... The Great Nebula in Orion . ... The Nebula's glowing gas surrounds hot young stars at the edge of an immense interstellar molecular cloud only 1500 light-years away. The Great Nebula in Orion can be found with the unaided eye just below and to the left of the easily identifiable belt of three stars in the popular constellation Orion . ... Publications with keywords: Orion Nebula - M42 - M43 . Publications with words: Orion Nebula - M42 - M43 . ... M42: Wisps of the Orion Nebula . ...

... 2002 February 13 . The Great Nebula in Orion . ... The Nebula's glowing gas surrounds hot young stars at the edge of an immense interstellar molecular cloud only 1500 light-years away. ... Visible simultaneously are the bright stars of the Trapezium in Orion's heart , the sweeping lanes of dark dust that cross the center, the pervasive red glowing hydrogen gas , and the blue tinted dust that reflects the light of newborn stars. ... Tomorrow's picture: Violets are Blue . ... About APOD | ...

... GOODS unites extremely deep observations from NASA's Great Observatories, Spitzer , Hubble , and Chandra , ESA's Herschel and XMM-Newton , and from the most powerful ground-based facilities, to survey the distant universe to the faintest flux limits across the electromagnetic spectrum. ... The space-based observations are complemented by ground-based imaging and spectroscopy, including extensive commitments of ESO and NOAO observing time. ... 2010-04-10: Deep VLA 1.4 GHz data for GOODS-North . ...

... As an experiment, I made some three-color images of Messier 42, more commonly known as the Great Nebula of Orion. ... green enhanced . ... halfsize or fullsize . ... Each image is a ``true color'' composite of three monochromatic images, in which the red, green, and blue intensities each correspond to the intensity of one of the original images. ... The HST image is assembled from different filters than mine: red is Nitrogen [II] at 6583 , green is H-alpha at 6563 , and blue is O [III] at 5007 . ...

... October 27, 1999 . In the Heart of the Tarantula Nebula . Credit: Gary Bernstein Megan Novicki ( U. Michigan ); . ... Explanation: In the heart of monstrous Tarantula Nebula lies one of the most unusual star clusters. ... The energetic light from these stars continually ionizes nebula gas, while their energetic particle wind blows bubbles and defines intricate filaments. ... In the heart of this heart is a central knot of stars that is so dense it was once thought to be a single star. ...

... ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Mopra radio telescope . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ... The Secret Inner Life of the Orion Nebula . ... Beneath the familiar surface of the Orion Nebula is a spectacular molecular hydrogen outflow from a young stellar object, of very unusual morphology. ... The Orion Nebula . ...

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home publications > mercury . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... The Universe in the Classroom . ... The Great Cosmic Map . ... But maps can also provide vivid insights into fundamental truths about the world we live in. ... Maps have also been fundamental to understanding our place in the universe beyond Earth. Cosmographies — maps of the universe — are as old as human civilization, and have gone hand in hand with cosmogonies describing the creation of the world. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Have you ever looked at pictures of Saturn's rings and noticed what look like gaps in the rings? ... Gian Domenico Cassini discovered a large gap in Saturn's rings in 1675. Later, an astronomer named Encke discovered a smaller gap near the edge of the rings. ... It was found long ago that an orbit in the Cassini Division, as the large gap is named, has a period almost exactly one-half that of one of Saturn's moons named Mimas. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... This image of the Tarantula Nebula comprises one of the largest mosaics ever assembled from Hubble photos and includes observations taken by HubbleтАЩs Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys, combined with observations from the European Southern ObservatoryтАЩs MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope which trace the location of glowing hydrogen and oxygen. ... Subscribe to Astronotes . ...

... 50 Weirdest Objects . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Messier's 102nd entry is known as the lost Messier object. Has there been any agreement on what this M object might be? ... Before Charles Messier handed in the final supplement of his catalog, which was published in 1781, his contemporary, Pierre M chain, supplied a number of new objects for his consideration. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... If you are already registered on Astronomy.com, please log in below. ...

... GSAOI Home . ... Science . ... Deep imaging at J , H , and K is required to identify all stellar objects, brown dwarfs, and planetary mass objects in the central region of the Orion Nebula Cluster down to masses comparable to that of Jupiter. This is required to establish the initial mass function, i.e., the number of stars of each mass that have formed, in this region of intense massive star formation. ... The fields of the GSAOI detectors are shown as four green squares in each frame. ...

In Memory of Vsevolod Gantmakher . ... Having received his Ph.D. in 1964, V. Gantmakher continued work at the Institute of Solid State Physics (ISSP) of the USSR Academy of Sciences, which had been founded a year before. For the next three years, he worked on his D.Sc. thesis at IPP. ... For many years, as an outstanding personality and highest scientific authority, V.Gantmakher made a remarkable contribution to creating a friendly atmosphere and a creative approach to the research work at ISSP. ...

Photon Scattering: Basic Principle of Photon Scattering . Audio Narration is available . No Scattering: Photon Source and Detector . ... For optical photons, scattering goes as wavelength to the -4 power. In the case of blue photons compared to red photons, this means that blue photons are about 10 times more likely to get scattered than red photons. ... Watch the blue photons scatter away from the detector . ... Interstellar dust make stars appear redder than they really are . ...

Orion. Orion is the most remarkable constellation of the sky. ... In its bright stars arrangement the hunter’s figure can be seen to the south - east of which the blue Sirius is shining and to the north - west - a red Aldebaran. ... Rigel ( b of Orion) is more bright then Betelgaise. ... The most interesting object in the constellation is the Great Nebula Orion (M 42), lying below the belt of three stars and remote from us as far as about 1000 light years. ...

Scale-heights of the Galactic disk subsytems with different ages and metallicities . V.Marsakov & Yu. ... It is based on the fact, that all stars cross the disk plane several times during their Galactic orbital period. ... We have used our representative sample of nearby disk F2-G2 stars Marsakov & Shevelev (1995) in which fundamental stellar parameters was determined on the basis of published date on uvby-photometry, proper motion and radial velocities. ... Marsakov V.A., Shevelev Yu.G. Bull. ...

... Conjunction Over Armagh . ... Comet and Pleiades . ... Pleiades . ... Antares Region . Helix and Cat's Eye Nebulae . Orion Nebula . Lagoon and Eagle Nebulae . Crab Nebula . ... Our Galaxy Core . Andromeda Galaxy . Wide-field and Zoomed-in Galaxies . Interacting Typhoons and Galaxies . Spiral Galaxy M106 . Sombrero Galaxy . Whirlpool Galaxy . Colliding Galaxies . ... й Miruna Popescu, Armagh Observatory ...

Home page and Introduction to "De Magnete" , English . Home page and Introduction to "De Magnete" , -- Spanish . Home page and Introduction to "De Magnete" , -- German . Home page and Introduction to "De Magnete" , -- French . A review of "De Magnete" . Another review of "De Magnete" . ... More about "De Magnete" . Performing Gilbert's Experiment on Induced Magnetism . ... Gauss and the Global Magnetic Field . ... The Self-Sustaining Dynamo in the Earth's Core . ...

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... Ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) are located in external galaxies, their X-ray luminosities (10 39 - 10 41 erg/s) are thousand times greater than those of brightest black holes in the Galaxy. ULXs may be supercritical accretion disks around black holes of stellar masses (~10 Solar masses) like that in SS433, or they may be a hypothetical intermediate-mass black holes (hundreds - thousands Solar masses) with standard accretion disks. ... 2) The ULX progenitors were ejected from the star clusters. ...