky, in two fields (CDF-S and ELAIS-S1), at radio wavelengths, to an rms of about 15 Jy, making it the widest deep radio survey aver attempted. The fields are chosen to cover the Spitzer Wide-Area IR Extragalactic Survey (SWIRE), and the radio images cut through the dust, to trace the cosmic history of AGN and star-forming galaxies. This page last updated by Ray Norris 5-Mar-2007

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... STScI-PRC99-27 A CLOSER ENCOUNTER WITH MARS Taking advantage of Mars's closest approach to Earth in eight years, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have taken the space-based observatory's sharpest views yet of the Red Planet. ... In these views the north polar cap is tilted toward the Earth and is visible prominently at the top of each picture. ... Dark sand dunes that surround the polar cap merge into a large, dark region called Acidalia. ...

... Today this year's largest group of sunspots will cross the Sun's central meridian. ... The next day, the number of spots in the group reached five, and the day after, on June 2nd, it was possible to count thirteen sunspots on solar disk, which had been clear prior to this. ... This year's two most powerful active areas, which passed across the solar disk at the beginning of May, 2009, are set to appear in the Sun's eastern sector in two days, on June 6th. ...

. New results from NASA's NEOWISE survey find that more potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) are closely aligned with the plane of our solar system than previous models suggested. PHAs are the subset of near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) with the closest orbits to Earth's orbit, coming within 5 million miles (8 million kilometers). They are also defined as being large enough to survive passage through Earth's atmosphere and cause damage on a regional, or greater, scale. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

An Ancient Universe: How Astronomers Know the Vast Scale of Cosmic Time . THE ANDROMEDA GALAXY . ... The closest large galaxy to us is called the Andromeda Galaxy, for the constellation in which it is found. It is a large spiral-shaped collection of stars about 2.2 million lightyears from us in other words, light takes 2.2 million years to reach us from this galactic neighbor. The area of the sky covered in this image is more than five times the area of the full moon. ...

... The remnants of these oldest stars should be observable today as metal-poor stars on tightly bound orbits close to the Galactic centre. The EMBLA survey made use of SkyMapper s unique filter system to hunt through more than 5 million stars in the Galactic bulge, picking out metal-poor candidates to observe using AAOmega/2dF at the AAT. Three years of observations and 14,000 stars later, and we ve found at least 10 stars with [Fe/H] . ...

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... Comet Tutorial . ... On July 1, 1993 an image was taken with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) that clearly shows at least 15 individual fragments in one image frame of the train. ... This made an accurate orbit (or orbits) difficult to determine; however, after numerous observations of the comet, astronmers determined that the comet had passed within 96,000 kilometers (60,000 miles) of the center of Jupiter or 25,000 kilometers (16,000 miles) from the cloud tops during the July 8, 1992, approach. ...

... Messier 33 Galaxy . I took this image while I was waiting for Comet Lovejoy to clear the trees on the eastern horizon. ... It is 3 million light years away and is approximately 73 x 45 arc minutes in size. It is possible to view with the naked eye under extremely, exceptional seeing and transparency conditions with no light pollution. The large reddish nebula in the outer spiral arm is the HII (ionized hydrogen) region, NGC 604. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... Telescopes . ... The time requests are accepted in an electronic version with on-line form in Russian or English. ... Unregistered request will be disregarded by the Large Telescopes Programm Committee. In exclusive cases the secreatry of the Committee is entitled to accept an observational time request given permission of the Chairman of the Committee or the director of the SAO RAS. The Program Committee considers generally one time request submitted by the principal applicant. ...

The Cavendish Astrophysics group is closely involved in the ALMA project , a large millimetre/submillimetre interferometer, under construction in the Atacama desert in northern Chile. The UK Project Scientist, John Richer, is based in the group; we are also involved in developing phase correction algorithms using the water vapour radiometers (see our dedicated pages ). ... For more information, go to the ALMA UK project home page . Cavendish | Astrophysics Home ] . ...