... Hidden Galaxy IC 342 . ... Credit Copyright: Fabiomassimo Castelluzzo Explanation: Similar in size to large, bright spiral galaxies in our neighborhood, IC 342 is a mere 10 million light-years distant in the long-necked, northern constellation Camelopardalis . A sprawling island universe , IC 342 would otherwise be a prominent galaxy in our night sky, but it is hidden from clear view and only glimpsed through the veil of stars, gas and dust clouds along the plane of our own Milky Way galaxy . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2007 July 6 . Bright Galaxy NGC 2903 . ... Explanation: Spiral galaxy NGC 2903 is only some 20 million light-years distant in the constellation Leo . ... In fact , NGC 2903 exhibits an exceptional rate of star formation activity near its center, also bright in radio, infrared , ultraviolet, and x-ray bands . ... About APOD | ...

... July 1, 1998 . NGC 1808: A Nearby Starburst Galaxy . ... A barred spiral with marked similarities to our home Milky Way Galaxy , NGC 1808 is distinguished by a peculiar nucleus , an unusually warped disk , and strange flows of hydrogen gas out from the central regions. Amidst all of this, NGC 1808 is undergoing so much star formation it has been deemed a starburst galaxy . ... The peculiar state of NGC 1808 may be caused by the gravity of neighboring galaxy NGC 1792 . ... About APOD > . ...

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. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Our Galaxy . Milky Way . Stars . ... Other Galaxies . ... Barred spiral galaxy NGC 6744 is located in a constellation of the southern hemisphereтАЩs sky, called Pavo (Latin for peacock). At a distance from our Solar System of about 30 million light years, NGC 6744 is not only one of the closest spiral galaxies but is thought to be one of the visible galaxies most like our own Milky Way. Is it our cosmic doppelganger? ...

... Milky Way Bulge . Marina's List of Publications . ... News, Images and Press Releases . ... 22 July 2014: Hubble/ESA Science Release about the results published in the Astrophysical Journal article by Rejkuba et al. Part of the VVV view of the bulge of the Milky Way from ESO's VISTA , Image release (ESO/VVV Survey, D. Minniti, I. Toledo) was part of the Science release: The Peanut at the Heart of our Galaxy - ESO telescopes create the best 3D map yet of central bulge of the Milky Way . ...

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. ...

We combine new dust continuum observations of the edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 4565 in all Herschel/Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver (250, 350 and 500 ЮМm) wavebands, obtained as part of the Herschel Reference Survey, and a large set of ancillary data (Spitzer, Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Galaxy Evolution Explorer) to analyse its dust energy balance. ... The results from this detailed dust energy balance study in NGC 4565 are consistent with that of similar analyses of other edge-on spirals. ...

... Neutral hydrogen observations of the spiral galaxies NGC 6221 and NGC 6215 with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) reveal a wide, two-stranded bridge of at least 3 x 10^8 Msun which can be traced between the two galaxies over a projected distance of 100 kpc. ... The color figure below shows the HI emission (blue) in the bridge velocity range overlaid onto an optical image. ... A tidal HI bridge is visible between NGC 6221 and its brightest neighbour, NGC 6215 (v_sys = 1555 km/s). ...

... 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. ...

Our publications in 2002 year Kniazev, A. Y.; Grebel, E. K.; Pustilnik, S. A.; Pramskij, A. G. American Astronomical Society, 201st AAS Meeting, #52.23; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 34, p.1195 (12/2002) . ... N.; Pustilnik, S. A.; Kniazev, A. Y.; Elmegreen, B. G.; Larsen, S. S.; Alfaro, E. J.; Hodge, P. W.; Pramsky, A. G.; Richtler, T. Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.389, p.855-870 (07/2002) . ... 253-253 (02/2002) . ... 24P (01/2002) . ...

... 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) . ...

... NGC 1530 is one of the largest barred spiral galaxies in the northern sky, with bright CO emission. ... To trace molecular gas, we observed the line, with the IRAM Interferometer. ... Properties of NGC 1530 and observational results . ... Then in a frame rotating with the potential, the periodic orbits are ellipses either parallel to the bar ( ) or perpendicular ( ), depending on the radius of the orbit. ... We observed the molecular gas in the bar of NGC 1530, a barred SBb spiral in the line. ...

... 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. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Star Atlas . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... A hidden treasure in the Large Magellanic Cloud . Vast clouds of gas within the Large Magellanic Cloud slowly collapse to form new stars, and in turn, these light up the gas clouds in a riot of colors. ... This video zooms in from a view of the night sky into the Large Magellanic Cloud and focuses in on part of LHA 120-N11, a region of glowing dust and gas with ongoing star formation. ...

... Non-NGC Images . ... Bright nebula in Orion (and Horse Head)..... image . ... Diffuse nebula in Orion (M78)..... image ..... caption . ... Galactic cluster in Auriga (M37)..... image ..... caption . ... Galactic cluster in Gemini (M35)..... image ..... caption . ... Rosette nebula..... image ..... caption . ... Spiral galaxy in Cepheus..... image ..... caption . ... Galactic cluster in CMa (M41)..... image ..... caption . ... Galactic cluster in Monoceros (M50)..... image ..... caption . ... Galaxy ...

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. ...

... According to the most popular cosmological paradigm, the greater part of the galaxy mass is accumulated in the dark matter halo. ... The polar ring galaxies (PRGs) reveal external rings or disks of gas, dust and stars rotating in a plane roughly perpendicular to the disk of the central galaxy. ... The shape of the dark halo in the model was chosen so as to achieve the best fit to the observed rotation of both galaxies themselves and their polar rings. ... The SPRC-7 galaxy. ...

Supernova 2002bu in NGC 4242 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2002bu in NGC 4242 Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the updates and links web pages. This is a type IIn supernova found in a galaxy which is in Canes Venatici. ... Mag . ... 2002/03/28.26 . ... A Leroy image . ... SUPERNOVA 2002bu IN NGC 4242 . ...

... Shustov B.M., Wiebe D.S. Dust expelling from the Galaxy ( abstract from the journal ). Astronomy Reports , 1995, 39 , 578-586 [AZh, 72 , 650-659]. Wiebe D.S., Shematovich V.I., Shustov B.M. Chemical and dynamical evolution of protostellar clouds: initial stages of collapse ( abstract from the journal ). ... Shustov B.M., Wiebe D.S., Tutukov A.V. Evolution of disk galaxies and loss of heavy elements into the intracluster medium. ... ApJ (Letters), 1998, 503 , L71-L74 ( astro-ph/9806155 ). ...