Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Comets and Asteroids . ... Image credit:ESO/J.Emerson/VISTA. ... However others are less pessimistic and it has even been claimed that the mysterious ?Wow! signal? received in 1977 originated from the direction M55.б  Sadly, this still unexplained pulse of radio energy originated from a location rather to the northwest of M55 so I doubt if the source was this cluster (if indeed the signal was genuinely of extraterrestrial origin). ... Mysterious Wow! ...

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• NGC4666: Secrets of a Starburst Galaxy | Astronotes
• Our Galaxy | Astronotes - Part 5
• A Summer Night?s Stargazing | Astronotes

... Venus, Mercury, and Saturn wandered close together in western evening skies last week. ... Thirteen Million Kilometers from Comet Tempel 1 . ... In the center is a large but peculiar elliptical galaxy dubbed NGC 1316. ... Globular Cluster M22 from CFHT . ... Stars orbit the center of the cluster, and the cluster orbits the center of our Galaxy. ... Venus, the second closest planet to the Sun, is by far the brightest of the three planets gathered in this weekend's western sky at sunset. ...

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... 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....

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• Astronomy Magazine - Interactive Star Charts, Planets, Meteors, Comets,
• A trio of evening planets | Astronomy.com
• Jupiter joins Venus in the early evening | Astronomy.com

... We sometimes use the word "nebula" to refer to galaxies, various types of star clusters and various kinds of interstellar dust/gas clouds. ... Early in this century, there was a great debate as to the nature of the nebulae like this one which at that time could not be resolved into individual stars. ... A typical galaxy is 100,000 light-years in diameter. ... M 42 shown) Reflection nebulae are clouds of dust which are simply reflecting the light of a nearby star or stars. ... M 1 shown) . ...

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• APOD: August 9, 1997 - The Hydra Cluster of Galaxies
• APOD: August 1, 1996 - The Hydra Cluster of Galaxies
• APOD: 2010 December 27 - One Million Galaxies

. Go Here for Hubble Ultra Deep Field . ___________________________________________________________________ The Electronic Universe Project e-mail: nuts@moo.uoregon.edu

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• Low Surface Brightness Galaxy Gallery
• The Galaxy Gallery: Messier Objects
• galaxies, Hubble sequence

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... The last step encompassed them all with galaxies , and how we discovered that the Milky Way was not the entire Universe. ... And just like those star clusters, there are different kinds of galaxy clusters. ... There are vast clusters of clusters, called superclusters, which contains hundreds of thousands or even millions of galaxies. ... Our own Galaxy has 400 billion stars in it, yet there are clusters out there with millions of galaxies like our own. ...

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• Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy: Mad Science

... We still have a long distance to cover before we leave the Milky Way Galaxy -- tens of thousands of lightyears, as a matter of fact -- so let's stop by some interesting objects on the way. ... But we have reached the edge of the Milky Way Galaxy. ... We don't know, but we do know that there are countless voyages left to take. To continue the virtual voyage beyond our galaxy, go to Kent Cheatham's "A Walk in the Stars" at http://www.ionet.net/~cheatham/astro/astrotour.shtml . ...

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• ASP: Big Clusters, Tiny Galaxies
• ASP: Globular Clusters and Satellite Galaxies: Companions to the Milky Way
• ASP: Sharing the Universe

... Millions and billions of stars were bound by gravity into groups that we call galaxies. And gravity even confines galaxies together in packs that we call galaxy clusters . ... It shows the Spiderweb Galaxy forming at the centre of a galaxy cluster. ... Like a construction site on Earth, galaxy clusters are dusty while they are forming. ... Using one of these special telescopes astronomers have managed to look at stars being born inside the Spiderweb galaxy cluster for the first time. ...

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• ESO - PhD Thesis Topics offered by ESO Faculty Members
• ESO - Research Area: STELLAR POPULATIONS
• Bright Galaxies in the Virgo Cluster

... We have made observations of the Perseus cluster with the Westerbork Telescope at 610 MHz. ... Several newly detected sources are identified with cluster galaxies. ... No evidence is found for the existence of the previously reported ~ 65'x25' cluster halo, 3C 84B. Key words: radio galaxies - clusters - tailed radio sources buoyancy The Perseus Cluster of galaxies is one of the most fascinating systems accessible to extragalactic astronomers. ...

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• A 1400-MHz Survey of 1478 Abell Clusters of Galaxies
• Clusters of Galaxies
• A VLA Survey of Rich Clusters of Galaxies III

PhD Thesis (PDF) . ... The evolution of stars and gas in galaxies. Observing the atomic neutral hydrogen (HI) 21 cm emission and radio continuum emission of galaxies. ... The goal of research is to quantify the neutral atomic hydrogen (HI) gas content galaxies as they evolve with time. ... Neutral atomic hydrogen gas produces a radio signal that can be used to directly measure the amount of gas present. ... USyd Summer Research Scholarship Report (PDF) . ... Research Topic Write Up (PDF) . ...

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• Dark Matter in Spiral Galaxies
• Julie Banfield | Astronomer
• ASTR1002 Assignments 4-6: Planet Ziggy

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . Mopra radio telescope . ... Australia Telescope 20GHz Survey . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ... In addition to this, their morphology displays very spiral like signatures compared to quiescent red sequence galaxies. ...

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• The HIPASS Bright Galaxy Catalog
• HIPASS Bright Galaxy Catalog
• Galaxy Lunch - Dave Lommen speaking on "Probing the first steps of planet

... We have simulated the observations of a very distant cluster of galaxies at high redshift. ... The simulations are made for the HST instruments FOC, WFPC II, and the Advanced Camera, and for an 8-m telescope on the ground equipped with adaptive optics. ... A comparison of the fields of view of post-COSTAR HST imaging instruments with the Advanced Camera (AC) and the ground-based adaptive optics camera (AO) is shown in Fig. 1 superimposed on the noise-free cluster simulation. ...

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• HST this week: 110
• HST this week
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ESO PR Photo 18b/00 . ... Caption : Images of two of the novae in NGC 1316 that were discovered during the observational programme described in this Press Release. ... In particular, no less than four novae were detected in a single giant galaxy within only 11 days . ... Moreover, the discovery of four novae in one galaxy in the Fornax cluster was possible with only 3 hours of observing time per filter. ... ESO Press Information is available on the WWW at . http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/ . ...

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• APOD: May 3, 1997 - Giant Cluster Bends, Breaks Galaxy Images
• APOD: December 13, 1997 - The Coma Cluster of Galaxies
• APOD: December 18, 1999 - Irregular Galaxy Sextans A

... Conjunction Over Armagh . ... Comet and Pleiades . ... Pleiades . ... Antares Region . Helix and Cat's Eye Nebulae . Orion Nebula . Lagoon and Eagle Nebulae . Crab Nebula . ... Our Galaxy Core . Andromeda Galaxy . Wide-field and Zoomed-in Galaxies . Interacting Typhoons and Galaxies . Spiral Galaxy M106 . Sombrero Galaxy . Whirlpool Galaxy . Colliding Galaxies . ... й Miruna Popescu, Armagh Observatory ...

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• May 2002 Planetary Alignment
• William Herschel
• Armagh Observatory

... 2004: . ... An increase in star brightness is followed by a decrease in asphericity and wind velocity to the point where stationary and even accreting fraction of the wind appears in extremely bright objects together with a flowing out fraction. ... Based on an analysis of observations obtained with BTA and on the published data it was found that degree of abnormality of energy distribution in continuum of magnetic chemically peculiar stars increases with an increase of their rotation period. ...

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• important_en
• Galaxy sector, archive 2012
• A unique isolated dwarf spheroidal galaxy KKR25

... About ATMoB . ... The Observing Committee is starting an Observing Awards Program to promote observing among the membership of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston. ... Participant must be a current member of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston . ... To qualify for your Observing Award Certificate, turn in your worksheet and drawings to an ATMoB Observing Committee member or observing@atmob.org . ... This Excel sheet has useful macros. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

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An image of the grand design of spiral galaxy M100 obtained with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope resolves individual stars within the majestic spiral arms. ... Hubble has the ability to resolve individual stars in other galaxies and measure accurately the light from very faint stars. This makes space telescope invaluable for identifying a rare class of pulsating stars, called Cepheid Variable stars embedded within M100's spiral arms. ... 617) 495-7062 . Fax: (617) 495-7356 . ...

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• The Chandra Multiwavelength Project (ChaMP)
• Southern SHARC survey
• High Energy Astrophysics

... Curriculum Vitae Observations and theory of star cluster formation 22) A.K.Dambis and Yu.N.Efremov Journal for History of Astronomy, 31, 115-134, 2000 Dating Ptolemy's star catalogue through proper motions: the Hypparchan epoch 23) B.G.Elmegreen, Yu.N.Efremov, S.Larsen Astrophys. J., 535, 748 - , 2000 A young globular cluster in the galaxy NGC 6946 24) Yu.N.Efremov. ... 28) Yu.N.Efremov. ... The location of star complexes in the Galaxy was studied in papers with E.Alfaro, L.Berdnikov and T.Sitnik. ...

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• Division of the Galaxy and Variable Stars

... Multiwavelength Milky Way . Our solar system consists of an average star we call the Sun , the planets Mercury , Venus , Earth , Mars , Jupiter , Saturn , Uranus , Neptune , and Pluto . ... The whole solar system, together with the local stars visible on a clear night, orbits the center of our home galaxy, a spiral disk of 200 billion stars we call the Milky Way . ... The terrestrial planets are the four innermost planets in the solar system, Mercury , Venus , Earth and Mars . ... Earth's) . ...

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• Venus
• The Sun
• The Nine Planets

... Dept. for Physics of Stars&Galaxies . ... Using a database view Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), containing almost a million spectra created 15,000 sample galaxies with active star formation, which is used for various studies and physical state of evolution of galaxies. ... Star clusters of the Galaxy . The project MWSC (Milky Way Star Clusters) directory using 2MASS, which includes nearly 500 million vision to the limit Ks = 15.3, analyzed more than 4,000 cluster-like objects in the galaxy. ...

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• Science - Page 2
• Dept. for Physics of Stars&Galaxies
• The Laboratory of Astrometry