Polar Ring Galaxy NGC 2685 . ... Credit Copyright: Ken Crawford Explanation: NGC 2685 is a confirmed polar ring galaxy - a rare type of galaxy with stars, gas and dust orbiting in rings perpendicular to the plane of a flat galactic disk. ... In this sharp view of the peculiar system also known as Arp 336 or the Helix galaxy, the strange, perpendicular rings are easy to trace as they pass in front of the galactic disk, along with other disturbed outer structures. ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...

... 2007 February 16 . Polar Ring Galaxy NGC 2685 . ... Explanation: NGC 2685 is a confirmed polar ring galaxy - a rare type of galaxy with stars, gas and dust orbiting in rings perpendicular to the plane of a flat galactic disk. The bizarre configuration could be caused by the chance capture of material from another galaxy by a disk galaxy, with the captured debris strung out in a rotating ring. ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply . ...

... Armagh Planetarium . ... Universe . ... October . ... Posted on October 21, 2010 | No Comments Galaxies, distant from us in space and time, have been in the news recently. ... No Comments If you love great articles on space and astronomy you are probably already following the Carnival of Space. ... 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. ...

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... July 9, 1999 . NGC 7789: Galactic Star Cluster . ... Explanation: At 1.6 billion years old, this cluster of stars is beginning to show its age. NGC 7789 is an open or galactic star cluster about 8,000 light-years distant toward the constellation Cassiopeia and lies near the plane of our Milky Way galaxy. ... These have evolved from main sequence stars like the sun into the gaggle of red giant stars apparent (with a reddish-yellow cast) in this lovely composite color image. ... About APOD > . ...

... 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. ...

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... March 23 - Images from the Hubble Space Telescope reveal the explosive birth of stars in a distant galaxy. ... THE GALAXY NGC 1808 is in the direction of the southern constellation Columba, about 40 million light-years away from Earth. ... Mutchler said those supernovae eject dust that shows up as streaming filaments in high-resolution images of NGC 1808. ... Mutchler said the shape of the galaxy may have been altered by the gravitational pull of another galaxy passing nearby; perhaps NGC 1792. ...

... Instead, new evidence obtained using the UK's Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) in Hawaii, spins a different story. Streams of spinning bullets have been discovered. These infrared bullets, moving at prodigious speeds, deposit the spin far away from the birth region'' , stated Armagh Observatory astronomer Dr. Michael Smith. ... Now, using the UK Infrared telescope in Hawaii fitted with sensitive instruments, a team of astronomers have found evidence that the jets of bullets are spinning. ...

... Today this year's largest group of sunspots will cross the Sun's central meridian. ... The next day, the number of spots in the group reached five, and the day after, on June 2nd, it was possible to count thirteen sunspots on solar disk, which had been clear prior to this. ... This year's two most powerful active areas, which passed across the solar disk at the beginning of May, 2009, are set to appear in the Sun's eastern sector in two days, on June 6th. ...

... Oral traditions have since time immemorial satisfied generations of children and adults with stories of wonder, fantasy, truth, and mystery. ... The story of astronomy and astronomy's evolution as a science includes countless tales originally crafted to explain the visible celestial bodies, their motions (regular and irregular), the mysteries behind their existence, and the powers they exert over us on Earth. ... Impediments to Elementary Astronomy Programs . ... Storytelling Activities - Moon Story...

... Deutsch . ... Did you know that sugar contains some of the essential ingredients for life? ... However, sugar is made up of a simple recipe of chemicals called carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. ... Now, using a powerful telescope, a team of astronomers has spotted sugar in the gas surrounding a young star that is like our Sun. ... And since sugar contains the ingredients for life, finding it near a Sun-like star is very exciting maybe life could exist on another planet in the Universe! ...

... Users . Connections (constellation) . ... Data Collection and Analysis . AAS 221 . ... The graph below represents the connections between users tweeting about the 221st meeting of the American Astronmical Society . ... The circles represent Twitter accounts; the color is coded based on the number of followers of each account using the scale given at the top of the graph (it's also included in the mouse-over text for each node), although I don't have this information for all users. ...

... 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. ...

... Comparing observations more than a century apart, Hipparchus proposed that the axis around which the heavens seemed to rotate shifted gradually, though very slowly. Viewed from Earth, the Sun moves around the ecliptic, one full circuit each year. ... During an eclipse, Sun, Earth and Moon form a straight line, and therefore the center of the Earth's shadow is at the point on the celestial sphere which is exactly opposite that of the Sun. ... Some 2000 years after Hipparchus, in the year 1840. ...

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