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The Joint Astronomy Centre located in Hilo, Hawai`i, operates two telescopes on the summit Mauna Kea. |
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Left: the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT). Right the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT). For a selection of images of the telescope, instrumentation and science follow the links for the JCMT and UKIRT.
Click below for the JAC Image Gallery:
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Latest PR image from the summit
W51, located in the constellation of Aquila, is one of the most massive regions of star formation within the galaxy. It is in stellar nurseries such as this that the stars form with enough mass to go on to end
their lives in Supernova explosions. The background is a mid-infrared Spitzer image while the blue overlay is 850μm data from SCUBA-2. Credit: Spitzer/ GLIMPSE, JAC.
This image was released to celebrate the JCMT's 25th Birthday. Teh JCMT first turned its dish to the heavens this week in 1987, and now, a quarter of a century later, the JCMT continues to lead the world in submillimetre astronomy. For the full press release click here.
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Science Results In the News
For a full list of news coverage items from the JAC click
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Press Releases
For a full list of press releases form the JAC click
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Dusty stellar nurseries from the dark side of a galaxy:s
The first result from the JCMT Nearby Galaxy Legacy Survey is a stunning image of the
galaxy M66 as it appears at the sub-mm wavelengths. The image shows sub-mm emission
detected by SCUBA-2 overlaid on an image of the galaxy taken in visible light. Credit:
VLT/ESO, JAC, G. Bendo.
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New SCUBA-2 camera reveals wild youth of the universe:
The SCUBA-2 camera has taken a snap shot of what the early Universe looked like over 10 billion
years ago. The seven sources identified correspond to massive, clumpy,
violently star-forming disc galaxies. In the images to the right we see images of the same
region observed by the Herschel space telescope (left), SCUBA-2 (middle) and Hubble (right).
Credit: ROE/JAC
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Revolutionary new camera reveals the dark side of the Universe:
A composite image of the Whirlpool Galaxy (also known as M51) taken by the new SCUBA-2 camera on
the JCMT. The green image is from the Hubble Space Telescope and shows the optical wavelength.
The submillimetre light detected by SCUBA-2 is shown in red (850 microns) and blue (450 microns).
The Whirlpool Galaxy lies at an estimated distance of 31 million light years from Earth in the
constellation Canes Venatici. Credit: JAC/UBC/NASA
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The most distant quasar: Both headache and opportunity:
An international team of astronomers announced the discovery of the most distant known
supermassive black hole, seen as a luminous quasar caused by gas falling into the black hole.
The discovery came to light using data from an ongoing infrared sky survey being conducted at
the UKIRT and critical follow-up confirmation observations with the Gemini North telescope.
Image credit: Gemini Observatory/AURA by Lynette Cook
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Astronomy Resources & Activities
FOR TEACHERS
Class room teaching tools on the Teacher Resources Page
Classroom activities from NASA - Spaceplace.nasa.com
How to respond to questions that the world will end in 2012 found here
The Great Annual Mars Hoax - the truth is here (Mutating Mars Hoax NASA website)
OnlineSchools Space study guides - Space Science for Kids
Online astronomy activities & calculators - exploratorium
Posters for the Classroom
Electromagnetic Spectrum Hawaiian Style (2010, PDF, 7.0 MB, created by our Summer 2010 Huiana Intern)
Our Solar System (2010, PDF, 1.6 MB, created by our Summer 2010 Huiana Intern)
Careers at Astronomical Observatories (2009, PDF, 24.0 MB)
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FOR STUDENTS
Try our AstroQuiz Challenge - what level are you?
See the Center of our Milky Way in all its glory,
courtesy of the Wide Field Camera of UKIRT (click to zoom in)
See what its like to observe on UKIRT with our simulator!
Online games from NASA - here
Find you birthday star here
Get involved with real research at Galaxy Zoo
Telescope FAQs
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Careers
It takes all sorts of people from various backgrounds to run a telescope. Click on the links below to discover the various careers at the Joint Astronomy Centre, and if you are interested, how to become an astronomer.
Example Careers at the JAC
Careers poster (pdf)
Local astronomy Clubs
Astronomy careers FAQs
AAS Careers in Astronomy Page
Current Vacancies at the JAC
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Images & Publications
SCUBA-2 Image Gallery (NEW)
JCMT Newsletter
UKIRT Newsletter
JAC Annual Report 2009/10 (PDF, 20.0 MB)
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