... Elliptical Galaxy M87 . ... Elliptical galaxy M87 is a type of galaxy that looks much different than our own Milky Way Galaxy. ... Spiral Galaxy M83 . ... Long winding spiral arms are clearly evident on this spectacular picture of the spiral galaxy M83. The blue color of the spiral arms is caused by the relatively large fraction of young blue stars there. ... This Hubble Space Telescope image of a group of faint galaxies "far, far away" is a snap shot of the Universe when it was young. ...

... These Frontier Fields will combine the power of HST with the natural gravitational telescopes of high-magnification clusters of galaxies. ... We are soliciting gravitational lensing maps for the last four Hubble Frontier Fields clusters (MACSJ0717.5+3745, MACSJ1149.5+2223, AbellS1063, and Abell 370) based upon the exceptionally deep HST FF imaging and other new ancillary data. ... For the full set of proposal instructions and requirements, see the FY16 Frontier Fields Lensing Map Call for Proposals....

... 2011 February 25 . NGC 4449: Close-up of a Small Galaxy . Credit: Data - Hubble Legacy Archive , ESA , NASA ; Processing - Robert Gendler . ... But small irregular galaxies form stars too, like NGC 4449 , about 12 million light-years distant. ... NGC 4449 is a member of a group of galaxies found in the constellation Canes Venatici. Interactions with the nearby galaxies are thought to have influenced star formation in NGC 4449. ... About APOD | ... A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC . ...

... 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. ...

. Swirling Galaxy Parents Generations of Stars in Its Center . The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a view of several star generations in the central region of the Whirlpool Galaxy (M51), a spiral region 23 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Canes Venatici (the Hunting Dogs).

... Armagh Planetarium . ... Universe . ... Posted on October 1, 2010 | ... Before the modern era of technological astronomy, to know anything [ ] . Continue Reading.. ... 2 Comments In, say 1975, there was only one kind of ?stuff? in the Universe, matter made of protons and neutrons. ... Newer Entries . Hello, IтАЩm Colin, welcoming you to Astronotes, the PlanetariumтАЩs official blog. Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

... Visible Distribution of Galaxies. ... Features of Elliptical, Lens-Shaped, Spiral and Irregular Galaxies. Galaxies with Bar. ... Distribution of Surface Brightness of Surface and Spiral Galaxies. ... Color Characteristics of Galaxies. ... Methods of Galaxies' Mass Determination. ... Hidden Mass of Spiral Galaxies. ... Features of Dark Matter Distribution in E and SO Galaxies. ... The Whole Number of Galaxies and Their Density by the Results of Observation on the 'Hubble' Space Telescope. ...

... 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 ...

... Star Atlas . ... galaxies . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Hubble zooms in on double nucleus in Andromeda Galaxy . The double nucleus is actually an elliptical ring of old reddish stars in orbit around a black hole but more distant than the compact central cluster of blue stars. ... This is a Hubble image of the 100-million-solar-mass black hole at the hub of the neighboring spiral galaxy M31, the Andromeda Galaxy. ...

... 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. ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science and Technical Meetings > Conferences 2011 > Dynamics of Low-Mass Stellar Systems: From Star Clusters to Dwarf Galaxies . ... Science Users Information . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... Science Software . ... ESO-MIDAS . ... Science Data Products Forum . ... ESO Data . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... We aim at bringing together a mix of astronomers from both observations and theory that work on the dynamics of dwarf galaxies and star clusters...

... In Fig. 2 the spectrum of the host galaxy HS1035+4758 is shown, in which typical HII-galaxy narrow emission lines are seen: H 4861, [OIII] 4959,5007, H 6562, [NII] 6548,6584 and [SII] 6716,6731 ?. ... The spectral evolution of SN 1998bv is illustrated in Fig. ... The change of the spectrum between April 6 and 19 with clear reddening shortward of H during these 2 weeks indicates seemingly that the 1st spectrum was observed in the period between the 20th and 30th days after the peak of the light curve...

An image of the grand design of spiral galaxy M100 obtained with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope resolves individual stars within the majestic spiral arms. ... Hubble has the ability to resolve individual stars in other galaxies and measure accurately the light from very faint stars. This makes space telescope invaluable for identifying a rare class of pulsating stars, called Cepheid Variable stars embedded within M100's spiral arms. ... 617) 495-7062 . Fax: (617) 495-7356 . ...

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... 21 cm HI-line spectra of southern ZOA galaxies . ... Galaxies are distributed in a cosmic web consisting of high-density clusters and galaxy groups, which are embedded in walls, and filaments surrounding large low-density regions, the so-called voids. ... The attached image shows the distribution of the 394 inclined spiral galaxies selected from the Parkes HI Zone of Avoidance survey (HIZOA) color coded by their velocity. ... today * ATNF | Parkes | ...

... 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 . ...

... Moscow, Russia . ... March-October 2000 . ... Gusev A.S. Multicolor CCD Photometry of Six Lenticular and Spiral Galaxies. ... Gusev A.S., Park M.-G. Structure and stellar population of ringed barred galaxy NGC 2336 // Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2003, V.410, P.117-129. ... Gusev A.S. Photometric Properties of Bars in Galaxies // Astronomy Reports, 2000, V.44, N9, P.579-591. ... Gusev A.S. BVRI CCD Photometry of Pecular Galaxies NGC 5605 and NGC 5665 // Astronomy Reports, 2000, V.44, N9, P.569-578. ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... ISS Russian Segment . ... News . ... Russian logistics spacecraft Progress M-04M, after two days in free flight, docked with the International Space Station (ISS). ... All the dynamic operations were performed by mission control specialists under the supervision of the Technical Management (The Technical Manager is the President and Designer General of the S.P. Korolev RSC Energia V.A. Lopota). ...

... Here some data observed on the 6m telescope with IFP installed in the OLD focal reducer are presented. ... Mkn 3: velocity field . ... NGC 5252: [OIII] image . ... NGC 5252 was observed 23 Feb. 1998 in the [OIII]5007 emission line with CCD TK1024 as detector. ... We observed the ionized gas velocity fields of the spiral galaxies with two purpose. ... Restored velocity field of NGC 157 in the reference frame rotating with the pattern speed overlaid on the Ha image of the galaxy . ... NGC 4100 . ...