... The M7 Open Star Cluster in Scorpius . ... M7 is one of the most prominent open clusters of stars on the sky. ... Cone Nebula Close Up . ... A well-known example, the Cone Nebula within the bright galactic star-forming region NGC 2264, was captured in this close-up view from the Hubble Space Telescope's newest camera. ... The above image from the Hubble Space Telescope's newly installed Advanced Camera for Surveys shows unprecedented detail in the famous star-forming region. ...

... 2001 February 22 . 3C294: Distant X-Ray Galaxy Cluster . ... This Chandra Observatory image centered on a radio galaxy cataloged as 3C294 indeed reveals the telltale hot x-ray gas in an hourglass shaped region surrounding the dominant galaxy and shows the presence of a massive galaxy cluster in the distant universe . ... The cluster associated with 3C294 is 10 billion light-years away making it the most distant x-ray galaxy cluster ever detected . ... About APOD | ...

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... We have simulated the observations of a very distant cluster of galaxies at high redshift. ... The simulations are made for the HST instruments FOC, WFPC II, and the Advanced Camera, and for an 8-m telescope on the ground equipped with adaptive optics. ... A comparison of the fields of view of post-COSTAR HST imaging instruments with the Advanced Camera (AC) and the ground-based adaptive optics camera (AO) is shown in Fig. 1 superimposed on the noise-free cluster simulation. ...

In this gallery are many images of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies which have recently been discovered and analyzed. ... The central surface brightness of this galaxy is 24.28 . Malin 2 This galaxy is another huge disk galaxy with a scale length of 15 kpc and a redshift of 15000 km/a. The high surface brightness knot in one of its spiral arms actually has the same color, luminosity and H-alpha equivalent width as the entire Large Magellanic Cloud . ... Truly it is a Low Surface Brightness Galaxy. ...

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PhD Thesis (PDF) . ... The evolution of stars and gas in galaxies. Observing the atomic neutral hydrogen (HI) 21 cm emission and radio continuum emission of galaxies. ... The goal of research is to quantify the neutral atomic hydrogen (HI) gas content galaxies as they evolve with time. ... Neutral atomic hydrogen gas produces a radio signal that can be used to directly measure the amount of gas present. ... USyd Summer Research Scholarship Report (PDF) . ... Research Topic Write Up (PDF) . ...

ESO PR Photo 18b/00 . ... Caption : Images of two of the novae in NGC 1316 that were discovered during the observational programme described in this Press Release. ... In particular, no less than four novae were detected in a single giant galaxy within only 11 days . ... Moreover, the discovery of four novae in one galaxy in the Fornax cluster was possible with only 3 hours of observing time per filter. ... ESO Press Information is available on the WWW at . http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/ . ...

... Travel to E-ELT Armazones . ... Star Clusters . ... ESO's Wide Field Imager has captured the intricate swirls of the spiral galaxy Messier 83, a smaller look-alike of our own Milky Way. ... Both the Milky Way and Messier 83 possess a bar across their galactic nucleus, the dense spherical conglomeration of stars seen at the centre of the galaxies. ... The brighter stars in the foreground are stars in our own galaxy, whilst behind M83 the darkness is peppered with the faint smudges of distant galaxies...

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... The search for distant objects which can be both galaxies and quasars is one of the most important problems of observational astrphysics, because it allows one to determine cosmological parameters connected with the time of appearence and evolution of stellar systems, large scale structure of the Universe. ... Radio galaxies are important objects to be studied because they are sources of infrared-optical-ultraviolet continuum, emission lines and continual radio emission. ...

... A tussle in the distant Universe. This Hubble Space Telescope image shows evidence for a merger between a quasar and a companion galaxy. The quasar is the bright object just beneath the image center, and the wisps of material around it are remains of a galaxy disrupted by the interaction between it and the quasar. ... Galactic Nuclei: Old Quasars? Quasars as Probes of the Distant Universe . ... Quasars. ... The name quasar is made up with parts of the words "quasi-stellar radio." ...

... 1) A new bright galaxy of the Local Group VV124 (UGC4879) is found. ... Kopylov A.I., Tikhonov N.A., Fabrika S.N., Drozdovsky I.O., Valeev A.F., MNRAS Lett, V. 387, Issue 1, L45, 2008. ... For systems of galaxies in the regions of the Hercules and Leo superclusters the dwarf-to-giant ratio of galaxies in the r-band is evaluated, and it is found that this ratio increases with increasing X-ray luminosity at log L X > 43.5 erg/s. Kopylova F.G., Kopylov A.I., Ast. ... Kopylova F.G., Kopylov A.I., Ast. ...

This page is devoted to information on Supernova 1999gi in NGC 3184 . ... Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the Supernova links web page. ... NGC 3184 is a fairly close Mag 10.3 galaxy, only about half as distant as the Virgo cluster. ... Seiichi Yoshida has a 1999gi page . Odd Trondal's 1999gi page . ... CfA image . ... 14.5 . ... Jean Marie Llapasset image . ... vsnet-alert 3805 ] SN 1999gi in NGC 3184 . vsnet-chat 2438 ] Host galaxy of SN1999gi . ...

... This paper ( Burke et al. 2003 ) describes the creation of one such catalogue - the Southern Serendipitous High-redshift Archival ROSAT Cluster (SHARC) survey - which covers an area of 17.7 deg 2 and consists of 32 clusters with redshifts between 0.05 and 0.7 and X-ray luminosities between 7 x 10 42 and 4 x 10 44 erg/s: the high-redshift subsample contains 16 clusters with = 0.3 and X-ray luminosities greater than 2 x 10 43 erg/s (luminosities are quoted for the 0.5 - 2.0 keV energy band). ... 1997 ...

... Curriculum Vitae Observations and theory of star cluster formation 22) A.K.Dambis and Yu.N.Efremov Journal for History of Astronomy, 31, 115-134, 2000 Dating Ptolemy's star catalogue through proper motions: the Hypparchan epoch 23) B.G.Elmegreen, Yu.N.Efremov, S.Larsen Astrophys. J., 535, 748 - , 2000 A young globular cluster in the galaxy NGC 6946 24) Yu.N.Efremov. ... 28) Yu.N.Efremov. ... The location of star complexes in the Galaxy was studied in papers with E.Alfaro, L.Berdnikov and T.Sitnik. ...

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... 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 . ...

... Future seminars . P a s t seminars . Seminar council . Stability of cold fronts in clusters of galaxies " . E. Churazov (IKI, MPA) . ... One of the insteresting results of Chandra and XMM-Newton observatories is the discovery of sharp structures in the X-ray surface brightness of galaxy clusters. These structures (a.k.a. cold fronts) are likely associated with the contacted discontinuities formed when a hot gas flows over a colder gravitationally bound gas cloud. ...