... 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 Spiral Galaxy NGC 2841 . ... A mere 46 million light-years distant, spiral galaxy 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 | ...

... 28.04.2015 . ... Credit Copyright: Roberto Colombari Explanation: It is one of the more massive galaxies known. A mere 46 million light-years distant, spiral galaxy NGC 2841 can be found in the northern constellation of Ursa Major . ... April . ... April 2015 . ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ... Publications with keywords: spiral galaxy . Publications with words: spiral galaxy . ... NGC 3310: A Starburst Spiral Galaxy . ... In the Center of Spiral Galaxy NGC 3521 . ...

... Benaglia, P., Vink, J.S., Marti, J., Maiz Apellaniz, J., Koribalski, B.S. , Crowther, P.A. 2007, A 467, 1265 . Testing the predicted mass-loss bi-stability jump at radio wavelengths . ... Radio Behavior of Four Southern Non-Thermal O-Type Stars . ... Radio evidence on the mass loss bi-stability jump . ... Radio observations of HD93129A: The earliest O star with the highest mass loss? ... Mass loss rate determination of southern OB stars . ... Mass loss rate determinations of southern Of stars . ...

Image -- Jim Flood, Max Mutchler (Space Telescope Science Institute), and NASA. The Hubble image shows clusters of hot, young, blue stars in a 3,000 light-year segment of NGC 1808's starburst region. The ground-based image shows a faint halo surrounding the galaxy's disk - the aftereffect of dust filaments being ejected from the core by massive stars that exploded as supernovae in the starburst region. ... 1 April 1998 . for the July 1998 edition of Astronomy magazine) ...

... Kopylov, A.I., Kopylova, F.G. "Structure of galaxy groups and clusters and measurement of their masses", . ... Kopylova, F.G., Kopylov, A.I. "Peculiar motions of galaxy clusters and groups in the Hercules and Leo supercluster regions", . ... Kopylova, F.G., Kopylov, A.I. "Analysis of the properties of clusters of galaxies in the region of the Leo supercluster", . ... Kopylova, F.G., Kopylov, A.I. "Analysis of the properties of clusters of galaxies in the region of the Ursa Major supercluster", . ...

... Ultra-compact dwarf galaxies (UCDs): . ... UCDs are characterised by old stellar populations, are larger, brighter and more massive than the biggest Milky Way globular clusters (GCs), but at the same time significantly more compact than typical dwarf galaxies of comparable luminosity. ... UCDs are remnant nuclei of tidally stripped dwarf galaxies ( Bassino et al. ... UCDs are genuine compact dwarf galaxies formed in the smallest peaks of primordial dark matter fluctuations ( Drinkwater et al. ...

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. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Stars . ... Starbursts are short-lived events, stars are forming so quickly that the reservoirs of interstellar gas from which stars are coalescing would be used up on a timescale much shorter than the age of the galaxy . ... Strong stellar winds from giant new stars in the starburst region combine with the blasts of supernovae to push a mighty flood of extremely hot gas, a ?superwind? from the galaxy thousands of light years into intergalactic space. ...