1. The hidden fires of the Flame Nebula* | ESO
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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. 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. ...
4. 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. ...
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. Chile's Giant Telescopes | Astronomy.com
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9. VLT Unit Telescopes Named at Paranal Inauguration (ESO Press Release 06/99)
... 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. ...
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14. 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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16. 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. ...
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20. APOD: September 19, 1997 - Globular Cluster 47 Tucanae
... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. September 19, 1997 . Globular Cluster 47 Tucanae . ... Explanation: Stars come in bunches. Of the over 200 globular star clusters that orbit the center of our Milky Way Galaxy , 47 Tucanae is the second brightest globular cluster (behind Omega Centauri ). ... About APOD > . ...