... These Frontier Fields will combine the power of HST with the natural gravitational telescopes of high-magnification clusters of galaxies. ... We are soliciting gravitational lensing maps for the last four Hubble Frontier Fields clusters (MACSJ0717.5+3745, MACSJ1149.5+2223, AbellS1063, and Abell 370) based upon the exceptionally deep HST FF imaging and other new ancillary data. ... For the full set of proposal instructions and requirements, see the FY16 Frontier Fields Lensing Map Call for Proposals....

... 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. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... Nearly 16 000 light years from Earth, Omega Centauri is a vast globular cluster of several million stars. ... Recent research using observations by the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) in the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) agrees with this simile.€а The stars in central region of the cluster were imaged with the WFC3 in 200s and then again in 2006. ... Tweets that mention Hubble Space Telescope sees into Omega Centauri's future | ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... galaxies . ... space flight . exoplanets . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Why can the Hubble Space Telescope see distant galaxies but not exoplanets? ... D espite Hubble's marvelous ability to image distant galaxies, the telescope isn't able to image extrasolar planets. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

... Abell 2218: A Galaxy Cluster Lens . ... WFPC2 , HST , NASA Explanation: Gravity can bend light, allowing huge clusters of galaxies to act as telescopes. ... The cluster of galaxies Abell 2218 is itself about three billion light-years away in the northern constellation of the Dragon ( Draco ). ... Publications with keywords: Abell 2218 - cluster of galaxies - gravitational lens . Publications with words: Abell 2218 - cluster of galaxies - gravitational lens . ... The Fornax Cluster of Galaxies . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. December 7, 1997 . A Distant Cluster of Galaxies . ... Explanation: In this 1994 Hubble Space Telescope photograph , every bright object is a galaxy . ... Photos like this indicate that clusters in the past contained a higher fraction of spirals than do nearby clusters which are usually dominated by elliptical galaxies . ... About APOD > . ...

An image of the grand design of spiral galaxy M100 obtained with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope resolves individual stars within the majestic spiral arms. ... Hubble has the ability to resolve individual stars in other galaxies and measure accurately the light from very faint stars. This makes space telescope invaluable for identifying a rare class of pulsating stars, called Cepheid Variable stars embedded within M100's spiral arms. ... 617) 495-7062 . Fax: (617) 495-7356 . ...

... STScI-PRC00-08 HUBBLE OPENS ITS EYE ON THE UNIVERSE AND CAPTURES A COSMIC MAGNIFYING GLASS Scanning the heavens for the first time since the successful December 1999 servicing mission, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a giant, cosmic magnifying glass, a massive cluster of galaxies called Abell 2218. ... The cluster is so massive that its enormous gravitational field deflects light rays passing through it, much as an optical lens bends light to form an image. ... Blue pinpoints hot young...

... The search for distant objects which can be both galaxies and quasars is one of the most important problems of observational astrphysics, because it allows one to determine cosmological parameters connected with the time of appearence and evolution of stellar systems, large scale structure of the Universe. ... Radio galaxies are important objects to be studied because they are sources of infrared-optical-ultraviolet continuum, emission lines and continual radio emission. ...

... August Solar Eclipse Report: Thursday 11 September 2008 . ... Dr Fosbury is head of the section in the European Space Agency (ESA) as part of ESA's collaboration with NASA on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) project at ST-ECF . ... The lecture is entitled "Astronomy today and the role played by the Hubble Space Telescope". ... Tuesday, 16 September 2008 00:44 . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

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... We have made observations of the Perseus cluster with the Westerbork Telescope at 610 MHz. ... Several newly detected sources are identified with cluster galaxies. ... No evidence is found for the existence of the previously reported ~ 65'x25' cluster halo, 3C 84B. Key words: radio galaxies - clusters - tailed radio sources buoyancy The Perseus Cluster of galaxies is one of the most fascinating systems accessible to extragalactic astronomers. ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Activities > PhD Thesis Topics offered by ESO Faculty Members > Studying the Cosmological Evolution of Galaxy Clusters with (Sub-)mm Observations . ... Data Handling and Products . ... ESO Data . ... Studies of the Planck data set with optical and sub-mm follow-up observations give new insights about the early assembly of the first clusters, and the later evolution of their gas content as well as of their population of star-forming galaxies. ...

... About ATMoB . ... The Observing Committee is starting an Observing Awards Program to promote observing among the membership of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston. ... Participant must be a current member of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston . ... To qualify for your Observing Award Certificate, turn in your worksheet and drawings to an ATMoB Observing Committee member or observing@atmob.org . ... This Excel sheet has useful macros. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . Mopra radio telescope . ... Australia Telescope Online Archive (ATOA) . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ... All star-forming galaxies host populations of young and intermediate-age star clusters. ...

... Confirm Dark Galaxy Existence . ... New evidence from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope in the Netherlands has been used to rule out all but one of the ideas put forward to explain the existence of VIRGOHI 21, an intergalactic gas cloud 50 million light-years from the Earth. ... Are there more such dark galaxies out there? ... Credit: R. Minchin / Arecibo Observatory / Cardiff University / Isaac Newton Telescope / Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope . ...

... Feeding the Monster: Gas Caught in its Death Spiral into a Massive Black Hole . ... Stromlo Professor Mike Dopita have used the Hubble Space Telescope to discover how a massive Black Hole in a nearby galaxy feeds itself. ... Earlier Hubble Telescope data obtained by another team member, Professor Holland Ford of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, had found a disk of gas rushing around the Black Hole at a speed of 500 kilometers a second. ...

... Courtesy of NASA/ESA Observation data (J2000 epoch) Constellation Right ascension Declination Redshift Distance Type Serpens Caput 15h 17m 14.4s[] +21° 35 08[] 12,740±50 km/s[][1] 600±30 Mly (183±8 Mpc)[1] SA0(r) [citation needed ] [a] Apparent dimensions (V) 0.28 в 0.28[] Apparent magnitude (V) 16.0[] Notable features Ring galaxy Other designations PGC 54559,[] PRC D-51[] See also: Galaxy, List of galaxies Hoag's Object is a non-typical galaxy of the type known as a ring galaxy. ...

... 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 ? ...

... Among their major tools of exploration are the images and data in large surveys taken using the Hubble Space Telescope. ... A Collection of Resources to Get Behind the Headlines . ... This episode of Astronomy Behind the Headlines is indeed ripped from recent headlines, when astronomers used the newly refurbished Hubble Space Telescope to see deeper into space (and thus farther back in time) than had ever been possible. ... The James Webb Space Telescope page on finding the first stars and galaxies:...