... The Cosmic Web of the Tarantula Nebula . ... Located in the Large Magellanic Cloud , a small satellite galaxy orbiting our Milky Way galaxy, the region 's spidery appearance is responsible for its popular name, the Tarantula nebula . ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ... Publications with keywords: Large Magellanic Cloud - LMC - Tarantula Nebula - star formation . Publications with words: Large Magellanic Cloud - LMC - Tarantula Nebula - star formation . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2014 February 17 . The Cosmic Web of the Tarantula Nebula . ... Were it placed at the distance of Milky Way's Orion Nebula , only 1,500 light-years distant and the nearest stellar nursery to Earth, it would appear to cover about 30 degrees (60 full moons ) on the sky. ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply . ...

... Feeding the Monster: Gas Caught in its Death Spiral into a Massive Black Hole . ... Stromlo Professor Mike Dopita have used the Hubble Space Telescope to discover how a massive Black Hole in a nearby galaxy feeds itself. ... Earlier Hubble Telescope data obtained by another team member, Professor Holland Ford of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, had found a disk of gas rushing around the Black Hole at a speed of 500 kilometers a second. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... This image of the Tarantula Nebula comprises one of the largest mosaics ever assembled from Hubble photos and includes observations taken by HubbleтАЩs Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys, combined with observations from the European Southern ObservatoryтАЩs MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope which trace the location of glowing hydrogen and oxygen. ... Subscribe to Astronotes . ...

The Structure and Energetics of Active Galactic Nuclei Bradley M. Peterson The Ohio State University 2002 April 4 Hubble Science Legacy 1 The AGN Paradigm · The black-hole + accretion-disk model is finally fairly secure ­ Black-hole mass measurements have unknown systematic uncertainties · No generally accepted models for emission and absorption regions, though disk-related outflows seem most promising 2002 April 4 Hubble Science Legacy 2 Major AGN Questions · What are the masses AGN black holes? ...

... Star Atlas . ... solar system . ... stars . ... Observe the Solar System . ... What factors determine if a massive star (say, 100 solar masses) forms instead of a Sun-like star? ... Stars of all masses form from dense clumps within exceptionally cold molecular clouds. ... Massive stars tend to form at the centers of high-mass reservoirs of gas. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... A gamma-ray burst hints that LIGO's double black holes started as one massive star . ...

... Team . ... V.V.Sokolov "The gamma-ray bursts, core-collapse supernovae and global star forming rate at large redshifts" . ... I.V.Sokolov, A.S.Moskvitin, Eda Sonbas, O.V.Verkhodanov, O.P.Zhelenkova "A galaxy cluster in the GRB 021004 field" . ... The monitoring of GRB afterglows and the study of their host galaxies with the SAO RAS 6-m telescope from 1997". ... A.S.Moskvitin, T.A.Fatkhullin, V.V.Sokolov and V.N.Komarova, "Spectral and photometric monitoring of CCSNe at SAO RAS" . ...

... STScI-PF95-13 FOR RELEASE: April 10, 1995 OXYGEN-RICH SUPERNOVA REMNANT IN THE LARGE MAGELLANIC CLOUD This is a NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the tattered debris of a star that exploded 3,000 years ago as a supernova. ... A Hubble Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 image of the inner regions of the supernova remnant shows the complex collisions that take place as fast moving ejecta slam into cool, dense interstellar clouds. ... The image shows a region of the remnant 50 light-years across. ...

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. ...

... Kopylov, A.I., Kopylova, F.G. "Structure of galaxy groups and clusters and measurement of their masses", . ... Kopylova, F.G., Kopylov, A.I. "Peculiar motions of galaxy clusters and groups in the Hercules and Leo supercluster regions", . ... Kopylova, F.G., Kopylov, A.I. "Analysis of the properties of clusters of galaxies in the region of the Leo supercluster", . ... Kopylova, F.G., Kopylov, A.I. "Analysis of the properties of clusters of galaxies in the region of the Ursa Major supercluster", . ...

... Science Activities > PhD Thesis Topics offered by ESO Faculty Members > Thesis Topic: The interplay of massive stars, gas and dust in very nearby starbursts . ... The complex interplay between regions of massive star formation and their surroundings is a determining component of galaxy evolution. Winds of massive stars and the resulting supernova explosions inject mechanical energy into the interstellar medium, redistributing gas within a galaxy. ... Return to list of thesis topics . ...

Star formation is often best manifested by bright H II regions.These are regions of hydrogen which have been ionized by ultraviolet photons which are emitted from massive stars (typically stars more than 20 times the mass of the Sun). ... A narrowband filter image centered on this wavelength will then readily reveal these H II regions and hence the current sites of star formation in a galaxy, The luminous blobs that can be seen here are all H II regions . ... NGC 3558 Visual . NGC 3558 Infrared . ...

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE . ... the International Space Station . The Russian Soyuz TMA-4 manned transport spacecraft docked to the International Space Station (ISS) Orbital Complex. ... P. Semenov, Technical Director of Russian Manned Space Programs, General Designer of S.P. Korolev RSC Energia, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences), as well as representatives of the Russian enterprises and organizations participating in the implementation of the ISS program. ...

... A2326 Date Received: 2007-Jun-01 13:40:59 Technical Page Proposal Type: General Category: Sub-Category: Observation Category: Total Time Requested: Minimum Useful Time: Prop osal Title: ABSTRACT: Regular Astronomy Spectroscopy Galactic 18 Hours 1 hour An Arecibo Survey for H2CO Masers toward Non-Massive Star Forming Regions At present, formaldehyde (H2 CO) 6 cm masers have been detected only toward 7 regions in the Galaxy; in all cases the masers have been found toward massive star forming regions. ...

... Benaglia, P., Vink, J.S., Marti, J., Maiz Apellaniz, J., Koribalski, B.S. , Crowther, P.A. 2007, A 467, 1265 . Testing the predicted mass-loss bi-stability jump at radio wavelengths . ... Radio Behavior of Four Southern Non-Thermal O-Type Stars . ... Radio evidence on the mass loss bi-stability jump . ... Radio observations of HD93129A: The earliest O star with the highest mass loss? ... Mass loss rate determination of southern OB stars . ... Mass loss rate determinations of southern Of stars . ...

... In Fig. 2 the spectrum of the host galaxy HS1035+4758 is shown, in which typical HII-galaxy narrow emission lines are seen: H 4861, [OIII] 4959,5007, H 6562, [NII] 6548,6584 and [SII] 6716,6731 ?. ... The spectral evolution of SN 1998bv is illustrated in Fig. ... The change of the spectrum between April 6 and 19 with clear reddening shortward of H during these 2 weeks indicates seemingly that the 1st spectrum was observed in the period between the 20th and 30th days after the peak of the light curve...

... Our Sun is part of a huge wheel-shaped collection of stars. ... Astronomers have long suspected it was a very massive black hole, and that every galaxy had such a central mass, created early in the history of the universe. ... However, unless that object happens to be headed directly at the black hole (a relatively small target) it will just swing around and fly away again, like a comet making a pass at the Sun. The velocity acquired in falling towards the black hole also helps it escape. ...

... Dept. for Physics of Stars&Galaxies . ... Using a database view Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), containing almost a million spectra created 15,000 sample galaxies with active star formation, which is used for various studies and physical state of evolution of galaxies. ... Star clusters of the Galaxy . The project MWSC (Milky Way Star Clusters) directory using 2MASS, which includes nearly 500 million vision to the limit Ks = 15.3, analyzed more than 4,000 cluster-like objects in the galaxy. ...

... Visible Distribution of Galaxies. ... Features of Elliptical, Lens-Shaped, Spiral and Irregular Galaxies. Galaxies with Bar. ... Distribution of Surface Brightness of Surface and Spiral Galaxies. ... Color Characteristics of Galaxies. ... Methods of Galaxies' Mass Determination. ... Hidden Mass of Spiral Galaxies. ... Features of Dark Matter Distribution in E and SO Galaxies. ... The Whole Number of Galaxies and Their Density by the Results of Observation on the 'Hubble' Space Telescope. ...

... Session 1 - Stars, star formation, stellar populations and planets . 9.20 10.00 . ... HST Spectroscopy of the Hottest White Dwarfs . ... Coffee break . ... Lunch break . ... A (long) look at neutron stars with HST . ... Session 2 - Nearby galaxies, bulges, spheroids, galaxy formation . ... New HST/ACS Insights into the Evolution of Star-Forming Dwarf Galaxies with Extreme Properties of Cosmological Relevance . ... Deriving properties of Lyman-break galaxies at z~3-5 using HST/VLT/Spitzer data . ...