... Editor's choices for the most educational Astronomy Pictures of the Day about clusters of galaxies: . APOD: 2006 March 21 - The Coma Cluster of Galaxies . ... APOD: 2005 November 22 - A Galactic Collision in Cluster Abell 1185 . ... A prominent example occurs on the left of the above image of the rich cluster of galaxies Abell 1185. ... Recent observations of Abell 1185 have found unusual globular clusters of stars that appear to belong only to the galaxy cluster and not to any individual galaxy. ...

... The Hydra Cluster of Galaxies . ... Most of a cluster's mass , however, appears to be in a form too dark to see , as analyses of the distribution of X-ray light , gravitational lensing , and internal motions indicate. ... The Hydra Cluster of Galaxies, named for its home constellation , spans about ten million light years . ... Publications with keywords: Hydra - cluster of galaxies . Publications with words: Hydra - cluster of galaxies . ... Illusion and Evolution in Galaxy Cluster Abell 2667 . ...

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... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... Large-scale production and analysis of mock galaxy images. ... Recently I've been involved in a collaboration ( The Illustris Project ) to create and analyze large-scale simulations of galaxy formation. ... Click to see a comparison between the Hubble Ultra Deep Field and a galaxy formation experiment run on a supercomputer: . ... Today, stars and planets form in clouds of gas and dust in galaxies, clumps of matter denser than the universal average by roughly 30 orders of magnitude. ...

... We have made observations of the Perseus cluster with the Westerbork Telescope at 610 MHz. ... Several newly detected sources are identified with cluster galaxies. ... No evidence is found for the existence of the previously reported ~ 65'x25' cluster halo, 3C 84B. Key words: radio galaxies - clusters - tailed radio sources buoyancy The Perseus Cluster of galaxies is one of the most fascinating systems accessible to extragalactic astronomers. ...

... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... galaxies . ... Hubbleт??s first Frontier Field finds thousands of unseen faraway galaxies . ... The first of a set of unprecedented super-deep views of the universe from an ambitious collaborative program called The Frontier Fields is being released. ... The Frontier Fields is an experiment. ... In this field, Hubble resolves roughly 10,000 galaxies seen in visible light, most of which are randomly scattered galaxies...

Title: A New Model of the Gravitational Lens 0957+561 and a Limit on the Hubble Constant . Authors: Norman A. Grogin , Ramesh Narayan (Harvard Univ.) ... Title: ROSAT/PSPC observation of the distant cluster CL0939+472 . ... Title: Interaction in the Bimodal Galaxy Cluster A3528 . ... Title: Cosmological Implications of Galaxy Cluster Evolution . ... Title: Galaxy Cluster Virial Masses and Omega . ... Matches 201 to 222 from a total of 222 matches for the search pattern galaxy cluster . ...

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 . ...

... STScI-PRC98-27 FAR-FLUNG GALAXY CLUSTERS MAY REVEAL FATE OF UNIVERSE A selection of NASA Hubble Space Telescope snapshots of huge galaxy clusters that lie far away and far back in time. ... If the distances and masses of the clusters are confirmed by ground based telescopes, the survey may hold clues to how galaxies quickly formed into massive large-scale structures after the big bang, and what that may mean for the eventual fate of the expanding universe. ...

... 2000 . ... Abstract: I present the distribution of the brightest galaxies in the southern sky as obtained from the H I Parkes All-Sky Survey (HIPASS). ... A histogram of the systemic velocities of the brightest HIPASS galaxies is shown in Fig. ... It peaks, as expected, in the interval 800 to 2000 km/s. No bright galaxies were found with systemic velocities of less than -350 or more than 5500 km/s. Figure 2: Histogram of the H I systemic velocities of the brightest galaxies obtained from HIPASS. ...

... Galileo was one of the first to study our Milky Way with a telescope in 1610 and he discovered that it was composed of a huge number of faint stars. ... Image Credit: NASA Elliptical Galaxy This image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows a good example of an elliptical galaxy at the centre of a galaxy cluster that is over 450 million light-years away in the direction of the constellation Centaurus. ... Then the Andromeda galaxy was first classed as a galaxy outside of our own Milky Way. ...

... Primordial theory review : Dick Bond . Defects and the CMB review : Andy Albrecht . ... Gravitational wave contribution to CMB anisotropies : V.B. Lukash and E.V. Mikheeva . C_l from cosmic strings : Lloyd Knox . Some aspects of CMB anisotropies induced from topological defects : Mairi Sakellariadou . ... CMB anisotropies from scaling sources : Ruth Durrer . ... SZ observations I : Sarah Church . ... Holes in the microwave sky? ... Detecting cosmic strings in the CMB : James Robinson . ...

... Things to think about ­ INTMIT, deconvolution Lister Staveley-Smith ­ X-ALFA March 15, 2003 1 HIPASS Bright Galaxy Catalog (BGC) Koribalski et al. ... Arecibo beam Parkes beam HIPASS spectrum HIPASS J0620-57 = ESO161-G001/NGC 2222/NGC 2221 (ATCA observation) Lister Staveley-Smith ­ X-ALFA March 15, 2003 8 The ALFA advantage ­ an example ! Cosmic variance for HIPASS BGC dwarfs #10 Mpc cells Dwarf galaxies Lister Staveley-Smith ­ X-ALFA March 15, 2003 9 Cosmic Variance in HIPASS BGC Zwaan et al. ...

In 2001, Westerbork observations of the disturbed galaxy named VV-29 (alias Arp-188, UGC-10214) showed that there is second smaller galaxy (named VV-29c) that appears behind the western side of the main body of the distorted galaxy. ... The galaxy was featured as the May 2, 2002 Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... When VV-29 had its 15 minutes of fame in May 2002, it appeared under the name "The Tadpole Galaxy," but based on the images above, we will always think of it as "The CHAINSAW"! ...

Results from 6m telescope observations of globular clusters in dwarf galaxies Sharina M. We consider properties of globular clusters in dwarf galaxies observed with the multi-slit unit of the SCORPIO spectrograph at the SAO 6m telescope. ... Studying GCs in dwarf galaxies at the faintest end of the galaxy luminosity function provides valuable information for a better understanding of galaxy evolution and evolutionary connection between globular clusters and nuclei of galaxies. ...

... 1994: . Deep CCD images of the bright gamma-ray bursts GRB790418 and GRB790613 localization regions were obtained for the first time. In both cases, a faint blue star-like object (V = 24.5 m , BV m ) was detected within the region of localization of gamma-ray bursts. ... Based on sixty daily instantaneous spectra of the object SS433, obtained on the RATAN-600 in April-May 1994, we traced its variability in four very powerful flares at five frequencies. ... Archive . ...

... All previous such superstars have been found along with many companion stars in the centres of crowded star clusters. The star is known as VFTS 682 from the VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey catalogue of the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) located at Paranal in Chile by means of the attached FLAMES instrument. ... Although VFTS 682 seems to be alone now it is not very far away from a very rich star cluster known as RMC 136 that contains several similar superstars. ...

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... We still have a long distance to cover before we leave the Milky Way Galaxy -- tens of thousands of lightyears, as a matter of fact -- so let's stop by some interesting objects on the way. ... But we have reached the edge of the Milky Way Galaxy. ... We don't know, but we do know that there are countless voyages left to take. To continue the virtual voyage beyond our galaxy, go to Kent Cheatham's "A Walk in the Stars" at http://www.ionet.net/~cheatham/astro/astrotour.shtml . ...