Markarjan's "i" 's (APOD 2009 June 9)

[neufer]

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090609.html
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080708.html
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080425.html
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070608.html
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap061011.html
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050316.html

<<Benjamin (Benik) Jegischewitsch Markarjan (* 29. November 1913 in Shahumyan, Armenia; † 29. September 1985) was an Armenian astrophysicist. Markarian's chain was named after him, when he discovered it in the mid 1970s. He is also the namesake of a catalog of compact, optically bright galaxies (including both starbursts and AGN) known as Markarian galaxies.>>

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap021007.html

[orin stepanek]

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archiv ... /06/video/

I wonder how many galaxies there actually are. In the site above Hubble pans across a small area of sky to reveal 50000 galaxies. if you play the video; almost every dot you see is another galaxy.

Orin