... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2009 October 17 . Bright Nebulae of M33 . ... Explanation: Gorgeous spiral galaxy M33 seems to have more than its fair share of bright emission nebulae. ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply . NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices . A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC . ...

... October 18, 1999 . NGC 3603: An Active Star Cluster . ... Explanation: NGC 3603 is home to a massive star cluster, thick dust pillars, and a star about to explode . The central open cluster contains about 2000 bright stars, each of which is much brighter and more massive than our Sun . ... These stars are less massive than our Sun, demonstrating that great numbers of low-mass stars also form in active starburst regions . ... About APOD > . ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . The Cat's Eye Nebula . ... 31.10.1999 . ... This image from the Hubble Space Telescope reveals The Cat's Eye Nebula to be one of the most complex planetary nebulae known. In fact , the features seen in the Cat's Eye are so complex that astronomers suspect the bright central object may actually be a binary star system . ... Publications with keywords: planetary nebula . Publications with words: planetary nebula . ... The Cats Eye Nebula from Hubble . ...

Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . 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. Discovered independently by Lick Observatory Supernova Search (USA) and Koichi Itagaki (Japan). ... 2009/10/11.44 . 17.2 . ... Joseph Brimacombe . ...

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In this gallery are many images of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies which have recently been discovered and analyzed. ... The central surface brightness of this galaxy is 24.28 . Malin 2 This galaxy is another huge disk galaxy with a scale length of 15 kpc and a redshift of 15000 km/a. The high surface brightness knot in one of its spiral arms actually has the same color, luminosity and H-alpha equivalent width as the entire Large Magellanic Cloud . ... Truly it is a Low Surface Brightness Galaxy. ...

Astronomy Articles . Articles | ... Moon | ... Astronomy Terms - To Help You Study The Universe - by Scott Gray, October 2006 . ... Find The Perfect Gift For Your Favorite Astronomy Nut - by Scott Gray, October 2006 . ... Astronomy Binoculars - The Skies The Limit - by Scott Gray, September 2006 . ... Magnification (Power) and Using Eyepieces - by Telescopes.com, September 2005 . ... Finding Himalia, the fifth brightest moon of Jupiter - by Rick Scott, October 2003 . ... This article explains. ...

... 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. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Stars . ... Starbursts are short-lived events, stars are forming so quickly that the reservoirs of interstellar gas from which stars are coalescing would be used up on a timescale much shorter than the age of the galaxy . ... Strong stellar winds from giant new stars in the starburst region combine with the blasts of supernovae to push a mighty flood of extremely hot gas, a ?superwind? from the galaxy thousands of light years into intergalactic space. ...

... Classical nova V2362 Cyg (N Cyg 2006, 21:11:32.34, +44:48:03.9, 2000 [position in ATel 928 is incorrect!] ) undergoes gradual increase of its brightness since middle of August, 2006 from the level of V = 11.9. ... Full width of Halpha line is 5900 km/s, and that one of Hbeta is 5300 km/s. We identified the strongest emission features as CIII+NIII blend centered on 4652A, [OIII]+NII blend on 5010A, NII+[NII] blend on 5708A, NaI+OI blend on 5920A. Absence of HeI lines at 6678 and 7065A is surprising. ...

... Things to see in the morning skies, from Terry Moseley, IAA : . ISS IN MORNINGS: The International Space Station is making a series of morning passes at the moment - see www.heavens-above.com Look out for it when it passes close to.. BRILLIANT MORNING STAR VENUS: Venus is still the brightest object in the morning sky. ... Photo: Four planets photographed by Paul Evans on 8 October 2009, from Larne . ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... fran?ais . ... The cloud of pale gas surrounds a huge Red Giant star that has five times the mass of our Sun! ... The nebula was named by two British astronomers. ... Although the star at the heart of the nebula is millions of years younger than our Sun, it's already in a much later stage of its life. ... Our Sun is 4.6 billion years old and it's only just hitting middle age, whereas this star will live to be just a few million years old because it has much more mass. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Site Info . ... Public Talks . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Who is this guy who calls himself "The Bad Astronomer?" ... First, yes, I am a real live astronomer (when people ask me what astronomers do, I tell them "They astronom !" ... These are emitted by powerful objects like black holes, exploding stars, and super-dense neutrons stars. ... Finally, am I really a bad astronomer? ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... all new HIPASS galaxies (Table 2.4) that have no yet been observed with the ATCA . ... Table : Remaining ATCA target list (sorted by RA) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name RA DEC ID Max mom0 mom1 mom2 w50 w20 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ZSS 13 07:33:16 -28:41:07 new -HIZSS013 0.151 9.2 2077.6 21.6 52.8 144.6 HIP 358 07:44:56 -41:47:02 ESO311-G006/7 0.262 30.9 1049.4 34.5 127.1 149.5 ...

... The Pleiades star cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, is a conspicuous object in the night sky with a prominent place in ancient mythology . ... The stars in the Pleiades are thought to have formed together around 100 million years ago, making them 1/50th the age of our sun, and they lie some 130 parsecs (425 light years ) away. ... Data for these stars are listed in a table below. ... Yes . ... WEBDA Pleiades cluster data . ... M45: The Pleiades Star Cluster (2007 November 18) ...

... In the nuclear area of the galaxy within the ring, the nucleus appears elongated, and a fainter 3rd star-like component is discernable. ... The 'yellowy' halo about the off-centre nucleus of the ring galaxy is likely composed of redder stars, while the color-neutral nucleus doesn't appear distinctly different in color than either of the ring 'impactor' candidates at bottom center and top right of the picture. ... If so then why are the bright regions within the ring apparently color neutral? ...

... We had a unique diagnostic tool for determining whether or not the secondary was fractured during the dark run in that we had 3 sets of focus sweep data for the imaging camera taken on the nights of 05 October 1999, 11 October 1999, and 14 October 1999. ... Figure: 05 October 1999, CCD g1 . ... Surface plot. ... Figure 32 plots the same data but for CCD g3. ... Figure: Comparison of normalised brighness for the out-of-focus doughnuts for the nights of 05, 11, and 14 October 1999 for CCD g1. ...

... For us to see them from such great distances, quasars must be producing enormous energy -- they are about 1000 times brighter than an average galaxy! ... One of their choices for the energy source of quasars was a black hole. ... On the one hand, it may seem difficult to think that mere friction between bits of matter could account for the energy of a quasar, but, on the other hand, gravity is unimaginably strong near a black hole. ... How does matter actually rush towards the black hole? ...

... We have opened the site of the IX Russian-Finnish Symposium: http://cats.sao.ru:/~satr/RFSymp/ . The IX Russian-Finnish Symposium will take place in Special Astrophysical observatory RAS October 15-20, 2006. ... October 15, Sunday . ... Invited reviews and reports (Solar session) . ... Invited reviews and reports (AGN session) . ... Invited reviews and reports, (Radio sources session) . ... Invited reviews and reports (Radio session) . ... Invited reviews and reports, (Stellar activity) . ...