... Our Galaxy . ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... NGC 2841: a spiral galaxy some 46 million light years away. ... It is especially hard to explain this process of star birth in some spiral galaxies. ... Targets include both star clusters and galaxies, and star formation rates seen range from the starburst galaxy M82 (the Cigar Galaxy) which is creating about ten new stars in its core alone every year to the much less fecund star producer NGC 2841. ... Tweets that mention Baby stars of NGC 2841 | ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2015 March 9 . Galaxy and Cluster Create Four Images of Distant Supernova . ... In this case the masses are a large galaxy and its home galaxy cluster . ... Measuring the locations and time-delays between the supernova images should allow astrophysicists to recover the amount of dark matter in the galaxy and cluster. ... About APOD | ...

... Galaxy and Cluster Create Four Images of Distant Supernova . ... Credit Copyright: NASA , ESA , and S. Rodney ( JHU ) and the FrontierSN team; T. Treu ( UCLA ), P. Kelly ( UC Berkeley ), and the GLASS team; J. Lotz ( STScI ) and the Frontier Fields team ; M. Postman ( STScI ) and the CLASH team ; and Z. Levay ( STScI ) Explanation: What are the unusual spots surrounding that galaxy? ... Publications with keywords: supernova - gravitational lens - galaxy cluster . ... A Supernova through Galaxy Dust ...

... R. E. Jackson . ... H.-M. Adorf . ... D. C. Wells . ... AstroWeb is a World Wide Web (WWW) interface to a collection of Internet accessible resources aimed at the astronomical community. ... The goal of AstroWeb is to be the most complete, up to date, and useful listing of Internet accessible astronomical resources available anywhere. ... Jackson, Wells, and Adorf noticed that they and others had created largely overlapping lists of Astronomical resources. ...

... Subscribe Contact Site Map . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... VLT/Paranal . ... Survey Telescopes . ... ESO's Very Large Telescope has been used to create the first ever map of the weather on the surface of the nearest brown dwarf to Earth. An international team has made a chart of the dark and light features on WISE J104915.57-531906.1B, which is informally known as Luhman 16B and is one of two recently discovered brown dwarfs forming a pair only six light-years from the Sun. ...

... Archbishop Richard Robinson (1709-1794), leader of the Church of Ireland, created the Georgian town of Armagh, including the Observatory. ... He was influenced to found an observatory by the Reverend J.A. Hamilton of Cookstown, County Tyrone, who was a noted amateur astronomer, and was to become its first director. ... J.A. Hamilton , the first director, embarked on a comprehensive program of accurately measuring the positions of the stars, but was hindered by the death of Archbishop Robinson in...

... History . ... The group for study of galaxies and cosmology has been created in April, 2011 and unified researchers from the laboratory of radio astrophysics (O.V.Verkhodanov, N.N.Bursov, N.V.Verkhodanova), the laboratory of antenna measurements (E.K.Maiorova) and researches from the radio astronomical sector (Yu.N.Parijskij, T.A.Semenova, V.A.Stolyarov) inside the laboratory of radio astrophysics by the order of the director of SAO according to the decision of the SAO Scientific coincil. ...

... STScI-PRC98-21 A BRIGHT RING OF STAR BIRTH AROUND A GALAXY'S CORE An image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals clusters of infant stars that formed in a ring around the core of the barred-spiral galaxy NGC 4314. ... This close-up view by Hubble also shows other interesting details in the galaxy's core: dust lanes, a smaller bar of stars, dust and gas embedded in the stellar ring, and an extra pair of spiral arms packed with young stars. ... However, they are older than those in the ring. ...

... Observatory . ... The Laboratory of Astrometry . Dept. for Physics of Stars&Galaxies . ... Astronomical Calendar . ... UkrVO . ... The purpose of research: Creating a stellar catalog to study the structure and kinematics of star systems, including open star clusters and stars with large proper motions; the enhancement ICRF / Hipparcos system to stars dawn to 17 m (V); Search of binary systems of brown dwarfs and determination of their parameters; astrometry of minor bodies of the Solar System. ...

Laboratory of Stellar Physics . ... A study of close binaries with black holes, neutron stars and white dwarfs. ... A study of SS433 - the massive close binary with a black hole in the regime of supercritical accretion . ... A search for intermediate-mass black holes (IMBH). The black holes which are not supermassive black holes observed in quasars, and which were formed not in massive stars. ... A search for new magnetic stars, new CP stars, measurements of magnetic fields in stars . ...

... US state, Canadian province, or country . ... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... space flight . ... space physics . ... Why doesn't the International Space Station rotate to create artificial gravity like stations in the movies? ... RELATED TOPICS: INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION . The International Space Station is a one-of-a-kind lab-oratory for a specific reason: microgravity. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

A Canadian and American team of Astronomers have used the 305-m wide Arecibo radio dish, the world's largest and most sensitive radio telescope, to uncover a dozen new super-fast-spinning pulsars. The team directed their search for these rare and exotic stars by pointing the Arecibo radio telescope towards massive star clusters, called Globular Clusters, orbiting our Milky Way galaxy. ... One of the most exotic residents in the Globular cluster system are the millisecond pulsars. ...

... LEDA has been the first Extragalactic Database. ... select pgc, objname, al2000, de2000 where de2000 > 76 and al2000 < 1 . select pgc, galaxy_name, al2000, de2000 where de2000 > 76 AND al2000 < 1 . ... For each parameter the method of the calculation (or the definition) is given in the Third Reference Catalogue (de Vaucouleurs et al., 1991) and/or in Paturel et al. (1997) and/or in some additional references given below. ... de Vaucouleurs et al., 1991, 1997 . ... 1995 ; Paturel et al., 2000 . ...

... Pre-university education . ... Samara region . SSAU History . SSAU roadmap . ... Scientists of Samara State Aerospace University (SSAU) develop a unique 3D-printer for chocolate confectionery printing. 3D-printer for chocolate printing is being created in SSAU Centre for Robotic Complexes and Mechatronic Systems. ... Know-how of the scientists of Samara State Aerospace University in that they were developed unparalleled chocolate delivery and cooling systems in 3D-printer. ...

... These Frontier Fields will combine the power of HST with the natural gravitational telescopes of high-magnification clusters of galaxies. ... We are soliciting gravitational lensing maps for the last four Hubble Frontier Fields clusters (MACSJ0717.5+3745, MACSJ1149.5+2223, AbellS1063, and Abell 370) based upon the exceptionally deep HST FF imaging and other new ancillary data. ... For the full set of proposal instructions and requirements, see the FY16 Frontier Fields Lensing Map Call for Proposals....

Supernova 1994D is one of the brighter Sn from the recent past. ... The parent galaxy of this SN, NGC 4526 , was also the host galaxy of SN 1969E ( IAUC 2139 ). ... We have a photometry reference image created by Odd Trondal. ... Images of Supernova 1994D . U of Oregon (Electronic Universe) image 3/26/94 8:10 UT, K-band . ... ING image Undated color . SEDS image Undated . SEDS image Undated (zoom in of last image) . ... U of Oregon (Electronic Universe) light curve . ...

... ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Astrophysics graduate student programs . ... Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... One of the potential problems with the hypothesis that the H I holes are the result of an evolving OB association in which the most massive stars, through their winds and supernovae, create the observed supershells is the following. ...

... The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) presented Priscilla and Bart Bok Awards to two high School Seniors at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair held May 10 to 15 in Reno this year. ... The Bok prize is named for Bart and Priscilla Bok. ... About 10 years ago, at the suggestion of the American Astronomical Society, the activities supported by the Bok Fund were expanded to include the joint sponsorship of an astronomy award at Intel Science and Education Fair. ...

The database contains references to the papers, data files and links to the Internet resources related to measurements and calculations of the optical constants in the wavelength interval from X-rays to radio domain. ... References to some useful books and reviews on the subject (e.g. the classical handbooks edited by E.D.Palik) and links to Internet collections of optical constants and personal WWW pages with related software were also placed in the database. You have arrived at our welcome page. ...

... The main goals of the society are to maintain the development of astronomy and to reinforce scientific contacts between astronomers of the former Soviet Union and their colleagues all over the world. Official languges of EAAS - Russian and English. ... IV Russian Olympiad on Astronomy and Cosmic Physics for high-school students (April 7-12, 1997, Troitsk, Moscow region, Russia) . ... In Russian. ... Dr. Nikolai G. Bochkarev , Co-chairman of Euro-Asian Astronomical Society, 21.02.1997. ...