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HEIC: A Distinctly Disorganised Dwarf Galaxy (UGC 4459)

by bystander » Mon Mar 28, 2016 5:43 pm

A Distinctly Disorganised Dwarf Galaxy (UGC 4459)
ESA Hubble Picture of the Week | 2016 Mar 28
Despite being less famous than their elliptical and spiral galactic cousins, irregular dwarf galaxies, such as the one captured in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, are actually one of the most common types of galaxy in the Universe. Known as UGC 4459, this dwarf galaxy is located approximately 11 million light-years away in the constellation of Ursa Major (The Great Bear), a constellation that is also home to the Pinwheel Galaxy (M101), the Owl Nebula (M97), Messier 81, Messier 82 and several other galaxies all part of the M81 group.

UGC 4459’s diffused and disorganised appearance is characteristic of an irregular dwarf galaxy. Lacking a distinctive structure or shape, irregular dwarf galaxies are often chaotic in appearance, with neither a nuclear bulge — a huge, tightly packed central group of stars — nor any trace of spiral arms — regions of stars extending from the centre of the galaxy. Astronomers suspect that some irregular dwarf galaxies were once spiral or elliptical galaxies, but were later deformed by the gravitational pull of nearby objects.

Rich with young blue stars and older red stars, UGC 4459 has a stellar population of several billion. Though seemingly impressive, this is small when compared to the 200 to 400 billion stars in the Milky Way!

Observations with Hubble have shown that because of their low masses, star formation is very low compared to larger galaxies. Only very little of their original gas has been turned into stars. Thus, these small galaxies are interesting to study to better understand primordial environments and the star formation process.

ESO: Beneath the Milky Way

by bystander » Mon Mar 28, 2016 5:27 pm

Beneath the Milky Way
ESO Picture of the Week | 2016 Mar 28
[img3="Credit: ESO/Luis Calçada/Herbert Zodet"]http://cdn.eso.org/images/screen/potw1613a.jpg[/img3][hr][/hr]
Deep in the Chilean Desert, astronomers staying at ESO’s La Residencia, the VLT Observatory's hotel, witness a skyscape like few others on Earth.

Designed by the German architects Auer+Weber+Assoziierte, La Residencia provides an oasis for those working at ESO’s Paranal Observatory. The Atacama Desert is one of the harshest landscapes imaginable. Extreme dryness, intense ultraviolet radiation from the Sun, and high altitude are a normal part of everyday life. However, come nightfall, La Residencia experiences some of the best observing conditions in the world.

La Residencia and ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) — housed at the Paranal Observatory — are far from sources of light pollution, and experience exceptionally clear atmospheric conditions. On moonless nights, the sky can be so clear and dark that light from the Milky Way casts a shadow on the ground! These factors permit high quality scientific observations to be made as well as offering amazing conditions for astrophotography, exemplified in this stunning shot taken by Luis Calçada, a motion graphic designer at ESO’s headquarters in Garching, Germany.

In this photograph, the plane of the Milky Way can be seen above La Residencia, as passing staff members take a moment to admire the spectacular sight.

comet 252P "inside" the Pipe nebula

by astroligu » Mon Mar 28, 2016 6:49 am

Rolando Ligustri wrote:Interestingly comet, 252P, which near perihelion showed a powerful outburst, increasing its brightness by more than 5 magnitudes, making it visible to the naked eye from the southern skies.Here while "flying over" the Pipe Nebula, this perspective makes it almost 3D the picture.
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/L ... directlink

link for high res, http://www.astrobin.com/243213/

Re: Found images: 2016 March

by starsurfer » Sun Mar 27, 2016 5:18 pm

Pre 3
http://members.pcug.org.au/~stevec/Pre3 ... 3_RC14.htm
Copyright: Steve Crouch
Pre3.jpg
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Re: Found images: 2016 March

by starsurfer » Sun Mar 27, 2016 5:15 pm

LDN 1437-9
http://afesan.es/Deepspace/slides/SNR%2 ... 20END.html
Copyright: Antonio Sánchez
LDN1437.jpg

Re: Found images: 2016 March

by starsurfer » Sun Mar 27, 2016 5:06 pm

WLM
http://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/html/im1278.html
Copyright: Local Group Survey Team and T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage)
WLM.jpg

Re: Found images: 2016 March

by starsurfer » Fri Mar 25, 2016 4:20 pm

NGC 3344
http://www.deeplook.astronomie.at/ngc3344_basis.htm
Copyright: Markus Blauensteiner and Günter Kerschhuber
N3344.jpg

Re: Found images: 2016 March

by starsurfer » Thu Mar 24, 2016 6:37 pm

Re: Found images: 2016 March

by starsurfer » Thu Mar 24, 2016 6:35 pm

Cave Nebula (Sh2-155)
http://www.karelteuwen.be/photo_page.ph ... 2&album=15
Copyright: Karel Teuwen
Cave.jpg
vdB155 is the blue reflection nebula.

Re: Found images: 2016 March

by starsurfer » Tue Mar 22, 2016 6:09 pm

HEIC: A Cosmic Kaleidoscope (MACS J0416)

by bystander » Mon Mar 21, 2016 3:17 pm

A Cosmic Kaleidoscope (MACS J0416)
ESA Hubble Picture of the Week | 2016 Mar 21
[img3="Credit: NASA, ESA, CXC, NRAO/AUI/NSF, STScI, and G. Ogrean (Stanford)
Acknowledgment: NASA, ESA, and J. Lotz (STScI), and the HFF team
"]http://cdn.spacetelescope.org/archives/ ... w1612a.jpg[/img3][hr][/hr]
At first glance, this cosmic kaleidoscope of purple, blue and pink offers a strikingly beautiful — and serene — snapshot of the cosmos. However, this multi-coloured haze actually marks the site of two colliding galaxy clusters, forming a single object known as MACS J0416.1-2403 (or MACS J0416 for short).

MACS J0416 is located about 4.3 billion light-years from Earth, in the constellation of Eridanus. This new image of the cluster combines data from three different telescopes: the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope (showing the galaxies and stars), the NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory (diffuse emission in blue), and the NRAO Jansky Very Large Array (diffuse emission in pink). Each telescope shows a different element of the cluster, allowing astronomers to study MACS J0416 in detail.

As with all galaxy clusters, MACS J0416 contains a significant amount of dark matter, which leaves a detectable imprint in visible light by distorting the images of background galaxies. In this image, this dark matter appears to align well with the blue-hued hot gas, suggesting that the two clusters have not yet collided; if the clusters had already smashed into one another, the dark matter and gas would have separated. MACS J0416 also contains other features — such as a compact core of hot gas — that would likely have been disrupted had a collision already occurred.

Together with five other galaxy clusters, MACS J0416 is playing a leading role in the Hubble Frontier Fields programme, for which this data was obtained. Owing to its huge mass, the cluster is in fact bending the light of background objects, acting as a magnifying lens. Astronomers can use this phenomenon to find galaxies that existed only hundreds of million years after the big bang. ...

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Re: Found images: 2016 March

by starsurfer » Mon Mar 21, 2016 3:04 pm

NGC 6397
http://www.chart32.de/index.php/component/k2/item/187
Copyright: CHART32
Processing: Bernd Flach-Wilken
NGC6397.jpg

Re: Found images: 2016 March

by starsurfer » Mon Mar 21, 2016 2:59 pm

ESO: All Quiet in the Nursery? (LDN 1768)

by bystander » Mon Mar 21, 2016 2:53 pm

All Quiet in the Nursery? (LDN 1768)
ESO Picture of the Week | 2016 Mar 21
[img3="Credit: ESO"]http://cdn.eso.org/images/thumb700x/potw1612a.jpg[/img3][hr][/hr]
The dark patch snaking across this spectacular image of a field of stars in the constellation of Ophiuchus (The Serpent-bearer) is not quite what it appears to be.

Although it looks as if there are no stars here, they are hidden behind this dense cloud of dust that blocks out their light. This particular dark cloud is known as LDN 1768.

Despite their rather dull appearance, dark nebulae like LDN 1768 are of huge interest to astronomers, as it is here that new stars form. Inside these vast stellar nurseries there are protostars — stars at the earliest stage of their lives, still coalescing out of the gas and dust in the cloud.

Protostars are relatively cold and have not yet begun to produce enough energy to emit visible light. Instead, they emit radiation at submillimetre wavelengths, which human eyes cannot see. Luckily, unlike visible light, light at submillimetre wavelengths is not absorbed by the surrounding dust. By using special telescopes that are sensitive to submillimetre radiation, like the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observatory, we can see through the dust and find out more about the protostars within the cloud.

Eventually, the protostars will become dense and hot enough to start the nuclear reactions that will produce visible light and they will start to shine. When this happens, they will blow away the cocoon of dust surrounding them and cause any remaining gas to emit light as well, creating the spectacular light show known as an HII region. ...

Re: Found images: 2016 March

by starsurfer » Sat Mar 19, 2016 9:32 am

RCW 33
http://www.tvdavisastropics.com/astroim ... 000076.htm
Copyright: Thomas Davis
astroimages-1_i0000ca.jpg
The round nebula near the right edge is K2-15, originally catalogued as a planetary nebula but was later found to be an emission nebula.

Re: Found images: 2016 March

by starsurfer » Fri Mar 18, 2016 6:11 pm

Re: Found images: 2016 March

by starsurfer » Thu Mar 17, 2016 6:16 am

Grus Quartet
http://www.glitteringlights.com/Images/ ... nrwG6Qw/X3
Copyright: Marco Lorenzi Some people consider this to be a triplet (excluding NGC 7552 to the left).

Re: HEIC: Disco Lights from a Galaxy Cluster (MACS J0717)

by Ann » Mon Mar 14, 2016 4:10 pm

bystander wrote:Disco Lights from a Galaxy Cluster (MACS J0717)
ESA Hubble Picture of the Week | 2016 Mar 14
[img3="Credit: NASA, ESA, CXC, NRAO/AUI/NSF, STScI, and R. van Weeren (CfA)
Acknowledgment: NASA, ESA, and J. Lotz (STScI), and the HFF team
"]http://cdn.spacetelescope.org/archives/ ... w1611a.jpg[/img3][hr][/hr]
In October of 2013 Hubble kicked off the Frontier Fields programme, a three-year series of observations aiming to produce the deepest ever views of the Universe. The project’s targets comprise six massive galaxy clusters, enormous collections of hundreds or even thousands of galaxies. These structures are the largest gravitationally-bound objects in the cosmos.

One of the Frontier Fields targets is shown in this new image: MACS J0717.5+3745, or MACS J0717 for short. MACS J0717 is located about 5.4 billion light-years away from Earth, in the constellation of Auriga (The Charioteer). It is one of the most complex galaxy clusters known; rather than being a single cluster, it is actually the result of four galaxy clusters colliding.

This image is a combination of observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope (showing the galaxies and stars), the NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory (diffuse emission in blue), and the NRAO Jansky Very Large Array (diffuse emission in pink). The Hubble data were collected as part of the Frontier Fields programme mentioned above.

Together, the three datasets produce a unique new view of MACS J0717. The Hubble data reveal galaxies both within the cluster and far behind it, and the Chandra observations show bright pockets of scorching gas — heated to millions of degrees. The data collected by the Jansky Very Large Array trace the radio emission within the cluster, enormous shock waves — similar to sonic booms — that were triggered by the violent merger.

For more information on Frontier Fields, see Hubblecast 90: The final frontier.

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=35723
That's just incredible.

I guess that the four colliding clusters form the shape that looks like a man sitting down. But there is also a compact source that emits two enormous and incredibly straight jets. Is anything known about that source?

Ann

Re: Found images: 2016 March

by philto » Mon Mar 14, 2016 3:56 pm

Hi all
today good seeing 6-7/10.
204 mm Ha refractor pst modified 1 A + bf-15 + Barlow 1.8x / basler 1920-155 camera
45 images stacked
regards
image Philippe TOSI

March 14 th March 13 th

HEIC: Disco Lights from a Galaxy Cluster (MACS J0717)

by bystander » Mon Mar 14, 2016 3:53 pm

Disco Lights from a Galaxy Cluster (MACS J0717)
ESA Hubble Picture of the Week | 2016 Mar 14
[img3="Credit: NASA, ESA, CXC, NRAO/AUI/NSF, STScI, and R. van Weeren (CfA)
Acknowledgment: NASA, ESA, and J. Lotz (STScI), and the HFF team
"]http://cdn.spacetelescope.org/archives/ ... w1611a.jpg[/img3][hr][/hr]
In October of 2013 Hubble kicked off the Frontier Fields programme, a three-year series of observations aiming to produce the deepest ever views of the Universe. The project’s targets comprise six massive galaxy clusters, enormous collections of hundreds or even thousands of galaxies. These structures are the largest gravitationally-bound objects in the cosmos.

One of the Frontier Fields targets is shown in this new image: MACS J0717.5+3745, or MACS J0717 for short. MACS J0717 is located about 5.4 billion light-years away from Earth, in the constellation of Auriga (The Charioteer). It is one of the most complex galaxy clusters known; rather than being a single cluster, it is actually the result of four galaxy clusters colliding.

This image is a combination of observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope (showing the galaxies and stars), the NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory (diffuse emission in blue), and the NRAO Jansky Very Large Array (diffuse emission in pink). The Hubble data were collected as part of the Frontier Fields programme mentioned above.

Together, the three datasets produce a unique new view of MACS J0717. The Hubble data reveal galaxies both within the cluster and far behind it, and the Chandra observations show bright pockets of scorching gas — heated to millions of degrees. The data collected by the Jansky Very Large Array trace the radio emission within the cluster, enormous shock waves — similar to sonic booms — that were triggered by the violent merger.

For more information on Frontier Fields, see Hubblecast 90: The final frontier.

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ESO: La Silla Dawn Kisses the Milky Way

by bystander » Mon Mar 14, 2016 3:36 pm

La Silla Dawn Kisses the Milky Way
ESO Picture of the Week | 2016 Mar 14
[img3="Credit: ESO/Babak Tafreshi (TWAN)"]http://cdn.eso.org/images/screen/potw1611a.jpg[/img3][hr][/hr]
This picture was taken just before dawn at the La Silla Observatory, in outskirts of the Chilean Atacama Desert. A layer of orange hovering over the horizon announces the imminent arrival of the Sun. These first hints of daylight are kissed by the Milky Way, which stretches out across the entire night sky. This view of our home galaxy is covered with dark patches, formed from dust particles blocking the light behind them.

In front of this cosmic scenery you can see some of the observatory’s telescopes. The closest is the Swedish–ESO Submillimetre Telescope (SEST), whose dish measures 15 metres across. It was decommissioned in 2003 and replaced by the Atacama Pathfinder EXperiment telescope (APEX) and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). On the plateau in the background stands the ESO 3.6-metre telescope, with the Coudé Auxiliary Telescope (CAT) right behind it.

SEST seems to be pointing at an extremely bright object: This is Venus, one of our neighbouring planets. Venus is lit up by the Sun and outshines all of the stars in the night sky. The triangular white glow that reaches up from the horizon through Venus is called zodiacal light. Zodiacal light is sunlight scattered by dust in the ecliptic — the plane of Earth’s orbit around the Sun.

Re: Found images: 2016 March

by starsurfer » Mon Mar 14, 2016 11:36 am

Soap Bubble Nebula (PN G75.5+1.7)
http://www.capella-observatory.com/Imag ... Nebula.htm
Copyright: Stefan Binnewies and Josef Pöpsel
SoapBubble.jpg

Re: Found images: 2016 March

by starsurfer » Mon Mar 14, 2016 11:33 am

Iris Nebula (NGC 7023) widefield
http://www.straightontillmorning.me/Ast ... KDzptsM/X3
Copyright: Hytham Abu-Safieh
ngc7023.jpg

Re: Found images: 2016 March

by starsurfer » Mon Mar 14, 2016 11:29 am

Sh2-132
http://www.cxielo.ch/gallery/v/nebulae/ ... x.jpg.html
Copyright: Martin Rusterholz
sh2-132.jpg

Re: Found images: 2016 March

by starsurfer » Sun Mar 13, 2016 2:34 pm

G213.0-0.6 (re-designated as G213.3-0.4)
http://www.astrobin.com/237826/
Copyright: Mark Elvov
1ac689ee17c200842b0172f6e749b722.1824x0.jpg
The emission nebula in the top right corner is Sh2-284. You can read more about the supernova remnant here.

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