... Credit Copyright: NASA , ESA , G. Illingworth , D. Magee, and P. Oesch ( UCSC ), R. Bouwens ( Leiden Obs. ), and the XDF Team Explanation: What did the first galaxies look like? To help answer this question, the Hubble Space Telescope has just finished taking the eXtreme Deep Field (XDF), the deepest image of the universe ever taken in visible light . ... The Hubble Space Telescope 's ACS camera and the infrared channel of the WFPC3 camera took the image. ... The Hubble Deep Field in Infrared . ...

... 2005 October 22 . Ring Galaxy AM 0644-741 from Hubble . Credit : Hubble Heritage Team ( AURA / STScI ), J. Higdon ( Cornell ) ESA , NASA . Explanation: How could a galaxy become shaped like a ring? ... That galaxy, AM 0644-741 , is known as a ring galaxy and was caused by an immense galaxy collision. ... The ring -like shape is the result of the gravitational disruption caused by an entire small intruder galaxy passing through a large one. ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...

... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... galaxies . ... The Hubble Space Telescope found a galaxy that was completely formed within 480 million years of the Big Bang. How could gas and dust clouds condense into stars and organize themselves via gravity into an entire galaxy in less time than it takes the Milky Way to make two rotations? ... Galaxies like the Milky Way indeed could not have formed as a unit at such an early era after the Big Bang. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Our Galaxy . ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... A galaxy is born: This artist's impression shows a young galaxy, about two billion years after the Big Bang, accreting material from the surrounding hydrogen and helium gas and forming many young stars. ... Galaxies, distant from us in space and time, have been in the news recently. ... Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory have observed another process which helped primordial galaxies grow. ...

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 . ...

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE DAILY REPORT #1891 PERIOD COVERED: 0000Z (UTC) 06/03/97 - 0000Z (UTC) 06/04/97 Daily Status Report as of 155/0000Z 1.0 ACTIVITIES SCHEDULED AND ACCOMPLISHED: 1.1 Completed NIC/1/2/3 7676 (NICMOS-One Orbit Parallel) The Near Infrared Camera (Cameras One, Two and Three) was used to conduct an on-orbit calibration procedure. ... The procedure was completed as scheduled, and no anomalies were noted. ... The observations were completed as scheduled, and no anomalies were reported. ...

The Arecibo Galaxy Environment Survey (normally known as AGES) is using the Arecibo Telescope to search for galaxies in a number of quite different areas of the local universe. ... NGC 628 group (precursor) - published (Auld et al., ... NGC 1156 (isolated galaxy) - published (Minchin et al, 2010, AJ, 140, 1093) . NGC 7332/9 galaxy pair - published (Minchin et al, 2010, AJ, 140, 1093) . ... NGC 5523 (isolated galaxy) - completed (contact: Robert Minchin) . ... AGES team page - password protected . ...

... 2000 October 23 . Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy NGC 205 in the Local Group . ... It is part of a gathering of about 25 galaxies known as the Local Group . ... Pictured on the lower left is one of the many dwarf ellipticals : NGC 205 . ... The above image shows NGC 205 to be unusual for an elliptical galaxy in that it contains at least two dust clouds (at 1 and 4 o'clock - they are visible but hard to spot) and signs of recent star formation . ... About APOD | ...

... The default run_state of all incoming runs is now OPEN . The support astronomer has to inform the operations support scientists if the run_state for a run has to be changed (e.g. after consulting the Database Consistency Check Page which is updated hourly from 9:30 to 17:30, Garching time) . The default run_state of all SM runs for next period is NEXT . By default, all NEXT runs will be set to OPEN at the start of the new period. ... COMPLETED or TERMINATED . ... COMPLETED . ...

... Dongwon Kim , March 2014, on-going . ... Tammy Roderick , March 2011, on-going . Emma Kirby, *PhD completed August 2010* . ... Laura Dunn, *PhD completed December 2007* . ... David Nicholls, *PhD completed March 2014* . ... Antoine Bouchard, *PhD completed June 2006* . Emily McNeil, *PhD completed December 2010* . ... Eduard Westra, *PhD completed December 2007* . Sebastian Gurovich, *PhD completed August 2006* . Rami Rekola, *PhD completed December 2004* . ...

... Dept. for Physics of Stars&Galaxies . ... Using a database view Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), containing almost a million spectra created 15,000 sample galaxies with active star formation, which is used for various studies and physical state of evolution of galaxies. ... Star clusters of the Galaxy . The project MWSC (Milky Way Star Clusters) directory using 2MASS, which includes nearly 500 million vision to the limit Ks = 15.3, analyzed more than 4,000 cluster-like objects in the galaxy. ...

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. ...

... 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. ...

... The submission of a formal application to the Board of Graduate Studies for admission as a graduate student in the University of Cambridge in Physics. ... Your application must be completed and submitted to the Board of Graduate Studies as soon as possible; students who are applying for admission in October 2016 should make sure it arrives sufficiently early that we can assess it at the same time as we receive our internal Astrophysics Group application form (i.e. by March 2016, see below). ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... History . Brief History of Rocket and Space Technology . ... Flights Chronology . ... Project History . ISS Russian Segment . Steps of ISS Assembly . ... ISS 45/46 . ... Missions Archive . ... News . ... News archive . Contribution of RSC Energia to the Russian Rocket-Space Technology . ... RSC Energia: Progress MS-02 docked with the ISS.' ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

... Michael Collins (BGEN, USAF, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (former) . ... SPECIAL HONORS: Presented the Presidential Medal for Freedom in 1969 and recipient of the NASA Exceptional Service Medal, the Air Force Command Pilot Astronaut Wings, and the Air Force Distinguished Flying Cross. ... He served as backup pilot for the Gemini VII mission. ... Collins served as command module pilot on Apollo 11, July 16-24, 1969--the first lunar landing mission. ... This is the only version available from NASA. ...

... 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. ...

... Since the pioneering work of Markarian ([ 1967 ]) objective prism surveys were recognized as a powerful tool to search for galaxies of various types of activity. ... Of special interest are blue compact galaxies (BCGs). ... A third sample of BCGs of Popescu et al. ([ 1997 ], [ 1998 ]) contains about 200 BCGs distributed in four regions of the northern sky and is based on a sample selected on the Hamburg Quasar Survey (HQS; Hagen et al. [ 1995 ]) digitised IIIa-J plates. ... 1997, 1998). ...

... 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?. ...

... After delivery of all engineering models and SRT test sets to LA main ASC activities were moved to LA as well. ... Special attention was paid to the problem of tests on the electromagnetic compatibility between service and scientific on-board payload. ... The SRT was attached to special supporting frame, and LNA cooling system (NSOTR) was installed on the Focal Container. ... FC Focal Container - hermetic package with the scientific payload; it contains receivers, . ... TVT Thermo-Vacuum Tests . ...