... 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. ...

... 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. ...

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. ...

... HST . How Do I Find Information Within This Site? ... Data . ... HST Overview . ... STIS . ... At the left edge of the page, links in the Navigation Bar are sorted by STIS characteristics, observing, data analysis, and then reference material. Navigation bar links typically bring up pages rich with annotated links into the Instrument or Data Handbooks, which contain most of the actual site content. ... General HST information is never duplicated and often not even linked from the STIS site. ...

... Star Atlas . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... stars . ... Globular cluster NGC 2808, elliptical galaxy NGC 2986, and the Sextans Dwarf . ... NASA telescopes find galaxy cluster with vibrant heart . ... GALAXY CLUSTERS | ... The unexpected find, made with the help of NASA s Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes, suggests that behemoth galaxies at the cores of these massive clusters can grow significantly by feeding off gas stolen from other...

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. ...

... 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...

... Armagh, BT61 9DB. ... PhD position, Centre for Astronomy , NUI Galway: Candidates should submit a letter outlining their suitability for the position, plus full curriculum vitae (PDF format ... of which are academic referees), by email to Ray Butler (ray.butler nuigalway.ie). €а€а Details: Applications are invited for a research position (Ph.D. fellowship), funded by a Science Foundation Ireland Research Frontiers Programme award to the тАЬStar Clusters VariabilityтАЭ group. €а The PhD ...

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... 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. ...

For Astronomers : Finding a Partner Teacher . ... About amateur astronomers . Because Project ASTRO encourages both amateur and professional astronomers to visit schools, there are several avenues to pursue to find a partner astronomer. ... Contact local astronomy clubs . Many amateur astronomers belong to local astronomy clubs. ... To find amateur astronomy clubs in your area, contact your local planetarium, community college astronomy department, or a local telescope store. ...

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... Still, the detailed information available from clusters of galaxies like Abell 1689 gives hope that one day full solutions will be found that will not only fully reveal the dark matter in clusters , but also reveal the amounts of dark energy in the universe needed to lie along the line of sight to the distant arcs . ... Publications with keywords: abell 1689 - galaxy cluster - dark matter . Publications with words: abell 1689 - galaxy cluster - dark matter . ... The Hercules Cluster of Galaxies . ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... MRAO Telescopes . AMI . ... This is a cosmic microwave background (CMB) telelescope with a difference, in that it is designed to survey the sky looking for galaxy clusters by means of the ?shadows? they cast against the CMB. This shadowing, the so-called SZ effect, is a remarkable phenomenon because it is independent of redshift, allowing AMI to find clusters which are so far away that their own emission would be too faint to detect ? ...

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... 2005 September 26 . Streams of Stars in the Virgo Cluster of Galaxies . ... After hundreds of 15-minute exposures taken over two months in early 2004, the result is a dramatically deep and wide angle image of Virgo , the closest cluster of galaxies to our Milky Way Galaxy . ... Inspection of the above image shows unusually large halos for the brightest galaxies as well as unusual faint streams of stars connecting Virgo galaxies that previously appeared unrelated. ... About APOD | ...

... The Astrophysical Research Consortium (ARC) operates the 3.5-m telescope at Apache Point Observatory (APO) through a management contract with New Mexico State University (NMSU). ... This page provides initial information for new users, and is intended as a roadmap to useful links on the APO websites. All new users must visit the site prior to or during their first scheduled observing time for a 3 day/night training session. ... A schedule of user programs on the telescope. ... Happy observing! ...

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