... To help find out, astronomers imaged the nearby galaxy merger NGC 2623 in high resolution with the Hubble Space Telescope in 2007. Analysis of this Hubble image and images of NGC 2623 in infrared light by the Spitzer Space Telescope , in X-ray light by XMM-Newton , and in ultraviolet light by GALEX , indicate that two originally spiral galaxies appear now to be greatly convolved and that their cores have unified into one active galactic nucleus (AGN). ... 2007 2008 . ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...

... 2010 November 7 . The Center of Centaurus A . ... Hubble , NASA ; Inset: NOAO . ... Infrared images from the Hubble have also shown that hidden at the center of this activity are what seem to be disks of matter spiraling into a black hole with a billion times the mass of the Sun! ... Astronomers believe that such black hole central engines generate the radio, X-ray, and gamma-ray energy radiated by Centaurus A and other active galaxies . ... About APOD | ... A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC . ...

... STScI-PRC00-37 HUBBLE CAPTURES AN EXTRAORDINARY AND POWERFUL ACTIVE GALAXY Resembling a swirling witch's cauldron of glowing vapors, the black hole-powered core of a nearby active galaxy appears in this colorful NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. ... The larger outer ring extends off the image and is in the plane of the galaxy's disk. ... The black hole and its accretion disk are expelling gas out of the galaxy's disk and into its halo (the region above and below the disk). ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

Galaxies are diffuse objects which are imaged against a background of finite brightness and noise. Galaxies which have the maximum contrast with respect to this background are the ones that are first discovered. ... These galaxies have been missed to date but active surveys for them are underway. ... In this page we present several examples of these newly discovered Low Surface Brightness galaxies as well as examples of high surface brightness galaxies. ...

These Hubble Space Telescope images reveal a set of bizarre, greenish, looping, spiral, and braided shapes around eight active galaxies. These huge knots of dust and gas appear greenish because they are glowing predominately in light from photoionized oxygen atoms.Each galaxy hosts a bright quasar that may have illuminated the structures. ... Material falling into the black hole was heated to a point where a brilliant searchlight beam traveled into deep space. ...

We present Spitzer 3.6-160 О?m images, Spitzer mid-infrared spectra, and JCMT SCUBA 850 О?m images of the Sombrero Galaxy (NGC 4594), an Sa galaxy with a 109 Msolar low-luminosity active galactic nucleus (AGN). The brightest infrared sources in the galaxy are the nucleus and the dust ring. ...

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November 2006 Astronotes 1 Candles in the Dark Image Credit: Wikipedia.org By Colin Johnston, Science Communicator Since the mid-ninteenth century astronomers have used the principle of parallax to measure the distance to other stars. ... How then can we tell, for example, that M31, the galaxy in Andromeda, is 2.2 million light years away? It would be straight-forward to tell how far away a star was if it was exactly the same brightness as our own Sun. ...

... Australian telescopes have helped the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) find thousands of new galaxies. ... Preliminary HST results were released today by NASA's Space Telescope Science Institute , as were the results from the Australian institutions. ... Called the Hubble Deep Field South , it complements the original Hubble Deep Field , another small patch in the northern sky. ... The Anglo-Australian Telescope has measured the distances of about 75 faint far-flung galaxies in the field. ...

... A radio galaxy is a galaxy that emits an unusually big amount of energy at radio wavelengths. ... Inside of each galaxy with an active nucleus (radio galaxies are among them) there must be a system of a "central machine" responsible for the colossal amount of the emitted energy from radio to gamma ranges. ... Sometimes a radio source in an active galaxy may flare again if the needed conditions appear (a new portion of matter would fall into the furnace of the "central machine"). ...

... 773Veron-Cetty Veron . Quasars (brighter than absolute magnitude -23) 85221 . ... Active galaxies (fainter than -23) 21737 . VII/248 Quasars and Active Galactic Nuclei (12th Ed.) (Veron+ 2006) ================================================================================ Quasars and Active Galactic Nuclei (12th Ed.) Veron-Cetty M.P., Veron P. =2006A .. ... 374, 92 (Catalogue ) (11) Veron-Cetty M.P., Veron P., 2003, Astron. ...

An image of the grand design of spiral galaxy M100 obtained with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope resolves individual stars within the majestic spiral arms. ... Hubble has the ability to resolve individual stars in other galaxies and measure accurately the light from very faint stars. This makes space telescope invaluable for identifying a rare class of pulsating stars, called Cepheid Variable stars embedded within M100's spiral arms. ... 617) 495-7062 . Fax: (617) 495-7356 . ...

... Sun images . ... Active areas . November : 2015 . ... The following regions with sunspots can be now observed on the Sun's surface . Group number . ... Group length (in degrees) . ... Beta . ... Coordinates and other characteristics of active regions are issued for November 09, 2015 00:31 UT The following H-alpha plages without spots can be currently observed on the Sun's surface . ... Coordinates and other characteristics of active regions are issued for November 09, 2015 00:31 UT . ...

... A tussle in the distant Universe. This Hubble Space Telescope image shows evidence for a merger between a quasar and a companion galaxy. The quasar is the bright object just beneath the image center, and the wisps of material around it are remains of a galaxy disrupted by the interaction between it and the quasar. ... Galactic Nuclei: Old Quasars? Quasars as Probes of the Distant Universe . ... Quasars. ... The name quasar is made up with parts of the words "quasi-stellar radio." ...

... The search for distant objects which can be both galaxies and quasars is one of the most important problems of observational astrphysics, because it allows one to determine cosmological parameters connected with the time of appearence and evolution of stellar systems, large scale structure of the Universe. ... Radio galaxies are important objects to be studied because they are sources of infrared-optical-ultraviolet continuum, emission lines and continual radio emission. ...

... Black holes are found at the centres of galaxies which are similar in size to our own Milky Way Galaxy or larger. When black holes collide and merge they form supermassive black holes which are events among the most powerful in the universe. ... 55, No. 1, pages 1-5, 'Observational Effects of Strong Gravity in Vicinity of Supermassive Black Holes' . ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... 9) Oknyanskij V.L. 1994, "Optical-radio time delays in Q0957+561", Odessa Astronomical Publ., ... 11) Oknyanskij V.L. 1994, "Connection between X-ray and optical variability in NGC4151", in Proceedings of Int. Conf. ... 1994. 12) Oknyanskij V.L. 1994, "Connection between X-ray and optical variability in NGC4151", Astrophys. and Space Science, 222, p.157. ... 14) Oknyanskij V.L., van Groningen E., 1997, "Optical spectral variability of NGC4151 in 1990", Astronomical and Astrophys. ...

... Feeding the Monster: Gas Caught in its Death Spiral into a Massive Black Hole . ... Stromlo Professor Mike Dopita have used the Hubble Space Telescope to discover how a massive Black Hole in a nearby galaxy feeds itself. ... Earlier Hubble Telescope data obtained by another team member, Professor Holland Ford of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, had found a disk of gas rushing around the Black Hole at a speed of 500 kilometers a second. ...

This page is devoted to information on Supernova 1998T in NGC 3690 . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the Supernova links web page. ... According to http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~jhibbard/a299/a299.html and http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/postdocs/vacca/images/arp299buv.html it follows that Arp 299 (aka Mrk 171) is made up of IC 694 (UGC 646471) on the east and NGC 3690 (H-247-1) (UGC 646472) on the west. ... Other images of 1998T . Ayabe image . ...