... Credit Copyright: Andrea Tamanti Explanation: This bright, beautiful spiral galaxy is Messier 64 , sometimes known as the Black Eye Galaxy. ... Observations show that M64 is actually composed of two concentric, counter-rotating systems of stars, one in the inner 3,000 light-years and another extending to about 40,000 light-years and rotating in the opposite direction. ... Publications with keywords: M 64 - spiral galaxy . ... Nearby Spiral Galaxy NGC 4945 . NGC 1309: Spiral Galaxy and Friends . ...

... 2007 August 2 . M64: The Black Eye Galaxy . ... Explanation: This bright, beautiful spiral galaxy is Messier 64 , sometimes known as the Black Eye Galaxy. ... Observations show that M64 is actually composed of two concentric, counter-rotating systems of stars, one in the inner 3,000 light-years and another extending to about 40,000 light-years and rotating in the opposite direction. The dusty black eye and bizarre rotation is likely the result of a merger of two different galaxies. ...

Next: Elliptical Galaxies. ... NGC 4258 is a nearby ( D = 6.4 Mpc) active spiral galaxy with high luminosity H 2 O maser emission. ... This provides the most compelling evidence so far for a black hole in the centre of a galaxy. ... As NGC 4258, the galaxies NGC 3079, NGC 1068, NGC 4945, and Circinus each host an H 2 0 megamaser (apparent isotropic luminosity > 10 L ). ... Weaker H 2 0 masers are also known in NGC 253, M82 and a few other galaxies (see Greenhill et al. 1990, and references therein). ...

... 2000 August 18 . X-Rays From Antennae Galaxies . ... CXC , SAO , NASA . Explanation: A bevy of black holes and neutron stars shine as bright, point-like sources against bubbles of million degree gas in this false-color x-ray image from the orbiting Chandra Observatory . ... The exploding stars litter the scene with bubbles of shocked hot gas and collapsed stellar cores . ... Tomorrow's picture: X-ray Sky . ... About APOD | ... NASA Technical Rep.: ... A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC . ...

... HUBBLE UNCOVERS DUST DISK AROUND A MASSIVE BLACK HOLE . Resembling a gigantic hubcap in space, a 3,700 light-year-diameter dust disk encircles a 300 million solar-mass black hole in the center of the elliptical galaxy NGC 7052. ... Because the jets in NGC 7052 are not perpendicular to the disk, it may indicate that the black hole and the dust disk in NGC 7052 do not have a common origin. ... NGC 7052 is located in the constellation of Vulpecula, 191 million light-years from Earth. ...

Supernovae 2016adj in NGC 5128 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2016adj in NGC 5128 (= Centarus A). ... Discovered by Peter Marples and Greg Bock ( BOSS ) (Australia). ... TNS 2016adj . TNS 2016adj spectra . ... 2016/01/20.000 . ... 2016/01/21.360 . ... 2016/01/22.329 . ... 2016/01/29.277 . ... Prediscovery . ... Prediscovery Color, Wow without inset Black and White version . ... Peter Marples and Greg Bock . ... Peter Marples . ... Back to Bright Supernovae - 2016 . ...

... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... ESO . ... Galaxy Clusters . ... Star Clusters . ... This image from the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESOтАЩs La Silla Observatory in Chile, shows the bright star cluster NGC 6520 and its neighbour, the strangely shaped dark cloud Barnard 86. This cosmic pair is set against millions of glowing stars from the brightest part of the Milky Way тАФ a region so dense with stars that barely any dark sky is seen across the picture. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Bright planets meet at dusk . ... Astronomy magazine subscribers can read the full article for free. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter....

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Our Galaxy . ... Stars . ... September . ... Posted on September 12, 2011 | No Comments September features yet another delightful selection of astronomical treats. ... Continue Reading.. ... 3 Comments The astronomy community is excited by the discovery of an exploding star, a supernova, in a galaxy 21 million light years away in the constellation Ursa Major. ... Posted on August 19, 2011 | ... Posted on July 8, 2011 | ... Posted on June 10, 2011 | ...

... Centaurus A : 15,000,000 light years away, in the constellation Centaurus, the closest AG to Earth . ... Astronomers think that the reason for the unusual shape of this galaxy is because hundreds of millions of years ago two galaxies, one dusty spiral and one bright ellipictal, collided causing a massive black hole in the middle and bright emmision of light. ... Andromeda galaxy: 2.8 million light years away, closest spiral galaxy to earth, farthest object one can see without a telescope. ...

home publications > mercury . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... ASP Conference Series . Monograph Publications . IAU Publications . ... Publications of the ASP (PASP) . ... Mercury Magazine . ... Order Mercury Issues . ... The Universe in the Classroom . ... Mercury Magazine Contents . ... July/August 1997 . ... The Cosmic Laser Light Show, Sean W.J. Colgan . ... A few more slip-ups like that, and astronomers may finally catch up with these fleet-footed felons. ...

... This page contains pictures and text to accompany the press release entitled "some black holes are pink", which was presented as part of the Fresh Science event, ScienceNow! ... I first show colour pictures of the pink black holes (and of some blue and yellow ones for comparison. ... If you are having this trouble, I've included pictures below with stretched colour maps, to emphasise the colours: these should print better. (jpeg image, 29kb) . ... Quasar (black hole) PKS 1133-172. ...

... Coalsack Dark Nebula или Black Magellanic Cloud - темная туманность Угольный мешок (Caldwell 99) в созвездии южного полушария Крест / Южный Крест (Crux, Southern Cross, Crucis, Cru) .. ... Туманность Угольный мешок (Coalsack Dark Nebula, Black Magellanic Cloud) в созвездии южного полушария Крест / Южный Крест (Crux, Southern Cross, Crucis, Cru) .. ... Поиск направления на Южный Полюс через звезды созвездия Крест / Южный Крест (Crux, Southern Cross) .: NGC 4609 Coaldust Cluster Coal Sack Crux .. ...

Our publications in 2002 year Kniazev, A. Y.; Grebel, E. K.; Pustilnik, S. A.; Pramskij, A. G. American Astronomical Society, 201st AAS Meeting, #52.23; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 34, p.1195 (12/2002) . ... N.; Pustilnik, S. A.; Kniazev, A. Y.; Elmegreen, B. G.; Larsen, S. S.; Alfaro, E. J.; Hodge, P. W.; Pramsky, A. G.; Richtler, T. Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.389, p.855-870 (07/2002) . ... 253-253 (02/2002) . ... 24P (01/2002) . ...

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... Astronomy news . ... NASA's Spitzer Images Out-of-This-World Galaxy . ... It is spiral-shaped like our Milky Way, with long, spindly arms of stars. The "eye" at the center of the galaxy is actually a monstrous black hole surrounded by a ring of stars. In this color-coded infrared view from Spitzer, the area around the invisible black hole is blue and the ring of stars, white. ... The ring around the black hole is bursting with new star formation. ...

... 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. ...

... Animation of the neutral hydrogen data cube from Westerbork. ... VIRGOHI 21 was a dark galaxy candidate discovered in 2005 it was found to contain no starlight down to a very low surface-brightness level, yet its velocity structure implied that it had a mass of 10 10 10 11 solar masses. ... VIRGOHI 21 was first observed in the 21-cm line of neutral hydrogen with the Lovell telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory and the detection was confirmed using the Arecibo telescope ( Davies et al. ...

... NGC 1530 is one of the largest barred spiral galaxies in the northern sky, with bright CO emission. ... To trace molecular gas, we observed the line, with the IRAM Interferometer. ... Properties of NGC 1530 and observational results . ... Then in a frame rotating with the potential, the periodic orbits are ellipses either parallel to the bar ( ) or perpendicular ( ), depending on the radius of the orbit. ... We observed the molecular gas in the bar of NGC 1530, a barred SBb spiral in the line. ...

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. ...