... Across the Center of Centaurus A . ... Credit Copyright: NASA , ESA , and the Hubble Heritage ( STScI / AURA ) - ESA /Hubble Collaboration; Acknowledgement: R. O'Connell ( U. Virginia ) Explanation: A fantastic jumble of young blue star clusters, gigantic glowing gas clouds, and imposing dark dust lanes surrounds the central region of the active galaxy Centaurus A. This image from the Hubble Space Telescope has been processed to present a natural color picture of this cosmic maelstrom. ...

... 2011 November 29 . Across the Center of Centaurus A . Image Credit: NASA , ESA , and the Hubble Heritage ( STScI / AURA ) - ESA /Hubble Collaboration; Acknowledgement: R. O'Connell ( U. Virginia ) . ... 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 . ... APOD Graduate Assistantship: Research the universe - support a leading astronomy web site . ...

... Astronomers have used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to probe the core of the nearest active galaxy to Earth, Centaurus A. Hubble's Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer was used to peer past the dust to discover a tilted disk of hot gas at the galaxy's center (white bar running diagonally across image center). This 130 light-year diameter disk encircles a suspected black hole which may be one billion times the mass of our Sun. ... Centaurus A (NGC 5128) Fast Facts . ...

research The Demography of Supermassive Black Holes Roeland van der Marel S upermassive black holes in the centers of galaxies are some of the most enigmatic objects in the universe. ... The Hubble Space Telescope has revolutionized our knowledge of these supermassive black holes. ... Earlier reports were confirmed that supermassive black holes may well exist in all galaxies, and that the black hole mass correlates loosely with the mass of the galaxy bulge. ... Later, two more rings were discovered. ...

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... Tonight's Sky . ... Sky this Month . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Hubble sees NGC 7090 т?? an active star-forming galaxy . ... This image portrays a beautiful view of the galaxy NGC 7090, as seen by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. ... This image portrays a beautiful view of galaxy NGC 7090, as seen by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. ... These structures trace the location of ongoing star formation, visual confirmation of recent studies that classify NGC 7090 as an active star-forming...

... Sun images . ... Sun flares . ... Active areas . December : 2015 . ... The following regions with sunspots can be now observed on the Sun's surface . Group number . ... Group length (in degrees) . ... Coordinates and other characteristics of active regions are issued for December 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 December 09, 2015 00:31 UT . ...

... 739C As one part of a program to detect complete samples of active extragalactic objects, the 3.36x10^-3 sr field centered on alpha=12h04min, delta=+11deg30' (1950.0) was mapped with the Very Large Array at 1411MHz. Sixty-seven maps cover this field so that no point is more than 15arcmin from the nearest map center. ... The rms map noise is 0.030 + 0.001 mJy, and the resulting source list is complete to a map peak flux density S_p = 0.2 mJy within 25 arcmin of the field center. ...

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." ...

... Home Observing Charles Dana Discovery Center, Central Park . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... Charles Dana Discovery Center . ... 6:30тАУ8:00 p.m. The Charles Dana Discovery Center is just inside Central Park, near 110th Street between Lenox and Fifth avenues ( map ). ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

... 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. ...

... Armagh Planetarium . ... Universe . ... Posted on January 29, 2014 | ... Continue Reading.. ... No Comments Teachers from across Northern Ireland have come together to learn how to build and launch their own rockets. ItтАЩs all part of an initiative deriving from a new тАШSpace Science [ ] . ... Hello, IтАЩm Colin, welcoming you to Astronotes, the PlanetariumтАЩs official blog. Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

... Pre-university education . ... Samara region . SSAU History . SSAU roadmap . ... Samara State Aerospace University (SSAU) will take an active part in the work of space activities of the United Nations organization (UNO). ... The road map shape on inclusion of Samara University into implementation of the UN Program on Space Applications was outlined at the roundtable discussion with the University teachers and specialists and at the meeting with SSAU Rector Yevgeniy Shakhmatov. ...

... НЕПРЕРЫВНОГО МАТЕМАТИЧЕСКОГО ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ . ... Кружок ?Олимпиады и математика? ... Московская математическая олимпиада . Заочный математический конкурс . ... Устные математические олимпиады . Олимпиады по программированию . Математический праздник . Математические регаты . ... Математические бои . Олимпиада по геометрии им. И.Ф.Шарыгина . ... Программа ?Math in Moscow? Научные конкурсы . Творческий конкурс . ... График олимпиад . ... XXVII Математический праздник . ...

... 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? ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... September Perseid meteors captured by the . ... Its occurrence provides astronomers with interesting new data about the hidden trails of meteoroids тАФ small bodies ranging in size from fine dust particles to objects of marble-size and larger тАФ in the solar system and their supposed sources: comets and asteroids passing through the inner solar system. ... The particular comet that created the September Perseids is unknown...

... ESO Science Newsletter December 2015 . 17 Dec 2015 . ... This newsletter is a summary of recent ESO Science Announcement items. Follow the links or visit ESO Science Announcements to read more. ... Read more . ... The allocation of ESO telescope time for Period 97 (1 April БЂ“ 30 September 2016) is expected to be emailed in the week beginning 21 December 2015. ... ESO Workshop, ESO Headquarters, Garching, Germany, 27 June БЂ“ 1 July, 2016 . ... Joint ESO, ALMA, NAOJ, NRAO Workshop. ...

... Wendy Roberts . ... WENDY P.J. ROBERTS . ... Location of H1743-322 and H0632+18 determined with the scanning modulation collimator on HEAO-1 (M. Garcia, M. Conroy, R. Griffiths, E. Ralph, W. Roberts, and D.A. Schwartz). ... Location of variable x-ray sources near southern clusters of galaxies using the scanning modulation collimator on HEAO-1 (D. Schwartz, M. Conroy, M. Garcia, E. Ralph, W. Roberts, J. Schwarz, R. Doxsey, and M. Johnston). ... HARVARD-SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS | ...