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. ...

... 2011 June 5 . Another Nearby Supernova in the Whirlpool Galaxy . ... Explanation: One of the brightest supernovas in recent years has just been recorded in the nearby Whirlpool galaxy (M51). Surprisingly, a seemingly similar supernova was recorded in M51 during 2005, following yet another one that occurred in 1994. ... Pictured above are two images of M51 taken with a small telescope: one taken on May 30 that does not show the supernova, and one taken on June 2 which does. ... About APOD | ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Earth Satellites . ... Leonid meteors seen from 13 km altitude aboard an aircraft during the 1999 Leonids Multi-Instrument Aircraft Campaign (Leonid-MAC). Comet Tempel-Tuttle provides the cometary debris for the Leonid meteor shower. ... Every 17-19 November Earth crosses Tempel-TuttleтАЩs orbit and the Leonids become visible. With clear, dark skies observers may see 10 to 15 Leonid meteors every hour on those mornings. ...

... Another Nearby Supernova in the Whirlpool Galaxy . ... Credit Copyright: Stephane Lamotte Bailey, Marc Deldem , Jean-Luc Dauvergne Explanation: One of the brightest supernovas in recent years has just been recorded in the nearby Whirlpool galaxy (M51). ... Pictured above are two images of M51 taken with a small telescope: one taken on May 30 that does not show the supernova, and one taken on June 2 which does. The June 2 image is one of the first images reported to contain the supernova. ...

... The sample of the Local Volume galaxies (distance smaller than 10 Mpc) gives a unique opportunity to study the properties of galaxies including the weakest objects: the absolute magnitude M B -10 and the virial mass M vir 10 9 M x263C;. ... Luminosity function of the Local Volume galaxies. ... The luminosity functions for galaxies are presented: red dashed line - from the 2dFGRS survey (Norberg et al. 2002); blue dash-dotted line - from the SDSS survey (Blanton et al. ...

A Test of Galaxy Evolutionary Models Via Angular Sizes M. Im S. Casertano, R. E. Griffiths, & K. U. Ratnatunga (The Johns Hopkins University) The relationship between angular size, magnitude, and redshift of faint galaxies is explored as a potential tool to distinguish between different galaxy evolutionary models. ... The mild lumi­ nosity evolution model predicts more luminous galaxies of large angular size at high redshift, as does a standard no evolution model. ... 25) with redshift higher than z ? ...

... A theory suggests that a certain sub-class of gamma-ray bursts all have the same absolute magnitude. ... The author claims that this absolute magnitude is so different from that in the previous sample that this must belong to a new sub-class of gamma-ray bursts. ... To do this, there needs to be some feature in their spectra which correlates with their absolute magnitude. ... Consider a telescope which is continually monitoring a star, looking for transits due to planets orbiting this star. ...

... Submitted by Al Takeda on 02/13/2014 12:57:50 . Supernova SN2014J in M82 . A Type 1a supernovae has exploded in the irregular galaxy M82. ... Acquisition by Images Plus 4.0a, Calibration, normalization, alignment, combine and digital development processing by Images Plus 3.82b, Additional processing using Adobe Photoshop. ... ATMoB Clubhouse, Westford, MA, 7 February 2014 . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... The explosion of a star as a Supernova is certainly one of the most energetic events observable in the whole universe, and their radiation covers the whole band from radio to gamma-rays, accompanied with neutrino emission. ... Type Ia SNe are supposed to result from mass transfer inside a binary system consisting of a white dwarf star and an evolving giant star, which results in a termonuclear explosion. ... Core-collapse Supernovae . ... For comments please contact: gcresci@arcetri.astro.it . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Bright planets meet at dusk . ... Astronomy magazine subscribers can read the full article for free. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter....

In autumn 1994, two groups of astronomers announced that they had discovered Cepheid variable stars in a distant cluster of galaxies. ... As the term suggests, variable stars change in brightness over time. ... Variable stars are an ideal way to get high-school students doing real science, with real data, from the real sky. ... a sky chart to find the stars . ... Students can use the nearby stars to estimate the magnitude of Delta. ... Locate the star Delta in Cepheus and estimate its brightness . ...

The project of the informational system creation on the problem of evolution of radio galaxies, as a part of the "Big Trio" project aimed on studing of distant radio galaxies, is designed. This system allows a user to operate with simulated curves of spectral energy distributions (SED) to estimate ages and redshifts by photometry data. Authors use SEDs of several models for different types of galaxies. ... The HTTP and e-mail access is organized to this system. ...

This page is devoted to information on Supernova 1999br in NGC 4900 . Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main supernova page. ... Note that there is a very bright foreground star (mag about 11.3) located near the position of Supernova 1999br . ... Mag . ... vsnet-chat 1771 ] Host galaxy of SN1999br . ... from [ vsnet-alert 2870 ] SN 1999br in NGC 4900 . ... The host galaxy NGC 4900 has a rather peculiar appearance. ...

... For a hundred years, astronomers have been trying to pin down the exact distance to one of our nearest neighbouring galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud. ... In the case of the Large Magellanic Cloud, its distance was determined by looking at pairs of stars that orbit each other. ... Finding the accurate distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud is an important breakthrough, because the distance to stars in that galaxy can be used to find the distance to even more remote galaxies. ...

Working session on Standard Candles Chair: F. Haberl · Definition of standard candles Sources with constant X-ray flux: white dwarfs isolated neutron stars supernova remnants cluster of galaxies · Scientific drivers for accurate absolute fluxes neutron star radii cosmology (e.g. total mass of galaxy clusters, Sunyaev Zeldovic effect) · Calibration purposes absolute flux ...

... Posts tagged ?standard candle? ... In addition to Bayesian methodologies, like this week?s astro-ph, studies on characterizing empirical spatial distributions of voids and galaxies frequently appear, which I believe can be enriched further with the ideas from stochastic geometry and spatial statistics. Click for what was appeared in arXiv this week. ... 1 Comment . ... If you find any problems of viewing the slog, please notify me. ... Entries RSS . ... Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS) . ...

... Cross-shaped galaxy ZGC 2315+03 (Fig.1) has been described by Zwicky (1971) as ``post-eruptive or the result of the crossing of a compact galaxy through an edge-on spiral'' . This object was included in the Polar-Ring Catalog (C-71) by Whitmore et al. (1990) as a possible candidate for Polar-Ring Galaxies (PRG). ... One of them is galaxy 'disk' and the other is 'polar-ring'. ... The facts against the polar-ring nature of ZGC 2315+03 can be summarized as follows: . ...

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... Subject and Problems of Stellar Astronomy. ... Plane of Galaxy, Methods of Its Location Determination. ... Stars Distances. ... Other Methods of Stars Distances Determination. ... Tangential Velocities, Their Determination by Self-Motions. ... Determination of Solar Apex and Spatial Velocity by Radial and Spatial Velocities of Stars. ... Features of Orientation and Parameters of Peculiar Stellar Velocities Ellipsoid. ... General and Selective Light Absorption in Galaxy. ... Darc Clouds in Galaxy. ...

logd25 is the decimal logarithm of the length the projected major axis of a galaxy at the isophotal level 25 mag/arcsec 2 in the B-band (this is the diameter of the galaxy if it is a disk). Many papers were devoted to the study of diameters and specially to the reduction to the standard system defined by the isophote at the brightness of 25 B mag/arcsec 2 . ... The shape of the galaxy at the same isophotal level (B=25 mag/arcsec 2 ) is defined in the parameter logr25 . ... HyperLeda . ...