Today's APOD | ... Editor's choices for the most educational Astronomy Pictures of the Day about individual stars: . APOD: 2000 June 11 - Sirius: The Brightest Star in the Night . Explanation: Sirius is the brightest star in the night sky. ... As Sirius is 8.7 light years distant, it is not the closest star system - the Alpha Centauri system holds this distinction. ... APOD: 2005 December 4 - Proxima Centauri: The Closest Star . ... APOD: 1999 October 6 - Polaris: The North Star . ... Index | ...

Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse . ... Credit Copyright: A. Dupree ( CfA ), R. Gilliland ( STScI ), NASA Explanation: Betelgeuse (sounds a lot like "beetle juice"), a red supergiant star about 600 light years distant, is seen in this Hubble Space Telescope image -- the first direct picture of the surface of a star other than the Sun . ... Betelgeuse is also known as Alpha Orionis, one of the brightest stars in the familar constellation of Orion, the Hunter . ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...

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. ...

... Observing . ... Solar Observing . ... April 3 (SUN) - Solar Observing, Central Park , Manhattan . ... APRIL'S SKY . ... Lecture Series at the American Museum of Natural History The Amateur Astronomers Association is proud to present an astronomy lecture series from October through May each year for our members and the .. ... The€аAmateur Astronomers Association of New York€аwas organized in 1927 to promote the study of Astronomy, emphasizing its cultural and inspirational value. ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. June 5, 1999 . ... Explanation: Betelgeuse (sounds a lot like "beetle juice"), a red supergiant star about 600 light years distant, is seen in this Hubble Space Telescope image - the first direct picture of the surface of a star other than the Sun. While Betelgeuse is cooler than the Sun , it is more massive and over 1000 times larger. ...

... About ATNF overview . ... Both are consistent with earlier estimates, computed for the population of optically selected galaxies. This consistency occurs because, although the distribution of optical central surface brightnesses among galaxies is flat, we fail to find a population of galaxies with central surface brightnesses fainter than 24б  B - , even though there is no observational selection against them. Keywords: Galaxies: Luminosity Function, Mass Function; Surveys . ...

Next: Accretion Disks with Up: StarsStellar Populations, Previous: Spectroscopic Analysis of . ... We present and discuss spatially resolved spectra of the accretion disk and the gas stream region as a function of distance from disk center, the spectrum of the uneclipsed light, and the radial temperature distribution in the ultraviolet. Keywords: Accretion disks, Cataclysmic variables . ... In this paper we report on the HST spectral mapping of the nova-like UX UMa. ...

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Massive Disks in Low Surface Brightness Galaxies Burkhard Fuchs Astronomisches Rechen­Institut, MЁnchhofstr. ... Again these estimates seem to indicate that the disks of low surface brightness galaxies might b e much more massive than currently thought. ... 2001). ... Fuchs, B. Dim Matter in the Disks of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies. ... Quillen, A. C. and Pickering, T. E. Spiral Structure based Limits on the Disk Mass of the Low Surface Brightness Galaxies UGC 6614 and F 568­6. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Armagh Observatory, 30 July 2015: The sky above a nearby "failed star" or brown dwarf lying in the summer constellation Lyra shimmers with a beautiful green and yellow aurora ten thousand times brighter than the northern lights. ... Even a few years ago, brown dwarfs were thought by most astronomers to be incapable of emitting any significant radio emission, so its first detection came as a great surprise. ...

This long-exposure Hubble Space Telescope image of massive galaxy cluster Abell 2744 is the deepest ever made of any cluster of galaxies. ... It contains several hundred galaxies as they looked 3.5 billion years ago. The immense gravity in Abell 2744 acts as a gravitational lens to warp space and brighten and magnify images of nearly 3,000 distant background galaxies. The more distant galaxies appear as they did longer than 12 billion years ago, not long after the Big Bang. ...

... A1972 Date Received: 2004-Jun-01 13:53:14 Technical Page Proposal Type: Regular General Category : Astronomy Sub- Category : Spectroscopy Observation Category : Extragalactic Total Time Requested: 33 Hours Proposal Title: A Search for Massive Low Surface Brightness Galaxies ABSTRACT: Gaining a rm understanding of Low Surface Brightness ( Observations show increasingly that the `traditional' view of LSB galaxies as low mass, blue young dwarf-like systems is actually incorrect. ...

... This paper describes the capabilities of GIM2D, an IRAF package for the quantitative morphology analysis of distant galaxies. GIM2D automatically decomposes all the objects on an input image as the sum of a S?rsic profile and an exponential profile. ... GIM2D (Galaxy IMage 2D) is an IRAF package written to perform detailed bulge/disk decompositions of low signal-to-noise images of distant galaxies. ... The segmentation image is used by GIM2D to deblend galaxy images. ... Create a residual image. ...

... These other worlds are the moons of our Solar System , of which there are approximately 170 in orbit around our planets.Some of these moons are very interesting, and have diverse and unique features, very different to our barren, heavily cratered Moon .Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system has the most moons of any planet with known 64 moons in orbit.The four ... Ganymede, the largest moon in the Solar System thought to have oceans located underneath its icy surface.( ...

Next: Ejectors in Massive Binary Previous: Artificial Galaxy: Full Matrix . The first version of the Scenario Machine was aimed especially at the simulation of massive binary star evolution. ... First, there is a large class of intermediate mass binaries (say, consisting initially of 8 + 5 solar masses) that can also produce NS and thus lead to the formation of a bright X-ray source. ... Next: Ejectors in Massive Binary Previous: Artificial Galaxy: Full Matrix Mike E. Prokhorov . ...

... 2000: . According to the BTA observations, the redshift Z=0.7063+-0.0017 was measured for a distant galaxy possessing the 24 magnitude, in which there occurred an explosion of a massive star, followed by a gamma-ray burst catalogued as GRB991208. ... In collaboration with the Space Telescope Science Institute (USA), the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (Spain). ... According to the Palomar Sky Survey, about 600 new nearby dwarf galaxies were discovered. ... Archive . ...

... Our Sun is part of a huge wheel-shaped collection of stars. ... Astronomers have long suspected it was a very massive black hole, and that every galaxy had such a central mass, created early in the history of the universe. ... However, unless that object happens to be headed directly at the black hole (a relatively small target) it will just swing around and fly away again, like a comet making a pass at the Sun. The velocity acquired in falling towards the black hole also helps it escape. ...

... Phoebe is almost 4 times more distant from Saturn than its nearest neighbor ( Iapetus ). orbit : 12,952,000 km from Saturn diameter : 220 km mass : 4.0e18 kg P hoebe is the daughter of Uranus and Gaia ; grandmother of Apollo and Artemis. ... M ost of Saturn's moons are bright but Phoebe's albedo is very low (.05), as dark as lampblack. A ll of Saturn 's moons except for Phoebe and Iapetus orbit very nearly in the plane of Saturn's equator. ... Why is Phoebe in such an odd orbit? ... Saturn .. ...

... This paper ( Burke et al. 2003 ) describes the creation of one such catalogue - the Southern Serendipitous High-redshift Archival ROSAT Cluster (SHARC) survey - which covers an area of 17.7 deg 2 and consists of 32 clusters with redshifts between 0.05 and 0.7 and X-ray luminosities between 7 x 10 42 and 4 x 10 44 erg/s: the high-redshift subsample contains 16 clusters with = 0.3 and X-ray luminosities greater than 2 x 10 43 erg/s (luminosities are quoted for the 0.5 - 2.0 keV energy band). ... 1997 ...

Results from 6m telescope observations of globular clusters in dwarf galaxies Sharina M. We consider properties of globular clusters in dwarf galaxies observed with the multi-slit unit of the SCORPIO spectrograph at the SAO 6m telescope. ... Studying GCs in dwarf galaxies at the faintest end of the galaxy luminosity function provides valuable information for a better understanding of galaxy evolution and evolutionary connection between globular clusters and nuclei of galaxies. ...