... 2006 May 28 . GRO J1655-40: Evidence for a Spinning Black Hole . ... Explanation: In the center of a swirling whirlpool of hot gas is likely a beast that has never been seen directly: a black hole . Studies of the bright light emitted by the swirling gas frequently indicate not only that a black hole is present, but also likely attributes. The gas surrounding GRO J1655-40, for example, has been found to display an unusual flickering at a rate of 450 times a second. ... About APOD | ...

... April 2, 1999 . Stars of NGC 206 . ... Explanation: Nestled within the dusty arms of the large spiral galaxy Andromeda (M31), the star cluster NGC 206 is one of the largest star forming regions known in our local group of galaxies. The beautiful bright blue stars of NGC 206 betray its youth - but close, systematic studies of variable stars in and around NGC 206 will also accurately reveal its distance. ... About APOD > . ...

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. ...

... Observing . ... Solar Observing . ... April 3 (SUN) - Solar Observing, Central Park , Manhattan . ... APRIL'S SKY . ... Lecture Series at the American Museum of Natural History The Amateur Astronomers Association is proud to present an astronomy lecture series from October through May each year for our members and the .. ... The€аAmateur Astronomers Association of New York€аwas organized in 1927 to promote the study of Astronomy, emphasizing its cultural and inspirational value. ...

... The bright object in the center of the false color gamma-ray image above is quasar 3C279, a nondescript, faint, starlike object in the visible sky. A Quasar-Galaxy Collision? ... In 1963 astronomers were astounded to discover that certain faint, star-like objects have very large redshifts. ... The surface of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, is normally hidden from view by its thick, hazy atmosphere. ... Stars orbit the center of the cluster, and the cluster orbits the center of our Galaxy. ...

... 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. ...

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 . ...

A team of U.S. and German astrophysicists have made the first ever detection of X-rays coming from a comet. ... Following the initial detection, the team reported repeated X-ray emissions from the comet over the next 24 hours. ... One preliminary theory is that X-ray emission from the Sun was absorbed by a cloud of gaseous water molecules surrounding the nucleus of the comet, and then were re-emitted by the molecules in a process physicists call "fluorescence." ... Comets . ...

... Stars . ... Straight away the three stars in his belt will grab your attention, followed by the glittering white star Rigel in his left foot and the bright orangish star Betelgeuse in his right shoulder (assuming Orion is standing facing us and not with his back to us). ... Orion Belt?s with the stars Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka. ... In short, Orion was a big, loud giant of a man and indeed a mighty hunter, he also inherited some aquatic superpowers from his father who was the sea god Neptune. ...

... January 8, 2007 . ... SENTINEL CORRESPONDENT . Astronomers at UC Santa Cruz have discovered a surprisingly massive halo of bright, old stars around our galactic neighbor Andromeda, pushing the outer limits of the galaxy to 1.5 million light years, and teaching them how spiral galaxies behave. ... Younger stars may be remnants of a galaxy devoured, but older stars could have formed with the birth of the galaxy. ... http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2007/January/08/local/stories/03local.htm . ...

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In autumn 1994, two groups of astronomers announced that they had discovered Cepheid variable stars in a distant cluster of galaxies. ... As the term suggests, variable stars change in brightness over time. ... Variable stars are an ideal way to get high-school students doing real science, with real data, from the real sky. ... a sky chart to find the stars . ... Students can use the nearby stars to estimate the magnitude of Delta. ... Locate the star Delta in Cepheus and estimate its brightness . ...

... Be Stars . ... Stellar Winds . ... He had found the first emission line star. ... More emission line stars were found soon, and one had to make subclasses to keep some overview. Cas is a main sequence B-type star, and together with other such stars showing hydrogen emission it forms the class of "Be stars", where the "e" stands for emission. ... Struve further speculated that those stars would be surrounded by a disk, basically thrown off the stellar surface by the rapid rotation. ...

... A brief look at Sakurai?s Object . ... Sakurai?s Object (V4334 Sagittarii) was discovered on the 20 th of Febuary 1996 by a Japanese astronomer Yukio Sakurai. ... Initially astronomers thought it to be a nova (an explosion on the surface of a white dwarf). ... When it failed to show any hydrogen emissions from the star, the charateristic of a nova, they realised that this was a very interesting star. ... Sakurai?s object was in fact a white dwarf when it went through this last helium burst. ...

Next: Scientifically discovered God Up: No Title Previous: Simple Universe . ... As a matter of fact, it stands already for several centuries. ... The characteristic time, t , of civilization development, was known already. ... Indeed, the expansion of the Universe was not yet discovered, and, the Universe was believed to be eternal! ... If the Universe has lived for an infinitely long time then the Tsiolkovskii's paradox can be solved only with this key, the key of ``Superintelligence''. ...

... Two new LBV stars have been discovered in the Andromeda Galaxy. ... In Figure 1 the spectral energy distributions for six stars are shown: upper row - the newly discovered LBV stars, middle row - two well-known LBV stars Var A-1 and AE And, the lower row - two new B[e]-supergiant stars in Andromeda. ... Infrared spectra of the stars in the Andromeda Galaxy: two classical LBVs Var A-1 and AE And, two new LBVs J004526.62 and J004051.59, and two new B[e]-supergiants J004417.10 and J004444.52. ...

... The Chinese would certainly not have invented the magnetic compass. ... Chemically and mineralogically, the lodestone is magnetite, a massive type of iron ore, an oxide of iron, a mineral related the the brown stuff coating the magnetic disks and tapes used by computers. ... But even then, just resting a few million years in the Earth's magnetic field would produce no magnetization. ... Still, as Gilbert observed, in a long iron rod that magnetism was channeled to the ends, where it could be noted. ...

XMM-Newton Science Analysis System . ... A different approach is done via the setting withctisrcpos =Y: all event energy corrections do not use the actual RAWY coordinate but the corresponding RAWY location of the source ( SRCPOS ) as determined by the task epframes (either automatically or via setting withsrccoords =Y). ... The task epchain may be used with the setting ccds =4 withctisrcpos =Y to process only the CCD 4 where usually the bright source is located that causes the Out-of-Time events. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Astronomers discover light echo from supernova . ... Astronomers have discovered light echoing off material surrounding a recent supernova explosion, SN 2009ig. ... Scientists with the Lick Observatory Supernova Search discovered SN 2009ig less than a day after it exploded in the galaxy NGC 1015, located127 million light-years away in the constellation Cetus the Whale. ...

Next: NGC 7552 Up: The Group of Nearby Previous: Circinus . is a barred spiral galaxy which is interacting with its brightest neighbour, NGC 6215, and possibly also with two newly discovered low-surface brightness galaxies (see Fig. ... Recent measurements with the ATCA 375-m array revealed an H I bridge between the two major galaxies and several extensions of the gas envelope of NGC 6221 which can be attributed to tidal forces between these galaxies (B. Koribalski et al., in prep.) ...