... Many bright nebulae and star clusters in planet Earth's sky are associated with the name of astronomer Charles Messier, from his famous 18th century catalog. ... NGC 6903: The Butterfly Nebula . ... The Nebula's glowing gas surrounds hot young stars at the edge of an immense interstellar molecular cloud. Curiosity: Wheels on Mars . ... The Eagle Nebula and the Swan Nebula span this broad starscape, a telescopic view of the Sagittarius spiral arm toward the center of our Milky Way galaxy. ...

... We sometimes use the word "nebula" to refer to galaxies, various types of star clusters and various kinds of interstellar dust/gas clouds. ... Early in this century, there was a great debate as to the nature of the nebulae like this one which at that time could not be resolved into individual stars. ... A typical galaxy is 100,000 light-years in diameter. ... M 42 shown) Reflection nebulae are clouds of dust which are simply reflecting the light of a nearby star or stars. ... M 1 shown) . ...

One of my on-going research interests concerns the dust shells of proto-planetary nebulae or PPNs (also called pre-planetary nebulae, transition objects, and post-AGB objects in the literature; the latter term also applies to a wider selection of objects such as RV Tauri stars), especially the carbon-rich ones that show the unidentified "21 micron' emission feature. ... I am working to find a complete sample of proto-planetary nebulae in these satellite galaxies from the millions of detected stars. ...

Next: Carbon stars Up: OTHER HYDROGEN-DEFICIENT STARS Previous: Extreme helium stars and . V348sgr may be more closely related to about twenty hydrogen-deficient central stars of planetary nebulae which have similar carbon abundances ( ) and strong emission line spectra ([ Leuenhagen et al. 1995 ], [ Leuenhagen & Hamann 1997 ]). ... Hydrogen-deficient and carbon-rich knots are seen in the inner nebulae of at least two objects (Abell 30 and Abell 78). ...

... Science Users Information > Science Activities > PhD Thesis Topics offered by ESO Faculty Members > Thesis Topic: Planetary Nebulae and HII regions in the Elliptical Galaxy NGC 5128 . ... NGC 5128 is the closest example of a giant early type (elliptical or S0) galaxy. Although often dubbed as a peculiar elliptical galaxy since it has a dust lane with recent star formation and an active galactic nucleus, the majority of early type galaxies have similar structures as revealed by recent surveys. ...

... B. Vicini, A. Natta, A. Marconi, L. Testi, D. Hollenbach, B.T. Draine . 1998, A&A, in press . ... 1998, ApJ, in press . ... L. Testi, F. Palla, A. Natta . ... Francesco Palla . 1998, The Physics of Star Formation and Early Stellar Evolution, eds. C.J. Lada and N. Kylafis, in press . ... 1998, in "The Molecular Astrophysics of Stars and Galaxies - A Volume Honouring Alexander Dalgarno", edited by T. W. Hartquist and D. A. Williams, Oxford University Press, in press . ... Star Formation Group . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Nebulae . ... Telescopes and Observatories . Space Flight . ... Posted on July 28, 2015 | ... These are M8 and the Lagoon Nebula. ... Continue Reading.. Posted on August 20, 2013 | ... Posted on February 21, 2013 | No Comments A new image from the European southern ObservatoryтАЩs Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy €а(VISTA) telescope reveals the glowing clouds of gas and filaments of dust surrounding hot young [ ] . ...

Lectures . ... 100 Years of Cosmology: From Spiral Nebulae to the Cosmic Microwave Background.тАЭ ? ... Michael Way, astronomer/computer scientist at NASAтАЩs Ames Research Center and its Goddard Institute of Space Studies, will give the first lecture of the AAAтАЩs 2009-10 lecture series Friday, October 2 when he discusses тАЬ100 Years of Cosmology: From Spiral Nebulae to the Cosmic Microwave Background.тАЭ The free public lecture is at 6:15 p. m. at the Kaufmann Theater of the AMNH. by . ...

... 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. ...

home publications > mercury . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... ASP Conference Series . ... Publications of the ASP (PASP) . ... Planetary Nebulae: Shrouds of Mystery . ... But to the astronomers who study these stellar shrouds, planetary nebulae offer a treasure trove of fascination and mystery. ... Astronomers later associated planetary nebulae with their hot central stars, leading to the erroneous assumption that they are young, because young stars are often hot. ...

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . News | ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Two New Planetary Nebulae and an AGN in the . Galactic Plane . ... A search for planetary nebulae was carried out using candidates selected by their infrared colours and 5 GHz radio emission. One new planetary nebula was identified on the basis of its small angular size, strong [OIII] emission and infrared colours. ... Keywords: planetary nebulae: general -- galaxies: active -- galaxies: Seyfert . ...