... A Magellanic Mural . ... Two galaxies stand out to casual observers in Earth's Southern Hemisphere: the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). ... NGC 1977: Blue Reflection Nebula in Orion . ... The Orion Nebula is visible to the unaided eye as a fuzzy patch near the famous belt of three stars in the constellation Orion. ... This evocative mosaic image of the Earth-Moon system was recorded by NASA's Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft earlier this month. ...

... Planets . ... Stars . Exoplanets . ... Most exoplanets so far discovered fall into the category of тАШhot JupitersтАЩ, these are giant planets orbiting very close to their parent star. ... Note that we have discovered so many hot Jupiters because they are the easiest type of planet to find, they are not necessarily particularly common in the galaxy. ... Subsequently several similar hot and€а fuzzy worlds have been discovered the same way, proving this that this planet is not a one-off oddball. ...

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 . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... Star Atlas . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Get to Know the Night Sky . ... How close can stars get to each other in galaxy cores? ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter...

... 2011 February 19 . Spiral Galaxy NGC 2841 Close Up . Credit: NASA , ESA , and the Hubble Heritage ( STScI / AURA ) - ESA / Hubble Collaboration . Explanation: A mere 46 million light-years distant, spiral galaxy NGC 2841 can be found in the northern constellation of Ursa Major . ... NGC 2841 has a diameter of over 150,000 light-years, even larger than our own Milky Way, but this close-up Hubble image spans about 34,000 light-years along the galaxy's inner region. ... About APOD | ...

... 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. ...

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... Tidal influence on each of the galaxies in our sample is quantified by identifying and measuring the distance to the nearest companion, using a photometric technique with good completeness characteristics. ... Massnormalised starformation rates were derived using galaxy stellar masses estimated from zband luminosities Nearest companions were identified using the algorithm illustrated in Figure 1. ... Some of the lowredshift galaxies in our sample with close companions are illustrated in Figure 3. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Dwingeloo 1 is a galaxy that's very close, yet no one saw it until pretty recently. ... Dwingeloo 1 is not alone in the cosmos; it is part of a close group of several galaxies. ... The galaxy group containing Dwingeloo 1 (actually, the group is named after the brightest member, IC 342) probably formed at the same time as the Milky Way, from a truly enormous cloud of hydrogen. ... Two large ones, orbiting each other, can pass a bit of that orbital energy to a smaller galaxy. ...

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... STScI-PRC96-25 HUBBLE'S 100,000TH EXPOSURE CAPTURES IMAGE OF DISTANT QUASAR The Hubble Space Telescope achieved its 100,000th exposure June 22 with a snapshot of a quasar that is about 9 billion light-years from Earth. ... The fainter object just above it is an elliptical galaxy. ... The quasar and star are separated by billions of light-years. ... Image files in GIF and JPEG format and captions may be accessed on Internet via anonymous ftp from ftp.stsci.edu in /pubinfo. ...

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... SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Women in Astronomy . ... Science Fiction with Good Astronomy . ... Dramatic, complex history and future of the battle between dark matter and regular matter life-forms in the universe. ... 1996, Ace)  Complex hard-science novel by a Canadian amateur astronomer with intriguing ideas about dark matter and even dark matter life forms. back to topic list . ... The Milky Way becomes an active galaxy, but life on Earth is saved by a higher intelligence...

Next: Stealth Comets Up: W.M. Napier Previous: W.M. Napier Contents . ... If material ejected from the Earth contains microorganisms and spores, the question arises whether life may be carried from planet to planet within the solar system. ... However, the solar system is tiny on the scale of the Galaxy, and it has generally been thought that the transfer of life between stars is impossible -- the microorganisms would be destroyed by cosmic rays, ultraviolet light and so on. ...

... ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... We have observed 210 Seyfert galaxies and 81 starburst galaxies with the 275-km Parkes - Tidbinbilla Interferometer (PTI) at 2.3 GHz (Norris et al., ... This result shows a significant difference between the two samples, and shows clearly that, although a few starburst galaxies may contain a buried AGN, the majority do not. ...

... A radio galaxy is a galaxy that emits an unusually big amount of energy at radio wavelengths. ... Inside of each galaxy with an active nucleus (radio galaxies are among them) there must be a system of a "central machine" responsible for the colossal amount of the emitted energy from radio to gamma ranges. ... Sometimes a radio source in an active galaxy may flare again if the needed conditions appear (a new portion of matter would fall into the furnace of the "central machine"). ...

... The biggest bursts of star birth in the early Universe took place in galaxies that contained lots and lots of cosmic dust. ... To pick these distant galaxies out from their murky surroundings, astronomers have to use telescopes that observe a special type of light that can penetrate the thick fog, the ALMA telescope is one of them. ... The length of the wave is called the wavelength . ... Radio waves, visible light (the light our eyes can see) and microwaves are the different types of light waves. ...

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 . ...

... The new emission line galaxies are listed in Table 2 containing the following information: . column 1: The object's IAU-type name with the prefix HS. column 2: Right ascension for epoch B1950. column 3: Declination for epoch B1950. ... The spectra of all emission-line galaxies are shown in the Appendix A. The results of line flux measurements are given in Table 4. ... column 1: The object's IAU-type name with the prefix HS. column 2: Observed flux (in 10 -16 ergs -1 cm -2 ) of the H 4861 ? ...

... Centaurus A : 15,000,000 light years away, in the constellation Centaurus, the closest AG to Earth . ... Astronomers think that the reason for the unusual shape of this galaxy is because hundreds of millions of years ago two galaxies, one dusty spiral and one bright ellipictal, collided causing a massive black hole in the middle and bright emmision of light. ... Andromeda galaxy: 2.8 million light years away, closest spiral galaxy to earth, farthest object one can see without a telescope. ...