Links to nifty astronomy movies

Interacting Galaxies

Comet SL9

This is a small collection of fun, interesting, and educational movies I have cobbled together from a variety of sources. I can't thank (or even identify) all sources, but special thanks go to Chirs Mihos (interacting galaxies) and Derek Richardson (comets).

Nifty pictures from my own research:

Pictures taken at Kitt Peak.

HST pictures of the giant low surface brightness galaxy UGC 6614:

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Some close-ups from the V-band image:
Many galaxies are seen in the background above the difuse spiral arm:

Indeed, many background galaxies are seen right through the spiral arms: this galaxy is optically thin!

The many small, discrete sources are open clusters and associations of hot young stars.

There are nifty high redshift galaxies all over the place:

10 ULSBG galaxies found in one of the 100 fields:

The ULSB galaxies are right at the centers of the boxes, which are 2 arcminutes on a side.
These 10 boxes represent just 1% of the area of the field above.