... NGC 4449: Close Up of a Small Galaxy . ... 10.07.2007 . ... Credit: NASA , ESA , A. Aloisi ( STScI / ESA ), Hubble Heritage ( STScI / AURA ) - ESA /Hubble Collaboration Explanation: Grand spiral galaxies often seem to get all the glory. Their newly formed, bright, blue star clusters along beautiful, symmetric spiral arms are guaranteed to attract attention. But small irregular galaxies form stars too, like NGC 4449 , located about 12 million light-years away. ... Stars Forming in Serpens . ...

... 2007 July 10 . NGC 4449: Close-Up of a Small Galaxy . Credit: NASA , ESA , A. Aloisi ( STScI / ESA ), Hubble Heritage ( STScI / AURA ) - ESA /Hubble Collaboration . Explanation: Grand spiral galaxies often seem to get all the glory. ... But small irregular galaxies form stars too, like NGC 4449 , located about 12 million light-years away. ... NGC 4449 is a member of a group of galaxies found in the constellation Canes Venatici. ... About APOD | ... A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . Springtime observing for small telescopes . ... small (4 inches or smaller) . ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

I was wondering what conditions should be met to have the "darkest" sky .. ... Upon the above publication of the Southern Galactic hemisphere, TunГ Tezel started seeking opportunities to create the Northern counterpart image. ... So, the initial quest of having the darkest possible sky have delivered us these two all-sky images of the two galactic hemispheres as seen from Planet Earth. Zoomable and 'full-screenable' fisheye view of the "darkest sky" Southern Galactic Hemisphere image. ...

Most of these images were obtained by Mike Bessell, Michelle Buxton, Hwankyung Sung, Ralph Sutherland and Bob Watson at SSO using a 2Kx2K Site CCD behind a Nikon or Hasselblad lens or directly on the 1m telescope. A few images are from the Hubble Space Telescope. Some of the M42 images were obtained with the KPNO 1m and ESO NTT telescope. One image is a mosaic of IRAS images. ... Details of the CCD imaging program at MSSSO. ... antenna.jpg (53KB) . ... ngc6744.jpg (59KB) . ...

... 2010 . ... The following images are mosaics obtained on 03 August 2010 at the National Solar Observatory/Dunn Solar Telescope with the Interferometric Bidimensional Spectrometer (IBIS). ... The final images are approximately 238 x 242 arcseconds, or 4 x 4 arcminutes, with a pixel scale of 0.0976 arcseconds per pixel. ... The images show a broad range of typical chromospheric structures, including sunspots, superpenumbra, plage, filaments, and quiet internetwork. ...

14th of August 2015 . The Spectral Revolution has Begun . ... Callingham et al. (2015) present broadband observations and spectral modeling of PKS B0008-421 and identify it as an extreme gigahertz-peaked spectrum (GPS) source. ... Spectral coverage of the source spans from 0.118 to 22 GHz, which includes data from the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) and the wide bandpass receivers on the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA). ... today * ATNF | ... ATCA | ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... Although they look tranquil here, observed up close such young stars would seethe and glare violently. ... Once thought to be a satellite of our own galaxy, increasingly the Small Magellanic Cloud is believed to be an interloper from the intergalactic void which has wandered into its present location and will eventually recede away into the darkness. ... Your email address will not be published. ...

M1 image More About M1 Nice Color Picture . ... M16 image More About M16 HST image . ... M31 image More About M31 Nice Color Picture . ... M42 image ; M43 image More About M42/43 Nice Color CCD Picture . M51 image More About M51 Color Image of M51 M51 Supernova . M57 image More About M57 Nice Color CCD Picture Very Deep M57 Image . ... M81 image More About M81 M81 Supernova Ultraviolet Image of M81 More about Ultraviolet Imaging . M82 image More About M82 M82 False Color M82 True Color . ...

Neptune . ... Triton . Neptune 291k gif . Full Disk Neptune 93k gif ; 29k jpg . ... New Dark spot 25k jpg ; 113k gif ; caption ; press release . ... Another thin Crescent of Neptune 166k gif . ... low resolution shot of Neptune, possibly showing great black spot 210k gif . ... Parting view of Neptune and moon Triton 59k gif ; 17k gif ; 23k jpg . ... Small Dark Spot 190k gif ; 133k jpg . Small Dark Spot 55k gif ; 23k jpg . ... The Great Dark Spot 423k gif ; 153k gif ; 97k jpg . ...

Turning the Camera Skyward . A reconfigured camera can take wide-field exposures of astronomical objects (constellations, the Milky Way, zodiacal light, moving artificial satellites, meteor showers, variable stars, etc.) to reveal much fainter objects and structures than seen by naked eye. ... This picture reveals objects more than 2.5 times fainter than can be seen by the naked eye, including not only stars but also the Orion nebula (M42), where new stars are being born. ...

Album : asv-album :: Travels to distant places and countries :: 1998/06 Nauchny, Katsively (Crimea, Ukraine) ::Алупка. Воронцовский дворец . ... The path to the Palace park . ... Lilies in the small pond . ... Vorontsov Palace. ... Pines and the sea. Vorontsov Palace park . ... Near Vorontsov Palace park . Vorontsov Palace Garden . ... Sea panorama . ... Palace main entrance . Staircase leading to the sea from the palace entrance . ... Pond in the garden . ...

... STScI-PRC95-45a CRUCIBLE OF CREATION: PANORAMIC HUBBLE MOSAIC ZOOMS IN ON MAELSTROM OF STAR BIRTH This spectacular color panorama of the center the Orion nebula is one of the largest pictures ever assembled from individual images taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. ... Though this 2.5 light-years wide view is still a small portion of the entire nebula, it includes almost all of the light from the bright glowing clouds of gas and a star cluster associated with the nebula. ...

East Dubuque,Illinois, USA . Greetings from our East Dubuque School to Zelenogorsk. ... Our classes are in the high school link. ... East Dubuque is a small town of about 2,000 people. ... Our high school here in East Dubuque is also pretty small, it only has about 190 . ... I go to school in east Dubuque IL This is a very small town . ... I am now 16 years of age, and a junior at East Dubuque High School. ... I am a senior at East Dubuque High School. ... people in the town of East Dubuque. ...

TAKE PICTURES. ... Large Monolithic Mirror LMM Gary Matthews Manager, Image Collection Systems Eastman Kodak Company April 11, 2003 LMM Program Goals TAKE PICTURES. ... Mirror concept builds on successful AMSD segmented core design Mirror constructed of smaller segmented blanks joined before processing 5 LMM TAKE PICTURES. ... Large mirror core Pocket milled demonstration mirror AMSD highly segmented core 14 LMM Subscale Demonstration Mirror Design TAKE PICTURES. ...

... This letter contains information about scientific contest - Olympiad, which is held yearly in Chernogolovka: a small pictures- que village not far from Moscow, in which the Noginsk Scientific Center (NSC) of the Russian Academy of sciences is situated. The contest is participated by pupils of the 8-th to the 11-th forms and consists in solving problems in physics, astronomy and mathema- tics. The Olympiad is one of interesting traditions of our scienti- fic centre. ...

. To see a Russian version of this page, click here . (Professor, Director of SAI. Graduated from the Moscow State University (MSU) in 1964, Ph.D. 1967, MSU, Dr. of Science 1975, MSU) . A member of IAU and EAS, IAU committees No 42, 27. Fields of interest: Stellar astrophysics, close binary systems, inverse problems in astrophysics. Send your mail to: cher@sai.msu.su .

Eyepieces Forum Message . Forums: . ... Eyepieces | ... Pictures . ... Posted by Jarvis Krumbein on November 2, 2003 05:23:47 UTC . ... I was having serious problems manhandling the tube assembly of the old setup around as the bloody thing was very heavy. ... Pictures - gjeckes - November 2, 2003 - 08:06 UTC . ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

Two weeks ago a small space rock called 2008 TC3 made astronomical history as the first asteroid that both impacted the Earth and was also observed telescopically while still out in space and on its collision path with our planet. Since then, three more small near-Earth objects making very close approaches have been picked up by the Mount Lemmon Survey in Arizona, the third just a day ago. ... See also: Objects currently known to be within 45 million kilometres of the Earth . ...

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