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 Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, operates a number of world-class radio astronomy observatories that are collectively known as the Australia Telescope National Facility or ATNF. ... CSIRO also manages the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory, where the Square Kilometre Array telescope infrastructure in Australia is to be centred. ...

... 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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... 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...

... Research . ... A rare hybrid morphology radio galaxy . ... In this project we will be able to investigate the environmental effect on star formation and galaxy evolution in individual galaxies falling into the cluster through radio observations of active galactic nuclei (AGN). Current models of galaxy evolution regulate the star formation rates within the simulated galaxies by invoking radio-mode feedback from AGN. ... Julie.Banfield@anu.edu.au . ...

... Dept. for Astrometry & Space Geodynamics . ... Dept. for Physics of Stars&Galaxies . Dept. for Space Plasma Physics . ... 2016,MNRAS, 2016MNRAS.tmp.. ... тАв The department participates in international programs to study the Earth's rotation and construction of coordinate systems and coordinates the activities of Ukrainian network stations observations, laser radar, radio technical, radiointerferometrychnyh, the expansion of their actions on the territory of Ukraine and relations with GNSS and al. ...

... Cygnus X: The Inner Workings of a Nearby Star Factory . ... Credit Copyright: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Harvard-Smithsonian CfA Explanation: How do stars form? ... Visible are large bubbles of hot gas inflated by the winds of massive stars soon after they form. ... The star factory Cygnus-X spans over 600 light years, contains over a million times the mass of our Sun, and shines prominently on wide angle infrared panoramas of the night sky. ... Publications with keywords: Cygnus - star formation . ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... Work begins on the world?s most powerful radio telescope . ... SKA AAVS0 array . ... SKA Aperture Array in Australia . ... Even in its earliest phase (SKA1), the radio telescope will be the fastest and most sensitive in the world. ... A further two instruments will be in the Western Australian desert: one being an array of many hundreds of aerial clusters working at low radio frequencies, the other a range of around 90 dishes ? ...

... While "First Light" was achieved at the second 8.2-m VLT Unit Telescope (UT2) ahead of schedule, UT1 produced its sharpest image so far. ... It had long been ESO's intention to provide "real" names to the four VLT Unit Telescopes, to replace the current, somewhat dry and technical designations as UT1 to UT4. ... The participants were left with the impression of mounting expectations, just four weeks before the first VLT Unit Telescope, Antu (UT1), will receive the first visiting astronomers. ...

Astronomical Society of the Pacific Announces 2007 Award Winners in Astronomy Research and Education . The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) announced today the eight winners of its 2007 awards for excellence in astronomy research and education. The ASP's most prestigious award, the Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal for lifetime achievement in astronomy has been awarded to Martin Harwit, Professor Emeritus of Astronomy, Cornell University. ...

Next: Data Fusion from Diverse Resources for Optical Identification of Radio Sources. ... Sung, H.-i., Kim, S. C., Yim, I. S., Nam, H.-W., Kim, B. G., Kim, J., & Lee, D.-J. 2003, in ASP Conf. ... The first dataset is from the Bohyunsan Optical Astronomy Observatory (BOAO)'s 1.8m optical telescope. ... In this paper, we introduce the prototype version of KADC using the Bohyunsan Optical Astronomy Observatory (BOAO) 1.8m optical telescope data. ... Figure 3: The KADC web page showing the search result. ...

RadioAstron satellite launches Arecibo will participate in observations . Astronomers Create First Four-Continent Telescope (EXPRES Press Releases: science + network ) . ... Arecibo Observatory Astronomers Discover First Near-Earth Triple Asteroid Just 7 Million Miles Away (Press Release) . ... George Mason Student Discovers Galaxy. ... Press Release) . ... Asteroids spin at YORP speed, thanks to the effects of sunlight, Cornell and Belfast astronomers discover (Press Release). ...

... 2012 January 18 . Cygnus-X: The Inner Workings of a Nearby Star Factory . ... Explanation: How do stars form? To help study this complex issue, astronomers took a deep infrared image of Cygnus X , the largest known star forming region in the entire Milky Way Galaxy . ... The star factory Cygnus-X spans over 600 light years, contains over a million times the mass of our Sun, and shines prominently on wide angle infrared panoramas of the night sky. ... About APOD | ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . Colin Johnston . ... Space Flight . Human Exploration . Robot Exploration . ... Science Fiction . ... Thanks to extensive training and consummate professionalism, the two astronauts successfully and without a fuss fixed the problem . ... Article by Colin Johnston, Science Communicator) . ... Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

... Since 2011 our observatory is a member of GLORIA (GLObal Robotic telescopes Intelligent Array for e-Science) project - wide international collaboration of 13 scientific institutions from 8 countries aiming at opening public access to robotic telescopes, as well as propagating astronomy in general. The GLORIA Project offers Internet users the possibility of studying the sky from professional observatories. ... The experiments are available at the users site of GLORIA. ... About GLORIA . ...

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H-alpha imaging of BCGs . ... The basic purpose of this work is comparison of morphology of stellar and gas components in these galaxies, estimation of the current star formation rate and the total number of young ionizing O stars. ... A comparison of morphology of stellar component and hot gas was performed. ... Images of two galaxies observed with the 6 m telescope are shown in Figure The morphology of stars and hot gas (H-alpha-image) in the star-forming region of Mkn~996 is the same. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Site Info . ... Public Talks . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Who is this guy who calls himself "The Bad Astronomer?" ... First, yes, I am a real live astronomer (when people ask me what astronomers do, I tell them "They astronom !" ... These are emitted by powerful objects like black holes, exploding stars, and super-dense neutrons stars. ... Finally, am I really a bad astronomer? ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...