... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... This shows the Sun, Moon and Earth (not to scale) together with the . ... They have tested the technique on the Earthshine, the light reflected from the Earth by the Moon, and showed that it can reveal the presence of life in our planet. ... This technique uses the fact that the light reflected from the planet is polarised, whereas that emitted by the star is not. ... Polarised light can tell us about the reflecting surface...

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• Objects in the Sky

... STScI-PRC95-45a CRUCIBLE OF CREATION: PANORAMIC HUBBLE MOSAIC ZOOMS IN ON MAELSTROM OF STAR BIRTH This spectacular color panorama of the center the Orion nebula is one of the largest pictures ever assembled from individual images taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. ... Though this 2.5 light-years wide view is still a small portion of the entire nebula, it includes almost all of the light from the bright glowing clouds of gas and a star cluster associated with the nebula. ...

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• Press Release for the 193rd Meeting of the AAS, January, 1999

... Now shining in eastern skies at dawn, bright planets Venus and Jupiter join the Pleiades star cluster in this sea and sky scape, recorded earlier this week near Buenos Aires, Argentina. ... Part of a dark expanse that splits the crowded plane of our Milky Way galaxy, the Aquila Rift arcs through the northern hemisphere's summer skies near bright star Altair and the Summer Triangle.. In the Glare of Alpha Centauri . ... Northern Green Flash . ... But small, irregular galaxies form stars too. ...

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... For immediate release . ... Brown Dwarfs (BDs) play a special role in this context. ... Recent observations with the ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT) of a "young" Brown Dwarf in a multiple stellar system are taking on a particular importance in this connection. ... This small object is known as TWA-5 B and with a mass of only 15 - 40 times that of Jupiter, it is near the borderline between planets and Brown Dwarfs, cf. the explanatory Appendix to this Press Release. ... ESO PR Photo 17a/00 . ...

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• VLT Unit Telescopes Named at Paranal Inauguration (ESO Press Release 06/99)
• Titan Press Release
• STScI- PRC99-10: Hubble's Infrared Galaxy Gallery

... 2MASS Overview . The 2MASS Sky . Executive Summary of 2MASS Second Incremental Data Products . Point Source Catalog . Extended Source Catalog . ... Distribution Mode for 2MASS Products . Data Release Plan . ... Point Source Catalog (PSC) . Extended Source Catalog (XSC) . ... 2MASS Source Naming Convention . ... General Properties of the Data Release . ... Comparison of Achieved Performance of Second Incremental Release Catalogs with Level 1 Science Specification . ...

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• WISE All-Sky Release Catalog

... Public . Science . ... Science Users Information > Observing with ESO Telescopes > Phase 3 > Data Releases . ... Public Surveys . ... Data Releases . ... Data delivered by ESO Public Survey projects: . ... Data Release . ... Deep co-added, resampled images and associated source lists per band (3rd data release) . ... ZYJHKs images and associated source lists of completed survey tiles covering ~690 sq.deg . ... YJKs images and associated source lists for 7 survey tiles (4th updating data release) . ...

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• The Very Large Telescope Project
• GOODS
• ESOтАЩs Hidden Treasures Brought to Light | ESO

... JWST . The End of the Dark Ages: First Light and Reionization . ... Science Blog . ... Science . JWST Science . ... The Assembly of Galaxies . ... In addition to the supernovae of the first light stars, JWST will also be able to detect the first galaxies and star clusters. The JWST First Light theme science goal is to find and understand these predicted first light objects. ... An observational approach to identify these objects has been described in the JWST SWG First Light white paper . ...

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• NICMOS Units Conversion Form
• First Light (after the Big Bang)
• HST this week: 271

... 2003 April 29 . In the Center of the Rosette Nebula . ... Explanation: In the heart of the Rosette Nebula lies a bright open cluster of stars that lights up the nebula. ... A hot wind of particles streams away from the cluster stars and contributes to an already complex menagerie of gas and dust filaments while slowly evacuating the cluster center. ... About APOD | ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . NASA Official: Jay Norris. ... A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC . ...

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• APOD: 2000 May 22 - Light Bridges on the Sun
• APOD: September 21, 1999 - The Quintuplet Star Cluster
• APOD: 2005 April 5 - Light from a Distant Planet

... UA SCIENTIST & TEAM DISCOVER SURFACE FEATURES COVER TITAN (Science contacts: Peter H. Smith, (602) 621-2725; Mark Lemmon, (602) 621-1485; UA Lunar and Planetary Laboratory) . Scientists for the first time have made images of the surface of Saturn 's giant, haze-shrouded moon, Titan. ... About three weeks before Cassini's first flyby of Titan, the spacecraft is to release the European Space Agency's Huygens Probe to parachute to Titan's surface. ... Upper left: hemisphere facing Saturn. ...

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• Positive Ions
• Solar Energetic Particles
• Comet Introduction

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... This image of the Tarantula Nebula comprises one of the largest mosaics ever assembled from Hubble photos and includes observations taken by HubbleтАЩs Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys, combined with observations from the European Southern ObservatoryтАЩs MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope which trace the location of glowing hydrogen and oxygen. ... Subscribe to Astronotes . ...

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• M55 globular cluster seen by ESO | Astronotes
• WLM Galaxy: a Cosmic Living Fossil | Astronotes
• ESO reveals end of cosmic Dark ages | Astronotes

OptInt PmWiki . ... Forms . ... This page explains how you can embed input forms into wiki pages. ... input text name value size= n :) (:input hidden name value :) (:input password name value :) (:input radio name value :) (:input checkbox name value :) (:input select name value label :) (:input default default-name default-value :) (:input submit name value :) (:input textarea name [=value=] rows= n cols= n :) (:input reset name label :) (:input file name label :) (:input image name "src" alt :) . ...

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• OptInt PmWiki : Forms | History
• OptInt PmWiki : Post Upload Edit Form | Attach
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... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : "That's as remote as the dark side of the Moon!" ... As the tired, hackneyed refrains went on, one in particular caught my ear: " Fly me away to the bright side of the moon, and meet me on the other side." ... As the Moon orbits the Earth, different parts of it get illuminated by the Sun. ... Bad