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Images of interacting galaxy pairs
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UA Astronomy's Collection of Galaxy Pair/Interacting Galaxies Images UA Astronomy's Collection of Galaxy Pair/Interacting Galaxies Images Galaxy Pair/Interacting Galaxies Picture Gallery Mergers NGC 450 NGC 1738 NGC 3314 NGC 4038 NGC 5996 NGC 6240 NGC 7174 AM0500-620 UGC 2942 AM1311-455 NGC 3991/4/5 MCG 3-25-19 IC 4584/5 NGC 5761...site exerpt
SEDS Messier database, Indexes Click on the image for accessing each Messier object directly Index of Messier Objects with image icons or in text mode Messier Object Datafile with image icons or in text mode Messier Objects by Type, Right Ascension, Declination, or visual...Project at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab to search for supernovas in very remote galaxies. This provides an accurate means of measuring the distances to remote galaxies and thereby determining the age of the universe.
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Supernova Cosmology Project Accepted for publication in AJ. Also available at astro-ph/0509041 Spectroscopic Observations and Analysis of the Unusual Type Ia SN 1999ac G. Garvini, et al Accepted for publication in AJ. Also available at astro-ph/0507288 Restframe I-band Hubble Diagram for Type Ia...Purpose is to understand the creation of galaxies and the universe has evolved. Plans to study distant galaxies at optical, infrared, and radio frequencies.
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European Network: The Formation and Evolution of Galaxies It has recently become possible to identify galaxies so distant that they are seen when only a fraction as old as nearby systems. The evolution of the Universe can be studied directly through observation of such galaxies, and this has...from the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alabama.
http://crux.astr.ua.edu/pairstext.html
List of resources dedicaced to extragalactic astronomy: Databases, projects, education ...
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Extragalactic bookmark Groups or teams active in Extragalactic astronomy Projects Survey homepages Personal homepages Abstract and Preprint services Other lists of astronomical sites Educational Astronomy Astronomy Teaching in France Extragalactic databases Hypercat Our database The SIMBAD database (in Strasbourg) WWW interface in...HST and ISO Results.
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Dust in Spiral Galaxies There has been considerable controversy about the dust content of spiral galaxies, with some new results casting doubt on the traditional assumption that its effects on emerging light are relatively minor. Trying to avoid some of the pitfalls of modelling...NASA Windows to the Universe. Includes illustrations and introductory information about a variety of galaxies.
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Galaxies Our site has moved to a new address (www.windows.ucar.edu so please update your bookmarks! Galaxies The Hubble tuning fork diagram shows the many types of galaxies and their classifications Click on image for full size (29K JPEG) The introduction of...Research group primarily interested in high energy activities in galaxies, particularly the interplay between massive stars and the interstellar medium.
http://www.astro.umass.edu/ast_page/xray/heag.html
Explains gravitational lensing by clusters. Includes pictures of MS1054.
http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/~pjm43/
A review article for non-specialists.
http://arxiv.org/html/astro-ph/9908269/homepage.html
Many selected links to websites dedicated to galaxies.
http://www.galacticsurf.com/galaxieGB.htm
Gives mathematical measurements relating this galaxy that orbits the Milky Way. Includes history about first known discoveries and links to photo galleries.
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The Small Magellanic Cloud, SMC Like its larger apparent neighbor, the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Small Magellanic Cloud was certainly known to the ancient southerners, and was probably mentioned by Amerigo Vespucci in a letter written during his third voyage about 1503-4, but became known...Contains over 600 pictures of all spiral galaxies larger than 3 minutes of arc for all constellations in the Northern and Southern celestial hemispheres.
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Pictures of Spiral Galaxies Spiral Galaxies Background Please read Galaxies by Constellation Galaxies by R.A. Image Credits Copyright 2004 All Rights Reserved Worldwide http www.Spiral-Galaxies.com...Determining the distances to nearby galaxies.
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DIRECT Project Homepage Determining the distances to nearby galaxies The two nearby galaxies M31 and M33, are stepping stones to most of our current effort to understand the evolving universe at large scales. They are essential to the calibration of the extragalactic distance...Data, observation notes, and more about globular clusters within the galaxy.
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Globular Clusters in the Andromeda Galaxy With a special opportunity to observe faint deep sky objects in August at the San Francisco State field campus at the Sierra Buttes (2200m elevation I found myself spending several hours exploring one of the most familiar objects in the...Includes a catalog of globular clusters, photos, and brief description.
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M31 the Andromeda Galaxy D at the prime focus of the 4-meter Mayall telescope of Kitt Peak National Observatory. North is at the top and east to the left, for direct comparison with a chart or eyepiece view. The image has been block-averaged to...Spiral galaxies with short descriptions and photos.
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Spiral Galaxies Galaxies come in a variety of shapes, with the shapes depending in a way not yet completely understood on the evolution of the galaxies. More than half of all observed galaxies are spiral galaxies. Examples of Spiral Galaxies The figure...Some useful information about kinds of galaxies, content of galaxies, clusters of galaxies, galaxies and cosmology.
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Galaxies are the lighthouses that plumb the Universe constituents of the largest-scale texture we know. They span a vast range of properties, from dwarf galaxies with a few million stars barely outshining the brightest individual star clusters in our own...Information about the Andromeda Galaxy with descriptions and pictures.
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Andromeda Galaxy Andromeda is the largest member of the Local Group of galaxies, which includes the Milky Way and its satellite galaxies. Andromeda's own satellites include M32, at center left, and M110, at lower right (more from APOD A Large Spiral Galaxy...Astronomy Photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble, NASA, ESO, Chandra, Gemini and Apollo mission archives. Images of space, earth, planets, stars, galaxies, nebula.
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Galaxies If you see anything you like in the catalogs above, tell us, and we can usually print and frame the image to your specifications.M104 Spitzer Sombrero GalaxyNew Spitzer ImageHubble New M51 WhirlpoolNew Hubble ImageInteracting GalaxiesNGC 1531Cauldron of StarbirthCentaurus ABeautiful Barred...List of galaxies with photos.
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Galaxies Galaxies 22 November 2000 Click here to start Table of Contents Galaxies M31 Andromeda Galaxy M31 Andromeda Galaxy Spiral Galaxies M33 Triangulum Galaxy M51 Whirlpool Galaxy M63 Sunflower Galaxy M63 Sunflower Galaxy M100 M100 close up M100 M101 Pinwheel Galaxy...This site is about Spiral, Elliptical, Irregular Galaxies with their important characteristiŃs.
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Lecture 28: Types of Galaxies All bright galaxies fall into one of three broad classes according to their shape: Spiral Galaxies 75 Elliptical Galaxies (20 Irregular Galaxies (5 Basic classification system developed by Hubble (1926 1936 Type E: Ellipticals Show little internal structure: Elliptical in...Some useful information about the formation of galaxies.
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Faulkes Telescope Educational Guide Galaxies A galaxy is a giant group of stars. Our Sun is one of billions of stars in a galaxy called the Milky Way, and the Milky Way is only one of billions of galaxies in the Universe. Galaxies are not...An article about the Galaxy classification.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_classification
Galaxies with their descriptions.
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Galaxies Click the icon to view galaxies of the Messier catalog Links; References; Galaxy Clusters The icon shows M51, the Whirlpool Galaxy. Galaxies are large systems of stars and interstellar matter, typically containing several million to some trillion stars, of masses...Summarizes the catalog of 338 peculiar galaxy views gathered by Dr. Halton C. Arp.
http://members.aol.com/arpgalaxy/index.html
This site contains a collection of digital images of 113 nearby galaxies.
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The Galaxy Catalog Zsolt Frei Catalog is a collection of digital images of 113 nearby galaxies. Images taken in several passbands and a color-composite image are included for each galaxy. Copyright 169 1999 by Princeton University Press. Created by Zsolt Frei and James E. Gunn....Contains information and tables about the Andromeda Galaxy.
http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/l...ROMEDA_Atlas/Hodge_contents.html
Large list of galaxies with detailed descriptions.
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eSky: Galaxies Index Galaxies Index Andromeda Galaxy Black Eye Galaxy Galaxy, The Great Nebula in Andromeda Large Magellanic Cloud LMC M31 M32 M33 M51 M59 M63 M64 M82 M84 M85 M89 M104 M106 M110 Milky Way NGC 1 NGC 205 NGC 224 NGC...Contains information about the growth of various galaxies. Also includes images, news, and a glossary.
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Galaxy Evolution Explorer ...Contains a set of notes by Nick Strobel. Topics include the structure of the Milky Way, the characteristics of other galaxies, and finding distances to other galaxies.
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Galaxies Most of these notes will be in outline form to aid in distinguishing various concepts. As a way to condense the text a bit, I'll often use phrases instead of complete sentences. Vocabulary terms are italicized. A photo gallery of...Explains gravitational lensing by clusters. Includes pictures of MS1054.
http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~pjm/