... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Star Atlas . ... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... The planet has extreme temperature swings and perhaps active lava flows. ... A digital supplement to Astronomy magazine. ... Join TravelQuest International with Astronomy and Discover magazines on one of three great tour options surrounding this celestial spectacle . ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

... M61: Virgo Spiral Galaxy . ... Visible in M61 are a host of features common to spiral galaxies: bright spiral arms, a central bar, dust lanes, and bright knots of stars. ... Prominent features include a small open cluster of stars, a diffuse red-glowing emission nebula, large lanes of obscuring gas and dust, and dense knots of dust and gas in which stars may still be forming. ... This image was made when the spacecraft approached to within 18 miles of Deimos' surface. ... Dust Hip Deep on Phobos . ...

... Treasury Imaging of Star Forming Regions in the Local Group: Complementing the GALEX and NOAO Surveys . Abstract . ... Imaging of Local Lyman Break Galaxy Analogs: New Clues to Galaxy Formation in the Early Universe . ... Star formation at large radii in cooling flow brightest cluster galaxies . ... 7 Galaxies . ... HST Imaging of UV emission in Quiescent Early-type Galaxies . ... GO 11107: Imaging of Local Lyman Break Galaxy Analogs: New Clues to Galaxy Formation in the Early Universe . ...

... 2008 January 10 . Active Galaxy Centaurus A . Credit: X-ray - NASA , CXC , R.Kraft ( CfA ), et al. ... Explanation: A mere 11 million light-years away, Centaurus A is a giant elliptical galaxy - the closest active galaxy to Earth. ... Centaurus A's central region is a jumble of gas, dust, and stars in optical light, but both radio and x-ray telescopes trace a remarkable jet of high-energy particles streaming from the galaxy's core. ... About APOD | ... A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC . ...

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! ...

... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... ESO . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Galaxies . ... Star Clusters . ... Stars@ESO . ... ESO 3.6-metre telescope . ... Window on the Universe . ... This artistтАЩs impression shows CR7 a very distant galaxy discovered using ESOтАЩs Very Large Telescope. It is by far the brightest galaxy yet found in the early Universe and there is strong evidence that examples of the first generation of stars lurk within it. ... Early Universe : Star : Population : III . ...

... 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...

... October 18, 1999 . NGC 3603: An Active Star Cluster . ... Explanation: NGC 3603 is home to a massive star cluster, thick dust pillars, and a star about to explode . The central open cluster contains about 2000 bright stars, each of which is much brighter and more massive than our Sun . ... These stars are less massive than our Sun, demonstrating that great numbers of low-mass stars also form in active starburst regions . ... About APOD > . ...

... Dept. for Physics of Stars&Galaxies . ... Using a database view Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), containing almost a million spectra created 15,000 sample galaxies with active star formation, which is used for various studies and physical state of evolution of galaxies. ... Star clusters of the Galaxy . The project MWSC (Milky Way Star Clusters) directory using 2MASS, which includes nearly 500 million vision to the limit Ks = 15.3, analyzed more than 4,000 cluster-like objects in the galaxy. ...

. Authors: A.A. Suchkov , V.A. Marakov . Journal: Pis'ma Astron. Zh., 1976, v.2, p.38-385. Metallisity function of globular clusters in the Galaxy is constructed. It is found to have three "humps". This leads to a conclusion that there were three metal enrichment outbursts during the period of globular cluster formation. The constraints on the nature of metal sourses and on the early evolution of Galaxy are considered.

Galaxies are diffuse objects which are imaged against a background of finite brightness and noise. Galaxies which have the maximum contrast with respect to this background are the ones that are first discovered. ... These galaxies have been missed to date but active surveys for them are underway. ... In this page we present several examples of these newly discovered Low Surface Brightness galaxies as well as examples of high surface brightness galaxies. ...

Next: Elliptical Galaxies. ... NGC 4258 is a nearby ( D = 6.4 Mpc) active spiral galaxy with high luminosity H 2 O maser emission. ... This provides the most compelling evidence so far for a black hole in the centre of a galaxy. ... As NGC 4258, the galaxies NGC 3079, NGC 1068, NGC 4945, and Circinus each host an H 2 0 megamaser (apparent isotropic luminosity > 10 L ). ... Weaker H 2 0 masers are also known in NGC 253, M82 and a few other galaxies (see Greenhill et al. 1990, and references therein). ...

... Session 1 - Stars, star formation, stellar populations and planets . 9.20 10.00 . ... HST Spectroscopy of the Hottest White Dwarfs . ... Coffee break . ... Lunch break . ... A (long) look at neutron stars with HST . ... Session 2 - Nearby galaxies, bulges, spheroids, galaxy formation . ... New HST/ACS Insights into the Evolution of Star-Forming Dwarf Galaxies with Extreme Properties of Cosmological Relevance . ... Deriving properties of Lyman-break galaxies at z~3-5 using HST/VLT/Spitzer data . ...

... VLA observations and Tully-Fisher distances of gas-poor spiral galaxies in the Virgo Cluster Region . ... The HI-H2 Pressure Relation In Early-Type Galaxies . ... Tracing evolution of early-type spirals through the neutral hydrogen window . ... An Arecibo HI 21-cm Absorption Survey of Rich Abell Clusters . ... The Arecibo Ultra-Deep Survey . ... Absorption in varying galactic environments seen in HI surveys . ... Early-type galaxies with neutral hydrogen in the Virgo cluster from the ALFALFA survey ...

... 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 . ...

... On one side we have gas-rich, star-forming spirals; on the other, passively-evolving, gas-poor, early-types. ... In this talk I will present results from a large survey of neutral hydrogen gas (HI) in early-type galaxies carried out as part of the Atlas3D project. ... I will discuss the role of environment in shaping these properties and present results on the misalignment between the angular momenta of stars and HI in these objects, as well as a comparison to hydrodynamical cosmological simulations...

Structure Formation : Bright side of the Universe Anatoly Klypin New Mexico State University Also: Stefan Gottloeber (Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam) Gustavo Yepes (UAM, Madrid) Cosmological ... -body+hydro simulations Codes: SPH + TREE AMR + shock capturing hydro Physical processes: Compton cooling/heating on CMB Radiative gas cooling Star formation with simple approximations Metal enrichment Energy/momentum feedback from young stars and SN Galaxies too concentrated. ...

... 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 first powerful active areas of the new solar cycle have now come into view from Earth ( video, 4.0 MB ). ... Back on 7 May, two space observatories, STEREO (USA) and TESIS/Coronas-Photon (Russia), simultaneously registered a sharp rise in activity on the eastern edge of the solar disk. ... At the present time, TESIS telescopes are tracking these active areas. ... The TESIS observatory ї TESIS: www.tesis.lebedev.ru . ... The First Powerful Areas of the New Solar Cycle (WMV movie, 4.0 MB) . ...

The divisity of galaxies. The galaxies are the giant (to hundred of billions of stars) star systems, where the stars are connected by gravitation laws with each other. ... Ther galaxy NGC 3031 . ... Each spiral galaxy has a core a flat disk where the spiral brancher locate. The stars and interstellar substance of spiral galaxies rotate around the core. ... In normal galaxies, such as our Galaxy, the great brightness of the core is accounted for the high concentration of stars. ...