Philips Atlas of the Universe

Supernovae S tars have long lives. Even cosmic searchlights, such as Rigel and Canopus, go on pouring out their energy for tens ...

THE STARS is blown away, leaving the neutron-star so dense that at least 2,500 million tonnes of its material could be packed in ...

Black Holes ATLAS OF THE UNIVERSE
The Vela supernova remnant from the 3.9-m (153-inch) Anglo-Australian telescope. The red, gl ...

THE STARS our own Galaxy show that a very massive black hole is present there. It is hard to decide what happens inside a black ...

Stellar Clusters ATLAS OF THE UNIVERSE S tar clusters are among the most beautiful objects in the sky. Several are easily visibl ...

THE STARS evolved at different rates. Globular clusters are huge sym- metrical systems containing up to a million stars. The mos ...

ATLAS OF THE UNIVERSE Nebulae W hen Messier published his catalogue, in 1781, he included nebulae of two types – those which loo ...

THE STARS MCNGC Name Constellation Map Remarks 1– 1952 Crab Nebula Taurus 17 Supernova remnant. 8– 6253 Lagoon Nebula Sagittariu ...

Views from the Very Large Telescope ATLAS OF THE UNIVERSE
A Bok globule. This image was obtained by the Antu mirror of the VLT ...

THE STARS
The Globular Cluster Messier 4, near Antares in Scorpius; 7500 light-years away. The image above right was taken wit ...

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The Structure of the Universe L ook up into the sky on any dark, clear night, and you will see the glorious band of the Milky Wa ...

During his work with the Mount Wilson reflector, Hubble also made careful studies of the combined spectra of the galaxies. These ...

Our Galaxy T he main problem about trying to find out the shape of the Galaxy is that we live inside it; the situation is rather ...

THE UNIVERSE
The centre of our Galaxy as seen from observations made by the Infra-Red Astronomical Satellite (IRAS). The infra ...

The Local Group of Galaxies T he only galaxies which are not moving away from us are the members of what is termed the Local Gro ...

THE UNIVERSE multiples, novae, open and globular clusters, and gaseous and planetary nebulae. There has even been one recent sup ...

The Outer Galaxies B eyond the Local Group we come to other clusters of galaxies, millions of light-years away. Not surprisingly ...

THE UNIVERSE the Hubble Space Telescope show a dark X-structure silhouetted across the nucleus, due to absorption by dust. It ha ...