... In the Center of the Virgo Cluster . ... The Virgo Cluster of Galaxies is the closest cluster of galaxies to our Milky Way Galaxy. ... Ice Fishing for Cosmic Neutrinos . ... On August 13, 2002, while counting Perseid meteors under dark, early morning Arizona skies, Rick Scott set out to photograph their fleeting but fiery trails. ... Moons and Bright Mars . ... The answer can be guessed by noticing that the bright areas disappear as springtime takes hold in the south of Mars: dry ice. ... August . ...

... 2008 April 25 . M86 in the Virgo Cluster . ... Explanation: Bright lenticular galaxy M86 is near center of this cosmic view, at the heart of the Virgo Galaxy Cluster . ... With well over a thousand members, the Virgo Cluster is the closest large cluster of galaxies. ... The entire Virgo Cluster is difficult to appreciate because it covers such a large area, spanning over 10 degrees on the sky. ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply . ...

... Our Galaxy . ... Space Flight . ... No Comments Dim and isolated, the dwarf irregular galaxy WolfтАУLundmarkтАУMelotte (WLM) could be described as an astronomical тАЬliving fossilтАЭ as it seems to have developed since it formed billions of years ago [ ] . Continue Reading.. ... Posted on November 24, 2011 | ... 3 Comments The astronomy community is excited by the discovery of an exploding star, a supernova, in a galaxy 21 million light years away in the constellation Ursa Major. ...

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. ...

... DIGITAL EDITIONS . ... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... galaxies . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Globular cluster NGC 2808, elliptical galaxy NGC 2986, and the Sextans Dwarf . ... Open cluster NGC 2818, spiral galaxy NGC 2964, and spiral galaxy NGC 2976 . ... Bright galaxies . ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy...

... Special Reports Giant space cloud may be powered by black holes 17:57 23 April 2007 NewScientist.com news service David Shiga An enormous cloud of roiling plasma in space may be drawing its energy from black holes, new observations suggest. Such clouds might be sources for the mysterious particles that occasionally crash into Earth's atmosphere at ultra - high speed. ... But higher energy particles in the cloud may be able to escape, he says. ...

Agenda Cluster Lensing : Peering into the Past, Preparing for the Future MONDAY, APRIL 15, 2013 Time 9:00 AM Speaker /Activity Priya Natarajan Matt Mountain Length 15 Title Welcome and Opening Remarks CLUSTER MASS DISTRIBUTIONS FROM LENS MODELING Session Chair : Marc Postman 9:15 AM 9:55 AM 10:15 AM 10:30 AM 10:40 AM 11:05 AM 11:20 AM 11:35 AM 11:45 AM 12:00 PM 12:15 PM 12:25 PM E. Medezinski ...

Old subtables of the extended ``HIPASS Bright Galaxy Catalog'' . ... Koribalski, Staveley-Smith, Kilborn, + HIPASS/ZOA teams 2004, AJ 128, 16 . The 1000 Brightest HIPASS Galaxies: HI Properties . ... The 1000 Brightest HIPASS Galaxies: The HI Mass Function . ... The 1000 Brightest HIPASS Galaxies: Newly Cataloged Galaxies . ... To download the gzipped ps-file click here . ... The Brightest Galaxies from HIPASS . Presented is the distribution of the 700 brightest HIPASS galaxies. ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science and Technical Meetings > Conferences 2011 > Dynamics of Low-Mass Stellar Systems: From Star Clusters to Dwarf Galaxies . ... Science Users Information . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... Science Software . ... ESO-MIDAS . ... Science Data Products Forum . ... ESO Data . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... We aim at bringing together a mix of astronomers from both observations and theory that work on the dynamics of dwarf galaxies and star clusters...

... April 2, 1999 . Stars of NGC 206 . ... Explanation: Nestled within the dusty arms of the large spiral galaxy Andromeda (M31), the star cluster NGC 206 is one of the largest star forming regions known in our local group of galaxies. The beautiful bright blue stars of NGC 206 betray its youth - but close, systematic studies of variable stars in and around NGC 206 will also accurately reveal its distance. ... About APOD > . ...

GALAXIES cenA .tiff 40 Bright Radio Galaxy M31.tiff Nikon Andromeda Galaxy (note HII regions in spiral arms) ngc6744.tiff 40 NGC 6744 a face-on spiral clouds_20d.tiff H'blad The Magellanic Clouds our nearest neighbours Lmc_7.tiff Nikon The Large Magellanic Clouds Lmc_zoom.tiff Nikon Detail of previous image smc_7.tiff Nikon The Small Magellanic Clouds smc-zoom.tiff Nikon Detail of previous image 30dor_40_BVR.tiff 40 The 30 Dor ... B [OIII] Halpha trifid.tiff 40" The Trifid Nebula. ...

Title: A New Model of the Gravitational Lens 0957+561 and a Limit on the Hubble Constant . Authors: Norman A. Grogin , Ramesh Narayan (Harvard Univ.) ... Title: ROSAT/PSPC observation of the distant cluster CL0939+472 . ... Title: Interaction in the Bimodal Galaxy Cluster A3528 . ... Title: Cosmological Implications of Galaxy Cluster Evolution . ... Title: Galaxy Cluster Virial Masses and Omega . ... Matches 201 to 222 from a total of 222 matches for the search pattern galaxy cluster . ...

... 1st Announcement IAU Symposium 312 Star Clusters and Black Holes Across Cosmic Time, Beijing, China, Aug. 25-29, 2014 . ... SUBJECT: 1st Announcement IAU Symposium 312 Star Clusters and Black Holes Across Cosmic Time, Beijing, China, Aug. 25-29, 2014 . ... which will be held in Beijing, P.R. China, from August 25-29, 2014, hosted by Chinese Academy of Sciences . ... China), . ... 1st Announcement IAU Symposium 312 Star Clusters and Black Holes Across Cosmic Time, Beijing, China, Aug. ...

... Radio source identifications . The Web-server of the Special Astrophysical Observatory supports the mirror version of the Clusters of Galaxies database . At present only the data about radio sources in ACO clusters of galaxies are reasonably complete, while only restricted optical information is in our database. Later on, we also intend to include X-ray data and data about brightest cluster galaxies (BCG). ... ACO: radio optic ( for example, A0690 and " optic "), . ...

... 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. ...

... Telescopes . ... The International Conference "Dark Ages and White Nights (Spectroscopy of the CMB)" (June 20-24, 2016) . ... The International Conference "Stars: from collapse to collapse" (October 3-7, 2016) . The traditional annual competition conference of scientific and scientific-engineering papers of the Observatory staff members . ... A session of the Dissertation Council (October 16, 2015) . ... International scientific conference "Large Optical Telescopes" (October, 10-13, 2011) . ...

... 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. ...

... ISC Kosmotras . ... Comments, Opinions Publications Dnepr Program . Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. ... Launch of Dnepr LV carrying Sich-2 and BPA-2 (State Space Agency of Ukraine), Nigeriasat-2 and Nigeriasat-X (SSTL, Great Britain), RASAT (Space Research Technology Institute of Turkey (TUBITAK UZAY)), EDUSAT (La Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), and Aprizesat-5 and Aprizesat-6 (SpaceQuest, USA) payloads is scheduled for 17 August 2011, at 10:12:20 decreed Moscow time (7:12:20 UTC). ...

... Session 1 - Stars, star formation, stellar populations and planets . 9.20 10.00 . ... HST Spectroscopy of the Hottest White Dwarfs . ... Coffee break . ... Lunch break . ... A (long) look at neutron stars with HST . ... Session 2 - Nearby galaxies, bulges, spheroids, galaxy formation . ... New HST/ACS Insights into the Evolution of Star-Forming Dwarf Galaxies with Extreme Properties of Cosmological Relevance . ... Deriving properties of Lyman-break galaxies at z~3-5 using HST/VLT/Spitzer data . ...

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