. This is a "slice" of about 700 million light-years across in the distribution of galaxies in the universe. Voids are marked as blue circles, and galaxies within as red dots. The image shows a void galaxy that harbors an actively accreting black hole in its center; such activity is revealed by its optical spectrum exhibiting emission spikes, characteristic of hot gases ionized by light emitted from matter swirling around a supermassive black hole. J. Prejko, D. Pan, A. Constantin (Drexel University)

... 2005) INT star counts Theory: Origin of outer disk structure Type I: long standing debate about exp. form (but we may have for Type II and Type III) Type II: several models CT: starformation threshold (Kennicutt, 1989; Martin & Kennicutt, 2001; Schaye, 2004) (Elmegreen & Hunter, 2006; Li, Mac Low & Klessen, 2006) OLR: (bar) resonance phenomenon (Debattista et al. 2006) Type III: connection with interactions? star formation? ... Elmegreen & Hunter, 2006) more data is needed to decide on origin! ...

... Hubble's (1936) "tuning fork" of galaxy morphologies is the basis for modern galaxy classification. (arXiv:1102.0550.v1) Fig. ... Type E+ galaxies are "late" ellipticals, which may include faint extended envelopes typical of large cluster ellipticals, or simple transition types to S0-. (arXiv:1102.0550.v1) Fig. 7-- Examples of barred and nonbarred S0 galaxies of different stages from "early" (S0-), to "intermediate" (S0o ), to "late" (S0+), including the transition stage to spirals, Fig. ...

... 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. ...

... Chubukova I. - Data Mining (2007) PDF Data Mining . Hand D. Mannila H. Smyth P. - Principles of data mining (2001) DJVU Data Mining . Mitra S. Acharya T. - Data mining (2003) (In Russian) DJVU Data Mining . Abbass H. Sarker R. Newton C. - Data Mining Heuristic Approach (2002) PDF Data Mining . Rao C. Wegman E. Solka J. - Handbook of Statistics Data Mining and Data Visualization (2004) PDF Data Mining . ... Whittet D. - Dust in galaxies (2003) PDF Межзвездная среда . ...

... The distribution of galactic RCB stars is controversial. Several authors have argued that they belong to a thick galactic disk, and are thus old Population I stars. ... However, their distribution and space velocities suggest they may alternatively belong to the even older galactic bulge (Population II, [ Drilling 1986 ]). ... These are the only RCB stars for which a distance is known and hence for which an absolute magnitude can be deduced. ...

... All the galaxies are divided into 4 groups depending on the environment type; every subsample contains more than 10 galaxies. ... An effect of environments is seen both for the nuclei and for the bulges: if we consider the clusters (Virgo and Ursa Ma jor) and group centers as dense environments and the field and group periphery as sparse environments, then in the dense environments the stellar populations of S0s are in average older by 4­5 Gyr than in the sparse ones. ...

... Sternberg Astronomical Institute , Moscow University . ... Present edition unites two parts of Catalogue of interacting galaxies by B.A.Vorontsov-Velyaminov: the first part (Part 1) containing 355 systems was published in 1959 [1] and the second one (Part 2) with 497 objects - in 1976 [2].Thus two published parts of Catalogue include 852 interacting systems. ... All new of them (1162 by number) were taken from the comments to the galaxies in Morphological catalogue by Vorontsov-Velyaminov et al.[ ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Our Galaxy . ... Space Flight . ... Here be dark matter! ... This is dark energy, a force which permeates all space. ... No one knows what dark energy and dark matter are; researchers study the light of far off galaxies to see how these elusive quantities effect them. ... Dark matter and dark energy are utter mysteries today but so were electricity, magnetism and radioactive decay once. ... Some times ?Dark Matter? is real, remember Neptune! ...

... Galaxies 99 Cosmic background with model of cloudy interstellar medium Yu. ... Figure 1: Averaged spectrum of the cosmic background I f in frequency range 0.25 200 MHz for the Galactic poles. ... First interpretation of the cosmic noise background spectrum at broad band frequency range 0.25 200 MHz with a model of the cloudy interstellar medium ISM is presented here. ... Synthesized background spectra I f for regions of the Galactic poles at the frequency range 0.25 200 MHz is presented in Fig. ...

... Dept. for Physics of Stars&Galaxies . ... Using a database view Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), containing almost a million spectra created 15,000 sample galaxies with active star formation, which is used for various studies and physical state of evolution of galaxies. ... Star clusters of the Galaxy . The project MWSC (Milky Way Star Clusters) directory using 2MASS, which includes nearly 500 million vision to the limit Ks = 15.3, analyzed more than 4,000 cluster-like objects in the 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. ...

Results on nonequilibrium distributions of charged particles and radioisotope sources of current are as the following: . the new power-law distribution of charged particles in nonequilibrium media, for example, in the thin metalic films, under powerful energy source pumping were obtained ( together with V.I.Karas, V.M.Kontoriovich, V.E.Novikov); . ...

... The dynamics of silicate and graphite particles with radii of (0.1-2) 10 -5 cm in the vicinity of the Milky Way is considered. The equation of motion of dust grains is integrated with gravitational attraction, radiation pressure, gas drag, and dust destruction taken into account. The effect of other factors on the motion of grains are discussed. ... Dust is swept out of the Galaxy by radiation pressure from stars at a rate of 0.04 M o yr -1 . ...

Large-Scale Structure of the local Universe with INTEGRAL observatory >200-300 , . ... It is now widely accepted, that practically every galaxy in the local Universe has supermassive black hole and some of these black holes are AGNs. ... 136 ( ) 49- . ... The map of the survey is shown on the left. ... Using Hard X-ray all-sky survey such important properties of nearby Universe as energetics of accretion to the supermassive black holes and large-scale mass distribution of matter were studied. ...

... Ciel Espace, le magazine qui vous guide toujours plus loin . ... des pages consacr†йes †а la publication de vos photos Mais c'est aussi une vraie communaut†й avec laquelle partager votre passion et nourrir votre curiosit†й. Accueil Mati†иre noire : une observation d†йfie les astronomes . ... A la une . ... En effet, selon les mod†иles th†йoriques, les concentrations de mati†иre noire sont les lieux o†µ naissent les galaxies. ... Une mati†иre noire au comportement ordinaire ? ... Etat du ciel . ...

... Does it have to be a constant-flux source? ... Source added during later "Forum" discussion. ... The various missions represented at the discussion identified their usage of these sources as follows: XMM : RXJ1856 1E0102 Crab N132D GD153 Chandra : RXJ1856 1E0102 CAS A G21.5 Suzaku : RXJ1856 1E0102 CAS A Crab RXTE : CAS A Crab Swift : RXJ1856 1E0102 CAS A Crab INTEGRAL : CAS A Crab LABORATORY ABSOLUTE STANDARDS ------------------------------- Considering the resort, in other...

Text of these problems is available also in other languages : . ... What can one see in the Moon's sky more often - the Sun or the Earth? ... There are about of 250 millions of stars in the elliptical galaxy M32 (a satellite of Andromeda galaxy). ... The masses of Capella's components. ... You are proposed to estimate the masses of Capella's components, using our observational data. ... A galaxy's mass. ... Estimate the mass of FGC 1908 and compare it to the mass of our galaxy. ...

ATMoB "Galaxy Observing Award " Guidelines Purpose: To promote observing among the membership of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston through participation in the Galaxy Observing Awards program. ... Examples of elliptical galaxies: M49, M59, M60, M87, NGC 4125. Limiting Magnitude Assessment: Spirals: A spiral galaxy consists of a flattened disk, with stars forming a (usually two-armed) spiral structure, and a central concentration of stars known as the bulge. ...

FEATURES OF THE HYDROGEN DISTRIBUTION AROUND LUNAR CRATERS PROCLUS AND KEPLER. ... In result of analysis of the data Lawrence and Feldman constructed the hydrogen distribution on the lunar surface [1]. ... However, the authors shown, that EN flux data features may be explained by other element abundance in the lunar soils, namely: Si, Ca, Gadolinium (Gd), Samarium (Sm) and Fe. ... Using of the Feldman's interpretation of the Lunar Prospector data [8], we constructed hydrogen distribution map (Fig.1). ...