... 2009 February 22 . Orion Nebula: The Hubble View . Credit: NASA , ESA , M. Robberto ( STScI / ESA ) et al. ... Also known as M42 , the nebula's glowing gas surrounds hot young stars at the edge of an immense interstellar molecular cloud only 1,500 light-years away. ... This detailed image of the Orion Nebula is the sharpest ever, constructed using data from the Hubble Space Telescope 's Advanced Camera for Surveys and the European Southern Observatory's La Silla 2.2 meter telescope. ...

... The Nebula's glowing gas surrounds hot young stars at the edge of an immense interstellar molecular cloud only 1500 light-years away. Comet Hale Bopp Over Val Parola Pass . ... Comet Hale-Bopp became much brighter than any surrounding stars. ... A Cerro Tololo Sky . ... Henize 206: Cosmic Generations . ... The Hubble Ultra Deep Field . ... Scattered debris from a cosmic supernova explosion lights up the sky in this gorgeous composited image based on data from the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... Tides of light: M8 in spectacular detail (Image credit: NASA/ESA) . ... Spectacular! ... What else can I say about this stunning Turneresque image of the Lagoon Nebula (M8)? ... This is of course illusory.€а This is a false colour image: light from glowing hydrogen is shown as red, light from ionised nitrogen appears as green and light which passed through a yellow filter is coloured blue. ... Astronotes . ...

... STScI-PRC00-06 LIGHT AND SHADOW IN THE CARINA NEBULA Previously unseen details of a mysterious, complex structure within the Carina Nebula (NGC 3372) are revealed by this image of the "Keyhole Nebula," obtained with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. ... This region, about 8000 light-years from Earth, is located adjacent to the famous explosive variable star Eta Carinae, which lies just outside the field of view toward the upper right. ...

... ESO is building what will be the World's largest optical telescope array, The Very Large Telescope (VLT). The VLT Project organisation is responsible for the design and construction of the Unit Telescopes, including enclosures, optics, adapter-rotators and coating unit. ... Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ...

Hubble Trouble & Triumph Max Mutchler (Space Telescope Science Institute) February 8, 2005 at the Maryland Science Center Hubble was designed to be serviced in orbit by astronauts BALTIMORE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY A Section of the Maryland Academy of Sciences 601 Light Street, Baltimore, MD 21230 Hubble servicing missions: 1993 1997 1999 2002 2007? ... Senator Mikulski Vows to Fight for Hubble "Hubble's best days are ahead of it, not behind it. ...

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http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1996/22/text/ Probing the mysterious heart of the Crab Nebula, the tattered remains of a stellar cataclysm witnessed more than 900 years ago, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found that the Crab is even more dynamic than previously understood, based on a cosmic "movie" assembled from a series of Hubble observations. ... Because of this flickering, the neutron star is also called a "pulsar." ...

... a spiral galaxy some million light years away, made by combining images . ... 1st February using the Armagh Robotic Telescope at the Armagh Observatory. ... Image credit: Simon Jeffery. Astronomers Simon Jeffery and Jack Wright have obtained their first images of deep-space objects using a new тАЬroboticтАЭ telescope at Armagh Observatory. ... Simon Jeffery, project scientist for the new telescope, said: "After two years of hard work, it is very satisfying to see the first images looking so good. ...

... Home Lectures Lecture Series 2011-2012 Lecture Series 2011-2012 ? тАЬA Ray of Light in a Sea of Dark (Matter)тАЭ ? Charles Keeton . ... Charles Keeton , associate professor of physics and astronomy at Rutgers University and faculty director of the Aresty Research Center for Undergraduates , will speak to the AAA Friday, March 2, on тАЬA Ray of Light in a Sea of Dark (Matter).тАЭ The free public lecture begins at 6:15 p.m. in the Kaufmann Theater of the€а American Museum of Natural History . ...

8th of February 2016 . The Year of the Monkey . ... The 8th of February 2016 is the first day of the Chinese New Year, the year of the monkey. Overlaid onto the Hubble color-composite image for the Monkey Head Nebula is a pattern of Chinese paper cutting for a monkey. ... The Monkey Head Nebula (NGC 2174) is an HII emission nebula located in Orion and is associated with the open star cluster NGC 2175 about 6,400 light-years away from Earth. Picture credit: ESA/Hubble NASA) . ...

... 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. ...

... Another option is to buy slides of astronomical objects at different wavelengths to show students why astronomers use different bands of the spectrum to bring out specific characteristics in celestial objects. ... He then uses the camera to scan the entire classroom, asking students to identify what they are seeing. ... Once students see light in action, they can investigate its properties - such as frequency, wavelength, and interference - with wave experiments. ...

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... 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. ...

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... Gallery . ... Between Light and Dark Matters, 24 Feb 2005 . Sidebar Left . Sidebar Top . No Sidebar . Sidebar Bottom . Sidebar Right . Title: Between Light and Dark Matters, 24 Feb 2005 . Description: An ephemeral exhibition of an artwork by ANU student Ruth Watson, using the data set of the 2dFGRS. Art Exhibition in the Yale-Columbia, February 2005 . ... Owner: Gallery Administrator . ... Views: 1670 . By: Gallery Administrator . ... Views: 1562 . ... Views: 1550 . ...

Blackholes Forum Message . Forums: . ... Orbiting Light Retrieval? ... Posted by Dana Barish on February 18, 2005 00:32:19 UTC . How might one retrieve information about light orbiting black holes? ... Use light radited from stars orbiting the black hole - yanniru - February 21, 2005 - 01:02 UTC . ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... Высокого качества (19.5 MB) . Низкого качества (2.9 MB) MPEG . ... Низкого качества (2.9 MB) This movie shows dynamic rings, wisps and jets of matter and antimatter around the pulsar in the Crab Nebula as observed in X-ray light by Chandra (left, blue) and optical light by Hubble (right, red). ... To produce a movie of reasonable length the sequence was looped several times, as in looped weather satellite images. ... Авторские права: X-ray: NASA/CXC/ASU/J.Hester et al.; ...