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    The Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey (SINGS) was a survey of 75 galaxies using the Spitzer Space Telescope, carried out between 2003 and 2006....
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  • the Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey (SINGS), a legacy project that performed a multiwavelength survey of 75 nearby galaxies with the Spitzer Space...
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    Galaxies and the Universe – an introduction to galaxy classification Near-Infrared Galaxy Morphology Atlas, T.H. Jarrett The Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies...
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    Science Project". The Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey (SINGS). Space Telescope Science Institute.[permanent dead link‍] "Galaxy classification participation...
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    spiral galaxies. However, infrared data from the 2MASS survey and the Spitzer Space Telescope showed that Andromeda is actually a barred spiral galaxy, like...
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    Unifying Globulars and GalaxieS Survey (SLUGGS) survey – a near-infrared spectro-photometric survey of 25 nearby early-type galaxies (2014) Large Sky Area Multi-Object...
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    near-infrared observations without a supply of coolant, as with the extended missions of the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer...
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  • Luminous infrared galaxies or LIRGs are galaxies with luminosities, the measurement of brightness, above 1011 L☉. They are also referred to as submillimeter...
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    clusters to the galaxy's total luminosity is high compared to the Milky Way and similar galaxies with small bulges, but comparable to other galaxies with large...
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  • in the Norte Grande zone of Chile Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey, a survey of 75 galaxies using the Spitzer Space Telescope All pages with titles...
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    International GNSS Service site. WSRT observed galaxies in the Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey at wavelengths of 18 and 22 cm (7.1 and 8.7 in)...
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    transient (ILRT), also known as a luminous red nova. Archival Hubble and Spitzer images of NGC 3184 seem to show no progenitor for optical transient SN...
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  • Solar gain Space-Based Infrared System Space-Based Infrared Systems Wing Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey SPRITE infrared detector Stratoscope Stratospheric...
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    age of stars with increasing radius from the galaxy core. Using infrared observations from the Spitzer Space Telescope, a total of 515 discrete candidate...
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    A galaxy cluster, or a cluster of galaxies, is a structure that consists of anywhere from hundreds to thousands of galaxies that are bound together by...
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    116. In addition, galaxies of the young Universe and interacting galaxies, where star formation is intensive, are bright in infrared. On this wavelength...
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    a spiral galaxy. It is estimated that there are between 200 billion (2×1011) to 2 trillion galaxies in the observable universe. Most galaxies are 1,000...
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  • non-stellar emission in nearby Seyfert galaxies. In the 1960s and 1970s, early X-ray astronomy observations demonstrated that Seyfert galaxies and quasars are...
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    Messier 74 (redirect from Spiral Galaxy M74)
    M74 Group, a group of 5 to 7 galaxies that also includes the peculiar spiral galaxy NGC 660 and a few irregular galaxies. Different group membership identification...
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    different if only redshift is used to measure distances to galaxies. For example, galaxies behind a galaxy cluster are attracted to it and fall towards it, and...
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    Quasar (category Active galaxy types)
    that quasars occur in the centers of galaxies, and that some host galaxies are strongly interacting or merging galaxies. As with other categories of AGN,...
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    Messier 63 (redirect from Spiral Galaxy M63)
    forming. Credit NASA / WikiSky Messier 63 seen in the infrared by the Spitzer Space Telescope. The infrared radiation traces the dust within the spiral arms...
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    center of nearby galaxies. While it had been hypothesized in the early 1960s that black holes would be found at the centers of some galaxies, and astronomers...
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    Telescope (before it received that name) and the Shuttle Infrared Telescope Facility (later Spitzer). The fourth report, The Decade of Discovery in Astronomy...
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    intended to be a four-month infrared survey of the entire sky at 21-27 μm and 9-15 μm, specifically focusing on starburst galaxies and luminous protogalaxies...
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  • (observing program) Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey SIPS – (observing program/catalog) Southern Infrared Proper Motion Survey, a program to identify...
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    image taken by ISAAC, the VLT's near- and mid-infrared spectrometer and camera. Infrared image from Spitzer Space Telescope. A view of the night sky near...
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    Another space telescope, the Spitzer Space Telescope, found a parallelogram-shaped structure of dust in near infrared images of Centaurus A in 2006....
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    galaxy clusters known; Arp 220, the prototypical ultraluminous infrared galaxy; and Hoag's Object, the most famous of the very rare class of galaxies...
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    W.; Gordon, K. D.; Hora, J. L.; Indebetouw, R. (2010-06-24). "SPITZER SAGE-SMC INFRARED PHOTOMETRY OF MASSIVE STARS IN THE SMALL MAGELLANIC CLOUD". The...
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