... 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....

... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... ESO's Governing Bodies . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Travel to Guesthouse . ... Survey Telescopes . ... ESO 3.6-metre telescope . ... MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope . ... ESO 1-metre Schmidt telescope . ... As we zoom in many fainter stars become visible as well as a few of the many galaxies in this part of the sky. In the final sequence we close in on the pair of galaxies NGC 3169 and NGC 3166. ... NGC 3166 , NGC 3169 . ...

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 . ...

... The expansion is measured as a number called the Hubble Constant . ... Our value is about 20% lower than the one got with the Hubble Space Telescope in 1994," said Dr Jim Lovell, leader of the team that made the measurement. The Hubble Constant is named after American astronomer Edwin Hubble, who in the 1920s found that other galaxies were moving away from ours. ... The Hubble Constant links the galaxy's distance with its speed." ... A short run-down on the Hubble Constant: . ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . Asteroid 253 Mathilde's Large Craters . ... This actually happened to NASA's NEAR spacecraft just last Friday. The above picture of the previously unresolved asteroid was released just yesterday. ... Ida and Dactyl: Asteroid and Moon . ... The second asteroid it photographed, Ida, was discovered to have a moon which appears as a small dot to the right of Ida in this picture. ... But do GRBs occur in galaxies or out alone in deep space? ... Antares . ...

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE . ... The spacecraft flight in a flyback phase was implemented in the automatic controllable descent mode. ... Soyuz TMA spacecraft being a modification of Soyuz spacecraft for operation in the frame of the ISS Project were developed by S.P. Korolev RSC Energia staff in cooperation with the subcontractors of the Russian rocket and space industry, and have been flying since November 2002. ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

... November 16, 1995 . Repairing Hubble . ... Explanation: The first Hubble Space Telescope (HST) servicing mission, STS-61, was one of the most complicated shuttle missions ever planned. Launched on December 2, 1993 in the Space Shuttle Endeavor , the astronauts were required to make 5 space walks to repair the HST. ... The highly successful mission demonstrated the ability of shuttle astronauts to repair satellites in orbit and allowed the HST to continue to explore the Universe . ...

Magellan to Venus . ... The spacecraft carried a sophisticated imaging radar, which was used to make the most highly detailed map of Venus ever captured during its four years in orbit around Venus from 1990 to 1994. After concluding its radar mapping, Magellan also made global maps of Venus's gravity field. ... The Magellan mission was divided up into "cycles" with each cycle lasting 243 days (the time necessary for Venus to rotate once under the Magellan orbit). ... Magellan Orbiting Venus . ...

... 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...

. The final Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission will take place September 11, 2008. The mission will enable Hubble to continue operating until 2013. In this image, Hubble sits on the payload bay just prior to release. NASA

... Galileo Probe . The Galileo spacecraft was designed to study Jupiter's atmosphere, satellites, and surrounding magnetosphere for two years. ... From there, Galileo will spend more than five years traveling to Jupiter, where it will become the first spacecraft to make direct measurements from an instrumented probe within Jupiter's atmosphere. ... This image, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the predicted site at which the Galileo Probe will enter Jupiter's atmosphere on December 7, 1995. ...

... 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. ...

NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER ORAL HISTORY PROJECT BIOGRAPHICAL DATA SHEET NAME: Loren J. Shriver O RAL H ISTORY: 16 December 2002 18 December 2002 EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: B.S., Aeronautical Engineering, United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, CO, 1967 M.S., Astronautical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 1968 PRE- NASA EXPERIENCE: United States Air ... Aboard EURECA were several scientific experiments that NASA expected to be retrieved in future mission STS-57. ...

... WISE is achieving 5sigma point source sensitivities better than 0.08, 0.11, 1, and 6 mJy in unconfused regions on the ecliptic in bands centered at wavelengths of 3.4, 4.6, 12, and 22 mum. ... The WISE All-Sky Release Source Catalog is available in compressed (gzip or bzip2) ascii form. ... Users should be aware that the Catalog table is extremely large. ... For complete documentation of the WISE All-Sky Release Source Catalog and the All-Sky Data Release, please see the Explanatory Supplement . ...

... 20.02.2001 . ... Today is 15 years since Orbital Complex "Mir" first module (its core module) was launched.It was delivered to Earch orbit by "Proton" which lifted off form the launch pad in Baikonur at 00:28:23 Moscow time. ... Priroda" module attached to the "Mir" Orbital Complex in 1996 was the last to complete the orbital facility assembly. ... Currently, the cargo craft "Progress M1-5" launched on Jan 24 2001 docked the Orbital Complex on Jan 27 2001, it is still in orbit as part of the Station...

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... Posts tagged ?Data Release? Mar 5th, 2008| 02:13 pm | ... Today, the 5th year data was released (The news is found here ). ... Tags: 5th year , Data Release , WMAP . ... vlk on [MADS] Parallel Coordinates . ... Algorithms arXiv Astro Bad AstroStat Bayesian CHASC Cross-Cultural Data Processing Fitting Frequentist Galaxies gamma-ray High-Energy Imaging Jargon Job Languages MC MCMC Meta Methods Misc News Nuggets Objects Optical Physics Quotes Spectral Stars Stat Timing Uncertainty X-ray . ...

Intricately structured filaments of gas and dust compose the reflection nebula seen around the Pleiades star cluster. These multiwavelength images were presented to the American Astronomical Society meeting in San Antonio, TX on January 16, 1996. Click here for the press release text . ... The Schmidt data were processed further after this photo release; better versions are now available.] Get image: 512x512 (56k) / 1024x1024 (204k) . Pleiades Far-Infrared Heated Dust Emission . ...

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