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• X-rays
  • principle
  • XMM
  • elliptical galaxy seen by Chandra
• Infra-Red
  • a cat in the IR
  • History
  • IR windows
  • IR regions
  • Orion in the IR
• Radio telescopes
  • Arecibo
  • VLA
  • Fast

• Classify galaxies yourself! The current "Galaxy zoo" project and its predecessor
  
• Introduction from Schombert
  
• Nebulae from the Nathan Observatory
  
• Nebulae from Anglo Australian Observatory
  
• Star clusters from Anglo Australian Observatory
  
• M31 (Andromeda)
  
• M31 in the infra-red
  
• Magellanic clouds and the Milky Way
  
• Antennae interacting galaxies
  
• M81 (Spitzer)
  
• M82 and its galactic wind
  
• Hubble Sequence
  
• The emergence of the Hubble Sequence in the Eagle simulations
  
• Hubble Sequence (schematic)
  
• Hubble Deep Field
• Hubble deep field compared to the Moon
  
• Hertzsprung-Russell diagram

• Cepheids
• Cepheids in M100
• Standard candles
• The discoverer of the P-L relation, Henrietta Leavitt
• Cepheid's period-luminosity relation
• Edwin Hubble and the Hooker telescope of the Mount Wilson observatory

• Milky Way multi-wavelength view (from Schombert)
• Milky Way discovery (from Schombert)
• Properties of the Milky Way
• Gaia pdf
• GAIA outreach resources
• Slides by Dr Deason on Gaia
• GAIA movie of the Milky Way
• Hipparcos
  • Hyades
  • HR diagram
• Galactic Coordinates
• Oort's constants
• Jan Oort
• Flat rotation curve
• Vera Rubin
• Vera Rubin movie
• Rubin, Ford & Thonnard, ApJ 238, 1980

• Interstellar dust
• Gamma ray Astronomy at Durham
• HESS telescope in Namibia

• Properties of Spirals from Chris Mihos @ casewestern
  
• Spiral structure from Chris Mihos
  
• Rotation curves
  
• A new measurement of the circular velocity of the MW using masers
  

• Kinematics of Ellipticals taken from Chris Mihos
• Stellar orbits in galaxies , see also here
• Gravity assist: illustration how space-craft can pick-up speed relative to the Sun in a fly-by of a planet

• Local Group
• An atlas of the Universe

• Mug shots
• Optical images from HST
• The "bullet cluster"
• Overview from Chandra
• and large-scale structure
• structure and dynamics
• Zwiky and Abell
• Big-Bang nucleo-synthesis taken from Martin White
• Intergalactic stars seen in Fornax

• Introduction
• Discovery paper by Maarten Schmidt
• QSO 3C 273
• Galactic nuclei as collapsed Old Quasars, by Lynden-Lynden-Bell
• Lynden-Bell and Rees paper claiming quasars are powered by accretion onto a supermassive black hole
• Appeaerance of relativistically expanding radio sources, by Martin Rees
• Optical images of QSO and star (they look the same!); QSO host galaxies (they look disturbed?); QSO in the radio;
• Cygnus A in the radio (note the jet)
• AGN unification scheme
• QSO absorbers: observing the intergalactic medium; QSO 1422: the best QSO spectrum in the world?
• Evidence for past QSO activity in the Milky Way and as seen by Fermi
• jet simulation
• black hole for MW evidence from motion of stars and another one
• black hole evidence from Iron line
• Movie illustrating time-variability of the X-ray spectrum of an AGN (Markarian 766) (Every spectrum corresponds to 10k seconds integration, and note that there are some large gaps in the data coverage where the spectrum seems to change very discontinuously)
• Discovery paper of the z>7 QSO and some slides about the implications.

• Introduction from Gene Smith
• GR fundamentals
• Introductory page with explanation and movies
• More movies from ESA
• Applied to galaxy clusters
• Density of dark matter in a cluster of galaxies
• micro-lensing: MACHO project page ; overview article by W Evans
• Recent review article by Joachim Wambsganss
• definition of angles for multiple images , and when they are exactly aligned.
• Science application at Durham from M Swinbank et al.
• Science application at Durham: weak lensing
• The Euclid mission
• Lensing applet
• Smiling Galaxies

• Fly towards the Virgo cluster (mpeg, 27Mb) For more of these movies, check Brent Tully's webpage
• Aquarius movie of the build-up of the dark matter halo of the Milky Way
• Simulation of Interacting Galaxies (mpeg, 5Mb)
• Simulation of forming dwarf galaxy (avi)
• Simulation of forming dwarf galaxy, and its metal production (avi)
• Simulation of formation of structure in Universe (mpeg, 2.5Mb)
• AGN activity in the EAGLE galaxy formation movie (avi, 1.8Mb)
• Distribution of galaxies around us from 2 degree Field (mpeg, 2.6Mb)
• The 2 Degree Field redshift survey (mov, 6.5Mb)
• Fly-through Gama survey
• Supernova type II: core collapse supernova
• Supernova type Ia - White Dwarf deflagration
• HST deep field (mpeg, 2Mb)
• Berkeley lab sky viewer
• Dubinski MW-Andromeda interactions.
• RS movie introducing the GAIA satellite.