... Our Galaxy . ... Stars . ... Image credit: ESO, Acknowledgement: VST/Omegacam Local Group Survey) . First observed in 1909, the WLM galaxy is part of the Local Group, about 10 million light years (3.1 Mpc) across, this is the set of more than 35 galaxies which includes our own Milky Way. ... I compared this little galaxy to a living fossil because looking at it gives us an insight into a past era in the UniverseтАЩs history. ... Distances and metallicities for 17 Local Group galaxies? . ...

... These Frontier Fields will combine the power of HST with the natural gravitational telescopes of high-magnification clusters of galaxies. ... We are soliciting gravitational lensing maps for the last four Hubble Frontier Fields clusters (MACSJ0717.5+3745, MACSJ1149.5+2223, AbellS1063, and Abell 370) based upon the exceptionally deep HST FF imaging and other new ancillary data. ... For the full set of proposal instructions and requirements, see the FY16 Frontier Fields Lensing Map Call for Proposals....

... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Explore how our universe and all the objects it contains form and evolve in Cosmic Origins a must-have app brought to you by the editors of Astronomy , the world s best-selling astronomy magazine. ... Discover the basic galaxy types, how black holes affect the universe and how galaxies and their larger conglomerates т?? galaxy clusters т?? form and evolve through cosmic time. ...

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... ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . News | ... Governance overview . Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Our people overview . ... The formation mechanism of boxy/peanut-shaped bulges in spiral galaxies has been a problem for many years. ... New spectroscopic results (both optical and HI) are presented on seven galaxies including five boxy/peanut-bulge spirals. ... Boxy/Peanut Galaxies Formation Scenarios . ...

... 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"). ...

... 12.06.2014 . The Tarantula Nebula is more than 1,000 light-years in diameter, a giant star forming region within our neighboring galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). ... Three Galaxies over New Zealand . ... Galaxies like colorful pieces of candy fill the Hubble Ultra Deep Field 2014. The dimmest galaxies are more than 10 billion times fainter than stars visible to the unaided eye and represent the Universe in the extreme past, a few 100 million years after the Big Bang. ... 2013 2014 . ...

... Science Users Information > Science and Technical Meetings > Conferences 2016 > Discs in Galaxies . ... Observing Facilities . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... The aim of this Joint international conference is to explore the importance of stellar and gaseous discs in a variety of galaxies from high redshift to the Milky Way in the context of exciting new observations and numerical simulations. ... What are the prospects for observing and interpreting metal gradients in high redshift galaxies?...

... 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. ...

... Your main research interests concern neutral hydrogen. ... That means that there must be enormous quantities of gas lying around, waiting for the chance to collapse under its own weight into lumps and form stars and galaxies. If we could actually observe this gas, as it moves around and assembles itself into lumps, we would be directly observing the process of galaxy formation. ... Optical astronomers seem to think that they can observe galaxy formation by taking optical images. ... In galaxies. ...

... The molecular lines group at Arecibo Observatory consists of Chris Salter, Tapasi Ghosh and Robert Minchin. ... The molecular line group at Arecibo Observatory started in 2006 with a proposal to carry out a spectral census of the star-burst galaxy Arp 220 . ... However, the most interesting discovery came from the observations of the polar ring galaxy, NGC 660. ... Molecular Lines in NGC 660 Arias de Saavedra Benitez et al., ... A cm-Wavelength Search for Pre-Biotic Molecules in Starburst Galaxies. ...

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How cosmic structures formed and how galaxies were assembled remain key open questions in the study of modern cosmology. Theoretical models of primordial star formation and observations of faint high-redshift galaxy samples are the cornerstone of our group. ... Chemical evolution and mass-metallicity scaling relations over cosmic epochs ( Filippo Mannucci , Guido Risaliti , Marco Salvati , Veronica Sommariva ) . ...

An Ancient Universe: How Astronomers Know the Vast Scale of Cosmic Time . THE ANCIENT UNIVERSE . c) The Age of Light from the Most Distant Galaxies: The "Time Machine" Effect . ... Thus we are actually seeing these galaxies not as they are today, but as they were billions of years ago. ... The Universe: An Overview | ... The Ancient Universe - The Age of the Expanding Universe - The Age of the Oldest Stars - The Age of Light From Distant Galaxies - The Age of the Chemical Elements | ...

... 2011 July 26 . Galaxy NGC 474: Cosmic Blender . ... Explanation: What's happening to galaxy NGC 474? The multiple layers of emission appear strangely complex and unexpected given the relatively featureless appearance of the elliptical galaxy in less deep images. ... Alternatively the shells may be like ripples in a pond, where the ongoing collision with the spiral galaxy just above NGC 474 is causing density waves to ripple though the galactic giant. ... About APOD | ...

Next: M.E. Bailey, Director Up: Research Previous: C.S. Jeffery, Research Astronomer Contents . ... How do Stars Form? ... Other Work and Activities . ... The interaction of young stars with their surroundings are accentuated within Herbig-Haro Objects, where streams and `bullets' of ejected gas impact on the ambient molecular clouds. ... The astrophysical jets are spectacular. ... Michael Smith and collaborators have searched for, and found, the first evidence of rotation within the jets. ...

... Figure: A dark current CCD exposure with cosmic ray events which are removed with non--linear filters. ... Figure shows a CCD dark current exposure with cosmic ray events. ... Figure: Removal of cosmic ray events on a CCD spectral exposure with different techniques: (A) original, (B) median filter, (C) recursive filter and (D) stack comparison. ... For comparison with non--linear filter techniques, Figure D shows removal of cosmic ray events from the spectral frame discussed above. ...

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... Next: Cheating Poisson: A Up: Statistical Analysis Previous: Spatial Models and . ... The spatial distribution of stars in the Local Group dwarf irregular galaxy NGC 6822 has been studied, using recent positions and deep photometry for about 15,000 stars in the galaxy. Based on photometrical data, OB stars and red stars could be studied separately. Spatial statistical tools have been applied to the analysis of the spatial structure. ... Figure: Model selection by the aid of CAIC . ...

... The schedule assigned id (example: AS05) for your observing program. ... Use the time you started using the telescope including when you started taking calibrations. The time you opened for on sky observations can be entered later in the activity log. UTC End Time: . ... Focus Log: . ... The focus position can be obtained under the Telescope column of the System Status in ACP or from the run log. ... When all fields are filled out press this button to email the log to the ARCSAT and community. ...