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... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Risks Comparable to NEOs . ... The Increasing Rate of Discovery of Asteroids . ... Comet and Asteroid Collision Probabilities . ... Extreme albedo comets and the impact hazard (PDF Format) . ... Asteroid Impact Animations . ... Workshop on Scientific Requirements for Mitigation of Hazardous Comets and Asteroids - 2002 . ... The Spaceguard Survey Report, 1992 (PDF) . Tsunami from Asteroid/Comet Impacts . ...

... Editor's choices for the most educational Astronomy Pictures of the Day about clusters of galaxies: . APOD: 2006 March 21 - The Coma Cluster of Galaxies . ... APOD: 2005 November 22 - A Galactic Collision in Cluster Abell 1185 . ... A prominent example occurs on the left of the above image of the rich cluster of galaxies Abell 1185. ... Recent observations of Abell 1185 have found unusual globular clusters of stars that appear to belong only to the galaxy cluster and not to any individual galaxy. ...

... A Distant Cluster of Galaxies . ... 14.01.1996 . ... Credit: NASA , HST , A. Dressler ( CIW ) Explanation: Every bright object in this 1994 photograph by the Hubble Space Telescope is a galaxy . ... This rich cluster of galaxies , named CL 0939+4713 , is almost half way across the visible universe. ... Publications with keywords: cluster of galaxies . Publications with words: cluster of galaxies . ... Illusion and Evolution in Galaxy Cluster Abell 2667 . ... Abell 2218: A Galaxy Cluster Lens . ...

... Star Birth Nebulae . ... The formation of the objects we can see in space, including stars, nebulae , and the objects that are actually collections of other objects (e.g., star clusters and galaxies ), started with these raw materials. Gas makes up roughly 99% of the raw material found in space. ... Dust in space is typically found in the same clouds among the stars where gas is found. ... A galaxy is a collection of many millions or billions of stars, nebulae, and other cosmic objects. ...

... Bringing news from across the Universe to children all around the world . ... It contains billions of awesome objects including planets, dust clouds, galaxies and star clusters like the one in this photograph. ... Charles Messier s life dream was to become famous. To do this, he needed to discover a comet. ... So he decided to save himself some time and each time he found an object that didn t move across the sky (as comets do), he noted it down. ...

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Target names are used to provide unique designations for the targets that will be used throughout the proposal. These names will generally also be used in Phase II, and ultimately to designate targets in the HST data archive. ... This facility will be most useful if consistent naming conventions are used. ... If a target is not contained in these catalogs, other catalog designations may be used (e.g., 4U X-ray catalog designation, Villanova white-dwarf catalog number, etc.) ... Target Type . ...

... Our Galaxy . ... Space Flight . ... No Comments Dim and isolated, the dwarf irregular galaxy WolfтАУLundmarkтАУMelotte (WLM) could be described as an astronomical тАЬliving fossilтАЭ as it seems to have developed since it formed billions of years ago [ ] . Continue Reading.. ... Posted on November 24, 2011 | ... 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. ...

... December 13, 1997 . The Coma Cluster of Galaxies . ... The Coma Cluster of Galaxies pictured is one of the densest clusters known - it contains thousands of galaxies . Each of these galaxies house billions of stars - just as our own Milky Way Galaxy does. ... In fact, the Coma Cluster is so big it takes light millions of years just to go from one side to the other! Most galaxies in Coma and other clusters are ellipticals , while most galaxies outside of clusters are spirals . ...

... Next: Unsupervised Catalog Classification Up: Object Detection and Previous: Classification of Objects . ... Multi-resolution allows for image analysis in terms of different scales. ... This approach is used for the detection (and subsequent analysis) of globular cluster systems around elliptical galaxies, and for image characterization and object trawling in large image databases. ... The applicability of this approach to object detection in large image collections has been investigated. ...

IFP gallery SCORPIO (since 2000). Here some data observed on the 6m telescope with IFP installed in the SCORPIO focal reducer are presented. ... Velocity field . Mkn 1157 was observed 1 Sep. 2002 in the Ha emission line. Texp =32x240 sec, seeing 1.5", IFP260. ... This galaxy was observed September, 23 2000 in the Ha emission line, Texp=32x120 sec, seeing 2.5", IFP260. ... PV Cep was observed at the 6m telescope in May, 25 2003 in the [SII] 6716A with IFP501, Texp=36x200 sec, seeing 1.0". ...

... We have made observations of the Perseus cluster with the Westerbork Telescope at 610 MHz. ... Several newly detected sources are identified with cluster galaxies. ... No evidence is found for the existence of the previously reported ~ 65'x25' cluster halo, 3C 84B. Key words: radio galaxies - clusters - tailed radio sources buoyancy The Perseus Cluster of galaxies is one of the most fascinating systems accessible to extragalactic astronomers. ...

... Courtesy of NASA/ESA Observation data (J2000 epoch) Constellation Right ascension Declination Redshift Distance Type Serpens Caput 15h 17m 14.4s[] +21° 35 08[] 12,740±50 km/s[][1] 600±30 Mly (183±8 Mpc)[1] SA0(r) [citation needed ] [a] Apparent dimensions (V) 0.28 в 0.28[] Apparent magnitude (V) 16.0[] Notable features Ring galaxy Other designations PGC 54559,[] PRC D-51[] See also: Galaxy, List of galaxies Hoag's Object is a non-typical galaxy of the type known as a ring galaxy. ...

... ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ... We now know that globular clusters formed at high redshift and that they survived violent merging events and galaxy metamorphoses with time, preserving the chemo-dynamical record of their parent galaxies. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... Globular cluster NGC 2808, elliptical galaxy NGC 2986, and the Sextans Dwarf . ... The 109 objects in a March globular cluster marathon . ... In the March 2014 issue of Astronomy, I challenged readers with the question, How many globular clusters can you see in might night? Taking the Messier marathon as inspiration, I made a list of 109 globular clusters to track down in a single night in March. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

... 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. ...

... 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! ...

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 . ...

... 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. ...