... S. Beckwith ( STScI ), Hubble Heritage Team , (STScI/ AURA ), ESA , NASA . Additional Processing: Robert Gendler Explanation: The 51st entry in Charles Messier's famous catalog is perhaps the original spiral nebula - a large galaxy with a well defined spiral structure also cataloged as NGC 5194. Over 60,000 light-years across, M51's spiral arms and dust lanes clearly sweep in front of its companion galaxy (right), NGC 5195 . ... Publications with keywords: M 51 - spiral galaxy . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2008 June 14 . M51 Hubble Remix . Credit: S. Beckwith ( STScI ), Hubble Heritage Team , (STScI/ AURA ), ESA , NASA . ... Explanation: The 51st entry in Charles Messier's famous catalog is perhaps the original spiral nebula - a large galaxy with a well defined spiral structure also cataloged as NGC 5194. ... About APOD | ...

... Stellar Evolution is driven entirely by the never ending battle between Pressure and Gravity . As imbalances are reached, the star is driven to find a new Energy source. ... Pressure and gravitational forces are equal, the star is stable and its core is sufficiently hot to fuse Hydrogen into Helium More about main sequence stars . ... The luminosity generated by the core fusion of Helium into Carbon is far greater than the shell luminosity associated with the fusion of Hydrogen into Helium. ...

WFPC2 . Images: version1 , version2 . Catalogs: Version 1 HDF-S , HDF-N ;Version 2 HDF-S . STIS . ... NICMOS . Images: Camera 3 , V2 of psf-convolved STIS 50CCD on NICMOS . ... Images: WFPC2 FF , STIS FF ; Version2: WFPC2 FF , STIS FF , NICMOS FF . Catalogs: Version2 WFPC2 FF , STIS FF , NICMOS FF . ... Check the instrument specific technical pages for a description of the data products and the implemented data reduction steps: STIS , WFPC2 , NICMOS , Flanking Fields . ...

... The European HST Archive has been moved to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre ( ESAC ), Spain, where most of ESA's Space Science Archives are located and operated from. ... The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), jointly operated by ESA and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) was, until the end of 2010, the European HST science facility, supporting the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

... Armagh Planetarium . ... Universe . ... September . ... Posted on September 27, 2010 | ... This new Hubble Space Telescope image shows that M66 seems to have been through the mangle. ... You can find out in this issue of Astronotes) . ... No Comments Dark matter and its part in the evolution of the Universe is revealed by new data collected by the Hubble Space Telescope. ... Newer Entries . ... Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space...

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Discover the cosmos! ... 2000 December 29 . The Dark Horsehead Nebula . ... Image Processed by Al Kelly . Explanation: While drifting through the cosmos this magnificent interstellar dust cloud, sculpted by stellar winds and radiation, has chanced to assume a recognizable shape. Fittingly named The Horsehead Nebula it is embedded in the immense complex of star forming gas and dust surrounding the Orion Nebula some 1,500 light-years distant. ... About APOD | ...

... The expansion is measured as a number called the Hubble Constant . ... Our value is about 20% lower than the one got with the Hubble Space Telescope in 1994," said Dr Jim Lovell, leader of the team that made the measurement. The Hubble Constant is named after American astronomer Edwin Hubble, who in the 1920s found that other galaxies were moving away from ours. ... The Hubble Constant links the galaxy's distance with its speed." ... A short run-down on the Hubble Constant: . ...

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... Home Lectures Lecture Series 2015-2016 . ... Lecture Series 2014-2015 . ... Beyond New York City . ... The Amateur Astronomers Association is proud to present an astronomy lecture series from October through May each year for our members and the public. ... Amateur Astronomer Association is pleased to announce we will be offering select, limited reserved seating for current AAA members for the Friday, January 8, 2015 AAA Lecture entitled Robert Nemiroff ?2015 Astronomy Picture of the Day?. ...

Mark your calendars to reserve Tuesday, December 13 for a sensational astronomy meeting! The Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton is presenting astronomer and author Kim Weaver for a presentation titled: "New Eyes on the Universe: Observing Beyond Hubble with the Chandra and Spitzer Space Telescopes," and will highlight violent processes and dust-enshrouded objects revealed only by searching for signatures in x-ray and infrared light. ...

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... Observatory . ... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Publications > Science Announcements . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... Data Handling and Products . ... Science Data Products Forum . ... ESO Data . ... ESO Data Access Policy . ... Science Announcements . ... Published: 19 Dec 2013 . ... In addition to the previously announced UVES data release, over 10 000 individual spectra, acquired 2003 - 2013, are now available from the Science Archive Facility . Go to Announcement . ...

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http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1996/22/text/ Probing the mysterious heart of the Crab Nebula, the tattered remains of a stellar cataclysm witnessed more than 900 years ago, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found that the Crab is even more dynamic than previously understood, based on a cosmic "movie" assembled from a series of Hubble observations. ... Because of this flickering, the neutron star is also called a "pulsar." ...

An Ancient Universe: How Astronomers Know the Vast Scale of Cosmic Time . THE HUBBLE DEEP FIELD . In December 1995, the Hubble Space Telescope, high above the Earth, focused on a tiny spot of dark sky for over 150 consecutive orbits. ... Here we see about a fourth of that "deep field" and it shows galaxies (and only galaxies) at many different distances. The farthest among these galaxies is estimated to be so far away, its light has taken over 10 billion years to reach us. ...

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Most of these images were obtained by Mike Bessell, Michelle Buxton, Hwankyung Sung, Ralph Sutherland and Bob Watson at SSO using a 2Kx2K Site CCD behind a Nikon or Hasselblad lens or directly on the 1m telescope. A few images are from the Hubble Space Telescope. Some of the M42 images were obtained with the KPNO 1m and ESO NTT telescope. One image is a mosaic of IRAS images. ... Details of the CCD imaging program at MSSSO. ... antenna.jpg (53KB) . ... ngc6744.jpg (59KB) . ...

... Confirmation that a mysterious cloud of hydrogen in the Virgo Cluster is a dark galaxy has been published by a team of astronomers . New evidence from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope in the Netherlands has been used to rule out all but one of the ideas put forward to explain the existence of VIRGOHI 21, an intergalactic gas cloud 50 million light-years from the Earth. ... Only Dark Matter can account for the existence of such a system. ...