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... 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....

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... 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? . ...

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... 7.03.2008 . ... Credit Copyright: Vicent Peris ( OAUV / PTeam ), MAST , STScI , AURA , NASA Explanation: The striking spiral galaxy M104 is famous for its nearly edge-on profile featuring a broad ring of obscuring dust. ... 2007 2008 . ... Publications with keywords: spiral galaxy - dust . Publications with words: spiral galaxy - dust . ... Nearby Spiral Galaxy NGC 4945 . NGC 1309: Spiral Galaxy and Friends . NGC 922: Collisional Ring Galaxy . ... NGC 1365: Majestic Spiral with Supernova . ...

QSO ABSORPTION LINE STUDIES with the HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE COLORADO GROUP: JOHN STOCKE , MIKE SHULL, JAMES GREEN, STEVE PENTON, CHARLES DANFORTH, BRIAN KEENEY Results thus far based on: 300 QSO ABSORBERS found by HST Spectrographs at z 0.1 and at low column densities (NH I = 1012.5--16.5 cm-2 ) AND 1.35 Million galaxy locations and redshifts from the CfA ... 2007, ApJ, 671, 146) At least 55% of all Ly absorbers with NH I > 1013 cm-2 are METAL-BEARING at ~ 10% SOLAR. ...

... 2015 July 26 . The Sombrero Galaxy from Hubble . Image Credit: Hubble Heritage Team ( AURA / STScI / NASA ) . Explanation: Why does the Sombrero Galaxy look like a hat? Reasons include the Sombrero 's unusually large and extended central bulge of stars, and dark prominent dust lanes that appear in a disk that we see nearly edge-on . Billions of old stars cause the diffuse glow of the extended central bulge. ... Follow APOD on: Facebook , Google Plus , or Twitter . ... About APOD | ...

STScI-PRC99-10 . ... Astronomers have used the NASA Hubble Space Telescope to produce an infrared "photo essay" of spiral galaxies. By penetrating the dust clouds swirling around the centers of these galaxies, the telescope’s infrared vision is offering fresh views of star birth. These six images, taken with the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer, showcase different views of spiral galaxies, from a face-on image of an entire galaxy to a close-up of a core. ... Gallery | ...

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... 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"). ...

... Galaxies 99 Cosmic background with model of cloudy interstellar medium Yu. ... Figure 1: Averaged spectrum of the cosmic background I f in frequency range 0.25 200 MHz for the Galactic poles. ... First interpretation of the cosmic noise background spectrum at broad band frequency range 0.25 200 MHz with a model of the cloudy interstellar medium ISM is presented here. ... Synthesized background spectra I f for regions of the Galactic poles at the frequency range 0.25 200 MHz is presented in Fig. ...

... Our Sun is part of a huge wheel-shaped collection of stars. ... Astronomers have long suspected it was a very massive black hole, and that every galaxy had such a central mass, created early in the history of the universe. ... However, unless that object happens to be headed directly at the black hole (a relatively small target) it will just swing around and fly away again, like a comet making a pass at the Sun. The velocity acquired in falling towards the black hole also helps it escape. ...

BSc thesis "Metallicity Gradients of Elliptical Galaxies", 1997, Univ. of Tokyo . MSc thesis "Low-Metallicity Inhibition of Type Ia Supernovae and Galactic and Cosmic Chemical Evolution", 1999, Univ. of Tokyo . PhD thesis "Formation and Chemodynamical Evolution of Galaxies", 2002, Univ. of Tokyo . ... Cosmic SFRs, chemical evolution, mass-dependent galactic winds, and the mass-metallicity relation of galaxies are reproduced (Kobayashi, Springel, White 06). ... What are dwarf galaxies? ...

As a service to the astronomical community, we are recalibrating all archival Hubble Space Telescope Faint Object Spectrograph UV and optical spectrophotometry of active galaxies and quasars in order to extract uniformly calibrated spectrophotometric data for further detailed scientific investigations. ... NGC 4151 CLOUD F . NGC 5548 . ... NGC 4395 . ... NGC 4486 . ... NGC 4486 JET KNOT-A . ... NGC 4486 CLOUD-A . ... NGC 3031 . ... NGC 1068 . ... NGC 1068 CLOUD A . ... 1413+117A . ... NGC 4151 . ...

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