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 Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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

... Vesta Trek: A Digital Model of Asteroid Vesta . ... Credit Copyright: NASA , JPL , LMMP , SSERVI , USGS , DLR Explanation: You can explore asteroid Vesta. Recently, NASA's robotic spaceship Dawn visited Vesta , the second largest object in our Solar System's main asteroid belt, which lies between Mars and Jupiter. ... Dawn departed Vesta in 2012 and is now just beginning to photograph and explore the mysteries of the largest object in the asteroid belt: dwarf-planet Ceres . ... 2011 2012 . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. September 6, 1996 . The Largest Impact Crater . Credit: The Clementine Project . Explanation: What is the largest known impact crater in the Solar System? ... In general, the rocky terrestrial planets and moons are scarred and battered from frequent repeated bombardment by large objects during our Solar System's early years. ...

... Planetarium Staff . ... Freedom of Information . ... The Armagh Planetarium website has been enabled to use BrowseAloud software. ... See the following instructions on how to increase the size of the text on any web page you are viewing. тАв Press ' Ctrl ' and ' + ' to increase the text size, ' Ctrl ' and ' - ' to decrease the text size. ... For information on changing the text size in older browsers and on different operating systems visit the BBC My Web My Way site for Windows, MAC and Linux . ...

M1 image More About M1 Nice Color Picture . ... M16 image More About M16 HST image . ... M31 image More About M31 Nice Color Picture . ... M42 image ; M43 image More About M42/43 Nice Color CCD Picture . M51 image More About M51 Color Image of M51 M51 Supernova . M57 image More About M57 Nice Color CCD Picture Very Deep M57 Image . ... M81 image More About M81 M81 Supernova Ultraviolet Image of M81 More about Ultraviolet Imaging . M82 image More About M82 M82 False Color M82 True Color . ...

STEP INTO THE BLUE - MEADE INSTRUMENTS PRODUCT GUIDE . ... Meade 4M Community . ... Meade Instruments . ... Telescopes . LX850 Series . ... Superb optical performance coupled with time proven computerized pointing and tracking has made the LX200 ACF series a best-seller in the high-performance telescope class. ... Coronado Accessories . ... LS 3.5" Color LCD Video Monitor . ... This full color monitor plugs directly into the built in camera on the Meade LS-6 and LS-8 LightSwitch telescopes. ...

... Moon . ... What can astronomers tell us about the different colors on the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa? ... We can use the colors of Europa s surface to tell us about the chemical compounds that make up the surface and subsurface of the jovian moon. Even before the first spacecraft made a close visit to Europa, astronomers on Earth used telescopes to study the moon and were able to use a technique called spectroscopy to determine that Europa s surface is composed mostly of water ice. ...

... Today this year's largest group of sunspots will cross the Sun's central meridian. ... The next day, the number of spots in the group reached five, and the day after, on June 2nd, it was possible to count thirteen sunspots on solar disk, which had been clear prior to this. ... This year's two most powerful active areas, which passed across the solar disk at the beginning of May, 2009, are set to appear in the Sun's eastern sector in two days, on June 6th. ...

Titan . ... Hubble Space Telescope Images of Titan's surface . ... Later that year, it will release the European-built Huygens probe for a descent through Titan's atmosphere. ... This artist's rendering shows the European Space Agency's Huygens probe descending into the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan after being released by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. ... This artist's rendering shows the Huygens probe on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan after being released by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. ...

... As an experiment, I made some three-color images of Messier 42, more commonly known as the Great Nebula of Orion. ... green enhanced . ... halfsize or fullsize . ... Each image is a ``true color'' composite of three monochromatic images, in which the red, green, and blue intensities each correspond to the intensity of one of the original images. ... The HST image is assembled from different filters than mine: red is Nitrogen [II] at 6583 , green is H-alpha at 6563 , and blue is O [III] at 5007 . ...

... The British consortium, currently led by Professor Gordon Bromage of the University of Central Lancashire , includes the Universities of Keele , Nottingham and Southampton , the Open University and Armagh Observatory and will be joining the other partners in the SALT project, from South Africa, Poland, Germany, USA and New Zealand. ... SALT Dome . ... The SALT project is managed by a team based at the SALT Headquarters at Sutherland and South African Astronomical Observatory in Cape Town. ...

We present IRAC and MIPS images and photometry of a sample of previously known planetary nebulae (PNe) from the Surveying the Agents of a Galaxy's Evolution (SAGE) survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) performed with the Spitzer Space Telescope. Of the 233 known PNe in the survey field, 185 objects were detected in at least two of the IRAC bands, and 161 detected in the MIPS 24 ЮМm images. ... We also explore the potential value of IR PNe luminosity functions (LFs) in the LMC. ...

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True Color Image Gallery: Galactic SNR | ... Left: raw image, binned by, 8 x 8, pixel(s) . Right: gaussian smoothed version of above (sigma = 2 pixel [in binned image]) Click left mouse button on hyperlink below to download file . All the FITS files in this page as TAR file . ... Images . ... PS File . FITS files . unsmoothed (raw/exposure) . smoothed . raw image (counts) . exposure map . ... Back to G34.7-0.4 Index . Chandra Supernova Remnant Catalog . ...

... We review our experience, including some lessons learned, with using Java to create data browsing tools for use with the Astronomy Digital Image Library (ADIL) and related digital library projects at NCSA. ... For the specific problems of image data browsing, Java allows a server to pass on some of the CPU chores to the individual clients. ... Project Horizon is now working to combine those features into a single package of reusable Java code called the Horizon Java Image Data Browser Package. ...

... I t was long thought that Titan was the largest satellite in the solar system but recent observations have shown that Titan's atmosphere is so thick that its solid surface is slightly smaller than Ganymede's . ... R ecent observations with the Hubble Space Telescope show remarkable near infrared views of Titan's surface (right and top). ... T he observations by HST also indicate that Titan's rotation is in fact synchronous like most of Saturn's other moons. more images . ... Saturn .. ...

... Your browser does not support Java, or Java is not enabled. ... The white S's which rotate are the galaxies in the model. ... The balloon will expand to just touch the edges of the box, and then shrink toward the Big Crunch. At the Big Crunch, the JAVA applet will restart with a new set of galaxies. ... If H o = 65 km/sec/ Mpc , and Omega o = 2, then the height of the box corresponds to 60 billion light years, and one the time from Big Bang to Big Crunch is 94.5 billion years. ... Part 2 | ...

... Astrophysics Group . Research . Atacama Large Millimetre Array (ALMA) . ... Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) . ... Galaxy Formation and Evolution . ... The Astrophysics Group is actively involved in the ALMA project , a submillimetre interferometer being built in northern Chile. ... If you are interested in doing research in this area, please visit our Graduate Research Opportunities web pages. ... 2013, Astrophysics Group, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0HE . ...

Ganymede is the largest moon in our solar system, larger even than the planets Pluto and Mercury. ... Ganymede's surface consists of two main types of terrain: old, dark polygonal units, and young, bright valleys and ridges (see figure 11 ). ... In a similar way, hitting a large block of ice with a hammer makes white marks. ... Ganymede as seen by Voyager 2. ... Because Voyager couldn't spot any large impact craters, scientists have concluded that the moon's surface is young. ... Moon . ... Europa . ...

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Tips on holding a viewing night . ... Multi-Wavelength View of the Interstellar Medium in the Large Magellanic Cloud . ... The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) has been surveyed in optical emission lines, X-rays, radio continuum, H I , and CO lines. ... Keywords: Magellanic Clouds - galaxies: ISM - ISM: general - ISM: structure - ISM: bubbles - supernova remnants . ... Structures of the Interstellar Medium in the LMC ...