... Stars . ... Straight away the three stars in his belt will grab your attention, followed by the glittering white star Rigel in his left foot and the bright orangish star Betelgeuse in his right shoulder (assuming Orion is standing facing us and not with his back to us). ... Orion Belt?s with the stars Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka. ... In short, Orion was a big, loud giant of a man and indeed a mighty hunter, he also inherited some aquatic superpowers from his father who was the sea god Neptune. ...

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. ...

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... Infrared observations of RCBs show that, even at maximum light, there are copious amounts of dust surrounding the star ([ Kilkenny & Whittet 1984 ], [ Walker 1985 ]). A very interesting result is that during a decline, when the V-band brightness is plummeting, the infrared L-band brightness shows no significant change and continues to show pulsational variations [ Feast et al. ... Therefore the obscuring dust can only cover a fraction of the stellar surface. ...

... We present the ROSAT All-Sky Survey Bright Source Catalogue (RASS-BSC, revision 1RXS) derived from the all-sky survey performed during the first half year of the ROSAT mission in 1990/91. 18,811 sources are catalogued, with a limiting ROSAT PSPC countrate of 0.05 cts/s in the 0.1-2.4 keV energy band. ... Broad band images are available for a subset of the flagged sources. ... Retrieving the full catalogue The ROSAT All-Sky Survey Bright Source Catalogue can be retrieved via your WWW browser: 1. ...

Why is QSO 1229+204 so Bright? ... Credit Copyright: J. Hutchings ( DAO ), NASA Explanation: What causes the center of this barred spiral galaxy to light up brighter than almost anything in the universe? ... Not only was QSO 1229+204 at the core of an unusual barred spiral galaxy, but this galaxy was in the process of colliding with a dwarf galaxy . Gas from this collision quite possibly fuels a supermassive black hole causing QSO 1229+204 to shine so brightly. ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...

ATNF Annual Report 2000 (submitted) . ... One of the first products is the HIPASS {\it Bright Galaxy Catalogue}, which is a catalogue of the 1000 apparently brightest HI galaxies in the southern hemisphere. ... In Figure 1 we show the spatial distribution of the brightest HIPASS galaxies. ... Figure 4 shows the velocity distribution of the 1000 brightest HIPASS galaxies (orange) compared to the 1000 brightest optical galaxies (selected from the Lyon/Meudon Extragalactic Database using blue magnitude). ...

The preliminary ALFA pulsar surveys started on August 1st, 2004. In the first day of observations, a new 67.8-ms pulsar, PSR J1928+1746, was discovered: this was the first new pulsar found with ALFA. ... Strangely, the pulsar could not be detected in a 430-MHz observation. This pulsar's apparently unusual spectrum might not be so unusual: 1400-MHz surveys are biased towards finding this kind of object, but the pulsars found in these surveys were not consistently observed at higher frequencies. ...

... Larry D. Bradley . ... I primarily use the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes to find and study high-redshift Lyman-break galaxies , including those gravitationally lensed by massive galaxy clusters . ... My Ph.D. dissertation focused on Hubble Space Telescope (HST) / Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) observations of the kinematics and ionization structure in the narrow-line region (NLR) of Seyfert galaxies. ... NASA/ESA HST : Hubble Finds Strong Contender for Galaxy Distance Record . ...

... August 24, 1996 . Why is QSO 1229+204 so Bright? Credit: J. Hutchings ( DAO ), NASA . Explanation: What causes the center of this barred spiral galaxy to light up brighter than almost anything in the universe? ... Not only was QSO 1229+204 at the core of an unusual barred spiral galaxy , but this galaxy was in the process of colliding with a dwarf galaxy . Gas from this collision quite possibly fuels a supermassive black hole causing QSO 1229+204 to shine so brightly. ... About APOD | ...

The night sky brightness, together with number of clear nights, seeing, transparency, photometric stability and humidity, are some of the most important parameters that qualify a site for front-line ground--based astronomy. ... Night sky at ESO-Paranal (Chile). ... Night sky brightness data . ... UBVRI night sky brightness at ESO-Paranal during sunspot maximum (A 2003, PDF) . ... The Dancing Sky: six years of night sky observations at Cerro Paranal (Starlight 2007 conference proceedings, PDF) . ...