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• VISTA Starts Work

  
  Tom's Astronomy Blog — Authority: 129
  No it’s not a computer program, no it’s a new telescope has started work at the ESO’s Paranal Observatory and this is one of the first releases.  The telescope is the V isible and I nfrared S urvey T elescope for A stronomy, or VISTA for short.  VISTA is surveying the sky at infrared wavelengths and is ...
  1 day ago

• Bandhu Tumi Eso Bengali Film by Partha Sarathi Joardar

  
  Calcutta Tube:Bengali Movies-Bollywood News — Authority: 133
  December 20, 09. Bengali feature film "Bandhu Tumi Eso" goes to the floor recently. Partha Sarathi Joardar is directing the Bengali Film. Tanushree, one of the leading Kolkata models will debut in the film. Sujoy will play the leading male character in the film. More update will be coming up shortly.
  2 days ago

• Astronomers Find Super-Earth With An Atmosphere

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 590
  Astronomers have discovered the second super-Earth exoplanet [1] for which they have determined the mass and radius, giving vital clues about its structure. It is also the first super-Earth where an atmosphere has been found. The exoplanet, orbiting a small star only 40 light-years away from us, opens up dramatic new ...
  6 days ago

• Bliss n Eso Sydney Instore for Vinyl Release

  
  Oz Music Scene — Authority: 133
  Bliss n Eso fans have the chance to get up close and personal with the urban outfit this Sunday. They’ll be appearing at The RecordStore in Darlinghurst from midday to celebrate the upcoming vinyl release of Flying Colours Live . This is the first chance for fans to get their hands on one of only 500 copies ...
  1 week ago

• First (of many) Gorgeous Pictures from the New VISTA

  
  Universe Today — Authority: 651
  Well, the WISE infrared all-sky satellite may be delayed until Monday , but the new infrared southern sky survey telescope VISTA (Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy ) right here on Earth has gone online and released its first few gorgeous pictures.(...) Read the rest of First (of many) Gorgeous ...
  1 week ago

• UK’s Vista telescope takes stunning images of space

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 142
  Image via Wikipedia The first images have been revealed from a telescope that can map the sky much faster and deeper than any other. The Vista (Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy) is dedicated to mapping the sky in infrared light. Spectacular images, including some of the centre of our ...
  1 week ago

• A Black Hole Switches On

  
  Tom's Astronomy Blog — Authority: 129
  Switching on a black hole. Click for larger. Image Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/M.Machacek; Optical: ESO/VLT; Infrared: NASA/JPL/Caltech Check this out!  A galactic collision wakens a black hole.  If you live in the Southern Hemisphere you can see this if you have a telescope, the coordinates are (Equatorial)  ...
  1 week ago

• Incredible VISTA of the cosmos

  
  Bad Astronomy — Authority: 712
  Astronomers with the European Southern Observatory have just revealed the first images from their new telescope called VISTA: the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy. If ever there was an appropriate name for a ’scope, that’s it. Why? Here’s why: Oh baby. Yeah, click it to ...
  1 week ago

• VISTA is Go

  
  The e-Astronomer — Authority: 500
  VISTA, our shiny new IR survey telescope, is ready for rock and roll. Check out the ESO press release . There some lervely pictures, including a zoomable mosaic of the Galactic Centre.I am excited (and relieved) both scientifically and in project terms. Data is being processed by a combined Cambridge-Edinburgh team. ...
  1 week ago

• VISTA: Pioneering New Survey Telescope Starts Work

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 590
  A new telescope — VISTA (the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy) — has just started work at ESO’s Paranal Observatory and has made its first release of pictures. VISTA is a survey telescope working at infrared wavelengths and is the world’s largest telescope dedicated to mapping the sky. Its ...
  1 week ago

• International Artiste du Jour: Bliss & Eso

  
  Gowhere Hip Hop — Authority: 505
  Gowhere, get ready for another new group from across the globe. Bliss & Eso , rapping out of Sydney, is a trio made up of MC Bliss from the US, MC Eso (short for Esoterikism) from OZ and DJ Izm from Morocco. These guys met in high school and dropped their first EP in 2000. By 2004 they were nominated for Artist ...
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• What Lies at the Center of the Milky Way?

  
  Environmental Graffiti — Authority: 616
  NASA closes out the Year of Astronomy 2009 with stunning images of the galactic center. For the first time, we can see who lives in the heart of the Milky Way, objects that emit almost no visible light by comparison to their powerful images in the infrared, gamma-ray and x-ray regions of the... This is just a brief ...
  2 weeks ago

• Brightness Variations in Sun-like Stars remains unexplained

  
  Assam Information Portal — Authority: 142
  All stars with masses similar to our Sun become, towards the end of their lives, red, cool and extremely large, just before retiring as white dwarfs. Also known as red giants, these elderly stars exhibit very strong periodic variations in their luminosity over timescales up to a couple of years. Why such variations in ...
  2 weeks ago

• Brightness Variations of Sun-like Stars: The Mystery Deepens

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 590
  An extensive study made with ESO’s Very Large Telescope deepens a long-standing mystery in the study of stars similar to the Sun. Unusual year-long variations in the brightness of about one third of all Sun-like stars during the latter stages of their lives still remain unexplained. Over the past few decades, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Stellar Family Portrait Takes Imaging Technique to New Extremes

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 590
  The young star cluster Trumpler 14 is revealed in another stunning ESO image. The amount of exquisite detail seen in this portrait, which beautifully reveals the life of a large family of stars, is due to the Multi-conjugate Adaptive optics Demonstrator (MAD) on ESO’s Very Large Telescope. Never before has such a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Central Black Holes or their Galaxies, Which Came First

  
  Astrocast.TV — Authority: 132
  Scientists from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) announced earlier this week that they have evidence which leads them to believe that black holes may have led to the formation of the galaxies within which they reside. You can learn more about this by reading the ESO announcement here . Or read the scientific ...
  2 weeks ago

• Black Hole Caught Zapping Galaxy into Existence!

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 590
  Which come first, the supermassive black holes that frantically devour matter or the enormous galaxies where they reside? A brand new scenario has emerged from a recent set of outstanding observations of a black hole without a home: black holes may be “building” their own host galaxy. This could be the long-sought ...
  3 weeks ago

• Deep in the Heart of the Milky Way

  
  Astrocast.TV — Authority: 132
  In a paper which appears in today’s journal Nature, available online here thanks to the European Southern Observatory (ESO), astronomers announce a fascinating discovery about a cluster of stars called Terzan 5. This cluster cannot be seen by ordinary telescopes. It is located in the galactic bulge which is ...
  3 weeks ago

• Cosmic “Dig” Reveals Vestiges of the Milky Way’s Building Blocks

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 590
  Peering through the thick dust clouds of our galaxy’s “bulge” (the myriads of stars surrounding its centre), and revealing an amazing amount of detail, a team of astronomers has unveiled an unusual mix of stars in the stellar grouping known as Terzan 5. Never observed anywhere in the bulge before, this peculiar ...
  3 weeks ago

• Beautiful space image — Centaurus A

  
  David Kirkpatrick — Authority: 137
  Amazing … This image of the central parts of Centaurus A reveals the parallelogram-shaped remains of a smaller galaxy that was gulped down about 200 to 700 million years ago. The image is based on data collected with the SOFI instrument on ESO’s New Technology Telescope at La Silla. The original image, ...
  4 weeks ago

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