... Rays from an Unexpected Aurora . ... This aurora was a bit of a surprise. ... Spiral Galaxy NGC 2997 from VLT . ... The Galactic Center A Radio Mystery . ... Comet 57P Falls to Pieces . ... Comet 57P has fallen to pieces, at least 19 of them. Orbiting the Sun every 5.9 years or so this faint comet - also christened Comet 57P/du Toit-Neujmin-Delporte for its three 1941 co-discoverers - is simply.. Sunspots and Solar Active Regions . ... How do dying stars eject their outer layers? ...

... February 25, 1999 . NGC 6712: Galactic Globular Cluster . ... Explanation: Following orbits which loop high above the galactic plane , globular star clusters are probably 12 to 14 billion years old - truly ancient denizens of our Milky Way Galaxy. ... One of about 150 globular clusters known to be members of the Milky Way, NGC 6712 is thought to have crossed through the crowded galactic plane only a few million years ago. ... About APOD > . ...

... February 21, 1996 . Millions of Stars in Omega Centauri . ... Explanation: Pictured above is the largest ball of stars in our Galaxy. About 10 million stars orbit the center of this globular cluster - named Omega Centauri - as this giant globular cluster orbits the center of our Galaxy . Recent evidence indicates that Omega Centauri is by far the most massive of the about 160 globular clusters in the Milky Way . ... About APOD | ...

... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... ESO's Governing Bodies . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Travel to E-ELT Armazones . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Star Clusters . ... Stars@ESO . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... ESO 3.6-metre telescope . ... MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope . ... ESO 1-metre Schmidt telescope . ... Wide view centred on the CatтАЩs Paw Nebula (NGC 6334). ... Cat's Paw Nebula , Digitized Sky Survey 2 (DSS 2) , NGC 6334 . ...

... 21 cm HI-line spectra of southern ZOA galaxies . ... Galaxies are distributed in a cosmic web consisting of high-density clusters and galaxy groups, which are embedded in walls, and filaments surrounding large low-density regions, the so-called voids. ... The attached image shows the distribution of the 394 inclined spiral galaxies selected from the Parkes HI Zone of Avoidance survey (HIZOA) color coded by their velocity. ... today * ATNF | Parkes | ...

... Observing . ... Subscriber Extras . ... Web Extras . ... Globular cluster NGC 2808, elliptical galaxy NGC 2986, and the Sextans Dwarf . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Web Extra: Astronomers animate one of the largest galaxy clusters ever observed . ... At the center of the Phoenix Cluster, a large elliptical galaxy lurks where the hot gas is ejected, giving off unprecedented levels of X-rays, which have been observed by the orbiting Chandra X-ray telescope. ...

Most of these images were obtained by Mike Bessell, Michelle Buxton, Hwankyung Sung, Ralph Sutherland and Bob Watson at SSO using a 2Kx2K Site CCD behind a Nikon or Hasselblad lens or directly on the 1m telescope. A few images are from the Hubble Space Telescope. Some of the M42 images were obtained with the KPNO 1m and ESO NTT telescope. One image is a mosaic of IRAS images. ... Details of the CCD imaging program at MSSSO. ... antenna.jpg (53KB) . ... ngc6744.jpg (59KB) . ...

Various types of stars have dust around them. In the well known case of the Pleiades the dust around the stars is unrelated to the stars, and is instead dust from an interstellar cloud that the Pleiades cluster has drifted into on its way through the galactic disk. ... The dust in interstellar space is observed in a variety of ways: due to its passive absorption of starlight ("extinction"), by its production of polarization in starlight, and then at long wavelengths due to its thermal radiation. ...

... The Pleiades star cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, is a conspicuous object in the night sky with a prominent place in ancient mythology . ... The stars in the Pleiades are thought to have formed together around 100 million years ago, making them 1/50th the age of our sun, and they lie some 130 parsecs (425 light years ) away. ... Data for these stars are listed in a table below. ... Yes . ... WEBDA Pleiades cluster data . ... M45: The Pleiades Star Cluster (2007 November 18) ...

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! ...

. Hercules Cluster of Galaxies . Coma Cluster of Galaxies . HST picture of intermediate redshift cluster . Distant HST Cluster ___________________________________________________________________ The Electronic Universe Project e-mail: nuts@moo.uoregon.edu

... n For illustration, examine a coarsened (256 в 256) set of images, with 3 clusters Clustering AIA data Clusters in log Y space Clusters in Y /n space Distribution of pixels in each cluster Distribution of pixels in each cluster Simulated Data Simulated Temperature Distributions 4 5 6 logT 7 8 9 Simulated Data Simulated Data Simulated Data Simulated Data Simulated Data: Results Simulated Data: Results Simulated Data: Results Simulated Data: Results How to make images of results more meaningful? ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Bad Astro Store . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... So far in our hop from cluster to cluster we've seen associations , then constellations , and then our first truly bound group of open clusters . ... Some open clusters have tens of thousands of stars, but a decent globular cluster has over a million. ... Our Milky Way galaxy sports about 100 globulars that we have detected. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... Home Lectures Lecture Series 2015-2016 . ... Lecture Series 2014-2015 . ... Beyond New York City . ... The Amateur Astronomers Association is proud to present an astronomy lecture series from October through May each year for our members and the public. ... Amateur Astronomer Association is pleased to announce we will be offering select, limited reserved seating for current AAA members for the Friday, January 8, 2015 AAA Lecture entitled Robert Nemiroff ?2015 Astronomy Picture of the Day?. ...

... The most powerful and widely used methods to calculate the scattering matrix of a fractal cluster are based on the coupled dipoles methods (e.g. the Discrete Dipole Approximation, DDA) and the theory of light scattering by a cluster of spherical particles [2-4]. ... At present the procedure of calculation of the scattering matrix is well developed for both an oriented cluster of spherical particles and for chaotically oriented clusters of such particles [4]. ...

... Universe At Your Fingertips Activities TOC . ... Why do we have stereotypes about what an astronomer looks like? ... A reading list on 20th century astronomers and their work is included in the Resources Bibliographies section of the Universe at Your Fingertips. ... Be sure the students do the activity before the astronomer comes. ... After the visit, give students an opportunity to talk about how the astronomer was similar or different from the mental picture they had before the visit. ...

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... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Biography: From his schooldays in Copenhagen, J.L.E. Dreyer showed unusual ability in history, mathematics and physics - the subjects which were to form the background to his later work. ... From 1878-1882 he became assistant at Dunsink Observatory before moving to Armagh where he became Director in 1882. ... A Short History of Armagh Observatory . ... Dreyer's History of the Armagh Observatory . ...

. Inside the building . Inside the room . Bedroom . Dining room . Bar and cafeteria . Some sports hall . Sauna . Swimming pool - go swimming after taking sauna! . Skiing around . Back to Symposium Homepage .

These pages collect together references to many pictures of the solar system that can be found on the Net. ... Since I originally compiled this list the number of relevant images has grown tremendously. ... http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/pictures/ . ... ftp://dftnic.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/gifs/ . ... http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/images.html . http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/magellan/images.html . ... http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/planetary/ . ... NASA Image Access Homepage (Planetary Photojournal) . ...