This page is maintained by Kris Stanek, professor in the Department of Astronomy of The Ohio State University.

Astronomy H162: Image Gallery

Stars and Star Clusters:

In the Heart of the Tarantula Nebula

Young Star Cluster Westerlund 2

M35 and NGC 2158 - two open clusters

M3 - a globular cluster

M3 - variable stars

M55 - a globular cluster

M55: Color Magnitude Diagram

WR124: Massive, evolved star

Doomed Star Eta Carinae

Stellar Evolution Products:

M57: The Ring Nebula

The Eskimo Nebula from Hubble

Dust and the Helix Nebula

M1: The Crab Nebula (supernova remnant)

The Crab Nebula in X-rays

X-Rays From Tycho's Supernova Remnant

Tycho's Supernova Remnant

Stellar Explosions!

Light Echoes from V838 Mon

Explosions from White Dwarf Star RS Oph

The Tarantula and the Supernova

The Mysterious Rings of Supernova 1987a

New Shocks For Supernova 1987A

X-Ray Ring Around SN1987A

A Nearby Supernova in M51

SN 2006GY: Brightest Supernova

GRB 990510: Another Unusual Gamma Ray Burst

Milky Way and Local Group:

Milky Way Panorama

Barred Spiral Milky Way - artist's illustration

Two-Armed Spiral Milky Way - artist's illustration

Milky Way Illustrated

Counting Stars in the Infrared Sky

The Milky Way in Infrared

A Sky Full Of Hydrogen

The Radio Sky: Tuned to 408MHz

At the Center of the Milky Way

Sgr A*: Fast Stars Near the Galactic Center

Millions of Stars in Omega Centauri

The Closest Galaxy: Canis Major Dwarf

The Sagittarius Dwarf Tidal Stream

The Large Cloud of Magellan

The Small Cloud of Magellan

The Magellanic Stream

M33: Triangulum Galaxy

NGC 604: Giant Stellar Nursery

Andromeda Island Universe

Infrared Andromeda

The Andromeda Galaxy from GALEX

M110: Satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy

Milky Way - M31 Collision (simulation) (or try here)

Galaxies of All Shapes and Sizes:

Galaxy Zoo

Some nearby galaxies

Galaxies with Supernovae

Galaxy Wars: M81 versus M82

M81 in Ursa Major

Bright Spiral Galaxy M81 in Ultraviolet from Galex

M82: Galaxy with a Supergalactic Wind

M82: Smoke from the Cigar Galaxy

M51 Hubble Remix

Galaxies in the River

The Antennae Galaxies in Collision

X-Rays From Antennae Galaxies

The Colliding Spiral Galaxies of Arp 274

The Star Streams of NGC 5907

The Colors and Mysteries of Centaurus A

I Zwicky 18: The Case of the Aging Galaxy

The Sombrero Galaxy in Infrared

In the Heart of the Virgo Cluster

Inside the Coma Cluster of Galaxies

Galaxies of the Perseus Cluster

Distant Universe: Quasars, Gravitational Lensing etc.

APM 08279+5255: The Brightest Object Yet Known

The Galaxy and the Quasar

A Quasar Portrait Gallery

M81: Feeding a Black Hole

Active Galaxy Centaurus A

The View Near a Black Hole

Spinning Black Holes and MCG-6-30-15

The Most Distant X-Ray Jet

PKS 1127-145: Quasar View

3C175: Quasar Cannon

The Einstein Cross Gravitational Lens

A Five Quasar Gravitational Lens

Abell 2218: A Galaxy Cluster Lens

Galaxy Cluster Lenses Farthest Known Galaxy

The Lyman Alpha Forest

Cosmology, Dark Matter, Dark Energy:

CMB Dipole: Speeding Through the Universe

COBE All-Sky Map

Universe Age from Microwave Background

WMAP Resolves the Universe

SDSSJ1430: A Galaxy Einstein Ring

Dark Matter Map

Dark Matter, X-rays, and NGC 720

The Matter Of Galaxy Clusters

The Matter of the Bullet Cluster

MACSJ0025: Two Giant Galaxy Clusters Collide

Weak Lensing Distorts the Universe

A Force from Empty Space: The Casimir Effect

Rumors of a Strange Universe

Will the Universe End in a Big Rip?

A Higher Dimensional Universe?

Logarithmic Maps of the Universe

Ohio State Astronomy: Faculty "Research Map"


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