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This annotated artistтАЩs impression shows the Milky Way Galaxy. The blue halo of material surrounding the galaxy indicates the expected distribution of the mysterious dark matter. New measurements based on the movements of stars show that the amount of dark matter in this region around the Sun is far smaller than predicted and have indicated that there is no significant dark matter at all in our neighborhood. ...

... The SMS program is a critical endeavor to investigate whether the predictions of standard cold dark matter cosmology are consistent with the observed matter distribution in the Milky Way halo. It is the deepest, most extended search for optically elusive dwarf satellite galaxies and tidal streams to date, covering the entire Southern hemisphere. ... However only a few dwarf satellites have been found around the Milky Way to date - 22 dwarfs compared to 500-10,000 predicted by theory (Klypin et al. ...

... The Hydra Cluster of Galaxies . ... 16.04.2001 . ... 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. Abell 1060, as the above cluster is also known, appears to have an even higher fraction of dark matter than seen in a similar cluster, a situation astronomers cannot easily reconcile with both clusters forming solely from gravitational attraction. ... April 2001 . ...

... Planets . ... Earth Satellites . ... The newly discovered ?mega-Earth? ... Its sibling, the lava world Kepler-10b, is in the background (the two planets? proximity is grossly exaggerated) .€а Kepler-10c has a diameter of about 29 000 km, 2.3 times as large as Earth, and weighs 17 times as much. ... The first mega-earth to be discovered is Kepler-10c which orbits a star lying about 560 light years from the Sun in the constellation Draco. ... Astronomers Find a New Type of Planet: The ?Mega-Earth? ...

... PROBLEMS: "Unknown" (i.e. no physics model) components; What's a "Good-Enough-Fit" (e.g. Poisson)? ... ASIDE: MULTI-SCALE FOR POISSON - called Multiplicative Multiscale Innovation Models MMI Slides courtesy of R.Willett, SAMSI 2006 Timmermann Nowak, 1999 Kolaczyk, 1999 ASIDE: MULTI-SCALE FOR POISSON - called Multiplicative Multiscale Innovation Models MMI Slides courtesy of R.Willett, SAMSI 2006 Timmermann Nowak, 1999 Kolaczyk, 1999 ASIDE: MULTI-SCALE FOR ...

Last time we saw that their might be evidence for non-luminous matter in the solar neighborhood. On the scale of the Galaxy however, there is rather direct evidence for nun-luminous material. ... If light traces mass in a galaxy then we expect a kelperian fall off in rotational velocity as a function of radial distance. ... Some sample rotation curves: . ... In the above example, the data is fitted against mass contributions from the gas, stars and dark matter in the halo. ...

One possible way for spiral galaxies to internally evolve would be for gas to flow to the center and form stars in a central disk (pseudo-bulge). ... In this paper we present radial profiles of stellar and 8 ЮМm emission from polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) for 11 spiral galaxies to investigate whether the interstellar medium in these galaxies contains a central concentration above that expected from the exponential disk. ...

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26th of October 2015 . Gas dynamics in tidal dwarf galaxies: disc formation at z=0 . ... Tidal Dwarf Galaxies (TDGs) are recycled objects that form within the collisional debris around interacting/merging galaxies. Lelli et al. (2015) investigate the gas dynamics in a sample of six TDGs and find they can be described by rotating disc models. ... The image above shows three interacting systems (NGC 4694, NGC 5291, and NGC 7252) and their bona-fide TDGs (in yellow). ... today * ATNF | ...

XMM-Newton CCF Release Note XMM-CCF-REL-192 EPIC MOS response S.F. Sembay, R.D. Saxton 19 August 2005 1 CCF components Name of CCF VALDATE EVALDATE Blocks changed XSCS ag EMOS1 REDIST 0057.CCF 2001-11-25 2002-05-01 CCD REDISTRIBUTION-n NO EMOS1 REDIST 0058.CCF 2002-05-01 2002-11-07 CCD REDISTRIBUTION-n NO EMOS1 REDIST 0059.CCF 2002-11-07 2004-01-01 CCD REDISTRIBUTION-n NO EMOS1 ... A core region centred on a point between the two boresights where EPIC-pn and RGS are prime. ...

... 2008 October 20 . Moons, Rings, and Unexpected Colors on Saturn . Credit: Cassini Imaging Team , SSI , JPL , ESA , NASA . Explanation: Why would Saturn show such strange colors? The robotic Cassini spacecraft currently orbiting Saturn has beamed back images showing that the northern hemisphere our Solar System 's most spectacularly ringed planet has changed noticeably since Cassini arrived in 2004, now sporting unusual and unexpected colors. ... About APOD | ...