... Plato and the Lunar Alps . ... M8: The Lagoon Nebula . ... NGC 1309 and Friends . ... A gorgeous spiral galaxy some 100 million light-years distant, NGC 1309 lies on the banks of the constellation Eridanus. NGC 1309 spans about 30,000 light-years, one third the size of our larger Milky Way galaxy. ... UB313: Larger than Pluto . ... The vast emission nebula N44 in our neighboring galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud has a large, 250 light-year hole and astronomers are trying to figure out why. ...

... 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 . ...

Photon Scattering: Basic Principle of Photon Scattering . Audio Narration is available . No Scattering: Photon Source and Detector . ... For optical photons, scattering goes as wavelength to the -4 power. In the case of blue photons compared to red photons, this means that blue photons are about 10 times more likely to get scattered than red photons. ... Watch the blue photons scatter away from the detector . ... Interstellar dust make stars appear redder than they really are . ...

... 2013 August 17 . M8: The Lagoon Nebula . ... Eighteenth century cosmic tourist Charles Messier cataloged the bright nebula as M8 . Modern day astronomers recognize the Lagoon Nebula as an active stellar nursery about 5,000 light-years distant, in the direction of the center of our Milky Way Galaxy. ... Remarkable features can be traced through this sharp picture, showing off the Lagoon's filaments of glowing gas and dark dust clouds. ... Gallery: Nova Delphini 2013 . ... About APOD | ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Nebulae . ... Telescopes and Observatories . Space Flight . ... Posted on July 28, 2015 | ... These are M8 and the Lagoon Nebula. ... Continue Reading.. Posted on August 20, 2013 | ... Posted on February 21, 2013 | No Comments A new image from the European southern ObservatoryтАЩs Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy €а(VISTA) telescope reveals the glowing clouds of gas and filaments of dust surrounding hot young [ ] . ...

... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... The Large Magellanic Cloud, open cluster NGC 1664, and reflection nebula NGC 1788 . January 2 9, 2014: The Large Magellanic Cloud in Dorado is an excellent target for far-southern naked-eye observers, open cluster NGC 1664 in Auriga offers small-telescope owners nice views, and large-telescope owners can seek out reflection nebula NGC 1788 in Orion. ... Small telescope : Open cluster NGC 1664 . ...

... STScI-PRC96-38a GIANT "TWISTERS" AND STAR WISPS IN THE LAGOON NEBULA This NASA Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image reveals a pair of one-half light-year long interstellar "twisters" -- eerie funnels and twisted-rope structures (upper left) -- in the heart of the Lagoon Nebula (Messier 8) which lies 5,000 light-years away in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius. ... Other hot stars, also present in the nebula, are ionizing the extended optical nebulosity. ...

... 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. ...

... Coalsack Dark Nebula или Black Magellanic Cloud - темная туманность Угольный мешок (Caldwell 99) в созвездии южного полушария Крест / Южный Крест (Crux, Southern Cross, Crucis, Cru) .. ... Просмотр полной версии : Coalsack Dark Nebula или Black Magellanic Cloud - темная туманность Угольный мешок (Caldwell 99) в созвездии южного полушария Крест / Южный Крест (Crux, Southern Cross, Crucis, Cru) .. ... Поиск направления на Южный Полюс через звезды созвездия Крест / Южный Крест (Crux, Southern Cross) .:...

Weaving together Astronomy+Statistics+Computer Science+Engineering+Intrumentation, far beyond the growing borders . ... Posts tagged ?Digital Universe? ... Another one in the CXC/CfA Visualizing Astronomy series: ?The Digital Universe: Cosmic Cartography and Data Visualization?, by Brian Abbott of Hayden Planetarium & Department of Astrophysics, next Tuesday, Nov 13, at 2pm in Phillips. ... Comment . ... vlk on [MADS] Parallel Coordinates . upvc windows on [MADS] Parallel Coordinates . ...

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Tips on holding a viewing night . ... Multi-Wavelength View of the Interstellar Medium in the Large Magellanic Cloud . ... The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) has been surveyed in optical emission lines, X-rays, radio continuum, H I , and CO lines. ... Keywords: Magellanic Clouds - galaxies: ISM - ISM: general - ISM: structure - ISM: bubbles - supernova remnants . ... Structures of the Interstellar Medium in the LMC ...

... Astronomy news . ... Double Engine Fuels Star's Remarkable Nebula . ESO has just released a stunning new image of a field of stars towards the constellation of Carina (the Keel). ... Interactions in this double system, surrounded by a dusty disc, may be the engine fuelling the star s remarkable nebula. The new image, showing a very rich field of stars towards the Carina arm of the Milky Way, is centred on the star HD 87643, a member of the exotic class of B[e] stars [1]. ...

Dark Cloud Plots . Single Scattering Albedo . ... Scattering Phase Function Asymmetry . ... Dark Cloud Studies . ... Coalsack and dark cloud in Libra; UBV . DC1 . Yes . ... No g determination possible . ... Taurus molecular cloud; Berkeley UVX 1600 . ... G251.2+73.3 cirrus cloud; FAUST 1400-1800 . ... Fitzgerald, M. P., Stephens, T. C., & Witt, A. N. 1976, ApJ, 208, 709 . ... Interstellar dust scattering properties from: [ Diffuse Galactic Light ] [ Reflection Nebulae ] [ Dark Clouds ] . ...

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. ...

... Chairman - Balega Yu.Yu. ... Chairman - Mingaliev M.G. 14:00 Akyuz A. Preliminary Results from RTT150 Observations of Supernova Remnants in Two Spiral Galaxies . ... 15:00 Zhelenkova O.P. Application of IVOA Software Tools for Radio Sources Investigation . ... Chairman - Mishurov Yu.N. 10:00 Jia Lei. ... 10:30 Mingaliev M.G. Study of Extragalactic Sources at the RATAN-600 Radio Telescope . ... Kratov D. The "MARS-3" Matrix Radiometric System for RATAN-600 Radio Telescope: Trial Observations . ...

... Astro Images . ... 3 Columns | ... Comet Swan . ... Comet Hale-Bopp over Egypt . ... Digital California Nebula . ... Digital North American Nebula . ... Digital Trifid Nebula . ... Digital Swan Nebula . ... Digital Rosette Nebula . ... Digital Andromeda Galaxy . ... Red Aurora . ... Orion with Aurora . ... M101 Spiral Galaxy . ... Comet Hale-Bopp . ... Whirlpool Galaxy . ... Horsehead Nebula (close up) . ... North American Nebula . ... Lagoon and Trifid Nebula . ... www.astronomy.net . ...

... SETI: Monday 7 December Ballyclare . ... Blackrock Castle Observatory: Cosmic Christmas Launch & Flood Relief Benefit: First Fridays at the Castle, December 4th. Blackrock Castle Observatory is launching Cosmic Christmas in association with RSVP Red Sandstone Varied Productions at the popular First Fridays at the Castle event on Friday December 4 th at 6pm. ... Deise Astronomy Club ). ... Tuesday, 1 December 2009 17:47 . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... Report on Cosmic Call 1999 . ... Cosmic Call Sessions . ... This Report outlines methodology, hard- and software, which were developed to transmit first public Interstellar messages from Evpatoria Deep Space Center (EDSC), and describes four Cosmic Call Sessions, which were fulfilled in EDSC on May 24 and June 30 - July 1, 1999. ... Each Cosmic Call consists of two parts. ... Dutil Message, . ... The software for gathering all messages and creating the Cosmic Call stream, was written on C language. ...

... Astrophysics Group . Research . Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) . ... A significant fraction of the Astrophysics Group is involved in work on the Cosmic Microwave Background, both experimental and theoretical. We are currently operating the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager , an arcminute-scale survey telescope, and developing analysis techniques for the Planck satellite. ... 2013, Astrophysics Group, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0HE . ...

... Star Birth Nebulae . ... The formation of the objects we can see in space, including stars, nebulae , and the objects that are actually collections of other objects (e.g., star clusters and galaxies ), started with these raw materials. Gas makes up roughly 99% of the raw material found in space. ... Dust in space is typically found in the same clouds among the stars where gas is found. ... A galaxy is a collection of many millions or billions of stars, nebulae, and other cosmic objects. ...