... PG 1115+080: A Gravitational Cloverleaf . ... Credit: CISCO , Subaru 8.3-m Telescope , NAOJ Explanation: All four blue images in the above photograph are the same object. The gravitational lens effect of the red, foreground, elliptical galaxy visible near image center creates a cloverleaf image of the single distant quasar . Light from the quasar is pulled around the massive galaxy in different paths, corresponding to different images. ... Publications with words: gravitational lens - quasar . ...

... 2001 June 14 . Around The Arches Cluster . Credit: X-ray; NASA / CXC / Northwestern / F. Zadeh et al., IR; NASA/ HST /NICMOS, . ... Explanation: The most compact cluster of stars known in our galaxy, the Arches cluster , boasts 100 or so massive, young stars contained within a diameter of one light-year. ... Astronomers consider the tightly packed and relatively nearby Arches cluster, an analog of the furious star forming regions in galaxies millions of light-years away. ... About APOD | ...

... 2000, ApJ, 537, L49 . ... F. Palla . Invited Talk at the IAU Symposium 200 "The formation of binary stars" eds. R.D. Mathieu and H. Zinnecker (ASP Conf. Ser.) in press . Optical follow-up of ROSAT discovered candidate members of the open cluster Coma Berenices . ... 2000, A , in press . ... 2000, ApJ, in press . ... 2000, ApJ, in press (Sept. ... 2000, ApJ Lett., in press . ... Click to examine publications from other years . ... Star Formation Group . ... Arcetri Home Page . ...

... In one situation, we can use light from quasars to probe the material between us and them because that light may pass through one or more galaxies or gas clouds on its way to us. The gas inside the galaxies or the intergalactic clouds acts then as a filter, absorbing selected wavelengths from the quasar light. ... Light from a quasar must pass through clouds of gas and even faint galaxies -- each leaving its imprint on the light -- before we receive it here on Earth. ... Gravitational lensing . ...

Program number . ... Infrared Snapshots of 3CR Radio Galaxies . Abstract . ... Holland Ford, The Johns Hopkins University . ... An ACS H-alpha Survey of the Carina Nebula . ... A Snapshot Survey of the most massive clusters of galaxies . ... An ACS Imaging Survey of the Galaxies Hosting Strong Mg II Absorption . ... ACS observations of the galaxies in a giant Ly-alpha nebula at z~2.7 . ... An ACS Survey of a Complete Sample of Luminous Infrared Galaxies in the Local Universe . ... Past weeks: . ...

... 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. ...

Stellar Clusters are very useful laboratories for empirically studying stellar evolution. ... All cluster stars are at the same distance . All cluster stars have the same physical age . ... CM diagram Young Cluster In this case we see the Main Sequence fully represented. The blue dots represent massive stars with short main sequence lifetimes. ... Thus, identifying the most massive star which is still on the main sequence is an effective means of determining the age of a stellar cluster. ...

I will present theresults from a deep, extended, planetary nebulae survey in a 0.5 sqdeg region centered on the brightest cluster galaxy NGC 4486 (M87) in the Virgo cluster core, carried out with SuprimeCam@Subaru and FLAMES-GIRAFFE@VLT. ... A substructure detected in the projected phase-space of the line-of-sight velocity vs. major axis distance for the M87 halo planetary nebulae provides evidence for the recent accretion event of a satellite galaxy with luminosity twice that of M33. ...

... Posts tagged ?light curve? ... Posted by hlee . ... Tags: book , Brieman , cigar , Clinton , data mining , Friedman , Hastie , KDD , light curve , machine learning , SCMA , shaking hands , SN , statistical learning , Supernova , Tibshirani . Category: Algorithms , Cross-Cultural , High-Energy , Jargon , Methods , Quotes , Stat , Uncertainty | Comment . ... Click for what was appeared in arXiv this week. ... Category: arXiv , Data Processing , gamma-ray , Objects , Spectral , Timing , X-ray | ...

Galactic Wind Shells and High Redshift Radio Galaxies . ... M.Krause . Astronomy & Astrophysics, v.436, 845-851 . Very Light Jets II: Bipolar large scale simulations in King atmospheres [small version] . ... Simulations of Astrophysical Jets in Dense Environments . M.Krause, V.Gaibler & M.Camenzind . in: High Performance Computing in Science and Engeneering '05 eds.: E.Krause, W.J ger & M.Resch. ... M.Krause & M.Camenzind . ... Martin Krause & Paul Alexander . ... Martin Krause . ...

... 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) ...

... Archive of publications: . ... 2012 . 2011 . 2009 . 2008 . 2007 . 2006 . 2005 . 2004 . 2003 . ... From 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 to 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 . ... Whight light corona at different phases of the solar cycle Sun and Geosphere, V. 6, 1, 2011 . ...

Participant 5 (P5) ================== Dr. V.P. Tishkovets - Astronomical Observatory, Kharkov University, UA Dr. N.N. Kiselev - Astronomical Observatory, Kharkov University, UA P.V. Litvinov - 26 years old; Astronomical Observatory, Kharkov University, UA S.A. Beletsky - 28 years old; Astronomical Observatory, Kharkov University, UA The head of the team, Dr. Tishkovets, and Mr. Litvinov made many investigations of light scattering by clusters of particles - analogues of interplanetary dust grains. ...

... Compact Binaries . ... Unlike the Sun, most stars in our Galaxy orbit another star: these systems are called binary stars. Generally it takes many years for the two stars to orbit around each other. ... These binaries are interesting for many reasons. One is that they are predicted to emit lots of gravitational waves. ... Over time as gravitational waves are emitted, the time taken for the two stars to orbit one another changes by a small but measurable amount. ...

... Image Quality of the VLT . Total Optical Control . First light for the ESO VLT unit telescope 1 occurred during the workshop. ... The image shown (Figure 1 ) here was obtained with the VLT on May 16, 1998, in red light (R band), i.e. while the mirror was still uncoated. ... In this diagram (FIgure 2), the measured image quality of the VLT UT1 astronomical images is plotted versus the ``seeing", as measured by the Seeing Monitor, a small telescope also located on top of the Paranal Mountain. ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : "We're light years more advanced than our competition!" ... Even the closest astronomical object, the Moon, is 400,000 kilometers away! ... A beam of light will travel 9,500,000,000,000 kilometers in one year. This distance is defined as a light year ; the distance light travels in a year. ... This is another example of Bad Astronomy; like a light year, a parsec is a unit of distance, not time (to be specific, it equals 3.26 light years) . ...

ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder . Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . Mopra radio telescope . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . Visiting Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ... JING WANG has been studying the multi-wavelength light, morphology and environment of galaxies . ...

... The ancient chronical said about the colour rings around the Sun and the Moon, about three suns in the sky, light columns, bright lightning, different "comets" rushing to the Earth, moving among the stars or round the Earth with the sky. All these occurrences may be divided into three categories: one that occur in the near or far space, processes going on in the Earth atmosphere under the influence of cosmic factors and at last the occurrences connected with the Earth atmosphere. ... Rainbow . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Comets and Asteroids . ... Image credit:ESO/J.Emerson/VISTA. ... However others are less pessimistic and it has even been claimed that the mysterious ?Wow! signal? received in 1977 originated from the direction M55.б  Sadly, this still unexplained pulse of radio energy originated from a location rather to the northwest of M55 so I doubt if the source was this cluster (if indeed the signal was genuinely of extraterrestrial origin). ... Mysterious Wow! ...

... Description . Catalog . ... In the Catalog, we publish equatorial (ЮБ 2000 , ЮД 2000 ) and galactic (l,b) coordinates of cluster centers derived as the position of overdensity in 2MASS catalog (Koposov et al. ... Distances, color-excesses and ages are the mean-square values calculated using all available evaluations from different color-magnitude diagrams. ... There are individual pages for every cluster where all available plots and parameters are published. ... 2002). ...