... Credit Copyright: NASA , ESA , and the Hubble Heritage Team ( STScI / AURA ) Explanation: The Hubble Space Telescope has resolved individual stars in a spectacular new image of nearby spiral galaxy M81. ... Wilson 100-inch Hooker Telescope in the 1920s that resolved stars in neighboring galaxy M31 . ... Publications with keywords: M 81 - HST - spiral galaxy . Publications with words: M 81 - HST - spiral galaxy . ... NGC 2683: Edge On Spiral Galaxy . ... Anemic Spiral NGC 4921 from Hubble . ...

... 2007 May 29 . Bright Spiral Galaxy M81 from Hubble . Credit: NASA , ESA , and the Hubble Heritage Team ( STScI / AURA ) . Explanation: The Hubble Space Telescope has resolved individual stars in a spectacular new image of nearby spiral galaxy M81. ... Edwin Hubble was able to use individual Cepheid variable stars to show that M31 was not nearby swirling gas but rather an entire galaxy like our Milky Way Galaxy . ... Light takes about 12 million years to reach us from M81. ... About APOD | ...

... NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided a never-before-seen view of a warped disk flooded with a torrent of ultraviolet light from hot gas trapped around a suspected massive black hole. ... This composite image of the core of the galaxy was constructed by combining a visible light image taken with Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2), with a separate image taken in ultraviolet light with the Faint Object Camera (FOC). ... The inset box shows Hubble Space Telescope's field of view. ...

An image of the grand design of spiral galaxy M100 obtained with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope resolves individual stars within the majestic spiral arms. ... Hubble has the ability to resolve individual stars in other galaxies and measure accurately the light from very faint stars. This makes space telescope invaluable for identifying a rare class of pulsating stars, called Cepheid Variable stars embedded within M100's spiral arms. ... 617) 495-7062 . Fax: (617) 495-7356 . ...

... 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. ...

I was wondering what conditions should be met to have the "darkest" sky .. ... Upon the above publication of the Southern Galactic hemisphere, TunГ Tezel started seeking opportunities to create the Northern counterpart image. ... So, the initial quest of having the darkest possible sky have delivered us these two all-sky images of the two galactic hemispheres as seen from Planet Earth. Zoomable and 'full-screenable' fisheye view of the "darkest sky" Southern Galactic Hemisphere image. ...

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 HDF observations were carefully scheduled to minimize the effect of scattered light. Nevertheless, Scattered light from the bright earth produces a visible X pattern in about 25% of the HDF data frames. ... The filled-in portion of the histograms indicates data where the scatttered light patern is visible to the eye. ... A major difference between version 1 and version 2 of the data reduction was the treatment of scattered light. ... version 1 . ...

... STScI-PRC95-45a CRUCIBLE OF CREATION: PANORAMIC HUBBLE MOSAIC ZOOMS IN ON MAELSTROM OF STAR BIRTH This spectacular color panorama of the center the Orion nebula is one of the largest pictures ever assembled from individual images taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. ... Though this 2.5 light-years wide view is still a small portion of the entire nebula, it includes almost all of the light from the bright glowing clouds of gas and a star cluster associated with the nebula. ...

home publications > mercury . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... ASP Conference Series . ... Publications of the ASP (PASP) . ... By the Light of the Moon . ... Moonlight varies over a greater range than the light from any other bright celestial object?planet, satellite, or star?in the entire sky. ... The level of light that disturbs this gland and its secretions is not yet accurately known, but indications are that this level is not much brighter than the full Moon. ...

... For more distant stars we must use other techniques. ... Hence if we see a distant galaxy and can pick out any cepheids lying within it, we can calculate its distance. ... Here then is another method to gauge the size of the Universe and there are yet more. volume at high enough temperature a nuclear fusion reaction sweeps across the white dwarf's surface and eventually we will see a spectacularly bright new star (hence nova) in our skies. ... Why is this relevant to the size of the Universe? ...

... The Hubble Space Telescope is a collaboration between ESA and NASA. ... In many ways Hubble has revolutionised modern astronomy, by not only being an efficient tool for making new discoveries, but also by driving astronomical research in general. ... However, in the last few microseconds before light arrives at telescope mirrors on Earth it must travel through our turbulent atmosphere and the fine cosmic details become blurred. ... Putting a telescope in space is one way of evading this problem. ...

... Comet Animation . ... Comet structures are diverse and very dynamic, but they all develop a surrounding cloud of diffuse material, called a coma, that usually grows in size and brightness as the comet approaches the Sun. ... As comets approach the Sun they develop enormous tails of luminous material that extend for millions of kilometers from the head, away from the Sun. ... The evaporated molecules boil off and carry small solid particles with them, forming the comet's coma of gas and dust. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . See also images taken on November 22nd . Image taken by Andy McCrea who says, . To me the comet appears yellowish and it has gone from star-like to a . ... More images from Andy McCrea here . ... The true explanation is that a very faint comet, known as periodic comet Holmes, produced a massive outburst of material and became a million times brighter than it was just a day earlier. ... More images from Andy McCrea . ...

The image at left shows the nearby Andromeda galaxy. The rectangular box marks the region probed by NASAтАЩs Hubble Space Telescope (a blend of visible and ultraviolet light). ... The bright area near the center of the image is a grouping of stars nestled around the galaxy's black hole. The blue dots sprinkled throughout the image are ultra-blue stars whose population increases around the crowded hub. The square box shows a close-up view of an area around the core. ...

... The spatially resolved structure near the hydrogen emission H line was found in the spectrum taken with the BTA/SCORPIO in June, 2013. ... The fragment of the Nova V1494 Aql spectrum is shown in Fig.1. ... The Nova V1494 Aql has passed the stage of the supersoft X-ray source (SSS) in the period between 218 and 516 days after the visible light maximum (Schwarz et al., ... The spectrum of Nova V1494 Aql taken on 2013 June 9 with BTA/SCORPIO . ... The vertical lines are the lines of night sky emission....

... Bad Astronomy . ... Site Info . ... As part of the SINS project, many images of supernova 1987A have been made with the Hubble Space Telescope. This is an image of the supernova and surrounding nebulosity. ... This image shows the ring in [OIII] fading over a three year period. ... I was trying to bring out middle range brightness details in the ring around the supernova, and scaled the images so that bright and dark values both came out as black (technically, I used a sin 2 color lookup table). ...

ATMoB "Galaxy Observing Award " Guidelines Purpose: To promote observing among the membership of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston through participation in the Galaxy Observing Awards program. ... Examples of elliptical galaxies: M49, M59, M60, M87, NGC 4125. Limiting Magnitude Assessment: Spirals: A spiral galaxy consists of a flattened disk, with stars forming a (usually two-armed) spiral structure, and a central concentration of stars known as the bulge. ...

... Ciel Espace, le magazine qui vous guide toujours plus loin . ... Accueil PlanУ?te de Fomalhaut : ALMA fait mentir Hubble . ... Le premier rУ?sultat scientifique de l'observatoire ALMA met en doute la dУ?couverte de la planУ?te Fomalhaut b par le tУ?lescope spatial Hubble. ... Т? En combinant les observations faites par ALMA de la forme du disque avec les modУ?les numУ?riques, nous sommes parvenus Уљ dУ?finir trУ?s prУ?cisУ?ment la masse et l'orbite de chacune des planУ?tes ТЛ, a dУ?clarУ? ...

... Spacecraft . 29b. Satellites looking down . ... 29e. Explorers of distant space . ... The Hubble orbiting telescope. ... The Hubble telescope , in low Earth orbit, overcomes such limitations, in the visible range and in part of the UV. ... So fruitful was this observation that a second "deep field" exposure of such length, near the southern pole of the heavens, was recently conducted. ... Some satellites specialize in observing the Sun, such as the Japanese Yohkoh and NASA's SOHO . ...