... Eros Encounter Nears . ... After an unanticipated extra trip around the Sun, the NEAR spacecraft is now politely approaching asteroid 433, Eros, at a respectful relative speed of about 20 miles per hour. ... In the left corner, wearing a red nucleus surrounded by blue spiral arms, is M81. ... Rings Around Beta Pictoris . ... NEAR to Asteroid Eros . ... On December 23, 1998 the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft flew by asteroid 433 Eros. ... Abell 2218: A Galaxy Cluster Lens . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Posted on September 11, 2015 | ... Continue Reading.. ... No Comments Peer deep into the constellation Sagittarius and you will find a spectacular young star cluster and its associated stellar nursery. ... Posted on September 14, 2012 | ... No Comments Our Image of the Month was released to celebrate the 22nd anniversary of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and is a striking panoramic look at a stellar nursery which is [ ] . ...

GALAXIES cenA .tiff 40 Bright Radio Galaxy M31.tiff Nikon Andromeda Galaxy (note HII regions in spiral arms) ngc6744.tiff 40 NGC 6744 a face-on spiral clouds_20d.tiff H'blad The Magellanic Clouds our nearest neighbours Lmc_7.tiff Nikon The Large Magellanic Clouds Lmc_zoom.tiff Nikon Detail of previous image smc_7.tiff Nikon The Small Magellanic Clouds smc-zoom.tiff Nikon Detail of previous image 30dor_40_BVR.tiff 40 The 30 Dor ... B [OIII] Halpha trifid.tiff 40" The Trifid Nebula. ...

... 2012 December 6 . 47 Tuc Near the Small Magellanic Cloud . ... Explanation: Globular star cluster 47 Tucanae is a jewel of the southern sky. ... The second brightest globular cluster (after Omega Centauri ) as seen from planet Earth, it lies about 13,000 light-years away and can be spotted naked-eye near the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) in the constellation of the Toucan . ... Globular cluster 47 Tuc is also home to exotic x-ray binary star systems. ... About APOD | ...

... Press Release Images . Individual Images . ... The right-hand image shows Hubble's close-up view of the galaxy's core, taken in December 1995 by the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. The bluish-purple clumps that form the ring are the clusters of infant stars. Two dark, wispy lanes of dust and a pair of blue spiral arms are just outside the star-forming ring. ... The gas is trapped inside the ring through the stars' gravitational attraction. ... Amazing Space | ...

... HST Phase II Proposal Instructions for Cycle 20 > Chapter 3: Fixed and Generic Targets > 3.3 Target Category and Target Description [Description] . ... Each target must be assigned a single primary category from Table 3.2 , and at least one descriptive keyword , chosen from the appropriate Table 3.3 through Table 3.9 (see Table 3.2 for which table is appropriate for each category). ... Table 3.3: Descriptive Keywords for STAR and EXT-STAR . ... Table 3.6: Descriptive Keywords for CLUSTER OF GALAXIES...

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. ...

... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Globular cluster NGC 2808, elliptical galaxy NGC 2986, and the Sextans Dwarf . ... The Dish Cluster, the Pencil Nebula, and spiral galaxy NGC 2655 . February 25 March 3, 2016: The Dish Cluster in Puppis offers small-telescope owners a nice view, while large-telescope owners can seek out the Pencil Nebula in Vela and spiral galaxy NGC 2655 in Camelopardalis. ... Large telescope: Spiral galaxy NGC 2655 . ...

Supernova 2002bu in NGC 4242 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2002bu in NGC 4242 Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the updates and links web pages. This is a type IIn supernova found in a galaxy which is in Canes Venatici. ... Mag . ... 2002/03/28.26 . ... A Leroy image . ... SUPERNOVA 2002bu IN NGC 4242 . ...

... In most situations, light helps us to see. But when it comes to looking at the night sky, light actually blocks our vision. ... You should be able to see around 2,500 stars with your naked eyes, but if you live in a big city or town, you probably see less than 10 stars on a normal night! This amazing space picture shows the shining star clusters and swirls of colourful gases of the Carina Nebula: an enormous expanse of gas, dust and stars lying deep in the heart of the Milky Way. ...

... 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) ...

... Ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) are located in external galaxies, their X-ray luminosities (10 39 - 10 41 erg/s) are thousand times greater than those of brightest black holes in the Galaxy. ULXs may be supercritical accretion disks around black holes of stellar masses (~10 Solar masses) like that in SS433, or they may be a hypothetical intermediate-mass black holes (hundreds - thousands Solar masses) with standard accretion disks. ... 2) The ULX progenitors were ejected from the star clusters. ...

... All previous such superstars have been found along with many companion stars in the centres of crowded star clusters. The star is known as VFTS 682 from the VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey catalogue of the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) located at Paranal in Chile by means of the attached FLAMES instrument. ... Although VFTS 682 seems to be alone now it is not very far away from a very rich star cluster known as RMC 136 that contains several similar superstars. ...

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... Non-NGC Images . ... Bright nebula in Orion (and Horse Head)..... image . ... Diffuse nebula in Orion (M78)..... image ..... caption . ... Galactic cluster in Auriga (M37)..... image ..... caption . ... Galactic cluster in Gemini (M35)..... image ..... caption . ... Rosette nebula..... image ..... caption . ... Spiral galaxy in Cepheus..... image ..... caption . ... Galactic cluster in CMa (M41)..... image ..... caption . ... Galactic cluster in Monoceros (M50)..... image ..... caption . ... Galaxy ...

The 1000 Brightest HIPASS Galaxies: HI Properties . ... These belong to 91 new sources for which no optical or infrared counterparts have previously been cataloged, an additional 51 galaxies for which no redshifts were previously known, and 16 galaxies for which the cataloged optical velocities disagree. ... J0001-15, ( ps eps , jpg ) J0035-25, ( ps eps , jpg ) J0105-06, ( ps eps , jpg ) J0221-20, ( ps eps , jpg ) . ... The 1000 Brightest HIPASS Galaxies: Newly Cataloged Galaxies . ...

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... 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. ...