... December 31, 1997 . NGC 5307: A Symmetric Planetary Nebula . Credit: H. Bond ( STScI ) R. Ciardullo ( Penn State ), WFPC2 , HST , NASA . ... For example, every major blob of gas visible on the upper left of NGC 5307 appears to have a counterpart on the lower right. ... NGC 5307 is an example of a planetary nebula with a spiral shape. ... It takes light about 10,000 years to reach us from NGC 5307 , and about 6 months just to go from one side to the other. ... About APOD > . ...

... Stars . ... Dark Nebula: The Taurus Molecular Cloud, in the constellation of Taurus (The Bull), lies about 450 light years from Earth. This image is a composite of observations made with submillimetre wavelengths, which reveal the heat glow of the molecular cloud (shown in orange tones) and in visible light to reveal the rich background of stars. Image credit: ESO/APEX (MPIfR/ESO/OSO)/A. Hacar et al./ ... The Orion nebula is a very famous nebula and we know that it is full of stars. ...

... The newly discovered example of a ring-shaped planetary nebula is about 15,000 light-years distant. ... Planetary nebulae are created by sun-like stars in a final phase of stellar evolution. But the Necklace Nebula's central star, near the center of a ring strongly tilted to our line of sight, has also been shown to be binary , a close system of two stars with an orbital period of just over a day. ... Those clouds were likely ejected about 5,000 years before the clouds forming the necklace. ...

... STScI-PRC97-38b HUBBLE'S PLANETARY NEBULA GALLERY [Top left] - IC 3568 lies in the constellation Camelopardalis at a distance of about 9,000 light-years, and has a diameter of about 0.4 light-years (or about 800 times the diameter of our solar system). ... Credits: Howard Bond (Space Telescope Science Institute), Robin Ciardullo (Pennsylvania State University) and NASA [Top center] - NGC 6826's eye-like appearance is marred by two sets of blood-red "fliers" that lie horizontally across the image. ...

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 . ...

There is often dust associated with ionized regions. Compact HII regions usually have associated dust from a molecular cloud in which the massive star is being "born". ... For such stars the dust is not produced by the star, and a variety of dust features are observed. The planetary nebulae also usually have associated dust from the previous stage of evolution where they were either carbon stars or M-type giants. ... The feature near 11.5 microns in the IC 418 spectrum may be due to SiC dust. ...

... GSAOI Home . ... Science . ... Despite vast increase in our understanding of the evolutionary nature of planetary nebulae (PNe) during the last three decades, a central question remains: where is the missing mass? Theoretical evolutionary tracks predict that all stars with masses in the range 1.4-8 M Sun should become PNe. ... Clearly, much of the mass of the planetary nebula shell must remain un-ionized, and much of it may be in molecular form. ... The Magellanic Cloud PNe are ideal for this. ...

... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... ESO's Governing Bodies . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Green ESO . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Star Clusters . ... Stars@ESO . ... View shopping cart . ... ESO 3.6-metre telescope . ... MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope . ... ESO 1-metre Schmidt telescope . ... VST . ... The glowing jumble of gas clouds visible in new image make up a huge stellar nursery nicknamed the Prawn Nebula. ... Milky Way : Nebula : Type : Star Formation . ...

... 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 . ...

... Here is a brief outline of the current theory of the events in the early history of the solar system: . A cloud of interstellar gas and/or dust (the "solar nebula") is disturbed and collapses under its own gravity. ... The gas cools off enough for the metal, rock and (far enough from the forming star) ice to condense out into tiny particles. (i.e. some of the gas turns back into dust). ... Once the larger of these particles get big enough to have a nontrivial gravity, their growth accelerates. ...

... In typical nightly use, the wide field and planetary telescope and cameras record images of favorably placed objects in the sky, including constellations, bright variable stars, nebulae through narrow-band filters, comets, the Moon, and planets. ... Shared Skies telescopes are available for use by students at the University of Louisville and the University of Southern Queensland, and by teachers and students in middle and high schools mentored by faculty at the universities. ...

... The Tarantula Nebula , also known as 30 Doradus and NGC 2070 , is a large region of ionized gas surrounding a collection of newly-forming stars at the eastern end of the stellar bar in the Large Magellanic Cloud (many similar regions are scattered through the LMC; see Kennicutt et al. ... The false-color image above is a log-scale display of a mosaic of several images taken with a CCD camera on the 0.6m Curtis Schmidt telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in December 1994. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... space flight . ... Life and death in a star-forming cloud . W44 is the product of a massive star that has reached the end of its life, and all that remains of the stellar behemoth is the spinning core of a neutron star and a supernova remnant. ... W44, located around 10,000 light-years away within a forest of dense star-forming clouds in the constellation Aquila the Eagle, is one of the best examples of a supernova remnant interacting with its parent molecular cloud. ...

2012 A Broadband Study of the Emission from the Composite Supernova Remnant MSH 11-62 (P. Slane et al.) ... 2012 Infrared imaging and polarimetric observations of the pulsar wind nebula in G21.5-0.9 (A. Zajczyk et al.) ... 2009 High-resolution X-ray Observations of the Pulsar Wind Nebula Associated with the Gamma-ray Source HESS J1640-465 (A. Lemiere, P. Slane, B.M. Gaensler, S.S. Murray) - ApJ, 706, 1269 . ... 1995 Soft X-Ray Emission From Selected Isolated Pulsars (P. Slane N. Lloyd) ApJ 452, L115 . ...

DICKEL, J.R., GREEN, A., YE, T. & MILNE, D.K. "The supernova remnant RCW 103 at radio wavelengths". AJ , 111 , 340-345 (1996). ... GAENSLER, B.M., MANCHESTER, R.N., STAVELEY-SMITH, L., TZIOUMIS, A.K., REYNOLDS, J.E. & KESTEVEN, M.J. "The asymmetric radio remnant of SN 1987A". ... GAENSLER, B.M. "The nature of bilateral supernova remnants". ... GAENSLER, B.M., MANCHESTER, R.N. & GREEN, A.J. "Radio continuum and HI observations of supernova remnant G296.8-00.3". ... ApJ, 543, 840-849 (2000). ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . July 28th marks the 125th anniversary of the erection of the 10-inch Grubb refracting telescope at the Armagh Observatory. ... Dreyer used the telescope extensively over the next thirty years, especially while confirming some of the details of nebulae and star clusters for his venerable NGC catalogue, that is, A New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars, published in 1888 by the Royal Astronomical Society. ...

... Date : the picture was taken on December 14th 1998 . Location : Courroux / Ju (Switzerland) . Equipement : telescope Celestron Ultima 8 operating at F/D=6.3 camera CCD ST7 operating at high resolution autoguided mode . Exposures : 6 exposures of 10 minutes each . Pictures treatment : logarithmic . Software : Prism98 version 3.0 for acquisition and treatment of the pictures . ... 2822 Courroux . ... David Bishop Last modified: Wed Dec 16 13:55:05 EST 1998 ...

Life Story of a Star Tour // //(c) 1999 Meade Instruments ////////////////////////////////////// TITLE "A Star's Life" AUTO SELECT TEXT "Introduction" "Stars, like everything else in the" "universe are born, live out their lives and die. ... Press MODE to view a ""stellar nursery""." AUTO SLEW ON PICK ONE AUTO SELECT USER 05:38:42 -69d06m "The Nursery" "The Tarantula" "Nebula is an example of a stellar nursery. Press MODE to continue" "the tour." ... Press MODE to view a middle aged star." ...

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2014 May version . ... Green D. A., 2014 , Bulletin of the Astronomical Society of India, 42 , 47-58. ( .pdf , or arXiv.org:1409.0637 ) If you make use of the detailed version of the catalogue, then plaese also cite: . Green D. A., 2014, `A Catalogue of Galactic Supernova Remnants (2014 May version)' , Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, United Kingdom (available at "http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/surveys/snrs/" ). ... Copyright D. A. Green 2014. 25872nd access to this version of the catalogue. ...