... 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. ...

... 2006 May 17 . The Host Galaxies of Long-Duration GRBs . Credit: NASA , ESA , Andrew Fruchter ( STScI ), and the GOSH Collaboration . ... These images, shown above , indicate that long duration GRBs typically appear to come from galaxies and regions of galaxies with bright regions rich with star formation and bright, massive stars . Long GRBs are therefore different than many types of supernovas , which occur more uniformly distributed in their host galaxies. ... About APOD | ...

Galaxies are diffuse objects which are imaged against a background of finite brightness and noise. Galaxies which have the maximum contrast with respect to this background are the ones that are first discovered. ... These galaxies have been missed to date but active surveys for them are underway. ... In this page we present several examples of these newly discovered Low Surface Brightness galaxies as well as examples of high surface brightness galaxies. ...

... The Cloudy Cores of Active Galaxies . ... Credit Copyright: NASA's GSFC , W. Steffen ( UNAM ) Explanation: What would it look like to travel to the center of an active galaxy? Most galactic centers are thought to house black hole s millions of times more massive than our Sun. ... Publications with keywords: Galactic Center . Publications with words: Galactic Center . ... A Laser Strike at the Galactic Center . ... The Diner at the Center of the Galaxy . Kona Galaxy Garden . ...

Program Number . ... The Host Environments of Type Ia Supernovae in the SDSS Survey . ... Those changes are most apparent in Jovian atmosphere, which displays a wide variety of bands and spots, reflecting complex meteorological phenomena (see, e.g., previous ACS observations of the upper atmosphere and of the new little red spot ). ... The present program builds on past HST programs (see Program GO 10534 ) that have monitored atmospheric changes in the two outermost gas giants, Uranus and Neptune. ...

... Panoramic spectroscopy of galaxies with star-formation regions. a study of SBS 1202 + 583" . Hakopian, S. A.; Balayan, S. K.; Dodonov, S. N.; Moiseev, A. V.; Smirnova, A. A. 2012, Astrophysics, v.55, p.1 . The origin of gas in extended narrow-line regions of nearby Seyfert galaxies - I. NGC 7212" . ... Smirnova, A. A. ; Moiseev, A. V.; Afanasiev, V. L. 2010, MNRAS, v.408, p.400 (astro-ph/1006.5547) . ... Studying of some Seyfert galaxies by means of panoramic spectroscopy." ...

... STScI-PRC00-37 HUBBLE CAPTURES AN EXTRAORDINARY AND POWERFUL ACTIVE GALAXY Resembling a swirling witch's cauldron of glowing vapors, the black hole-powered core of a nearby active galaxy appears in this colorful NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. ... The larger outer ring extends off the image and is in the plane of the galaxy's disk. ... The black hole and its accretion disk are expelling gas out of the galaxy's disk and into its halo (the region above and below the disk). ...

... A radio galaxy is a galaxy that emits an unusually big amount of energy at radio wavelengths. ... Inside of each galaxy with an active nucleus (radio galaxies are among them) there must be a system of a "central machine" responsible for the colossal amount of the emitted energy from radio to gamma ranges. ... Sometimes a radio source in an active galaxy may flare again if the needed conditions appear (a new portion of matter would fall into the furnace of the "central machine"). ...

... Dept. for Physics of Stars&Galaxies . ... Using a database view Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), containing almost a million spectra created 15,000 sample galaxies with active star formation, which is used for various studies and physical state of evolution of galaxies. ... Star clusters of the Galaxy . The project MWSC (Milky Way Star Clusters) directory using 2MASS, which includes nearly 500 million vision to the limit Ks = 15.3, analyzed more than 4,000 cluster-like objects in the galaxy. ...

We investigate the relative importance of starbursts and active galactic nuclei (AGN) in nuclear activities of ultraluminous infrared galaxies (ULIRGs) based on chemodynamical simulations combined with spectrophotometric synthesis codes. We numerically investigate both the gas accretion rates (ARs; m acc ) on to supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and the star formation rates (SFRs; m sf ) in ULIRGs formed by gas-rich galaxy mergers and thereby discuss what powers ULIRGs. ...

... For us to see them from such great distances, quasars must be producing enormous energy -- they are about 1000 times brighter than an average galaxy! ... One of their choices for the energy source of quasars was a black hole. ... On the one hand, it may seem difficult to think that mere friction between bits of matter could account for the energy of a quasar, but, on the other hand, gravity is unimaginably strong near a black hole. ... How does matter actually rush towards the black hole? ...

... Science Users Information > Science Activities > PhD Thesis Topics offered by ESO Faculty Members > Thesis Topic: Planetary Nebulae and HII regions in the Elliptical Galaxy NGC 5128 . ... NGC 5128 is the closest example of a giant early type (elliptical or S0) galaxy. Although often dubbed as a peculiar elliptical galaxy since it has a dust lane with recent star formation and an active galactic nucleus, the majority of early type galaxies have similar structures as revealed by recent surveys. ...

... Sun images . ... Sun flares . ... Active areas . September : 2015 . ... The following regions with sunspots can be now observed on the Sun's surface . Group number . ... Group length (in degrees) . ... Coordinates and other characteristics of active regions are issued for September 09, 2015 00:31 UT The following H-alpha plages without spots can be currently observed on the Sun's surface . ... Coordinates and other characteristics of active regions are issued for September 09, 2015 00:31 UT . ...

... Feeding the Monster: Gas Caught in its Death Spiral into a Massive Black Hole . ... Stromlo Professor Mike Dopita have used the Hubble Space Telescope to discover how a massive Black Hole in a nearby galaxy feeds itself. ... Earlier Hubble Telescope data obtained by another team member, Professor Holland Ford of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, had found a disk of gas rushing around the Black Hole at a speed of 500 kilometers a second. ...

... Session 1 - Stars, star formation, stellar populations and planets . 9.20 10.00 . ... HST Spectroscopy of the Hottest White Dwarfs . ... Coffee break . ... Lunch break . ... A (long) look at neutron stars with HST . ... Session 2 - Nearby galaxies, bulges, spheroids, galaxy formation . ... New HST/ACS Insights into the Evolution of Star-Forming Dwarf Galaxies with Extreme Properties of Cosmological Relevance . ... Deriving properties of Lyman-break galaxies at z~3-5 using HST/VLT/Spitzer data . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Sky this Month . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Hubble sees NGC 7090 т?? an active star-forming galaxy . ... This image portrays a beautiful view of the galaxy NGC 7090, as seen by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. ... This image portrays a beautiful view of galaxy NGC 7090, as seen by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. ... These structures trace the location of ongoing star formation, visual confirmation of recent studies that classify NGC 7090 as an active star-forming...

... 2002) Coordinated fueling: nearby AGN hosts Narrowline AGN hosts in SDSS: high M* and * but "black" rum younger stellar ages (not just in nucleus!) coordinated fueling of star formation and light rum accretion is key. ... Vermeulen et al. (2003): 33% of radioloud AGN (z < 0.8) show HI absorption features, more frequently (and more highly) blueshifted than redshifted. ... HI absorption against radioloud AGN traces a mixture of infall, outflow, and rotation; key fuel may be hot gas. ...

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LARGE-SCALE PHENOMENA AT THE SUN ASSOCIATED . WITH FILAMENT ERUPTIONS OUTSIDE ACTIVE . ... Considering the 12.09.1999 event as an example, we analyze manifestations of large-scale disturbances associated with coronal mass ejections (CMEs) caused by filament eruptions outside of active regions. ... The filament eruption occurred in relatively weak magnetic fields, but it was accompanied by larger-scale phenomena than flare events do. ...

... A database on solar active regions has been implemented in IDL (Interactive Data Language). ... Full-disk 17 GHz radio maps produced by the Nobeyama Radioheliograph provide the basis for the database. Researchers of solar activity often need to access solar active region data. ... So far, we have created an IDL-based database on daily active region data from 1992 July 1 to 1994 December 31 (NOAA 7213 thru NOAA 7821) 2 . ... number of active regions visible on the disk; . ... IDL 1 . ...