OPTICAL / INFRARED ESO

ESO will put together the telescope optical / infrared world's largest. At its meeting today in Gracing, ESO Council has approved [1] the program of the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), pending the confirmation of four ad referendum votes. The E-ELT will start with the science operations early next decade.

Sensible Sunrise

All astronomers are receiving to know their neighbors improved. Our Sun lies within a spiral arm of our Milky Way galaxy, about two thirds of the way in the opposite direction to the center. Recently, the satellite Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, NASA has sought a new group of stars close to home: the family coldest brown dwarf star "failed". Now, just when scientists are "finding and greet" the new neighbors, WISE has a surprise in the room: there are many fewer stars brown around us predicted.

Since every two years the Specula Vatican organizes some international summer courses on astronomy. This is the thirteenth edition. The information was released by Vatican Radio, whose team interviewed Father Gabriel Funes, director of the Astronomical Observatory of the Holy See, located in Castel Gandolfo. The bishop confirmed the Vatican agency that there's interest, especially students from Latin America.