... 2003 August 11 . Elements of the Swan Nebula . ... Explanation: In the depths of the dark clouds of dust and molecular gas known as M17 , stars continue to form. Also known as the Omega Nebula and Horseshoe Nebula, the darkness of M17's molecular clouds results from background starlight being absorbed by thick filaments of carbon-based smoke-sized dust . As bright massive stars form, they produce intense and energetic light that slowly boils away the dark shroud. ... About APOD | ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . Elements of the Swan Nebula . ... 11.08.2003 . ... Credit: Russell Croman Explanation: In the depths of the dark clouds of dust and molecular gas known as M17 , stars continue to form. Also known as the Omega Nebula and Horseshoe Nebula, the darkness of M17's molecular clouds results from background starlight being absorbed by thick filaments of carbon-based smoke-sized dust . ... August . ... August 2003 . ... Publications with keywords: M17 - nebula . ...

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 . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : "We're light years more advanced than our competition!" ... Even the closest astronomical object, the Moon, is 400,000 kilometers away! ... A beam of light will travel 9,500,000,000,000 kilometers in one year. This distance is defined as a light year ; the distance light travels in a year. ... This is another example of Bad Astronomy; like a light year, a parsec is a unit of distance, not time (to be specific, it equals 3.26 light years) . ...

... August 28, 1998 . Hydrogen Trifid . ... Explanation: Clouds of glowing hydrogen gas mingle with dark dust lanes in the Trifid Nebula , a star forming region in the constellation Sagittarius. In this and other similar emission nebulae , energetic ultraviolet light from an embedded hot young star strips electrons from the surrounding hydrogen atoms . ... It shows those regions with substantial emission from atomic hydrogen . ... Tomorrow's picture: Star Colors . ... About APOD > . ...

... BLUE STRAGGLER STARS are unusually hot and bright stars found in the cores of ancient star clusters known as globulars. ... BACKGROUND (from wikipedia): Blue straggler stars are stars in open or globular clusters that are hotter and bluer than other cluster stars having the same luminosity. ... There is evidence in favor of this view, notably that blue straggler stars appear to be much more common in dense regions of clusters, especially in the cores of globular clusters. ...

... Posts tagged ?light curve? ... Posted by hlee . ... Tags: book , Brieman , cigar , Clinton , data mining , Friedman , Hastie , KDD , light curve , machine learning , SCMA , shaking hands , SN , statistical learning , Supernova , Tibshirani . Category: Algorithms , Cross-Cultural , High-Energy , Jargon , Methods , Quotes , Stat , Uncertainty | Comment . ... Click for what was appeared in arXiv this week. ... Category: arXiv , Data Processing , gamma-ray , Objects , Spectral , Timing , X-ray | ...

... self-absorption - the absorption of light shining on an object by a process similar to that which produced the light originally; if a cloud emits less light than it absorbs from other clouds behind it, this net loss of light, termed self-absorption , causes the foreground cloud to appear darker than the background field (the term is from spectroscopy, where small absorption dips sometimes occur in larger emission lines, making the latter look as if it is absorbing part of itself) . ... HISA Main ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Planets . ... Our Galaxy . ... Earth Satellites . ... August . ... Posted on March 4, 2016 | No Comments We live in a galaxy тАУ a star city with several hundred billion residents. ... Continue Reading.. ... Posted on September 27, 2013 | ... Posted on August 30, 2013 | 1 Comment тАЬMars is red, Earth is Blue, WeтАЩve discovered lots of new worlds, And one of them is blue too!тАЭ So IтАЩm not a poet and I definitely know it! ...

... 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. ...

... 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. ...

... The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) provides us with the highest angular resolution tool with which to investigate the jets produced by stars during their birth and the circumstellar accretion disks where we believe planets might form. Keywords: star formation, Herbig-Haro objects, stellar jets, proto-planetary disks . ... HST WFPC2 . ... Future HST observations with WFPC2 will measure proper motions in jets already observed and will be used to study other examples of jets from young stars. ...

. A bipolar nebula in M17 is home to the largest and most massive circumstellar disk yet known. White contours delineate the densest part of the disk. Visible stars appear slightly elongated due to the adaptive optics technique used. They are embedded within the M17 molecular cloud but are probably unrelated to the disk. The inset (bottom right) shows the central object, which measures 450 x 240 AU. M17 is 7,000 light-years away. ESO

home publications > mercury . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Purchase through the AstroShop . ... Publications of the ASP (PASP) . ... Astronomy Beat . ... Lighting the Nebulae . ... The interplay of light and atoms paints the beautiful palette of planetary nebulae. ... So come along on a trip to the inside of a planetary nebula and see what really happens as light and atoms violently interact to create some of the loveliest objects in the night sky. home | ... astroshop | ...

... This image also shows the famous Cygnus X-1 system. ... These images were processed by incorporating Ha, SII, and RGB data, taken over several nights during May of 2007. ... 5/4/2007 through 5/9/2007 . ... The RGB was processed traditionally, and incorporated into the Ha/sG/SII image in two steps: The main RGB nebulosity was incorporated at a fairly low opacity, while the RGB stars were incorporated in at 100%, in "color" blend mode. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... Цвет: белый . Тип: средства для стирки; Цвет: белый; Особенности: Без красителей, без хлора . ... Маркер перманентный "Chisel Point" со скошенным наконечником позволяет проводить линии шириной от 1.8 до 4.5 мм. Маркер заправлен перманентными чернилами, они быстро высыхают, чернила свето- и влагостойкие. Надписи, сделанные этим маркером, устойчивы к истиранию. ... Цвет: черный . ... 1 Toy Студио Набор теста для лепки Маленькая ферма 4 цвета - 1 Toy - 1 Toy . ...

... Shustov B.M., Wiebe D.S. Dust expelling from the Galaxy ( abstract from the journal ). Astronomy Reports , 1995, 39 , 578-586 [AZh, 72 , 650-659]. Wiebe D.S., Shematovich V.I., Shustov B.M. Chemical and dynamical evolution of protostellar clouds: initial stages of collapse ( abstract from the journal ). ... Shustov B.M., Wiebe D.S., Tutukov A.V. Evolution of disk galaxies and loss of heavy elements into the intracluster medium. ... ApJ (Letters), 1998, 503 , L71-L74 ( astro-ph/9806155 ). ...

... Telescopes . ... 1996: . A giant cloud of neutral hydrogen was detected resulting from the observations with the 6-m telescope and other world telescopes in a broad wavelength interval from UV to radio. ... Statistically significant deviations from the Poisson distribution are found in the radiosource distribution within the deep surveys conducted at RATAN-600 at the scales coinciding with those of the recently detected Sakharov oscillations (0.7-0.3 o ). ... Archive . ...

THE SUBSYSTEMS OF THE MILKY WAY HALO. ... A catalogue of homogeneous fundamental astrophysical parameters for 145 globular clusters is composed on the base of the data of compilative catalogue by Harris (1997) and from another literature. ... In addition, it has large rotation velocity ( V rot =77?33 km/s), appreciable radial and vertical metallicity gradients equal by value, and has the oldest average age (subsystem of the old halo). ... Characteristic parameter of globular cluster subsystems. ...

Our publications in 1997 year Izotov, Yu. I.; Thuan, T. X.; Lipovetsky, V. A. Dwarf Galaxies: Probes for Galaxy Formation and Evolution, Joint Discussion 2, 21 August 1997, Kyoto, Japan. Izotov, Yuri I.; Thuan, Trinh X.; Lipovetsky, Valentin A. Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 01 1997, v.108, p.1 . ... Pustil'nik, S. A.; Lipovetsky, V. A.; Izotov, Y. I.; Brinks, E.; Thuan, T. X.; Knyazev, A. Y.; Neizvestnyi, S. I.; Ugryumov, A. V. Pis'ma Astron. ... 74, August 1997, p. 536 . ...