... Crescent Moon Meets Evening Star . ... Stars and Dust Across Corona Australis . ... Cosmic dust clouds sprawl across a rich field of stars in this sweeping telescopic vista near the northern boundary of Corona Australis, the Southern Crown. Less than 500 light-years away the dust clouds effectively block light from more distant background stars in the Milky Way. ... Actually, given how close Gliese 1214b is to its parent star, any water, if it exists, would surely be in the form of steam. ...

... 2013 September 12 . Stars and Dust Across Corona Australis . ... Explanation: Cosmic dust clouds sprawl across a rich field of stars in this sweeping telescopic vista near the northern boundary of Corona Australis , the Southern Crown. ... Magnificent globular star cluster NGC 6723 is at the right. Though NGC 6723 appears to be part of the group , its ancient stars actually lie nearly 30,000 light-years away, far beyond the young stars of the Corona Australis dust clouds . ... About APOD | ...

... Armagh Planetarium . ... Universe . ... Continue Reading.. ... 2 Comments After entering the Twittersphere in 2010 Armagh PlanetariumтАЩs online presence has grown over the past few years encompassing the Astronotes blog and Facebook accounts. ... No Comments In July 2015 Belfast Met opened its doors to budding astronauts, pilots and app geniuses with a new series of STEM summer camps. ... Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

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 . ...

... So it s funny that the object in this new space photograph looks so much like a flame, from the white-hot centre, to the rising red clouds. ... This object is a nebula (a cloud of cosmic gas and dust) and on top of looking like a flame, it also acts like one. ... Like the scorching core of a flame, the hottest part of this nebula is the bright region at the centre where a crowd of massive young stars are hiding. ... There appears to have been many episodes of star birth within this cloud. ...

Crater Gassendi . ... I made this drawing was made on the 26th of november 2001. If you compare this one with the previous drawing of Gassendi (below) the differences are clear. ... This drawing was made on the 28th of september 2001. After nearly a full month without observations I had a one hour gap between the thicker clouds. ... This drawing was made on the 29th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 27th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 25th of august 2001. ...