Today's APOD | ... Editor's choices for the most educational Astronomy Pictures of the Day about globular clusters: . ... Explanation: Globular clusters once ruled the Milky Way . Back in the old days , back when our Galaxy first formed, perhaps thousands of globular clusters roamed our Galaxy . ... APOD: 2002 July 30 - A Star Cluster in Motion . ... Globular star clusters normally roam the halo of the Milky Way, ancient relics of our galaxy's formative years. ... Index | ... About APOD | ...

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• APOD: 2005 December 11 - R136: The Massive Stars of 30 Doradus
• APOD: 2003 November 5 - The Lynx Arc
• APOD: 2004 April 14 - Massive Star Forming Region DR21 in Infrared

... NGC 4449: Close up of a Small Galaxy . ... But small irregular galaxies form stars too, like NGC 4449 , about 12 million light-years distant. ... NGC 4449 is a member of a group of galaxies found in the constellation Canes Venatici. Interactions with the nearby galaxies are thought to have influenced star formation in NGC 4449. ... Publications with keywords: NGC 4449 - star formation - irregular galaxy . Publications with words: NGC 4449 - star formation - irregular galaxy . ...

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• Астронет > A Massive Cluster In A Young Universe
• Астронет > The Violent Star Cluster 30 Doradus

... June 25, 1996 . A Star Forming Region in the LMC . ... Explanation: Stars sometimes form in colorful ways. Pictured above is a small region in the nearby LMC galaxy where stars are forming. ... It may develop a strong wind which pushes away nearby gas ; it may be so hot and intense that emitted light boils away nearby dust and gas , and it may be so massive that it soon goes supernova and catapults its elements back to the interstellar medium . ... About APOD | ... Specific rights apply. ...

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• APOD: April 2, 1999 - Stars of NGC 206
• APOD: 2000 January 4 - Galaxies Cluster Toward the Great Attractor
• APOD: December 18, 1999 - Irregular Galaxy Sextans A

... Star Atlas . Product Reviews . ... Airborne observatory views star-forming region W40 . ... A new image from NASAт??s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) provides the highest resolution mid-infrared image taken to date of the massive star formation region in our galaxy known as W40. ... This mid-infrared image of the W40 star-forming region of the Milky Way galaxy was captured recently by the FORCAST instrument on the 100-inch telescope aboard the SOFIA flying observatory. ...

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• Do globular clusters form in a galaxy's halo or migrate in from outside? If the
• What factors determine if a massive star (say, 100 solar masses) forms instead
• If a supernovaт??s original star is massive enough to form a black hole, why is

... GSAOI Home . ... Science . ... Deep imaging at J , H , and K is required to identify all stellar objects, brown dwarfs, and planetary mass objects in the central region of the Orion Nebula Cluster down to masses comparable to that of Jupiter. This is required to establish the initial mass function, i.e., the number of stars of each mass that have formed, in this region of intense massive star formation. ... The fields of the GSAOI detectors are shown as four green squares in each frame. ...

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• GSAOI Super Star Clusters Science Page
• GSAOI Science Page
• The Music of the Spheres

... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Member States . ... United Kingdom . Travel and Contacts . ... ESO . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Star Clusters . ... Colour composite image of the central part of the stellar cluster RCW 38, around the young, massive star IRS2, taken with the NACO adaptive optics instrument attached to ESO's Very Large Telescope. Thanks to this image, astronomers were able to discover that IRS2 is in fact a twin system composed of two almost equally massive stars. ...

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• Close-up zoom on the star-forming region NGC 346 | ESO United States
• Massive Cluster of Galaxies RXCJ1206.2-0848 | ESO United States
• Stellar cluster and star-forming region M 17 | ESO United States

... Abstract . ... Harald Ebeling, University of Hawaii . ... Binaries in the Kuiper Belt: Probes of Solar System Formation and Evolution . ... UV Imaging to Determine the Location of Residual Star Formation in Galaxies Recently Arrived on the Red Sequence . ... Observations show that almost all well-defined cluster systems at low and moderate redshift have a significant population of elliptical galaxies which have red colours, indicative of old stellar populations and minimal current star formation. ...

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• HST this week
• HST this week: 267
• HST this week: 175

... ATCA remote observing . by Jacinta Delhaize ( University of Zagreb ) . Merry Christmas from the Galaxy Evolution group at the University of Zagreb! ... We spent the nice, RFI-free time collecting 2.1 GHz radio continuum observations of the XXL-South galaxy cluster field to do redshift evolution studies of active and star forming galaxies. ... In the above picture: Jacinta Delhaize and Nikola Baran ). | ... today * ATNF | ... ATCA | ...

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• Massive stars in the Galaxy

... 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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• Dept. for Physics of Stars&Galaxies
• Laser station
• Observational centers

Structure Formation : Bright side of the Universe Anatoly Klypin New Mexico State University Also: Stefan Gottloeber (Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam) Gustavo Yepes (UAM, Madrid) Cosmological ... -body+hydro simulations Codes: SPH + TREE AMR + shock capturing hydro Physical processes: Compton cooling/heating on CMB Radiative gas cooling Star formation with simple approximations Metal enrichment Energy/momentum feedback from young stars and SN Galaxies too concentrated. ...

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• GRB follow-up team
• Main Researches Activities

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. ...

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• ASP: A Good Definition of the Word "Planet": Mission Impossible?

... Kopylov, A.I., Kopylova, F.G. "Structure of galaxy groups and clusters and measurement of their masses", . ... Kopylova, F.G., Kopylov, A.I. "Peculiar motions of galaxy clusters and groups in the Hercules and Leo supercluster regions", . ... Kopylova, F.G., Kopylov, A.I. "Analysis of the properties of clusters of galaxies in the region of the Leo supercluster", . ... Kopylova, F.G., Kopylov, A.I. "Analysis of the properties of clusters of galaxies in the region of the Ursa Major supercluster", . ...

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• Measurement of the dark halo shape in polar ring galaxies

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 . ...

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• The Galaxy Gallery Page 6: Comparative Morphology
• Astro-2 and the UIT Experiment
• Galaxy Gallery Page IV: The Movies

... 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. ...

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• Vernadsky Ukrainian Research Station in Antarctida

Next: Low-Mass Star Formation Up: M.D. Smith Previous: M.D. Smith Contents . Massive stars are of elevated importance in our Universe for several reasons. ... During their lives, they influence the nurseries in which new stars might form. ... He and Michael Smith investigated the consequences of massive star formation in one such region of our Galaxy. They uncovered that massive stars are forming in the Rosette Molecular Complex at a rate way beyond previous expectations. ...

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• Research Interests
• Armagh Observatory
• FETTU - Page 1

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 . ...

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• Methanol Masers - Press Release
• AO RSS: Astronomy

... Field of research: Extragalactic astronomy. ... NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) Abstract Service . ... CADC Home Page . ... CCD Images of Galaxies . ... RUSSIAN LINKS . ... UA Astronomy Personal Home Page - Bill Keel . ... The Shape of the Rotation Curves of Edge-on Galaxies, by A.V.Zasov and A.V.Khoperskov, 2003. ... A Thickness of Stellar Discs, by A.V.Zasov, and D.V.Bizyaev, 2003 . Minimum Velocity Dispersion in Stable Stellar Disks, by A.V.Khoperskov, A.V.Zasov, and N.V.Tyurina, 2003 . ...

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... Following several successful moon landings,NASA decided to use its last Saturn V not to fly to the moon but to place in low Earth orbit a large space station, named Skylab. ... It was followed that year by three manned flights using the smaller Saturn IB, each carrying 3 astronauts for a prolonged stay aboard Skylab. ... Mass measurements aboard Skylab were part of the medical experiments conducted there. ... Measuring body mass in the M172 chair (see illustration) was not a simple matter. ...

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Dense regions reach a maximum size and then fall back into a bound object like a cluster of galaxies. Once the cluster is formed, its physical size remains essentially constant. The space-time diagram below . shows a dense region in blue on the left. ... The galaxies in the blue region are accelerating more just because the region is denser and therefore has higher gravitational forces. ... Tutorial : Part 1 | Part 2 | ...

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• Density Determination
• The very metal-poor local dwarf galaxies
• Introduction

... We report on our ongoing project ``Infrared Study of HII Regions Associated with Small Clouds.' ... These IR data, combined with optical imaging (which will be obtained from the IAC-80 telescope), IRAS survey maps, and existing CO observations of the associated clouds, will allow us to undertake a detailed investigation of the gas-to-dust mass ratio, initial mass function and the star-formation efficiency in these complexes. ... CHECKPSF: check the PSF (Point Spread Function) model, . ...

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