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... 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). ...

... Can one galaxy hide behind another? ... NGC 3293: A Bright Young Open Cluster . ... Hot blue stars shine brightly in this beautiful, recently formed galactic or "open" star cluster. ... Planetary Nebula NGC 7027 in Infrared . ... Even so, NGC 7027 is 14,000 times larger than the Earth-Sun distance. ... Starbirth in NGC 1808 . ... The center of galaxy NGC 1808 is bursting with new stars, but why? Being a barred spiral galaxy makes NGC 1808 somewhat similar to our own Milky Way 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. ...

... 2003 March 10 . M101: The Pinwheel Galaxy . Credit Copyright : Jean-Charles Cuillandre (CFHT), Hawaiian Starlight , CFHT . ... A striking example is M101, shown above , whose relatively close distance of about 22 million light years allow it to be studied in some detail. ... One result is that M101 , also called the Pinwheel Galaxy , has several extremely bright star-forming regions (called HII regions ) spread across its spiral arms. ... About APOD | ... NASA Technical Rep.: ... NASA SEU Edu. ...