... ESO is building what will be the World's largest optical telescope array, The Very Large Telescope (VLT). The VLT Project organisation is responsible for the design and construction of the Unit Telescopes, including enclosures, optics, adapter-rotators and coating unit. ... Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ...

Titan is the fifteenth of Saturn 's known satellites and the largest: orbit : 1,221,830 km from Saturn diameter : 5150 km mass : 1.35e23 kg . ... It was long thought that Titan was the largest satellite in the solar system but recent observations have shown that Titan's atmosphere is so thick that its solid surface is slightly smaller than Ganymede's . ... The organics are formed as methane, which dominates in Titan's upper atmosphere, is destroyed by sunlight. ... HST images of Titan's surface: txt . ...

We present IRAC and MIPS images and photometry of a sample of previously known planetary nebulae (PNe) from the Surveying the Agents of a Galaxy's Evolution (SAGE) survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) performed with the Spitzer Space Telescope. Of the 233 known PNe in the survey field, 185 objects were detected in at least two of the IRAC bands, and 161 detected in the MIPS 24 ЮМm images. ... We also explore the potential value of IR PNe luminosity functions (LFs) in the LMC. ...

. ATLAS is a project to image seven square degrees of sky, in two fields (CDF-S and ELAIS-S1), at radio wavelengths, to an rms of about 15 Jy, making it the widest deep radio survey aver attempted. The fields are chosen to cover the Spitzer Wide-Area IR Extragalactic Survey (SWIRE), and the radio images cut through the dust, to trace the cosmic history of AGN and star-forming galaxies. This page last updated by Ray Norris 5-Mar-2007

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ARECIBO, P.R. -- The smog-shrouded atmosphere of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, has been parted by Earth-based radar to reveal the first evidence of liquid hydrocarbon lakes on its surface. The observations are reported by a Cornell University-led astronomy team working with the world's largest radio/radar telescope at the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Arecibo Observatory. ... The piggybacking Huygens probe is scheduled to plunge into the hazy Titan atmosphere and land on the moon's surface. ...

... Rhea: Saturn's Second Largest Moon . ... Credit Copyright: Calvin J. Hamilton Explanation: Rhea is the second largest moon of Saturn , behind Titan , and the largest without an atmosphere. ... Rhea 's rotation and orbit are locked together (just like Earth's Moon ) so that one side always faces Saturn. ... Publications with keywords: Rhea - Saturn - Voyager 1 . Publications with words: Rhea - Saturn - Voyager 1 . ... A Close Pass of Saturns Moon Dione . Saturns Moon Helene in Color . ...

... 142,800 Mean density (kg/m^3) .. ... 5.203 Rotation period (length of day in Earth hours).. 9.8 Revolution period (length of year) (in Earth years). 11.86 Obliquity (tilt of axis) (degrees).. 3.08 Orbit inclination (degrees).. 1.3 Orbit eccentricity.. 0.048 Mean surface temperature (K)........................ 120 (cloud tops) Visual geometric albedo.. 0.44 Atmospheric components.............................. 90% hydrogen, 10% helium, .07% methane Rings.. ...

... They had expected to see impact craters like those on the other terrestrial bodies and from their number per unit area to estimate the age of Io's surface. ... This may have been the most important single discovery of the Voyager missions; it was the first real proof that the interiors of other "terrestrial" bodies are actually hot and active. ... A nalysis of the Voyager images led scienties to believe that the lava flows on Io's surface were composed mostly of various compounds of molten sulfur. ...

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... The British consortium, currently led by Professor Gordon Bromage of the University of Central Lancashire , includes the Universities of Keele , Nottingham and Southampton , the Open University and Armagh Observatory and will be joining the other partners in the SALT project, from South Africa, Poland, Germany, USA and New Zealand. ... SALT Dome . ... The SALT project is managed by a team based at the SALT Headquarters at Sutherland and South African Astronomical Observatory in Cape Town. ...

Next: Spectral observations and data Up: The Hamburg/SAO Survey for Previous: The Hamburg/SAO Survey for . Objective prism surveys for emission-line galaxies (ELGs) are the main source of large samples of both, AGNs and galaxies with enhanced star formation (SF) activity. ... In the Northern sky, large samples of ELGs have appeared during the last decade thanks to such objective prism surveys as the First and the Second Byurakan (SBS) surveys (Markarian et al. ...