... Stars are evolving in the Large Magellanic Clouds (LMC). ... In one of the more spectacular photos yet submitted to Astronomy Picture of the Day, Don Cooke of Lyme, New Hampshire caught the Sun, Moon, Earth, night sky, Pleiades star cluster, and Comet Hale-Bopp all in one frame. ... Scroll right to unfold the latest panorama of the surface of Mars. ... Made famous by a picture from the Hubble Space Telescope in 1995, the Eagle Nebula shows the dramatic process of 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 . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... 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. ...

... 2014 October 1 . The Butterfly Nebula from Hubble . Image Credit: NASA , ESA , and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team ; Reprocessing Copyright: Francesco Antonucci . ... With an estimated surface temperature of about 250,000 degrees C, the dying central star of this particular planetary nebula has become exceptionally hot, shining brightly in ultraviolet light but hidden from direct view by a dense torus of dust. ... APOD Wall Calendar: Nebulas and Star Clusters . ... About APOD | ...

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE DAILY REPORT #997 PERIOD COVERED: 0800 EST Daily Status Report as of 293/1200Z. 1.0 ACTIVITIES SCHEDULED AND ACCOMPLISHED: 1.1 Completed Two Sets of GHRS/2 5251 (WF/PC Shutter Control AP Test) The High Resolution Spectrograph was used to make observations of standard star BD+75D325 as part of a shutter control test. ... 1.7 Completed PC 5014 (WF/PC Cycle 3 Calibration: PC Flats Narrow. ... The observations were executed as scheduled, and no problems were reported. ...

... STScI-PRC00-36 GHOSTLY REFLECTIONS IN THE PLEIADES NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has caught the eerie, wispy tendrils of a dark interstellar cloud being destroyed by the passage of one of the brightest stars in the Pleiades star cluster. ... In 1890, American astronomer E. E. Barnard, observing visually with the Lick Observatory 36-inch telescope in California, discovered an exceptionally bright nebulosity adjacent to the bright Pleiades star Merope. ...

... We still have a long distance to cover before we leave the Milky Way Galaxy -- tens of thousands of lightyears, as a matter of fact -- so let's stop by some interesting objects on the way. ... But we have reached the edge of the Milky Way Galaxy. ... We don't know, but we do know that there are countless voyages left to take. To continue the virtual voyage beyond our galaxy, go to Kent Cheatham's "A Walk in the Stars" at http://www.ionet.net/~cheatham/astro/astrotour.shtml . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... Posted on January 6, 2012 | 1 Comment A new image of the Omega Nebula reveals amazing detail in a cosmic landscape of gas clouds, dust and newborn stars.€а Captured by the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the [ ] . Continue Reading.. ... A typical stellar nursery, M8 lies about 4300 light years (1320 parsecs) [ ] . ... 4 Comments Astronomers in search of really, really big stars look to the Tarantula Nebula. ...

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. ...

. The brilliant star cluster NGC 2100 lies in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. This star cluster lies close to the Tarantula Nebula, and some of the colorful outer parts of the nebula appear in this image. The smaller cluster, close to the right-hand edge of the picture and just below center, is NGC 2092. ESO

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 . ...

... 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 . ...

... All previous such superstars have been found along with many companion stars in the centres of crowded star clusters. The star is known as VFTS 682 from the VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey catalogue of the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) located at Paranal in Chile by means of the attached FLAMES instrument. ... Although VFTS 682 seems to be alone now it is not very far away from a very rich star cluster known as RMC 136 that contains several similar superstars. ...

... 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) .. ... Туманность Угольный мешок (Coalsack Dark Nebula, Black Magellanic Cloud) 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) .: NGC 4609 Coaldust Cluster Coal Sack Crux .. ...

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Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... архив RSN . ... Апрель 1998 . ... Дата: 10 апреля 1998 (1998-04-10) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: Galileo Update - April 9, 1998 Привет всем! ... Дата: 10 апреля 1998 (1998-04-10) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: Mars Global Surveyor Update - April 9, 1998 Привет всем! ... The feature known as the "Face on Mars" in the Cydonia region was imaged quite successfully on April 5th and its image was released in raw form and in an enhanced form on April 6th. ...

... From SINGS (Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey): Isn?t it a beautiful Hubble tuning fork? ... Tags: Classification , clustering , factor analysis , Hubble , multivariate analysis , principle component analysis , SING , Spitzer , tuning fork . Category: Algorithms , Astro , Cross-Cultural , Data Processing , Galaxies , Jargon , Methods , Objects , Stars , Stat | ... Tags: CGRO , Chandra , Compton , CXO , Fermi , GLAST , HST , Hubble , observatory , UChicago , University of Chicago . ...

... 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. ...

... 12 Oct 02 2006 1.9 Jan 26 2006 8 CB,CS,R=F. R=G, SMALL, TIGHT, BRIGHT NGC 1912 M38 17mmAT 2012 M.M . Open Cluster 8.0 II 2 r CL,B,VL,VRI,IF,STL$S Mar 16 2012 18 Mar 01 2011 12 Mar 08 2010 12 Dec 16 2009 12 Mar 20 2009 16 Mar 17 2007 1.9 17mmAT M.M . 2011 - MANUAL SETTING CIRCLES M.M . 2010 MANUAL SETTING CIRCLES 26mm 20mmUW MESSIER MARATHON - 2009 26mm ...