... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Galaxy Clusters . ... Video News Releases . ... New on eso.org . ... ESO News . ... View shopping cart . ... Black Hole at the Centre of our Galaxy . ... In the centre lies the faint newly found globular star cluster, VVV CL002. This previously unknown globular, which appears as an inconspicuous concentration of faint stars near the centre of the picture, lies close to the centre of the Milky Way. ... Milky Way : Star : Grouping : Cluster : Globular . ...

... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Astronomers recently discovered that Scholz's star passed close to the Sun 70,000 years ago. Wouldn't its gravity have sent Oort Cloud comets raining into the inner planets? ... COMETS | OORT CLOUD . Based on the number of long-period comets that enter the inner solar system, astronomers estimate there are probably trillions of them in the Oort Cloud. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Discover | ...

... Credit Copyright: NASA , ESA , Mark Showalter ( SETI Institute ) Explanation: Pluto's newly discovered moons now have names. ... The small moons were discovered in 2011 and 2012 by the Hubble Space Telescope in preparation for the close passing of the New Horizons spacecraft by Pluto in 2015. ... Publications with keywords: Pluto - Pluto moons . Publications with words: Pluto - Pluto moons . ... Fifth Moon Discovered Orbiting Pluto . Pluto s P4 . ... Eris: More Massive than Pluto . ...

... Kalirai and Harvey Richer of the University of British Columbia led the study, which began as an investigation of a globular star cluster in the Milky Way galaxy known as NGC 6397. ... Within the population of stars and galaxies behind NGC 6397, the Hubble image revealed a large elliptical galaxy that contains several hundred globular clusters. ... In fact, a single giant star in NGC 6397 appears 10 million times brighter than one of the distant globular clusters. ...

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... 2007 July 10 . NGC 4449: Close-Up of a Small Galaxy . Credit: NASA , ESA , A. Aloisi ( STScI / ESA ), Hubble Heritage ( STScI / AURA ) - ESA /Hubble Collaboration . Explanation: Grand spiral galaxies often seem to get all the glory. ... But small irregular galaxies form stars too, like NGC 4449 , located about 12 million light-years away. ... NGC 4449 is a member of a group of galaxies found in the constellation Canes Venatici. ... About APOD | ... A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC . ...

... Special Reports Giant space cloud may be powered by black holes 17:57 23 April 2007 NewScientist.com news service David Shiga An enormous cloud of roiling plasma in space may be drawing its energy from black holes, new observations suggest. Such clouds might be sources for the mysterious particles that occasionally crash into Earth's atmosphere at ultra - high speed. ... But higher energy particles in the cloud may be able to escape, he says. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Comets and Asteroids . ... Image credit:ESO/J.Emerson/VISTA. ... However others are less pessimistic and it has even been claimed that the mysterious ?Wow! signal? received in 1977 originated from the direction M55.б  Sadly, this still unexplained pulse of radio energy originated from a location rather to the northwest of M55 so I doubt if the source was this cluster (if indeed the signal was genuinely of extraterrestrial origin). ... Mysterious Wow! ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . Asteroid 2010 SO16 and the Earth follow similar orbits around . the Sun. ... out a horseshoe shape in space, taking 175 years to go from . ... Asteroid 2010 SO16 takes 175 years to make the trip from one end of the horseshoe to the other. ... Currently, three other horseshoe companions of the Earth are known to exist but, unlike 2010 SO16, these linger for a few thousand years at most before moving on to different orbits. ...

ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . News | ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... ATCA | ... A highly motivated science centre manager is required by the Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF), CSIRO, for Radioastronomy Visitor Centre operations at Parkes and Narrabri with regular interactions with Communications and Outreach staff at Marsfield, Sydney.The Centres are open 7 days a week and currently host around 140,000 visitors per annum. ...

... 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. ...

... Сегодня: 10 апреля 2016 г. Группе исследователей из европейского исследовательского центра CERN и Технионского технологического института (Израиль) удалось точно определить дату наблюдения вспышки сверхновой в различных диапазонах электромагнитного излучения. В последнее время гамма-вспышки все чаще связывают со взрывами сверхновых. ... Пик яркости сверхновой можно наблюдать примерно через две недели после вспышки гамма-излучения. ... Первое в истории точное предсказание взрыва сверхновой . ...

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... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... The last step encompassed them all with galaxies , and how we discovered that the Milky Way was not the entire Universe. ... And just like those star clusters, there are different kinds of galaxy clusters. ... There are vast clusters of clusters, called superclusters, which contains hundreds of thousands or even millions of galaxies. ... Our own Galaxy has 400 billion stars in it, yet there are clusters out there with millions of galaxies like our own. ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... библиотека . архив RSN . ... Ru.Space.News: . Январь 1999 . ... Дата: 16 января 1999 ( 1999 -01-16) От: Greg Jarikov Тема: Reuters: New Zealand Scientists Discover Planet that May Host Life NEW ZEALAND SCIENTISTS DISCOVER PLANET THAT MAY HOST LIFE Source: Reuters via Today's News Network - New Zealand, http://www.xtra.co.nz/newsfeed/reuter/story42.html 02:50 GMT WELLINGTON, Jan 12 (Reuters) - An international team of scientists ...

... Structure of Data . ... Catalog . ... In SAI OCL Catalog, we introduce our work on investigation of the Milky Way system of open star clusters. The main goal of our study is a search for new clusters using huge surveys. 168 new clusters have been already discovered by us using J,H,Ks data from 2MASS point source catalog. ... For 141 new clusters, we found their physical parameters using J,H,Ks data from 2MASS catalog and, for a number of clusters, our UBVRI CCD observational magnitudes. ...

Proteus . Neptune VIII - 1989N1 . Proteus [PROH-tee-us], like all six of Neptune's newly discovered small satellites, is one of the darkest objects in the solar system -- "as dark as soot" is not too strong of a description. ... Topographic Map of Proteus . ... As with all maps, it is the cartographer's interpretation; not all features are necessarily certain given the limited data available. ... This image is a shaded relief map of Proteus, a small inner satellite of Neptune. ...

... Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. Cluster Launch of Dnepr LV 22 August 2013 KOMPSAT-5 Launch 21 November 2013. Dnepr Cluster Mission 2013 19 June 2014. Dnepr Cluster Mission 2014 6 November 2014. Dnepr Launch of ASNARO and 4 piggyback microsatellites 26 March 2015 KOMPSAT-3A Launch Dnepr LV . Mission profile SHM configuration Reliability Dnepr LV Performance Launch Sites . ... On November 15, 2013, the Dnepr SHM was transported to the launch pad and mated with the launch vehicle. ...

... Abundances of Local Group globular clusters using high resolution integrated light spectroscopy . C. M. Sakari, A. McWilliam, K. Venn, M. D. Shetrone, A. L. Dotter, & A. D. Mackey, 2014, in the proceedings of . ... A. D. Mackey, A. P. Huxor, & A. M. N. Ferguson, 2012, in ASP Conference Series Vol. ... Cambridge, p. 305 . ... M. I. Wilkinson, J. R. Hurley,ТљA. D. Mackey,Тљ& G. F. Gilmore, 2003, in Proceedings of the ESO Workshop: "Extragalactic Globular Cluster Systems", edited by M. Kissler-Patig. ...