... We observed the NEAT comet in many scopes - it was neat! plus lots of obscure galaxy clusters in the 500Mly to 1Gly range, great sweeping spiral arms in M101 and M51, and an eyepiece overflowing with COLORED stars from globular cluster Omega Centauri. ...
... Kier showed the galaxy M33, which has a hydrogen alpha region that is 50 times the ... He also presented the face on spiral NGC 6946 in which you can see many active star ... In closing, Kier talked about interacting galaxies. ...
... Prof. Bill Waller of Tufts University in his talk, "At Home Among the Galaxies," will familiarize us with these magnificent "island universes" -- beginning with our own Milky Way galaxy and moving outward to the primeval worlds that can be barely detected ...
... Rosse used his 6-foot diameter telescope and drew the spiral shape of those nebulae ... adopted the common wisdom that these spiraling nebulae were solar systems within the ...
... tour to investigate the incredible discoveries and unexplained marvels that occupy the large spiral star system we call home ... center to the dark halo encompassing the outer limits of the galaxy, the journey will bring you to the heart of questions ...
... We'll take a closer look at this elusive spiral next month. NGC 6939 and Galaxy NGC 6946. ... NGC 6939 and Galaxy NGC 6946. Image by John Mirtle (www.astrofoto.ca) NGC 6826 and 16 Cygni. ...
... thought to be thermonuclear explosions of matter that is piling up on the accretion disk of a neutron star as it spirals in ... THE FIRST KNOWN STARLESS GALAXY, VIRGO HI21, was discovered in 2004 by a radio telescope at the Jodrell Bank Observatory in ...