... Redshift 5.8: A New Farthest Quasar . ... In all about 1000 kilometers long and 5 kilometers wide, only a section is pictured here as part of a combined color and black and white image based on data from the Galileo spacecraft. Flying Over Asteroid Eros West End . ... This conundrum came to light with the discovery of planetary nebulae like IC 4406. ... Surveyor 6 was not the first spacecraft to accomplish a soft landing on the Moon ... but it was the first to land and then lift off again! ...

... 2008 December 1 . Massive Stars Resolved in the Carina Nebula . ... Explanation: How massive can stars be? ... Such was the case for two of the brightest objects visible in the open star cluster Trumpler 16 , located in the southern Carina Nebula . ... The Carina Nebula , home to unusually shaped dust clouds and the famous variable star Eta Carina , lies about 7,500 light years away toward the constellation of Ship's Keel ( Carina ). ... About APOD | ... A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC . ...

Program number . ... Infrared Snapshots of 3CR Radio Galaxies . Abstract . ... Holland Ford, The Johns Hopkins University . ... An ACS H-alpha Survey of the Carina Nebula . ... A Snapshot Survey of the most massive clusters of galaxies . ... An ACS Imaging Survey of the Galaxies Hosting Strong Mg II Absorption . ... ACS observations of the galaxies in a giant Ly-alpha nebula at z~2.7 . ... An ACS Survey of a Complete Sample of Luminous Infrared Galaxies in the Local Universe . ... Past weeks: . ...

... GSAOI Home . ... Science . ... Deep imaging at J , H , and K is required to identify all stellar objects, brown dwarfs, and planetary mass objects in the central region of the Orion Nebula Cluster down to masses comparable to that of Jupiter. This is required to establish the initial mass function, i.e., the number of stars of each mass that have formed, in this region of intense massive star formation. ... The fields of the GSAOI detectors are shown as four green squares in each frame. ...

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 . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Star Atlas . ... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... The planet has extreme temperature swings and perhaps active lava flows. ... A digital supplement to Astronomy magazine. ... Join TravelQuest International with Astronomy and Discover magazines on one of three great tour options surrounding this celestial spectacle . ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

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 . ...

Orbital intersection . ... Structure of Taurid stream . ... Meteoroid swarm and Taurid fireballs . ... The following four diagrams schematically show four different Taurid orbits and the orbits of Earth and Jupiter. ... The Taurid stream contains particles (small, solid grains) at different stages of their precession cycles. ... The study of when a meteor stream can produce a meteor shower is the study of when precession brings orbits to intersection with Earth, or e.g. with Mars . ...

Next: Binary Radiopulsars with Black Up: Black Holes in Binaries Previous: Black Holes in Binaries . Two different types of stellar BH formation exist: (1) direct core collapse   of a massive star and (2) AIC of a NS. A BH of the first type presumably will have a mass comparable to that of the collapsing star and can be born both from a single star and in a binary system. ... Next: Binary Radiopulsars with Black Up: Black Holes in Binaries Previous: Black Holes in Binaries Mike E. Prokhorov . ...

Galileo showed convincingly that heavy objects fell no faster that light ones. ... If an iron ball was pulled down with a much greater force than a wooden one of the same size, why didn't it fall any faster? ... 1) It is harder to lift. ... It is the fact that the loaded wagon has a greater mass that gives it a larger inertia , a larger tendency to oppose any change in its state of rest or of constant motion in a straight line. ... One important quantity was the body mass of the astronauts. ...

... Science Activities > PhD Thesis Topics offered by ESO Faculty Members > Thesis Topic: Dynamical models of multiple globular cluster populations around massive galaxies . ... Different techniques have been devised to separate multiple GC populations and perform dynamical analyses. ... Within this project, the PhD candidate will examine mock models of multiple GC populations around massive galaxies, devising `blinded' functional tests and comparing the possible sources of bias in different techniques....

... Right: cold gas traced by [CII] emission (red) accreting onto a primeval galaxy (green) at z=7.1 ( Maiolino et al. 2015 ) (image credit: ALMA Press Release ) . ... 2010 , Cicone, Maiolino et al. ... 2012 , Cicone, Maiolino et al. ... Right: observed distribution of the average stellar metallicities of passive and star forming galaxies in the local universe, supporting starvation/strangulation as primary quenching mechanism in low/intermediate mass galaxies ( Peng, Maiolino, Cochrane 2015 ). ...

... Click here to go directly to the Orion Nebula Images. ... Copies of individual figures from this paper are available from John Bally . ... Figure 1: The core of the Trapezium showing the four energetic massive stars and a plethora of Sun-like stars with surrounding extended emission. ... Click to download figure in jpeg format. Click to download figure in tiff format. ... Figure 3: A gallery of star-disk systems in Orion's Trapezium. ... To Doug Johnstone's Scientific Home Page . ...

... Posts tagged ?massive data? ... Tags: bimodality , chi-square minimization , Classification , CMD , Estimation , machine learning , massive data , model based , PCA , spectral analysis , spectroscopic , survey , VO . ... Algorithms arXiv Astro Bad AstroStat Bayesian CHASC Cross-Cultural Data Processing Fitting Frequentist Galaxies gamma-ray High-Energy Imaging Jargon Job Languages MC MCMC Meta Methods Misc News Nuggets Objects Optical Physics Quotes Spectral Stars Stat Timing Uncertainty X-ray . ...

In the Table below the masses of some asteroids which were determined during the last years are listed. ... The listed values were determined from observations of many test bodies by the weighted least square fit for one perturbing mass and corrections to the orbit elements of all used test bodies. ... based on the observations of 98 asteroids (including 50278) with the values of standard error of mass determination less than 3.0 10 -11 M Sun . ... Mass . ... 3) Mass 121 : 0.74 x 10 -11 M Sun ; . ...

The small solids. Asteroids or the small planetes . ... The comets. ... Ceneca the Young.Procuring about the nature.63 y. The comet is a celestial body of a great size, but a rare one... transparent. Sometimes there seen a core and the medium forms a kind of a tail, beard or dishevelled looks. ... The core is an ice body - conglomeration of frosted gas and dust. ... The comet state is variable: ones have the con tails, others the dust tails, and the third have both. ... Meteors and meteorites. ...

... I note that "Z" plays an important role in what the ALFA surveys will look for: . ... low Z . nearby low mass . ... Arecibo . ... ADBS (Arecibo Dual Beam Survey): Rosenberg & Schneider 2002. ... A few sources with unobvious optical counterparts. ... Coverage wins for volume, but if you do a shallow survey you are sampling only the nearby volume at low masses. ... So need artificial test sources to find completeness. ... Total volume within survey in which source could have been detected. ...

... ATNF Home . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... The most reliable way to estimate the rate of mass loss from massive stars is to observe the thermal radio continuum emission from their hot stellar winds. A program using the Australia Telescope Compact Array has detected such emission from 11 massive stars, almost doubling the number of these stars known at radio wavelengths. ... Radio continuum emission from massive stars: C. Leitherer (STScI); J. M. Chapman (AAO/ATNF) ; B. Koribalski (ATNF) . ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Comets are not "dirty snowballs" . ... Comets don't lose mass, they gain it . Comets are huge, not dinky . Miscellaneous nonsense . ... McCanney Claim #3: Comets do not lose mass, they gain mass as they near the Sun . This is the core of McCanney's theory. ... The fact that there are features at all on the surface of a comet argues against McCanney's theories. ...