... 2012 July 17 . Simulation: A Disk Galaxy Forms . ... U. Washington ), N-Body Shop , NASA Advanced Supercomputing . ... Green depicts (mostly) hydrogen gas in the above movie , while time is shown in billions of years since the Big Bang on the lower right. ... For our Milky Way Galaxy , however, big mergers may not be over -- recent evidence indicates that our large spiral disk Galaxy will collide and coalesce with the slightly larger Andromeda spiral disk galaxy in the next few billion years. ...

... Simulation: A Disk Galaxy Forms . ... U. Washington ), N-Body Shop , NASA Advanced Supercomputing Explanation: How do galaxies like our Milky Way form? ... For our Milky Way Galaxy , however, big mergers may not be over -- recent evidence indicates that our large spiral disk Galaxy will collide and coalesce with the slightly larger Andromeda spiral disk galaxy in the next few billion years. ... Publications with keywords: galaxy formation - spiral galaxy - Milky Way . ... Spiral Galaxy NGC 5033 . ...

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... Comparison of simulations with the large scalтАж . Sidebar Left . Sidebar Top . ... Title: Comparison of simulations with the large scale radio galaxy M87. Description: Comparison between a snapshot from Movie 2 (left panel) with the large scale radio structure of the famous radio galaxy M87. ... Comparison of simulations with the large scale radio galaxy M87. Comparison between a snapshot from Movie 2 (left panel) with the large scale radio structure of the famous radio galaxy M87. ...

... Large-scale production and analysis of mock galaxy images. ... Recently I've been involved in a collaboration ( The Illustris Project ) to create and analyze large-scale simulations of galaxy formation. ... Click to see a comparison between the Hubble Ultra Deep Field and a galaxy formation experiment run on a supercomputer: . ... Today, stars and planets form in clouds of gas and dust in galaxies, clumps of matter denser than the universal average by roughly 30 orders of magnitude. ...

Structure Formation : Bright side of the Universe Anatoly Klypin New Mexico State University Also: Stefan Gottloeber (Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam) Gustavo Yepes (UAM, Madrid) Cosmological ... -body+hydro simulations Codes: SPH + TREE AMR + shock capturing hydro Physical processes: Compton cooling/heating on CMB Radiative gas cooling Star formation with simple approximations Metal enrichment Energy/momentum feedback from young stars and SN Galaxies too concentrated. ...

... 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. ...

... Deep optical CCD image of the LMC. Diffuse Galactic Light is plainly visible in this optical image of the Large Magellanic Cloud as a haze over the entire galaxy. The phenomenon arises from starlight scattering off numerous dust clouds in and above the plane of the LMC's disk to form a faint, galaxy-wide reflection nebula. ... The CCD image above was presumably taken with a special wide-field camera at optical wavelengths. ...

... Galaxy Evolution home . ... Regulating the ISM and star formation . Cosmological evolution of star-forming galaxies . ... Local Information . ... In order to investigate the cosmological evolution of star-forming galaxies it is essential that we understand the physics which controls the evolution and regulation of star formation in the ISM. ... We use a combined observational and numerical approach to study interacting and merging galaxies in the local Universe. ...

... As a summary I present a probable model for the evolution of the nearby starburst galaxies by taking into account observations of their large-scale and nuclear gas dynamics as well as numerical simulations of gas flows in galaxies. ... Thus, it is very likely that galaxy interaction plays an important role in the formation of bars . ... A good example is the barred starburst galaxy NGC 1808. ... In fact, one can nearly see the gas flowing toward the galaxy centre where it fuels the nuclear starburst...

... Black holes are found at the centres of galaxies which are similar in size to our own Milky Way Galaxy or larger. When black holes collide and merge they form supermassive black holes which are events among the most powerful in the universe. ... 55, No. 1, pages 1-5, 'Observational Effects of Strong Gravity in Vicinity of Supermassive Black Holes' . ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Our Galaxy . ... Other Galaxies . ... Telescopes and Observatories . ... Everyone loves stunning pictures of spiral galaxies,€а I have said this before and will no doubt say it again. The folks at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) know this too, and their latest public image release is a bumper set of serenely spinning spirals. ... Tweets that mention Six glorious spiral galaxies seen by the European Southern Observatory. ...

... Staff . ... Galaxies, AGN, Cosmology . ... Star formation . ... Galaxy archaeology over the last 7 billion years . The stellar populations in galaxies can gain us insight into galaxy evolution. ... The increase of passive galaxies and the decrease of star-forming galaxies from early times to the present-day indicates that the overall star formation activity has declined and galaxies have been transitioning from the active to the passive phase at a fast rate since about 8 billion years ago. ...

home publications > mercury . ... Big Clusters, Tiny Galaxies . ... Astronomers struggle to understand why giant star clusters form in the tiniest of galaxies . ... These clusters are probably young versions of globular clusters, but they are commonly called super star clusters. Seven dwarf galaxies within 16 million light-years have formed super star clusters, with one of these galaxies, NGC 1569, possessing two young clusters. ... Super star clusters have a lot to tell us about star formation. ...

... Telescopes . ... The time requests are accepted in an electronic version with on-line form in Russian or English. ... Unregistered request will be disregarded by the Large Telescopes Programm Committee. In exclusive cases the secreatry of the Committee is entitled to accept an observational time request given permission of the Chairman of the Committee or the director of the SAO RAS. The Program Committee considers generally one time request submitted by the principal applicant. ...

. Small galaxies, like the Pegasus dwarf spheroidal shown here, play a pivotal role in galaxy formation's big picture. The galaxy, almost obscured by the glare of foreground stars in our own Milky Way, measures just 2,000 light-years across and orbits M31, the famous Andromeda spiral. Galaxies like the Pegasus dwarf and the recently identified Ursa Major dwarf are thought to be the building blocks from which larger galaxies formed. E. Grebel, Univ. Washington / P. Guhathakurta, UCO/Lick

... Since the pioneering work of Markarian ([ 1967 ]) objective prism surveys were recognized as a powerful tool to search for galaxies of various types of activity. ... Of special interest are blue compact galaxies (BCGs). ... A third sample of BCGs of Popescu et al. ([ 1997 ], [ 1998 ]) contains about 200 BCGs distributed in four regions of the northern sky and is based on a sample selected on the Hamburg Quasar Survey (HQS; Hagen et al. [ 1995 ]) digitised IIIa-J plates. ... 1997, 1998). ...

Next: Discussion Up: No Title Previous: Parameters of binary compact . Under the assumptions made above, we can calculate the binary merging rates in the Galaxy R . ... Figure: The dependence of different compact binary merging rates in a model ``elliptical'' galaxy (where all the stars were formed simultaneously at the moment t =0) with mass M . The horizontal line shows the mean merging rate of binary NS in a spiral galaxy of the same mass with a stationary star formation. ...

... 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. ...

... V.V.Makarov, V.P.Reshetnikov, V.A.Yakovleva . Photometric study of the peculiar galaxy NGC 2685" . ... eds.), Tallinn, 1989, p.19 . ... Press, 1994, p.272-273 . ... A.A.Mullari, V.V.Orlov, St.Petersburg Univ. ... conference, St.Petersburg, 1997, p.168-169 . ... All-Russian Astronomical Conference, Book of Abstracts, . ... in "Astronomy: traditions, present, future", V.V.Orlov, V.P.Reshetnikov, N.Ya.Sotnikova (eds.), St.Petersburg University Press, 2007, p.92-115 (in Russian) . ...