... Nearby Star Epsilon Eridani Has a Planet . ... A planet has been found orbiting a Sun-like star only 10 light-years away. ... The Coma Cluster of Galaxies . ... What does a comet nucleus look like? ... In fact, only 40,000 light-years away in the constellation Pegasus, M15 is one of the most densely packed globular star clusters in our Milky Way Galaxy. ... NGC1850 is a large cluster of stars located a mere 166,000 light-years from Earth in our neighboring galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). ...

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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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• The Galaxy Gallery: Messier Objects
• Astronomy Plus CCD Images of Galaxies
• Astro-2 and the UIT Experiment

... Our recent observations with the Hubble Space Telescope (August 29, 2014) led to revealing a highly isolated dwarf spheroidal galaxy KKs 3 situated at a distance of 2.12 0.07 Mpc from the Milky Way. The dSph galaxy locates on the southern sky (RA=02 h 24 m 44.4 s , Dec.= ... Over the last decade, about 30 dSph galaxies have been discovered inside the Local Group through systematic search in the vicinity of M31 and more that a dozen dSphs were discovered in the nearby group around M81. ...

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• important_en
• A unique isolated dwarf spheroidal galaxy KKR25
• New LBV Discovered in DDO 68 Galaxy

... 2002 July 4 . Young Star Clusters in an Old Galaxy . ... Explanation: Elliptical galaxy NGC 4365 is old, probably about 12 billion years old. ... Moving the cursor over the image identifies individual star clusters, with the relatively young (few billion year-old) clusters circled in blue, and the anticipated 12 billion year-old clusters circled in red. NGC 4365 is 60 million light-years away in the Virgo galaxy cluster . ... About APOD | ...

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• APOD: July 26, 1995 - M15: A Great Globular Cluster
• APOD: 2001 November 3 - Bright Stars, Dim Galaxy
• APOD: September 21, 1999 - The Quintuplet Star Cluster

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. ...

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• VIRGOHI 21

... Kalirai and Harvey Richer of the University of British Columbia led the study, which began as an investigation of a globular star cluster in the Milky Way galaxy known as NGC 6397. ... Within the population of stars and galaxies behind NGC 6397, the Hubble image revealed a large elliptical galaxy that contains several hundred globular clusters. ... In fact, a single giant star in NGC 6397 appears 10 million times brighter than one of the distant globular clusters. ...

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• Selected telescopes I have observed with
• Black Holes in Globular Clusters
• HST this week

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/ . ...

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• APOD: December 13, 1997 - The Coma Cluster of Galaxies
• APOD: December 18, 1999 - Irregular Galaxy Sextans A
• APOD: February 21, 1996 - Millions of Stars in Omega Centauri

... Tonight's Sky . ... Sky this Month . ... galaxies . ... Globular cluster NGC 2808, elliptical galaxy NGC 2986, and the Sextans Dwarf . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... What's the difference between globular clusters and dwarf spheroidal galaxies? ... Dwarf spheroidal galaxies are much bigger than globular clusters. The Pegasus dwarf spheroidal galaxy, which orbits the famous spiral galaxy M31 in Andromeda, spans 2,000 light-years. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

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• The Very Large Telescope discovers new kind of globular star cluster |
• First transiting planets in a star cluster discovered | Astronomy.com
• XMM-Newton's massive discovery | Astronomy.com

... We have made observations of the Perseus cluster with the Westerbork Telescope at 610 MHz. ... Several newly detected sources are identified with cluster galaxies. ... No evidence is found for the existence of the previously reported ~ 65'x25' cluster halo, 3C 84B. Key words: radio galaxies - clusters - tailed radio sources buoyancy The Perseus Cluster of galaxies is one of the most fascinating systems accessible to extragalactic astronomers. ...

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• Clusters of Galaxies
• A 1400-MHz Survey of 1478 Abell Clusters of Galaxies
• A VLA Survey of Rich Clusters of Galaxies III

... Ultra-compact dwarf galaxies (UCDs): . ... UCDs are characterised by old stellar populations, are larger, brighter and more massive than the biggest Milky Way globular clusters (GCs), but at the same time significantly more compact than typical dwarf galaxies of comparable luminosity. ... UCDs are remnant nuclei of tidally stripped dwarf galaxies ( Bassino et al. ... UCDs are genuine compact dwarf galaxies formed in the smallest peaks of primordial dark matter fluctuations ( Drinkwater et al. ...

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• VISTA view of the newly discovered globular cluster VVV CL001 and its brighter
• ESO - Studying the Cosmological Evolution of Galaxy Clusters with (Sub-)mm
• Visible light view of a distant galaxy cluster discovered in the XXL survey

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Planets . ... Our Galaxy . ... Weird and Fun . ... It came from another galaxy: This artistтАЩs impression shows HIP 13044 b, an exoplanet orbiting a star that entered our galaxy from beyond. ... HIP 13044 is one of tens of millions of stars in the тАЬHelmi streamтАЭ, stars that belonged to a dwarf galaxy consumed by our own Milky Way galaxy, some six to nine billion years ago. ... Tweets that mention ESO finds weird doomed planet from another galaxy | ...

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• NGC4666: Secrets of a Starburst Galaxy | Astronotes
• M55 globular cluster seen by ESO | Astronotes
• Kepler 36b and c: Too Close for Comfort | Astronotes

home publications > mercury . ... Big Clusters, Tiny Galaxies . ... Astronomers struggle to understand why giant star clusters form in the tiniest of galaxies . ... These clusters are probably young versions of globular clusters, but they are commonly called super star clusters. Seven dwarf galaxies within 16 million light-years have formed super star clusters, with one of these galaxies, NGC 1569, possessing two young clusters. ... Super star clusters have a lot to tell us about star formation. ...

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• ASP: Globular Clusters and Satellite Galaxies: Companions to the Milky Way
• ASP: Star Science in the Autumn Sky
• ASP: Book Review

Supernova discovery statistics for 1999 . ... Sorted by Name For the year 1999 , 198 supernovae and 11 extragalactic novae were reported. 198 of these supernovae were named by CBAT, 0 were given possible supernova designations, and 0 were not reported to CBAT. 49 supernovae were found in NGC/IC galaxies, 84 were found in named galaxies 64 objects were discovered by amateurs 0 were brighter than 13th Magnitude 21 were brighter than 16th Magnitude 65 were brighter than 18th Magnitude 115 ...

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• Supernova 2009js in NGC 918
• Bright Supernova pages - Statistics for 2013
• Bright Supernova pages - Statistics for 2006

... The study of the Large-scale structure of the Universe and measurements of the Dark Energy equation of state; The exploration of the growth and cosmological evolution of supermassive Black holes in the Universe. ... In course of the all sky survey SRG will discover about 100 000 galaxy clusters and 3 million AGNs. Galaxy clusters are the largest gravitationally bounded objects in the Universe and are best explored through the study of X-ray emission from the hot intergalactic gas. ... 2016 IKI RAN ...

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• Second Spectrum-RG/eROSITA Conference
• INTEGRAL 9-year Galactic Survey
• High Energy Astrophysics Department at IKI RAN

... About ATMoB . ... The Observing Committee is starting an Observing Awards Program to promote observing among the membership of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston. ... Participant must be a current member of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston . ... To qualify for your Observing Award Certificate, turn in your worksheet and drawings to an ATMoB Observing Committee member or observing@atmob.org . ... This Excel sheet has useful macros. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

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... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... The last step encompassed them all with galaxies , and how we discovered that the Milky Way was not the entire Universe. ... And just like those star clusters, there are different kinds of galaxy clusters. ... There are vast clusters of clusters, called superclusters, which contains hundreds of thousands or even millions of galaxies. ... Our own Galaxy has 400 billion stars in it, yet there are clusters out there with millions of galaxies like our own. ...

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• Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy: Mad Science

... Compact Binaries . ... Unlike the Sun, most stars in our Galaxy orbit another star: these systems are called binary stars. Generally it takes many years for the two stars to orbit around each other. ... These binaries are interesting for many reasons. One is that they are predicted to emit lots of gravitational waves. ... Over time as gravitational waves are emitted, the time taken for the two stars to orbit one another changes by a small but measurable amount. ...

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• William Herschel
• Spread of Life through the Galaxy
• Asteroid Discovery 1890 - 2010

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder . Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Visiting Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Observations taken with the Australia Telescope Compact Array for the giant radio galaxy B0114-476 reveal a "double-double" structure with two outer diffuse lobes and two inner jet-like features. ...

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• Compact Stellar Systems in the Fornax Cluster: Super-massive Star Clusters or
• The HIPASS Bright Galaxy Survey
• Evolutionary Paths in Galaxy Morphology

... 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. ...

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• Dept. for Physics of Stars&Galaxies
• MAO NASU :: Topic: 1st Announcement IAU Symposium 312 Star Clusters and Black

... 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. ...

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• RSAA Annual Report 1998
• GSAOI Super Star Clusters Science Page
• Dougal Mackey - Conference Proceedings