... Massive stars (tens of times the mass of the Sun) profoundly affect their galactic environment. ... Supernova Remnant: Cooking Elements In The LMC . ... Since Neptune receives only 3 percent the sunlight Jupiter does, they expected to find a dormant, dark, frigid planet. ... The first close-up of Neptune's clouds was provided by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft during its August 1989 flyby, giving a tantalizingly brief look. Southern Lights and Shuttle Glow . ... The Tails of Comet Hyakutake . ...

... 2003 August 11 . Elements of the Swan Nebula . ... Explanation: In the depths of the dark clouds of dust and molecular gas known as M17 , stars continue to form. Also known as the Omega Nebula and Horseshoe Nebula, the darkness of M17's molecular clouds results from background starlight being absorbed by thick filaments of carbon-based smoke-sized dust . As bright massive stars form, they produce intense and energetic light that slowly boils away the dark shroud. ... About APOD | ...

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Next: Low-Mass Star Formation Up: M.D. Smith Previous: M.D. Smith Contents . Massive stars are of elevated importance in our Universe for several reasons. ... During their lives, they influence the nurseries in which new stars might form. ... He and Michael Smith investigated the consequences of massive star formation in one such region of our Galaxy. They uncovered that massive stars are forming in the Rosette Molecular Complex at a rate way beyond previous expectations. ...

... Measurement of the MASS detectors parameters with mass program January 24, 2015 [112707] . MASS/DIMM electronics. ... Turbina-core(D): Dimm User Guide. ... N.Shatsky, V.Kornilov, The revision of the MASS/DIMM star catalogue. ... О.Возякова, В.Корнилов, Н.Шатский, Новое программное обеспечение прибора MASS/DIMM. ... V.Kornilov, N.Shatsky, S.Potanin, O.Voziakova, B.Safonov Preliminary results of astroclimate parameters measurements at the Sternberg 2.5m telescope installation site. ...

... STScI-PRC00-30 HUBBLE PEEKS INTO A STELLAR NURSERY IN A NEARBY GALAXY NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has peered deep into a neighboring galaxy to reveal details of the formation of new stars. Hubble's target was a newborn star cluster within the Small Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy that is a satellite of our own Milky Way. ... Astronomers are especially keen to study star formation in the Small Magellanic Cloud, because its chemical composition is different from that of the Milky Way. ...

... PhD Thesis Topics offered by ESO Faculty Members > Thesis Topic: Testing the non-universality of the low-mass end of the Initial Mass Function in massive Early-Type Galaxies . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... ESO-MIDAS . ... The stellar initial mass function (IMF) in early-type galaxies and the internal distribution of their dark and luminous mass are two of the deepest and most puzzling open issues in modern astrophysics, each of great importance to our understanding of galaxy formation. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Earth Satellites . ... Sadly C/ 2014 Q2 will probably not be as spectacular a sight as Comet C/ 2011 W3 (Lovejoy), visible near Earth?s horizon in this nighttime image from the International Space Station on 22 December 2011. ... The comet made its closest approach to Earth on 7€а January 2015, at a distance of 72 million km (45 million miles).€а In January the comet will race though the constellations Eridanus, Taurus, Aries and Triangulum. ...

The H II complex N 44 in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) provides an excellent site to perform a detailed study of star formation in a mild starburst, as it hosts three regions of star formation at different evolutionary stages, and it is not as complicated and confusing as the 30 Doradus giant H II region. We have obtained Spitzer Space Telescope observations and complementary ground-based 4 m uBVIJK observations of N 44 to identify candidate massive young stellar objects (YSOs). ...

... Neptune is smaller in diameter but larger in mass than Uranus . ... N eptune has been visited by only one spacecraft, Voyager 2 on Aug 25 1989. ... A t the time of the Voyager encounter, Neptune's most prominent feature was the Great Dark Spot (left) in the southern hemisphere. ... Neptune's winds blew the Great Dark Spot westward at 300 meters/second (700 mph). ... L ike Uranus and Jupiter, Neptune's rings are very dark but their composition is unknown. ... Neptune's Ring System . ... Uranus .. ...

... Galactic Centre with a Phased Array Feed Using Rotation Measure Synthesis to Probe the Intrinsic Magnetoionic Environments of AGN Time Session 1 - Chair : E 10:00 10:15 10:30 Speaker mily Petroff Vanessa Moss Ayna Musaeva Graeme Wong 10:45 Sarah Hagerty 11:00 Craig Anderson 11:15am Morning Tea Session 2 - Chair : Craig Anderson 11:45 Vikram Ravi 12:00 Dusty Madison 12:15 Emily ...

... self-absorption - the absorption of light shining on an object by a process similar to that which produced the light originally; if a cloud emits less light than it absorbs from other clouds behind it, this net loss of light, termed self-absorption , causes the foreground cloud to appear darker than the background field (the term is from spectroscopy, where small absorption dips sometimes occur in larger emission lines, making the latter look as if it is absorbing part of itself) . ... HISA Main ...

... Spanish translation of "Stargazers" by J. M. Mendez and Horacio Chavez . ... Astronomy of the Earth's motion in space: . ... The Path of the Sun, the Ecliptic . ... 4b. Optional: Libration of the Moon . ... Kepler's 3 Laws of Planetary Motion ," a one-hour overview lecture to teachers presented 23 March 2005. Guide to the sections on Kepler's Laws which follow below. ... 11a. Ellipses and Kepler's First Law . ... Kepler's Second Law . 12a. More on Kepler's Second Law . ... Kepler's Third Law . ...

... Robert L. Stewart (Brigadier General, USA, Ret.) ... SPECIAL HONORS: Awarded Army Distinguished Service Medal , Defense Superior Service Medal , 2 Legion of Merit, 4 Distinguished Flying Crossed, a Bronze Star, a Meritorious Service Medal , 33 Air Medals, the Army Commendation Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster and V Device, 2 Purple Hearts, the National Defense Service Medal , the Armed Forces Expeditionary Recipient of NASA Space Flight Medal (1984 & 1985). ...

Some astronomers ignore low-mass stars because they aren t very bright. However, stars with initial masses between about 0.8 Msun and 8 Msun (AGB stars) play an important role as the main site of the slow neutron capture (s-)process, which produces roughly half of the elements heavier than iron. ... From this work, we will see have a better understanding of AGB nucleosynthesis, the chemical evolution of globular clusters, and the properties of helium-rich stars. ...

Distant quasars serve as distant lighthouse beacons that shine through the gas-rich "fog" of hot plasma encircling galaxies. At ultraviolet wavelengths, Hubble's Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) is sensitive to absorption from many ionized heavy elements, such as nitrogen, oxygen, and neon. COS's high sensitivity allows many galaxies that happen to lie in front of the much more distant quasars to be studied. ...

. The osculating elements of all perturbing planets and their inverse masses used in DE 405 are given in the Table on p. 5733. They can be applied in continued numerical integration. For Ceres, Pallas, and Vesta the osculating elements correspond to those in the Table on p. 824. On the same page values of some constants used when preparing ephemeris volume are given. Also Julian Day Number for some dates in 2014 – 2016 are given there.

... Our recent observations with the Hubble Space Telescope (August 29, 2014) led to revealing a highly isolated dwarf spheroidal galaxy KKs 3 situated at a distance of 2.12 0.07 Mpc from the Milky Way. The dSph galaxy locates on the southern sky (RA=02 h 24 m 44.4 s , Dec.= ... Over the last decade, about 30 dSph galaxies have been discovered inside the Local Group through systematic search in the vicinity of M31 and more that a dozen dSphs were discovered in the nearby group around M81. ...