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Title: Cool Dust in the Outer Ring of NGC 1291 Authors: J. L. Hinz, C. W. Engelbracht, R. Skibba, A. Crocker, J. Donovan Meyer, K. Sandstrom, F. Walter, E. Montiel, B. D. Johnson, L. Hunt, G. Aniano, L. Armus, D. Calzetti, D. A. Dale, B. Draine, M. Galametz, B. Groves, R. C. Kennicutt, S. E. Meidt, E. J. Mu...
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A Blue Whirlpool in The River A new image taken with ESO's Very Large Telescope shows the galaxy NGC 1187. This impressive spiral lies about 60 million light-years away in the constellation of Eridanus (The River). NGC 1187 has hosted two supernova explosions during the last thirty years, the lates...
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Title: H\alpha Kinematics of S4G spiral galaxies I. NGC 864 Authors: Santiago Erroz-Ferrer, Johan H. Knapen, Joan Font, John E. Beckman, Jesús Falcón-Barroso, José Ramón Sánchez-Gallego, E. Athanassoula, Albert Bosma, Dimitri A. Gadotti, Juan Carlos Muñoz-Mateos, Kartik Sheth, Ronald J. Bu...
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Hubble Spotted a Supernova in NGC 5806 A new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows NGC 5806, a spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo (the Virgin). It lies around 80 million light years from Earth. Also visible in this image is a supernova explosion called SN 2004dg. The exposures th...
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Title: Pre-main sequence variable stars in young open cluster NGC 1893 Authors: Sneh Lata, A. K. Pandey, W. P. Chen, G. Maheswar, Neelam Chauhan We present results of multi-epoch (fourteen nights during 2007-2010) V-band photometry of the cluster NGC 1893 region to identify photometric variabl...
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NGC 1977
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Title: A compact steep spectrum radio source in NGC1977 Authors: D. Anish Roshi (NRAO, Charlottesville and Green Bank), Scott M. Ransom (NRAO, Charlottesville) A compact steep spectrum radio source (J0535-0452) is located in the sky coincident with a bright optical rim in the HII region NGC1977...
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Hubble Sees NGC 7090 - An actively star-forming galaxy This image portrays a beautiful view of the galaxy NGC 7090, as seen by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The galaxy is viewed edge-on from the Earth, meaning we cannot easily see the spiral arms, which are full of young, hot stars. However, a s...
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Title: Orion Revisited - I. The massive cluster in front of the Orion Nebula Cluster Authors: J. Alves, H. Bouy The aim of this work is to characterise the stellar population between Earth and the Orion A molecular cloud where the well known star formation benchmark Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC) is embe...
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Title: Lithium Abundances of the Super-Metal-Rich Open Cluster NGC 6253 Authors: Jeffrey D. Cummings, Constantine P. Deliyannis, Barbara Anthony-Twarog, Bruce Twarog, Ryan M. Maderak High-resolution CTIO 4-m/HYDRA spectroscopy of the super-metal-rich open cluster NGC 6253 ([Fe/H]=+0.4...
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Title: Disentangling the stellar populations in the counter-rotating disc galaxy NGC 4550 Authors: Evelyn J. Johnston, Michael R. Merrifield, Alfonso Aragon-Salamanca, Michele Cappellari In order to try and understand its origins, we present high-quality long-slit spectral observations...
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NGC 7184 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Aquarius. The galaxy was discovered on 28 October 1783 by the German-British astronomer William Herschel. Read more
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Hubble Spots a Colourful Lenticular Galaxy The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a beautiful galaxy that, with its reddish and yellow central area, looks rather like an explosion from a Hollywood movie. The galaxy, called NGC 5010, is in a period of transition. The aging galaxy is movin...
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Title: Chandra Observations of the Collisional Ring Galaxy NGC 922 Authors: A. H. Prestwich, J. L. Galache. T. Linden, V. Kalogara, A. Zezas, T. P. Roberts, R. Kilgard, A. Wolter, G. Trinchieri In this paper we report on Chandra observations of the starburst galaxy NGC 922. NGC 922 is a drop-through...
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Title: NGC5694: another extra-galactic globular cluster Authors: A. Mucciarelli, M. Bellazzini, M. Catelan, P. Amigo, M. Correnti, C. Cortés, E. Dalessandro, V. D'Orazi We discuss the chemical composition of six giant stars of the outer Halo globular cluster NGC5694, through the analysis of U...
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Setting the Dark on Fire A new image from the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope in Chile shows a beautiful view of clouds of cosmic dust in the region of Orion. While these dense interstellar clouds seem dark and obscured in visible-light observations, APEX's LABOCA camera can detect...
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Gas promises bumper black hole 'weigh-in' A new way of measuring the mass of supermassive black holes could revolutionise our understanding of how they form and help to shape galaxies. The technique, developed by a team including Oxford University scientists, can spot the telltale tracer of carb...
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Title: NGC 7419 as a template for red supergiant clusters Authors: Amparo Marco, Ignacio Negueruela The open cluster NGC 7419 is known to contain five red supergiants and a very high number of Be stars. However, there are conflicting reports about its age and distance that prevent a useful comparis...
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Title: NGC 2579 and the carbon and oxygen abundance gradients beyond the solar circle Authors: C. Esteban, L. Carigi, M. V. F. Copetti, J. García-Rojas, A. Mesa-Delgado, H. O. Castañeda, D. Péquignot We present deep echelle spectrophotometry of the Galactic HII region NGC 2579. The data have been...
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NGC 6496 is a globular cluster which is in the direction of the bulge. NGC 6496 lies in the Southern sky at RA=17:59:03.68 and Dec=-44:15:57.4. Read more
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