... 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 Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ...

Arecibo and High Resolution Astronomy . ... Future of HI Astronomy at Arecibo . Future of Radar Astronomy at Arecibo . High Sensitivity VLBI: Neutron Star Astrometry with Arecibo . ... Probing fundamental constant evolution with the Arecibo Telescope . Prospects for future surveys in astronomy . ... Mapping the Future of VLBI Science in the U.S. OH Megamasers, ULIRGs, and Magnetic Fields . ... Radio Synoptic Survey Telescope (RSST) . ... VLBI Plans at Arecibo in the Near Term . ...

Color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) are presented for the Spitzer SAGE (Surveying the Agents of a Galaxy's Evolution) survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). ... Combined with the Two Micron All Sky Survey, the diagrams are used to delineate the evolved stellar populations in the LMC, as well as Galactic foreground and extragalactic background populations. Some 32,000 evolved stars brighter than the tip of the red giant branch are identified. ...

... Astrophysics Group . Research . Atacama Large Millimetre Array (ALMA) . ... Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) . ... Galaxy Formation and Evolution . ... The Astrophysics Group is actively involved in the ALMA project , a submillimetre interferometer being built in northern Chile. ... If you are interested in doing research in this area, please visit our Graduate Research Opportunities web pages. ... 2013, Astrophysics Group, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0HE . ...

... Infrared Portrait of the Large Magellanic Cloud . ... Credit Copyright: ESA / NASA / JPL-Caltech / STScI Explanation: Cosmic dust clouds ripple across this infrared portrait of our Milky Way's satellite galaxy , the Large Magellanic Cloud. ... The dust temperatures tend to trace star forming activity. ... Dominated by dust emission, the Large Magellanic Cloud's infrared appearance is different from views in optical images . ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ... The Large Magellanic Cloud in Ultraviolet...

. 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

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2016 January 14 . Infrared Portrait of the Large Magellanic Cloud . ... Explanation: Cosmic dust clouds ripple across this infrared portrait of our Milky Way's satellite galaxy , the Large Magellanic Cloud. ... Dominated by dust emission, the Large Magellanic Cloud's infrared appearance is different from views in optical images . ...

... Using the self-consistent 3D hydrodynamical code in Kobayashi et al. (2007) , we simulate the star formation and chemical enrichment history of the Universe. ... We also predict the rates of supernovae and gamma-ray bursts, and the properties of the host galaxies, which will be observed with the ANU's new SkyMapper telescope. ... Supernova feedback on galaxy formation. ... Feedback from active-galactic nuclei (AGN). ... COALA : Universe Galaxy AGN Star Planet ...

. Cosmology . Very Early Universe . Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy . Dark Matter Models . Large Scale Structure . High Energy Astrophysics . Active Galactic Nuclei . Astrophysics of Compact Objects . Accretion Disks . Scientific Staff:

... Events . ... COSMOS 2009 - Ireland's Spring Star Party . The Irish Node for the International Year of Astronomy is announcing that this year St PatrickтАЩs Festival celebrations in all major cities in Ireland are endorsing an astronomy theme. In Dublin , this yearтАЩs theme for the festival Parade is тАШ The SkyтАЩs the Limit! тАЩ . ... Monday, 16 March 2009 00:49 . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... Next: Unsupervised Catalog Classification Up: Object Detection and Previous: Classification of Objects . ... Multi-resolution allows for image analysis in terms of different scales. ... This approach is used for the detection (and subsequent analysis) of globular cluster systems around elliptical galaxies, and for image characterization and object trawling in large image databases. ... The applicability of this approach to object detection in large image collections has been investigated. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... Magazine . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... large (8 inches or larger) . ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ... Astronomy Magazine . ...