... Three Galaxies and a Comet . ... About 2,400 light-years away, the scene lies along the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy toward the royal northern constellation of Cepheus. Venus, Zodiacal Light, and the Galactic Center . ... From left to right are edge-on spiral NGC 5981, elliptical galaxy NGC 5982.. The Great Carina Nebula . ... A jewel of the southern sky, the Great Carina Nebula, also known as NGC 3372, spans over 300 light-years, one of our galaxy's largest star forming regions. ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2015 October 8 . M83: The Thousand-Ruby Galaxy . ... European Southern Observatory - Processing Copyright: Robert Gendler . ... But reddish star forming regions that dot the sweeping arms highlighted in this sparkling color composite also suggest another nickname, The Thousand-Ruby Galaxy. ... About APOD | ... A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC . ...

... October 16, 1995 . Starburst Galaxy M94 . Credit: NASA , Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope . Explanation: The spiral galaxy M94 is somewhat unusual in that it shows a great ring of bright young stars particularly apparent when observed in ultraviolet light , as shown above. Such a high abundance of these young blue stars may cause a galaxy to be designated a starburst galaxy. ... Tomorrow's picture: Galaxy Dwingeloo 1 Emerges . ... About APOD | ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

M1 image More About M1 Nice Color Picture . ... M16 image More About M16 HST image . ... M31 image More About M31 Nice Color Picture . ... M42 image ; M43 image More About M42/43 Nice Color CCD Picture . M51 image More About M51 Color Image of M51 M51 Supernova . M57 image More About M57 Nice Color CCD Picture Very Deep M57 Image . ... M81 image More About M81 M81 Supernova Ultraviolet Image of M81 More about Ultraviolet Imaging . M82 image More About M82 M82 False Color M82 True Color . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Our Galaxy . ... Other Galaxies . ... Telescopes and Observatories . ... Everyone loves stunning pictures of spiral galaxies,€а I have said this before and will no doubt say it again. The folks at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) know this too, and their latest public image release is a bumper set of serenely spinning spirals. ... Tweets that mention Six glorious spiral galaxies seen by the European Southern Observatory. ...

... Are HVCs a common feature of star forming galaxies? ... Consider the typical properties of the smallest HVCs (compact HVCs) found in HIPASS: . Distance . HI Mass . ... At 5 kpc . meager objects ~116 solar masses . ... 1.15 x 10 4 solar masses . ... Putman et al. (2003) found none to 10 7 solar masses. 2% of Sculptor to 3 x 10 6 solar masses by de Blok et al. (2001) found none. ... High velocity gas around other galaxies can be identified from maps and dynamics: . ... 2003) . ...

... ftp://www.kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp/pub/cgmw/ : This catalog, giving about 7000 galaxies behind the Milky Way between l = 210 degrees and 250 degrees, represents a systematic search for galaxies by means of 32 film copies of the UK Schmidt Southern Infrared Atlas on the Milky Way covering about 900 square degrees. ... Japan, Vol. ... This will be distributed upon request from Astronomical Data Analysis Center of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan and other astronomical data centers. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . News . Observing . ... Magazine . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Open cluster NGC 2818, spiral galaxy NGC 2964, and spiral galaxy NGC 2976 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... October 2012 . ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

Giant radio galaxies constitute a class of radio sources with linear sizes on the megaparsec scale (Saripalli 1988). ... The Westerbork Northern Sky Survey (WENSS) has discovered several cases of "inner-double" or "double-double" giant radio galaxies: the findings suggest that such structures predominantly occur among the larger of radio galaxies. ... Close to the core of B0114-476, a narrow jet-like feature is seen directed toward the southern inner lobe which also has the brighter hotspots. ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science and Technical Meetings > Conferences 2002 > cosmology2002 . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... Public Surveys . ... Data Handling and Products . ... Science Data Products Forum . ... ESO Data . ... ESO Data Access Policy . ... Review: Weak Lensing . ... Tangential alignement of galaxies in a STIS Parallel shear survey field: a new dark lens candidate . ... Poster: . ... New Clues on clustering evolution from the K20 and FIRES surveys . ... data ...

... International Year of Astronomy in Ireland . ... Christmas Moon", painting by Miruna Popescu, Armagh Observatory, featured as " Lunar photo of the Day " and " Astronomy Sketch of the Day " on 25 December 2009. ... To mark the 400th anniversary of GalileoтАЩs first use of the telescope to observe the sky, 2009 has been celebrated worldwide as the International Year of Astronomy. Moon over Armagh - link to Astronomy Sketch of the Day on 25 December 2009 . ... Monday, 11 May 2009 23:54 . ...

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... Here some data observed on the 6m telescope with IFP installed in the OLD focal reducer are presented. ... Mkn 3: velocity field . ... NGC 5252: [OIII] image . ... NGC 5252 was observed 23 Feb. 1998 in the [OIII]5007 emission line with CCD TK1024 as detector. ... We observed the ionized gas velocity fields of the spiral galaxies with two purpose. ... Restored velocity field of NGC 157 in the reference frame rotating with the pattern speed overlaid on the Ha image of the galaxy . ... NGC 4100 . ...

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... Courtesy of NASA/ESA Observation data (J2000 epoch) Constellation Right ascension Declination Redshift Distance Type Serpens Caput 15h 17m 14.4s[] +21° 35 08[] 12,740±50 km/s[][1] 600±30 Mly (183±8 Mpc)[1] SA0(r) [citation needed ] [a] Apparent dimensions (V) 0.28 в 0.28[] Apparent magnitude (V) 16.0[] Notable features Ring galaxy Other designations PGC 54559,[] PRC D-51[] See also: Galaxy, List of galaxies Hoag's Object is a non-typical galaxy of the type known as a ring galaxy. ...

... According to the most popular cosmological paradigm, the greater part of the galaxy mass is accumulated in the dark matter halo. ... The polar ring galaxies (PRGs) reveal external rings or disks of gas, dust and stars rotating in a plane roughly perpendicular to the disk of the central galaxy. ... The shape of the dark halo in the model was chosen so as to achieve the best fit to the observed rotation of both galaxies themselves and their polar rings. ... The SPRC-7 galaxy. ...

home publications > mercury . ... Big Clusters, Tiny Galaxies . ... Astronomers struggle to understand why giant star clusters form in the tiniest of galaxies . ... These clusters are probably young versions of globular clusters, but they are commonly called super star clusters. Seven dwarf galaxies within 16 million light-years have formed super star clusters, with one of these galaxies, NGC 1569, possessing two young clusters. ... Super star clusters have a lot to tell us about star formation. ...

... Visible Distribution of Galaxies. ... Features of Elliptical, Lens-Shaped, Spiral and Irregular Galaxies. Galaxies with Bar. ... Distribution of Surface Brightness of Surface and Spiral Galaxies. ... Color Characteristics of Galaxies. ... Methods of Galaxies' Mass Determination. ... Hidden Mass of Spiral Galaxies. ... Features of Dark Matter Distribution in E and SO Galaxies. ... The Whole Number of Galaxies and Their Density by the Results of Observation on the 'Hubble' Space Telescope. ...

... Talks . Integral field spectroscopy of AGN host galaxies . Talk at the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The Australian National University, October 17th, 2011, in Canberra, Australia . ... Talk at the Centre for Astrophysics Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, February 25th, 2010, in Melbourne, Australia . ... Talk at the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics of the Australian National University, May 28th, 2009, in Canberra, Australia . ...