... 2014 April 22 . The El Gordo Massive Galaxy Cluster . Image Credit: NASA , ESA , J. Jee ( UC Davis ) et al. ... Dubbed "El Gordo", the seven billion light years ( z = 0.87) distant galaxy cluster spans about seven million light years and holds the mass of a million billion Suns. ... That galaxy is actually far in the background and has its image stretched by the gravitational lens action of the massive cluster. Follow APOD on: Facebook , Google Plus , or Twitter . ... About APOD | ...
... 2000 August 18 . X-Rays From Antennae Galaxies . ... CXC , SAO , NASA . Explanation: A bevy of black holes and neutron stars shine as bright, point-like sources against bubbles of million degree gas in this false-color x-ray image from the orbiting Chandra Observatory . ... The exploding stars litter the scene with bubbles of shocked hot gas and collapsed stellar cores . ... Tomorrow's picture: X-ray Sky . ... About APOD | ... NASA Technical Rep.: ... A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC . ...
Supernova 2002bu in NGC 4242 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2002bu in NGC 4242 Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the updates and links web pages. This is a type IIn supernova found in a galaxy which is in Canes Venatici. ... Mag . ... 2002/03/28.26 . ... A Leroy image . ... SUPERNOVA 2002bu IN NGC 4242 . ...
ABSOLUTE PROPER MOTIONS OF 331 OPEN CLUSTERS . ... The proper motions of stars in the fields of 331 open clusters were taken from Four-Million Star Catalog (4M-catalog) of positions and proper motions (Volchkov et al. ... The absolute proper motions for 21 young open clusters have been derived by comparison of precise relative proper motions of individual stars and their corresponding absolute proper motions. ... Sign of proper motions in RA . ... 0.0001 arcsec/yr . ... rms error in RA proper motion . ...
... Отмеченная наградами АстроТоп-а . ... Анатолий Анатольевич Волчков . ... кто-то из великих) Я долго подбирал название для этой мемориальной статьи об Анатолии Анатольевиче Волчкове. ... Какие только названия не приходили ко мне в голову - "Легенда об Анатолии", "Исполнить миссию", "Человеко-форум", "Камертон Астрорунета".. ... P.P.S. 31 декабря 2003 г. решением команды проекта Астротоп принято решение - "признать Анатолия Волчкова Человеком года " в традиционных конкурсах Звезды АстроРунета-2003 . ...
... The distance scales of the objects are matched both by comparing the first derivatives of the angular velocity determined separately from radial velocities and proper motions and by the statistical-parallax method. ... Good agreement between the inferred 0 and our calculations based on space velocities suggests that the Lindblad relation holds throughout the entire sample volume. ... Brandt and Blitz (1993) published the distances and radial velocities for a total of 206 H II-regions. ... Astron. ...
... Here is a brief outline of the current theory of the events in the early history of the solar system: . A cloud of interstellar gas and/or dust (the "solar nebula") is disturbed and collapses under its own gravity. ... The gas cools off enough for the metal, rock and (far enough from the forming star) ice to condense out into tiny particles. (i.e. some of the gas turns back into dust). ... Once the larger of these particles get big enough to have a nontrivial gravity, their growth accelerates. ...