... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Risks Comparable to NEOs . ... The Increasing Rate of Discovery of Asteroids . ... Comet and Asteroid Collision Probabilities . ... Extreme albedo comets and the impact hazard (PDF Format) . ... Asteroid Impact Animations . ... Workshop on Scientific Requirements for Mitigation of Hazardous Comets and Asteroids - 2002 . ... The Spaceguard Survey Report, 1992 (PDF) . Tsunami from Asteroid/Comet Impacts . ...

... The search for distant objects which can be both galaxies and quasars is one of the most important problems of observational astrphysics, because it allows one to determine cosmological parameters connected with the time of appearence and evolution of stellar systems, large scale structure of the Universe. ... Radio galaxies are important objects to be studied because they are sources of infrared-optical-ultraviolet continuum, emission lines and continual radio emission. ...

... STScI-PRC96-25 HUBBLE'S 100,000TH EXPOSURE CAPTURES IMAGE OF DISTANT QUASAR The Hubble Space Telescope achieved its 100,000th exposure June 22 with a snapshot of a quasar that is about 9 billion light-years from Earth. ... The fainter object just above it is an elliptical galaxy. ... The quasar and star are separated by billions of light-years. ... Image files in GIF and JPEG format and captions may be accessed on Internet via anonymous ftp from ftp.stsci.edu in /pubinfo. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... Galileo Demonstrates the Telescope . ... M17: The Majestic Swan Nebula . ... The star forming region above, known as Swan Nebula, is the home of hot red-glowing gas, dark lanes of dust, bright young stars and -- what are those? NGC 5882: A Small Planetary Nebula . ... NGC 3293: A Bright Young Open Cluster . ... Open cluster NGC 3293 is located in the constellation Carina, lies at a distance of about 8000 light years, and has a particularly high abundance of these young bright stars. ...

... A tussle in the distant Universe. This Hubble Space Telescope image shows evidence for a merger between a quasar and a companion galaxy. The quasar is the bright object just beneath the image center, and the wisps of material around it are remains of a galaxy disrupted by the interaction between it and the quasar. ... Galactic Nuclei: Old Quasars? Quasars as Probes of the Distant Universe . ... Quasars. ... The name quasar is made up with parts of the words "quasi-stellar radio." ...

The high-redshift radio-loud quasar PKS 2126-158 is found to have a large number of red galaxies in close apparent proximity.We use the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS) on Gemini South to obtain optical spectra for a large fraction of these sources. We show that there is a group of galaxies at z 0.66, coincident with a metal-line absorption system seen in the quasar s optical spectrum. ... All confirmed members exhibit early-type galaxy spectra, a rare situation for a MgII absorbing system. ...

General Forum Message . Forums: . ... Deep Space Object Galaxy Near M13 . ... Can anyone tell me if there is a DSO (likely a galaxy) near M13? ... The reason it interests me is that I drew a sketch of M13 years and years ago while observing - and that object is one of the handful of 'stars' that I drew. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... A radio galaxy is a galaxy that emits an unusually big amount of energy at radio wavelengths. ... Inside of each galaxy with an active nucleus (radio galaxies are among them) there must be a system of a "central machine" responsible for the colossal amount of the emitted energy from radio to gamma ranges. ... Sometimes a radio source in an active galaxy may flare again if the needed conditions appear (a new portion of matter would fall into the furnace of the "central machine"). ...

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... July 31, 1997 . Behind CL1358+62: A New Farthest Object . ... At one tenth the universe's present age , we might see galaxies forming . But what did galaxies look like when they were forming? ... In technical terms, this galaxy lies at the record redshift of z=4.92. Practically all of the yellow-white objects in the photograph are galaxies in a nearby cluster which together act as a lens in amplifying the light from the ancient galaxy. ... About APOD > . ...

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE DAILY REPORT #1278 PERIOD COVERED: 0000Z Daily Status Report as of 339/0000Z 1.0 ACTIVITIES SCHEDULED AND ACCOMPLISHED: 1.1 Completed WF/PC-2 5235 (Structures of Quasars and Related Objects (WC10): Cycle 4) The WF/PC-2 was used to make long exposure observations of quasar B21425+267. ... 1.10 Completed WF/PC-2 5416 (Young Globular Clusters in Merger Remnants: Cycle 4 Medium) The WF/PC-2 was used to make images of the galaxy NGC-3610 looking for young globular clusters. ...

... Our Galaxy . ... Universe . ... One of the Hubble Space TelescopeтАЩs goals was to accurately observe Cepheids in the most distant galaxies known (we knew they were far away, the problem was saying just how far). ... This work is becoming ever more refined; in January this year astronomers revealed that they had identified the farthest galaxy yet seen in a Hubble image. ... Thanks to the Hubble Space TelescopeтАЩs superb observations we can say that the universe is 13.75 billion years old. ...

Next: Conclusions Up: The Hamburg/SAO Survey for Previous: Non-classified objects . ... Since the main goal of the HSS is an efficient search for new BCGs, the fraction of this type among all new detected ELGs - 84 %, or 80 % among all emission-line objects, is very encouraging. ... Thus a large fraction of BCGs relative to all ELGs is found ( 78 %) demonstrating the high efficiency of this survey to find on the Hamburg Quasar Survey photoplates namely galaxies with H II -type spectra. ...

... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Travel to E-ELT Armazones . ... ESO . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Galaxies . ... Star Clusters . ... Stars@ESO . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... These two optical images from the Anglo-Australian Telescope in Australia show the Circinus galaxy before (February 1995) and after (March 1996) the supernova explosion of SN 1996cr was visible. ... Circinus Galaxy , SN 1996cr . ...

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 . ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... Pulsars . ... Stars ? ... The array was designed to detect compact radio sources such as these by virtue of the fact that they would scintillate (twinkle) when observed from the Earth through the interplanetary medium ? ... One of Antony Hewish?s research students, Jocelyn Bell, was set the task of operating the telescope and inspecting the daily charts for the kind deflections in the trace which occurred when a scintillating source passed over the array. ...

... We suggest simple method of the selection of distant galaxies based on their radio properties. ... RC0015+0503a , RC0015+0503b , RC0015+0501 , RC0034+0513 , RC0038+0449 , RC0042+0504 . ... RC0105+0501 , RC0110+0500 , RC0117+0503 , RC0126+0502 , RC0133+0459 , RC0135+0450 , RC0137+0539 , RC0143+0505 , RC0152+0453 , RC0154+0459 , RC0159+0448 . ... RC0209+0501b , RC0213+0516 , RC0226+0512 , RC0250+0512 . ... RC0302+0456 , RC0308+0454 , RC0311+0507 , RC0318+0456 , RC0355+0449 . ...

Galaxy cluster Abell 2218 acts as a powerful lens, magnifying all galaxies lying behind the cluster core. The lensed galaxies are all stretched along the cluster's center and some of them are multiply imaged. ... The color of the lensed galaxies is a function of their distances and types. The orange arc is an elliptical galaxy at moderate redshift (z = 0.7). The blue arcs are star-forming galaxies at intermediate redshift (z = 1-2.5). ...

... Courtesy of NASA/ESA Observation data (J2000 epoch) Constellation Right ascension Declination Redshift Distance Type Serpens Caput 15h 17m 14.4s[] +21° 35 08[] 12,740±50 km/s[][1] 600±30 Mly (183±8 Mpc)[1] SA0(r) [citation needed ] [a] Apparent dimensions (V) 0.28 в 0.28[] Apparent magnitude (V) 16.0[] Notable features Ring galaxy Other designations PGC 54559,[] PRC D-51[] See also: Galaxy, List of galaxies Hoag's Object is a non-typical galaxy of the type known as a ring galaxy. ...