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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Milky Way . ... Space Flight . ... April . ... Posted on April 6, 2016 | No Comments Spring has truly sprung. ... Continue Reading.. ... Posted on October 24, 2014 | ... Posted on April 30, 2014 | ... On 15 May 2014 [ ] . ... Posted on March 13, 2014 | ... No Comments If you find yourself in the great outdoors any evening during April and itтАЩs a cloudless night, turning your eyes towards the heavens could be an unusually interesting way for [ ] . ...

... 2001 December 19 . Finding Dark Matter . ... Explanation: Where is dark matter ? Galaxies rotate and move in clusters as if a tremendous amount of unseen matter is present. ... In the above frame from a computer simulation of our universe , a 300 million light-year slice shows dark matter in gray and galaxies as colored circles. The red box indicates the location of a rich cluster of galaxies , while the green box shows a more typical cross-section of our universe . ... About APOD | ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 19.12.2001 . ... December 2001 . ... 2001 2002 . ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . NASA Official: Jay Norris. ... A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC . ... U. Based on Astronomy Picture Of the Day . Publications with keywords: universe - dark matter - 2dF survey - simulation . Publications with words: universe - dark matter - 2dF survey - simulation . ... Galaxy Cluster Abell 1689 Magnifies the Dark Universe . ...

... January 8, 2007 . ... SENTINEL CORRESPONDENT . Astronomers at UC Santa Cruz have discovered a surprisingly massive halo of bright, old stars around our galactic neighbor Andromeda, pushing the outer limits of the galaxy to 1.5 million light years, and teaching them how spiral galaxies behave. ... Younger stars may be remnants of a galaxy devoured, but older stars could have formed with the birth of the galaxy. ... http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2007/January/08/local/stories/03local.htm . ...

... About ATNF overview . ... Governance overview . Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ... Finding the Bivariate Brightness Distribution of galaxies from an H I selected sample . ... A method is presented that will enable the bivariate luminosity/surface brightness distribution of galaxies to be determined from a relatively small H I selected sample. ... PICASSO - an automated galaxy finder . ...

... 1b. Pole Star . ... Two bright constellations occupy opposite sides of the pole star--the Big Dipper and Cassiopeia . ... The Big Dipper consists of 7 bright stars, forming a dipper, a small pot with a long handle. ... It shows the 7 stars of the Big Dipper and Polaris, the north star. ... Ursa Minor , the "Small Bear" or "Little Dipper" is a constellation somewhat resembling the Big Dipper, and Polaris is the last star in its tail. ... Questions from Users: About the stars of the Big Dipper . ...

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