... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Travel to Guesthouse . ... Survey Telescopes . ... This video fades back and forth between views of the stellar nursery Monoceros R2 in visible and infrared light. The visible-light view was created from digitised photographs through red and blue filters forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2 (DSS) and the new infrared view comes from the VISTA telescope at Paranal. ...

... October 21, 1997 This Hubble Space Telescope image provides a detailed look at a brilliant "fireworks show" at the center of a collision between two galaxies. ... A ground-based telescopic view of the Antennae galaxies (known formally as NGC 4038/4039) - so named because a pair of long tails of luminous matter, formed by the gravitational tidal forces of their encounter, resembles an insect's antennae. The galaxies are located 63 million light-years away in the southern constellation Corvus. ...

We present Spitzer Space Telescope observations of V1647 Ori, the outbursting source lighting McNeil's Nebula, taken near the optical peak of the outburst in early March 2004. The source is easily detected in all Spitzer imaging bands from 3.6 to 70 ЮМm. ... We posit that this event is due to an increase in the accretion luminosity of the source. ... ADS Citation Query . citations = 39 . ... 2004,1][2005,3][2006,6][2007,9][2008,2][2009,4][2010,1][2011,2][2012,4][2013,5][2014,2] . ...

... The mysterious music is played by the stars ... some very special ones, called "pulsars". Visit the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics to listen to more pulsars . ... The first pulsar was discovered by a woman from Northern Ireland, Dame Jocelyn Bell-Burnell (who was in Belfast a short while ago to give a beautiful talk about astronomy and poetry ) during her PhD, in 1967. ... Monday, 11 May 2009 22:57 . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

I-GALFA Reveals Dynamic Events in Our Galaxy . S. J. Gibson, J.-h. Kang, B.-C. Koo, June 2009 . ... The white stripe marks the Galactic equator ( b=0 ). ... I-GALFA three-color H I image for FVW40.0+0.5, integrated over v lsr = -100 to -90 km/s ( red ), -90 to -80 km/s ( green ), and -80 to -70 km/s ( blue ). ... I-GALFA data reveal a complex tracery of loops, filaments, and blobs hundreds of parsecs above and below the Galactic plane, with isolated compact clouds extending even higher. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... Galileo Project , JPL , NASA Explanation: Why does Jupiter have rings? ... Data from the Galileo spacecraft that orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003 later confirmed that these rings were created by meteoroid impacts on small nearby moons . ... Small dust particles high in Jupiter's atmosphere , as well as the dust particles that compose the rings , can be seen by reflected sunlight . ... Publications with keywords: rings . ... Saturns Rings from the Other Side . ...

... Astronomers at the US DOE?s Berkeley Lab have found the most distant Type 1a supernova ever. б SN SCP-0401 is roughly 10 billion light-years away from Earth. б That means the supernova happened 10 billion years ago. б Given that Big Bang theory estimates the universe being created roughly 13.77 billion years ago, the discovery of SN SCP-0401 is particularly exciting. ... Just like all living things stars have a life cycle. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Our Galaxy . ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... New observations with the European Southern Observatory (ESO)тАЩs Very Large Telescope of some of the most distant galaxies ever detected are revealing the mysteries of this important phase of the early Universe. ... These powerful instruments are essential for exploring this early period in cosmic history as they alone can enable the accurate observations of €аthese extremely distant and faint galaxies. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... News . Observing . ... Supernova showered Earth with radioactive debris . ... 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 . ... Supernova simulations reveal new processes . ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

Альтернативный форум . ... UCU: Report reveals that latest physics closure is part of decline in UK science . ... New report reveals 10% cut in maths and science provision in HE over last decade . ... The decision to closure Reading's physics department comes the same day as a worrying UCU report reveals that 10 per cent of UK science and maths courses have been axed in the last decade. ... UCU: Report reveals that latest physics closure is part of decline in UK science Уникум, 05.12.2006 19:52 . ...

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Lectures . ... Home Lectures Lecture Series 2009-2010 Lecture Series 2009-2010 ? Best Targets for Amateur Astrophotography and What They Reveal About Our Universe? ? ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... Dr. Ruben Kier, a radiologist with a special interest in astrophotography, will wrap up the AAA?s 2009-10 lecture series on Friday, May 7, when he discusses ?Best Targes for Amateur Astrophotography and What They Reveal About Our Universe?. ...

October 8, 2007 (Monday) Xavier Calmet, University of Oregon . October 15, 2007 (Monday) Tuhin Roy, University of Oregon . October 19, 2007 (Friday) Robin Erbacher, UC Davis . October 29, 2007 (Monday) Hans-Guenther, MPI Garching . November 5, 2007 CANCELLED (Monday) Swarup Kumar Majee, Harish-Chandra Research Institute . ... Fall 2006 . Winter 2007 . Spring 2007 . Summer 2007 . Fall 2005 . ... 4:00 pm, 472 Willamette Hall . ... Joint Optics/HEP Seminar) . ...

In this presentation I will recap what we know about the dwarf planet Pluto its companion moons, including some recent results from the Division of Planetary Sciences October 2014 meeting (Tucson, AZ). Next I will describe NASA s New Horizons mission, launched in January 2006, who has been traveling across the solar system and will reach the Pluto system in July 2015. ... I will end the presentation with the latest news from the New Horizons mission and its plans after the July 2015 Plutoflyby. ...

... a journal of his thoughts and experiences, some two million words in . ... The boy's sled gets put away in the barn or shed, and there it lies . dormant all summer, like a woodchuck in winter. ... sees a sled, nor a sled a woodchuck, unless it were a prematurely risen . ... Journal, 25 March 1860 . ... Please join us for a pre-meeting dinner discussion at Changsho, 1712 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA at 6:00pm before the meeting. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

. Ivan Najdenov, Nicolai Somov, Tatjana Somova.

arxiv:1401.4469 Волокно "космической сети", обнаруженное по лайман-альфа излучению около квазара на большом красном смещении (A cosmic web filament revealed in Lyman-alpha emission around a luminous high-redshift quasar) . ... Authors: J. Casares et al. arxiv:1401.2885 Планеты очень малой плотности вокруг Kepler-51 (Very Low-Density Planets around Kepler-51 Revealed with Transit Timing Variations and an Anomaly Similar to a Planet-Planet Eclipse Event) . Authors: Kento Masuda . ...

ALBUM: colours Artist: Eloy @ SONG : Horizons sunbeams dancing in your mind ceblue larks emracing sunlight....... sunlight..... sunlight lotus of petals blistering cool shade of wise trees listening dawn of light lies between silence chased amid fusions of wonder revealing corridors of time pictures of redescending distance love colours sent within us our endless caress for freedom ... Birds wake my mind As dawn paints a flame coloured skies. ...

Turning the Camera Skyward . A reconfigured camera can take wide-field exposures of astronomical objects (constellations, the Milky Way, zodiacal light, moving artificial satellites, meteor showers, variable stars, etc.) to reveal much fainter objects and structures than seen by naked eye. ... This picture reveals objects more than 2.5 times fainter than can be seen by the naked eye, including not only stars but also the Orion nebula (M42), where new stars are being born. ...

... Space Research Institute . Main . ... Main research and development work completed in 2010 and ready for implementation . Elaboration of automatic technology for analysis of abnormal changes of vegetation status based on satellite data . ... Satellite MODIS-Terra image, obtained on May, 17 2010. ... Main research and development work completed in 2009 and ready for implementation . Main research and development work completed in 2008 and ready for implementation ...