... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Publications > Science Announcements > Release of Photometric Catalogue Data Resulting from the VISTA Magellanic Survey . ... The catalogues were extracted from the reduced images which have been released under VMC Data Release 2 in June 2013. The new catalogue data are accessible from the ESO catalogue facility query interface , each accompanied by a comprehensive description; see for example, the description of the YJKs master catalogue. ...

... SciSim release covered by this note . ... Data-Analysis-with-SAS in a simple and standardised way, and should allow calibration experts to re-assess the reliability of the different elements of XMM-Newton simulations. ... Also, a release of all calibration files to be used in the reduction, through the SAS, of SciSim generated data, is coordinated with this release. ... Furthermore, two SAS tasks (odffix and epicproc) had to be updated to make possible a proper SAS data reduction of simulated data. ...

... Recent Results . ... last 10 years in ADS) . in SAO press releases . ... observations database) . ... Last update: . ... Measurement of the dark halo shape in polar ring galaxies . Determining the mass of supermassive black hole in galaxy Mrk6 nucleus based on spectropolarimetric observations . The dust jets in the nucleus of comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 . ... New Polar Ring Galaxies . Traces of recent interactions in isolated Seyfert galaxies . ...

The HST images of GRB 990123. HST has observed this field in the 50CCD (open) filter on the 8 February 1999, 23 March 1999, and the 7 February 2000, or 16, 59 and 380 days after outburst. ... On the left in the above image is the February 1999 image of GRB 990123, on the right the difference between that image and the February 2000 image. ... On the left in the above image is the March 1999 image of GRB 990123, on the right the difference between that image and the February 2000 image. ... 1999). ...

... Australian telescopes have helped the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) find thousands of new galaxies. ... Preliminary HST results were released today by NASA's Space Telescope Science Institute , as were the results from the Australian institutions. ... Called the Hubble Deep Field South , it complements the original Hubble Deep Field , another small patch in the northern sky. ... The Anglo-Australian Telescope has measured the distances of about 75 faint far-flung galaxies in the field. ...

... This page contains links to delay line Final Design Review documents which have been released by Cavendish Laboratory. ... System Overview . Trolley Mechanical Design Description [to be updated] . ... Trolley Electronics Design Description [updated 2008/01/28] . Limits Design Description [to be updated] . ... Metrology System & VME Hardware Design Description (INT-406-VEN-0113) . ... Printable View of http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/projects/OAS/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/MROIDelayLine/ReleasedFDRDocuments) ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... This shows the Sun, Moon and Earth (not to scale) together with the . ... They have tested the technique on the Earthshine, the light reflected from the Earth by the Moon, and showed that it can reveal the presence of life in our planet. ... This technique uses the fact that the light reflected from the planet is polarised, whereas that emitted by the star is not. ... Polarised light can tell us about the reflecting surface...

... 14.03.2001 . ... March 14 2001 09:00 (Moscow time) . The operation with OC "Mir" scheduled for March 13 is complete. During the previous day regular checkout of the OC "Mir" and the cargo ship "Progress M1-5" onboard systems and automatic equipment was performed with the Motion Control System on. ... The complex remains pressurized, the thermal mode is normal.The batteries generate enough electric power to provide onboard systems nominal performance and register trajectory parametres. ...

OFICCIAL PRESS RELEASE . ... At S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia the regular session of the Board of Chief Designers on the Russian Segment of the International Space Station (ISS) was held under the chairmanship of N.N. Sevastianov, President, General Designer of RSC Energia. ... Charge RSC Energia (N.N. Sevastianov) with submitting this decision to the Federal Space Agency and higher-level state structures. ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

Minsk bibliography on light scattering . What's new . ... New text in some database sections. ... Release of the alpha version of the WWW database. Extension of database sections. ... Release of a test version of the WWW database (only local use). ... Start of developement of the WWW database. ... New version of the original FOXPRO database. ... 1990,2001 Victor Babenko (Bibliography compiling) . 2001 Serge Beletsky (Design & Programming) . ...

... AGES Public Data Release 3 The 30% AGES catalogue and the AGES precursor . AGES data is included in the Astronomical Virtual Observatory . Published results: Auld R. et al., 2007, MNRAS, 371, 1617 . Full cube (46 MB) . Published results: Cortese L. et al., ... Data cube (147 MB) from the central region of Abell 1367 analysed by Cortese et al. ... Published results: Minchin R. F. et al., ... Full cube (133 MB) . ... Full cube (134 MB) . ... Published results: . ... Taylor R. et al., ...

... GCN 8471 | ... TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 8516 SUBJECT: GRB 081102: MASTER refind and final results DATE: 08/11/11 15:50:10 GMT FROM: Vladimir Lipunov at Moscow State U/Krylov Obs E. Gorbovskoy, V. Lipunov, V.Kornilov, A.Belinski, N.Shatskiy, N.Tyurina, D.Kuvshinov, P.Balanutsa Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University A. Tlatov, A.Parkhomenko Kislovodsk Solar Station of the Pulkovo Observatory V.Krushinski, I.Zalognikh Ural State GCN Circ 8470, Lipunov et al., ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . A Smoke Angel from Airplane Flares . ... 22.08.2006 . ... Credit: Russell E. Cooley IV, USAF Explanation: What type of cloud is that? ... Looking perhaps a bit like a gigantic owl monster, the cloud pictured above resulted from a series of flares released by an air force jet over the Atlantic Ocean in May. ... The flares release smoke and the resulting pattern is sometimes known as a smoke angel. ... August . ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ...

... 2MASS Overview . The 2MASS Sky . Executive Summary of 2MASS Second Incremental Data Products . Point Source Catalog . Extended Source Catalog . ... Distribution Mode for 2MASS Products . Data Release Plan . ... Point Source Catalog (PSC) . Extended Source Catalog (XSC) . ... 2MASS Source Naming Convention . ... General Properties of the Data Release . ... Comparison of Achieved Performance of Second Incremental Release Catalogs with Level 1 Science Specification . ...

... Survey processing . ... ESO - Public Surveys . ... 21/12/2009 Release of Science Verification Data . ... 11/12/2009 Press release about VISTA (Text, Images and Videos) . The ESO press release is at www.eso.org/public/outreach/press-rel/pr-2009/pr-49-09.html . ... 10/12/2009 15:00+ Ownerhsip of VISTA accepted by ESO from STFC (UK Goverenment representative) . ... 15/10/2009 Science Verification period started (see 21/12/9 for release) . ... 17/04/2008 Press releases om M1 from ESO , STFC and QMUL . ...

... 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. ...

... October 3, 1996 . Three Views of Jupiter's Io . Credit: The Galileo Project , JPL , NASA . ... The Galileo team has just released three more photographs of Jupiter 's volcanic moon Io taken in June. ... Some areas of Io , it now appears, are truly red, not the usual green and yellow hues recorded previously. ... This red material appears to be associated with recent volcanic eruptions , and the red color appears to fade with time. ... About APOD | ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

After a couple of visits by Steve Larson and Ed Beshore in late 2003 and early March 2004 to deal with various hardware issues and to install the new survey code, regular surveying commenced in mid-March 2004. ... However, the initial results are most satisfying and new objects have been found from the very first night. ... UA Media Release . ... Fellow Uppsala observer Rob McNaught was observing NEOs with the 1.0-m at Siding Spring as part of our regular program of follow-up observations. ...

... Fields Observed . ... Data Archive . ... Complete Optical and X-ray data for all ChaMPlane fields are available through the DS9 VO interface . ... functionality of DS9 is available to manipulate the results in addition to those provided by the "Champlane tools" You can select images, compare . ... our region of interest has been selected by drawing a red square region on the image. at bottom left the high res optical image of that selected region, and on the right is the X-ray image. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . News . Observing . ... Magazine . ... Press Room . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Press Releases . ... Astronomy magazine editors are here to help enrich media and blogger coverage of meteor showers, space missions, and night-sky events. ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ... Astronomy Magazine . ...