Type of Galaxies. taken from the Hubble Atlas of Galaxies. These galaxies display no bright blue stars like those in the spiral arms of Sb, Sc, Irr, SBb, and SBc galaxies. ... The smooth texture of the photographic image. ... SBa - Galaxies possesss a characteristic bar that is prominent and smooth in texture with no trace of resolution into knots or stars. ... SBb - These galaxies have a well defined bar structure which is smooth in texture with no hint of resolution into stars. ...

In this gallery are many images of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies which have recently been discovered and analyzed. ... The central surface brightness of this galaxy is 24.28 . Malin 2 This galaxy is another huge disk galaxy with a scale length of 15 kpc and a redshift of 15000 km/a. The high surface brightness knot in one of its spiral arms actually has the same color, luminosity and H-alpha equivalent width as the entire Large Magellanic Cloud . ... Truly it is a Low Surface Brightness Galaxy. ...

... Subject and Problems of Stellar Astronomy. ... Plane of Galaxy, Methods of Its Location Determination. ... Stars Distances. ... Other Methods of Stars Distances Determination. ... Tangential Velocities, Their Determination by Self-Motions. ... Determination of Solar Apex and Spatial Velocity by Radial and Spatial Velocities of Stars. ... Features of Orientation and Parameters of Peculiar Stellar Velocities Ellipsoid. ... General and Selective Light Absorption in Galaxy. ... Darc Clouds in Galaxy. ...

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In star-forming galaxies, dust plays a significant role in shaping the ultraviolet (UV) through infrared (IR) spectrum. ... Using three samples of galaxies observed with the Spitzer Space Telescope and our dusty radiative transfer model, we find that young stellar populations (on the order of 100 million years old) dominate the dust heating in star-forming galaxies, and old stellar populations (13 billion years old) generally contribute less than 20% of the far-IR luminosity. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Bright planets meet at dusk . ... Astronomy magazine subscribers can read the full article for free. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter....

... A dwarf elliptical galaxy, M110 ( aka NGC 205 ) is actually a bright satellite of the large spiral galaxy Andromeda , making M110 a fellow member of the local group of galaxies. ... Publications with keywords: M 110 - NGC 205 - dwarf galaxy - Local Group of Galaxies . Publications with words: M 110 - NGC 205 - dwarf galaxy - Local Group of Galaxies . ... Bright Star Regulus near the Leo I Dwarf Galaxy . ... M31: The Andromeda Galaxy . NGC 1569: Starburst in a Dwarf Irregular Galaxy . ...

... 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. ...

The SCUBA Local Universe Galaxy Survey Dust along the Hubble sequence Catherine Vlahakis University of Bonn Collaborators: Steve Eales (Cardiff University) Loretta Dunne (University of Nottingham) Overview What is SLUGS? Results from the survey Recent work using SLUGS results ­ the FIR-radio relation Introduction: SLUGS SLUGS ­ a submm survey of galaxies in the local Universe ­ at 850m and 450m Survey of ~200 nearby galaxies: 104 60m-selected ("IRS") (Dunne et al. ...

Next: Observations and data reduction Up: On the metallicities of Previous: On the metallicities of . Since the discovery of low metallicity gas in H II regions of Blue Compact Galaxies (BCGs) by Searle & Sargent (1972), a debate lasting for decades on possible existence of local truly young galaxies is still continuing. ... In particular, we reobserved two BCGs presented in the K? list - UM 133 and UM 382. ... UM 133 . UM 382 . ... 3868 [Ne III] .. ... 1.000 0.017 . ... 0.017 0.001 . ...

... By means of deep optical images obtained at the Special Astrophysical Observatory 6-m telescope it was discovered that some Seyfert galaxies that were earlier considered to be non-interacting objects displayed signatures of elongated tidal envelopes belonging to satellite debris. ... Our results suggest that statistic studies based on popular imaging surveys (for example SDSS) can lead to an underestimation of the fraction of minor mergers among galaxies with active nuclei (AGN). ...

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! ... Moon . Planets . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... February . ... The ringed planet will be quite bright, but unlike Jupiter it will not be the brightest point of light in the sky, this accolade will return to Sirius which is the brightest star in our night sky in the constellation of Canis Major. ... Seven days later on February 18, the Moon will be in its full Moon phase. ... Tweets that mention Wonders of the February Night Sky | ... Astronotes . ...

... Are HVCs a common feature of star forming galaxies? ... Consider the typical properties of the smallest HVCs (compact HVCs) found in HIPASS: . Distance . HI Mass . ... At 5 kpc . meager objects ~116 solar masses . ... 1.15 x 10 4 solar masses . ... Putman et al. (2003) found none to 10 7 solar masses. 2% of Sculptor to 3 x 10 6 solar masses by de Blok et al. (2001) found none. ... High velocity gas around other galaxies can be identified from maps and dynamics: . ... 2003) . ...

... International Year of Astronomy in Ireland . ... Christmas Moon", painting by Miruna Popescu, Armagh Observatory, featured as " Lunar photo of the Day " and " Astronomy Sketch of the Day " on 25 December 2009. ... To mark the 400th anniversary of GalileoтАЩs first use of the telescope to observe the sky, 2009 has been celebrated worldwide as the International Year of Astronomy. Moon over Armagh - link to Astronomy Sketch of the Day on 25 December 2009 . ... Monday, 11 May 2009 23:54 . ...

Elliptical galaxies Elliptical galaxies Rough subdivision · Normal ellipticals. ... Dwarf ellipticals (dE's). ... E dE BCD dSph 1013 - 1014 108 - 1013 107 - 109 109 107 - 108 300-1000 1-200 1-10 3 0.1­0.5 100 10­100 1­10 0.1­10 5­100 Elliptical galaxies Shapes of elliptical galaxies Elliptical galaxies Shapes of elliptical galaxies Elliptical galaxies Shapes of elliptical galaxies Elliptical galaxies Shapes of elliptical galaxies Elliptical galaxies ...

... This task is designed to produce colour plots, the displayed colour at any pixel being a function of the relative intensities in the supplied energy/wavelength bands. Although designed originally to display EPIC X-ray images, it can also be used to create false-colour plots from OM images. ... The created colour image may either be stored in one of the file formats accessible via the pgplot library, or as a 3-plane fits file, or as a ppm image. ...

... Scaling relations of galaxies: . ... 2007) . ... This research is now being extended to other clusters such as Hydra and Centaurus, by Ingo Misgeld . ... 2007 , Misgeld et al. 2008 and 2009 ) support a picture where the scaling relations of dwarf galaxies are shaped more by internal than external agents, given that colour-magnitude and magnitude-surface brightness relations agree quite well between the low-density Local Group environment and dense clusters like Fornax and Hydra. Misgeld et al. ...

... 05/09/2013 Galaxy Evolution over Five Decades - Cambridge 2013 Nuclear activity and environment Effect of environment on AGN is not completely clear yet. ... 05/09/2013 Galaxy Evolution over Five Decades - Cambridge 2013 Effect of the mass Mass slices ­ optical and radio AGN overall interaction one-on-one interaction relative location 05/09/2013 Galaxy Evolution over Five Decades - Cambridge 2013 Stratified study Stratifed study that considers several strata of mass. ...

... Up: User Interfaces and Visualization . Previous: DASHA-2: Improving Visualization and Processing of Photometric Data with IDL Objects . ... Smirnov, O. & Malkov, O. 1999, in ASP Conf. ... 172, Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems VIII, eds. D. M. Mehringer, R. L. Plante, & D. A. Roberts (San Francisco: ASP), 442 . ... XSKYMAP is a widget-based IDL application for visualization of astronomical catalogs. Since then XSKYMAP has grown into a powerful sky catalog visualization tool. ...