NGC 3370: A Sharper View . ... Credit Copyright: Hubble Heritage Team , A. Riess ( STScI ) NASA Explanation: Similar in size and grand design to our own Milky Way , spiral galaxy NGC 3370 lies about 100 million light-years away toward the constellation Leo. ... Looking within NGC 3370, the image data has proved sharp enough to study individual pulsating stars known as Cepheids which can be used to accurately determine this galaxy's distance. ... U. Based on Astronomy Picture Of the Day ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2005 May 14 . NGC 3370: A Sharper View . Credit: Hubble Heritage Team , A. Riess ( STScI ) NASA . Explanation: Similar in size and grand design to our own Milky Way , spiral galaxy NGC 3370 lies about 100 million light-years away toward the constellation Leo. ... About APOD | ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ...

... Armagh Planetarium . ... Universe . ... Posted on January 29, 2014 | ... Continue Reading.. ... No Comments Teachers from across Northern Ireland have come together to learn how to build and launch their own rockets. ItтАЩs all part of an initiative deriving from a new тАШSpace Science [ ] . ... Hello, IтАЩm Colin, welcoming you to Astronotes, the PlanetariumтАЩs official blog. Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

... It turns out one possibility is a form of matter/energy invented by Einstein in the 1920s to make sure his equations of General Relativity did not predict the Expansion of the Universe. Although Einstein was willing to predict several things with his equations of General Relativity, he obviously thought an expanding Universe was too much, and so he invented the Cosmological Constant, which repels itself, and was meant to balance the force of gravity, and make the Universe static. ...

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. ...

... Stellar Evolution is driven entirely by the never ending battle between Pressure and Gravity . As imbalances are reached, the star is driven to find a new Energy source. ... Pressure and gravitational forces are equal, the star is stable and its core is sufficiently hot to fuse Hydrogen into Helium More about main sequence stars . ... The luminosity generated by the core fusion of Helium into Carbon is far greater than the shell luminosity associated with the fusion of Hydrogen into Helium. ...

ACS Insturment Handbook for Cycle 24 . ... Dithering and CR-SPLIT ing more than the minimum recommended values tends to yield higher quality images with fewer residual detector defects, hot pixels or CR signatures in the final combined image. ... Thus, the optimal number of sub-exposures is a result of a trade-off between completeness of the hot pixel elimination, CR-rejection, final image quality, and optimal S/N. A schematic flow chart of this trade-off is given in Figure 7.2 . ...

Two groups are measuring distant supernovae with the goal of determining whether the Universe is open or closed by measuring the curvature in the Hubble diagram. The figure below shows both data sets: Perlmutter et al. (1997) and (1998) in black and Garnavich et al. (1997) in orange. The curves show a closed Universe (Omega = 2) in red, the critical density Universe (Omega = 1) in black, the empty Universe (Omega = 0) in green, and the steady state model in blue. ... Tutorial : Part 1 | ...

... The exercises are now available on the web and in six booklets (100 pages in total), titled: . ... Exercise 1: Measuring the Distance to Supernova 1987A", . Exercise 2: The Distance to Messier 100 as Determined by Cepheid Variable Stars", . Exercise 3: Measuring the Distance to the Cat's Eye Nebula" and . Exercise 4: Measuring a Globular Star Cluster's Distance and Age". ... More exercises will follow in the future. ... Exercise 3 - Measuring the Distance to the Cat's Eye Nebula . ...

The merging galaxy Arp 220 is the prototypical luminous infrared galaxy. ... In 1996, one of the then largest VLBI experiments was conducted on Arp 220, using the compact OH maser peak as a convenient phase reference. This permitted continuum imaging of the galaxy with high sensitivity, revealing the existence of roughly a dozen unresolved sub-mJy point sources scattered across the nuclear region of the galaxy. ... The nuclear region of Arp 220 imaged with continuum VLBI at 18 cm. ...

Next: - for Supernova Explosions Up: Evolution of Supernova Explosion Previous: The Supernovae Rates . ... For a homogeneous space distribution of sources, - is a linear law with slope 3/2 (in other words, because and , where R is a distance to sample source). ... Then, for the homogeneous space distribution of sources, the - dependence would be , where C is some constant. However, for distant objects - depends not only on the space distribution of the sources, but also on some other factors. ...

... This example uses an error array to determine the errors in the radial profile. task: imcnts . ... xs imcnts err=vigsnr_err expo=xdata$snr_exp.pl expthr=95.0 bkgdex=xdata$snr_exp bkgdth=95.0 bkgderr=vigsnr_err # Run the imcnts task with the appropriate parameters source image file : vigsnr # vigsnr.imh source region descriptor: a 300 300 0 50 n=5 # 5 annuli centered at 300 , 300 , 0 and 50 pixels min/max radius background image file or cts/pixel: cr # From the same ...

. I was organizing my images today and came across one 1998S taken on the evening of Apr.5,98 (Cookbook245 on 8 inch. SCT, stacked 3 x 4 min. (unfiltered)). This jpg image covers approx. 60% of the original field of view. Hope you like it! . Jan Wisniewski, jwisn@netcom.ca . Back to Supernovae in NGC and IC galaxies . Back to Supernova 1998S images . David Bishop Last modified: Tue Oct 6 12:11:18 EDT 1998

... ESO is building what will be the World's largest optical telescope array, The Very Large Telescope (VLT). The VLT Project organisation is responsible for the design and construction of the Unit Telescopes, including enclosures, optics, adapter-rotators and coating unit. ... Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ...

... STScI-PRC95-11 FOR RELEASE: February 20, 1995 HUBBLE'S CLOSE-UP VIEW OF A SHOCKWAVE FROM A STELLAR EXPLOSION This image shows a small portion of a nebula called the "Cygnus Loop." ... Blue shows emission from "doubly ionized" oxygen atoms (atoms that have had two electrons stripped away) produced by the heat behind the shock front. ... This sulfur emission arises well behind the shock front, in gas that has had a chance to cool since the passage of the shock. ...

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23rd of June 2015 . The supernova remnant Puppis A . ... Puppis A is the remnant of a supernova explosion which occurred several thousand years ago and now appears as a shell of ~1 deg diameter. This composite picture displays the radio continuum emission (red) obtained by combining Parkes and broadband ATCA observations, with a visible light (green) background from the Digital Sky Survey. ... today * ATNF | Parkes | ATCA | ...

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... The event, a Type II supernova explosion, would have briefly dominated the night sky on Earth. ... Popularly known as the Veil Nebula, NGC 6960, NGC 6992, and NGC 6995 together constitute the corpse of a single supergiant star that perished in that supernova explosion. ... Such stars age about 1,000 times faster than does our Sun. ... Each nuclear-fusion stage releases energy and helps the star fight the ever-present pull of gravity. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

This page provides explanatory text for the dials shown on the Rice Current Solar Wind Conditions and Current Solar Wind Conditions (Dials Only) webpage. These dials use the last good received set of measurements from the Real Time Solar Wind package on the Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) spacecraft. ... Measured) This quantity is the number of solar wind protons per unit volume as measured by the ACE Solar Wind Electron Proton Alpha Monitor (SWEPAM) . ... It is measured by ACE/SWEPAM. ...