... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2015 February 11 . M100: A Grand Design Spiral Galaxy . Image Credit: Hubble Legacy Archive , NASA , ESA - Processing Licence : Judy Schmidt . Explanation: Majestic on a truly cosmic scale, M100 is appropriately known as a grand design spiral galaxy. ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply . ...

... M100: A Grand Design . ... Credit: NASA Explanation: Majestic on a truly cosmic scale, M100 is appropriately known as a Grand Design spiral galaxy. A large galaxy of over 100 billion or so stars with well defined spiral arms , it is similar to our own Milky Way . One of the brightest members of the Virgo Cluster of galaxies , M100 (alias NGC 4321) is 56 million light-years distant in the spring constellation of Coma Berenices . ... Publications with keywords: M100 - spiral galaxy . ...

... Our Galaxy . ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... NGC 2841: a spiral galaxy some 46 million light years away. ... It is especially hard to explain this process of star birth in some spiral galaxies. ... Targets include both star clusters and galaxies, and star formation rates seen range from the starburst galaxy M82 (the Cigar Galaxy) which is creating about ten new stars in its core alone every year to the much less fecund star producer NGC 2841. ... Tweets that mention Baby stars of NGC 2841 | ...

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 . ...

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 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) . ...

... 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 . ...

... February 22, 1999 . NGC 1316: After Galaxies Collide . ... WFPC2 , HST , NASA . ... A preliminary inspection indicates that NGC 1316 is an enormous elliptical galaxy that started devouring a smaller spiral galaxy neighbor about 100 million years ago. ... Most elliptical galaxies have more and brighter globular clusters than evident in NGC 1316 . ... One hypothesis therefore holds that these globulars survive from an even earlier galaxy that was subsumed into NGC 1316. ... About APOD > . ...

... 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 () . ...

... 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. ...

... 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). ...

... 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) . ...

... Tikhonov N.A., Lebedev V.S., Galazutdinova O.A., . ... Tikhonov N.A., Galazutdinova O.A., Lebedev V.S., . Stellar Content of the Metal-Poor Galaxy DDO 68, . Astronomy Letters, Vol. ... Stellar Content of the Interacting Galaxies IC 1727 and NGC 672, . ... Tikhonov N.A., Galazutdinova O.A., . ... Tikhonov N.A., Galazutdinova O.A., Tikhonov E.N., . ... Karataeva G.M., Tikhonov N.A., Galazutdinova O.A., Hagen-Thorn V.A., . ... Tikhonov N.A., Galazutdinova O.A., Drozdovsky I.O., . ...

... 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 ...

... 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 . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... galaxies . ... space flight . exoplanets . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Why can the Hubble Space Telescope see distant galaxies but not exoplanets? ... D espite Hubble's marvelous ability to image distant galaxies, the telescope isn't able to image extrasolar planets. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

ATMoB "Galaxy Observing Award " Guidelines Purpose: To promote observing among the membership of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston through participation in the Galaxy Observing Awards program. ... Examples of elliptical galaxies: M49, M59, M60, M87, NGC 4125. Limiting Magnitude Assessment: Spirals: A spiral galaxy consists of a flattened disk, with stars forming a (usually two-armed) spiral structure, and a central concentration of stars known as the bulge. ...

... Visible Distribution of Galaxies. ... Features of Elliptical, Lens-Shaped, Spiral and Irregular Galaxies. Galaxies with Bar. ... Distribution of Surface Brightness of Surface and Spiral Galaxies. ... Color Characteristics of Galaxies. ... Methods of Galaxies' Mass Determination. ... Hidden Mass of Spiral Galaxies. ... Features of Dark Matter Distribution in E and SO Galaxies. ... The Whole Number of Galaxies and Their Density by the Results of Observation on the 'Hubble' Space Telescope. ...

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