... The inset frame of Jupiter's most active moon was taken by the robot spacecraft Galileo in April. Just last month the larger image was taken. The new large black spot reveals that a volcano named Pillan Patera has been erupting during the interim. ... Blue Stagglers in Globular Clusters . ... Irregular Moons Discovered Around Uranus . ... Last week two previously undiscovered moons of the distant gas planet were confirmed, the first in irregular orbits. ... M31: The Andromeda Galaxy . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. November 10, 1997 . Dark Volcano Active on Io . Credit: Galileo Project , JPL , NASA . ... A vast moonscape roughly the size of Arizona has just been covered by some dark material. ... It's composition remains unknown although it is certainly different in color from the red material seen surrounding volcano Pele on the upper left. ...

... Sun images . ... Sun flares . ... Active areas . November : 2008 . ... No sunspots and sunspot groups can be currently observed on the Sun's surface . No H-alpha plages without spots can be currently observed on the Sun's surface . Last updated: November 10, 2008 00:00 UT . ... 1953-2016 Laboratory of X-ray astronomy of the Sun, LPI RAS, Russia . ... 7(499)132-65-96, Fax: +7(499)132-65-97 . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... Magazine . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Open cluster NGC 2818, spiral galaxy NGC 2964, and spiral galaxy NGC 2976 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... active galactic nuclei . ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Stars . ... Starbursts are short-lived events, stars are forming so quickly that the reservoirs of interstellar gas from which stars are coalescing would be used up on a timescale much shorter than the age of the galaxy . ... Strong stellar winds from giant new stars in the starburst region combine with the blasts of supernovae to push a mighty flood of extremely hot gas, a ?superwind? from the galaxy thousands of light years into intergalactic space. ...

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. ...

... 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 . ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Publications > Science Announcements > Clustering Measurements of Active Galactic Nuclei . ... Observing Facilities . ... ESO Data . ... Galaxies and active galactic nuclei (AGN) are not randomly distributed in the Universe. ... This ESO workshop, which will be the first ever dedicated workshop on AGN clustering, aims to summarise our current understanding of AGN clustering and how the community should prepare for upcoming data sets and challenges. ...

... Accretion onto an obscured central engine is betrayed by the shape of the MIR continuum emission for several sources, confirming Spitzer's potential to weed out active galaxies. ... Sensitive 24 ЮМm observations are clearly a useful route to identify and characterize reliable counterparts to high-redshift far-IR-bright galaxies, complementing what is possible via deep radio imaging. ... ADS Citation Query . citations = 110 . citations vs. year [year,citations] . ...

... August Solar Eclipse Report: Thursday 11 September 2008 . ... Dr Fosbury is head of the section in the European Space Agency (ESA) as part of ESA's collaboration with NASA on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) project at ST-ECF . ... The lecture is entitled "Astronomy today and the role played by the Hubble Space Telescope". ... Tuesday, 16 September 2008 00:44 . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

. 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.

... STScI-PRC00-37 HUBBLE CAPTURES AN EXTRAORDINARY AND POWERFUL ACTIVE GALAXY Resembling a swirling witch's cauldron of glowing vapors, the black hole-powered core of a nearby active galaxy appears in this colorful NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. ... The larger outer ring extends off the image and is in the plane of the galaxy's disk. ... The black hole and its accretion disk are expelling gas out of the galaxy's disk and into its halo (the region above and below the disk). ...

M87 Gas Disk and Optical Jet (STSci) . SEDS Messier Catalogue M87 Page (U. Arizona) . Black Hole and Jet in M87 (NASA/GSFC) . ... The large scale radio structure is shown in the 3CRR Atlas . Richard White's Virgo Cluster page has optical and X-ray images of the large-scale environment of M87 . ... HST Observes Distant Radio Galaxies (STScI) . HST Finds a Black Hole in NGC4261 (STScI) . HST finds a Bare Black Hole Pouring out Light in NGC6251 . ... Alan Bridle's Home Page . ...

... The Chandra Multiwavelength Project (ChaMP) seeks to understand the nature and evolution of quasars, galaxies, and clusters of galaxies in a large, carefully constructed multi-wavelength survey. ... Recent ChaMP Papers . The Field X-ray AGN Fraction to z=0.7 from the Chandra Multiwavelength Project and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey , Haggard, D., Green, P.J., Anderson, S.F., Constantin, A., Aldcroft, T., Kim, D.-W., Barkhouse, W.A. 2010, ApJ, 723, 1447 (arXiv:1004.1638) . ... 2009, ApJ, 690, 644 . ...

... 773Veron-Cetty Veron . Quasars (brighter than absolute magnitude -23) 85221 . ... Active galaxies (fainter than -23) 21737 . VII/248 Quasars and Active Galactic Nuclei (12th Ed.) (Veron+ 2006) ================================================================================ Quasars and Active Galactic Nuclei (12th Ed.) Veron-Cetty M.P., Veron P. =2006A .. ... 374, 92 (Catalogue ) (11) Veron-Cetty M.P., Veron P., 2003, Astron. ...

... 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"). ...

... 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. ...

The FR Divide in Radio Galaxies through Environmental Interactions T. Maciel (Astrophysics Group) tm419@cam.ac.uk , P. Alexander (Astrophysics Group) Radio -Loud Galaxies · Galaxies which are dominated by their radio emission (10MHz -100GHz) and show extended morphology: - Jets Active Galactic Nuclei -Lobes powered by (AGN) -Hotspots -Central black hole -Accretion disc -Strong B fields -Dusty torus Chandra X-Ray image of Perseus cluster with VLA ... Right: FRII galaxy 3C175 at 5GHz. ...

... Research . ... A rare hybrid morphology radio galaxy . ... In this project we will be able to investigate the environmental effect on star formation and galaxy evolution in individual galaxies falling into the cluster through radio observations of active galactic nuclei (AGN). Current models of galaxy evolution regulate the star formation rates within the simulated galaxies by invoking radio-mode feedback from AGN. ... Julie.Banfield@anu.edu.au . ...

... ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Governance overview . Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Our people overview . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ... Orientation and Evolutionary Effects in Active Galactic Nuclei . ... In this invited review, I present observational results of Active Galactic Nuclei that my colleagues and I have recently obtained. ...