... Colorful Star Clouds in Cygnus . ... Featured here is a star forming region rich in glowing gas and dark dust toward the constellation of the Swan (Cygnus), near the bright star Sadr. This region, which spans about 50 light years, is part of the Gamma Cygni nebula which lies about 1,800 light years distant. ... The rim of the blue galaxy pictured on the right is an immense ring-like structure 150,000 light years in diameter composed of newly formed, extremely bright, massive stars. ...

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... 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. ...

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• Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy: Bitesize Tour of the Solar System
• Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy: Mad Science

... The highly obscured cases in our sample are generally the bright, central regions of galaxies with high overall attenuation but are not otherwise remarkable. ... The small fraction of highly obscured regions seen in this sample of normal, star-forming galaxies suggests that on 500 pc scales the timescale for significant dispersal or breakup of nearby, optically thick dust clouds is short relative to the lifetime of a typical star-forming region. ... ADS Citation Query . citations = 66 . ...

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• Young, Ultraviolet-bright Stars Dominate Dust Heating in Star-forming Galaxies
• Gregory F Snyder

The Future of Single Dish Radio Astronomy Robert L. Brown N AI C Robert L. Brown 2005 NAIC/NR AO Astronomy Single Dish Summer School 1 "FUTURE" Year 2001 Vision* 1. ... Astronomy and Astrophysics in the New Millennium, Astronomy and Astrophysics Survey Committee, Board on Robert L. Brown 2005 NAIC/NR AO Astronomy Single Dish Summer School 2 1 "Future" Year 2003 Vision* 1. ... Robert L. Brown "Future" Year 2003 Vision* 7. ... Robert L. Brown A Science-Driven Future of Single Dish Radio Astronomy 4. ...

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• http://www.naic.edu/~astro/School/Talks/brown_future.pdf
• The Search for HVCs in Other Galaxies
• VIRGOHI 21

... Our Galaxy . ... Stars . ... Image credit: ESO, Acknowledgement: VST/Omegacam Local Group Survey) . First observed in 1909, the WLM galaxy is part of the Local Group, about 10 million light years (3.1 Mpc) across, this is the set of more than 35 galaxies which includes our own Milky Way. ... I compared this little galaxy to a living fossil because looking at it gives us an insight into a past era in the UniverseтАЩs history. ... Distances and metallicities for 17 Local Group galaxies? . ...

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• How do galaxies form? - New discovery from European Southern Observatory |
• ESO reveals end of cosmic Dark ages | Astronotes
• NGC4666: Secrets of a Starburst Galaxy | Astronotes

... Stars are born in big clouds of gas and dust in the Universe. ... This amazing new picture shows a small part of a cloud in our own galaxy (called the Milky Way) in which stars are being formed. In the picture you can see bright arc shapes in the cloud, but what created them is a mystery. ... When all of their fuel is gone, these massive stars explode in what is called a supernova explosion the biggest firework display in the Universe! ...

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• The Thousand-Ruby Galaxy | ESO
• Artist's impression of the asteroid Lutetia making a close approach to a planet
• ESO - Thesis Topic: High-Contrast Imaging of Planet-Forming Disks in

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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• Astronomy Plus CCD Images of Galaxies
• The Galaxy Gallery: Messier Objects
• ZEBU: K12 NAVIGATION Page

... According to the most popular cosmological paradigm, the greater part of the galaxy mass is accumulated in the dark matter halo. ... The polar ring galaxies (PRGs) reveal external rings or disks of gas, dust and stars rotating in a plane roughly perpendicular to the disk of the central galaxy. ... The shape of the dark halo in the model was chosen so as to achieve the best fit to the observed rotation of both galaxies themselves and their polar rings. ... The SPRC-7 galaxy. ...

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• Galaxy sector, archive 2000

... 2001 November 3 . Bright Stars, Dim Galaxy . Credit: L. Drissen, J. Roy and C. Robert ( Universite Laval ), Y. Dutil ( CFHT ), NASA . Explanation: These two clusters of bright, newly formed stars surrounded by a glowing nebula lie 10 million light-years away in the dim, irregular galaxy cataloged as NGC 2366. ... A comparison with ground based images indicates that in three years this star's brightness increased by about 40 times making it currently the brightest star in this dim galaxy . ...

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• APOD: October 14, 1996 - Bright Stars, Dim Galaxy
• APOD: 2015 October 17 - Bright Spiral Galaxy M81
• APOD: 2007 May 3 - Small Galaxy NGC 4449

Class 1 Introduction, Background History of Modern Astronomy The Night Sky, Eclipses and the Seasons Kepler's Laws Newtonian Gravity General Relativity Matter and Light Telescopes Class 2 Solar System Characteristics Formation Exosolar Planets Class 3 Stars The Sun Stellar Evolution of Low and High Mass Stars Deaths of Stars Exotic Stars Class 4 Galaxies Galaxy Classification Formation of Galaxies Galactic Evolution ... So far, one planet has been studied by this method. ...

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• http://www.aaa.org/s932/images/09fallclass4.pdf

... Submitted by Al Takeda on 12/24/2012 23:40:10 . Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) . The larger of the 2 Magellanic Clouds, this dwarf galaxy spans an area of 650-minutes x 550-minutes (10-degrees) and is 160,000 light years away on the border of the constellations of Dorado and Mensa. ... The LMC was the host galaxy to supernova 1987A. 7 images x 27-second subframes, Total= 3 minutes 9-seconds. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

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• Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston ATMoB Observing Awards Program

Supernovae are simply stars which explode. ... To understand supernovae, we need to understand stars. ... In this stage our Sun will swell up hundreds of times its current size, swallowing the Earth, and glowing hundreds of times brighter than it is now. ... Stars more than 10 times the mass of our sun have much more exciting lives. ... A Type II supernova to be precise. ... Since 1995 two teams have been discovering these objects: Our team, the High-Z SN Search, and the Supernova Cosmology Project. ...

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• ASTR1002 Assignments 4-6: Planet Ziggy
• CHIAKI's Introduction
• Paul Francis -- Astronomical Constants

An Ancient Universe: How Astronomers Know the Vast Scale of Cosmic Time . ... The Sun is one of hundreds of billions of stars that make up a magnificent grouping of stars we call the Milky Way galaxy. ... The other stars are so far away, however, that even at this speed, light from the next nearest star takes 4.3 years to reach us. ... The Ancient Universe - The Age of the Expanding Universe - The Age of the Oldest Stars - The Age of Light From Distant Galaxies - The Age of the Chemical Elements | ...

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• ASP: Beacons in the Gloom
• ASP: Sharing the Universe
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... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Star Atlas . ... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... The planet has extreme temperature swings and perhaps active lava flows. ... A digital supplement to Astronomy magazine. ... Join TravelQuest International with Astronomy and Discover magazines on one of three great tour options surrounding this celestial spectacle . ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

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• Bright planets meet at dusk | Astronomy.com
• The Hubble Space Telescope found a galaxy that was completely formed within 480
• Making double planets | Astronomy.com

When: Tuesdays at lunch time (12:30 - 13:30). ... Tue, Aug 11: .. ... 070306: "Low Surface Brightness Galaxies" by Ralf-Juergen Dettmar . 140306: "Galactic Chimneys" by Naomi McClure-Griffiths . ... 090506: "Active Galaxies at high redshift" by Ilana Klamer . ... 050606: "Molecular Loops in the Galactic Center: Evidence for magnetic floatation to accelerate molecular gas" by Prof. Fukui . 130606: "Kinematical Studies of Ionized Gas in Nearby Dwarf Galaxies" by Janine van Eymeren . ...

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• The peculiar galaxy NGC 4258: A black hole candidate.
• HIPASS Bright Galaxy Catalog
• Pulsar Group Main/Animations

Next: Stealth Comets Up: W.M. Napier Previous: W.M. Napier Contents . ... If material ejected from the Earth contains microorganisms and spores, the question arises whether life may be carried from planet to planet within the solar system. ... However, the solar system is tiny on the scale of the Galaxy, and it has generally been thought that the transfer of life between stars is impossible -- the microorganisms would be destroyed by cosmic rays, ultraviolet light and so on. ...

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• Armagh Observatory
• Objects in the Sky
• Planetary Systems Research at Armagh

Next: Gravitational Wave Background from Previous: Galactic Gravitational Wave Background . ... It is intuitively clear that at frequencies above the critical ones for our Galaxy, one will detect rare bright jerks produced by coalescing white dwarfs   (at a rate of 1 per 100 year) and NS (at a rate of 1 per - year) in our Galaxy, against a background of the extragalactic stochastic GW. ... Firstly we consider GWB from close individual galaxies, and then will discuss overall extragalactic GWB. ...

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• Binary Radiopulsars with Black Holes
• Frequency distribution of galactic binaries
• Detection rate of binary compact star merging

The divisity of galaxies. The galaxies are the giant (to hundred of billions of stars) star systems, where the stars are connected by gravitation laws with each other. ... Ther galaxy NGC 3031 . ... Each spiral galaxy has a core a flat disk where the spiral brancher locate. The stars and interstellar substance of spiral galaxies rotate around the core. ... In normal galaxies, such as our Galaxy, the great brightness of the core is accounted for the high concentration of stars. ...

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... Dept. for Astrometry & Space Geodynamics . ... Dept. for Physics of Stars&Galaxies . ... Dept. for Physics of Planetary Systems . ... Science . ... All Pages . ... Research of the stars with planets which pass apparent star disk (transiting exoplanets). The transit method based on a detection star brightness decrease during a passing of planet in front of its disk. Observed brightness system decries when planet pass star disk and its volume depend of the relative sizes star and planet. ...

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• Achievements - Page 4
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You Can Make Stellar Images Brighter . Articles | ... A few months ago I wrote an article titled "You Can’t Make Them Brighter". So why am I now writing that you can make them brighter. ... The image of a focused star is actually a small disk called the Airy disk, named after the 19 th century scientist Sir George Airy. ... For a given aperture, a smaller Airy disk means that the light is focused to a smaller disk and is therefore brighter. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ...

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• You Can't Make Stellar Images Brighter - an Astronomy Net Article
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