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... 2010 February 14 . Field of Rosette . ... Explanation: What surrounds the florid Rosette nebula? To better picture this area of the sky, the famous flowery emission nebula on the far right has been captured recently in a deep and dramatic wide field image that features several other sky highlights. Designated NGC 2237, the center of the Rosette nebula is populated by the bright blue stars of open cluster NGC 2244 , whose winds and energetic light are evacuating the nebula's center. ...

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... STScI-PRC00-08 HUBBLE OPENS ITS EYE ON THE UNIVERSE AND CAPTURES A COSMIC MAGNIFYING GLASS Scanning the heavens for the first time since the successful December 1999 servicing mission, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a giant, cosmic magnifying glass, a massive cluster of galaxies called Abell 2218. ... The cluster is so massive that its enormous gravitational field deflects light rays passing through it, much as an optical lens bends light to form an image. ... Blue pinpoints hot young...

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... The Pleiades star cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, is a conspicuous object in the night sky with a prominent place in ancient mythology . ... The stars in the Pleiades are thought to have formed together around 100 million years ago, making them 1/50th the age of our sun, and they lie some 130 parsecs (425 light years ) away. ... Data for these stars are listed in a table below. ... Yes . ... WEBDA Pleiades cluster data . ... M45: The Pleiades Star Cluster (2007 November 18) ...

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15m) Baerbel Koribalski (ATNF) "The HIPASS Bright Galaxy Survey" . ... 15m) Stuart Ryder (AAO) "HIPASS J0731-69: A New Tidal Feature in the NGC 2442 Group" . ... 15m) Meryl Waugh (U.Melbourne) "The Fornax Region: Searching for Clusters in HIPASS" . ... 15m) Martin Zwaan (U.Melbourne) "Constaints on the Space Density of Intragroup HI Clouds" . ... 15m) Lister Staveley-Smith (ATNF) "Mapping the Magellanic Stream" . ... 15m) Joss Bland-Hawthorn (AAO) "HIPASS HI clouds and the metagalactic UV field" . ...

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Many intermediate-age star clusters in the Magellanic Clouds exhibit very unusual features in their colour-magnitude diagrams that suggest they may have formed their stars over periods spanning hundreds of millions of years per cluster. ... Nonetheless, this interpretation is enticing in the context of the formation of ancient globular clusters, which almost always exhibit puzzling abundance patterns that apparently require multiple episodes of star formation to explain. ...

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 picture shows sketches of the optical and ultraviolet (top, left) and X-ray (top, right) spectra of a typical quasar or AGN (Active Galactic Nucleus). These spectra are full of sharp features due to the interaction of atoms with light ('atomic features'). They can be high (= bright) points, called 'emission lines' or low (= dark) points, called 'absorption lines' . ... Broad Emission Lines ("BELs") [seen in 100% of AGN], . ... Broad Absorption Lines ("BALs") [see in only 10% of AGN], . ...

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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 . ...