... Fornax Cluster in Motion . ... In fact, along with another visible galaxy grouping at the outskirts of the cluster, the Fornax cluster core galaxies seem to be moving toward a common point, attracted by the dominating gravity of unseen structures of dark matter in the region. ... Publications with keywords: Fornax - galaxy cluster - dark matter . Publications with words: Fornax - galaxy cluster - dark matter . ... The Hydra Cluster of Galaxies . ... MACS 1206: A Galaxy Cluster Gravitational Len . ...

... 2004 September 24 . Fornax Cluster in Motion . ... CXC , NASA . ... On the whole, the hot cluster gas seems to be trailing toward the upper left in this view. ... In fact, along with another visible galaxy grouping at the outskirts of the cluster, the Fornax cluster core galaxies seem to be moving toward a common point, attracted by the dominating gravity of unseen structures of dark matter in the region. ... About APOD | ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ...

home publications > mercury . ... Big Clusters, Tiny Galaxies . ... Astronomers struggle to understand why giant star clusters form in the tiniest of galaxies . ... These clusters are probably young versions of globular clusters, but they are commonly called super star clusters. Seven dwarf galaxies within 16 million light-years have formed super star clusters, with one of these galaxies, NGC 1569, possessing two young clusters. ... Super star clusters have a lot to tell us about star formation. ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. February 5, 1996 . COBE Dipole: Speeding Through the Universe . Credit: NASA , COBE , DMR , Four-Year Sky Map . ... The Milky Way Galaxy orbits in the Local Group . ... The map indicates that the Local Group moves at about 600 kilometers per second relative to this primordial radiation . ... About APOD | ...

... Armagh Planetarium . ... Universe . ... Posted on October 1, 2010 | ... Before the modern era of technological astronomy, to know anything [ ] . Continue Reading.. ... 2 Comments In, say 1975, there was only one kind of ?stuff? in the Universe, matter made of protons and neutrons. ... Newer Entries . Hello, IтАЩm Colin, welcoming you to Astronotes, the PlanetariumтАЩs official blog. Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Biography: From his schooldays in Copenhagen, J.L.E. Dreyer showed unusual ability in history, mathematics and physics - the subjects which were to form the background to his later work. ... From 1878-1882 he became assistant at Dunsink Observatory before moving to Armagh where he became Director in 1882. ... A Short History of Armagh Observatory . ... Dreyer's History of the Armagh Observatory . ...

... These Frontier Fields will combine the power of HST with the natural gravitational telescopes of high-magnification clusters of galaxies. ... We are soliciting gravitational lensing maps for the last four Hubble Frontier Fields clusters (MACSJ0717.5+3745, MACSJ1149.5+2223, AbellS1063, and Abell 370) based upon the exceptionally deep HST FF imaging and other new ancillary data. ... For the full set of proposal instructions and requirements, see the FY16 Frontier Fields Lensing Map Call for Proposals....

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 . ...

3rd of February 2016 . Storm Stow at ATCA . ... The picture was taken on 1 February 2013 at the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) while observing neutral hydrogen (HI) in the galaxy IC 1993. IC 1993 is an HI poor spiral galaxy located at the outskirts of the Fornax cluster. ... 2016) . ... Whenever there are strong winds or lots of lightning strikes the antennas need to be in a safety mode to protect them from damage from the storm. ... today * ATNF | ... ATCA | ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... AMI Science . ... Observations of galaxy clusters are central to the AMI science programme. The AMI Small Array is used to observe already-known clusters with high-sensitivity and resolution, allowing us to extract detailed information about individual clusters and to build up statistics about the cluster population. ... Observing galaxy clusters at 15 GHz is tricky because of the contamination from foreground radio sources, which is where the Large Array comes in! ...

. Our publications September 2008 . February 2011 . Kniazev Alexei 1997 year. PhD thesis "The elaboration of methodics to search for Blue Compact Galaxies and detailed studies of some selected BCGs" . Short form (in Russian) . Full text (HTML format, in Russian) . Full text (in Russian, ps-file ~2.4Mbt) . Ugryumov Andrei 1997 year. PhD thesis "The Creation of the Samples of Blue Compact Galaxies and analysis of their spatial distribution" . Short form (in Russian) .

... I follow the research lines as listed below. ... The subject of my thesis is: ``The center of the Fornax cluster: dwarf galaxies, cD halo, and globular clusters'', supervised by Prof. Dr. Tom Richtler . ... Globular Cluster Systems of early-type galaxies and merger remnants ( Fornax Cluster , NGC 720, NGC 5018, NGC 3115, NGC 5846, NGC 7192) [collaborators: M. Kissler-Patig, B. Dirsch, P. Goudfrooij, M. Hempel, D. Minitti, T. Puzia, T. Richtler ] . ...

... Telescopes . ... The International Conference "Dark Ages and White Nights (Spectroscopy of the CMB)" (June 20-24, 2016) . ... The International Conference "Stars: from collapse to collapse" (October 3-7, 2016) . The traditional annual competition conference of scientific and scientific-engineering papers of the Observatory staff members . ... A session of the Dissertation Council (October 16, 2015) . ... International scientific conference "Large Optical Telescopes" (October, 10-13, 2011) . ...

... With the Moon's terminator moving almost 10 mph (16 km/h) across its equator, how long would it take for an observer using binoculars to notice a change in lunar features? ... The lunar terminator, the sunset/sunrise line that sweeps across the Moon s surface as the Moon orbits Earth, travels at a rate of 9.6 mph (15.4 km/h) along our satellite s equator. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... If you are already registered on Astronomy.com, please log in below. ...

... Authors: Spyros Basilakos (Imperial College London) . ... Title: Populating a cluster of galaxies - I. Results at z=0 . ... Title: The Merger Rate to Redshift One from Kinematic Pairs: Caltech Faint Galaxy Redshift Survey XI . ... Title: Multi-wavelength observations of an evolved galaxy group: An endpoint of galaxy merging? ... 23 matches for the search pattern galaxy merging . The URL for this page is: http://xxx.itep.ru/find/astro-ph/1/galaxy+merging/0/1/0/past,all/0/0 www-admin@xxx.lanl.gov ...

... Karachentsev I.D., Dolphin A., Tully R.B., Sharina M., Makarova L., Makarov D. , Karachentseva V., Sakai S., Shaya E.J. Advanced Camera for Surveys Imaging of 25 Galaxies in Nearby Groups and in the Field . ... Karachentseva V.E., Melnyk O.V., Vavilova I.B., Makarov D.I. Virial and total masses of galaxy triplets in the Local Supercluster . 2005, Astron. ... Karachentsev I.D., Makarov D.I. "The Galaxy Motion Relative to Nearby Galaxies and the Local Velocity Field" . ...

Astronomy suffers from the `Static Illusion' - because astronomical changes usually occur over intervals much longer than a human lifetime they appear static. This illusion affects our understanding of how astronomical objects work. ... Observations at the 1/10th arcsecond level with HST and near-infrared adaptive optics on ground based telescopes are beginning to create movies of `astronomy in motion'. ... Proto-star HH-30 expanding jet HST.. Young binary, XZ Tau, expanding `bubbles' HST.. ...

Russian Version ( KOI-8 , Win ) . Institute of Astronomy of the RAS . ... Self-consistent simulation of chemical and dynamical evolution of protostellar clouds . Chemical evolution of galaxies . ... Soon after my birth I was moved (I was not able to move on my own in those times, you know) in Novouljanovsk, small town to the south of Uljanovsk. ... Since that time my life and work is bound to the Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences. ... Back to the INASAN home page . ...

Rastorguev А.S. "Astronomical Distances" (Lecture course for postgraduates, 2009-2016) . Part 1. ... Trigonometric parallaxes of stars. Moving clusters distances. ... Photometric distances: general approach. Normal stars as "standard candles". ... Main Sequence fitting or distance scale of star clusters. ... Moving photospheres technique. Cepheid distance scale and P-L relations. RR Lyrae distance scale. ... Globular clusters luminosity function. ...

... Confirmation that a mysterious cloud of hydrogen in the Virgo Cluster is a dark galaxy has been published by a team of astronomers . New evidence from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope in the Netherlands has been used to rule out all but one of the ideas put forward to explain the existence of VIRGOHI 21, an intergalactic gas cloud 50 million light-years from the Earth. ... Only Dark Matter can account for the existence of such a system. ...