... Big, beautiful spiral galaxy M101 is one of the last entries in Charles Messier's famous catalog, but definitely not one of the least. ... These detailed Hubble Space Telescope close-ups feature Jupiter's ancient swirling storm system known as the Great Red Spot. ... Red Spot Jr. ... Happy People Dancing on Planet Earth . ... The Colliding Spiral Galaxies of Arp 271 . ... Spiral galaxies NGC 5426 and NGC 5427 are passing dangerously close to each other, but each is likely to survive this collision. ...

... Star Atlas . ... stars . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Globular cluster NGC 2808, elliptical galaxy NGC 2986, and the Sextans Dwarf . ... Get to Know the Night Sky . ... Astronomers know the fate of Sun-like and massive stars, but what about the majority of stars т?? the M-class red dwarfs? Will they also become giants or just flicker out? ... RELATED TOPICS: STARS . ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

... 2009 July 27 . NGC 1097: Spiral Galaxy with a Central Eye . Credit: NASA , JPL-Caltech , SINGS Team ( SSC ) . Explanation: What's happening at the center of spiral galaxy NGC 1097? ... Near the left edge and seen in blue, a smaller companion galaxy is wrapped in the spectacular spiral arms of the large spiral, lit in pink by glowing dust . ... Note: An APOD editor will review great space images this Saturday night at Ft. ... About APOD | ... NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices . ...

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. ...

... STScI-PF95-14 FOR RELEASE: APRIL 5, 1995 HUBBLE VIEWS DISTANT GALAXIES THROUGH A COSMIC LENS This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the rich galaxy cluster, Abell 2218, is a spectacular example of gravitational lensing. The arc-like pattern spread across the picture like a spider web is an illusion caused by the gravitational field of the cluster. ... The arcs are the distorted images of a very distant galaxy population extending 5-10 times farther than the lensing cluster. ...

... The Dragonfly Galaxy: ATCA unravels the role of cold gas in a merging hyper-luminous radio galaxy at z=2 . ... By combining high-resolution ATCA observations with new HST imaging, we found evidence that a gas-rich (`wet') merger of galaxies is driving the rapid evolution of the Dragonfly Galaxy. ... The Dragonfly Galaxy is likely an extreme high-z analogue to the most powerful radio galaxies at low-z, whose activity is also believed to be fueled by cold gas deposited after a galaxy merger. ... ATCA ...

... In the picture it looks like a peaceful place, but astronomers have spotted the violent explosions of two stars in this galaxy over the past 30 years. The explosion of a massive star is called a supernova. ... The first supernova that was spotted in this galaxy was discovered by professional astronomers, using a big telescope that is based in the desert in