... Near a bright star, clouds of these dust particles scatter short wavelengths of visible starlight more readily than long wavelengths, producing lovely blue reflection nebulae. ... How did stars form in the early universe? ... Inspection of NGC 6822 shows several bright star groups, including two dubbed Hubble-X and Hubble-V. Asteroid 1998 WT24 Passes Near Earth . ... Hot Stars in the Southern Milky Way . ... About 4,000 light-years from Earth, the stars at the left are young, massive, and energetic....

Today's APOD | ... Editor's choices for the most educational Astronomy Pictures of the Day about supernova remnants: . ... The spectacular death explosion is initiated by the collapse of what has become an impossibly dense stellar core. ... APOD: 2002 March 31 - The Mysterious Rings of Supernova 1987A . ... Speculation into the cause of the rings includes beamed jets emanating from a dense star left over from the supernova, and a superposition of two stellar winds ionized by the supernova explosion. ...

... 1) A Multiwavelength Study of Tadpole Galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, Straughn, A., et al. (including S. Ravindranath), 2015, ApJ, 814, 97. 2) The Rate of Core Collapse Supernovae to Redshift 2.5 from CANDELS and CLASH Supernova Surveys, Strolger, L., et al. (including S. Ravindranath), 2015, ApJ, 813, 93. ... 18) "Resolved Galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: Star Formation in Disks at High Redshift", Elmegreen, D.M., Elmegreen, B.G., Ravindranath, S., Coe, D.A., 2007, ApJ, 658, 763. ...

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 . ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science and Technical Meetings > Conferences 2011 > Very Low Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs . ... Observing Facilities . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... ESO Data . ... This workshop will review the current progress in our understanding of low mass star and brown dwarf formation in nearby molecular clouds, and will bring together observers and theoreticians to promote an energizing discussion. ... Surveys for young very low mass stars and brown dwarfs . ...

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. ...

... STScI-PRC96-05 HUBBLE TELESCOPE PHOTO REVEALS STELLAR DEATH PROCESS This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of planetary nebula NGC 7027 shows remarkable new details of the process by which a star like the Sun dies. ... The NGC 7027 photograph is a composite of two Hubble images, taken in visible and infrared light, and is shown in "pseudo-color." Credit: H. Bond (STScI) and NASA Image files in GIF and JPEG format and captions may be accessed on Internet via ftp from oposite.stsci.edu in /pubinfo. ...

... The European HST Archive has been moved to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre ( ESAC ), Spain, where most of ESA's Space Science Archives are located and operated from. ... The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), jointly operated by ESA and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) was, until the end of 2010, the European HST science facility, supporting the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

B?rbel Koribalski (ATNF) + HIPASS and ZOA teams . The properties shown below were derived from the measurd HI properties. Displayed here are the Local Group velocities of all sources from -300 to +8000 km/s (bins are 100 km/s). Displayed here are the distances of all sources (assuming Ho = 75 km/s/Mpc). ... Displayed here are the HI masses of all sources (assuming point source distribution). Extended galaxies and pairs/groups need to be re-measured. ...

... GSAOI Home . ... Science . ... Despite vast increase in our understanding of the evolutionary nature of planetary nebulae (PNe) during the last three decades, a central question remains: where is the missing mass? Theoretical evolutionary tracks predict that all stars with masses in the range 1.4-8 M Sun should become PNe. ... Clearly, much of the mass of the planetary nebula shell must remain un-ionized, and much of it may be in molecular form. ... The Magellanic Cloud PNe are ideal for this. ...

... The sample of the Local Volume galaxies (distance smaller than 10 Mpc) gives a unique opportunity to study the properties of galaxies including the weakest objects: the absolute magnitude M B -10 and the virial mass M vir 10 9 M x263C;. ... Luminosity function of the Local Volume galaxies. ... The luminosity functions for galaxies are presented: red dashed line - from the 2dFGRS survey (Norberg et al. 2002); blue dash-dotted line - from the SDSS survey (Blanton et al. ...

... STScI-PRC95-45a CRUCIBLE OF CREATION: PANORAMIC HUBBLE MOSAIC ZOOMS IN ON MAELSTROM OF STAR BIRTH This spectacular color panorama of the center the Orion nebula is one of the largest pictures ever assembled from individual images taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. ... Though this 2.5 light-years wide view is still a small portion of the entire nebula, it includes almost all of the light from the bright glowing clouds of gas and a star cluster associated with the nebula. ...

... In typical nightly use, the wide field and planetary telescope and cameras record images of favorably placed objects in the sky, including constellations, bright variable stars, nebulae through narrow-band filters, comets, the Moon, and planets. ... Shared Skies telescopes are available for use by students at the University of Louisville and the University of Southern Queensland, and by teachers and students in middle and high schools mentored by faculty at the universities. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . Tarantula Nebula . ... Approximately 30 astronomers from European countries including the UK, Germany, Spain, Bulgaria, and the Netherlands, as well as some participants from the NASA Hubble Space Telescope Space Science Institute in Baltimore, USA, will visit Armagh from Monday 30th May to Wednesday 1st June to attend the 2011 "FLAMES" Consortium meeting. ...

Next: The Evolutionary Status of Up: No Title Previous: Massive X-ray Binaries . After 25 years of pulsar studies, a radiopulsar has been discovered in a binary system with a massive optical companion (Johnston et al. ... As shown in the very first calculations of joint evolution of NS and normal stars in binaries (Kornilov and Lipunov, 1983b[ 86 ]) a considerable fraction (maybe, the majority) of NS in binary systems having an optical companion must be at the ejector љ (E) state. ... Systems . ...

... Robert L. Stewart (Brigadier General, USA, Ret.) ... SPECIAL HONORS: Awarded Army Distinguished Service Medal , Defense Superior Service Medal , 2 Legion of Merit, 4 Distinguished Flying Crossed, a Bronze Star, a Meritorious Service Medal , 33 Air Medals, the Army Commendation Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster and V Device, 2 Purple Hearts, the National Defense Service Medal , the Armed Forces Expeditionary Recipient of NASA Space Flight Medal (1984 & 1985). ...

NMW survey overview . Access image archive . ... The New Milky Way survey aims to detect bright (V<13.5) optical transients near the Galactic plane using an automated wide-field (8x6 deg.) system capable of surveying the whole Milky Way area visible from the observing site in one night. ... All images obtained during the transient search survey are available online (please use the image archive access form ). ... Images per field: . ... Images per night: . ... Milky Way imaging time: . ...

... no comet has been observed with an orbit that indicates that it came from interstellar space, . ... From this he proposed that comets reside in a vast cloud at the outer reaches of the solar system. ... Unfortunately, since the individual comets are so small and at such large distances, we have no direct evidence about the Oort Cloud. ... T he Kuiper Belt is a disk-shaped region past the orbit of Neptune roughly 30 to 100 AU from the Sun containing many small icy bodies. ... Small Bodies .. ...

Title: A New Model of the Gravitational Lens 0957+561 and a Limit on the Hubble Constant . Authors: Norman A. Grogin , Ramesh Narayan (Harvard Univ.) ... Title: ROSAT/PSPC observation of the distant cluster CL0939+472 . ... Title: Interaction in the Bimodal Galaxy Cluster A3528 . ... Title: Cosmological Implications of Galaxy Cluster Evolution . ... Title: Galaxy Cluster Virial Masses and Omega . ... Matches 201 to 222 from a total of 222 matches for the search pattern galaxy cluster . ...

You might wonder how a black hole could be found if nothing including light can escape from it. ... HDE 226868 is a massive blue supergiant star; its companion is believed to be a black hole, surrounded by an accretion disc of gases from HDE 226868 which are spiraling into the black hole. ... Three other objects -- LMC X-3 in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy, and A0620-00 and V404 Cygni in our galaxy -- are also believed to have black holes as one of their components. ...