An Ancient Universe: How Astronomers Know the Vast Scale of Cosmic Time . THE CHANGING UNIVERSE: EVOLUTION HAPPENS! . c) Changes in the Universe . ... In a universe that is not evolving, we should see as many of these hyper-active galaxy cores in each period of cosmic history. ... An Ancient Universe - Table of Contents . ... 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 | ...

... A Baby Galaxy . ... 24.03.1998 . ... Keck 10-m Telescope Explanation: What's the farthest galaxy known? The answer keeps changing as astronomers compete to find new galaxies which top the list. ... Detected light left this galaxy billions of years ago , well before the Earth formed, when the universe was younger than 1/10th of its present age. ... Young galaxies are of much interest to astronomers because many unanswered questions exist on when and how galaxies formed in the early universe . ...

... 2004 March 17 . Redshift 10: Evidence for a New Farthest Galaxy . ... Explanation: What's the farthest galaxy known? The answer keeps changing as astronomers compete to find galaxies that top the list. ... Astronomers have estimated a redshift of 10 for this galaxy, the first double-digit claim for any galaxy. Young galaxies are of much interest to astronomers because many unanswered questions exist on when and how galaxies formed in the early universe. ... About APOD | ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Cosmic Adventures . ... Exploring the cosmic microwave background . ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

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... 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? . ...

Next: The stage and Up: The ESO Red Sky Previous: Artefacts . Fig. 3 shows the distribution of stars. The most striking feature is the rapid steepening of the density gradient towards the Milky Way region at the right and left hand edges of the total field, apparent from the dramatic change in colour in this false colour presentation. Noticable changes in star density across even short distances are indicated by colour changes within individual plates. ... Fig. ...

... According to the big bang theory, huge amounts of energy were released, giving rise to matter, antimatter and dark matter. ... The Big Bang Theory has enabled scientists to make certain predictions. ... These particles are the building blocks of matter, antimatter and dark matter. ... This could theoretically happen if the hydrogen was shockheated to over 100000 C. The Big Bang Theory is only a theory and so there is no concrete evidence to suggest that it is entirely correct. ...

S P E C I A L R E P OR T F F 62 ROM SLOWDOWN to SPEEDUP By Adam G. Riess and Michael S. Turner Distant supernovae are revealing the crucial time when the expansion of the universe changed from deceler ating to acceler ating tion. ... Gravity keeps us grounded. ... Although Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for gravity to push as well as pull, most physicists regarded this as a purely theoretical possibility, irrelevant to the universe today. ...

... May 3, 1997 . Giant Cluster Bends, Breaks Galaxy Images . ... Explanation : What are those strange blue objects? Many are images of a single, unusual, beaded, blue, ring-like galaxy which just happens to line-up behind a giant cluster of galaxies. ... The distinctive shape of this background galaxy -- which is probably just forming -- has allowed astronomers to deduce that it has separate images at 4, 8, 9 and 10 o'clock, from the center of the cluster. ... About APOD > . ...

... Archives . ... Quote] Model Skeptics . ... From IMS Bulletin Vol. 36(7) p.10, TerenceтАЩs Stuff: Changing my mind (again) . Over the years IтАЩve had many strong likes and dislikes for the various parts our subject. ... IтАЩve been in love with sufficiency and hated cluster analysis. I thought the theory of games was elegant, while that of linear models lacked style. ... Brownian theory was hot, sampling theory was not. ... Comment ( RSS ) | ... Entries RSS . ... Chandra Blog . ML Theory . ...

This animation shows a galaxy cluster with two mass concentrations (the pink shading indicates the projected mass density) lensing a background field of faint blue galaxies. ... Inside the Einstein ring radius one has radial arcs, and right in the center of the cluster there are demagnified images. The highest magnifications occur at the Einstein ring radius, giving the large tangential arcs. ... Abell 2218 and CL2244-02 are clusters with tangential arcs. ... Tutorial : Part 1 | Part 2 | ...

... Observational Zoo of Binaries with Compact Stars . Evolutionary Scenarios of Binary Systems . ... Evolution of Magnetic Rotators . ... Mixing types of E-P-A binary systems with non-zero orbital . ... Binary Pulsar Diversity and High Neutron Star Birth Velocity . ... Ejectors in Massive Binary Systems . ... Other Candidates for Ejecting Stars in Binary Systems . ... Cosmic Rays and Evolution of Binary . ... Sky in Gravitational Waves . ... Gravitational Waves from Coalescing Compact Binary Stars . ...

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ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . News | ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Astrophysics graduate student programs . ... Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . ... Supermassive black holes at the hearts of large galaxies merge when their host galaxies do, say Professor David Merritt of Rutgers University, New Jersey, and Professor Ron Ekers of CSIRO's Australia Telescope National Facility in Sydney, Australia. ...

... Two new LBV stars have been discovered in the Andromeda Galaxy. ... In Figure 1 the spectral energy distributions for six stars are shown: upper row - the newly discovered LBV stars, middle row - two well-known LBV stars Var A-1 and AE And, the lower row - two new B[e]-supergiant stars in Andromeda. ... Infrared spectra of the stars in the Andromeda Galaxy: two classical LBVs Var A-1 and AE And, two new LBVs J004526.62 and J004051.59, and two new B[e]-supergiants J004417.10 and J004444.52. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... I think I will break from my usual format of Bad Astronomy/ Good Astronomy by saying that the way we define seasons currently is not strictly bad, but I feel (in my opinion!) that it could be better. The definition of when the seasons begin is at the moment of solstice or equinox; that is, winter (in the north) starts on December 22 nd and summer starts on June 22 nd . ... Now imagine breaking up the Sun's 46 degree up-and-down yearly swing into 1 day intervals. ...

... Confirm Dark Galaxy Existence . ... New evidence from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope in the Netherlands has been used to rule out all but one of the ideas put forward to explain the existence of VIRGOHI 21, an intergalactic gas cloud 50 million light-years from the Earth. ... Are there more such dark galaxies out there? ... Credit: R. Minchin / Arecibo Observatory / Cardiff University / Isaac Newton Telescope / Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope . ...

Where did Edwin Hubble get his famous tuning fork from? Every astronomer studying galaxies uses Hubble types Sa, Sb, Sc; does anyone know the actual source of the Hubble classification bins ? ... Who secured almost all the spectra in Hubble s law v=Hr? Following years of collaboration and detective work together with KC Freeman, the strategy of Edwin Hubble is exposed and unmasked to the astronomical community. The seminar details conversations held with the late Dr Allan Sandage. ...

... Primordial theory review : Dick Bond . Defects and the CMB review : Andy Albrecht . ... Gravitational wave contribution to CMB anisotropies : V.B. Lukash and E.V. Mikheeva . C_l from cosmic strings : Lloyd Knox . Some aspects of CMB anisotropies induced from topological defects : Mairi Sakellariadou . ... CMB anisotropies from scaling sources : Ruth Durrer . ... SZ observations I : Sarah Church . ... Holes in the microwave sky? ... Detecting cosmic strings in the CMB : James Robinson . ...