... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2015 January 24 . Light from Cygnus A . Image Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO ; Optical: NASA/STScI ; Radio: NSF/NRAO/AUI/VLA . Explanation: Celebrating astronomy in this International Year of Light , the detailed image reveals spectacular active galaxy Cygnus A in light across the electromagnetic spectrum. ... About APOD | ...

... Active Galaxy Centaurus A . ... Credit Copyright: X-ray - NASA , CXC , R.Kraft ( CfA ), et al. ... Explanation: A mere 11 million light-years away, Centaurus A is a giant elliptical galaxy - the closest active galaxy to Earth. ... Centaurus A's central region is a jumble of gas, dust, and stars in optical light, but both radio and x-ray telescopes trace a remarkable jet of high-energy particles streaming from the galaxy's core. ... Publications with keywords: Centaurus A - active galaxy - NGC 5128 ....

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Parkes | ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ... The Active Algol Binary KZ Pavonis . ... The Algol type eclipsing binary KZ Pav has been observed over one complete orbit (0.95 days) with the Australia Telescope Compact Array. ...

... RATAN-600 data for the BL Lacertae objects (multi-frequency catalogue, Version 1.0) . GPS radio sources . ... Kovalev et al. (2009) also investigated the correlation between radio emission and gamma-ray flux (using Fermi-LAT data after the first 3 months of observations) for 135 AGNs. ... Moreover, the correlation between high-frequency radio emission (at 37 GHz) and gamma-ray emission (100 MeV.100 GeV, Fermi-LAT data) for 249 northern AGNs was studied by Nieppola et al. ... GHz) . ...

... Invited Review Paper. ... In radio-loud AGN, bipolar jets emanating from the nucleus emit radio through gamma-ray light that is relativistically beamed along the jet axes. ... We outline the two most plausible unified schemes for radio-loud AGN, one linking the high-luminosity sources (quasars and luminous radio galaxies) and one the low-luminosity sources (BL~Lac objects and less luminous radio galaxies). ... Table of contents (Postscript file, 38Kb) . ... Postscript versions of all the figures: . ...

... A radio galaxy is a galaxy that emits an unusually big amount of energy at radio wavelengths. ... Inside of each galaxy with an active nucleus (radio galaxies are among them) there must be a system of a "central machine" responsible for the colossal amount of the emitted energy from radio to gamma ranges. ... Sometimes a radio source in an active galaxy may flare again if the needed conditions appear (a new portion of matter would fall into the furnace of the "central machine"). ...

An X-ray/radio sample of Active Galactic Nuclei Nuria Fonseca Bonilla Tutor: Stefano Bianchi Matteo Guainazzi An X-ray/radio sample of Active Galactic Nuclei Brief introduction Results Conclusions An X-ray/radio sample of Active Galactic Nuclei 1. ... Classification of AGN radio loud (powerful jets): e.g: radio galaxies, quasars, blazars... radio quiet radio quiet quasars (RQQs) Veron `06: MABS < -23 Seyfert Veron `06: MABS > -23 An X-ray/radio sample of Active Galactic Nuclei 3. ...

Black holes . ... Black holes are objects for which the gravitational attraction is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape from it. ... The material inside a black hole is concentrated into a singularity: a single point of infinitely high density where space and time are infinitely distorted. ... The existence of such black holes has been inferred in cases where the black hole pulls gas of a companion star that orbits around it. ... Gravity's Fatal Atraction: Black Holes in The Universe. ...

... October 18, 1999 . NGC 3603: An Active Star Cluster . ... Explanation: NGC 3603 is home to a massive star cluster, thick dust pillars, and a star about to explode . The central open cluster contains about 2000 bright stars, each of which is much brighter and more massive than our Sun . ... These stars are less massive than our Sun, demonstrating that great numbers of low-mass stars also form in active starburst regions . ... About APOD > . ...

... The color composite image of Centaurus A reveals the lobes and jets emanating from the active galaxy?s central black hole. ... Astronomers have a new insight into the active galaxy Centaurus A (NGC 5128), as the jets and lobes emanating from the central black hole have been imaged at submillimetre wavelengths for the first time. ... Centaurus A hosts a very active and highly luminous central region, caused by the presence of a supermassive black hole is the source of strong radio and X-ray emission....

... Jets from Black Holes in Active Galactic Nuclei . Dr. Alan Marscher, Boston University . ... He is the leader of the Blazar Research Group (http:/www.bu.edu/blazars) in the Institute for Astrophysical Research (http:/www.bu.edu/iar) at Boston U. Dr. Marscher composes folk/pop songs in both English and Russian. ... Please join us for a pre-meeting dinner discussion at Changsho, 1712 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA at 6:00pm before the meeting. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... 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) . ...

... Towards a Truly Unified Model of AGN . ... The Unified Model holds that the aspect-dependent effects primarily determine the nature of the active galactic nucleus that we observe. ... The full postscript file can be obtained here: . The PASA Latex file can be obtained here: . The postscript file of Fig 1 can be obtained here: . ...

... Pre-university education . ... Samara region . SSAU History . SSAU roadmap . ... Samara State Aerospace University (SSAU) will take an active part in the work of space activities of the United Nations organization (UNO). ... The road map shape on inclusion of Samara University into implementation of the UN Program on Space Applications was outlined at the roundtable discussion with the University teachers and specialists and at the meeting with SSAU Rector Yevgeniy Shakhmatov. ...

Galactic Wind Shells and High Redshift Radio Galaxies . ... M.Krause . Astronomy & Astrophysics, v.436, 845-851 . Very Light Jets II: Bipolar large scale simulations in King atmospheres [small version] . ... Simulations of Astrophysical Jets in Dense Environments . M.Krause, V.Gaibler & M.Camenzind . in: High Performance Computing in Science and Engeneering '05 eds.: E.Krause, W.J ger & M.Resch. ... M.Krause & M.Camenzind . ... Martin Krause & Paul Alexander . ... Martin Krause . ...

... ORAL SESSION . ... Registration /Coffee . ... Sergey Bogachev : Space solar investigations in the Lebedev Institute: from Sputnik-2 to future missions . ... Splinter session. S1 : SOLARIS mission proposal (chair - S.Kuzin) . ... Morning Coffee . ... The Sun from radio to gamma rays: new results from space and ground-based observatories (part 1) . ... Szymon Gburek : SphinX and XRT observations of active regions . ... Artem Ulyanov : Nanoflares in the quiet solar corona: a view from SDO/AIA . ...

... 9) Oknyanskij V.L. 1994, "Optical-radio time delays in Q0957+561", Odessa Astronomical Publ., ... 11) Oknyanskij V.L. 1994, "Connection between X-ray and optical variability in NGC4151", in Proceedings of Int. Conf. ... 1994. 12) Oknyanskij V.L. 1994, "Connection between X-ray and optical variability in NGC4151", Astrophys. and Space Science, 222, p.157. ... 14) Oknyanskij V.L., van Groningen E., 1997, "Optical spectral variability of NGC4151 in 1990", Astronomical and Astrophys. ...

... The highest redshift X-ray jet discovered . by Chandra in GB 1428+4217 at z = 4.72 . X-ray jet discovered by Chandra . ... Science Papers on ADS . ... Chandra Press Release . The paper describing the details nas been published in ApJ and it is available also on astro-ph Feb. ... The jet paper published in ApJ Letters is available on astro-ph Oct. ... ApJ Letters paper available on astro-ph: Paper 2003 Feb. ... ApJ papers available on astro-ph: Paper 1, 2002 and Paper 2, 2007 . ...

... Continent-sized radio telescope takes close-ups of Fermi active galaxies . Observations solidify a theory about radio-emitting jets emanating from supermassive black holes at the centers of active galaxies. ... The study solidifies the link between an active galaxy's gamma-ray emissions and its powerful radio-emitting jets. ... All this points to the team's conclusion that the portion of an active galaxy's radio jet closest to the galaxy's core is also the source of the gamma-rays Fermi detects. ...

M87 Gas Disk and Optical Jet (STSci) . SEDS Messier Catalogue M87 Page (U. Arizona) . Black Hole and Jet in M87 (NASA/GSFC) . ... The large scale radio structure is shown in the 3CRR Atlas . Richard White's Virgo Cluster page has optical and X-ray images of the large-scale environment of M87 . ... HST Observes Distant Radio Galaxies (STScI) . HST Finds a Black Hole in NGC4261 (STScI) . HST finds a Bare Black Hole Pouring out Light in NGC6251 . ... Alan Bridle's Home Page . ...