HIPASS Name RA, DEC(J2000) l, b NED ID peak rms mom0 vsys w50 w20 vLG MHI Ref. ... Col(1,2) = HIPASS name (HIPASS Jhhmm-dd; A,B,C if needed) . Col(3,4) = HIPASS center position in RA, DEC (J2000) . ... NGC6822 0.490 Mpc (Mateo 1998) . DDO210 0.880 Mpc (Mateo 1998) . NGC0055 1.480 Mpc (Mateo 1998) . ... ESO594-G004 1.060 Mpc (Mateo 1998) . IC5152 1.590 Mpc (Mateo 1998) . WLM 0.925 Mpc (Mateo 1998) . NGC3109 1.250 Mpc (Mateo 1998) . SextansA 1.440 Mpc (Mateo 1998) . ...

... Journey to the Center of the Galaxy . ... Credit Copyright: MSX , IPAC , NASA Explanation: In Jules Verne 's science fiction classic A Journey to the Center of the Earth , Professor Hardwigg and his fellow explorers encounter many strange and exciting wonders. ... This haunting wide angle image of the Galactic Center region in infrared light was constructed using data from the Midcourse Space Experiment (MSX) satellite. ... Publications with keywords: infrared - Galactic Center - jules verne . ...

As the Universe expands, gravity pulls on the Universe, and slows the expansion down over time. As we look to great distances, we are looking back in time. If we can measure how fast the Universe is expanding in the past, and compare it to how fast it is expanding now, we can see the total gravitational effect of all matter in the Universe. Here we plot the distance between two galaxies as a function of time. ... Universes with lots of material . ...

... 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. ...

home resources > books . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Buy The Black Hole at the Center of our Galaxy at Amazon.com! Reviewed by Terrell Kent Holmes . In 1974 astronomers discovered a bright radio source at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius. It was an unknown quantity then, but astronomers now know that the object is a supermassive black hole causing a maelstrom of activity at the galactic center. ...

... January 21, 1997 . Journey to the Center of the Galaxy . ... What wonders lie at the center of our Galaxy ? Astronomers now know of some of the bizarre objects which exist there, like vast dust clouds , bright young stars , swirling rings of gas , and possibly even a large black hole . ... The center itself appears as a bright spot near the middle of the roughly 1x3 degree field of view, the plane of the Galaxy is vertical, and the north galactic pole is towards the right. ... About APOD > . ...

... Cross-shaped galaxy ZGC 2315+03 (Fig.1) has been described by Zwicky (1971) as ``post-eruptive or the result of the crossing of a compact galaxy through an edge-on spiral'' . This object was included in the Polar-Ring Catalog (C-71) by Whitmore et al. (1990) as a possible candidate for Polar-Ring Galaxies (PRG). ... One of them is galaxy 'disk' and the other is 'polar-ring'. ... The facts against the polar-ring nature of ZGC 2315+03 can be summarized as follows: . ...

... According to the most popular cosmological paradigm, the greater part of the galaxy mass is accumulated in the dark matter halo. ... The polar ring galaxies (PRGs) reveal external rings or disks of gas, dust and stars rotating in a plane roughly perpendicular to the disk of the central galaxy. ... The shape of the dark halo in the model was chosen so as to achieve the best fit to the observed rotation of both galaxies themselves and their polar rings. ... The SPRC-7 galaxy. ...

... 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. ...

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 . ...