... Supergiant Star Gamma Cygni . ... NGC 2170: Still Life with Reflecting Dust . ... Reflecting the light of nearby hot stars, NGC 2170 is joined by other bluish reflection nebulae, a compact red emission region, and streamers of obscuring dust against a backdrop of stars. NGC 6384: Spiral Beyond the Stars . ... But to see them astronomers must look out beyond the stars of our own galaxy, the Milky Way. ... Globular Star Cluster NGC 6752 . ... Circling a Black Hole at its Photon Sphere . ...

... M4: The Closest Known Globular Cluster . ... Explanation: M4 is a globular cluster visible in dark skies about one degree west of the bright star Antares in the constellation Scorpius . M4 is perhaps the closest globular cluster at 7000 light years , meaning that we see M4 only as it was 7000 years ago, near the dawn of recorded human history . Although containing hundreds of thousands of stars and spanning over 50 light-years, M4 is one of the smallest and sparsest globular clusters known. ...

... Galileo was one of the first to study our Milky Way with a telescope in 1610 and he discovered that it was composed of a huge number of faint stars. ... Image Credit: NASA Elliptical Galaxy This image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows a good example of an elliptical galaxy at the centre of a galaxy cluster that is over 450 million light-years away in the direction of the constellation Centaurus. ... Then the Andromeda galaxy was first classed as a galaxy outside of our own Milky Way. ...

... HUBBLE DISCOVERS BLACK HOLES IN UNEXPECTED PLACES . ... Even more odd, these new black holes were found in the cores of glittering, "beehive" swarms of stars -- called globular star clusters -- that orbit our Milky Way and other galaxies. ... Supermassive black holes found by Hubble in the centers of galaxies represent about 0.5 percent of the galaxies' mass. Amazingly, the black holes now found in star clusters, which are 10,000 times less massive than a galaxy, also obey this trend. ...

... January 6, 1999 . M6: The Butterfly Cluster . ... Explanation: To some, the outline of the open cluster of stars M6 resembles a butterfly. ... Like other open clusters , M6 is composed predominantly of young blue stars , although the brightest star is nearly orange. ... Determining the distance to clusters like M6 helps astronomers calibrate the distance scale of the universe. ... About APOD > . ... NASA Technical Rep.: ... A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC . ...

... Feeding the Monster: Gas Caught in its Death Spiral into a Massive Black Hole . ... Stromlo Professor Mike Dopita have used the Hubble Space Telescope to discover how a massive Black Hole in a nearby galaxy feeds itself. ... Earlier Hubble Telescope data obtained by another team member, Professor Holland Ford of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, had found a disk of gas rushing around the Black Hole at a speed of 500 kilometers a second. ...

... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... ESO's Governing Bodies . ... Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... ESO Acronyms . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Galaxies . Galaxy Clusters . ... View shopping cart . ... This distant cluster of galaxies was discovered by the XXL survey. ... The distances to individual galaxies were found using ESO and other telescopes, to allow a three-dimensional view of the distribution of galaxy clusters to be determined. ... Early Universe : Galaxy : Grouping : Cluster . ...

home resources > books . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Buy The Black Hole at the Center of our Galaxy at Amazon.com! Reviewed by Terrell Kent Holmes . In 1974 astronomers discovered a bright radio source at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius. It was an unknown quantity then, but astronomers now know that the object is a supermassive black hole causing a maelstrom of activity at the galactic center. ...

A Canadian and American team of Astronomers have used the 305-m wide Arecibo radio dish, the world's largest and most sensitive radio telescope, to uncover a dozen new super-fast-spinning pulsars. The team directed their search for these rare and exotic stars by pointing the Arecibo radio telescope towards massive star clusters, called Globular Clusters, orbiting our Milky Way galaxy. ... One of the most exotic residents in the Globular cluster system are the millisecond pulsars. ...

... Behemoth black hole found in an unlikely place . ... Ordinary" black hole discovered 12 million light-years away . ... An international team of scientists has discovered an т??ordinaryт?? black hole in the galaxy Centaurus A, which is 12 million light-years distant. This is the first time that a normal-sized black hole has been detected away from the immediate vicinity of our galaxy. ... There are thought to be millions of these low-mass black holes distributed throughout every galaxy. ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : "We're light years more advanced than our competition!" ... Even the closest astronomical object, the Moon, is 400,000 kilometers away! ... A beam of light will travel 9,500,000,000,000 kilometers in one year. This distance is defined as a light year ; the distance light travels in a year. ... This is another example of Bad Astronomy; like a light year, a parsec is a unit of distance, not time (to be specific, it equals 3.26 light years) . ...

Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the updates and links web pages. Discovered independently by Lick Observatory Supernova Search (USA) and Koichi Itagaki (Japan). ... 2009/10/11.44 . 17.2 . ... Joseph Brimacombe . ...

... Posts tagged ?globular cluster? ... Posted by hlee . Someone emailed me for globular cluster data sets I used in a proceeding paper, which was about how to determine the multi-modality (multiple populations) based on well known and new information criteria without binning the luminosity functions. ... On the other hand, obtaining globular cluster data sets was easy because of available data archives such as VizieR . ... Category: arXiv , Astro , CHASC , Data Processing , Imaging , Jargon , Stars | ...

... Our Sun is part of a huge wheel-shaped collection of stars. ... Astronomers have long suspected it was a very massive black hole, and that every galaxy had such a central mass, created early in the history of the universe. ... However, unless that object happens to be headed directly at the black hole (a relatively small target) it will just swing around and fly away again, like a comet making a pass at the Sun. The velocity acquired in falling towards the black hole also helps it escape. ...

... MAO main . ... The DRAGON globular cluster simulations: a million stars, black holes and gravitational waves . ... simulations of globular clusters with a million stars on the high-performance . ... of stars in globular clusters at unprecedented detail but also shed light into . the dark world of black holes. ... clusters of single and binary black holes. ... of a globular cluster. www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/328833/hl201603 . ... MAO/NASU, 27 Akademika Zabolotnoho St. 03680 Kyiv, Ukraine . ...

... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... The Australia Telescope National Facility Colloquium . ... Title: Quiescent black holes in globular clusters: the nature of low-luminosity accretion . ... I will present our initial results, and outline ongoing follow-up campaigns to verify the black hole nature of these sources, as well as a major radio survey to determine the demographics of this newly-discovered population of candidate black holes....

... Over the first 4 years, its X-ray telescopes eROSITA and ART-XC will survey the whole sky with a record sensitivity in the 0.5-10 keV energy band. ... The goal of the second international Spectrum-RG conference is to discuss the different scientific topics addressed by the mission, synergies with surveys at other wavelengths, and requirements to follow-up observations.Contributed talks and poster presentations are invited on the topics related to the SRG science goals. ... Active galactic nuclei . ...

M31, also known as the Andromeda Galaxy, is the nearest large galaxy to our own. ... M31 is about 4 times as massive as the Milky Way. It has a substantially large population of globular clusters (about 600) than does the Milky Way. The overall star formation rate in M31 is remarkablely low compared to other spiral galaxies. M31 and the Milky Way are bound together (maybe?) in a configuration known as the Local Group of Galaxies. ... This image is another unique image. ...

What happens to a star heavier than five solar masses? ... Stars about ten solar masses probably behave like our five solar mass star until they reach the end of core-helium burning. ... The Crab nebula was formed after a massive explosion ripped a star apart in 1054. ... Today, the glowing outer layers of the star are still rushing away from a tiny star in the centre. ... An incredible explosion rips through the outer layers of the star, releasing colossal amounts of energy in a supernova explosion. ...

... Structure of Data . ... Catalog . ... In SAI OCL Catalog, we introduce our work on investigation of the Milky Way system of open star clusters. The main goal of our study is a search for new clusters using huge surveys. 168 new clusters have been already discovered by us using J,H,Ks data from 2MASS point source catalog. ... For 141 new clusters, we found their physical parameters using J,H,Ks data from 2MASS catalog and, for a number of clusters, our UBVRI CCD observational magnitudes. ...