... Cepheus: Trunk to Bubble . ... NGC 4911: Spiral Diving into a Dense Cluster . ... Why are there faint rings around this spiral galaxy? Possibly because the galaxy, NGC 4911, is being pulled at by its neighbors as it falls into the enormous Coma Cluster of Galaxies. ... A Laser Strike at the Galactic Center . ... Rather, astronomers at the Very Large Telescope (VLT) site in Chile are trying to measure the distortions of Earth's ever changing atmosphere. ... The Annotated Galactic Center . ...

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... 2010 February 11 . Star Cluster M34 . ... Explanation: This pretty , open cluster of stars, M34, is about the size of the Full Moon on the sky. ... But like any open star cluster orbiting in the plane of our galaxy , M34 will eventually disperse as it experiences gravitational tides and encounters with the Milky Way's interstellar clouds and other stars. Over four billion years ago, our own Sun was likely formed in a similar open star cluster . ... About APOD | ...

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... These Frontier Fields will combine the power of HST with the natural gravitational telescopes of high-magnification clusters of galaxies. ... We are soliciting gravitational lensing maps for the last four Hubble Frontier Fields clusters (MACSJ0717.5+3745, MACSJ1149.5+2223, AbellS1063, and Abell 370) based upon the exceptionally deep HST FF imaging and other new ancillary data. ... For the full set of proposal instructions and requirements, see the FY16 Frontier Fields Lensing Map Call for Proposals....

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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... Although they look tranquil here, observed up close such young stars would seethe and glare violently. ... Once thought to be a satellite of our own galaxy, increasingly the Small Magellanic Cloud is believed to be an interloper from the intergalactic void which has wandered into its present location and will eventually recede away into the darkness. ... Your email address will not be published. ...

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... The Pleiades star cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, is a conspicuous object in the night sky with a prominent place in ancient mythology . ... The stars in the Pleiades are thought to have formed together around 100 million years ago, making them 1/50th the age of our sun, and they lie some 130 parsecs (425 light years ) away. ... Data for these stars are listed in a table below. ... Yes . ... WEBDA Pleiades cluster data . ... M45: The Pleiades Star Cluster (2007 November 18) ...

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Photon Scattering: Basic Principle of Photon Scattering . Audio Narration is available . No Scattering: Photon Source and Detector . ... For optical photons, scattering goes as wavelength to the -4 power. In the case of blue photons compared to red photons, this means that blue photons are about 10 times more likely to get scattered than red photons. ... Watch the blue photons scatter away from the detector . ... Interstellar dust make stars appear redder than they really are . ...

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... STScI-PRC00-36 GHOSTLY REFLECTIONS IN THE PLEIADES NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has caught the eerie, wispy tendrils of a dark interstellar cloud being destroyed by the passage of one of the brightest stars in the Pleiades star cluster. ... In 1890, American astronomer E. E. Barnard, observing visually with the Lick Observatory 36-inch telescope in California, discovered an exceptionally bright nebulosity adjacent to the bright Pleiades star Merope. ...

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... Bringing news from across the Universe to children all around the world . ... Unlike many other subjects, like history and mathematics, science doesn t have to be learnt from a book, you can really experience it. After all, science is the study of the world around us. ... Take Messier 7, the cluster of stars in this photograph, it can be seen easily with the naked eye. You will find the cluster in the stinger of the constellation many of us know as Scorpius (the Scorpion). ...

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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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... Classifying or clustering (or semi supervised learning) spectra is a very challenging problem from collecting statistical-analysis-ready data to reducing the dimensionality without sacrificing complex information in each spectrum. ... Continue reading ?[ ... Category: Algorithms , arXiv , Cross-Cultural , Data Processing , Jargon , Methods , Spectral , Stat | ... Category: Algorithms , arXiv , Astro , Bad AstroStat , Cross-Cultural , Data Processing , Frequentist , Jargon , Methods , Stat | ... ADS ...

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3rd of February 2016 . Storm Stow at ATCA . ... The picture was taken on 1 February 2013 at the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) while observing neutral hydrogen (HI) in the galaxy IC 1993. IC 1993 is an HI poor spiral galaxy located at the outskirts of the Fornax cluster. ... 2016) . ... Whenever there are strong winds or lots of lightning strikes the antennas need to be in a safety mode to protect them from damage from the storm. ... today * ATNF | ... ATCA | ...

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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. ...

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... Future seminars . P a s t seminars . Seminar council . Stability of cold fronts in clusters of galaxies " . E. Churazov (IKI, MPA) . ... One of the insteresting results of Chandra and XMM-Newton observatories is the discovery of sharp structures in the X-ray surface brightness of galaxy clusters. These structures (a.k.a. cold fronts) are likely associated with the contacted discontinuities formed when a hot gas flows over a colder gravitationally bound gas cloud. ...

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... 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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... Comet Ikeya-Zhang, designated C/2002 C1 (Ikeya-Zhang), is named after Kaoru Ikeya of Shizuoka prefecture, Japan, and Daqing Zhang of Henan province, China, who independently discovered it on the night of 1 February 2002. A preliminary orbit reported the following day indicated that it would come moderately close to both the Earth and the Sun and that it might become visible to the naked eye during late March and April 2002. ... Bailey, M.E., Clube, S.V.M. and Napier, W.M. The Origin of Comets . ...

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... The Sun . Does anyone know how many stars are there in the solar system? Come take a look at the Sun. See that? ... Did you know all the stars you see when you look up are inside our galaxy! ... Did you know that our Sun and solar system were born in a cloud of gas and dust like this. ... We're looking at a place where stars are being born. ... Sharing the Universe is based upon work supported by the Informal Education Division of the National Science Foundation under Grant no DRL-0638873. ...

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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. ...

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... 367Ferguson VII/180 GALAXIES IN 3.5 DEGS OF FORNAX CLUSTER, AND IN FIVE NEARBY GROUPS ================================================================================ Population studies in groups and clusters of galaxies. ... A catalog of galaxies in the central 3.5 degs of the Fornax Cluster FERGUSON H.C. Astron. ... Within this survey region, the catalog includes 340 likely cluster members and 2338 likely background galaxies. ... Cluster membership is for the most part based on galaxy morphology. ...

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... Positive iterative deconvolution is an algorithm that applies non-linear constraints, conserves energy, and delivers stable results at high noise-levels. This is also true for Richardson-Lucy like algorithms which follow a statistical approach to the deconvolution problem. ... All algorithms resolve the objects, as shown by the reconstructions by Richardson-Lucy in Figure 2 on the right, the algorithm by M?ller in Figure 3 on the left and positive iterative deconvolution in Figure 3 on the right. ...

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... An automated process measures jet length away from optical position (green cross) out to red Xs, allowing robust measurements and classification To investigate the Fanaroff-Riley divide as radio jets evolve through the PD diagram, we consider environmental influences on FRI and FRII sources , and conversely study the feedback from well-constrained jets on the ICM Main Idea 100 kpc 100 kpc Classifying a sample of ...

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