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... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. December 5, 1997 . Seeing Through Galaxies . ... Explanation: In this dramatic picture, spiral galaxy NGC 5091 appears in the foreground. ... Can you see through the spiral galaxy? ... Comparing the overlapping and non-overlapping parts of this and other pairs of galaxies offers a neat way to find the answer. ... About APOD > . ...

... Jupiter's Rings . ... Unlike Saturn's bright rings which are composed of chunks of rock and ice, Jupiter's rings appear to consist of fine particles of dust. ... Exploring Saturn's Rings . ... By watching a star flicker and fade as it passed behind Saturn's rings, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft was able explore the ring system in amazing detail. ... Saturn's spectacular system of bright rings has been the subject of study and wonder since Galileo first turned his telescope on the ringed planet in 1610....

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. December 18, 1999 . Irregular Galaxy Sextans A . ... Their newly formed, bright, blue star clusters found along beautiful, symmetric spiral arms are guaranteed to attract attention. But small irregular galaxies form stars too , like this lovely, gumdrop-shaped galaxy, Sextans A . ... About APOD > . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... Observing . ... Why do the constellations and the Moon appear upside down from the Southern Hemisphere? ... From the Southern Hemisphere, any object or constellation that lies near the celestial equator (the imaginary line that divides the northern and southern halves of the sky) would appear both upside down and reversed left to right compared to a northern perspective. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy...

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 . ...

... Hydrogen streams in the Grus Quartet . ... The Grus Quartet consists of four large spiral galaxies, three of which appear to be close together (NGC 7582, NGC 7590 and NGC 7599), while the nearly face-on starburst galaxy NGC 7552 is located a bit further to the west. A dwarf irregular galaxy lies just north of the starburst galaxy NGC 7582, which features prominent HI tidal tails and debris. ... today * ATNF | Parkes | ATCA | ...

... This story was presented at a press conference at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, at 10am on 7th January 2004, US Eastern Time (2am 8th January AEST). ... The animation uses data from the Anglo-Australian Telescope (at Siding Spring Observatory) and the Blanco Telescope (at Cerro Tololo Observatory), and should be credited to NASA. NASA Website: The galaxy filament was first identified using the Blanco Telescope at Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory: . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Our Galaxy . ... Other Galaxies . ... Telescopes and Observatories . ... Everyone loves stunning pictures of spiral galaxies,€а I have said this before and will no doubt say it again. The folks at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) know this too, and their latest public image release is a bumper set of serenely spinning spirals. ... Tweets that mention Six glorious spiral galaxies seen by the European Southern Observatory. ...

... Date : the picture was taken on December 14th 1998 . Location : Courroux / Ju (Switzerland) . Equipement : telescope Celestron Ultima 8 operating at F/D=6.3 camera CCD ST7 operating at high resolution autoguided mode . Exposures : 6 exposures of 10 minutes each . Pictures treatment : logarithmic . Software : Prism98 version 3.0 for acquisition and treatment of the pictures . ... 2822 Courroux . ... David Bishop Last modified: Wed Dec 16 13:55:05 EST 1998 ...

... In the nuclear area of the galaxy within the ring, the nucleus appears elongated, and a fainter 3rd star-like component is discernable. ... The 'yellowy' halo about the off-centre nucleus of the ring galaxy is likely composed of redder stars, while the color-neutral nucleus doesn't appear distinctly different in color than either of the ring 'impactor' candidates at bottom center and top right of the picture. ... If so then why are the bright regions within the ring apparently color neutral? ...

... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Star Clusters . ... FLAMES . ... 100 Hours of Astronomy . ... IMAX€о 3D Film Hidden Universe . ... This image, the first to be released publicly from VISTA, the worldтАЩs largest survey telescope, shows the spectacular star-forming region known as the Flame Nebula, or NGC 2024, in the constellation of Orion (the Hunter) and its surroundings. ...

... Field of research: Extragalactic astronomy. ... NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) Abstract Service . ... CADC Home Page . ... CCD Images of Galaxies . ... RUSSIAN LINKS . ... UA Astronomy Personal Home Page - Bill Keel . ... The Shape of the Rotation Curves of Edge-on Galaxies, by A.V.Zasov and A.V.Khoperskov, 2003. ... A Thickness of Stellar Discs, by A.V.Zasov, and D.V.Bizyaev, 2003 . Minimum Velocity Dispersion in Stable Stellar Disks, by A.V.Khoperskov, A.V.Zasov, and N.V.Tyurina, 2003 . ...

. Image created by Miruna Popescu, showing some of the objects displayed in the Armagh Observatory's Human Orrery. Original images from NASA were used.

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The Big Bang was not an explosion from a single point, with a center and an edge. ... Each dot represents a "galaxy". Two of the galaxies have a ring of red photons moving out from them. Most of the photons are cosmic microwave background photons that were present since the Big Bang but which have been traveling freely only since 0.0003 Gyr after the Big Bang. ... However, all parts of the Universe started with CMBR photons, not just the two green galaxies. ... FAQ | ...

... Field of research: Extragalactic astronomy. ... NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) Abstract Service . ... CADC Home Page . ... CCD Images of Galaxies . ... RUSSIAN LINKS . ... UA Astronomy Personal Home Page - Bill Keel . ... The Shape of the Rotation Curves of Edge-on Galaxies, by A.V.Zasov and A.V.Khoperskov, 2003. ... A Thickness of Stellar Discs, by A.V.Zasov, and D.V.Bizyaev, 2003 . Minimum Velocity Dispersion in Stable Stellar Disks, by A.V.Khoperskov, A.V.Zasov, and N.V.Tyurina, 2003 . ...

... The author of the cover picture is Vasilisa Verkhodanova. The picture symbolizes our perception of the world. The modified emblem of the SAO unifying the 6-m optical telescope and the raditelescope RATAN-600 of SAO RAS is placed in the center of the radio galaxy isophotes. From the one hand, we can investigate the properties of radio galaxies with these (and other) telescopes, and try to study physical processes providing their activity. ...

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