In this gallery are many images of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies which have recently been discovered and analyzed. ... The central surface brightness of this galaxy is 24.28 . Malin 2 This galaxy is another huge disk galaxy with a scale length of 15 kpc and a redshift of 15000 km/a. The high surface brightness knot in one of its spiral arms actually has the same color, luminosity and H-alpha equivalent width as the entire Large Magellanic Cloud . ... Truly it is a Low Surface Brightness Galaxy. ...

Next: M.E. Bailey, Director Up: Research Previous: C.S. Jeffery, Research Astronomer Contents . Dr Michael Smith has focused mainly on the earliest stages of stellar evolution: the processes leading to star formation from an initially unstable, collapsing cloud of gas, and the energetic outflows -- jets and winds -- associated with the formation and early evolution of protostars and pre-main-sequence stellar objects. ... Spectacular jets of molecules, however, betray its presence. ...

Astronomy Articles . Articles | ... Moon | ... Astronomy Binoculars - The Skies The Limit - by Scott Gray, September 2006 . ... Astronomy Terms - To Help You Study The Universe - by Scott Gray, October 2006 . ... Himalia is the only moon other than Europa, Ganymeade, Callisto and IO visible with small telescopes. ... The Harvest Moon refers to the Full Moon that comes closest to the autumnal equinox, or the first day of autumn. ... Think the study of stars is best left to professional astronomers? ...

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... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Remnant Molecular Clouds in the Ori OB 1 Association . ... A list is presented of about 80 objects of these remnant clouds in the Ori OB 1 association. ... We suspect that retarded star formation in remnant clouds can explain the presence of so-called dispersed T Tau stars in the peripheries of OB associations. ... ISM: molecular clouds - ISM:globules - HII regions - OB associations . ...

GALAXIES cenA .tiff 40 Bright Radio Galaxy M31.tiff Nikon Andromeda Galaxy (note HII regions in spiral arms) ngc6744.tiff 40 NGC 6744 a face-on spiral clouds_20d.tiff H'blad The Magellanic Clouds our nearest neighbours Lmc_7.tiff Nikon The Large Magellanic Clouds Lmc_zoom.tiff Nikon Detail of previous image smc_7.tiff Nikon The Small Magellanic Clouds smc-zoom.tiff Nikon Detail of previous image 30dor_40_BVR.tiff 40 The 30 Dor ... B [OIII] Halpha trifid.tiff 40" The Trifid Nebula. ...

The Sun is our nearest star and the source of energy for life on Earth. ... For centuries astronomers wondered whether they were clouds floating in the Sun's atmosphere, but we now know that they really are huge regions of magnetic field, about as intense as the field at the poles of an iron magnet. ... Such abrupt events were named solar flares , and what made them especially interesting was that occasionally, after a prominent flare, a magnetic storm would erupt on Earth. ...

... Unlike the clouds on Earth which are made of water, nebulae are made up of gas and dust. ... Gas and dust are cold, so they don't glow with light bright enough for our eyes to see the hotter an object is, the brighter it shines. ... The nebula in this picture is glowing red because of a very hot star at its centre, you can see it here as the seagull's eye . ... This is dust that has been lit up by hot, young stars inside the nebula. ... The two stars orbit each other, we called them binary stars! ...