... Ultraviolet Rings of M31 . ... Credit Copyright: GALEX, JPL-Caltech , NASA Explanation: A mere 2.5 million light-years away the Andromeda Galaxy, also known as M31, really is just next door as large galaxies go. ... While its spiral arms stand out in visible light images of Andromeda, the arms look more like rings in the GALEX ultraviolet view , a view dominated by the energetic light from hot, young, massive stars. ... Publications with keywords: ultraviolet - star formation - spiral galaxy . ...

... 2015 July 24 . Ultraviolet Rings of M31 . Image Credit: GALEX, JPL-Caltech , NASA . Explanation: A mere 2.5 million light-years away the Andromeda Galaxy, also known as M31, really is just next door as large galaxies go. ... While its spiral arms stand out in visible light images of Andromeda, the arms look more like rings in the GALEX ultraviolet view , a view dominated by the energetic light from hot, young, massive stars. ... About APOD | ... A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC . ...

The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) . Hot stars burn brightly in this image from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer, showing the ultraviolet side of a familiar face. At approximately 2.5 million light-years away, the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) is our Milky Way's largest galactic neighbor. ... The bands of blue-white making up the galaxy's striking rings are neighborhoods that harbor hot, young, massive stars. ... When observed in visible light, Andromeda s rings look more like spiral arms. ...

... 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) . ...

... Astronomy news . ... NASA's Spitzer Images Out-of-This-World Galaxy . ... It is spiral-shaped like our Milky Way, with long, spindly arms of stars. The "eye" at the center of the galaxy is actually a monstrous black hole surrounded by a ring of stars. In this color-coded infrared view from Spitzer, the area around the invisible black hole is blue and the ring of stars, white. ... The ring around the black hole is bursting with new star formation. ...

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . News | ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Mopra radio telescope . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ... Now, new Australia Telescope observations of the polar ring galaxy NGC 4650a suggest that the dark matter in this galaxy lies in a flattened distribution aligned with the polar ring. ...

... STScI-PRC95-02 HUBBLE VIEWS A STARRY RING WORLD BORN IN A HEAD-ON COLLISION [Right] - A rare and spectacular head-on collision between two galaxies appears in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope true-color image of the Cartwheel Galaxy, located 500 million light-years away in the constellation Sculptor. The new details of star birth resolved by Hubble provide an opportunity to study how extremely massive stars are born in large fragmented gas clouds. ...

... Milky Way . ... Map of the Milky Way (based on data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope) showing its two major stellar arms and central bar. ... ТљIn written science fiction, one often encounters another navigational convention, where towards the Galactic Centre is described as т??Corewardт??, away from the Centre towards the rim of the Milky Way is т??Rimwardт??, objects in the direction of the Galaxyт??s rotation are т??Spinwardт??, while objects in the opposite direction are т??antispinwardт?? ...

... 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. ...

Most of the stars in the local Universe inhabit spiral galaxies (like our own Milky Way) or elliptical galaxies. ... The nearest elliptical galaxy is M32, at a distance of 770,000 parsec (2.5 million light years). ... Our image of M32 is the first to directly image the stars responsible for the ultraviolet light produced by elliptical galaxies. ... The image below shows how M32 appears in near-ultraviolet light. ... A false-color JPEG file of the STIS near-UV M32 image is available here . ...

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... Centaurus A : 15,000,000 light years away, in the constellation Centaurus, the closest AG to Earth . ... Astronomers think that the reason for the unusual shape of this galaxy is because hundreds of millions of years ago two galaxies, one dusty spiral and one bright ellipictal, collided causing a massive black hole in the middle and bright emmision of light. ... Andromeda galaxy: 2.8 million light years away, closest spiral galaxy to earth, farthest object one can see without a telescope. ...

Star formation is often best manifested by bright H II regions.These are regions of hydrogen which have been ionized by ultraviolet photons which are emitted from massive stars (typically stars more than 20 times the mass of the Sun). ... A narrowband filter image centered on this wavelength will then readily reveal these H II regions and hence the current sites of star formation in a galaxy, The luminous blobs that can be seen here are all H II regions . ... NGC 3558 Visual . NGC 3558 Infrared . ...

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... A.M.Mel'nik and P. Rautiainen / Straight segments in the galactic discs , MNRAS, 2013, Vol. 434, pp. 1362-1375, full text . ... 2010, Vol. 519, pp. 70-82, full text . A.M.Mel'nik and A.K.Dambis / Kinematics of OB-associations and the new reduction of the Hipparcos data , MNRAS, 2009, Vol. 400, pp. 518-523, full text . ... A.M.Mel'nik and P.Rautiainen / Kinematics of the Outer Pseudorings and the Spiral Structure of the Galaxy , Astronomy Letters, 2009, Vol. 35, pp. 609-624. full text . ...

Follow-up observations with the University of Washington 0.76 m telescope at Manastash Ridge Observatory (MRO) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) cataclysmic variable (CV) SDSS J170053+400358 are presented. ... They estimate that the dimming amounted to about 0.028 mag (using two comparison stars that were each about 4 mag fainter than HD 209458). only UW affiliated authors have been listed, student researchers are marked with an ``*'' . ... XTE J1859+226" UW affiliated authors: *Kevin Krisciunas. ...

... The Milky Way - and the lights of CoonabarabrтАж . Sidebar Left . Sidebar Top . No Sidebar . ... Title: The Milky Way - and the lights of Coonabarabran - behind the dome of the ANU 40-inch telescope. Description: The dome of the UK Schmidt telescope is just to the right of the town lights. ... The Milky Way - and the lights of Coonabarabran - behind the dome of the ANU 40-inch telescope. The dome of the UK Schmidt telescope is just to the right of the town lights. ...

... a spiral galaxy some million light years away, made by combining images . ... 1st February using the Armagh Robotic Telescope at the Armagh Observatory. ... Image credit: Simon Jeffery. Astronomers Simon Jeffery and Jack Wright have obtained their first images of deep-space objects using a new тАЬroboticтАЭ telescope at Armagh Observatory. ... Simon Jeffery, project scientist for the new telescope, said: "After two years of hard work, it is very satisfying to see the first images looking so good. ...

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