... Visible predominantly from Earth's Southern Hemisphere , the LMC is the second closest galaxy , neighbor to the Small Magellanic Cloud , and one of eleven known dwarf galaxies that orbit our Milky Way Galaxy. The LMC is an irregular galaxy composed of a bar of older red stars, clouds of younger blue stars, and a bright red star forming region visible near the top of the above image called the Tarantula Nebula . ... Publications with keywords: Local Group of Galaxies - irregular galaxy - LMC . ...

... January 22, 1997 . Galaxy Cluster A2199 . ... Explanation : It's bigger than a bread box. ... Close," however, is only relative to other clusters of galaxies , since light takes about 50 million years to reach us from A2199. All of the fuzzy objects in the above picture are galaxies , but these galaxies do not contain most of the matter in the cluster. By studying clusters like A2199, astronomers conclude that some form of dark matter dominates the motion of the bright galaxies. ...

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... ESO is building what will be the World's largest optical telescope array, The Very Large Telescope (VLT). The VLT Project organisation is responsible for the design and construction of the Unit Telescopes, including enclosures, optics, adapter-rotators and coating unit. ... Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ...

... Large-scale production and analysis of mock galaxy images. ... Recently I've been involved in a collaboration ( The Illustris Project ) to create and analyze large-scale simulations of galaxy formation. ... Click to see a comparison between the Hubble Ultra Deep Field and a galaxy formation experiment run on a supercomputer: . ... Today, stars and planets form in clouds of gas and dust in galaxies, clumps of matter denser than the universal average by roughly 30 orders of magnitude. ...

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. ...

... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... galaxies . ... Four spiral galaxies in Leo . ... Globular cluster NGC 2808, elliptical galaxy NGC 2986, and the Sextans Dwarf . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... The Very Large Survey Telescope captures collisions in young galaxy cluster . ... This new image taken with the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) shows a wide variety of interacting galaxies in the young Hercules galaxy cluster....

... 2000 January 12 . NGC 6791: An Old, Large Open Cluster . ... Explanation: NGC 6791 is one of the oldest and largest open clusters of stars known. ... Open star cluster NGC 6791 , however, contains thousands of stars recently measured to be about 8 billion years old. ... This enigma makes NGC 6791, pictured above , one of the most studied open clusters and a possible example of how stars might evolve in the centers of galaxies. ... About APOD | ...

... 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. ...