... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2007 October 7 . Two Million Galaxies . ... Oxford U. Explanation: Our universe is filled with galaxies. ... Although distant galaxies move away from each other as the universe expands , gravity attracts neighboring galaxies to each other, forming galaxy groups , clusters of galaxies , and even larger expansive filaments. ... About APOD | ...

... NGC 346 in the Small Magellanic Cloud . ... ESA , NASA Explanation: How and why are all these stars forming? Found among the Small Magellanic Cloud's (SMC's) clusters and nebulae NGC 346 is a star forming region about 200 light-years across, pictured above by the Hubble Space Telescope. ... Publications with keywords: NGC 346 - small Magellanic cloud - SMC - star formation . Publications with words: NGC 346 - small Magellanic cloud - SMC - star formation . ... NGC 6188 and NGC 6164 . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Our Galaxy . ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... New observations with the European Southern Observatory (ESO)тАЩs Very Large Telescope of some of the most distant galaxies ever detected are revealing the mysteries of this important phase of the early Universe. ... These powerful instruments are essential for exploring this early period in cosmic history as they alone can enable the accurate observations of €аthese extremely distant and faint galaxies. ...

... Are HVCs a common feature of star forming galaxies? ... Consider the typical properties of the smallest HVCs (compact HVCs) found in HIPASS: . Distance . HI Mass . ... At 5 kpc . meager objects ~116 solar masses . ... 1.15 x 10 4 solar masses . ... Putman et al. (2003) found none to 10 7 solar masses. 2% of Sculptor to 3 x 10 6 solar masses by de Blok et al. (2001) found none. ... High velocity gas around other galaxies can be identified from maps and dynamics: . ... 2003) . ...

M1 image More About M1 Nice Color Picture . ... M16 image More About M16 HST image . ... M31 image More About M31 Nice Color Picture . ... M42 image ; M43 image More About M42/43 Nice Color CCD Picture . M51 image More About M51 Color Image of M51 M51 Supernova . M57 image More About M57 Nice Color CCD Picture Very Deep M57 Image . ... M81 image More About M81 M81 Supernova Ultraviolet Image of M81 More about Ultraviolet Imaging . M82 image More About M82 M82 False Color M82 True Color . ...

. Small galaxies, like the Pegasus dwarf spheroidal shown here, play a pivotal role in galaxy formation's big picture. The galaxy, almost obscured by the glare of foreground stars in our own Milky Way, measures just 2,000 light-years across and orbits M31, the famous Andromeda spiral. Galaxies like the Pegasus dwarf and the recently identified Ursa Major dwarf are thought to be the building blocks from which larger galaxies formed. E. Grebel, Univ. Washington / P. Guhathakurta, UCO/Lick

... 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. ...

... 13.8 billion years ago the most important event in history took place the Universe exploded into life in the Big Bang. In the first moments after the Big Bang, the Universe was extremely hot and foggy. ... These are still by far the most common materials in the Universe. ... What has been unclear until now, is how these raw materials could clump together into grains of cosmic dust without being destroyed by the harsh environments in which they are created. ...

... STScI-PRC00-30 HUBBLE PEEKS INTO A STELLAR NURSERY IN A NEARBY GALAXY NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has peered deep into a neighboring galaxy to reveal details of the formation of new stars. Hubble's target was a newborn star cluster within the Small Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy that is a satellite of our own Milky Way. ... Astronomers are especially keen to study star formation in the Small Magellanic Cloud, because its chemical composition is different from that of the Milky Way. ...

... These Frontier Fields will combine the power of HST with the natural gravitational telescopes of high-magnification clusters of galaxies. ... We are soliciting gravitational lensing maps for the last four Hubble Frontier Fields clusters (MACSJ0717.5+3745, MACSJ1149.5+2223, AbellS1063, and Abell 370) based upon the exceptionally deep HST FF imaging and other new ancillary data. ... For the full set of proposal instructions and requirements, see the FY16 Frontier Fields Lensing Map Call for Proposals....

The Local Group dwarf spheroidal galaxies: A key to the building blocks in the Universe H. Hirashita et al. Kyoto University, Japan Recent studies have been revealing the dark matter content in dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs). ... We select the Local Group dSphs as a sample. ... However, we nd no observational evidence that the tidal forces by giant galaxies a ect the density pro les of the dSphs, which indicates that the stellar systems of the dSphs lie in their deep dark matter potentials. ...

Next: M.E. Bailey, Director Up: Research Previous: C.S. Jeffery, Research Astronomer Contents . ... How do Stars Form? ... Other Work and Activities . ... The interaction of young stars with their surroundings are accentuated within Herbig-Haro Objects, where streams and `bullets' of ejected gas impact on the ambient molecular clouds. ... The astrophysical jets are spectacular. ... Michael Smith and collaborators have searched for, and found, the first evidence of rotation within the jets. ...

... The damage to NIFS has freed up the RSAA instrumentation team to concentrate on the timely delivery of the Gemini South Adaptic Optics Imager (GSAOI). ... GSAOI is the second instrument that ANU is building for Gemini. ... GSAOI Website: http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/gsaoi/ NIFS Website: http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/nifs/ RSAA Website: http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/ Australian Gemini Project Office Website: http://www.ausgo.unsw.edu.au/ Gemini Public Information Website: http://www.gemini.anu.edu.au/public/ . ...

home publications > mercury . ... Big Clusters, Tiny Galaxies . ... Astronomers struggle to understand why giant star clusters form in the tiniest of galaxies . ... These clusters are probably young versions of globular clusters, but they are commonly called super star clusters. Seven dwarf galaxies within 16 million light-years have formed super star clusters, with one of these galaxies, NGC 1569, possessing two young clusters. ... Super star clusters have a lot to tell us about star formation. ...

26th of October 2015 . Gas dynamics in tidal dwarf galaxies: disc formation at z=0 . ... Tidal Dwarf Galaxies (TDGs) are recycled objects that form within the collisional debris around interacting/merging galaxies. Lelli et al. (2015) investigate the gas dynamics in a sample of six TDGs and find they can be described by rotating disc models. ... The image above shows three interacting systems (NGC 4694, NGC 5291, and NGC 7252) and their bona-fide TDGs (in yellow). ... today * ATNF | ...

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 . ...

Next: Conclusions Up: HS 0822+3542 - a Previous: H I and dynamical . The properties of HS 0822+3542 presented above (extremely low abundance of heavy elements, very blue colour of underlying nebulosity, and extremely small mass ratio of stars to neutral gas) suggest that this could be the nearest candidate young dwarf galaxy forming its first stellar generation. ... Next: Conclusions Up: HS 0822+3542 - a Previous: H I and dynamical Labaratory "Structure" . ...

The starting page - The catalogues page - The list of the PUL2 fields - The list of the Pul-3(Pul-3SE) fields - The list of the PUL_ERS fields . please read short description of the access form controls . ... Relative proper motion in RA *cos(DE), arcsec/yr . ... s. e. relative proper motion in RA *cos(DE), arcsec/yr . ... Number of Pul2 area . ... Check the apropriate checkbox to output these data and radiobutton to select stars within interval. back to the list of the Pul2 fields . ...