Africa Astrophysical Research and Observation

ASN and its communities are helping African formal and informal education communities to access some of the best robotic telescopes in the world. So far we got participants from Ethiopia, Senegal and USA. African student here is defined as a person who is interested in astronomy. If you or your colleagues wish to participate in astrophotography, radio astronomy, astronomy and the All African Student Asteroid Search , you are invited to join. (Contact: Dr. Abebe Kebede, abkebede@gmail.com)

Sunday, January 25, 2009

NGC3115: By Lauryn, Leila, Laieke, Adadu, Abebe (NC-USA)

NGC 3115 is also known as the "Spindle Galaxy." It is a lenticular, a "spiral galaxy without spiral structure", i.e. a smooth disk galaxy, where stellar formation has stopped because the interstellar matter was used up. <<READ MORE>>