... Eagle Eggs in M16 . ... EGGs, short for evaporating gaseous globules, are dense regions of mostly molecular hydrogen gas that fragment and gravitationally collapse to form stars. ... The orange dot in the above false-color drawing represents the current location of the Sun among local gas clouds in the spiral Milky Way Galaxy. ... The Lyman Alpha Forest . ... These gas clouds leave numerous absorption lines in a distant quasar's spectra, together called the Lyman-alpha forest. ... Miranda . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2010 December 29 . Eclipse at Moonset . Image Credit Copyright : Itahisa N. Gonz lez ( Grupo de Observadores Astron micos de Tenerife ) . Explanation: Hugging the horizon, a dark red Moon greeted early morning skygazers in eastern Atlantic regions on December 21, as the total phase of 2010's Solstice Lunar Eclipse began near moonset . ...

... The highlight of the month is the total eclipse of the Moon during the night of December 20/21. ... Listed below are some of the key events, and the times they will occur, during December's total lunar eclipse. ... The eclipse is also visible in its entirety from Alaska (local time is UT тАУ 9 hours) and Hawaii (UT тАУ 10 hours), but be aware that most of the eclipse occurs on the 20th in these two regions. ... Penumbral Eclipse Begins . ... Partial Eclipse Begins . ... Total Eclipse Begins . ...

Total solar eclipse occurs on Friday, 1 August, 2008, in northern Canada, the Arctic, and Asia. The 2008 event will be visible in northern Canada, Greenland, Siberia, Mongolia and parts of China. The path of totality of the 2008 eclipse passes a couple of particularly interesting destinations and cities: Novosibirsk, in Siberia, Barnaul in Southern Siberia in Altai region, and the Altai Mountains region. ... Time of Novosibirsk . ... Solar Eclipse 2008 . Total Eclipse 2008 in Siberia . ...

... Sun images . ... Sun flares . ... Active areas . December : 2015 . ... The following regions with sunspots can be now observed on the Sun's surface . Group number . ... Group length (in degrees) . ... Coordinates and other characteristics of active regions are issued for December 09, 2015 00:31 UT The following H-alpha plages without spots can be currently observed on the Sun's surface . ... Coordinates and other characteristics of active regions are issued for December 09, 2015 00:31 UT . ...

Using the Faraday Effect to Probe Magnetic Fields in HII regions Lisa Harvey-Smith Cosmic Magnetism - From Stellar to Intergalactic Scales Southern Cross Astrophysics Conference Series, Kiama, NSW Wednesday, 16 June 2010 The Big Issues > > Star formation relies on the accumulation of very diffuse material from large volumes. ... Diffuse ISM Molecular Clouds Bn в B n HII regions Crutcher (2008) 2 Wednesday, 16 June 2010 Background Questions: > What is the magnetic field strength in HII regions? ...

... Many of these radi HII regions lie beyond the range of optical detection, at distances exceeding several kpc; they thus provide a comprehensive coverage of the southern HII regions in the Galaxy over the longitude range 210 to 360^o and consistute a vital data base for the study of galactic structure. ... C Caswell (1972) . ... In column 16, "V", or a specific nebula name, denotes the presence of a visible optical counterpart, and "A" indicates the absence of an optical counterpart. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Solar System . Sun . ... March . ... The extent of the solar eclipse of 3 November€а 2013 at 13:22 UTC as seen from Accra, Ghana. We will see a similar sight.€а (Image credit: Kwabena under Creative Commons Licence) . ... Your viewing location is not important as long as it offers an unobstructed view of the south eastern sky.. ... You can use ?eclipse glasses? to view the Sun, these are made from aluminized Mylar filter material. ...

I-GALFA View of a Galactic Tangent Region . ... Image featured in NAIC Newsletter #46 . I-GALFA image of hydrogen gas in a tangent region outside the Sagittarius arm. ... Because we are viewing this gas in a direction closely aligned with (tangent to) its orbital motion, it appears to be moving away from us (we are orbiting the Galactic center with a similar speed, but our own motion in a different direction). ... The gas near 60 degrees longitude is being viewed tangent to its orbital motion. ...

... The close proximity of the Magellanic Clouds allows us to probe the nature of these star forming regions at small spatial scales. ... We present the spatial analysis, via aperture/annulus photometry, of 16 Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and 16 Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) H II region complexes using the Spitzer Space Telescope's IRAC (3.6, 4.5, 8 ЮМm) and MIPS (24, 70, 160 ЮМm) bands. ... The IRAC, MIPS, UV, and HЮБ spatial analysis are compared with the spatial analysis of the TIR. ...

... The Milky Way in the region of the Southern CтАж . ... Title: The Milky Way in the region of the Southern Cross (Crux) and Centaurus rising in the south-east behind the 24-inch dome . ... The Milky Way in the region of the Southern Cross (Crux) and Centaurus rising in the south-east behind the 24-inch dome NOTE: All images are copyright and must not be reproduced or mirrored in any form without written permission. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... News Feed . Dull, Wet November, Much Warmer Than Average . 2015 December 7th . ... Cold, wet August, a little sunnier than average. coldest summer for 29 years . ... New space weather research grant awarded to Armagh Observatory . 2015 August 14th . ... Coldest July for 22 years, duller and wetter than average . ... Bright Fireball on 25th March 2015 . ... Sunny but Cool January, Wetter than Average . ...

... Southern . ... Science Activities > PhD Thesis Topics offered by ESO Faculty Members > Thesis Topic: Discovery and characterisation of Pre Main Sequence stars in southern star forming regions . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... ESO-MIDAS . ... Using a robust method to identify Pre-Main Sequence (PMS) stars through their photometric excess in the Hн± band, we have recently studied the star formation history in several star burst clusters in the Galaxy, Small and Large Magellanic Clouds. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Star Atlas . ... stars . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... An anarchic region of star formation captured . ... RELATED TOPICS: STARS . The star formation region NGC 6559. ... The Danish 1.54-meter telescope located at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) La Silla Observatory in Chile has captured a striking image of NGC 6559, an object that showcases the anarchy that reigns when stars form inside an interstellar cloud. ...

Four spacecraft: INTERBALL Tail probe (IB_TAIL), MAGION 5 (IB_MAG5), POLAR(NASA/ISAS), GEOTAIL (NASA) are considered. ... Orbital ASCII files | ... four spacecraft . ... INTERBALL . ... ASCII files . ... NASA) . ... NASA, ISAS) . ... The four spacecraft . ... INTERBALL mission | ...

... STScI-PRC99-44 HUBBLE TELESCOPE REVEALS SWARM OF GLITTERING STARS IN NEARBY GALAXY NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has peered at a small area within the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) to provide the deepest color picture ever obtained in that satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way. Over 10,000 stars can be seen in the photo, covering a region in the LMC about 130 light-years wide. ... The range of star colors visible in the WFPC2 image reveals the variety of stellar surface temperatures. ...

. True Color Image Gallery: Galactic SNR | Magellanic Cloud SNR . Images show regions used to extract spectra . Regions with red strikes are excluded . Background was subtracted from a region around or close to the SNR. Back to J0454.4-6713 Index . Chandra Supernova Remnant Catalog . Main Page | Galactic SNR | Magellanic Cloud SNR . True Color Image Gallery: Galactic SNR | Magellanic Cloud SNR .

... Plasma sheet is the region of closed field lines in the equatorial magnetotail (however, see also plasmoids ). Plasma sheet is typically divided into plasma sheet proper, or central plasma sheet , and plasma sheet boundary layer (PSBL) , the latter being at higher latitudes adjacent to the tail lobes. ... This is evident both in storms time ring current and substorm time plasma sheet (including late growth and the expansion phases; see, e.g., Daglis et al., ... Res., ... J. Geophys. ...

The SOHO spacecraft currently supplies daily images of the solar corona at 1.1-3, 2-6 and 4-30 solar radii. Are ground-based solar corona observations during total solar eclipses have becoming obsolete nowadays? A quick view of SOHO data shows that it is not perfect in some respects. ... On March 9, 1997 an expedition has been organized by the Russian Academy of Sciences to the Baikal region in Siberia for observation of the total solar eclipse. ... Fig. ... Lens: F = 1m, D = 170 mm . ...

... We report on our ongoing project ``Infrared Study of HII Regions Associated with Small Clouds.' ... These IR data, combined with optical imaging (which will be obtained from the IAC-80 telescope), IRAS survey maps, and existing CO observations of the associated clouds, will allow us to undertake a detailed investigation of the gas-to-dust mass ratio, initial mass function and the star-formation efficiency in these complexes. ... CHECKPSF: check the PSF (Point Spread Function) model, . ...