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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 . ...

home publications > mercury . ... Publications of the ASP (PASP) . ... Exploring Invisible Skies . ... One of the tools these students are using?a radio telescope?explores an invisible part of the electromagnetic spectrum, radio waves. ... From listening to music on the radio to talking on our cell phones, radio waves are the means used to get information across large distances. ... Radio waves also give us information about the Universe complementing information obtained at other wavelengths. ...

... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Travel to Guesthouse . ... Survey Telescopes . ... This video fades back and forth between views of the stellar nursery Monoceros R2 in visible and infrared light. The visible-light view was created from digitised photographs through red and blue filters forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2 (DSS) and the new infrared view comes from the VISTA telescope at Paranal. ...

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... The grating, the slit wheel and the filter wheel are visible. Also visible are the modified motors for slits and filters selection and part of the feedthrough for the grating motion. Rear view of the cryostat. We can see, on the left, the solid nitrogen vessel and on the bottom, the support of detector and the cold strap connecting these two parts. ... The flat mirror of the camera (side view on the center) and part of toroidal vessel for the liquid nitrogen are also visible. ...

... Events . ... The orbit of the Moon is too small to be seen on this scale, but the 2008 December 1st alignment was especially interesting because additionally Venus was occulted by the Moon (this occultation was visible from Europe and NW Africa). Some more photos of the 1 December events received from Jonathan Bingham . ... Venus coming out from behind the Moon; photograph by Jonathan Bingham . ISS; photograph by Jonathan Bingham . ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

The CDK20 North is seen in November 2012 with its new A200HR mount, Apogee 16M camera, and Optec IFW-3 filter wheel. The Sirius dome of the CDK20 North is seen in May 2010, and the telescope is visible through the open shutter. ... Brad Carter (left) and Rhodes Hart (right) of the University of Southern Queensland visited their northern Shared Skies CDK20 at Moore Observatory in September 2009. ... Microswitches were added to limit the range of polar axis rotation on the original mounting. ...

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... October 24, 1995 . A Total Solar Eclipse . Credit: Steve Albers , Dennis di Cicco (S Magazine), Gary Emerson (E. E. Barnard Obs.) ... Explanation: Pictured above is a total solar eclipse, with the Sun 's corona , clearly visible surrounding the Moon . ... The path of today's total eclipse will begin in the Middle East, move though southern China, and end in the Pacific Ocean south of the Marshall Islands. ... NASA keeps detailed maps of the predicted path of the eclipse. ... About APOD | ...

The Kermit Dewar, open for assembly of the electornics at UH. Inside the de