... NGC 6888: A Tricolor Starfield . ... NGC 6888, also known as the Crescent Nebula, is a cosmic bubble about 25 light-years across, blown by winds from its central, bright, massive star. ... Spiral Galaxy NGC 2403 from Subaru . ... Sprawling spiral arms dotted with bright red emission nebulas highlight this new and detailed image of nearby spiral galaxy NGC 2403. Also visible in the photogenic spiral galaxy are blue open clusters, dark dust lanes, and a bright but relatively small central nucleus. ...

... 2002 February 11 . Reflection Nebula M78 . ... Explanation: An eerie blue glow and ominous columns of dark dust highlight M78 , one of the brightest reflection nebula on the sky. M78 is visible with a small telescope toward the constellation of Orion . The dust not only absorbs light, but also reflects the light of several bright blue stars that formed recently in the nebula. ... M78 is about five light-years across. ... About APOD | ...

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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Space Flight . Human Exploration . Robot Exploration . ... Originally Discovery had been set to launch on 1 November, but this was delayed when fatigue cracks were found in the structure of its External Tank. ... A little bit of trivia is that Discovery has actually made the only shuttle-era Christmas time flight to date, this was STS-103 ,€а a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope in 1999. ...

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... Abstract . ... Aaron S. Evans, State University of New York at Stony Brook . An Ultraviolet Survey of Luminous Infrared Galaxies in the Local Universe . ... The Parallax of the Planet Host Star XO-3 . ... The Recent Star Formation History of SINGS Galaxies . ... Detecting such variations require extemely high signal-to-noise; nonetheless, observations have been extended to a handful of other stars. ... GO 11966: The Recent Star Formation History of SINGS Galaxies . ... Past weeks: . ...

In this gallery are many images of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies which have recently been discovered and analyzed. ... The central surface brightness of this galaxy is 24.28 . Malin 2 This galaxy is another huge disk galaxy with a scale length of 15 kpc and a redshift of 15000 km/a. The high surface brightness knot in one of its spiral arms actually has the same color, luminosity and H-alpha equivalent width as the entire Large Magellanic Cloud . ... Truly it is a Low Surface Brightness Galaxy. ...

Weaving together Astronomy+Statistics+Computer Science+Engineering+Intrumentation, far beyond the growing borders . ... Archive for February 2011 . ... http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/brdi/PGA_060422 . ... Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy V (including summer school & tutorials) . ... Tags: Announcement , astroinformatics , AstroStat , conference . ... Entries RSS . ... Book] The Elements of Statistical Learning, 2nd Ed. mini-Workshop on Computational AstroStatistics [announcement] . ...

... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... ESO Acronyms . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Galaxy Clusters . ... Star Clusters . ... Stars@ESO . ... ESO 3.6-metre telescope . ... This video pan sequence gives a close-up view of one of the brightest star clusters in the sky. This image from the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESOтАЩs La Silla Observatory in Chile, shows Messier 7, also known as NGC 6475. ... 180.0€аMB . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Hey, it's either this or one of those really irritating PayPal donation buttons here. ... I have always loved supernovae, stars that explode. ... Late in the evening of February 23 rd /24 th * , 1987, an astronomer named Ian Shelton was taking images of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. ... Shortly thereafter, Ian Shelton developed the plates he had been taking of the LMC and immediately saw the new star. ...

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... A faint, dusty rose of the northern sky, emission nebula IC 410 lies about 12,000 light-years away in the constellation Auriga. The cloud of glowing hydrogen gas is over 100 light-years across, sculpted by stellar winds and radiation from embedded open star cluster NGC 1893. ... These "tadpoles" (seen just below center) are regions of denser, cooler gas, and more slowly resist the erosive radiation from the hot stars. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2000 February 28 . The Sombrero Galaxy from VLT . ... FORS1 , VLT ANTU , ESO . ... Reasons include the Sombrero 's unusually large and extended central bulge of stars, and dark prominent dust lanes that appear in a disk that we see nearly edge-on. Billions of old stars cause the diffuse glow of the extended central bulge. ... About APOD | ...

One of the goals of ALFALFA (the Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA Survey) is that of verifying whether a significant population of optically faint, baryon rich, low mass systems exists. ... ALFALFA has easily detected the cloud VIRGOHI 21, reported by Davies et al. ... The clouds in the complex appear not to be gravitationally bound to one other, and may represent the remnant of an ancient episode of harassment. ... Davies, J., Minchin, R., Sabatini, S., van Driel, W., Baes, M. et al. ...

. Next: Identification with rotating neutron Up: The discovery of pulsars Previous: The discovery . љ . source lies outside the solar system . distance is typical of stellar distances . source must be very small . possibly a white dwarf or neutron star . astrophysical origin, not ET civilisation . Jon Bell . Thu Dec 19 15:15:11 GMT 1996

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. ...

A team of U.S. and German astrophysicists have made the first ever detection of X-rays coming from a comet. ... Following the initial detection, the team reported repeated X-ray emissions from the comet over the next 24 hours. ... One preliminary theory is that X-ray emission from the Sun was absorbed by a cloud of gaseous water molecules surrounding the nucleus of the comet, and then were re-emitted by the molecules in a process physicists call "fluorescence." ... Comets . ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... Bruce McCandless II (Captain, USN, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (former) . ... He was a member of the astronaut support crew for the Apollo 14 mission and was backup pilot for the first manned Skylab mission (SL-1/SL-2). ... A veteran of two space flights, McCandless has logged over 312 hours in space, including 4 hours of MMU flight time. ... With the completion of this flight McCandless logged 191 hours in space (including 4 hours of MMU flight time). ...

... Its perihelion would occur on April 1, 1997, at which point the comet would be only 0.92 astronomical units from the Sun, just within the orbit of Earth. ... Taken in April 1993, the photo showed the comet over 13 astronomical units from the Sun, well beyond the orbit of Saturn. ... Hale, as in Comet Hale-Bopp, has written a book, Everybody's Comet (available through the ASP Catalog) and coordinated an Internet project, "Hale-Bopp: Live in the American Classroom." ... Anatomy of a comet. ...

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