Monthly Archives: March 2012

March 21, 2012

WISE All Sky

WISE has released an all-sky image atlas and catalog of objects in bands infrared bands at 3.4, 4.6, 12 and 22 microns. The scientific data are available at the Infrared Science Archive. Here is a cool zoomable all-sky image.

March 15, 2012

Astronomy and wonderful people

Today was the last day of the ESO annual review. I am just back from the closing party, and I cannot wait. I need to write something about it. During these days we got a full overview of the activities ...

March 15, 2012

A superb video of the Thirty Meter Telescope

"Seeing is believing" or better "dreaming is believing"... The Four Dimensional Digital Universe Project (4D2U Project) & National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) released one year ago a superb video about Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT). This gigantic and ambitious telescope located on ...