... 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 . ...

... 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 . ... The equipment he used included a telephoto lens and fast color film. ... Moons and Bright Mars . ... Galaxy Group HCG 87 . ... Posing for this cosmic family photo are the galaxies of HCG (Hickson Compact Group) 87, about four hundred million light-years distant toward the amphibious constellation Capricornus. ... Next stop: Mars...

... 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. ...

... 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 ...

... 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...

... 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 a