Knowledge: galaxies
See Also:
- science → astronomy → amateur → deep sky observing
- science → astronomy → data archives
- science → astronomy → images
Links
- Galaxy Pair Picture Gallery
http://crux.astr.ua.edu/pairs2.html - Images of interacting galaxy pairs
- The Messier Catalog
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/messier/indexes.html - High Redshift Supernova Search
http://www-supernova.lbl.gov/ - 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.
- European Network: The Formation and Evolution of Galaxies
http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/Galaxien/EuroNet.html - Purpose is to understand the creation of galaxies and the universe has evolved. Plans to study distant galaxies at optical, infrared, and radio frequencies.
- Extragalactic bookmarks
http://www-obs.univ-lyon1.fr/~prugniel/galaxies_others.html - List of resources dedicaced to extragalactic astronomy: Databases, projects, education ...
- Dust in Spiral Galaxies
http://www.astr.ua.edu/keel/research/dust.html - HST and ISO Results.
- Galaxies
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/tour.cgi?link=/the_universe/Galaxy.html&sw=false&sn=... - NASA Windows to the Universe. Includes illustrations and introductory information about a variety of galaxies.
- UMass High Energy Astrophysics Group
http://www.astro.umass.edu/ast_page/xray/heag.html - Research group primarily interested in high energy activities in galaxies, particularly the interplay between massive stars and the interstellar medium.
- Galaxy Collisions
http://arxiv.org/html/astro-ph/9908269/homepage.html - A review article for non-specialists.
- The Small Magellanic Cloud, SMC
http://www.seds.org/messier/xtra/ngc/smc.html - Gives mathematical measurements relating this galaxy that orbits the Milky Way. Includes history about first known discoveries and links to photo galleries.
- Complete Spiral Galaxy Pictures Gallery
http://www.spiral-galaxies.com - Contains over 600 pictures of all spiral galaxies larger than 3 minutes of arc for all constellations in the Northern and Southern celestial hemispheres.
- DIRECT Project Homepage
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~kstanek/DIRECT/ - Determining the distances to nearby galaxies.
- M31 - the Andromeda Galaxy
http://www.astr.ua.edu/gifimages/m31r.html - Includes a catalog of globular clusters, photos, and brief description.
- Spiral Galaxies
http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect/galaxies/spiral.html - Spiral galaxies with short descriptions and photos.
- Galaxies
http://www.astr.ua.edu/goodies/data_resources/galaxies.text - Some useful information about kinds of galaxies, content of galaxies, clusters of galaxies, galaxies and cosmology.
- Andromeda Galaxy
http://www.solstation.com/x-objects/andromeda.htm - Information about the Andromeda Galaxy with descriptions and pictures.
- Galaxies
http://www.skyimagelab.com/galaxies.html - Astronomy Photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble, NASA, ESO, Chandra, Gemini and Apollo mission archives. Images of space, earth, planets, stars, galaxies, nebula.
- Galaxies
http://www.oberlin.edu/physics/dstyer/Astronomy/Galaxies/ - List of galaxies with photos.
- Lecture 28: Types of Galaxies
http://www-astronomy.mps.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Ast162/Unit4/types.html - This site is about Spiral, Elliptical, Irregular Galaxies with their important characteristiŃs.
- Faulkes Telescope Educational Guide - Galaxies
http://www.le.ac.uk/physics/faulkes/web/galaxies/y_ga_intro.html - Some useful information about the formation of galaxies.
- Galaxy classification - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_classification - An article about the Galaxy classification.
- Classifying Galaxies
http://www.smv.org/hastings/galaxy.htm - Includes pictures and a lesson for learning Hubble's system of classification.
- Galaxies
http://www.seds.org/messier/galaxy.html - Galaxies with their descriptions.
- Arp's Catalog of Peculiar Galaxies
http://members.aol.com/arpgalaxy/index.html - Summarizes the catalog of 338 peculiar galaxy views gathered by Dr. Halton C. Arp.
- The Galaxy Catalog - Zsolt Frei
http://www.astro.princeton.edu/~frei/galaxy_catalog.html - This site contains a collection of digital images of 113 nearby galaxies.
- Atlas of the Andromeda Galaxy
http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/ANDROMEDA_Atlas/Hodge_contents.html - Contains information and tables about the Andromeda Galaxy.
- Galaxy Evolution Explorer
http://www.galex.caltech.edu/ - Contains information about the growth of various galaxies. Also includes images, news, and a glossary.
- Galaxies
http://www.maa.mhn.de/Scholar/galaxies.html - 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.
- Phil Marshall
http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~pjm/ - Explains gravitational lensing by clusters. Includes pictures of MS1054.
- Galaxies
http://www.galacticsurf.net/galaxieGB.htm - Many selected links to websites dedicated to galaxies.
- Galaxy Photography
http://www.galaxyphoto.com/ - Contains various images of a selection of galaxies.
- Globular Clusters in the Andromeda Galaxy
http://www.astronomy-mall.com/Adventures.In.Deep.Space/gcm31.htm - Data, observation notes, and more about globular clusters within the galaxy.
- Galaxy Zoo
http://www.galaxyzoo.org - Project which harnesses the power of the Internet to classify a million galaxies.
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