... Cloudy skies over Wuhan, China hid the delicate solar corona during July's total eclipse of the Sun. ... The Star Clusters of NGC 1313 . ... Like grains of sand on a cosmic beach, individual stars of barred spiral galaxy NGC 1313 are resolved in this sharp composite from the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS). ... T Tauri: A Star is Formed . ... The orange star centered in this remarkable telescopic skyview is T Tauri, prototype of the class of T Tauri variable stars. ...

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! ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. December 18, 1999 . Irregular Galaxy Sextans A . ... Their newly formed, bright, blue star clusters found along beautiful, symmetric spiral arms are guaranteed to attract attention. But small irregular galaxies form stars too , like this lovely, gumdrop-shaped galaxy, Sextans A . ... About APOD > . ...

... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... galaxies . ... The Hubble Space Telescope found a galaxy that was completely formed within 480 million years of the Big Bang. How could gas and dust clouds condense into stars and organize themselves via gravity into an entire galaxy in less time than it takes the Milky Way to make two rotations? ... Galaxies like the Milky Way indeed could not have formed as a unit at such an early era after the Big Bang. ...

... 2004 February 5 . NGC 1569: Starburst in a Small Galaxy . Credit: ESA , NASA , P. Anders ( GЖttingen Univ. ) et al. Explanation: Grand spiral galaxies often seem to get all the glory, flaunting their young, bright, blue star clusters in beautiful, symmetric spiral arms. But small, irregular galaxies form stars too. In fact, as pictured here , dwarf galaxy NGC 1569 is apparently undergoing a burst of star forming activity, thought to have begun over 25 million years ago. ...

The Arecibo Galaxy Environment Survey (normally known as AGES) is using the Arecibo Telescope to search for galaxies in a number of quite different areas of the local universe. ... NGC 628 group (precursor) - published (Auld et al., ... NGC 1156 (isolated galaxy) - published (Minchin et al, 2010, AJ, 140, 1093) . NGC 7332/9 galaxy pair - published (Minchin et al, 2010, AJ, 140, 1093) . ... NGC 5523 (isolated galaxy) - completed (contact: Robert Minchin) . ... AGES team page - password protected . ...

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE DAILY REPORT #2751 PERIOD COVERED: 0000Z (UTC) 11/15/00 - 0000Z (UTC) 11/16/00 Daily Status Report as of 321/0000Z 1.0 OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED AND ACCOMPLISHED: 1.1 Completed STIS/MA1 8721 (An UV Imaging Survey of IR-Bright Star- Forming Galaxies) The Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (MA1) was used to carry out a UV {~1, 600 Angstrom} snapshot ... The proposal completed with no reported problems. ... The observations completed with no reported problems. ...