... 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....

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 Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, operates a number of world-class radio astronomy observatories that are collectively known as the Australia Telescope National Facility or ATNF. ... CSIRO also manages the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory, where the Square Kilometre Array telescope infrastructure in Australia is to be centred. ...

... CfA Home . HCO Home . SAO Home . ... Welcome to CfA . CfA History . ... Laboratory Astrophysics . Extreme Astrophysics . ... 617) 495-7210 . ... 617) 495-7044 . ... 617) 495-7265 . ... HEA Research . ... HEA Home Page . CFA/HEA Home Page . ... High Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD) . Chandra X-ray Center . ... Chandra Cluster Cosmology Project . Chandra Multiwavelength Project (ChaMP) . ... Chandra-Planck Clusters Project . ... CfA Virtual Observatory Project . ...

... 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. ...

... Samara State Aerospace University Research Grants and support . Project Designing a range of gas-turbine engines on the basis of a high energy efficiency gas generator in cooperation with Kuznetsov plc within the framework of implementing the Russian Federation Government Order of 09.04.2010 No.218 Measures of state support of the development of cooperation between higher educational institutions and organizations implementing complex projects on high-technology production design . ...

... About laboratory . Projects . ... Period: 2015 - 2017 . Project leader: Dr. S. Protasova . ... Development of scalable laboratory technology of planar SOFC fabrication and production concept of energy generation systems for various applications and structures including hybrids, with fabrication and testing of a small-scale experimental model of the energy generation system with 500 - 2000 W power output . ... Team members from LMET: Dr. V. Kharton, Dr. V. Kolotygin, A. Ivanov, I. Kuritsyna . ...

... Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories, University of Manchester, Jodrell Bank, Macclesfield, Cheshire SK11 9DL, UK . ... We present the Virtual Radio Interferometer, a Java applet which allows the demonstration of earth-rotation aperture synthesis by simulating existing and imaginary telescopes. ... The use of the Java language is discussed, and the role of the language, within the astronomical software context, reviewed. ... The resulting program was called the Virtual Radio Interferometer (VRI). ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... Work begins on the world?s most powerful radio telescope . ... SKA AAVS0 array . ... SKA Aperture Array in Australia . ... Even in its earliest phase (SKA1), the radio telescope will be the fastest and most sensitive in the world. ... A further two instruments will be in the Western Australian desert: one being an array of many hundreds of aerial clusters working at low radio frequencies, the other a range of around 90 dishes ? ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... History . Brief History of Rocket and Space Technology . ... Flights Chronology . ... Project History . ISS Russian Segment . Steps of ISS Assembly . Spaceflights Chronology . Chronology of Extravehicular Activity . ISS 45/46 . ... Rocket Space Complexes . ... Launches Chronology . ... Automatic Space Systems . ... HISTORY . ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

SAI VO . ... SAI CAS . ... Web Services . Catalog Access Services . ... SAI CAS Wiki . SAI Web Services . ... Development . arXiv.org Search . ... Astronomical Thesaurus . ... We are working on the following projects, which we consider as of BETA quality: . ... PLASTIC interface to SAI CAS . ... We created a simple PLASTIC-ized interface to SAI CAS for communication between ConeSearch and any other plasticized VO tools , such as locally-running TOPCAT , The Aladin Sky Atlas. ... SAI MSU | ...

home education > resources . ... Education from Mercury . ... Selected Topical Bibliographies . Astronomy Education Bibliography . ... Astronomy . ... Goldman, S. "Prime Time Astronomers: The Astronomers TV Series" in Sky Telescope, May 1991, p. 472. ... Goldman, S. "Astronomy on the Internet" in Sky Telescope, Aug. 1995, p. 20. ... Marschall, L. "Virtual Professional Astronomy" in Sky Telescope, Aug. 1995, p. 92. ... Wallin, J. "Astronomy Education on the Web" in Sky Telescope, Nov. 1997, p. 68. ...

Astronomy Education News . ... FT Universe Challenge . ... Faulkes Telescopes Universe Challenge . ... A school competition for an astronomy project using the Faulkes Telescopes тАУ state of the art 2-metre telescopes in Hawaii and Australia, which can be remotely operated by students during school hours in Ireland. ... To register for this challenge please contact the Faulkes Telescopes Universe Challenge secretariat by emailing Dr Miruna Popescu . Armagh Observatory - Astronomy Education . ...

S AO's New Generation Multipurpose CCD Controller . ... In the 1990?s considerable advances have been made in the world over technology of manufacturing scientific image detectors with high photoelectric characteristics, which called for the creation of new complex array controllers to operate such detectors. ... very low readout noise; . ... Quite a few teams of researchers and engineers are ingaged in the development of controllers. ... development, SPICE modelling and design of modules; . ...

... Development of multielement HTS Josephson structures for high-sensitivity analog amplifiers of GHz band frequencies; . ... Novel laboratory technology of formation of thin-film Josephson structures made from high-temperature superconductors on substrates to be used at microwave high-frequencies and temperatures T=77 K. 2. ... New results will be applied for development of novel superconducting devices for precision low noise signal processing at microwave and mm wave frequencies. ...

... The damage to NIFS has freed up the RSAA instrumentation team to concentrate on the timely delivery of the Gemini South Adaptic Optics Imager (GSAOI). ... GSAOI is the second instrument that ANU is building for Gemini. ... GSAOI Website: http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/gsaoi/ NIFS Website: http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/nifs/ RSAA Website: http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/ Australian Gemini Project Office Website: http://www.ausgo.unsw.edu.au/ Gemini Public Information Website: http://www.gemini.anu.edu.au/public/ . ...

Space Scientific and Education project of Lomonosov Moscow State University "MSU-250" is timed to its 250-th annversary. ... Scientific program is directed to the studies of the space physics problems. It includes development and launch of two supersmall satellites intended mainly to the studies of the radiation conditions in the near-Earth space. ... The conference "University Satellites and Space Science Education" (UNIVERSAT-2006) was held in Moscow on June 26-30, 2006. ...

Stellar Clusters are very useful laboratories for empirically studying stellar evolution. ... All cluster stars are at the same distance . All cluster stars have the same physical age . ... CM diagram Young Cluster In this case we see the Main Sequence fully represented. The blue dots represent massive stars with short main sequence lifetimes. ... Thus, identifying the most massive star which is still on the main sequence is an effective means of determining the age of a stellar cluster. ...

... Mission . ... Mission overview . Spectrum-RG is a Russian - Germany X-ray astrophysical observatory. Germany is responsible for the development of the key mission instrument - the X-ray grazing-incident mirror telescope eROSITA. ... The first 4 years will be devoted to an all-sky survey, and the rest of the mission lifetime will be spent on follow-on pointed observations of a selection of the most interesting galaxy clusters and AGNs. ... 2016 IKI RAN ...

... Staff . ... Galaxies, AGN, Cosmology . ... A new survey of X-ray clusters of galaxies with the Swift-X-ray Telescope . ... In this framework, an international collaboration between INAF-OAA, INAF-Brera, INAF-OATs, the University for Science and Technology of China-Hefei, the University of Ferrara, and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, is undertaking a new cluster survey using an X-ray facility that was never exploited before for this goal: the X-ray Telescope (XRT) onboard the Swift satellite...