... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2015 April 28 . Massive Nearby SpiralGalaxy NGC 2841 . ... A mere 46 million light-years distant, spiralgalaxy NGC 2841 can be found in the northern constellation of Ursa Major . ... X-ray images suggest that resulting winds and stellar explosions create plumes of hot gas extending into a halo around NGC 2841 . ... About APOD | ...
... December 13, 1997 . The Coma Cluster of Galaxies . ... The Coma Cluster of Galaxies pictured is one of the densest clusters known - it contains thousands of galaxies . Each of these galaxies house billions of stars - just as our own Milky Way Galaxy does. ... In fact, the Coma Cluster is so big it takes light millions of years just to go from one side to the other! Most galaxies in Coma and other clusters are ellipticals , while most galaxies outside of clusters are spirals . ...
Supernova 2002bu in NGC 4242 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2002bu in NGC 4242 Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the updates and links web pages. This is a type IIn supernova found in a galaxy which is in Canes Venatici. ... Mag . ... 2002/03/28.26 . ... A Leroy image . ... SUPERNOVA 2002bu IN NGC 4242 . ...
. of Lomonosov Moscow State University, . Russia . GCVS Research Group . Catalogues of Variable Stars . Future Prospects of Variable-Star Catalogues . B.V. Kukarkin Centenary Conference: Variable Stars, the Galactic Halo and Galaxy formation (VS-Halo) . What's new . Recent publications . Digitization of Moscow Plate Archive . The "Peremennye Zvezdy" (Variable Stars) journal . Send questions and comments to Olga Durlevich .
... Sternberg Astronomical Institute , Moscow University . ... Present edition unites two parts of Catalogue of interacting galaxies by B.A.Vorontsov-Velyaminov: the first part (Part 1) containing 355 systems was published in 1959 [1] and the second one (Part 2) with 497 objects - in 1976 [2].Thus two published parts of Catalogue include 852 interacting systems. ... All new of them (1162 by number) were taken from the comments to the galaxies in Morphological catalogue by Vorontsov-Velyaminov et al.[ ...
... The distance scales of the objects are matched both by comparing the first derivatives of the angular velocity determined separately from radial velocities and proper motions and by the statistical-parallax method. ... Good agreement between the inferred 0 and our calculations based on space velocities suggests that the Lindblad relation holds throughout the entire sample volume. ... Brandt and Blitz (1993) published the distances and radial velocities for a total of 206 H II-regions. ... Astron. ...
... Отмеченная наградами АстроТоп-а . ... Анатолий Анатольевич Волчков . ... кто-то из великих) Я долго подбирал название для этой мемориальной статьи об Анатолии Анатольевиче Волчкове. ... Какие только названия не приходили ко мне в голову - "Легенда об Анатолии", "Исполнить миссию", "Человеко-форум", "Камертон Астрорунета".. ... P.P.S. 31 декабря 2003 г. решением команды проекта Астротоп принято решение - "признать Анатолия Волчкова Человеком года " в традиционных конкурсах Звезды АстроРунета-2003 . ...
... Here is a brief outline of the current theory of the events in the early history of the solar system: . A cloud of interstellar gas and/or dust (the "solar nebula") is disturbed and collapses under its own gravity. ... The gas cools off enough for the metal, rock and (far enough from the forming star) ice to condense out into tiny particles. (i.e. some of the gas turns back into dust). ... Once the larger of these particles get big enough to have a nontrivial gravity, their growth accelerates. ...