1. The hidden fires of the Flame Nebula* | ESO
... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Star Clusters . ... FLAMES . ... 100 Hours of Astronomy . ... IMAX€о 3D Film Hidden Universe . ... This image, the first to be released publicly from VISTA, the worldтАЩs largest survey telescope, shows the spectacular star-forming region known as the Flame Nebula, or NGC 2024, in the constellation of Orion (the Hunter) and its surroundings. ...
2. Australia Telescope National Facility
... 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. ...
3. Omega Centauri: globular cluster of 300,000 stars | Astronotes
Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Milky Way . Stars . ... This dramatic image depicts Omega Centauri, one of 200 or so globular clusters orbiting our Milky Way galaxy. ... Swarms of tightly packed stars, numbering in the thousands to low millions, globular clusters are cosmic fossils, relics of the early times of our galaxy. Omega Centauri may actually be the core of a smaller galaxy ripped apart and assimilated by our own Milky Way in the distant past. ...
4. Space Telescope-European Coordinating Facility
... 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. ...
5. Circumstellar Disks in Young Nebulous Clusters
... Circumstellar Disks in Young Nebulous Clusters . ... HST . ... To take advantage of the enhanced visibility of circumstellar matter externally illuminated in a nebular environment, and to determine if the Orion "proplyds" are unique, we observed four other young nebulous clusters with HST/WFPC2 during Cycle 5. Eight fields were observed in H-alpha and I-band continuum in the nearby H II regions NGC 2024, NGC 2264, and S155. Two fields were observed in V-band in the reflection nebula NGC 7023. ...
6. University of Louisville Wide Field and Planetary Telescopes
... In typical nightly use, the wide field and planetary telescope and cameras record images of favorably placed objects in the sky, including constellations, bright variable stars, nebulae through narrow-band filters, comets, the Moon, and planets. ... Shared Skies telescopes are available for use by students at the University of Louisville and the University of Southern Queensland, and by teachers and students in middle and high schools mentored by faculty at the universities. ...
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8. Chile's Giant Telescopes | Astronomy.com
... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... Magazine . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Chile's Giant Telescopes . ... Join Astronomy magazine May 21 30, 2014, to experience the spectacular southern sky and some of these world-class observatories as well as the rich cultural, historic, and natural sites of this South American country with this trip to observe Chile's Giant Telescopes. ...
9. A new survey of X-ray clusters of galaxies with the Swift-X-ray Telescope
... Staff . ... Galaxies, AGN, Cosmology . ... A new survey of X-ray clusters of galaxies with the Swift-X-ray Telescope . ... In this framework, an international collaboration between INAF-OAA, INAF-Brera, INAF-OATs, the University for Science and Technology of China-Hefei, the University of Ferrara, and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, is undertaking a new cluster survey using an X-ray facility that was never exploited before for this goal: the X-ray Telescope (XRT) onboard the Swift satellite...
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11. Земля и Вселенная: астрономия, космонавтика, науки о Земле, Космос, телескопы,
... Размещена статья "Новая карта рельефа Марса" . ... К середине 60-х годов прошлого века многотрудные усилия астрономической общественности нашей страны (в то время Советского Союза) увенчались созданием научно-популярного журнала "Земля и Вселенная", ныне являющегося журналом Президиума РАН. ... Все это в известной степени находило отражение на страницах "Земли и Вселенной" - журнала, пропагандирующего достижения отечественной и мировой науки в области астрономии, космонавтики и комплекса наук о...
12. Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston
... Submitted by Al Takeda on 10/12/2010 13:23:34 . P103/Comet Hartley 2 and the Double Cluster . P103/Comet Hartley 2 and the Double Cluster in Perseus. The comet brightened to approximately 6th magnitude as it passed the open clusters NGC 869 and NGC 884. The clusters are separated by a few hundred light years (ly) and are 7,000 ly away. ... 8 October 2010. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...
13. High Energy Astrophysics
... CfA Home . HCO Home . SAO Home . ... Welcome to CfA . CfA History . ... Laboratory Astrophysics . Extreme Astrophysics . ... 617) 495-7210 . ... 617) 495-7044 . ... 617) 495-7265 . ... HEA Research . ... HEA Home Page . CFA/HEA Home Page . ... High Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD) . Chandra X-ray Center . ... Chandra Cluster Cosmology Project . Chandra Multiwavelength Project (ChaMP) . ... Chandra-Planck Clusters Project . ... CfA Virtual Observatory Project . ...
14. XWare > APOD
... New Eyes for the Hubble Space Telescope . ... Comet Hale-Bopp and the Dumbbell Nebula . ... Here Comet Hale-Bopp was photographed on February 11th superposed nearly in front of the picturesque Dumbbell Nebula, visible on the upper right. Mizar Binary Star . ... Betelgeuse (sounds a lot like "beetle juice"), a red supergiant star about 600 light years distant, is seen in this Hubble Space Telescope image -- the first direct picture of the surface of a star other than the Sun. ... First page ] Prev. ...
15. FT Universe Challenge | International Year of Astronomy - Beyond | Armagh
. Astronomy Education News . News . OASES . FT Universe Challenge . Site Map . Registration is now open for the Faulkes Telescope Universe Challenge - an astronomy project competition for secondary schools that makes use of the Faulkes Telescopes. Projects must be submitted as an entry to the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition 2011. The best team will win a visit to the European Southern Observatory sites in Chile! . Armagh Observatory - Astronomy Education . [Back To Top] .
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17. Pulsar Highlights - A Dozen new MSPs in Globular Clusters
A Canadian and American team of Astronomers have used the 305-m wide Arecibo radio dish, the world's largest and most sensitive radio telescope, to uncover a dozen new super-fast-spinning pulsars. The team directed their search for these rare and exotic stars by pointing the Arecibo radio telescope towards massive star clusters, called Globular Clusters, orbiting our Milky Way galaxy. ... One of the most exotic residents in the Globular cluster system are the millisecond pulsars. ...
18. Siding Spring Survey
T he Siding Spring Survey (SSS) is a Near-Earth Object search program that utilises the 0.5-m Uppsala Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, N.S.W., Australia. ... The mission of the Siding Spring Survey is to contribute to the inventory of near-earth objects (NEOs), or more specifically, the potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) and comets (PHOs) that may pose a threat of impact and thus harm to civilization. ... Based on the CSS Mission page . ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...
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20. APOD: March 21, 1996 - Near Comet Hyakutake's Nucleus
... March 21, 1996 . Near Comet Hyakutake's Nucleus . ... Explanation: This March 19th false-color picture of Comet Hyakutake from one of the most sophisticated ground based telescopes captures the area surrounding the comet's nucleus . A comet's nucleus - not directly visible here - is a solid dirty iceball probably no more than 10 kilometers across. ... If it's clear, Comet Hyakutake may be easily visible tonight ! ... Tomorrow's picture: Where to See Comet Hyakutake . ... About APOD | ...