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... News from the IAU Working Group on Libraries . The IAU WG Libraries will hold a session during the General Assembly XXVIII , to be held August 23 & 24, 2012 in Beijing, China. ... In July 2008, two contributions in the context of the IAU WG Libraries appeared in the IAU Information Bulletin: Terry Mahoney from IAC Tenerife initiated the so-called " Manifesto ", a declaration that reflects concerns regarding the increasing invisibility of research libraries and librarians in the digital era. ...

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... The damage to NIFS has freed up the RSAA instrumentation team to concentrate on the timely delivery of the Gemini South Adaptic Optics Imager (GSAOI). ... GSAOI is the second instrument that ANU is building for Gemini. ... GSAOI Website: http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/gsaoi/ NIFS Website: http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/nifs/ RSAA Website: http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/ Australian Gemini Project Office Website: http://www.ausgo.unsw.edu.au/ Gemini Public Information Website: http://www.gemini.anu.edu.au/public/ . ...

... Armagh Planetarium . ... Universe . ... Posted on December 16, 2013 | ... Continue Reading.. ... If the count was to include all Earth satellites including broken parts and discarded pieces, [ ] . ... Posted on November 29, 2013 | ... 1 Comment November 9 is Carl Sagan Day when enthusiasts of astronomy and science remember and celebrate the life and works of Carl Sagan. ... Newer Entries . Hello, IтАЩm Colin, welcoming you to Astronotes, the PlanetariumтАЩs official blog. ...

Next: M.E. Bailey, Director Up: Research Previous: C.S. Jeffery, Research Astronomer Contents . ... How do Stars Form? ... Other Work and Activities . ... The interaction of young stars with their surroundings are accentuated within Herbig-Haro Objects, where streams and `bullets' of ejected gas impact on the ambient molecular clouds. ... The astrophysical jets are spectacular. ... Michael Smith and collaborators have searched for, and found, the first evidence of rotation within the jets. ...

... NGC 1316: After Galaxies Collide . ... A preliminary inspection indicates that NGC 1316 is an enormous elliptical galaxy that started devouring a smaller spiral galaxy neighbor about 100 million years ago. ... In the Center of 30 Doradus . ... In the center of 30 Doradus lies a huge cluster of the largest, hottest, most massive stars known. ... A group of galaxies is a system containing more than two galaxies but less than the tens or hundreds typically found in a cluster of galaxies. ...

Observation Checklist . Instructions for remote observing with Arecibo . ... Enter an Observation Log . View the current Observation Log . View the Observation Log for the January 2006 run . View the Observation Log for the May 2006 run . View the Observation Log for the July/August 2006 run . View the Observation Log for the December 2006 run . View the Observation Log for the January/February 2007 run . View the Observation Log for the April 2007 run . ...

... August 15, 1998 . The Perseus Cluster of Galaxies . ... Each of the fuzzy blobs in the above picture is a galaxy, together making up the Perseus Cluster, one of the closest clusters of galaxies . We view the cluster through the foreground of faint stars in our own Milky Way Galaxy . ... The Perseus Cluster of Galaxies is part of the Pisces-Perseus supercluster of galaxies , which spans over 15 degrees and contains over 1000 galaxies. ... About APOD > . ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

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The SCUBA Local Universe Galaxy Survey Dust along the Hubble sequence Catherine Vlahakis University of Bonn Collaborators: Steve Eales (Cardiff University) Loretta Dunne (University of Nottingham) Overview What is SLUGS? Results from the survey Recent work using SLUGS results ­ the FIR-radio relation Introduction: SLUGS SLUGS ­ a submm survey of galaxies in the local Universe ­ at 850m and 450m Survey of ~200 nearby galaxies: 104 60m-selected ("IRS") (Dunne et al. ...

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