... 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. ...

... 14.06.2015 . ... Credit Copyright: Robert Gendler Explanation: Why do many galaxies appear as spirals ? ... One result is that M101, also called the Pinwheel Galaxy, has several extremely bright star-forming regions (called HII regions ) spread across its spiral arms. ... June 2015 . ... Publications with keywords: M 101 - spiral galaxy - spiral arms . Publications with words: M 101 - spiral galaxy - spiral arms . ... Sculptor Galaxy NGC 134 . NGC 3310: A Starburst Spiral Galaxy . ...

... Our Galaxy . ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... NGC 2841: a spiral galaxy some 46 million light years away. ... It is especially hard to explain this process of star birth in some spiral galaxies. ... Targets include both star clusters and galaxies, and star formation rates seen range from the starburst galaxy M82 (the Cigar Galaxy) which is creating about ten new stars in its core alone every year to the much less fecund star producer NGC 2841. ... Tweets that mention Baby stars of NGC 2841 | ...

... 2001 June 12 . The Cartwheel Galaxy . ... Explanation: By chance, a collision of two galaxies has created a surprisingly recognizable shape on a cosmic scale. The Cartwheel Galaxy is part of a group of galaxies about 500 million light years away in the constellation Sculptor . Two smaller galaxies in the group are visible on the left of the above photograph . ... The galaxies' gravitational fields, however, may be greatly distorted by the collision . ... About APOD | ...

... STScI-PRC95-02 HUBBLE VIEWS A STARRY RING WORLD BORN IN A HEAD-ON COLLISION [Right] - A rare and spectacular head-on collision between two galaxies appears in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope true-color image of the Cartwheel Galaxy, located 500 million light-years away in the constellation Sculptor. The new details of star birth resolved by Hubble provide an opportunity to study how extremely massive stars are born in large fragmented gas clouds. ...

EMBARGOED UNTIL: 9:20 AM CST, January 6, 1999 CONTACT: John Biretta Space Telecsope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD (Phone: (410) 338-4917; Internet: biretta@stsci.edu) HUBBLE DETECTS FASTER-THAN-LIGHT MOTION IN GALAXY M87 Astronomers reported today discovering clouds which appear to move many times faster than the speed of light, shooting out from the region of a black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy. ... It's an illusion created by the finite speed of light and rapid motion," Biretta said. ...

... Our Sun is part of a huge wheel-shaped collection of stars. ... Astronomers have long suspected it was a very massive black hole, and that every galaxy had such a central mass, created early in the history of the universe. ... However, unless that object happens to be headed directly at the black hole (a relatively small target) it will just swing around and fly away again, like a comet making a pass at the Sun. The velocity acquired in falling towards the black hole also helps it escape. ...

... Conjunction Over Armagh . ... Comet and Pleiades . ... Pleiades . ... Antares Region . Helix and Cat's Eye Nebulae . Orion Nebula . Lagoon and Eagle Nebulae . Crab Nebula . ... Our Galaxy Core . Andromeda Galaxy . Wide-field and Zoomed-in Galaxies . Interacting Typhoons and Galaxies . Spiral Galaxy M106 . Sombrero Galaxy . Whirlpool Galaxy . Colliding Galaxies . ... й Miruna Popescu, Armagh Observatory ...

... This program was created for correlating chosen regions in the series of fts images. ... Chosen regions' . ... In this section the program counts the integral for each region of the grid for each image. ... As a matter of fact, the integral is total brightness of the region and it is counted by 'int_tabulated' IDL function. ... In addition, the program will show the count of the regions which correlate with the corresponding region (the brighter region means the bigger count) and its contour. ...

... This paper describes the main algorithms used by the Einstein Level One processing to create the exposure masks and the background maps for Einstein IPC images, and how these algorithms were recreated in the IRAF environment. Our goal was to recreate the algorithms used by the Level One Processing to create exposure masks and background maps for Einstein Image Proportional Counter (IPC) data (cf. sections 2.5 and 2.7 of Harnden et al. ...

... It s caused by sunlight reflecting off dark cosmic dust in the Solar System. ... By combining the power of four very large telescopes into one super-telescope, astronomers have given themselves the ability to peer closely at almost 100 distant stars. And they discovered ghostly zodiacal light glowing around nine of them exactly as we see it in our own Solar System! ... In fact, out of almost 2000 planets that have been discovered around distant stars, only around 20 have been photographed! ...

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. ...

. This image shows one of the most distant galaxies known, called GN-108036, dating back to 750 million years after the Big Bang that created our universe. The galaxy's light took 12.9 billion years to reach us. NASA/JPL-Caltech/STScI/University of Tokyo

Supernova 1994D is one of the brighter Sn from the recent past. ... The parent galaxy of this SN, NGC 4526 , was also the host galaxy of SN 1969E ( IAUC 2139 ). ... We have a photometry reference image created by Odd Trondal. ... Images of Supernova 1994D . U of Oregon (Electronic Universe) image 3/26/94 8:10 UT, K-band . ... ING image Undated color . SEDS image Undated . SEDS image Undated (zoom in of last image) . ... U of Oregon (Electronic Universe) light curve . ...

An Ancient Universe: How Astronomers Know the Vast Scale of Cosmic Time . THE ANCIENT UNIVERSE . c) The Age of Light from the Most Distant Galaxies: The "Time Machine" Effect . ... Thus we are actually seeing these galaxies not as they are today, but as they were billions of years ago. ... The Universe: An Overview | ... The Ancient Universe - The Age of the Expanding Universe - The Age of the Oldest Stars - The Age of Light From Distant Galaxies - The Age of the Chemical Elements | ...

... The giant radio galaxy J0116-473 . This beautiful ATCA 20-cm image is featured on our outreach pages with the following description: "Giant plumes of radio emitting synchrotron plasma created by beams from a black hole at the centre of an elliptical galaxy. ... The ATCA image has caught this giant radio galaxy in the act of rejuvenation: the beams from the black hole stopped and restarted and the new beams are seen to form a pair of inner lobes." ... today * ATNF | ... ATCA | ...

... LEDA has been the first Extragalactic Database. ... select pgc, objname, al2000, de2000 where de2000 > 76 and al2000 < 1 . select pgc, galaxy_name, al2000, de2000 where de2000 > 76 AND al2000 < 1 . ... For each parameter the method of the calculation (or the definition) is given in the Third Reference Catalogue (de Vaucouleurs et al., 1991) and/or in Paturel et al. (1997) and/or in some additional references given below. ... de Vaucouleurs et al., 1991, 1997 . ... 1995 ; Paturel et al., 2000 . ...

... Table files like the ones created in the section on imcnts can be displayed, printed and manipulated using the tasks contained in the stsdas.ttools package. ... sp> tables # Load the relevant package ta> tprint rp90_cnt prpar=yes # .tab extension assumed # the hidden parameter prpar is set to display the header # as well as the data ta> tprint rp90_cnt # Displays only the data info ta> tprint rp90_cnt prdata- prpar+ # Displays only the header info ta> tprint rp90_cnt prparam=yes | ...

... History . ... The group for study of galaxies and cosmology has been created in April, 2011 and unified researchers from the laboratory of radio astrophysics (O.V.Verkhodanov, N.N.Bursov, N.V.Verkhodanova), the laboratory of antenna measurements (E.K.Maiorova) and researches from the radio astronomical sector (Yu.N.Parijskij, T.A.Semenova, V.A.Stolyarov) inside the laboratory of radio astrophysics by the order of the director of SAO according to the decision of the SAO Scientific coincil. ...

... Submitted by Al Takeda on 12/24/2012 23:40:10 . Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) . The larger of the 2 Magellanic Clouds, this dwarf galaxy spans an area of 650-minutes x 550-minutes (10-degrees) and is 160,000 light years away on the border of the constellations of Dorado and Mensa. ... The LMC was the host galaxy to supernova 1987A. 7 images x 27-second subframes, Total= 3 minutes 9-seconds. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...