Tag Archives: Galaxies

Exploring Galactic Structures from Romania

Posted on 21/06/2021 by Sophie Bartlett

By Valentina Matei A secondary school in Oradea, Romania has taken some wonderful images using the Faulkes Telescopes and LCO Network. One of their physics teachers, Valentina Matei shared their story with us: I teach physics for 12-14 years old …

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Snap a supernova!

Posted on 27/11/2018 by Sarah Roberts

A new supernova has been discovered in the spiral galaxy M77 and we are encouraging schools to help astronomers by taking follow up observations of this newly exploded star. First spotted on 23rd November by the DLT40 survey based in …

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HERschel Observations of Edge-on Spirals (HEROES) II. Tilted-ring modelling of the atomic gas disks

Posted on 02/05/2018 by Matthew Allen

F. Allaert (Gent), G. Gentile (Gent, Brussels), M. Baes, G. De Geyter (Gent), T.M. Hughes (Gent, Valparaiso), F. Lewis (FT, LJMU), S. Bianchi (INAF Firenze), I. De Looze (Gent, Cambridge), J. Fritz (UNAM Mexico), B. W. Holwerda (Leiden), J. Verstappen …

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A long-period Cepheid variable in the starburst cluster VdBH222

Posted on 02/05/2018 by Matthew Allen

J. S. Clark (Open University), I.Negueruela (Alicante), M. E. Lohr (Open University), R. Dorda (Alicante), C.Gonzalez-Fernandez (Cambridge), F. Lewis (FT, LJMU) and P. Roche (FT) Context Galactic starburst clusters play a twin role in astrophysics, serving as laboratories for the study …

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Galaxies Projects with the Faulkes Telescopes

Posted on 01/05/2018 by Matthew Allen

College C. Perceret, France In March this year, we reported on a school in France who had recently begun using the Faulkes Telescopes in their classroom. After attending an EU-HOU/GTTP Astronomy Training Workshop, their teacher, Hevre Faivre, introduced the students to …

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HERschel Observations of Edge-on Spirals (HEROES). IV. Dust energy balance problem

Posted on 26/04/2018 by Matthew Allen

Aleksandr V. Mosenkov (Gent, St. Petersburg), Flor Allaert, Maarten Baes (Gent), Simone Bianchi (INAF-Arcetri), Peter Camps (Gent), Christopher J.R. Clark (Cardiff), Marjorie Decleir, Gert De Geyter (Gent), Ilse De Looze (UCL, Gent), Jacopo Fritz (UNAM, Mexico), Gianfranco Gentile (Brussel), Benne …

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