... Credit Copyright: Nicolюs Villegas Explanation: Large galaxies and faint nebulae highlight this deep image of the M81 Group of galaxies. ... Around the image many other galaxies from the M81 Group of galaxies can be seen, as well as a lucky satellite glint streaking across the image left. ... This whole galaxy menagerie is seen through the faint glow of an Integrated Flux Nebula , a little studied complex of diffuse gas and dust clouds in our Milky Way Galaxy . ... Galaxy Wars: M81 versus M82 . ...

... 2012 March 13 . The M81 Galaxy Group Through the Integrated Flux Nebula . ... Explanation: Large galaxies and faint nebulae highlight this deep image of the M81 Group of galaxies. First and foremost in the wide-angle 12-hour exposure is the grand design spiral galaxy M81 , the largest galaxy visible in the image. ... This whole galaxy menagerie is seen through the faint glow of an Integrated Flux Nebula , a little studied complex of diffuse gas and dust clouds in our Milky Way Galaxy . ...

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. ...

Our publications in 2007 year Pustilnik, S. A.; Tepliakova, A. L.; Kniazev, A. Y.; Burenkov, A. N.; SAO; Russia; SAAO; Africa, South . eprint arXiv:0712.4205, submitted to Astrophysical Bulletin (SAO) (12/2007) . Pustilnik, S. A.; Tepliakova, A. L.; Kniazev, A. Y. eprint arXiv:0712.4007, submitted to Astron.Lett (12/2007) . ... Kniazev, A. Y.; Pustilnik, S. A.; Zucker, D. B. eprint arXiv:0707.4285, submitted to MNRAS (07/2007) . ... eprint arXiv:0707.4288 (07/2007) . ...

Large-scale neutral hydrogen distribution and mean velocity field of the Circinus galaxy taken with various arrays of the ATCA. Jones, K.L., Koribalski, B.S. , Elmouttie, M., Haynes R.F. 1999, MNRAS 302, 649 . ... Gas and star formation in the Circinus galaxy . ... The large-scale atomic and molecular gas in the Circinus Galaxy . ... DSS optical image of the Circinus galaxy . ... Left: ESO composite image of the rings and outflow cone of ionized gas in the Circinus galaxy as observed by . ...

... R.S. de Jong, A.C. Seth, D.J. Radburn-Smith, E.F. Bell, T.M. Brown, J.S. Bullock, S. Courteau, J.J. Dalcanton, H.C. Ferguson, P. Goudfrooij, S. Holfeltz, B.W. Holwerda, C. Purcell, J. Sick, D.B. Zucker, 2007, ApJL 667, 49 . ... S.A. Kassin, R.S. de Jong, B.J. Weiner 2005, ApJ 643, 804 . ... I. Near-Infrared and Optical Broadband Surface Photometry of 30 Galaxies . ... Eric F. Bell and Roelof S. de Jong 2001, ApJ 550, 212-229 . ... Roelof S. de Jong 1996, A Suppl. ... Back to Roelof's home page () . ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... Galaxy Formation and Evolution . Publications . ... Very extended cold gas, star formation and outflows in the halo of a bright quasar at z > 6? ,б C. Cicone, R. Maiolino, et al. ... Belfiore, R. Maiolino, K. Bundy et al. 2015,б MNRAS in press (arXiv:1410.7781) . ... 2014, MNRASб in press (arXiv:1409.4764) . ... The dependence of the galaxy mass-metallicity relation on environment and the implied metallicity of the IGM?б  , Y. Peng & R. Maiolino 2014, MNRAS 438, 262 . ...

... Bringing news from across the Universe to children all around the world . ... Many of you will recognise the object in this space photograph as a galaxy: a collection of billions of bright, shining stars, and cosmic gas and dust. In this day and age, almost everyone has seen a photograph of a galaxy, making it hard to believe that less than 100 years ago most of the world s top astronomers didn t believe they existed! ... Before then, the existence of galaxies was uncertain. ...

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... Our Galaxy . ... Space Flight . ... No Comments Dim and isolated, the dwarf irregular galaxy WolfтАУLundmarkтАУMelotte (WLM) could be described as an astronomical тАЬliving fossilтАЭ as it seems to have developed since it formed billions of years ago [ ] . Continue Reading.. ... Posted on November 24, 2011 | ... 3 Comments The astronomy community is excited by the discovery of an exploding star, a supernova, in a galaxy 21 million light years away in the constellation Ursa Major. ...

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 . ...

... Animation of the neutral hydrogen data cube from Westerbork. ... VIRGOHI 21 was a dark galaxy candidate discovered in 2005 it was found to contain no starlight down to a very low surface-brightness level, yet its velocity structure implied that it had a mass of 10 10 10 11 solar masses. ... VIRGOHI 21 was first observed in the 21-cm line of neutral hydrogen with the Lovell telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory and the detection was confirmed using the Arecibo telescope ( Davies et al. ...

... Igor D. Karachentsev, Serafim S. Kaisin, More galaxies in the Local Volume imaged in H-alpha// AJ, 2010, V.140, 1241-1253, . astro-ph/ 1010.2053v1 ) . ... Alexei Moiseev, Igor Karachentsev, Serafim Kaisin , Ionized gas outflow in the isolated S0 galaxy NGC 4460 // MNRAS Volume 403 Issue 4 P age 1849–1858 - April 2010 ,   (astro-ph/ 1001.0234v1 ) . ... S. S. Kaisin and I. D. Karachentsev , Survey of galaxies in the local volume in H ? ... I. The NGC 6946 galaxy group, 2005, A&A, 434, 935-938. ...

GALACTIC SILHOUETTES This new image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and its Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) shows the unique galaxy pair called NGC 3314. Through an extraordinary chance alignment, a face-on spiral galaxy lies precisely in front of another larger spiral. ... The bright blue stars forming a pinwheel shape near the center of the front galaxy have formed recently from interstellar gas and dust. ...

The divisity of galaxies. The galaxies are the giant (to hundred of billions of stars) star systems, where the stars are connected by gravitation laws with each other. ... Ther galaxy NGC 3031 . ... Each spiral galaxy has a core a flat disk where the spiral brancher locate. The stars and interstellar substance of spiral galaxies rotate around the core. ... In normal galaxies, such as our Galaxy, the great brightness of the core is accounted for the high concentration of stars. ...

... 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. ...

. My astronomical research interests center on galaxy structure and evolution. Current topics include: . Polar-ring and interacting galaxies (see also new catalogue ) . Galaxy warps: statistics, properties and origin . Spiral galaxies at z~1: radial and vertical structure of stellar disks, statistics of interactions . Surface photometry and kinematics, dynamical modeling . Observational cosmology . Joomla Counter since Sep 1997

GALAXIES cenA .tiff 40 Bright Radio Galaxy M31.tiff Nikon Andromeda Galaxy (note HII regions in spiral arms) ngc6744.tiff 40 NGC 6744 a face-on spiral clouds_20d.tiff H'blad The Magellanic Clouds our nearest neighbours Lmc_7.tiff Nikon The Large Magellanic Clouds Lmc_zoom.tiff Nikon Detail of previous image smc_7.tiff Nikon The Small Magellanic Clouds smc-zoom.tiff Nikon Detail of previous image 30dor_40_BVR.tiff 40 The 30 Dor ... B [OIII] Halpha trifid.tiff 40" The Trifid Nebula. ...

Bizyaev D., "The Argument Against Long Extragagalactic Distance Scale", Astron. ... Soviet Astronomy) 1997. ... Zasov A., Bizyaev D., "An Estimate of the Hubble Constant using a Criterion for Gravitational Stability of Gaseous Discs", Pis'ma v Astron. ... 1996. ... D.Bizyaev, "Types of galaxies", 1996, Zvezdochet, No 11, p.22 (in Russian) . D.Bizyaev, "The Hubble Constant", 1996, Zvezdochet, No 2, p.20 (in Russian) . D.Bizyaev, "Magellanic Clouds", 1995, Zvezdochet, No 6, p.12. (in Russian) . ...

... 2004: . ... An increase in star brightness is followed by a decrease in asphericity and wind velocity to the point where stationary and even accreting fraction of the wind appears in extremely bright objects together with a flowing out fraction. ... Based on an analysis of observations obtained with BTA and on the published data it was found that degree of abnormality of energy distribution in continuum of magnetic chemically peculiar stars increases with an increase of their rotation period. ...