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Labels: Caldwell 59, GCSE Astronomy class, Ghost of Jupiter, m104, m61, m83 Southern Pinwheel Galaxy, NGC 3242, Sombrero Galaxy
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Labels: coursework, Gc, GCSE Astronomy class, m83 Southern Pinwheel Galaxy, NGC 3926, Sombrero Galaxy
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M87
M87
The heart of the galaxy known as M87 is a place of unimaginable violence. A black hole up to seven billion times as massive as the Sun sits at the galaxy's center -- one of the most massive black holes ever measured. As gas spirals into the black hole, it's heated to millions of degrees, so it produces enormous amounts of X-rays. Some of the hot gas around the black hole shoots back into the galaxy in powerful jets that span thousands of light-years.
M87 is at the center of the Virgo Cluster, a collection of thousands of galaxies that move through space together. It is a giant elliptical galaxy, so it's shaped like a fat, fuzzy watermelon. M87's diameter is only a little bigger than the Milky Way's, but because the galaxy is thicker than the thin disk of the Milky Way, it encompasses a much larger volume. As a result, M87 contains many more stars and is perhaps 10 times as massive as the Milky Way.
Sombrero Galaxy
Sombrero Galaxy
Why does the Sombrero Galaxy look like a hat? Reasons include the Sombrero's unusually large and extended central bulge of stars, and dark prominent dust lanes that appear in a disk that we see nearly edge-on. Billions of old stars cause the diffuse glow of the extended central bulge. Close inspection of the bulge in the above photograph shows many points of light that are actually globular clusters.
The spectacular dust rings harbor many younger and brighter stars, and show intricate details astronomers don't yet fully understand. The very center of the Sombrero is thought to house a large black hole. Fifty million-year-old light from the Sombrero Galaxy can be seen with a small telescope towards the constellation of Virgo.
Whirlpool Galaxy
M64
Aren't they great? :-D The best we've had yet!!
So...Where in Orion is the Afterlife?
....Well, apparently it's in 'Aries'
:-D
Labels: astronomy, Faulkes Telescope, M64, M87, observation, observing, Sombrero Galaxy, Ticehurst, Ticehurst Primary School, Uplands Community College, Whirlpool Galaxy, Yr 11
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Staff, students and parents and all:
If you have an interest in space, and would like to share something astronomical, please send your contributions (ideas, pictures, written work) to:
Astronomicaluplands@hotmail.co.uk
...or bring them to Mr Pert (Lab 8) or Mrs Lynch (Physics prep room opposite L8)
Budding reporters welcome
We now loan the following equipement to students
(if you are interested,
see Mr Pert, L8):
Space has many aspects and can be looked at from many points of view. Within Uplands Community College Students study different aspects of space depending on the curriculum subject:
Astronomy
History
Science
(more curriculum area links coming soon...)
Ophiuchus
Mr Meteor