Astronomy Picture of the Day . White Oval Clouds on Jupiter . ... Jupiter's clouds can swirl rapidly in raised high-pressure storm systems that circle the planet. The above pictured white ovals are located near the Great Red Spot, and have persisted on Jupiter since the 1930s. The Great Red Spot has persisted for at least 300 years. ... Why do many galaxies appear as spirals? ... The above pictures taken by Mars Pathfinder highlight how clouds vary during the end of a Martian day. ... April . ...

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M1 image More About M1 Nice Color Picture . ... M16 image More About M16 HST image . ... M31 image More About M31 Nice Color Picture . ... M42 image ; M43 image More About M42/43 Nice Color CCD Picture . M51 image More About M51 Color Image of M51 M51 Supernova . M57 image More About M57 Nice Color CCD Picture Very Deep M57 Image . ... M81 image More About M81 M81 Supernova Ultraviolet Image of M81 More about Ultraviolet Imaging . M82 image More About M82 M82 False Color M82 True Color . ...

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... 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. ...

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... The Star-Forming Histories of the Nearst Dwarf Galaxies . ... We will open the meeting by reviewing what is currently known about the star formation and chemical evolution histories of the dwarf galaxies in the Local Group. ... In these galaxies, episodic "bursts" of star formation appear to be common. ... My review talk will consist of: 1) Carina dSph (M_V=-9) The Carina dSph has had bursts of star formation 3, 5, 6 to 8 and ~15 Gyr ago with little or no star formation between these episodes. ...

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• Gregory F Snyder
• HST this week: 175
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... 2010 November 29 . Dark Belt Reappearing on Jupiter . Credit: NASA's JPL , U. Oxford , UC Berkeley , Gemini Obs. ... Explanation: Why are planet-circling clouds disappearing and reappearing on Jupiter? ... Earlier this year, unexpectedly, Jupiter's dark Southern Equatorial Belt (SEB) disappeared. ... Detailed professional observations revealed that high-flying light-colored ammonia -based clouds formed over the planet-circling dark belt. ... About APOD | ... A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC . ...

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• APOD: 2000 January 7 - NGC 4214: Star Forming Galaxy
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• APOD: September 10, 1996 - M77: Spiral with a Strange Glow

... Special Reports Giant space cloud may be powered by black holes 17:57 23 April 2007 NewScientist.com news service David Shiga An enormous cloud of roiling plasma in space may be drawing its energy from black holes, new observations suggest. Such clouds might be sources for the mysterious particles that occasionally crash into Earth's atmosphere at ultra - high speed. ... But higher energy particles in the cloud may be able to escape, he says. ...

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• I-GALFA Reveals Dynamic Events in Our Galaxy
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... Tonight's Sky . ... Sky this Month . ... Star Atlas . ... stars . ... The Sky This Week: April 1 - 10 . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Why do some stars appear to flash a variety of different colors when you look at them through a telescope? ... So, Earthт??s atmosphere will bend some colors from especially bright stars more so than others, which makes the source look like itт??s flashing colors. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

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• The Hubble Space Telescope found a galaxy that was completely formed within 480
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• Hubble sees NGC 7090 т?? an active star-forming galaxy | Astronomy.com

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Our Galaxy . ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... A galaxy is born: This artist's impression shows a young galaxy, about two billion years after the Big Bang, accreting material from the surrounding hydrogen and helium gas and forming many young stars. ... Galaxies, distant from us in space and time, have been in the news recently. ... Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory have observed another process which helped primordial galaxies grow. ...

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• WLM Galaxy: a Cosmic Living Fossil | Astronotes
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• M78 off Orion: Bladerunner Nebula? | Astronotes

... STScI-PRC01-07 NGC 4013: A GALAXY ON THE EDGE NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has snapped this remarkable view of a perfectly "edge-on" galaxy, NGC 4013. This new Hubble picture reveals with exquisite detail huge clouds of dust and gas extending along, as well as far above, the galaxy's main disk. ... Dark clouds of interstellar dust stand out in the picture because they absorb the light of background stars. ... Dark interstellar clouds are believed to be where new stars are formed. ...

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• http://www.arcetri.astro.it/~palla/ANDREAIMMAGINI/Galassie/Seyfert2.txt
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• Dust in Spiral Galaxies

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . Noctilucent clouds as photographed by Mark Bailey from Lisdoart on 14th July 2006 at 11.30 pm. ... These so-called noctilucent (night glowing) clouds (NLCs), are formed by sunlight reflecting off ice crystals high in the atmosphere, and usually appear in the northwest, through north to northeast during twilight in the late spring and summer months at our latitude. ...

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• M.D. Smith, Research Astronomer
• Spread of Life Through the Galaxy
• Evolution Of Galaxies

... Primordial theory review : Dick Bond . Defects and the CMB review : Andy Albrecht . ... Gravitational wave contribution to CMB anisotropies : V.B. Lukash and E.V. Mikheeva . C_l from cosmic strings : Lloyd Knox . Some aspects of CMB anisotropies induced from topological defects : Mairi Sakellariadou . ... CMB anisotropies from scaling sources : Ruth Durrer . ... SZ observations I : Sarah Church . ... Holes in the microwave sky? ... Detecting cosmic strings in the CMB : James Robinson . ...

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• PPT Slide
• Galaxy Evolution: Cosmological evolution of star formation
• Galaxy Evolution: Regulation of the ISM and Star Formation

... S-6.The X-ray Sun . S-7.The Sun's Energy . S-7A. The Black Hole at . our Galactic Center . ... Our Sun is part of a huge wheel-shaped collection of stars. ... However, unless that object happens to be headed directly at the black hole (a relatively small target) it will just swing around and fly away again, like a comet making a pass at the Sun. ... Far from being a voracious devourer of stars and of interstellar gas, "our own" black hole is rather benign. ... What holds galaxies together? ...

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• The Polar Aurora

An image of the grand design of spiral galaxy M100 obtained with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope resolves individual stars within the majestic spiral arms. ... Hubble has the ability to resolve individual stars in other galaxies and measure accurately the light from very faint stars. This makes space telescope invaluable for identifying a rare class of pulsating stars, called Cepheid Variable stars embedded within M100's spiral arms. ... 617) 495-7062 . Fax: (617) 495-7356 . ...

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• The AstroStat Slog chi-square minimization
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... The remote area was formed very early, at a time when the Universe was a fifth of its present age and the presence of the galaxy string defies existing models, which can not explain how a string this big could have formed so long ago. ... The simulations tell us that you cannot take the matter in the early Universe and line it up in strings this large," Dr Francis said. ... But in the early Universe, most galaxies had not yet formed, and most dark matter clouds will not yet contain a galaxy. ...

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• THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
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• COALA - Computational Astrophysics Laboratory

Gerhardt Meurer (Johns Hopkins University) . The accompanying picture shows NGC 2915, which Australian, Canadian, and American astronomers have shown to be the darkest known disk galaxy. ... The team of astronomers, lead by Gerhardt Meurer at Johns Hopkins University, analyzed the rotation of the galaxy and showed that NGC 2915 is composed mostly of "dark matter". Dark matter is extremely difficult to detect since it does not emit any radiation. ... Gerhardt R. Meurer . ...

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• ATNF Daily Astronomy Picture
• The peculiar galaxy NGC 4258: A black hole candidate.
• Research - Compact high-velocity clouds around the Milky Way

Next: Conclusions Up: HS 0822+3542 - a Previous: H I and dynamical . The properties of HS 0822+3542 presented above (extremely low abundance of heavy elements, very blue colour of underlying nebulosity, and extremely small mass ratio of stars to neutral gas) suggest that this could be the nearest candidate young dwarf galaxy forming its first stellar generation. ... Next: Conclusions Up: HS 0822+3542 - a Previous: H I and dynamical Labaratory "Structure" . ...

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• SEARCH for the YOUNGEST GALAXIES
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... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Travel to E-ELT Armazones . ... ESO . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Galaxies . ... Star Clusters . ... Stars@ESO . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... These two optical images from the Anglo-Australian Telescope in Australia show the Circinus galaxy before (February 1995) and after (March 1996) the supernova explosion of SN 1996cr was visible. ... Circinus Galaxy , SN 1996cr . ...

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• The Thousand-Ruby Galaxy | ESO
• Circinus Galaxy before and after SN 1996cr appeared | ESO United States
• Circinus Galaxy before and after SN 1996cr appeared | ESO Australia

... 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. ...

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• Dept. for Physics of Stars&Galaxies
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The divisity of galaxies. The galaxies are the giant (to hundred of billions of stars) star systems, where the stars are connected by gravitation laws with each other. ... Ther galaxy NGC 3031 . ... Each spiral galaxy has a core a flat disk where the spiral brancher locate. The stars and interstellar substance of spiral galaxies rotate around the core. ... In normal galaxies, such as our Galaxy, the great brightness of the core is accounted for the high concentration of stars. ...

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... 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. ...

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• Fabry-Perot Interferometer: Gallery Old
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