... ACS Team , NASA Explanation: Stunningly detailed, this picture is a computer simulated view of a cluster of galaxies in the distant cosmos . ... Other galaxies which lie far behind the cluster are seen as numerous visible concentric arcs - lensed by the enormous gravitational field dominated by the dark matter within the cluster itself. ... Publications with keywords: Hubble space telescope - HST - arcs - galaxy cluster - gravitational lens . ... Dwarf Galaxies in the Coma Cluster . ...

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... 2012 July 17 . Simulation: A Disk Galaxy Forms . ... U. Washington ), N-Body Shop , NASA Advanced Supercomputing . ... Green depicts (mostly) hydrogen gas in the above movie , while time is shown in billions of years since the Big Bang on the lower right. ... For our Milky Way Galaxy , however, big mergers may not be over -- recent evidence indicates that our large spiral disk Galaxy will collide and coalesce with the slightly larger Andromeda spiral disk galaxy in the next few billion years. ...

... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... galaxies . ... Globular cluster NGC 2808, elliptical galaxy NGC 2986, and the Sextans Dwarf . ... Besides computer simulations, what evidence do astronomers have to support the popular hypothesis that elliptical galaxies form from merging spirals? ... When a small galaxy merges with a much more massive one, astronomers call the process a minor merger and the more massive galaxy is little affected. ...

This animation (MPEG 4.8 Mb) shows the motions of stars caught in the gravitational field of a three-million solar mass black hole in the core of the nearby galaxy M32 . Stars swarm around the black hole like angry bees around a hive. The animation is based on computer simulations and new Hubble Space Telescope observations of M32 . ... In 1992, Hubble observations measured a bright peak, or `cusp' of starlight that independently suggested that the stars were concentrated around a black hole. ...

Armagh Observatory, 21 December 2001: . ... The Armagh Observatory's contribution, led by astronomers Simon Jeffery and Gerry Doyle , is to develop new computational tools to study the atmosphere of the Sun and other stars. ... Computers will communicate with one another using the grid, and computing power will become a commodity just like electricity. ... FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Simon Jeffery or Mark Bailey at the Armagh Observatory (Tel.: ... WWW contact: webmaster@star.arm.ac.uk . ...

... The sample of the Local Volume galaxies (distance smaller than 10 Mpc) gives a unique opportunity to study the properties of galaxies including the weakest objects: the absolute magnitude M B -10 and the virial mass M vir 10 9 M x263C;. ... Luminosity function of the Local Volume galaxies. ... The luminosity functions for galaxies are presented: red dashed line - from the 2dFGRS survey (Norberg et al. 2002); blue dash-dotted line - from the SDSS survey (Blanton et al. ...

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . News | ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Mopra radio telescope . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ... Now, new Australia Telescope observations of the polar ring galaxy NGC 4650a suggest that the dark matter in this galaxy lies in a flattened distribution aligned with the polar ring. ...

... Our Galaxy . ... Stars . ... Image credit: ESO, Acknowledgement: VST/Omegacam Local Group Survey) . First observed in 1909, the WLM galaxy is part of the Local Group, about 10 million light years (3.1 Mpc) across, this is the set of more than 35 galaxies which includes our own Milky Way. ... I compared this little galaxy to a living fossil because looking at it gives us an insight into a past era in the UniverseтАЩs history. ... Distances and metallicities for 17 Local Group galaxies? . ...