... Feeding the Monster: Gas Caught in its Death Spiral into a Massive Black Hole . ... Stromlo Professor Mike Dopita have used the Hubble Space Telescope to discover how a massive Black Hole in a nearby galaxy feeds itself. ... Earlier Hubble Telescope data obtained by another team member, Professor Holland Ford of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, had found a disk of gas rushing around the Black Hole at a speed of 500 kilometers a second. ...

... Each day we feature a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. August 10, 1995 . The Orbiting Hubble Space Telescope . Credit: NASA , Space Telescope Scientific Institute . Explanation: The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is the largest orbiting public optical telescope in history. ... Tomorrow's picture: The Compton Gamma Ray Observatory . Please browse through Astronomy Picture of the Day's | ...

... These Frontier Fields will combine the power of HST with the natural gravitational telescopes of high-magnification clusters of galaxies. ... We are soliciting gravitational lensing maps for the last four Hubble Frontier Fields clusters (MACSJ0717.5+3745, MACSJ1149.5+2223, AbellS1063, and Abell 370) based upon the exceptionally deep HST FF imaging and other new ancillary data. ... For the full set of proposal instructions and requirements, see the FY16 Frontier Fields Lensing Map Call for Proposals....

... 16.07.2012 . ... Credit Copyright: NASA , ESA , Mark Showalter ( SETI Institute ) Explanation: A fifth moon has been discovered orbiting Pluto. The moon was discovered earlier this month in images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in preparation for the New Horizons mission's scheduled flyby of Pluto in 2015. Pictured above , the moon is currently seen as only a small blip that moves around the dwarf planet as the entire system slowly orbits the Sun. ... Publications with keywords: Pluto . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... News . Observing . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Hubble finds new Neptune moon . ... This composite Hubble Space Telescope picture shows the location of a newly discovered moon, designated S/2004 N 1, orbiting Neptune. ... NASA s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a new moon orbiting the distant blue-green planet Neptune, the 14th known to be circling the giant planet. ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

... NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided a never-before-seen view of a warped disk flooded with a torrent of ultraviolet light from hot gas trapped around a suspected massive black hole. ... This composite image of the core of the galaxy was constructed by combining a visible light image taken with Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2), with a separate image taken in ultraviolet light with the Faint Object Camera (FOC). ... The inset box shows Hubble Space Telescope's field of view. ...

... Planets . ... Earth Satellites . ... Looking in the direction of the constellation Cygnus the Swan and launched by NASA in 2009 is the Kepler Space Observatory.Many previous missions searching for exoplanets mainly detected large giant planets, like large hot Jupiters (it is easier to detect larger planets).However KeplerтАЩs main objective is to search for much smaller planets located in a habitable zone which is not too close nor too far from their star; planets which may be just like our Earth. ...

... Another option is to buy slides of astronomical objects at different wavelengths to show students why astronomers use different bands of the spectrum to bring out specific characteristics in celestial objects. ... He then uses the camera to scan the entire classroom, asking students to identify what they are seeing. ... Once students see light in action, they can investigate its properties - such as frequency, wavelength, and interference - with wave experiments. ...

... Astronomy news . ... NASA's Spitzer Images Out-of-This-World Galaxy . ... It is spiral-shaped like our Milky Way, with long, spindly arms of stars. The "eye" at the center of the galaxy is actually a monstrous black hole surrounded by a ring of stars. In this color-coded infrared view from Spitzer, the area around the invisible black hole is blue and the ring of stars, white. ... The ring around the black hole is bursting with new star formation. ...

Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the updates and links web pages. Discovered independently by Lick Observatory Supernova Search (USA) and Koichi Itagaki (Japan). ... 2009/10/11.44 . 17.2 . ... Joseph Brimacombe . ...

... S-6.The X-ray Sun . S-7.The Sun's Energy . S-7A. The Black Hole at . our Galactic Center . ... Our Sun is part of a huge wheel-shaped collection of stars. ... However, unless that object happens to be headed directly at the black hole (a relatively small target) it will just swing around and fly away again, like a comet making a pass at the Sun. ... Far from being a voracious devourer of stars and of interstellar gas, "our own" black hole is rather benign. ... What holds galaxies together? ...

... The European HST Archive has been moved to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre ( ESAC ), Spain, where most of ESA's Space Science Archives are located and operated from. ... The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), jointly operated by ESA and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) was, until the end of 2010, the European HST science facility, supporting the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

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... Subject: QUB/IAA Lectures, Dawn at Vesta, Final Shuttle, Aurora Trip . ... Michael West Lectures in Astronomy at QUB; First on 22 JULY. ... This telescope in one of a kind, and is allowing us to discover everything from nearby asteroids to exploding stars in the most distant galaxies said Professor Stephen Smartt, director of the Astrophysics Research Centre at Queen's . ѓЉѓЉѓЉ Both talks will take place in the Larmor Lecture Theatre in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at ...

... Kazan is also reachable by train from Moscow. ... Balega (SAO, Nizhny Arkhyz) I. Bikmaev ( KFU , Kazan ) A. Cherepashchuk (MSU, Moscow) E. Churazov ( IKI , MPA ) T. De Zeeuw (ESO) W. Forman (Harvard, CfA) M. Gilfanov ( IKI , MPA ) K. Nandra (MPE, Garching) M. Pavlinsky ( IKI ) P. Predehl (MPE, Garching) N. Sakhibullin ( KFU , Kazan ) S. Sazonov ( IKI ), Deputy chair R. Sunyaev ( IKI , MPA ), Chair D. Varshalovich (Ioffe FTI, St. Petersburg) A. Vikhlinin ( ...

... Our recent observations with the Hubble Space Telescope (August 29, 2014) led to revealing a highly isolated dwarf spheroidal galaxy KKs 3 situated at a distance of 2.12 0.07 Mpc from the Milky Way. The dSph galaxy locates on the southern sky (RA=02 h 24 m 44.4 s , Dec.= ... Over the last decade, about 30 dSph galaxies have been discovered inside the Local Group through systematic search in the vicinity of M31 and more that a dozen dSphs were discovered in the nearby group around M81. ...

... Mark C. Lee (Colonel, USAF, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (former) . ... EDUCATION: Graduated from Viroqua High School, Viroqua, Wisconsin, in 1970; received a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1974, and a master of science degree in mechanical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980. ... NASA EXPERIENCE: Lee was selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in May 1984. ... Lee retired from NASA and the Air Force effective July 1, 2001. ...

... Survey Telescopes . ... Astronomers using ESOтАЩs world-leading HARPS instrument have discovered a planetary system containing at least five planets, orbiting the Sun-like star HD 10180. ... The newly discovered system of planets around HD 10180 is unique in several respects. ... All very massive planetary systems are found around massive and metal-rich stars, while the four lowest-mass systems are found around lower-mass and metal-poor stars [5] . ... ESOcast 20: Richest planetary system discovered...

JOURNиES - 2014 The binary asteroid 22 Kalliope: Linus orbit determination on the basis of speckle interferometric observations Sokova I.(1), Sokov E.(1), Roschina E.(1), Rastegaev D.(2), Gorshanov D.(1), Balega Yu.( 2), Dyachenko V.(2) (1) Pulkovo Observatory; (2) Special Astrophisical Observatory Binary asteroid 22 Kalliope 22 Kalliope - M-type asteroid from the Main asteroid belt discovered by J. R. Hind on November 16, 1852 in the Bishop' Observatory (UK). ...

A team of U.S. and German astrophysicists have made the first ever detection of X-rays coming from a comet. ... Following the initial detection, the team reported repeated X-ray emissions from the comet over the next 24 hours. ... One preliminary theory is that X-ray emission from the Sun was absorbed by a cloud of gaseous water molecules surrounding the nucleus of the comet, and then were re-emitted by the molecules in a process physicists call "fluorescence." ... Comets . ...