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... Galaxies rotate and move in clusters as if a tremendous amount of unseen matter is present. But does dark matter exist in the greater universe too -- and if so, where? ... In the above frame from a computer simulation of our universe , a 300 million light-year slice shows dark matter in gray and galaxies as colored circles. ... Publications with keywords: universe - dark matter - 2dF survey - simulation . Publications with words: universe - dark matter - 2dF survey - simulation . ...

Arecibo Galaxy Environment Survey (AGES) The precursor run is finally complete. Here are some initial results that illustrate the success of the observing technique and also areas where we had problems. ... The channel range selected was the inner 3696 channels, thus avoiding the increase in noise at the edge of the bandpass. ... Each frame of the movie is an image of the observing region from each individual velocity (or frequency) channel in the datacube. ...

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE DAILY REPORT #1070 PERIOD COVERED: 0700 EST Daily Status Report as of 039/1200Z. 1.0 ACTIVITIES SCHEDULED AND ACCOMPLISHED: 1.1 Completed FGS 4893 (Orbital Motions of Close Binary Stars: Cycle 3 High) Fine Guidance Sensor #3 was used to make astrometric observations of the binary star system HD80671 and HD61994 to obtain their orbital elements. ... No anomalies were noted. ... No anomalies were noted with the science observations. ... Two FOC images were No anomalies were noted. ...

... 2001 December 19 . Finding Dark Matter . ... Explanation: Where is dark matter ? Galaxies rotate and move in clusters as if a tremendous amount of unseen matter is present. ... In the above frame from a computer simulation of our universe , a 300 million light-year slice shows dark matter in gray and galaxies as colored circles. The red box indicates the location of a rich cluster of galaxies , while the green box shows a more typical cross-section of our universe . ... About APOD | ...

... About ATNF overview . ... Governance overview . Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ... Finding the Bivariate Brightness Distribution of galaxies from an H I selected sample . ... A method is presented that will enable the bivariate luminosity/surface brightness distribution of galaxies to be determined from a relatively small H I selected sample. ... PICASSO - an automated galaxy finder . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Planets . ... Our Galaxy . ... Weird and Fun . ... It came from another galaxy: This artistтАЩs impression shows HIP 13044 b, an exoplanet orbiting a star that entered our galaxy from beyond. ... HIP 13044 is one of tens of millions of stars in the тАЬHelmi streamтАЭ, stars that belonged to a dwarf galaxy consumed by our own Milky Way galaxy, some six to nine billion years ago. ... Tweets that mention ESO finds weird doomed planet from another galaxy | ...

... We publish 16 Doppler imaging temperature maps for the years 1994-2002 of the active RS CVn star II Peg. ... Through Doppler imaging we want to study the spot evolution of the star and in particular compare this with previous results showing a cyclic spot behaviour and persistent active longitudes. ... The derived temperature maps are quite similar to the ones obtained earlier with a different methods, the main differences occurring in the spot latitudes and relative strength of the spot structures....

... Chandra Observation of LMXB in M84 . We present characteristics of the X-ray point source population in the M84 field as observed by Chandra ACIS-S. We find the galactic sources in M84 follow the stellar light profile, which imposes similar formation histories for stars in both single and binary systems. After correcting for incompleteness in the source detection, we find a log N-log S similar to that of the elliptical galaxy NGC4697. ...

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