Trail encounter . ... Expected meteor rates . ... The Leonids are the debris of Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle. ... The Earth's passage right through the centre of trails is associated with the most spectacular meteor displays (studies show that, as well as how close to the centre of the trail you are, the strength of the display also depends on how far along a trail's length you are). ... The encounter with the 1932 trail will lead to enhanced meteor activity: a nice outburst, but below storm level. ...

... 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. ...

... Credit Copyright: BICEP2 Collaboration , NSF , Steffen Richter (Harvard) Explanation: Did the universe undergo an early epoch of extremely rapid expansion? ... Yesterday, results were released showing an expected signal of unexpected strength, bolstering a prediction of inflation that specific patterns of polarization should exist in cosmic microwave background radiation -- light emitted 13.8 billion years ago as the universe first became transparent . ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...

... Each day we feature a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. November 29, 1995 . Releasing Compton . Credit NASA , STS-37 Crew . Explanation: Named for Nobel laureate physicist Arthur Holly Compton , the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO) Satellite was launched in April of 1991 aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis . CGRO's mission is to explore the Universe at gamma-ray energies. ...

Version 2 calibrated data , catalogs , and flanking fields added, at long last. ... In addition to the final combined NICMOS version 1 images that were already released on November 23, 1998, all individual calibrated (un-combined, un-mosaiced) NICMOS exposures are now also available for downloading as gzipped tar files (March 11, 1999). ... Added some links to technical information on the page describing the HDF-S Catalogs (December 23, 1998). ... HDF-S Catalogs are now available (December 21, 1998). ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Earth Satellites . ... Leonid meteors seen from 13 km altitude aboard an aircraft during the 1999 Leonids Multi-Instrument Aircraft Campaign (Leonid-MAC). Comet Tempel-Tuttle provides the cometary debris for the Leonid meteor shower. ... Every 17-19 November Earth crosses Tempel-TuttleтАЩs orbit and the Leonids become visible. With clear, dark skies observers may see 10 to 15 Leonid meteors every hour on those mornings. ...

Documentation for Delay Line Final Design Review - 12 Feb 2008 Notes: Anything marked in Status as [TBU] is definitely `To Be Updated' `Expected Date' refers to the expected date of release where this is likely to be different from the due date. ... TBU] INT-406-VEN-0112 MF/RCB/DMAW/EBS 22 Jan 08 22 Jan 08 Released. ... MF/XS/DMAW MF MF MF MF/XS/DMAW 22 Jan 08 29 Jan 08 Yet to be drafted 22 Jan 08 22 Jan 08 Yet to be drafted 22 Jan 08 22 Jan 08 Released. ... Document No. ...

... Public . Science . ... Science Users Information > Observing with ESO Telescopes > Phase 3 > Data Releases . ... Public Surveys . ... Data Releases . ... Data delivered by ESO Public Survey projects: . ... Data Release . ... Deep co-added, resampled images and associated source lists per band (3rd data release) . ... ZYJHKs images and associated source lists of completed survey tiles covering ~690 sq.deg . ... YJKs images and associated source lists for 7 survey tiles (4th updating data release) . ...