... The Chameleon's Dark Nebulae . ... Boasting no bright stars, it blends inconspicuously with the starry southern sky. ... This skyscape recorded on July 11 from Brittany in north western France captures the bright conjunction through a cloud bank. ... A Cosmic Call to Nearby Stars . ... The familiar Eagle Nebula glows bright in many colors at once. ... Connecting the Pipe Nebula to the colorful regon near bright star Antares is a dark cloud dubbed the Dark River, flowing from the picture's left edge....

... 2006 July 14 . The Colorful Clouds of Rho Ophiuchi . ... Explanation: This stunning mosiac of the sky around bright stars Antares (Alpha Scorpii ) and Rho Ophiuchi reveals spectacular colors in a cosmic starscape. ... About 500 light-years away, the Rho Ophiuchi star clouds , are well in front of the nearby globular star cluster M4 , visible just below and right of center. ... About APOD | ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...

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. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... The rich colors of a cosmic seagull . ... The Seagull Nebula lies just on the border between the constellations Monoceros the Unicorn and Canis Major the Great Dog and is close to Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky. ... By chance, this nebula lies close in the sky to the Thorт??s Helmet Nebula (NGC 2359). ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this...

Below is the sample image and caption given out at the AAS meeting. ... Dark, sinuous clouds of cold hydrogen gas reveal themselves as shadows against the glow of warmer, brighter clouds in the background. ... This image, made with radio telescopes at the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory near Penticton, British Columbia, was presented to the American Astronomical Society meeting in Austin, TX on January 8, 1999. PHOTO CREDIT: Steven Gibson and Russ Taylor of the University of Calgary. ...

... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... ESO's Governing Bodies . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Green ESO . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Star Clusters . ... Stars@ESO . ... View shopping cart . ... ESO 3.6-metre telescope . ... MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope . ... ESO 1-metre Schmidt telescope . ... VST . ... The glowing jumble of gas clouds visible in new image make up a huge stellar nursery nicknamed the Prawn Nebula. ... Milky Way : Nebula : Type : Star Formation . ...

Making HST Pictures: Examples and Illustrations . ... These illustrations represent some of the steps and techniques used to produce “pretty pictures” from HST images. ... TIFFs (ftp) . ... Separate images are exposed through different color filters. ... An alternate way to make color images . ... Eight bit (one byte) images contain 256 different values that may be represented by 256 shades of gray or 256 arbitrary colors from a color map (or palette) of all possible colors. ...

... August 6, 1998 . Infrared Horsehead . ... Explanation: This famous cosmic dust cloud was imaged in infrared light by the European Space Agency's Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) satellite. The false-color picture shows the bright infrared emission from dust and molecular gas in part of the Orion star forming region surrounding the Horsehead Nebula . In visible light, the horsehead-shaped dust cloud looks dark against a background of bright glowing gas. ... About APOD > . ...

True Color Image Gallery: Galactic SNR | Magellanic Cloud SNR . ... Chandra Proposer's Guide pile up section ] During frame readout, the ACIS CCDs take 40 microsec to (parallel) transfer the charge by one pixel. As a result of this, each frame readout, each pixel is exposed for 40 microsec to a source (plus cosmic X-ray background) at each location along its column. ... Note also that the image does not just trail, it extends along the whole column. ... Chandra Supernova Remnant Catalog . ...

... 11 Yellow-Green (78% transmission): Contrasts well with the red and blue characteristics of surface features on Jupiter and Saturn. ... 82A Light Blue (73% transmission): Useful on the Moon, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, this subtle pale blue filter enhances areas of low contrast while avoiding significant reduction of overall image brightness. ... Meade Series 4000 Photo-Visual Color Filters may be ordered individually or in the following sets: . ... Meade Series 4000 Broadband Nebular Filters . ...

B?rbel Koribalski (ATNF) + HIPASS and ZOA teams . Velocities are color coded in bins of 1000 km/s: . dark blue . ... light blue . cross . 1000 . green . ... HVCs? ... All the new galaxies, most of which are at |b| All the new galaxies are marked in blue, HI clouds in green and HVCs in orange. (plot by Malte Marquarding, aips++). bkoribal @ atnf.csiro.au ...

Uranus . ... Miranda . ... 1998 image from HST showing bright clouds html . ... Two views of Uranus' darkspot 107k gif ; 40k jpg . normal and false color views 102k gif ; 40k jpg . ... Infrared image of Uranus B 33k gif . Infrared image of Uranus 2 B 37k gif . Infrared image of Uranus 3 B 56k gif . ... Infrared image of Uranus 5 B 43k gif . Infrared image of Uranus 6 B 34k gif . Infrared image of Uranus 7 B 36k gif . ... Uranus' rings (false color) 78k gif ; 35k jpg ; 211k gif . ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... Exploring the Cosmic Dawn . ... Cosmic reionization corresponds to the epoch in which the first stars€а and black holes reionize the neutral intergalactic medium (IGM) that€аpervades the Universe following recombination, within a few hundred€аmillion years of the Big Bang. The epoch of reionization, and the€аpreceding ?dark ages? prior to the formation of the first stars,€аrepresent the last unexplored phases of cosmic evolution to be tested€аand explored. ...

... 1994: . Deep CCD images of the bright gamma-ray bursts GRB790418 and GRB790613 localization regions were obtained for the first time. In both cases, a faint blue star-like object (V = 24.5 m , BV m ) was detected within the region of localization of gamma-ray bursts. ... Based on sixty daily instantaneous spectra of the object SS433, obtained on the RATAN-600 in April-May 1994, we traced its variability in four very powerful flares at five frequencies. ... Archive . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... When Venus is on the far side of the Sun, we see the entire near side lit by the Sun. ... When it is on the near side of the Sun, it shows a beautiful thin crescent, because it is between us and the Sun and we see the mostly unlit dark half. ... To see this for yourself, draw a circle one centimeter across, then, next to it, draw a circle 6 centimeters across. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... SKY IN THE HIGH-ENERGY GAMMA-RAYS ACCORDING TO THE DATA OF SAS-2 (1972-1973), COS B (1975-1982), GAMMA 1 (1990-1992) AND EGRET (1991-2000) . ... View of the sky in the gamma-rays of energy above 100 Mev according to the EGRET data. The small bright spots correspond to compact sources. ... COMPACT SOURCES . Compact high-energy gamma-ray sources according to the 3-d EGRET catalog. ... Unidentified sources . ... previous page . next page . main page . CYGAM (PDF, 450 Kb) . ...

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... LMC Project Outline . NGC 1818 Initial Results . ... The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is uniquely suitable for the study of massive star clusters at all stages of evolution. By combining HST observations of these clusters with N-body models we hope to understand the origin and evolution of rich star clusters in our own Galaxy, in the LMC, and beyond. ... We aim to combine our HST observations with N-body models to understand the formation and evolution of globular clusters. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Our Galaxy . Milky Way . Stars . ... Other Galaxies . ... Barred spiral galaxy NGC 6744 is located in a constellation of the southern hemisphereтАЩs sky, called Pavo (Latin for peacock). At a distance from our Solar System of about 30 million light years, NGC 6744 is not only one of the closest spiral galaxies but is thought to be one of the visible galaxies most like our own Milky Way. Is it our cosmic doppelganger? ...

The upper image above shows a 3 color image of the sky with RED=3.5 microns, GREEN=2.2 microns and BLUE=1.25 microns. ... The lowest level is 3.95 kJy/sr at 3.5 microns, 6.67 kJy/sr at 2.2 microns, and 7.08 kJy/sr at 1.25 microns for the upper and middle images, but 0.395 kJy/sr for the lower image. ... The lowest level is 223.2 kJy/sr at 240 microns, 555.3 kJy/sr at 100 microns, and 508.2 kJy/sr at 60 microns for the upper and middle images, but 30.7 kJy/sr for the lower image. ...