... Zodiacal Light and the False Dawn . ... Cosmic dust clouds ripple across this infrared portrait of our Milky Way's satellite galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud. ... Bright Star Regulus near the Leo I Dwarf Galaxy . ... The star near the top is so bright that it is sometimes hard to notice the galaxy toward the bottom. ... The big, beautiful spiral galaxy is located just 10 million light-years away, behind a veil of foreground dust and stars in the high and far-off constellation of Cepheus. ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2014 February 15 . NGC 2359: Thor's Helmet . ... Explanation: This helmet-shaped cosmic cloud with wing-like appendages is popularly called Thor's Helmet. ... In fact, the helmet is more like an interstellar bubble , blown as a fast wind from the bright, massive star near the bubble's center sweeps through a surrounding molecular cloud. ...

... The HI - Star Formation Connection . ... Coffee . ... Dark Galaxies and Dark Matter . ... HI in Normal Galaxies . HI and Galaxy Evolution over Cosmic Time . ... How Galaxies Accrete Gas . ... The Billion Galaxy Survey . ... Searches for Dark Galaxies . ... Evidence for Dark Matter in Galaxies . HI in Galaxies: Overview . ... Open Questions in Normal Galaxies . ... Starburst galaxies and BCDs . ... HI Rich Galaxies . ... Open Questions in HI and Galaxy Evolution . HI and Galaxy Evolution . ...

... Our Galaxy . ... Stars . ... Image credit: ESO, Acknowledgement: VST/Omegacam Local Group Survey) . First observed in 1909, the WLM galaxy is part of the Local Group, about 10 million light years (3.1 Mpc) across, this is the set of more than 35 galaxies which includes our own Milky Way. ... I compared this little galaxy to a living fossil because looking at it gives us an insight into a past era in the UniverseтАЩs history. ... Distances and metallicities for 17 Local Group galaxies? . ...

... The Structure of Early-type Galaxies: 0.1-100 Effective Radii . ... COS-GTO: STAR FORMATION/LYMAN-ALPHA . ... A SNAPSHOT Survey of the Local Interstellar Medium: New NUV Observations of Stars with Archived FUV Observations . ... Many galaxies are starbursts, undergoing substantial outbursts of star formation. These galaxies have been categorised as "compact UV luminous galaxies" (UVLGs), and appear to be undergoing small-scale mergers, leading to extensive dissipation and vigorous star formation. ...

... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... ESO's Governing Bodies . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Green ESO . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Star Clusters . ... Stars@ESO . ... View shopping cart . ... ESO 3.6-metre telescope . ... MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope . ... ESO 1-metre Schmidt telescope . ... VST . ... The glowing jumble of gas clouds visible in new image make up a huge stellar nursery nicknamed the Prawn Nebula. ... Milky Way : Nebula : Type : Star Formation . ...

... Archive for February 2007 . ... Sometime early this year, Jeremy Drake asked this innocuous sounding question in the context of determining the bounds on the amplitude of an absorption line: Is the 3sigma error bar the same length as 3 times the 1sigma error bar? ... Likelihoodists will say ?Maybe, yeah, er, depends?, and Bayesians will say ? ... Tags: Bayesian , central limit theorem , confidence bounds , error bar , Frequentist , highest posterior density , HPD , likelihoodist , sigma . ...

The AstroGuide . ... AstroGuide | ... Other Sites . ... AstroGuide Listing . ... See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . Cosmic Images is a web site devoted to recent lunar, planetary and deep space images from Kohl Observatory, Lakewood, New York, U.S.A. Last Update August 22, 2005 . ... Web Site . ... Web . ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... 1st Announcement IAU Symposium 312 Star Clusters and Black Holes Across Cosmic Time, Beijing, China, Aug. 25-29, 2014 . ... SUBJECT: 1st Announcement IAU Symposium 312 Star Clusters and Black Holes Across Cosmic Time, Beijing, China, Aug. 25-29, 2014 . ... which will be held in Beijing, P.R. China, from August 25-29, 2014, hosted by Chinese Academy of Sciences . ... China), . ... 1st Announcement IAU Symposium 312 Star Clusters and Black Holes Across Cosmic Time, Beijing, China, Aug. ...

... Events . ... IYA2009 and Celtic Rock: Monday 16 February 2009 . ... Blackrock Castle Observatory celebrates the International Year of Astronomy 2009 . ... Capture the Cosmos is a Cork City Council Arts Office & Community & Enterprise Project for the Cork St. PatrickтАЩs Festival in partnership with Cork Printmakers and Blackrock Castle Observatory and forms a key part of Cork тАЩs celebration of International Year of Astronomy 2009. ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... We test Denkmeier's 3-D eyepieces . ... Discovery 's launch will be scheduled for no earlier than February 3 . ... NASA managers have targeted space shuttle Discovery 's launch for no earlier than February 3, 2011, at 1:34 a.m. EST. ... Because of Discovery 's delayed launch, the earliest opportunity for the liftoff of the final scheduled shuttle mission, STS-134 on Endeavour , is April 1, 2011. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. February 7, 1998 . COBE Hotspots: The Oldest Structures Known . ... After computer processing to remove contributions from nearby objects and the effects of the earth's motion , the map shows temperature variations in the early Universe as red "spots". These spots are the oldest, most distant structures known. ... About APOD > . ...

... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . Time Assignment Committee . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . ... Cosmic engine for senior students . ... Since then, powerful AGN have been identified across the electromagnetic spectrum and in galaxies from the local Universe up to z~7. ... How do powerful AGN influence their host galaxies? ... How do powerful AGN trace the build-up of galaxies with the peaks of dark matter over-densities? ...

January 7, 2000 Dr. Eric Torrence, University of Chicago . ... 3:00pm, 240D Willamette Hall . Dr. Torrence will also present the Physics Colloquium on January 6. return to top . ... Dr. Morii will also present the Physics Colloquium on January 24. return to top . ... return to top . ... The ratio of the inclusive jet cross sections at center of mass energies 0.63 TeV and 1.8 TeV is also presented versus scaled jet transverse energy x_T and compared to QCD predictions. 3:00pm, 472 Willamette Hall . ...

. I will review the outcomes from our recent researches of mapping star forming activities during the peak epoch of galaxy formation and across various environments through our Mahalo-Subaru project. I will then address remaining key questions and future prospects with new facilities.

... A faint, dusty rose of the northern sky, emission nebula IC 410 lies about 12,000 light-years away in the constellation Auriga. The cloud of glowing hydrogen gas is over 100 light-years across, sculpted by stellar winds and radiation from embedded open star cluster NGC 1893. ... These "tadpoles" (seen just below center) are regions of denser, cooler gas, and more slowly resist the erosive radiation from the hot stars. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... 27 мая . ... Заседание в Малом зале . ... Председатель Мингалиев М.Г. 14:00 Акъюз А. Preliminary Results from RTT150 Observations of Supernova Remnants in Two Spiral Galaxies . ... 15:00 Желенкова О.П. Application of IVOA Software Tools for Radio Sources Investigation . ... 16:00 Шарина М.Е. Results from the 6m Telescope Observations of Globular Clusters in Dwarf Galaxies . ... Кратов Д. The "MARS-3" Matrix Radiometric System for RATAN-600 Radio Telescope: Trial Observations . ...

... The high energy particles (mainly protons and alpha particles) found in the interplanetary space constitute what is called cosmic rays. ... galactic cosmic rays (GCR) originating far outside our solar system . ... anomalous cosmic rays" (ACR) originating from the interstellar space beyond the heliopause . ... The anomalous cosmic rays are most likely produced by neutral atoms in the interstellar space, which . ... The anomalous cosmic rays differ from others by their composition. ...

... Primordial theory review : Dick Bond . Defects and the CMB review : Andy Albrecht . ... Gravitational wave contribution to CMB anisotropies : V.B. Lukash and E.V. Mikheeva . C_l from cosmic strings : Lloyd Knox . Some aspects of CMB anisotropies induced from topological defects : Mairi Sakellariadou . ... CMB anisotropies from scaling sources : Ruth Durrer . ... SZ observations I : Sarah Church . ... Holes in the microwave sky? ... Detecting cosmic strings in the CMB : James Robinson . ...

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