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... 2014 February 24 . The Cloudy Cores of Active Galaxies . Image Credit: NASA's GSFC , W. Steffen ( UNAM ) . Explanation: What would it look like to travel to the center of an active galaxy? Most galactic centers are thought to house black hole s millions of times more massive than our Sun. The spaces surrounding these supermassive black holes may be far from dormant, however, flickering in many colors and earning the entire object class the title of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). ...

... The Cloudy Cores of Active Galaxies . ... Credit Copyright: NASA's GSFC , W. Steffen ( UNAM ) Explanation: What would it look like to travel to the center of an active galaxy? Most galactic centers are thought to house black hole s millions of times more massive than our Sun. ... Publications with keywords: Galactic Center . Publications with words: Galactic Center . ... A Laser Strike at the Galactic Center . ... The Diner at the Center of the Galaxy . Kona Galaxy Garden . ...

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... Luminous blue variable (LBV) stars are the most massive stars with 40-120 solar masses, which are passing the short stage of evolution losing their hydrogen envelopes before exploding as Supernovae. These are extremely rare objects, only about a dozen of the most massive LBVs are known in the Galaxy. ... In the spectral observations of stars with infrared circular nebulae, found in the Spitzer survey (24 microns), a new LBV star in the Galaxy was discovered. It was named MN112. ...

... Furthermore, they are all radio sources and in two cases, Sco X-1 and Cir X-1, the radio emission has been resolved into relativistic jets. Figure 1: X-ray colour-colour diagram for the newly-discovered source XTE J1701-462, displaying the three branches characteristic of a "Z source". ... In January 2006, for the first time, a new, transient, Z source was discovered: XTE J1701-462 was rapidly identified as a member of this exclusive class by its characteristic X-ray timing behaviour (Homan et al. ...

... A tussle in the distant Universe. This Hubble Space Telescope image shows evidence for a merger between a quasar and a companion galaxy. The quasar is the bright object just beneath the image center, and the wisps of material around it are remains of a galaxy disrupted by the interaction between it and the quasar. ... Galactic Nuclei: Old Quasars? Quasars as Probes of the Distant Universe . ... Quasars. ... The name quasar is made up with parts of the words "quasi-stellar radio." ...

... 773Veron-Cetty Veron . Quasars (brighter than absolute magnitude -23) 85221 . ... Active galaxies (fainter than -23) 21737 . VII/248 Quasars and Active Galactic Nuclei (12th Ed.) (Veron+ 2006) ================================================================================ Quasars and Active Galactic Nuclei (12th Ed.) Veron-Cetty M.P., Veron P. =2006A .. ... 374, 92 (Catalogue ) (11) Veron-Cetty M.P., Veron P., 2003, Astron. ...

... 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 . ...

... Science User Portal . ... Galaxies . ... ESOтАЩs VISTA survey telescope has spied a horde of previously hidden massive galaxies that existed when the Universe was in its infancy. By discovering and studying more of these galaxies than ever before, astronomers have for the first time found out exactly when such monster galaxies first appeared. A few of the newly discovered massive galaxies are shown in close-up on these small subsets of the UltraVISTA field. ... Early Universe : Galaxy . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... galaxies . ... Astronomers discover quasars acting as gravitational lenses . Gravitational lensing candidates are invaluable for estimating the mass of a quasarт??s host galaxy. ... Astronomers using NASAт??s Hubble Space Telescope have found several examples of galaxies containing quasars, which act as gravitational lenses, amplifying and distorting images of galaxies aligned behind them. ...

... Astronomers have used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to probe the core of the nearest active galaxy to Earth, Centaurus A. Hubble's Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer was used to peer past the dust to discover a tilted disk of hot gas at the galaxy's center (white bar running diagonally across image center). This 130 light-year diameter disk encircles a suspected black hole which may be one billion times the mass of our Sun. ... Centaurus A (NGC 5128) Fast Facts . ...

... X-ray sources in galaxies: active nuclei, primodal black holes or microquasars . The last findings in observations of point-like X-ray sources in galaxies are reported. ... A new class of objects has been discovered - the Ultraluminous X-ray (ULX) sources, which could be as black holes of intermediate mass (100-1000 suns), being captured by galaxies and spiralling in because of dynamical friction, or microquasars (SS433-like stars), being orientated "face-on". ...

... 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. ...

... 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. ...

As a service to the astronomical community, we are recalibrating all archival Hubble Space Telescope Faint Object Spectrograph UV and optical spectrophotometry of active galaxies and quasars in order to extract uniformly calibrated spectrophotometric data for further detailed scientific investigations. ... NGC 4151 CLOUD F . NGC 5548 . ... NGC 4395 . ... NGC 4486 . ... NGC 4486 JET KNOT-A . ... NGC 4486 CLOUD-A . ... NGC 3031 . ... NGC 1068 . ... NGC 1068 CLOUD A . ... 1413+117A . ... NGC 4151 . ...

... Our Sun is part of a huge wheel-shaped collection of stars. ... Astronomers have long suspected it was a very massive black hole, and that every galaxy had such a central mass, created early in the history of the universe. ... 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. The velocity acquired in falling towards the black hole also helps it escape. ...

An X-ray/radio sample of Active Galactic Nuclei Nuria Fonseca Bonilla Tutor: Stefano Bianchi Matteo Guainazzi An X-ray/radio sample of Active Galactic Nuclei Brief introduction Results Conclusions An X-ray/radio sample of Active Galactic Nuclei 1. ... Classification of AGN radio loud (powerful jets): e.g: radio galaxies, quasars, blazars... radio quiet radio quiet quasars (RQQs) Veron `06: MABS < -23 Seyfert Veron `06: MABS > -23 An X-ray/radio sample of Active Galactic Nuclei 3. ...

... 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. ...

... Milky Way . ... Science Fiction . ... Karl Guthe Jansky (1905-50) was born in Norman, Oklahoma; he was of French, Czech and English descent and grew up in Madison, Wisconsin.б  Jansky was the third of six children and was named after physicist Karl Guthe whom his father Cyril Jansky had worked for earlier in his career.An interest in science and physics was perhaps in KarlБЂ™s genes as Cyril Karl Jansky БЂњRadio Astronomy, I am your fatherБЂќ (Image credit:Wikimedia.org) . ...