... 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. ...

... 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 > . ...

... Credit: Steve Mandel Explanation: It's easy to get lost following the intricate filaments in this stunningly detailed image of faint supernova remnant Simeis 147. Seen towards the constellation Taurus it covers nearly 3 degrees (6 full moons) on the sky corresponding to a width of 150 light-years at the stellar debris cloud's estimated distance of 3,000 light-years. ... Publications with keywords: supernova remnant - H-alpha . Publications with words: supernova remnant - H-alpha . ...

... 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. ...

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. ...

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... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Star Clusters . ... Stars@ESO . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... As we close in on part of the small constellation of Corona Australis we start to see faint clouds and in the final part of the video the full glory of the dramatic star formation region NGC 6729 is revealed in a new image from the FORS1 instrument on ESOтАЩs Very Large Telescope. ...

True Color Image Gallery: Galactic SNR | Magellanic Cloud SNR . ... Acknowledgments Notes on Catalog . ... Galactic Supernova Remnants . Magellanic Cloud Supernova Remnants Links to Related Sites . ... Einstein Galactic SNR Catalog . ... Dave Green's Catalog of Supernova Remnants . ... This catalog displays X-ray morphology and spectra of galactic and Magellanic Cloud supernova remnants and some pulsars with associated diffuse emission. ... Chandra Supernova Remnant Catalog . ...

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... 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 ...

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... HI gas in the Magellanic Clouds, . ... The Australian Academy of Science are supporting the 'Elizabeth and Frederick White conference on the Magellanic System'. ... The Magellanic Clouds as a template for the study of stellar populations and galaxy interaction . Download: pdf . ... Dating Young Stellar Objects in the Magellanic Clouds . ... The Extended population of the Large Magellanic Cloud . ... Spectral Diagnostics of newly Discovered Planetary Nebulae in the Large Magellanic Cloud . ...

... 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. ...

... A concrete application is displayed step by step by the command: TUTORIAL/CLOUD . The data used for this example are CaII absorption features observed in the spectrum of SN 1986g in NGC 5128 (observer: S. d'Odorico, instrument: CASPEC). ... Sampling is 0.05? per pixel and the measured instrumental resolution, 17km/s. The final cloud model consists of 12 absorption doublets. The corresponding image includes both components K and H and has been convolved by a gaussian PSF of 0.22? (17km/s) FWHM. ...

... 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. ...

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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. ...

... 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 . ...

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