... 2014 April 8 . M42: Inside the Orion Nebula . ... Here, 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 near the easily identifiable belt of three stars in the popular constellation Orion . In addition to housing a bright open cluster of stars known as the Trapezium , the Orion Nebula contains many stellar nurseries . ... About APOD | ...

... 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. ... Publications with keywords: Orion Nebula - M 42 - M 43 . ... Dust of the Orion Nebula ....

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 . ...

... 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 . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Hubble sees a galaxy festooned with stellar nurseries . ... The galaxy NGC 4700 bears the signs of the vigorous birth of many new stars in this image captured by the NASA and European Space Agencyт??s Hubble Space Telescope. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...

... STScI-PR98-15 HUBBLE REVEALS DETAILS OF A NEWLY BORN PLANETARY NEBULA Astronomers have caught a peek at a rare moment in the final stages of a star's life: a ballooning shroud of gas cast off by a dying star flicking on its stellar light bulb. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured the unveiling of the Stingray nebula (Hen-1357), the youngest known planetary nebula. ... A fast wind - material propelled outward from the hot central star -- compresses the gas and pushes the gas bubble outward. ...

GALAXIES cenA .tiff 40 Bright Radio Galaxy M31.tiff Nikon Andromeda Galaxy (note HII regions in spiral arms) ngc6744.tiff 40 NGC 6744 a face-on spiral clouds_20d.tiff H'blad The Magellanic Clouds our nearest neighbours Lmc_7.tiff Nikon The Large Magellanic Clouds Lmc_zoom.tiff Nikon Detail of previous image smc_7.tiff Nikon The Small Magellanic Clouds smc-zoom.tiff Nikon Detail of previous image 30dor_40_BVR.tiff 40 The 30 Dor ... B [OIII] Halpha trifid.tiff 40" The Trifid Nebula. ...

... We still have a long distance to cover before we leave the Milky Way Galaxy -- tens of thousands of lightyears, as a matter of fact -- so let's stop by some interesting objects on the way. ... But we have reached the edge of the Milky Way Galaxy. ... We don't know, but we do know that there are countless voyages left to take. To continue the virtual voyage beyond our galaxy, go to Kent Cheatham's "A Walk in the Stars" at http://www.ionet.net/~cheatham/astro/astrotour.shtml . ...

... 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 . ...

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 . ...

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... Observing . ... Solar Observing . ... April 3 (SUN) - Solar Observing, Central Park , Manhattan . ... APRIL'S SKY . ... Lecture Series at the American Museum of Natural History The Amateur Astronomers Association is proud to present an astronomy lecture series from October through May each year for our members and the .. ... The€аAmateur Astronomers Association of New York€аwas organized in 1927 to promote the study of Astronomy, emphasizing its cultural and inspirational value. ...

Тема : IC 2118 Witch Head Nebula - отражательная туманность Голова ведьмы в созвездии Эридан (Eridanus) .. ... IC 2118 Witch Head Nebula - отражательная туманность Голова ведьмы в созвездии Эридан (Eridanus) .. Туманность Голова ведьмы (IC 2118 Witch Head Nebula) или Большая туманность Пси Эридана (Great Nebula of Psi Eridani) в созвездии Эридан (Eridanus) .. ... Туманность IC 2118 Witch Head Nebula это огромное облако газа и углеродной пыли имеющей голубой цвет .. ... IC 2118 Witch Head Nebula .: ...

... 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. ...

Andromeda Nebula. In the XVIII century the great English astronomer William Gershel included this galaxy into the observed stars congestions. ... What is this nebula interested for? It is a great spiral galaxy 1,5 times more than our galaxy - The Milky Way. The Milky Way and Andromeda Nebula are the greatest objects of the local group of galaxies. ... Andromeda Nebula is not the nearest galaxy to ours but its structure looks like the structure of our Galaxy. ...

... 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 . ...

... The European HST Archive has been moved to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre ( ESAC ), Spain, where most of ESA's Space Science Archives are located and operated from. ... The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), jointly operated by ESA and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) was, until the end of 2010, the European HST science facility, supporting the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

... Two new LBV stars have been discovered in the Andromeda Galaxy. ... In Figure 1 the spectral energy distributions for six stars are shown: upper row - the newly discovered LBV stars, middle row - two well-known LBV stars Var A-1 and AE And, the lower row - two new B[e]-supergiant stars in Andromeda. ... Infrared spectra of the stars in the Andromeda Galaxy: two classical LBVs Var A-1 and AE And, two new LBVs J004526.62 and J004051.59, and two new B[e]-supergiants J004417.10 and J004444.52. ...

... 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 ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... библиотека . архив RSN . ... Ru.Space.News: . Апрель 1998 . ... Дата: 03 апреля 1998 (1998-04-03) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: Hubble Reveals Details Of A Newly Born Planetary Nebula Привет всем! ... STScI-PR98-15 HUBBLE REVEALS DETAILS OF A NEWLY BORN PLANETARY NEBULA Astronomers have caught a peek at a rare moment in the final stages of a star's life: a ballooning shroud of gas cast off by a dying star flicking on its stellar light bulb. ...