... 2008 October 26 . Massive Stars in Open Cluster Pismis 24 . Credit: NASA , ESA and J. M. ApellАniz ( IAA , Spain) . Explanation: How massive can a normal star be? Estimates made from distance, brightness and standard solar models had given one star in the open cluster Pismis 24 over 200 times the mass of our Sun, making it a record holder. ... Component stars would still remain near 100 solar masses, making them among the more massive stars currently on record. ... About APOD | ...

... A very young star cluster has been discovered in a neighboring galaxy. ... Antares . ... Antares is a huge star. In a class called red supergiant, Antares is about 700 times the diameter of our own Sun, 15 times more massive, and 10,000 times brighter. Antares is the brightest star in the constellation of Scorpius and one of the brighter stars in all the night sky. ... Dark Craters on Ganymede . ... Nearby Spiral M33 . ... M33 is a prominent nearby spiral galaxy. ...

... The basics · · · · Source galaxy at Observed image at Instead of I(), we see I'[()] We care about the Jacobian: = convergence; = shear Definitions = projected surface ... (axisymmetric) Definitions = projected surface density contrast (axisymmetric) = shear (comoving) Sloan Digital Sky Survey ( SDSS ) Imaging, spectroscopy over ~ 1/4 of the sky Imaging in 5 passbands (ugriz) (from http://www. sdss .org/) Our approach: Reglens Lenses: SDSS spectroscopic sample (~4x105 ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Dave's Universe . ... Dark matter scaffolding of universe detected for the first time . ... A filament of dark matter has been directly detected between the galaxy clusters Abell 222 and Abell 223. ... Scientists have, for the first time, directly detected part of the invisible dark matter skeleton of the universe, where more than half of all matter is believed to reside. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article....

Last time we saw that flat rotation curves for galaxies, when measured in galaxies with extended gas distributions, provides unambiguous data that shows the mass distribution is dominated by an unseen, spherical halo. ... Perhaps only galaxies with extended dark matter halos are capable of retaining large gaseous extents? . ... Clusters of Galaxies: . ... The case of the Cancer cluster: . ... Below is the velocity distribution of galaxies in the Cancer cluster: . ... What's going on in Cancer? ...

Maria-Rosa Cioni - University of Edinburgh / University of Hertfordshire The Magellanic Clouds as a template for the study of stellar populations and galaxy interactions CSIRO (Australia), 16-17 July 2007 Introduction MW LMC ? ... A "biased" view of the MCs (highlights) Near-IR Upper RGB & AGB stars Number density - morphology & structure C/M ratio - metallicity (Fe/H] Ks mag - variation of mean age & metallicity Opt. ... O-rich AGB C-rich AGB RGB & others Cioni et al. ...

... Posts tagged ?massive data? ... Tags: bimodality , chi-square minimization , Classification , CMD , Estimation , machine learning , massive data , model based , PCA , spectral analysis , spectroscopic , survey , VO . ... Algorithms arXiv Astro Bad AstroStat Bayesian CHASC Cross-Cultural Data Processing Fitting Frequentist Galaxies gamma-ray High-Energy Imaging Jargon Job Languages MC MCMC Meta Methods Misc News Nuggets Objects Optical Physics Quotes Spectral Stars Stat Timing Uncertainty X-ray . ...

... STScI-PRC00-08 HUBBLE OPENS ITS EYE ON THE UNIVERSE AND CAPTURES A COSMIC MAGNIFYING GLASS Scanning the heavens for the first time since the successful December 1999 servicing mission, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a giant, cosmic magnifying glass, a massive cluster of galaxies called Abell 2218. ... The cluster is so massive that its enormous gravitational field deflects light rays passing through it, much as an optical lens bends light to form an image. ... Blue pinpoints hot young...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . ... Microstep (pattern) - a pattern of exposures at positions each shifted by a very small movement (<3 arcsec) from the reference position. ... A microstep pattern can be contained within each position of a jitter pattern. Jitter (pattern) - a pattern of exposures at positions each shifted by a small movement (<30 arcsec) from the reference position. ... Making a tile: Ysteps ; . ... Resulting Exposure time map for a filled tile of 6 pawprints (no jittering). ...

... Science Activities > PhD Thesis Topics offered by ESO Faculty Members > Thesis Topic: Dynamical models of multiple globular cluster populations around massive galaxies . ... Different techniques have been devised to separate multiple GC populations and perform dynamical analyses. ... Within this project, the PhD candidate will examine mock models of multiple GC populations around massive galaxies, devising `blinded' functional tests and comparing the possible sources of bias in different techniques....

... The HI - Star Formation Connection . ... Coffee . ... Dark Galaxies and Dark Matter . ... HI in Normal Galaxies . HI and Galaxy Evolution over Cosmic Time . ... How Galaxies Accrete Gas . ... The Billion Galaxy Survey . ... Searches for Dark Galaxies . ... Evidence for Dark Matter in Galaxies . HI in Galaxies: Overview . ... Open Questions in Normal Galaxies . ... Starburst galaxies and BCDs . ... HI Rich Galaxies . ... Open Questions in HI and Galaxy Evolution . HI and Galaxy Evolution . ...

In order to measure the density of the Universe, it is necessary to sample a region that is larger than the scale on which the Universe becomes approximately homogeneous. ... When applied to clusters of galaxies we find a mass to luminosity ratio that implies a density of the Universe that is about 0.3 times the critical density. ... Thus the mass-to-muinosity ratio appears to vary with the size of the region measured, from 3 in the solar neighborhood to 30 in galaxies to 300 in clusters of galaxies. ...

DSS input form . The SuperCOSMOS Sky Survey . ... Pi of the Sky . The Sloan Digital Sky Survey . ... Extragalactic DataBase . ... SIMBAD Astronomical Database . ... Query form . ... The Two Micron All Sky Survey. ... The NRAO VLA Sky Survey . ... NIST Atomic Spectra Database (Lines Form) . ... The UVES Paranal Observatory Project . ... Rochester Astronomy . ... European Southern Observatory . European Astronomical Society . ... Astronomical Society of the Pacific . ... Sat24 BTA on line . ...

... Subject of Astronomy. ... Basis of Spherical and Practical Astronomy. ... Celestial Sphere. ... Changes of Star's Coordinates as a Result of Daily Rotation of Celestial Sphere. ... Time Measuring. ... Changes of Solar Equatorial Coordinates. ... Stellar Day, Stellar Time. ... Real Solar Time. ... Mean Solar Time. ... Connections between Stellar and Mean Time. ... Apparent Path and Configuration of Planets. ... Ways of Energy Transportation to Stellar Surface.Basis of Spectral Analysis. ... Solar...

... GSAOI Home . ... Science . ... Deep imaging at J , H , and K is required to identify all stellar objects, brown dwarfs, and planetary mass objects in the central region of the Orion Nebula Cluster down to masses comparable to that of Jupiter. This is required to establish the initial mass function, i.e., the number of stars of each mass that have formed, in this region of intense massive star formation. ... The fields of the GSAOI detectors are shown as four green squares in each frame. ...

... Recent Topics . ... MAO main . ... The third-order space-by-time relation . ... Тема: The third-order space-by-time relation . ... The mass m experiences a gravity force toward the sun and . ... will experience the Coriolis force or Coriolis acceleration. ... differentiated space-by-time twice and discovered equation2. ... If one differentiates . ... time differentiation of space-by-time. ... third-order space-by-time relation. ... understand the third-order space-by-time relation. ... MAO NASU . ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... AMI Science . ... Observations of galaxy clusters are central to the AMI science programme. The AMI Small Array is used to observe already-known clusters with high-sensitivity and resolution, allowing us to extract detailed information about individual clusters and to build up statistics about the cluster population. ... Observing galaxy clusters at 15 GHz is tricky because of the contamination from foreground radio sources, which is where the Large Array comes in! ...

... Session 1 - Stars, star formation, stellar populations and planets . 9.20 10.00 . ... HST Spectroscopy of the Hottest White Dwarfs . ... Coffee break . ... Lunch break . ... A (long) look at neutron stars with HST . ... Session 2 - Nearby galaxies, bulges, spheroids, galaxy formation . ... New HST/ACS Insights into the Evolution of Star-Forming Dwarf Galaxies with Extreme Properties of Cosmological Relevance . ... Deriving properties of Lyman-break galaxies at z~3-5 using HST/VLT/Spitzer data . ...

... IAU planet classification Observing with a Telescope Large Scale Structure The observables: Local Group (size 1 Mpc) Virgo cluster (size 2+ Mpc) Virgo supercluster (size ~33 Mpc) Voids (size ~ 10-150 Mpc), Walls and sheets, aka filaments (size ~ 50-80+ Mpc) 1 parsec The nearest star is 1.2 parsecs away (Proxima Centuri). ... Virgo supercluster Voids, Sheets Filaments The Virgo Cluster is a cluster of galaxies at a distance of about 18.0 Mpc away in the constellation Virgo. ...

The Sun is our nearest star and the source of energy for life on Earth. ... For centuries astronomers wondered whether they were clouds floating in the Sun's atmosphere, but we now know that they really are huge regions of magnetic field, about as intense as the field at the poles of an iron magnet. ... Such abrupt events were named solar flares , and what made them especially interesting was that occasionally, after a prominent flare, a magnetic storm would erupt on Earth. ...