... 2015 June 18 . M64: The Black Eye Galaxy . ... Explanation: This big, bright, beautiful spiral galaxy is Messier 64 , often called the Black Eye Galaxy or the Sleeping Beauty Galaxy for its heavy-lidded appearance in telescopic views. ... The enormous dust clouds obscuring the near-side of M64's central region are laced with the telltale reddish glow of hydrogen associated with star forming regions. ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply . ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 17.06.2015 . ... Credit Copyright: Michael Miller , Jimmy Walker Explanation: This big, bright, beautiful spiral galaxy is Messier 64 , often called the Black Eye Galaxy or the Sleeping Beauty Galaxy for its heavy-lidded appearance in telescopic views. ... Publications with keywords: spiral galaxy . Publications with words: spiral galaxy . ... Sculptor Galaxy NGC 134 . NGC 3310: A Starburst Spiral Galaxy . ... In the Center of Spiral Galaxy NGC 3521 . ...

... STScI-PRC99-34a GETTING TO THE HEART OF A GALAXY This collage of images in visible and infrared light reveals how the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1365 is feeding material into its central region, igniting massive star birth and probably causing its bulge of stars to grow. The material also is fueling a black hole in the galaxy's core. ... In the infrared image at lower right, the Hubble telescope penetrates the dust seen in the WFPC2 picture to reveal more clusters of young stars. ...

. Home . News . Gallery . Events . Twitter . Press Releases . Links . Contact Us . Calendar . Press & Web Coverage . Previous . Next . List . Deirdre Kelleghan kept observing the Sun and she sent us a new wonderful drawing: "Active Region 10999, June 20th 2008 13:45 UT; PST 40/8mmTVP eyepiece/50X upscaled by eye; soft pastels and graphite on black paper". Thank you, Deirdre! . Tuesday, 24 June 2008 01:52 . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . [Back To Top] .

... Feeding the Monster: Gas Caught in its Death Spiral into a Massive Black Hole . ... Stromlo Professor Mike Dopita have used the Hubble Space Telescope to discover how a massive Black Hole in a nearby galaxy feeds itself. ... Earlier Hubble Telescope data obtained by another team member, Professor Holland Ford of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, had found a disk of gas rushing around the Black Hole at a speed of 500 kilometers a second. ...

... Panoramic spectroscopy of galaxies with star-formation regions. a study of SBS 1202 + 583" . Hakopian, S. A.; Balayan, S. K.; Dodonov, S. N.; Moiseev, A. V.; Smirnova, A. A. 2012, Astrophysics, v.55, p.1 . The origin of gas in extended narrow-line regions of nearby Seyfert galaxies - I. NGC 7212" . ... Smirnova, A. A. ; Moiseev, A. V.; Afanasiev, V. L. 2010, MNRAS, v.408, p.400 (astro-ph/1006.5547) . ... Studying of some Seyfert galaxies by means of panoramic spectroscopy." ...

. This image from the Smithsonian's Submillimeter Array maps the projected density of molecular gas in the central 30 light-years of W49A. Brighter colors mark denser regions. The brightest region at the image center is less than three light-years across, yet it contains about 50,000 Suns' worth of molecular gas. Roberto GalvУЕn-Madrid (ESO)/Hauyu Baobab Liu (ASIAA, Taiwan)/Tzu-Cheng Peng (ESO)

... We have mapped the central region of the spiral galaxy NGC 1808 in the 12CO J=1-0, J=2-1, J=3-2 lines and measured 13CO J=1-0, J=2-1, C18O J=1-0, HCN J=1-0 and an upper limit on CS J=2-1 at the central position. ... The line intensity ratios indicate that the central molecular gas of NGC 1808 is in a state of high excitation compared with giant molecular clouds in the disk of the Milky Way. ... A simple estimate of the pressure felt by these clouds leads to further constrains on their properties. ...

I-GALFA View of a Galactic Tangent Region . ... Image featured in NAIC Newsletter #46 . I-GALFA image of hydrogen gas in a tangent region outside the Sagittarius arm. ... Because we are viewing this gas in a direction closely aligned with (tangent to) its orbital motion, it appears to be moving away from us (we are orbiting the Galactic center with a similar speed, but our own motion in a different direction). ... The gas near 60 degrees longitude is being viewed tangent to its orbital motion. ...

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... Sun images . ... Active areas . June : 2015 . ... The following regions with sunspots can be now observed on the Sun's surface . Group number . ... Group length (in degrees) . ... Beta-Gamma . ... Beta . ... Coordinates and other characteristics of active regions are issued for June 09, 2015 00:31 UT The following H-alpha plages without spots can be currently observed on the Sun's surface . ... Coordinates and other characteristics of active regions are issued for June 09, 2015 00:31 UT . ...

PLAINTEXT> Elliptical Galaxy NGC 4261 STSCI PR-92-27B Wide Field/Planetary Camera HST Image of NGC 4261: A giant disk of cold gas and dust fuels a possible black hole at the core of the galaxy. Estimated to be 300 light-years across, the disk is tipped enough (about 60 degrees) to provide astronomers with a clear view of the bright hub, which presumably harbors the black hole. ... Hot gas rushes from the vicinity of the black hole's creating the radio jets. ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Activities > PhD Thesis Topics offered by ESO Faculty Members > Thesis Topic: Probing the central regions of galaxies . ... Observing Facilities . ... Data Handling and Products . ... Science Data Products Forum . ... Science Archive Facility . ... ESO Data . ... The advent of near IR spectroscopy in conjunction with adaptive optics on large telescopes allows to observe the central regions of galaxies at unprecedented spatial resolutions. ...

Find Similar Abstracts . ... The 'black' regions of the Universe . ... The significance of regions devoid of galaxies (black regions) for the bunching and fragmentation theories of the evolution of the Universe is discussed. ... Using the theory, a lower limit on the average density of the gas remaining in the black regions can be set, based on the finding that eight percent of gas elements are expanding in all three dimensions at the first stage of fragmentation. ...

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... 1994: . Deep CCD images of the bright gamma-ray bursts GRB790418 and GRB790613 localization regions were obtained for the first time. In both cases, a faint blue star-like object (V = 24.5 m , BV m ) was detected within the region of localization of gamma-ray bursts. ... Based on sixty daily instantaneous spectra of the object SS433, obtained on the RATAN-600 in April-May 1994, we traced its variability in four very powerful flares at five frequencies. ... Archive . ...

... Sea Surface Temperature, restored from NOAA satellite data . You may use Java applet to view temperature maps in more detail. Using the applet, you can build "accumulated" temperature maps from selected data, get temperature values in any point and save the resulting image to your local disk. Date and time of the data . ... 14:25 (GMT) . 3.04.2016 . ... For information send a mail to: info@sputnik.infospace.ru . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Colin Johnston . ... Milky Way . Stars . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... June . ... This red supergiant is the brightest star in the constellation Scorpius and is of awesome size. ... Returning to Vega (which will be the pole star in about 12 000 years from now), follow an imaginary line between it and Arcturus, this line will cross two more constellations, faint and sprawling Hercules and that celestial smile Corona Borealis. ...

... 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. ...

... The RAS Meteorite Collection: State on the 1 st of June, 1999 . ... About the laboratory . ... Chondrite . ... Fall 15 April 1857. One mass of about 3 kg . ... Turkmenia, Chardgou region . ... One mass of 71.6 g . ... One mass of 1912 g . ... One mass of 841.6 g . ... Fall 13 September 1937. 15 masses totaling more than 210 kg . ... One mass of 1540 g . ... One mass of 11.335 kg . ... One mass of 2904 g. 2853 g . ... One mass of 115 g . ... One mass of 2788 g . ... One mass of 135 kg . ...