... APOD: 2006 September 29- NGC 5905 and 5908 . ... APOD: 2006 September 28- RCW 86: Historical Supernova Remnant . ... In 185 AD, Chinese astronomers recorded the appearance of a new star in the Nanmen asterism - a part of the sky identified with Alpha and Beta Centauri on modern star charts. ... APOD: 2006 September 26- Mars Express: Return to Cydonia . ... Last week, the Mars Express project released a new close-up image of a portion of the Cydonia region on Mars. ... What's California doing in...

... 2004 September 7 . A Supernova in Nearby Galaxy NGC 2403 . ... ESA , NASA . Explanation: The closest and brightest supernova in over a decade was recorded just over a month ago in the outskirts of nearby galaxy NGC 2403. ... The home galaxy to the supernova, spiral galaxy NGC 2403 , is located only 11 million light years away and is visible with binoculars toward the northern constellation of Camelopardalis (the Giraffe ). ... About APOD | ... 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. ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. September 22, 1998 . M61: Virgo Spiral Galaxy . ... Explanation: M61 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the nearby Virgo Cluster of Galaxies . Visible in M61 are a host of features common to spiral galaxies : bright spiral arms , a central bar , dust lanes , and bright knots of stars. ... About APOD > . ...

... Over the first 4 years, its X-ray telescopes eROSITA and ART-XC will survey the whole sky with a record sensitivity in the 0.5-10 keV energy band. ... The goal of the second international Spectrum-RG conference is to discuss the different scientific topics addressed by the mission, synergies with surveys at other wavelengths, and requirements to follow-up observations.Contributed talks and poster presentations are invited on the topics related to the SRG science goals. ... Active galactic nuclei . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Planets . ... Our Galaxy . ... Stars . ... Posted on March 14, 2012 | 23 Comments How big is the largest known star? ... Continue Reading.. ... Posted on November 10, 2011 | ... 2 Comments Once planets orbiting other stars were unknown as they could not be directly observed. ... 5 Comments Once exoplanets, worlds orbiting other stars, were the stuff of science fiction but now we know of literally hundreds of real alien planets circling other stars. ...

... Date . ... Authors . ... 1.000 . ... Kniazev, Alexei Y.; Grebel, Eva K.; Pustilnik, Simon A.; Pramskij, Alexander G.; Kniazeva, Tamara F.; Prada, Francisco; Harbeck, Daniel . Low Surface Brightness Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. ... 08/2001 . ... V. The fifth list of 161 galaxies . ... IV (Kniazev+, 2001) . ... Email results to: . ... Return:  Results  Form for manual query . ... Databases queried: Astronomy/Planetary Authors: KNIAZEVA, T Start date: 00/1990 End date: 03/2004 . ...

In 2001, Westerbork observations of the disturbed galaxy named VV-29 (alias Arp-188, UGC-10214) showed that there is second smaller galaxy (named VV-29c) that appears behind the western side of the main body of the distorted galaxy. ... The galaxy was featured as the May 2, 2002 Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... When VV-29 had its 15 minutes of fame in May 2002, it appeared under the name "The Tadpole Galaxy," but based on the images above, we will always think of it as "The CHAINSAW"! ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . Armagh Observatory reports that September 2014 was exceptionally dry, with just 3.55 mm of precipitation, which is nearly 20 times less than the monthтАЩs average rainfall. ... Despite the weather being dominated by prevailing hig