... The giant elliptical galaxy M87, also known as Virgo A, dominates the closest big galaxy cluster to us, the famous VirgoCluster (which can, as it extends into the constellation Coma, more accurately be called the "Coma-Virgocluster"), and is about 60 ...
... And of course all the usual deep sky wonders from one of our nearest neighbour stars, through double stars, clusters and nebulae, or nearest big neighbour galaxy in Andromeda, out to members of the Leo/Virgocluster of galaxies. ...
... Indeed, it's probable that the expansion does not apply even at the scale of superclusters, such as the one containing our Local Cluster and the Virgocluster. ...
... And of course all the usual deep sky wonders from one of our nearest neighbour stars, through double stars, clusters and nebulae, or nearest big neighbour galaxy in Andromeda, out to members of the Leo/Virgocluster of galaxies. ...
... star atlases or a PC sky programme. 2.б б IAA Lecture:б BELFAST: Wed 21 March: б Irish Astronomical Association Public Lecture: "The VirgoCluster: Stepping Stone to Infinity" byб Tony O'Hanlon. 7.30 p.m., Lecture Room 5, Stranmillis College, Belfast ...
... For deep sky enthusiasts, with no other source, there is a chart of the Virgocluster of galaxies, and for the budding specialist, charts for Barnard's star, Proxima Centauri (both for 1900 to 2100 AD), the Pleiades, the north and south celestial poles ...
... of cosmology to establish the cosmic distance scale and, more recently, Hubble Space Telescope measurements of cepheids in Virgo and Fornax cluster galaxies have provided the best ever measurements of the Hubble constant, the rate of expansion of the ...
... significantly; the comet is nowТљup to about mag 10,Тљmoving from Leo towards Virgo ... public to help us locate star clusters in our nearest neighbouring galaxy: Andromeda ...
... compact binaries in stellar clusters, both because many field systems must have originated in clusters and because ultra-compact systems are over abundant and seem to have different properties in dense clusters, implying that dynamical encounters play a ...